Professional Development Workshops
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.
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participates will develop:
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: January 17th, 18th and March 28th and March 29th, 2019
Cost: Early Bird Special: $ 400 (4 days) if registered before December 14, 2018. $450 after December 14th.
Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking. Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together. Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701 Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
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.
What stories are hidden in the rocks? Think like a scientist and make connections to our past through fossil hunting, the geological column, and fossil reconstruction. Learn to interpret the past using systems thinking and geological evidence. Break the cycle of silo thinking by integrating ELA and math standards into your science lessons. Be the first to adopt lessons using the new state science standards for earth science. Leave with all the materials to make a simulated rock column with real fossils to excavate and help your students become expert geologists and paleontologists.
Facilitators: STEMAZing Teacher Leaders Mabel Rivera and Kathy Hartley
Audience: Most appropriate for 3rd-8th Grade Teachers
Location: Pima County School Superintendent's Office - 200 N Stone Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701
Course Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Cost: $25 includes STEMAZing Kit worth about $50, continental breakfast, and lunch
Time: Breakfast and check-in starts at 8:00 am. Workshop begins at 8:30 am and ends at 3:30 pm.
Special thank you to the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation for supporting the STEMAZing Teacher Leader Program (STLP). STLP allows us to work with incredible teacher leaders who have designed and will facilitate STEMAZing Workshops like this one.
This workshop is part of the STEMAZing Workshop Series. 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.
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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. 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: 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.
The Pima County School Superintendents' Offices are offering Cognitive Coaching℠ Foundations Seminar in collaboration with the AZK12 Center. This seminar is designed for principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and others who strive to support and guide a higher level of practice with their colleagues. In this seminar, participants learn ways to expand and refine knowledge and skills to promote more effective teaching and learning. The focus is on strategies that enhance teachers’ intellectual growth and strengthen instructional decision-making. During the workshop the maps and tools of Cognitive Coaching℠ are demonstrated and practiced. Specifically, participants learn to: establish rapport, create trust, and conduct planning, reflecting, and problem-resolving conversations. These maps and tools develop teacher self-efficacy and cognitive autonomy, while also developing a sense of community and professional culture within a school.
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 specializes in one-on-one coaching as well as group facilitation. Through AZK12, Mary has been providing Cognitive CoachingSM Foundation training for the past 7 years.
Training each day (8:30-4:00) will cover the following topics:
Location: Pima County School Superintendent's Office | 200 N. Stone Tucson, AZ 85701
Regular Rate: $650 after January 7, 2019
This workshop has filled. Thank you for your interest in participating. Please fill out the registration if you would like to receive information about similar workshops. Thank you!
Join Arizona State Museum and the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access in a free educator workshop.
This workshop connects teachers with Mexican and Yaqui primary source materials, tradition bearers, stories, and songs.
Participants gain access to Smithsonian and ASM digital resources and classroom tools, and create their own lesson plans.
Open to educators (grades 4-12), pre-service teachers, school librarians, and curriculum developers.
Earn a $50 stipend and 11.5 professional development hours.
Space is limited. Register now. The first 36 registrants are guaranteed a spot. Anyone after 36 will be placed on the wait list.
Location: Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd. | Tucson, AZ 85721
Friday, January 25, 2019
4:30pm – 7:30pm
Saturday, January 26, 2019
8:30am – 4:00pm
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Got robots? Join our Robot Generals, Sherrie Dennis and Michael Griffith, for a Saturday morning filled with sharing, collaborating, and learning together. All robot platforms are welcome: Edison, Ozobot, Cubetto, Sphero, Botley, Lego Mindstorm, Vex - you name it! The goal of STEMAZing Robot Roundups is to establish a professional learning network of educators using robots to engage students so we can share ideas, best practices, successes, and work out challenges.
PD Hours: a certificate for up to 4 hours of professional development credit will be provided
Facilitators: Michael Griffith from the UA College of Education and Sherrie Dennis from DeGrazia Middle School
Location: University of Arizona - College of Education - Room 102
1430 E 2nd Street, Tucson, AZ 85719
Course Date: Saturday, January 26, 2019
Cost: FREE includes continental breakfast and PD certificate.
Time: Breakfast and check-in starts at 8:00 am. Robot Roundup ends at noon. We hope you will meet some new connections for your professional learning network and enjoy lunch together.
Parking: If you head north on Vine Avenue from 2nd Street near the education building, the parking lot at the end of Vine Ave is free without a permit on the weekends as long as it is not marked for a special event. You can also choose to pay to park in the Second St. Garage right next to the Education building. Both options are marked on the map below.
Admin Luncheon Series
This presentation will review different ways that youth will present in crisis, strategies to recognize red flags of youth in crisis, and helpful intervention strategies to de-escalate and/or respond to crisis in the classrooms and schools. There will be crisis resources provided, as well as an overview of the Crisis Response Center and how/when the CRC can help..
