Professional Development Workshops
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.
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Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Course Dates: May 29, 30, 31, June 3, 4, 2019
Location: Orange Grove Middle School, 1911 E. Orange Grove Road, Tucson, AZ 85718
Course Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $50 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Lunch NOT included.)
Payment PolicyPayments must be received five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Payments can be in the form of a check, credit card, P-Card, or a school purchase order. Registrations within the five (5) day window must be paid immediately upon registering for the course. Cancellation & Refund PolicyCancellations must be submitted in writing five (5) business days prior to the start of the class to receive a refund. No refunds will be given for “no shows.” If courses are cancelled due to low enrollment, refunds will be issued to the individual or the school.
This year's Institute will be held as a strand within the National Conference for NASAP (North American Society of Adlerian Psychology). This allows you to participate in national level workshops, as well as hear from our excellent local presenters. Register for a single day ($100) or both days ($200). Our registration includes lunch and parking. Our registrants have the option to attend our local programming OR any of the NASAP national programming.
CLICK HERE to view our local programming schedule
CLICK HERE to view the national sessions
As a participant in NASAP’s Conference: Healing Our Communities Through Social Interest, you are invited to attend, free of charge, this special Ansbacher Lecture:
Trauma, Community Feeling and Resilience by Anthea Millar Thursday, May 30 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Excellence Sponsors:
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Payment Policy
Payments must be received five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Payments can be in the form of a check, credit card, P-Card, or a school purchase order. Registrations within the five (5) day window must be paid immediately upon registering for the course. Please make make Purchase Order or Check out to: PIMA SPECIAL PROGRAMS.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
No refunds will be made after May 1st.
Course Dates: June 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 2019
Location: Pima County School Superintendent's Office | 200 N. Stone Tucson, AZ 85701
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; Lunch NOT included.)
APPLICATION REQUIRED: To attend this strand, you must first apply as a team (two teachers from the same school). If you are accepted, your team will receive the passcode to register. Applications will be reviewed in the order received and approved for registration until the strand fills.
CLICK HERE for application.
Audience: PreK-2nd Grade Teachers
(In order to maximize the impact of this workshop, only educators who work directly with students will be allowed to register and receive a kit. Please contact DaNel Hogan if you would like to attend but are in an administrative role.)
Facilitators: DaNel Hogan and a STEMAZing Teacher Leader
Cost: $150 for team of two teachers includes materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
This workshop is part of the STEMAZing Institute. The STEMAZing Project’s philosophy on teacher professional development is simple: It must be hands-on and engaging – putting the educators in the seat of the students to experience STEM lessons firsthand. It must provide the educators with the equipment and supplies they need to implement the lessons and activities in their classrooms the next day if they choose. It must be facilitated by master educators who have themselves been in the classroom.
Media Policy:
Payment Policy Payments must be received five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Payments can be in the form of a check, credit card, P-Card, or a school purchase order. Registrations within the five (5) day window must be paid immediately upon registering for the course. Cancellation & Refund Policy Cancellations must be submitted in writing five (5) business days prior to the start of the class to receive a refund. Cancellations can be emailed to BOTH: danel.hogan@schools.pima.gov AND AR@schools.pima.gov. No refunds will be given for “no shows.” If courses are cancelled due to low enrollment, refunds will be issued to the individual or the school.
Join us for three days as we explore water, energy, and agriculture challenges specific to Arizona! Using phenomenon to drive student questions about water, energy, and agriculture, making connections using the lenses of the crosscutting concepts, and putting the science and engineering practices together to make sense of the world (or at least what is going on in Arizona). From the science of energy to the complexities of the watershed we live in and the energy and water embedded in our food, learn about both the energy and water systems and how they are inherently connected to food production. Leave with $200 worth of equipment and supplies for classroom use and curriculum to engage your students using the three dimensions of instruction – core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices.
Audience: 4th-12th Grade Teachers
Facilitators: DaNel Hogan, Kerry Schwartz, and Sara Torres
Cost: $75 includes materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
Payment Policy Payments must be received five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Payments can be in the form of a check, credit card, P-Card, or a school purchase order. Registrations within the five (5) day window must be paid immediately upon registering for the course. Cancellation & Refund Policy Cancellations must be submitted in writing five (5) business days prior to the start of the class to receive a refund. Cancellations can be emailed to both: danel.hogan@schools.pima.gov AND AR@pima.gov. No refunds will be given for “no shows.” If courses are cancelled due to low enrollment, refunds will be issued to the individual or the school.
Using a collection of building bricks, educators can teach crosscutting concepts about matter in biology, chemistry, and earth science. Join Dr. Amanda Mayer, a native Tucsonan who now works at the MIT Edgerton Center, as she walks you through the LEGO molecule modules. Starting with chemical reactions, introduce students to molecules, atoms, chemical notation, and chemical compounds starting with a hands-on wet lab and moving into models of the reactions. Allow students to concretely experience the photosynthesis reaction by building models of the reactants and products. Do your students know what air is made of? What percentage is oxygen? What happens chemically when things burn? Build a model of air and then combust fuel models to produce additional carbon dioxide and pollutants. Finally, understand oceans by modeling important chemical reactions happening in the ocean to emphasize ocean acidification and toxic mercury pollution. Each participating teacher will receive a classroom set of building bricks and lesson mats worth more than $350.
