Improving teaching and learning for all students. 
Spring 2018
New Year Brings New Supports for Teachers, Leaders, and Students

California school dashboard
The California School Dashboard shines an equity
spotlight on our work with students and brings another way for us to ensure every student has the support needed to be successful.

SDCOE is by your side with professional learning and resources to complement your work with students. This year brings new, high-quality sessions led by experts and specialists in their field to support your efforts of continuous improvement.

Click the links below to learn more and register.
For district and charter leadership teams and LCAP teams: Get support with your LCAP process and harness the collective expertise of SDCOE specialists and district peers in network meetings.
  • LCAP Quarterly Network Meetings (Feb. 27 and April 17)
  • LCAP Draft Work Sessions (begin April 17)
For district, site, and teacher leaders: Build your capacity as school leaders to make informed decisions using evidence that improves programs and services for all students.
  • Evaluating Intervention Implementation (Jan. 18)
  • Data Visualization Tools and Tips (Jan. 23)
  • Continuous Improvement Institute (Jan. 30)
  • Data Storytelling Workshops (March 1)
  • Evaluating Professional Development (March 7)
  • Needs Assessment Training (April 3)
For state and federal directors: Get assistance in meeting federal requirements for providing equitable services to eligible students, teachers, and parents in non-public private schools under the selected programs included in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
  • Equitable Services for Private Schools Training (March 6)
For elementary and secondary career pathways teachers: Work together in teams to identify areas where courses and state standards overlap to integrate pathways and core subjects.
  • Curriculum Integration Workshop (Jan. 17, Feb. 20, or March 1)
Charter Schools
For charter school leaders and teachers: Gain the tools, knowledge, and resources your charter school needs to support high-quality teaching and learning.
  • Curriculum and Instruction Network for Public Charter Schools Mini-Conference (Jan. 5)
Equity and Access 
For district and site leaders, teachers, and counselors: Gain strategies for your district and school leaders, teachers, and counselors to make equity a reality in your district or school. Build leadership excellence and capacity to lead for equity across systems. 
  • Middle School College and Career Readiness Series (Feb. 6, Feb. 28, and May 3)
  • Excellence in Equity Leadership (ExEL) Institute (begins March 1)
School Improvement
For district and school leaders and leadership teams: Develop expertise around the high-leverage instructional strategies that increase student agency and accelerate student achievement and create coherence around an instructional focus.
  • Lifting Student Learning (March 14 and 15 and April 20)
  • Leading for Coherence (Feb. 1 or June 19)
School Counselors 
For district and school counselors and administrators: Third annual conference designed for school counselors brings learning around best practices, new techniques, and how to see counselors as leaders on campus; attendees will also have access to a WACAC college fair.
  • School Counselor Leadership Conference (Feb. 15)
Leadership 
For district and site leaders, administrators, and teachers: Access the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership frameworks and tools in a local setting and learn how to help your educators grow.
  • Targeted Feedback Institute (March 8 and 9)
Multi-Tiered Systems of Support 
For district and school site leadership teams: Address the needs of all students through Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and the state's MTSS Framework, then grow your knowledge with a deeper dive into the Scale-Up MTSS Statewide (SUMS) Initiative.
  • MTSS 101 (Jan. 31 or Feb. 13)
  • MTSS 201 (March 6 or March 14)
For ELA and English language development (ELD) teachers and administrators, teachers on special assignment and coaches, and site and district leaders: Learn how to improve the ability to evaluate and use different kinds of evidence; deepen literacy instruction and informative assessment practice; and provide interactive small group intervention for students who are reading below grade level.
  • Comprehensive Intervention Model (CIM): Comprehension Focus Group (begins Jan. 16)
  • Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) high school cohorts (begin Feb. 20)
English Language Development (ELD)
For teachers, administrators, English learner coordinators, and ELD-integrated teachers: Gain valuable insight into the state's new assessment, the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California (ELPAC); network with peers; and improve the teaching of writing.
  • ELPAC and ELD Standards for Instructional Assistants (begins Jan. 29)
  • Bringing Integrated and Designated ELD to Life, grades K-5 (Feb. 1, April 12, or May 3)
  • Integrated and Designated ELD for Grades 6-12 (March 14)
English Learners
For district and site leaders, teachers, English learner coordinators, parent engagement staff, and parents: Help parents understand the state's new accountability reporting system and state standards, and how to get involved at the district and school levels.
