August 03
Integrating the Dispositions and K-12 Standards for Student Success
August 03, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Counselors, Teachers, and Administrators
Presenter: Dr. Derek Lambert and Stephanie Hayes
Description: This session will help teachers and counselors learn more strategies to integrate the Dispositions and Standards for Student Success. Participants will explore several free resources for lessons, ideas, and strategies. Whether you are new or experienced at integrating the Dispositions and Standards for Student Success, if you want to learn more this session is for you!
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Pre-K-Grade 12 Implementation Guide Overview
August 03, 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Target Audience: Pre-K through Grade 12 Administrators and Educators
Presenter: Monica DellaMea and Joey Wiseman
Description: This session will provide an overview of the newly-released West Virginia Early & Elementary Learning (Pre-K through Grade 5) and Middle and Secondary Learning (6-12) Implementation Guides and Companion Documents to the West Virginia Standards for Effective Schools. These are tools that can be used by educators and administrators to critically analyze their practice.
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STEPS Program for Speech – Speech Therapy Education and Prevention for Success
August 03, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Target Audience: Speech-language Pathologists, K-12 Administrators, Special Education Directors
Presenter: Lee Ann Brammer, M.A., CCC-SLP, Coordinator
Description: This session will provide an overview of the STEPS Program which is a prereferral consultation and intervention system of supports for students with mild speech and language disorders. Also, it is a post dismissal program that supports monitoring and “tune-ups” for students who have been in speech therapy and need to be followed for generalization. The session will cover the benefits, documentation, ethical considerations and allow plenty of time for questions.
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STEPS ACTIVITIES FORM with logo
STEPS Activities Form Example with logo
STEPS Parent Letter with logo
SCREENING LOG with logo
Dismissal from STEPS with logo
STEPS Activities revised horizontal with logo
STEPS List of Students with logo
West Virginia Department of Education Available Resources and Supports for Educators
August 03, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Target Audience: All WV Educators
Presenter: Dr. Jan Barth, Dr. Carla Warren, Joey Wiseman, Monica DellaMea, Susan Beck, Robert Hagerman, and Dr. Vaughn Rhudy
Description: Working with educators in the field, the WVDE has developed a plethora of resources, supports, strategies, student engagement activities, guidance, and best practices for use at the district and school levels. During this session, WVDE staff will walk participants through the webpages where these are located and will educate participants about their availability.
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Teaching Comprehension Remotely (Grades 3-5)
August 03, 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades 3-5 Educators
Presenter: Christy Schwartz and Rebecca Lewis
Description: Virtual comprehension instruction can be challenging as teachers struggle with decisions about where to start and what to include in their limited instructional time. Participants in this session will learn how to engage 3-5 students with integrated reading and writing lessons that focus on improving comprehension using grade-level content and rich texts. Tips for increasing interaction, ensuring learning retention and aligning digital and print resources will help teachers maximize the effectiveness of their remote learning environments.
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Chat Box Links
Phonics Skills Sequence
Planning for Remote Comprehension Instruction
Small Group Teaching RoutineRead-Aloud Lesson:
A Butterfly is Patient Companion Text Set
A Butterfly is Patient Read-Aloud Lesson
Butterfly Life Cycle Level N 590L
Make Your Own Butterfly Feeder
Monarch Butterflies 650L
Monarch Butterflies on the Rise Again 540L
Effective Number Talks in the Classroom or Remotely
August 03, 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades 3-5 Educators
Presenter: Teresa Hammond, WVDE and Tammy Tucker, Randolph County
Description: In this session educators will be introduced to Number Talks, Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages and explore the essential understandings for reasoning with fractions, decimals, and percentages. Participants will leave the session knowing how to conduct a number talk either remotely or in class, and receive a Number Talks Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages Book. (Grades 3-5)
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August 04
Policy 2510 Best Practices
August 04, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Administrators and Counselors Pre-K-12
Presenter: Joey Wiseman and Monica DellaMea, WVDE
Description: In this session, participants will be introduced to the changes and updates to Policy 2510, Assuring Quality of Education: Regulations for Education Programs, which became effective July 1, 2020.
