Formative Assessment: Practices for Classrooms
Formative assessment practices give teachers valuable information regarding student progress and the effectiveness of instruction. This workshop will explore some of the more than 40 strategies embedded in the new Smarter Balanced Tools for Teachers. Participants will experience how these strategies could be implemented in the classroom.
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When: February 17, 2022, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
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Cost: Free
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Location: Online. A Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants prior to the meeting.
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Registration link: https://lacoe.k12oms.org/2582-213418
CAASPP and ELPAC ACCESSIBILITY: Understanding Student Supports on Assessment
The CAASPP and ELPAC assessments are designed so all students can demonstrate what they know and can do without barriers. This workshop will inform educators in all settings how to provide universal supports, designated supports, and accommodations to their students on state assessments as well as during instruction. Accessibility is no longer limited to the realm of special education. This workshop will ensure educators understand settings available for students whether they have 504s, IEPS, or just have a demonstrated need as an English Learner or general education student.
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When: March 10, 2022, 3:00 - 4:30 PM
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Cost: Free
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Location: Online. A Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants prior to the meeting.
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Registration link: http://lacoe.k12oms.org/2582-214388
Stephanie Fortunato
Coordinator III, Assessment
(562) 922-6966
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News from Equity, Access, and Acceleration |
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LACOE and The Education Trust-West are excited to announce this opportunity for 5 district teams to participate in a 3-year process of pursuing equity for all.
The Equity Audit will provide valuable information regarding:
- Achievement and Opportunity Gaps – outcomes data, rigor, access to courses, disproportionality, etc.
- School Climate and Culture – demonstrated high expectations for all
- Staffing Patterns – reflection of community demographics; supports to facilitate all in their ability to thrive
- Professional Learning – equity, examine bias, culturally responsive and sustaining curricula
- Supports and Interventions – academic and social-emotional
- Resource Equity – funding, time, personnel
- Family and Community Engagement – engagement and participation
The Community of Practice Model is based on a train-the-trainer structure where Ed Trust-West and LACOE partner to coach district teams to:
- Analyze data with an equity lens
- Surface key findings across multiple categories
- Develop and deliver data presentations to key stakeholders
- Assemble teams to engage in an equity-focused planning process
- Facilitate reflection and learning sessions about key equity-focused topics including identity, bias, privilege, and shifting to an equity centered discourse
- Facilitate planning sessions to analyze data, conduct root cause analyses, review research and identify research-based actions to address systemic inequities.
If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please fill out the interest form below:
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Phase 1 – May 12 & 18-19 3-Day Workshop
Participants will focus on why the need for Cultural Proficiency. Phase 1 includes understanding and use of the Cultural Proficiency Framework. Participants in this cohort will use the unique assets of the Museum of Tolerance to explore and craft deeper responses to the access and equity gaps in communities they serve. Participants receive and will be guided in a customized book study of the Manual for School Leaders, 4th edition.
Phase 2 – September 21 & 28-29 3-Day Workshop
Participants will focus on applying the Tools of Cultural Proficiency by studying their school or district context and collecting site-based data. They will have an opportunity to use the Elements of Cultural Proficiency to turn values into action. The long-term work of the participants will result in developing a Culturally Proficient Equity and Action Plan.
Phase 3 – October 26, November 2 & November 16-17 4-Day Workshop
Participants will be guided to fully implement their Equity Action Plan. Participants will develop and enhance their presentation and facilitation skills using the Tools of Cultural Proficiency. They will also develop their capacity to address issues of inequity, institutional racism, and the lack of access and opportunities for all students.
Fee:
$500 for all 10 days (underwritten by the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the Museum of Tolerance)
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Using Culturally Responsive Practice to Improve Classroom Management and Instruction
Description:
Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Workshop
To have a positive classroom management system, teachers must separate cultural behaviors from disruptive behaviors. In many cases, the two are confused due to biases, misperceptions, and miscommunications. This workshop takes participants through a process of reflecting upon their unconscious biases, learning about cultural behaviors according to research, and practicing management strategies for building on the cultural behaviors.