Presenter: Leigh-Anne Andre, LCSW , Director of Social Services, Crisis Response Center , Connections Health Solutions
Audience: School Administrators, Counselors, Teachers and School Resource Officers
Location: Abrams Public Health Center (Room 1106) 3950 S. Country Club Rd. #100, Tucson, AZ 85714
Join us for a fun, interactive workshop designed for primary teachers. Discover ways to help students make sense of wind and its renewable capabilities. Using Next Generation Science and Engineering Practices, navigate the new Arizona Science Standards and apply them through the inquiry of wind. Get hands-on experience with wind turbines and even physics that can be implemented immediately. You will leave with everything you need, including over $60 in materials, to bring a whole new perspective on wind to your students.
Facilitators: STEMAZing Teacher Leaders Sarah Barker and Danielle Swartz
Audience: Most appropriate for PreK-3rd Grade Teachers
Course Date: Saturday, February 9, 2019
Cost: $25 includes STEMAZing Kit worth about $60, continental breakfast, and lunch
Special thank you to Tucson Electric Power for supplying funds to provide every teacher with a simple generator to demonstrate how electricity is produced.
Are you tired of your students snoozing to rock videos? Join us for a day of hands-on, minds-on discovery as we explore Stability and Change through the fast paced world of erosion (Irony at its finest). Get your hands dirty as we navigate the new AZ Science Standards and Crosscutting concepts in an inquiry investigation that you will be able to implement across the curriculum in your classroom. You will walk away with a kit worth $50 PLUS a copy of the new Science Standards. This workshop will rock your world!
Facilitators: STEMAZing Teacher Leaders Lisa Nielsen and Rosa Watson
Audience: Most appropriate for 2nd-5th Grade Teachers
Course Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Take your Edison use to the next level! If you have already met Edison and you are looking at how to better engage students with the various levels of coding and engineering options, then this is the right follow up workshop. Bring a laptop and ONE Edison robot with you to learn more about EdBlocks and EdScratch coding apps. There will also be a chance to explore coding with Python for those that want to jump to the highest level of coding with Edison. Then, you can engineer with Edison using the EdCreate kit which allows you to build EdTank, EdDigger, EdRoboClaw, EdCrane, and EdPrinter. (https://meetedison.com/edcreate/) The STEMAZing Kit (valued at about $80) for this workshop includes a SECOND Edison Robot and an EdCreate kit!
Audience: Teachers who have already attended a Meet Edison STEMAZing Workshop and/or have their own Edison robots for classroom use
You are expected to bring a laptop computer and ONE Edison robot with you to the workshop. If you do not yet have an Edison robot but would like to attend, please reach out to DaNel Hogan discuss options.
Location: Pima County School Superintendent's Office - 200 N Stone Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701
Parking: Parking will be validated in either the Public Works or Public Service County Parking Garages. Map will be sent prior to workshop.
Course Date: Friday, March 1, 2019
Cost: $25 includes STEMAZing kit, continental breakfast, and lunch.
How are rockets, energy, and STEM connected? How do you integrate other subjects into rocketry? This workshop will focus on the effect energy has on rockets. Participants will explore various types of energy and how it relates to different types of rockets. Investigation of the new AZ Science Standards and Crosscutting concepts, along with the integration of history, literature, and math, will be woven throughout the day.
Facilitators: STEMAZing Teacher Leaders Angela Lucero and Donna Grimes
Course Date: Saturday, March 16, 2019
NOTE WORKSHOP LOCATION in Nogales, AZ
In the newly adopted 2018 Arizona Science Standards there are 12 standards related to adaptation and heredity before high school. Many students hold persistent misconceptions about adaptation and inheritance. Come to this workshop to deepen your understanding of this important content and receive materials (worth $50.00) to lead hands-on activities to help 3rd-8th grade students understand the role of time, natural selection, and randomness in how plants and animals change in response to their environment. You’ll leave better acquainted with the new standards and well prepared to teach these concepts. Join us for ‘allele’ good time!
Facilitators: STEMAZing Teacher Leaders Annette Koweek and Joe Boehm
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex - 2150 N Congress Drive, Nogales, AZ 85621
Course Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Course Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019
Join our Robot Generals Mike and Sherrie to take your Edison coding skills to the next level. In this workshop, you will learn about and use advanced coding techniques in both the EdScratch and EdPy programming platforms. Take your game to the next level to understand the full range of possibilities with our favorite little robot - Edison.
Audience: Teachers who have already attended a Coding and Engineering with Edison STEMAZing Workshop and/or those who already have Edisons and feel very comfortable using EdScratch and EdPy at a basic level.
You are expected to bring a laptop computer and TWO Edison robots with you to the workshop. This class is not available to educators who do not already own TWO Edison robots.
Parking: It is a Saturday so metered street parking is free and unlimited.
Course Date: Saturday, April 6, 2019
Cost: $25 includes continental breakfast and lunch.
Learn how to look at the design of common products through reverse engineering to see how they work. Then, take your new knowledge to design your own solutions. We will use the crosscutting concept of Structure and Function to show how fun it can be to let kids be destructive… in the name of science. You will walk away with the lesson plans, experience, and $50 worth of supplies to do the projects in your classroom right away.
Facilitators: STEMAZing Teacher Leaders Jori Konrad and Lauren Marlatt
Course Date: Saturday, April 13, 2019
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:
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.)
Course Dates: July 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 2019
Location: Sunnyside USD
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