We have teachers and counselors who are doing nothing short of brilliant, and we want the community to see this, recognize it and celebrate it.
Upcoming SAREC Workshops
Click on workshop title to register
Gifted Endorsement Summer Course
Completion of this training (45 contact hours, additional 45 hours completed independently) will qualify participant for AZ gifted provisional endorsement. Individual districts must approve professional development hours per gifted endorsements regulations. This training will focus on best practices in gifted instruction including navigating national gifted standards, social and emotional growth, differentiated instruction, critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving.
Interactive workshops will provide participants with a knowledge base in gifted education and highly effective, research based strategies for instructing gifted students.
- June 16: Introduction to Gifted Education
- June 23: Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Students
- June 30: Differentiated Instruction and Flexible Grouping
- July 7: Best Practices in Gifted Education
- July 28: Critical Thinking and Questioning
- August 4: Project Based Learning, STEM and Inquiry
Date: Saturdays, June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, July 28, August 4, 2018 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $ 240 Registration fee includes materials and lunch for six sessions
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Facilitators: Marianne Landrith is a gifted endorsed certified teacher and Co-Chair for the Gifted Education Program in the Sunnyside Unified School District, and Coordinator of the Javits Grant for Sunnyside and Pima County Schools. Marianne has taught for 34 years in regular and gifted education. She has worked as a Teacher Trainer Mentor, Peer Coach Trainer, Program Facilitator and Career Ladder Peer Evaluator. She holds a B.A. in Elementary Education and an M.A. in Language, Reading and Culture.
Louise Till is a coordinator in the gifted education program in Tucson Unified School District. Louise has worked as a classroom teacher, librarian, mentor, coach and professional development facilitator. She is a gifted endorsed certified teacher who has taught kindergarten through college. She has her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Creative Writing and is currently a board member of the Arizona Association of Gifted and Talented (AAGT).
Adaptive Schools
One-Day Overview
Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning. In this one-day overview, participants will review strategies and tools for developing collaborative groups in becoming effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
- What does it mean to be adaptive and why is it important?
- What does the research say about the role of professional community?
- How can we structure meetings to get the most work done in the least amount of time?
- How do we become effective collaborators, inquirers, and leaders?
- What are some strategies that support collaboration?
Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together.
Date: Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $ 100 Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking.
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Presenter: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive Coaching Training Associate and Adaptive Schools Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center. Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
PBL 101 (Project Based Learning)
PBL 101 is Buck Institute for Education’s (BIE) foundational workshop focusing on the project process model. It provides participants with the knowledge and skills needed to design, assess, and manage a rigorous, standards-based project. Facilitated by one of BIE’s expert National Faculty, PBL 101 is a balanced blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands- on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Participants are actively engaged in project design, with the expectation that every teacher or teaching team will generate a project plan for their own use. This is a partnership between CITY Center for Collaborative Learning and the Pima County School Superintendent's Office.
Location: CITY Center for Collaborative Learning 37 Pennington Street Tucson, AZ 85701
Audience: K- 12 teachers, school administrators, curriculum coordinators
When: July 23-25, 2018, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: $400 Registration includes breakfasts, PBL 101 book, materials, and parking.
Registering 3 or more people? Contact Denise Ryan (denise.ryan@schools.pima.gov) for the School Team Rate of $300 per person!
PBL 101 is Buck Institute for Education’s (BIE) foundational workshop focusing on the project process model. It provides participants with the knowledge and skills needed to design, assess, and manage a rigorous, standards-based project. Facilitated by one of BIE’s expert National Faculty, PBL 101 is a balanced blend of direct instruction, video analysis, hands- on work, resource sharing, and peer collaboration and feedback. Participants are actively engaged in project design, with the expectation that every teacher or teaching team will generate a project plan for their own use. This is a partnership between CITY Center for Collaborative Learning and the Pima County School Superintendent's Office.
Location: CITY Center for Collaborative Learning 37 Pennington Street Tucson, AZ 85701
Audience: K- 12 teachers, school administrators, curriculum coordinators
When: July 23-25, 2018, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: $400 Registration includes breakfasts, PBL 101 book, materials, and parking.
Registering 3 or more people? Contact Denise Ryan (denise.ryan@schools.pima.gov) for the School Team Rate of $300 per person!