Focus on Culture and its Instructional Benefits Workshops
Builds knowledge and creates the context for addressing the needs of underserved students in terms of their sociopolitical and sociolinguistic relativity in the American educational system. Promotes the focus on effective instructional strategies utilization in a way that validates and affirms underserved students across content areas and grade levels.
Intended Audience: Teachers, Site administrators, district administrators
Collaborative Partners: Presented by Sharokky Hollie
Dates: February 23, 28, March 10
Time: 3:15 - 4:45
Cost: $99
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Jamaal Williams Ed.L.D. (He, Him, His)
Coordinator III, Equity, Access, and Acceleration
(562) 922-6259
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State Seal of Civic Engagement Los Angeles County Collaborative Meetings
March 24 and May 12, 2022
The meetings invite educators across Los Angeles County to brainstorm ideas and share resources to implement guidance for students to earn the State Seal of Civic Engagement. Elementary and Middle School educators are also invited to join to begin brainstorming onramps to civic learning before they get to high school. Bring your ideas and plans to share with others!
California Democracy School Civic Learning Training
April 26-27, 2022
This face-to-face training will equip K-12 educators with tools and strategies to build civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions for all students to become informed, engaged citizens and meet the criteria to earn the State Seal of Civic Engagement. Learn the basics on how to frame civic inquiries, facilitate research and investigations, engage students in civil dialogue about controversial issues using the Structured Academic Controversy approach, and how to help students reach conclusions to make informed, responsible civic action on issues they care about.
Learn how to prepare YOUR students to earn the State Seal of Civic Engagement. Learn how your school can become a California Democracy School!
California Civic Learning Student Showcase and Awards Ceremony
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, CA
Students, families, educators, and community members are invited to this very special event to recognize the 2020, 2021, and 2022 California Democracy School Awardees and to see what students and schools across California are doing to demonstrate outstanding civic engagement!
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For more information, please contact:
Michelle M. Herczog, Ed.D
Coordinator III, History-Social Science
(562) 922-6908
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Outdoor & Marine Science Field Study |
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Experience a virtual field trip aboard the Marine Science Floating Lab! The Outdoor & Marine Science Field Study unit of LACOE has joined forces with our nonprofit partner, the Think Earth Foundation, to produce a FREE virtual field trip program on the Marine Science Floating Lab.
The five-part virtual program begins with an Overview and Wildlife video and has modules on Plankton; Water Color, Clarity and Temperature; Bottom Sediment; and Adaptations of Ocean Organisms. Each NGSS aligned module has a video, session activities, as well as post-trip materials for a deep dive into marine science education.
Targeted for 4th - 8th grade or higher, this virtual experience builds local Environmental Literacy for Los Angeles County students and beyond. Come and see the catch in our trawl net today!
Date: Anytime
Details: Online asynchronous videos and modules. Free. Registration required.
Shaun MacDonald Hawke
Project Director III
Outdoor and Marine Science Field Study
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Physical Education & Comprehensive Health |
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LA County K12 Health Educators are invited to participate in a professional development virtual workshop: Assessing Student Learning in Health Education
Just as our focus in health education has shifted from knowledge-based education to knowledge and skills-based education, so must our assessment techniques shift. Health education teachers need a collection of tools to capture evidence of learning as students demonstrate what they know and are able to do. Participants will understand the assessment cycle process as it relates to standards-based instructional design, discover the nuances of health education standards assessment that aim to increase health literacy, and identify possible assessment tools that assess learning of health essential concepts and skills in health education content standards.
Presenter: Presented by the Physical Education and Comprehensive Health Education Unit, LACOE Division of Curriculum and Instruction
Audience: Los Angeles County K-12 educators responsible for standards-based health education: teachers of health education, instructional coaches, and/or assessment & curriculum directors.
Date: Monday, March 14th, 2022
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Cost: FREE
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Update from the STEM Math Unit |
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Mathematics and Science Leaders Joint Network Meeting
February 28, 2022 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Interested in transforming mathematics and science teaching and learning? Join fellow math and science leaders from the Los Angeles community at LACOE’s quarterly Joint Network Meetings. Together we will explore engaging activities that promote equity and address unfinished learning, share best practices from across the county, and communicate statewide and regional math and science updates. There is no cost to attend.