Facilitators: Dr. Amanda Mayer from the MIT Edgerton Center with assistance from Margaret Wilch
Presenting Skills
Building on the work of Robert Garmston and other master presenters, this two-day seminar will focus on the skills, structures, and identity that support skilled presenting. The purpose of the training is to develop the confidence and competence a presenter needs. The presenter’s moves will also transfer to facilitations that the individual is asked to lead. Using the metaphor container, the participants will use the Event Design Map to structure an upcoming presentation. Outcomes for the two days are:
Day 1: Knowing Yourself and Your Audience, Designing and Delivering Your Presentation
Day 2: Developing and Maintaining Resourcefulness as a Presenter
Facilitator: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive CoachingSM Training Associate and Adaptive SchoolsSM Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center.
Dates: June 17, 18, 2019; 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $200 Early Bird Special before May 31, 2019 | $250 after May 31
Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking
Audience: Organizations and individuals who want to develop as skillful presenters Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701 Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
For novice and experienced school gardeners, join master educators at Manzo Elementary for three days exploring the possibilities for integration and engagement when you build a school garden program at your school. Take away new and exciting ideas about how to best cultivate the STEM minds of students using your space. Beyond STEM, learn how other educators are utilizing their garden spaces as living laboratories to integrate STEM into other subject areas. This strand will also focus on the rules about using produce in the classroom and for food service, building healthy soils, understanding nutritional content labels, saving seeds for a successful school garden, and much more! Walk away with $200 in equipment and supplies to jump start your school garden or expand what you are already doing!
Audience: PreK-8th Grade Teachers
Facilitators: Moses Thompson and Blue Baldwin
Inspired by the books The Wild Robot and The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown, join our Robot Generals, Michael Griffith and Sherrie Dennis, for three days of getting to know the Edison robot platform and coding platforms (EdBlocks, EdScratch, and EdPy). Engineer solutions to Roz (Wild Robot) inspired challenges our Robot Generals have dreamed up. You will even get a chance to program Edisons to square dance! Starting with a simple bar code scan and progressing through drag-and-drop block Scratch programming, and ending with Python – a legitimate programming language used in the real world, teachers from a wide grade range will experience how they can engage their students with these powerful little robots. Teacher teams will receive a STEMAZing kit with 12 robots, 1 EduMat, 6 EdCreate kits, spare parts kit, rechargeable batteries and more. Everything you need to establish a small army of programmable robots will be included in the STEMAZing kit valued at more than $600.
APPLICATION REQUIRED: To attend this strand, you must first apply as a team (two teachers from the same school). If you are accepted, your team will receive the passcode to register. Applications will be reviewed in the order received and approved for registration until the strand fills. You are not allowed to attend this strand if you have participated it in the past.
Audience: K-12th Grade Teachers
Facilitators: Sherrie Dennis and Michael Griffith
Payment Policy Payments must be received five (5) business days prior to the start of the class. Payments can be in the form of a check, credit card, P-Card, or a school purchase order. Registrations within the five (5) day window must be paid immediately upon registering for the course. Cancellation & Refund Policy Cancellations must be submitted in writing five (5) business days prior to the start of the class to receive a refund. Cancellations must be emailed to BOTH: danel.hogan@pima.gov AND AR@schools.pima.gov. No refunds will be given for “no shows.” If courses are cancelled due to low enrollment, refunds will be issued to the individual or the school.
Using MIT DNA/RNA/protein/tRNA models, educators who teach the central dogma of molecular biology will now be able to use hands-on models to show how the molecules INTERACT, not just what molecules LOOK LIKE. Join us to build your own foundational knowledge and understanding, and to take your teaching to a new level! With the injection molded molecules, students can perform DNA replication, mRNA transcription, amino acid specificity with tRNAs, DNA mutation and repair, and more. With the protein and amino acid sets, students can perform translation and protein folding, learn about hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions, demonstrate all four levels of protein structure, create models of enzymes, structural proteins, antibodies, and more. Spend three days with Dr. Amanda Mayer, a native Tucsonan who works at the MIT Edgerton Center, as she walks you through the range of firsthand experiences your students can have using these powerful models. Pending funding, 8th-12th grade educators who teach the central dogma of biology will walk away with a $2400 classroom set of the DNA/RNA/protein/tRNA models. We are still seeking sponsors for these classroom kits and will continue to fundraise after the institute is over if necessary. That said, registering for and taking this strand does not guarantee the participant a $2400 kit.
Audience: 8th Grade and High School Biology Teachers
Facilitators: Dr. Amanda Mayer and Margaret Wilch
Date: Monday through Friday, July 8th - 12th, 2019 8:00 am - 4:30 pm; Friday August 9th, 5:00-7:30 pm
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.
Course Dates: July 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 2019
Location: Sunnyside USD | Los Ranchitos Elementary, 2054 E Ginter Rd, Tucson, AZ 85706
Course Dates: August 28, 29 and September 11, 12, 13, 2019
Location: Nogales USD Board Room; 310 W. Plum Street | Nogales, AZ
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