  • Reading and Homework Leads to Academic Success, Spanish (Jan. 9)
  • Six Types of Parent Involvement, English (Jan. 9 or 11)
  • Dual Language and English Learner Conference (Jan. 11)
  • Understanding the California School Dashboard, Spanish (Jan. 23 or March 8)
  • How to Get to College (Feb. 8)
  • Six Types of Parent Involvement, Spanish (Feb. 15 or May 3)
  • Parent and Family Liaison Network (Feb. 23 or April 27)
  • Engaging Families During the Summer (May 17)
Expanded Learning
For After School Education and Safety (ASES) grantees: Join before- and after-school leaders in embracing the state Quality Standards and learning new strategies to support students and help them reach their potential.
  • Power of Discovery: STEM Communities of Practice (Jan. 10)
  • Youth Power: Leadership in Action (Jan. 12)
  • Program Plan Working Meeting (Jan. 16)
  • ASES Quality Standards Communities of Practice (Jan. 17)
  • Quality Control: Moving Toward Quality (Feb. 2)
  • Self-Regulation - Behavior/Active Supervision (Feb. 9)
  • Quality Standards Strategies (Feb. 15)
  • Celebrating Diversity: Creating an Inclusive Educational Environment (March 2)
  • STEMpower Conference (March 17)
  • STEM Champions Celebration (May 9)
Health and Physical Education
For administrators, physical education teachers, elementary, middle, and high school teachers: Learn how to implement best practices and develop as teacher leaders; connect with others and collaborate; and see three exemplary teachers in action with their students.
  • Health and Physical Education Advisory (April 17)
  • Three-Day Physical Literacy Institute (begins Jan. 17)
  • Health and Physical Education Idea Exchange (Jan. 10 or April 4)
  • Technology to Support 21st-Century Learning in Physical Education (Feb. 14)
  • Practical Strategies for Performance-Based Assessment in Physical Education (Feb. 20)
  • Exemplary Secondary Physical Education Site Visitations (March 14 and 15)
History-Social Science 
For history-social science teachers: Learn more about the newly approved instructional materials, review the state's new History-Social Science Framework with its focus on content, literacy, inquiry, and civic learning, and help students make connections and build understanding of today's issues.
  • Facing History and Ourselves -- Holocaust and Human Behavior (Jan. 24)
  • 2018 Instructional Materials Fair K-12 (Feb. 7)
  • Introduction to the New History-Social Science Framework, secondary grades (Feb. 13)
  • The Armenian Genocide and International Justice (Feb. 22 and 23)
  • Introduction to the New History-Social Science Framework, primary grades (March 8)
  • Looking Closer at the Framework: Geographic Inquiry (April 3)
  • Looking Closer at the Framework: Historical Inquiry (April 19)
Library Media Services 
For site and district administrators and library media staff: Grow as a leader on campus by honing your skills at the School Library Leadership Conference and take the next step with an IMRA certification.
  • Instructional Media Resource Associate 2 (Feb. 8)
  • Instructional Media Resource Associate 2 (March 7)
  • School Library Leadership Conference (April 24)
For administrators, elementary mathematics teachers, math teachers on special assignment, math coaches, and district and site math leaders: Put practice into action with new learning sessions that help make fractions easier for students, address their achievement gaps, and spark their excitement.
  • Using Number Talks to Spark Mathematical Reasoning (Jan. 9)
  • Developing Young Mathematicians (Jan. 30)
  • Unlock the Mathematician in all Students (begins Feb. 20)
  • Reboot Fractions: Tools and Strategies to Strengthen Student Understanding (March 14)
Mathematics (Grades 6-12) 
For administrators, secondary mathematics teachers, math teachers on special assignment, math coaches, and district and site math leaders: Transform students' lives by strengthening your practice, growing your leadership skills and knowing what to teach through the state Mathematics Framework.
  • Questions and Questioning: Who's Asking and Who's Answering (March 13)
  • Standards and Beyond (March 14)
  • Tasks Worth Teaching (March 15)
  • Technology that Transforms Learning (March 20)
  • Designing Math Professional Learning for Change (March 22 or May 1)
  • Growing an Online Professional Learning Network (April 10)
  • Collaborative Work (April 18)
  • Lesson Planning for Improved Student Outcomes (April 19)
Science 
For district and site administrators, K-12 science teachers, and elementary and secondary teachers: Become more familiar with the NGSS and three-dimensional learning, phenomena in the classroom, and evidence of implementation; and get the latest news while collaborating with peers.
  • #ProjectPhenomena Work Group (Jan. 16)
  • Elementary NGSS Three-Day Academy (Begins Jan. 30)
  • NGSS Leadership Conference (March 9)
  • Secondary NGSS Three-Day Academy (May 15)
Visual and Performing Arts 
For administrators and VAPA teachers: Dig into the new National Standards in preparation for the state standards and work together to grow your teaching practice with a focus on including all students in arts education.
  • Diving Deeper into National Core Arts Standards (NCAS) (begins Feb. 28)
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