Please register for the joint meeting at the following link:
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Building Student Agency in Mathematics: Meeting the Needs of African American, Latinx and Multi – Lingual learners |
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This two-day workshop explores the pedagogy of facilitated discussions to build student agency for Multi-Lingual, Latinx, and African American students in mathematics. Using the toolkit from the Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction, participants will learn how to select rigorous inquiry tasks, anticipate student responses, prepare guiding questions, and facilitate strategic mathematical discussions. The use of inquiry strategies in mathematics build classroom communities that are collaborative, equitable, and accessible for all.
Event Dates:
03/16/2022 - 03/17/2022
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Deborah Atwell
Mathematics Coordinator
(562) 922-6651
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NGSS Time Facilitator Online Training
Asynchronous
A FREE training for those in charge or will be involved with facilitating your school or district science adoption process. This is designed to help you become acclimated to the tools, process, as well as tips & tools. Please reach out to me at Quan_Anthony@lacoe.edu if you have any questions or would like further assistance for your science adoption.
NGSS Professional Learning Series
The California NGSS Statewide Implementation: Building Student Sensemaking Through Disciplinary Literacy is an online professional learning experience designed for K-12 academic coaches, administrators, curriculum leads, and teacher leaders to deepen their understanding and implementation of teaching practices to advance student science understanding.
The sessions are divided into four science and literacy-specific strands, as noted below. Participants register for one strand per event where they will experience grade-band specific instructional strategies for student sensemaking, engage in collaborative reflection, develop a classroom plan of action to implement with students, and collaboratively review their plan/implementation in online follow-up meetings.
Argumentation: Moving Beyond CER (4-part strand)
- Part 1: Mar 22 (4:00-7:00 pm)
- Part 2: Mar 24 (4:00-7:00 pm)
- Part 3: Mar 29 (4:00-7:00 pm)
- Part 4: Mar 31 (4:00-7:00 pm)
- Follow-up Event: April 28 (4:00-6:00 pm)
Southern California Association of Science Specialist Spring Conference
March 11, 2022
9am - 2pm
This year we will dive into science as a Lever for Equity and Engagement.
- Network with Southern California colleagues
- Deepen your knowledge of culturally and linguistically responsive teaching in the science classroom
- Explore themes of equity with a science lens
We are also excited to announce our Opening Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jessica Thompson, Associate Professor Teaching, Learning & Curriculum from the University of Washington, College of Education.
Dr. Thompson has expertise in partnering with K-12 school systems to improve science instruction and centers critical and cultural approaches to ambitious science teaching and learning.
This conference is offered free of charge to all SCAS2 members through our valued partnership with the California Science Project. Membership in SCAS2 is free - if you are not a member, click here to join.
LA County Science Leaders Network
The LA County Math and Science Network consists of a series of meetings supporting district TOSAs, Specialists, Grade Level/Dept. Chairs, and other Math and/or Science Education Leaders. The Network offers PD opportunities as well as networking and support for Math and NGSS Implementation.
Various Dates: 02/28/2022, 03/28/2022, 04/26/2022, 05/31/2022, 06/27/2022
NGSS Webinars
We are happy to continue to offer free 1-hour webinars to provide you the opportunity to gain information and updates around the new Next Generation Science Standards. Participants will be able to listen to news from local, state, and national levels, including the ability to ask questions! Topics may also include coaching, content, or leadership.
Dates: 02/14/2022, 04/18/2022, 06/15/2022
Time: 3-4 pm
Cost: Free
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Anthony P. Quan
Coordinator III, STEM
(562) 922-6896
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Curriculum and Instructional Services Professional Development Opportunities
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LACOE does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of age, actual or perceived race, actual or perceived gender, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, or sexual orientation. LACOE complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure equal access to all qualified individuals with a disability. If you are disabled and require assistance in accessing this event, please contact the Event Coordination Specialist at (562) 401-5699 to coordinate accommodations with the ADA Title II Coordinator as soon as possible. |
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