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Teaching Writing Remotely
August 04, 1:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Target Audience: Grades K- 5 Educators
Presenter: Maggie Luma, WVDE
Description: Writing can be one of the most motivationally challenging tasks we give our students. The writing process can be even more daunting for students when they are trying to complete assignments remotely. This session will review best practices for integrating reading and writing and will reinforce the importance of goal-setting and other types of self-regulation for student success in a non-traditional learning environment.
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Three-to-One Model of Service Delivery for Related Service Providers – COVID-19 Scheduling Survival
August 04, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Target Audience: Related service providers, Special Education Directors
Presenter: Lee Ann Brammer, WVDE
Description: This session will detail the 3:1 Model and how it could be used by related service providers to allow flexibility during times of remote learning and brick and mortar school attendance to provide services using an evidence-based format. Not all students would benefit from this model, so the session will include a description of students who might. The discussion will provide strategies that support collaboration with the classroom teacher with visual examples available. Documentation of 3:1 Model use for the Monitoring Team from the Office of Federal Programs will be delineated. Participants will be left with another scheduling option to consider for students or for whom it would be applicable.
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Schedule for Indirect Service Week- Blank
Monthly 3-1 Schedule Template Draft
Indirect Week Planning Sheet
Indirect Week Activities Cheat Sheet
Compliance Week Example RR Raleigh 3-8-19
Schedule 3to1
Schedule 3to1 With Calendars
Schedule for Indirect Service Week – Final Example
Tools for Identifying Critical Prerequisite Skills and Concepts for Grades Pre-K through Five
August 04, 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Educators and Administrators
Presenter: Monica DellaMea, WVDE
Description: In this session, participants will learn about the vertical teaming and reflection exercises that have been created as part of the reentry process to assist educators with the identification of critical prerequisite skills and concepts for children.
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Using a Virtual Art Gallery to Engage Students
August 04, 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Educators
Presenter: Brandie Turner, Marshall University
Description: Virtual art galleries allow teachers to engage students in learning new information in an interactive format. Students experience learning through a gallery approach. Teachers have the option to structure the gallery as an independent, small group, or teacher-led activity. Participants will leave the session with a PowerPoint template to assist in creating their own gallery!
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August 05
Creating Light-Up Sensory Gel Pads for Students
August 05, 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Educators
Presenter: Jessi Wright and Ginger Huffman, WVDE
Description: A Do-It-Yourself session (DIY) for educators, related service personnel, and families for meeting the sensory needs of children. This has become a priority when providing quality education and therapy services. Sensory needs often prevent children from fully focusing on the tasks in front of them. Sometimes something as simple as a fidget or weighted lap pad can make a significant difference. This session will provide participants the opportunity to create a gel pad that lights up, providing both tactile and visual stimulation. The activity demonstrates how an individual can take everyday things and turn them into tools for our children.
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Promoting Proficiency in the World Language Classroom
August 05, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades K-12 World Language Educators
Presenter: Debora Nicholson, WVDE
Description: Students often prefer to read and write the language rather than speak and, for the teacher, reading and writing is much easier to incorporate in the classroom, remote learning, and the grade book. We all recognize that focusing on reading and writing in the world language does not provide real-life skills for our students. This session will focus on ideas, strategies, and methods that will promote interpersonal communication both in the in-person classroom and through remote learning: student to teacher, student to student, and even student to community member. The session will be interactive, and participants will have the opportunity to share their successful strategies.
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Re-imagined Recess and Possible Protocol Physical Activity
August 05, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Administrators & Grades Pre-K-5 Classroom Educators
Presenter: Josh Grant, WVDE
Description: In this session, participants will explore a variety of ideas that re-imagine recess and provide classroom-based physical activity ideas to allow students to engage in much needed physical activity while following a variety of protocols.
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Scheduling the Remote Elementary Classroom
August 05, 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Educators
Presenter: Brittany Fike, Marshall University
Description: Maintaining structure for students during remote learning is of the utmost importance. Providing structure during remote learning will allow teachers to further foster relationships, as well as to set clear, reasonable expectations. Teachers will explore remote elementary classroom examples that have been successfully used with students and will learn how to create a developmentally appropriate schedule that allows for live check-in times, independent work time, and breaks
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Remote Coaching vs. Traditional Coaching
August 05, 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Academic Coaches; Elementary Principals
Presenter: Brandie Turner and Becky Lewis, Marshall University
Description: Instructional coaching during this time of remote learning is a new experience for most. However, it is vital that teachers continue to receive high-quality professional learning opportunities that coaches provide. This session will include recommendations on how coaches can continue to support and engage teachers in the remote learning environment.
