Workshop Descriptions
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Day 1: Daily 5 + Math Daily 3
Establishing Active Learning Behaviors as the Foundation for Your Classroom’s Structure
How to: 1) build stamina, 2) provide choice within structure, and 3) establish accountability through conferring and commitment tracking. Delivered by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, this workshop helps you lead each student down her best learning path, supported by the Daily 5 and Math Daily 3 frameworks.
What’s new?
- Helping “barometer students” stay on their learning paths by creatively applying the 10 Steps to Independence. These are the children that struggle outwardly with stamina, choice, and independence.
- Math Daily 3. More on how to get started, manage your math block and facilitate small group and one on one instruction.
After this workshop you will be able to:
- set the tone in your classroom for independent learning,
- structure literacy and math time so students work productively while you deliver differentiated small-group and one-on-one instruction;
- move all your students forward including those that struggle;
- recognize when it’s time to shift behavior strategies and lessons;
- use your tracking system to save time; and
- create a structure for accountability within your classroom.
The morning session focuses on The Daily 5 literacy method and the foundational concepts that guide best practice teaching; the afternoon session integrates the techniques presented in the morning and demonstrates how to apply them to math instruction through Math Daily 3.
Day 2: CAFE: Fine-tune Your Practice
Delivering Targeted Individual and Group Instruction through Continual Assessment
Build on your working knowledge of the CAFE literacy system and Daily 5 classroom structure methods. This workshop provides a brief refresher of the fundamentals relevant to the day’s topic, how to use assessment to: 1) understand individual student needs, 2) identify next steps for teaching literacy strategies in whole group, small group and one-on-one, and 3) know when it’s time to move forward with the next CAFE strategy.
Joan Moser and Gail Boushey focus on the essential role assessment plays in effectively guiding each of your students through the four areas of literacy development: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary (CAFE).
What’s New?
- Identify which strategies and what to teach. Analyzing assessments and choosing the most fitting next steps.
- Integrate required content within CAFE lessons. Mapping out literacy standards and resources, giving you more ways to manage progress and reach goals.
After this workshop you will be able to:
- establish CAFE routines for your whole classroom and individual students;
- conduct and interpret assessments; measure and track student baselines and progress;
- create instruction plans that target individual student needs;
- use formal and informal assessment to guide individual student progress;
- integrate required content into CAFE lessons;
- maximize the benefits of instruction; and
- create an accountable culture within your classroom.
Benefits of attending
- Interactive instruction directly from the authors of The Daily 5 and The CAFE Book
- Tools and tips for immediate classroom impact
- Collaboration with colleagues
- Supportive, enjoyable atmosphere
- Laughter and fun
- Serious information that makes your life as a teacher easier
- Confidence that generates more success
- 1-month complimentary subscription or extension to The Daily CAFE, your resource hub, and CCPensieve, your online conferring notebook
- Potential for graduate credits
About the Workshops
Schedule
- 7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration - Coffee, tea, and muffins provided
- 8:30-11:30 a.m. Workshop
- 11:30-12:45 p.m. Lunch break on your own -- pack a lunch, or enjoy one of the hotel's restaurants or one of the dozens of cafes, delis, and restaurants nearby.
- 12:45-3:30 p.m. Workshop
Pricing
$255 per person, per day if paying with credit card
$295 per person, per day if paying with check or purchase order
Substitution, Refund and Waiting List Policy
Your substitute is welcome if you are unable to attend. The process is simple. Have the ticket buyer log onto TicketLeap, where the workshop was purchased, to change the ticket name and email address. Here is the TicketLeap link and instructions.
New refund and waiting list policy
We no longer offer refunds for professional development events. We encourage you to send a colleague in your place (see above for substitution process). If that’s not possible, we are happy to mail the workshop materials (work book and tools given at the live events) upon request. Contact us at [email protected] to request materials.
We also no longer manage waiting lists for events. Despite our best efforts to be fair and timely, waiting lists turned into a disappointing experience for many. Instead, we will announce any newly available seats via Facebook and Twitter (and our newsletter, when timing allows).
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