OSSE is pleased to announce its final 2015-16 LEA Institute, “It Takes a City: DC Does it Best!”, to be held May 20, 2016, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, DC.

DC public school and public charter school teachers, administrators, service providers, parents and families are invited to attend this exciting event. The Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Specialized Education will be offering a number of unique workshops under the following strands:

Strand One: Special Education Workshop Sessions

• Person-Centered Planning and Self-Advocacy: A Culture Shift in IEP Meetings
• The DCPS Inclusive Vision Project: A Roadmap for Establishing a Culture of Inclusion and Implementing Inclusive Best Practice in our Schools
• Accommodations in the Classroom Through the use of Universal Design for Learning
• Secondary Transition: Connecting Students with Disabilities to Agencies that Serve Adults
• Optimizing the IEP Through the Structured Collaborative IEP Process (SCIP)
• Simplifying Differentiated Instruction for Teachers of Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities
• Transition Planning in 30 Minutes or Less
• What Happens When My Child Turns 18?: Decision-Making Supports for Adult Students with Disabilities
• Promoting Executive Functions in Middle and High School

Strand Two: Educator Effectiveness Workshop Sessions

• Investing in Professional Development: What Motivates You?
• Building Principals and Teachers Co-Learning Networks
• By Educators for Educators: The DC Model Teacher Evaluation System
• Live Coaching to Support Instructional Effectiveness
• Planning Effective Facilitation: Develop, Design, Deliver
• Creating Your Own Edutopia: Professional Development Strategies for Special Education Teachers
• Developing a Data-Driven Organizational Culture
• Identifying and Pursuing Instructional Priorities for the Year Ahead
• Dedicated Aides: Invaluable Assets to Develop Within Your School
• The Basics of Section 504s

Strand Three: English Learners Workshop Sessions

• Writing Bilingual Books (even when you speak only English) How to use a student's native language to help them acquire literacy in English
• A Home Away From Home: Fostering A Welcoming Environment For ELL’s 
• Schoolwide Policies and Practices to Ensure the Success of English Learners
• A Home Away From Home: Fostering A Welcoming Environment For ELL’s 
• Using Literary Text to Attain Core Content with English Learners

Strand Four: Parent, Family & Community Engagement Workshop Sessions

• Family Engagement: Engaging The Whole Family, Socially, Academically and Mentally

Strand Five: ELA/Literacy

• Literature Circles at Work
• The ABCs of TAG: How to Create an Enrichment Program for Advanced Learners
• Core Literacy Fellows: Developing Leaders in the Common Core
• Expanding Student's Writing Teaching Students to Write Authentically
• Using Vocabulary as a Staircase to Reading Comprehension
• A Teacher's Literacy Toolbox: Student Centered, Standards-based Approach for Accessing the CCSS Utilizing PARCC Aligned Strategies 
• Improving Student Engagement & Writing Outcomes
• Analyzing Common Core Writing for Actionable Trends (Focus on Argumentative Writing)
• Perception vs Perspective: Using Images from the African American Literary Movement Era (Harlem Renaissance) to Enhance Student Analytical Writing
• A Teacher's Literacy Toolbox: Student Centered, Standards-based Approach for Accessing the CCSS Utilizing PARCC Aligned Strategies
• Kick-starting Student Engagement and Literacy in History and Social Studies
• Data Driven Small Group Rotations
• Leveraging Open eBooks to Get Thousands of Books to Kids for Free

Strand Six: Mathematics Workshop Sessions

• Basic Facts of BASIC FACTS: Integrating the Facts into Daily Instruction at School & Home
• Argumentation in the Elementary Math Classroom
• Problem-Based Task in Math
• Exploring Functions with Desmos
• The Flipped Classroom

Strand Seven: Positive Culture and Climate

• Sustainable model for Expanding Behavioral Health Services in a School Setting
• Supporting Positive Student Behavior by Addressing Learning Needs
• A Showcase of OSSE-supported Schools Implementing Restorative Practices
• Characteristics of Engagement Through the Lens of Youth Development
• An Introduction to Restorative Practices in School
• Classroom Management In Urban Schools
• Facilitating Meaningful Student Discourse in the Social Studies Classroom and Beyond
• Student Driven Classrooms: Inquiry via Thinking Routines, Reflections & Student Choice
• Improving School Culture and Climate Through Incorporating Youth Voice and Building Democratic Classrooms
• Next-Level Classroom Management: Extinguishing Challenging Behaviors in Your Classroom Community
• Transforming Challenges into Opportunities: Experiencing the Positive Discipline Approach
• Positive Behavior Support Frameworks

Strand Eight: STEM and Next Generation Science Standards Workshop Sessions

• Games for NGSS Curriculum Design: SPICED
• W.IL.D Science
• NGSS Toolkit
• Neuroscience Education, Making a difference at Magruder High School in Montgomery County Maryland
• The Power of Attraction (and Repulsion) in Dynamic Learning
• Using Board Games to Teach Dynamic Systems in Biology
• STEM Pathways
• STEM Connections
• Inquiry, the 5E's and Silly Putty

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