DCSD Castle Rock - Secondary Regional PD: Full Schedule

12:00pm PST

Castle Rock Secondary Regional Kickoff

Limited Capacity seats available

Celebrate and connect with other secondary teachers from the Castle Rock Region. Enjoy a welcome by the principals and messages from the Director of Schools. The kickoff will come to conclusion with logistics for the rest of your afternoon.

Speakers

Jessica Craig

Strategist, DCSD Curriculum Instruction & Professional Growth

Friday February 14, 2020 12:00pm - 12:30pm PST
Auditorium Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

ALL

12:40pm PST

Formative Practice: Feedback

Limited Capacity seats available

This session is designed to give participants an opportunity to consider the formative practices established by Jan Chappuis that were created to help students answer the questions, “Where am I Going?” “Where am I now?” and “How do I close the gap?” This session will focus on answering the question, “Where am I now,” and feedback strategies supporting students in answering this question.

Speakers

Tammy Melanson

Nathan Burgard

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3800 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Assessment

12:40pm PST

Best Practice in Differentiation - Refining your Differentiation Practices

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, participants will work collaboratively with their peers to share best practices in differentiation based on classroom experiences. Participants will also have an opportunity to revise a unit of study. In order to get the most out of this session be sure to bring resources to support your work. This session can be applicable to any content area at any secondary level.

Presentation Link

Speakers

Jeff Mlsna

CIA - Assistant Director, DCSD - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Skills and Interest-Curriculum Implementation-Teaching and Learning Cycle-Science Pedagogy-Technology Integration-Online/Blended Learning

Natasha Strayer

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3550 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Differentiation

12:40pm PST

Best Practices in Differentiation - Introduction

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, participants will learn the foundational elements of differentiation and get exposed to a variety of research-based strategies that can be leveraged in a classroom. This session can be applicable to any content area at any secondary level.

Presentation Link

Speakers

Jeff Mlsna

CIA - Assistant Director, DCSD - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Skills and Interest-Curriculum Implementation-Teaching and Learning Cycle-Science Pedagogy-Technology Integration-Online/Blended Learning

Natasha Strayer

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3500 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Differentiation

12:40pm PST

Claim Evidence Reasoning

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, participants will learn strategies to utilize the CER framework to help students elaborate and fully explain themselves through writing. The CER framework can be used in any content area.

Speakers

Rachel Brown

Curriculum, Instruction, & Professional Growth, Douglas County School District

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3300 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

ELA Claim Evidence Reasoning

12:40pm PST

Culturally Responsive Classrooms (ELD Credit)

Limited Capacity seats available

*This session is the first hour of a 5 hour ELD course. You will complete the remaining 4 hours will be online for a total of 5 hours of relicensure credit.

What is "culturally responsive instruction"? How will "culturally responsive instruction" positively impact English Learners? What, specifically, does it look like in the classroom, and how should it be embedded in instruction in every lesson every day? How does "culturally responsive instruction" align with Tier 1 (Universal Instruction) of RtI? Teachers will explore the concept of culturally responsive instruction, plan for implementation of rigorous instruction in culturally responsive environments, and share resources and ideas for building capacity for creating culturally responsive environments at the building level.

Speakers

Becky Corr

Title III Coordinator, Douglas County School District

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3700 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

ELD

12:40pm PST

Best Practices in Math

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will focus on the use of Smith and Stein’s 5 Practices for Orchestrating Effective Mathematics Discussions as a structure for implementing the Instructional Practices. There will be time to plan an upcoming lesson using this structure. So bring your next lesson.

Speakers

Diane Smith

Strategist, CIPG

I am supporting professional development with a focus on math. I have been a teacher, principal, principal supervisor and leadership developer.

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3900 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Math

12:40pm PST

Embedding Mindfulness Strategies in the Classroom

Limited Capacity seats available

Let’s hang out in the mindfulness world for 50 minutes! The core practice of mindfulness can lead to less stress and increased focus, thus improving one’s self-awareness and self-management. This session will gently touch on the importance of mindfulness followed by strategies for weaving it into daily classroom routines. Lots of resources will be shared

Speakers

Laurie LaComb

Healthy Schools Coordinator, Douglas County School District

I believe that healthy people are happy people! My mission is to help all schools, students, teachers, staff, and families equal access to a healthy learning and working environment. My department focuses on the Whole School, Community, Child model and specializes specifically in... Read More →

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 2500 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Emotional Learning

12:40pm PST

Emergenetics Quick Wins

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, attendees will participate in several engaging strategies that can be implemented as soon as tomorrow. This course will allow you to help your students use the Emergenetics language more, understand their Youth Report on a personal level, and know how to advocate for their learning through the Emergenetics lens. Attendees must have previously participated in Emergenetics Meeting of the Minds.