Adaptive Schools Seminar
The Adaptive Schools Foundation and Advanced Seminars present a productive, practical set of ideas and tools for developing collaborative groups in becoming effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. The work of the Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to the changing needs of students and society. The training not only explores what makes teams effective, but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. It takes participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participates will develop:
Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together.
Date: September 10 and 11; October 22 and 23, 2018 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $ 400 Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking.
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Presenter: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive Coaching Training Associate and Adaptive Schools Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center. Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
The Adaptive Schools Foundation and Advanced Seminars present a productive, practical set of ideas and tools for developing collaborative groups in becoming effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. The work of the Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to the changing needs of students and society. The training not only explores what makes teams effective, but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. It takes participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participates will develop:
- An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups
- New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development
- An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools
- Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms and values of each
- Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus
- Ways to value and use dissension, argument and conflict
- Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful
Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together.
Date: September 10 and 11; October 22 and 23, 2018 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $ 400 Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking.
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Presenter: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive Coaching Training Associate and Adaptive Schools Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center. Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading & Spelling (LETRS)
LETRS is an ideal follow-up professional learning to Teaching Reading Effectively!
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) is an opportunity for intensive professional development that increases teacher knowledge of literacy. Participants are provided with comprehensive and practical knowledge of how children learn to read, write, and spell. Teachers and administrators can use this knowledge to improve instruction and implement evidence-based literacy interventions.
Audience: School teams are encouraged to attend and may be composed 3 - 6 team members, including the following: • K-2 Teacher • 3-5 Teacher • Special Education Teacher/Leader • English Learner Teacher • Reading Coach • District-Level Member
Cost: $325 for 4-days (Cost includes manuals for LETRS Modules 1-3 and parking)
Schools may use their Move On When Reading funds for registration. Coaching extension options available upon request after professional development.
Facilitators: Gloria Carrington and Bette Lovelace
LETRS is an ideal follow-up professional learning to Teaching Reading Effectively!
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) is an opportunity for intensive professional development that increases teacher knowledge of literacy. Participants are provided with comprehensive and practical knowledge of how children learn to read, write, and spell. Teachers and administrators can use this knowledge to improve instruction and implement evidence-based literacy interventions.
- Module 1 - The Challenge of Learning to Read: Explores the reasons why many students have reading difficulties and explains how children learn to read.
- Module 2 - The Speech Sounds of English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Phoneme Awareness: Introduces phonemes (speech sounds) and discusses the importance of phonological awareness in reading and spelling instruction.
- Module 3 - Spellography for Teachers: How English Spelling Works: Explores the structure and history of English spelling from several angles: phoneme-grapheme correspondence, letter patterns within words, syllables, meaningful word parts (morphemes), and historical layers in the orthography
Audience: School teams are encouraged to attend and may be composed 3 - 6 team members, including the following: • K-2 Teacher • 3-5 Teacher • Special Education Teacher/Leader • English Learner Teacher • Reading Coach • District-Level Member
Cost: $325 for 4-days (Cost includes manuals for LETRS Modules 1-3 and parking)
Schools may use their Move On When Reading funds for registration. Coaching extension options available upon request after professional development.
Facilitators: Gloria Carrington and Bette Lovelace
Teaching Reading Effectively
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
When: October 29th, October 30th, November 13, 14th, and 15th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
- Foundations of Reading
- Learning to Read and Spell: A National Problem and Recommended Solutions
- Basic Principals of Reading Assessment
- The Structure of Language
- Graphophonemic Awareness
- Teaching Word Identification and Spelling Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension to summarizing
When: October 29th, October 30th, November 13, 14th, and 15th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
Teaching Reading Effectively
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
When: November 29th, November 30th, December 12th-14th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
- Foundations of Reading
- Learning to Read and Spell: A National Problem and Recommended Solutions
- Basic Principals of Reading Assessment
- The Structure of Language
- Graphophonemic Awareness
- Teaching Word Identification and Spelling Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension to summarizing
When: November 29th, November 30th, December 12th-14th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
**Notice**
You must register for workshops online. Submitting a purchase order without registering online will not hold a spot in any of the workshops.
You must register for workshops online. Submitting a purchase order without registering online will not hold a spot in any of the workshops.
 |
 |
 |
 |