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August 06
Adding Context to Content Instruction Using Digital Online Mapping Tools
August 06, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades 4-12 Science, Social Studies, Math, ELA Educators
Presenter: Erika Klose, WVDE
Description: In this session, participants will utilize digital real-world mapping tools as a method of creating context for their content (Math, ELA, Science, Social Studies, and Elementary). This session will model using online digital mapping technology to improve student engagement and outcomes across content areas.
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Integrating Science and Social Studies Standards
August 06, 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-2 Educators
Presenter: Janet Bock-Hager, WVDE
Description: In this session, educators will explore the integration of science and social studies with English language arts and mathematics to support standards-based instruction, along with developing problem-solving, critical thinking, and inquiry.
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Using the Formative Assessment Process and Gathering Evidence of Student Learning
August 06, 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Educators
Presenter: Teresa Hammond and Tonya Hatcher, WVDE
Description: In this session educators will explore the formative assessment process, how to gather evidence of learning, and make instructional decisions based on those data. This process can be employed either remotely or in-person. (Pre-K- Grade 5)
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Virtual Professional Learning Communities (Part A)
August 06, 1:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Educators
Presenter: Sara Hutchinson, WVDE
Description: Best practices for professional learning do not change in traditional and non-traditional school settings. In Part A of this session, participants will learn techniques to connect digitally with their school and local community as an expansion of their PLCs. In Part B, participants will learn how to develop methods to connect with educators globally whether they pursue this individually or with a team.
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West Virginia Department of Education Available Resources and Supports for Educators
August 06, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Target Audience: All WV Educators
Presenter: Dr. Jan Barth, Dr. Carla Warren, Joey Wiseman, Monica DellaMea, Susan Beck, Robert Hagerman, and Dr. Vaughn Rhudy
Description: Working with educators in the field, the WVDE has developed a plethora of resources, supports, strategies, student engagement activities, guidance, and best practices for use at the district and school levels. During this session, WVDE staff will walk participants through the webpages where these are located and will educate participants about their availability.
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August 07
Not Business as Usual but Doing Business - Elementary Visual Art and Music Instruction
August 07, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Target Audience: Grades K-5 Art and Music Teachers
Presenter: Dr. Ray Lowther, WVDE
Description: Embracing how we will provide instruction in visual art and music in the wake of the changes to our classrooms and teaching assignments. This session will encourage thinking, planning, and preparing for building skills and major elementary concepts under the new normal that are arts standard-based and curriculum shaped. Definitely not business as usual but definitely doing business! Taking challenges and turning them into creative opportunities.
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Pre-K: Where to Start? Addressing Literacy Instructional Needs in Fall 2020
August 07, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Target Audience: Pre-K Educators, Academic Coaches, Administrators
Presenter: Ann Forno, PALS
Description: For Pre-K teachers, this session will focus on best practices for adapting literacy activities to meet a wide range of skills and knowledge in preschool students.
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Putting Health and Wellness Education F.I.R.S.T.
August 07, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Target Audience: K-5 Classroom Teachers & 6-12 Health Education Teachers
Presenter: Josh Grant WVDE
Description: In this session participants will explore Flexible, Innovative Resources, Supports, and Teaching Strategies to make health education a priority. This session will identify ways to ensure Wellness Education standards are included in the elementary education setting and focused on when delivering Health Education in the secondary setting regardless of the learning environment.
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The Essentials of Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
August 07, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades 3-5 Educators
Presenter: Sara Hutchinson, WVDE
Description: Remote learning begs our students to become self-directed learners. Finding unique solutions to meaningful problems is a great way for our students to become just that. Beginning with a description and examples of the seven essential components of problem-based learning, participants in this session will learn how to facilitate a PBL activity while teaching remotely.
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Virtual Professional Learning Communities (Part B)
August 07, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-5 Educators
Presenter: Sara Hutchinson, WVDE
Description: Best practices for professional learning do not change in traditional and non- traditional school settings. In Part A of this session, participants will learn techniques to connect digitally with their school and local community as an expansion of their PLCs. In Part B, participants will learn how to develop methods to connect with educators globally whether they pursue this individually or with a team.
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