Speakers

Jessica Kinsey

Wellness Teacher, Mesa Middle School

Physical EducationHealthFitness

Laura Brown

Lori Mable

Coach, Emergenetics

I work with educators to enhance instruction and student engagement by helping them create effective implementation plans to use STEP to support their school’s overall objectives and goals.

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3450 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Emotional Learning

12:40pm PST

Restorative Practices - Advanced

Limited Capacity seats available

This course will build on the proactive foundational tenets of Restorative Practices and dig deeper into understanding behavior and resolving conflict and harm. During this session, participants will learn language and structures that facilitate accountability and repairation.

Speakers

Jenifer Nerwin

Zac Hess

Personalized Learning Director - Health, Wellness, and Prevention, Douglas County School District

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3200 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Emotional Learning

12:40pm PST

Restorative Practices - Basics

Limited Capacity seats available

This course will explore the proactive foundational tenets of Restorative Practices that facilitate the building of a safe, positive and restorative classroom and school community. Participants will leave the course with a deeper understanding and strategies for using Relationships, Responsibility, Respect, Repair, and Reintegration to create a positive learning environment.

Speakers

Jill Savage

Douglas County School District

I have worked in the helping professions for nearly twenty years. My background includes working as a school counselor, special education case manager, 504 coordinator, behavioral health case manager, homeless student liaison and as the RISE (Resiliency in the School Environment... Read More →

Erin Carlson

Principal, South Ridge

Liana Finn

Dean of Students

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3100 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Emotional Learning

12:40pm PST

Supporting Students with Anxiety

Limited Capacity filling up

The purpose of this session will be to explain how anxiety impacts a students' ability to learn, how to notice signs and possible behaviors associated with anxiety, and explore tools available for a teacher to use in class to help a student who is showing signs of anxiety.

Presentation

Speakers

Nicol Bessette

2 14 Anxiety presentation CV pdf

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 2100 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Emotional Learning

12:40pm PST

Trauma Informed Educator: 101

Limited Capacity seats available

Tens of thousands of students right here in Douglas County have witnessed or been the victim of a traumatic event. For some, these events have led to significant emotional, behavioral, social, and learning challenges that are impacting their daily participation in school. This presentation will provide key information about the impact of trauma on students, interventions staff can implement at the universal, targeted, and intensive levels, and discussions on how staff self-care is critical to successfully supporting students with traumatic histories.

Speakers

Jon Smith

Behavior Specialist

Link to Trauma Presentation docx

Friday February 14, 2020 12:40pm - 1:50pm PST
Room 3400 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Emotional Learning

1:00pm PST

SPED: Essentials of 504

Limited Capacity seats available

This class is an introduction, and new information, about the 504 process for students

Speakers

Sarah Cannon

Director Special Education, DCSD

I am passionate about learning for ALL students! I am a mom, a wife, a dog lover, a daughter and a sister.

504 Basic Training 2019 (1) pptx

Friday February 14, 2020 1:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 5100 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

SPED

1:00pm PST

SPED: Progress Monitoring & Logging Services

Limited Capacity seats available

Teams may want to attend together, as this course is designed for both general educators and specialist. This course will look critically at the purpose of data collection, the use of data, and monitoring with data. Participants will examine data from multiple levels and determine the why behind the data that they have at hand. They will also be able to dialogue with others regarding what they know about data, as well as what other data they may need.

Speakers

Sarah Cannon

Director Special Education, DCSD

I am passionate about learning for ALL students! I am a mom, a wife, a dog lover, a daughter and a sister.

