Scheduled Conversations
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10:00 – 11:30
Session One
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1:00 – 2:30
Session Two
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3:00 – 4:30
Session Three
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10:30 – 12:00
Session Four
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12:30 – 2:00
Session Five
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2:30 – 4:00
Session Six
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Your search found 4 conversations:
Departmental PLCs: Using Common Planning Time Effectively
- Who:
- Tim Best, Rosalind Echols, Stephanie Dunda, Gamal Sherif, Matt Van Kouwenberg
- When:
- Session One
- Where:
- Room 304
The SLA Science Department hosts a conversation about how to use common planning time for reflection, observation, and self-directed professional development.
Interdisciplinarity
- Who:
- Zac Chase, Rosalind Echols and Diana Laufenberg
- When:
- Session Two
- Where:
- Room 311
Assisting students in the 'making of meaning' is one of the paramount goals of education. This goal is more readily attained with connections within and throughout disciplines of study. In an attempt to 'un-silo' the content and concepts, we will discuss practical examples of interdisciplinarity and suggestions for growing such connective cognitive tissue in your own learning environments.
Professionalizing teaching: A guided discussion on what WE (teachers) can do to make teaching more professional.
- Who:
- Juan Gabriel Sanchez, Matthew Van Kouwenberg, Rosalind Echols
- When:
- Session Six
- Where:
- Room 303
This conversations will explore the ways in which teaching is not often valued as a true profession, as well as what teachers can do to combat that perception.
Standards-Based Grading in a Project-Based School: Reflections, Challenges, and Successes
- Who:
- Rosalind Echols, Erin Garvey, Brad Latimer, Mark Miles, Sunil Reddy, and students of SLA
- When:
- Session Five
- Where:
- Room 209
What is standards-based grading, and how can it be developed and used in a project-based school? During this past school year, SLA math and science teachers implemented SBG in multiple classes in an effort to promote not only retention of material and demonstration of knowledge, but also a focus...
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