EPS Summer Extravaganza

Feeling overwhelmed by stacks of district documents and the constant search for what to teach next? This hands-on workshop is your solution! Explicitly designed for self-contained elementary teachers, "Pacing Power-Up" will transform your planning process by allowing you to consolidate all district-provided pacing information into one dynamic, easy-to-use Google Sheet.

Why You Should Attend
1.) Reclaim Your Time: Stop sifting through multiple resources. Create a single, centralized digital pacing guide that you can access anywhere.
2.) Boost Your Organization: Gain clarity and confidence in your instructional flow for the entire school year, ensuring all standards and curriculum components are covered efficiently.
3.) Empower Your Planning: Learn practical strategies for organizing standards, units, resources, and assessment timelines in a digital format, tailored to the unique needs of a self-contained classroom.

What You Will Learn & Do
In this interactive session, you will learn the step-by-step process for:
1.) Deconstructing District Pacing: Identifying key info from existing district pacing guides.
2.) Building Your Digital Hub: Setting up a personalized Google Sheet template to house all your pacing details, including standards, topics, suggested activities, and assessment windows.
3.) Customizing for Your Classroom: Tailor your digital pacing guide to reflect your students' needs and classroom rhythm.

What You Will Take Away
You will leave with:
1. A foundational, personalized Google Sheet digital pacing guide template that you can immediately implement.
2. The skills and confidence to maintain and adapt your digital pacing guide throughout the year. It can also be updated easily for future years.

Bonus: If time allows, we will introduce strategies for integrating digital lesson planning directly into your new pacing guide, further streamlining your workflow.

This session will be structured with direct instruction, guided practice, and collaborative work, ensuring you leave with tangible progress on your digital pacing journey. No advanced Google Sheets knowledge is required. Please bring your Chromebook. I will provide printed copies of district pacing guides during the session.

Are you tired of manually calculating student proficiency and struggling to visualize your grade level essential skills data? This hands-on workshop is designed for elementary-grade teams ready to revolutionize their data tracking and collaborative planning! You'll learn to build and utilize a dynamic Google Sheet dashboard that automatically calculates student proficiency based on your essential skills rubric scores (1-3).

Why Your Team Should Attend:
1. Effortless Proficiency Tracking: Say goodbye to manual calculations! Our template automatically updates proficiency percentages, providing you with an instant, clear view of your grade level progress on essential skills.
2. Streamlined Standards-Based Grading: Acquire a powerful tool to enhance your standards-based grading efforts. This dashboard delivers concrete data to inform instruction and reporting and functions as an invaluable reference document, simplifying the grade logging process into systems like Infinite Campus.
3. Empowered Collaborative Planning: Centralize your data to promote more effective team meetings. Teams can easily analyze trends, pinpoint areas of need, and strategically plan Common Formative Assessments (CFAs) for the entire year, ensuring focused instruction and interventions.

In this interactive session, your grade level team will:
1. Understand Data Points: Identify essential skills and the relevant data points needed for effective tracking using a 1-3 rubric score.
2. Build Your Team Dashboard: Work collaboratively to customize a Google Sheet template to input student scores and automatically calculate proficiency across your essential skills.
3. Strategic CFA Planning: Utilize the dashboard to collaboratively decide upon and map out future Common Formative Assessments, aligning them with areas of greatest need and curriculum progression.

You will leave with:
1. A ready-to-use, collaborative Google Sheet proficiency dashboard tailored to your grade-level team's essential skills data.
2. A clear understanding of interpreting proficiency data to drive instructional decisions.
3. A roadmap for planning future Common Formative Assessments based on real-time student needs.

This session will blend guided instruction with dedicated teamwork time. Please bring your Chromebook and come prepared to collaborate with your grade-level colleagues if possible. Familiarity with your grade-level essential skills and assessment rubrics is recommended.

Has K-Start felt more like a burden than a blessing for your team? What if there was a way to make K-Start simple, effective, and FUN? In this session you will learn how our kindergarten team structures K-Start. You will walk away with free lesson plans, slide decks, assessments, spreadsheets, and more! We hope to serve you and help problem solve whatever is keeping you from kicking off K-Start!

GOALS:
1) understand the powerful WHY behind K-Start
2) learn how to effectively structure K-Start for worthwhile results
3) walk away with tangible resources to utilize
4) collaborate to problem solve common K-Start issues

Elementary teachers offering direct instruction in academic areas (pull out IEP services) to students requiring a mild level of support - an opportunity to brainstorm and develop IEP goals and objectives for reading, math, and written expression.

Ever feel like you can't fit it all in? Come learn how to successfully integrate science and social studies into language arts. We will focus on using our science and social studies curriculum as a focus to instruct reading, writing, grammar, and phonics. We will go through the PLC process and how it informed us on creating strong, engaging tier 1 instruction for all. Collaboration is key!

Attendees will learn rehearsal room approaches to analyzing and interpreting drama, specifically Shakespeare. These techniques can be applied to other works of literature as well.

We will start with theater games to warm up and build energy, then walk to closely read a text, followed by using groups to read and stage a scene.

Attendees will take away three activities they can use in English for teaching Shakespeare, poetry, or any play or monologue (plus warmups that are great for extra time at the end of a class period or for a brain break).