Friday February 14, 2020 1:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 2300 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

SPED

1:00pm PST

SPED: Standards Based Goal Writing

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will cover how to: Align goals with student needs determined through available data and contained either in evaluation summary or present levels, align goals with Colorado Academic Standards, or Extended Evidence Outcomes (only for students with an identification of ID), develop goals collaboratively with all service providers, recognizing that student areas of development often overlap between multiple service providers, Create SMART/ABCD goals focused with the measurement in mind as you create each goal to ensure continual progress monitoring and data collection.

Speakers

Marta McGovern

Friday February 14, 2020 1:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 2200 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

SPED

2:00pm PST

Formative Practice: Student Engagement

Limited Capacity seats available

This session is designed to give participants an opportunity to consider the formative practices established by Jan Chappuis that were created to help students answer the questions, “Where am I Going?” “Where am I now?” and “How do I close the gap?” This session will focus on strategies supporting student engagement with their own learning and assessment data.

Speakers

Nathan Burgard

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3800 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Assessment

2:00pm PST

Best Practices in English/Language Arts

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, participants will learn high impact instructional strategies from CDE around practice with complex texts & academic language; reading, writing, & speaking grounded in textual evidence; building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction; and strategies to support challenge, engagement, & relationships.

Speakers

Rachel Brown

Curriculum, Instruction, & Professional Growth, Douglas County School District

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3400 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

ELA

2:00pm PST

Meeting and Exceeding Standards with ELL Students (ELD Credit)

Limited Capacity seats available

Participants will examine practical ways to support language learners in the content classroom through rigorous, standards-based instruction.

Speakers

Becky Corr

Title III Coordinator, Douglas County School District

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3700 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

ELD

2:00pm PST

CVHS/CRMS Math Departments: Setting the Stage for Collaboration

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will lay the groundwork for the two math departments to build a working relationship in order to develop a learning path to benefit student learning.

Speakers

Diane Smith

Strategist, CIPG

I am supporting professional development with a focus on math. I have been a teacher, principal, principal supervisor and leadership developer.

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3600 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Math

2:00pm PST

DCHS/MMS Math Departments: Setting the Stage for Collaboration

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will lay the groundwork for the two math departments to build a working relationship in order to develop a learning path to benefit student learning.

Speakers

Jennifer Alvarado

CIPG Strategist, Douglas County Schools

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3900 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Math

2:00pm PST

Middle School i-Ready MOY Data Conversations and Standards-Aligned Assessment

Limited Capacity seats available

This session is designed to provide participants a protocol for reviewing MOY growth data found in i-Ready’s Diagnostic Growth Report. Participants will also be provided considerations for analyzing students’ needs and determining possible next steps to support student achievement and growth.

Speakers

Tammy Melanson

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3550 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Middle School Assessment

2:00pm PST

RTI Collaborative Session

Limited Capacity seats available

This session will provide time for those with a similar role related to supporting interventions in schools to have a facilitated dialogue in order to share ideas and work through common challenges.

Speakers

Erin McConnell

Strategist, DCSD

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3450 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

RTI

2:00pm PST

Best Practices in Science

Limited Capacity seats available

This session is designed to give participants an opportunity to learn about and consider the strategies aligned to the seven high-impact assessment and instructional practices identified by the National Science Foundation. These seven practices are aligned to the expectations found in the Next Generation Science Standards and 2020 CAS for Science.

Presentation Link

Speakers

Jeff Mlsna

CIA - Assistant Director, DCSD - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Skills and Interest-Curriculum Implementation-Teaching and Learning Cycle-Science Pedagogy-Technology Integration-Online/Blended Learning

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3200 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Science

2:00pm PST

Supporting Students with Anxiety

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Nicol Bessette

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 2100 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Emotional Learning

2:00pm PST

Best Practices in Social Studies

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, participants will collaborate with colleagues on identifying social studies student skills identified in the 2020 CAS, dialogue with colleagues on instructional strategies that currently work in your classroom and explore resources and strategies that might work in the classroom tomorrow (or Tuesday). Please bring your computer.
You can access the presentation here tinyurl.com/CRSocialStudies

Speakers

Kari Werder

CIPG Strategist

A passionate educator and a recovering politics teacher. Currently working in the curriculum and professional learning department at Douglas County Schools helping teachers and students get better every day!

Ryan Gudmundson

Digital Content Project Manager, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

Friday February 14, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Room 3300 Castle View High School: 5254 N Meadows Dr, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Social Studies