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• RIASP Principal Coaching

  • Start
    August 25, 2019
  • End
    June 30, 2020

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  RIASP is very pleased to offer new and early career Rhode Island principals the exciting and personalized opportunity to receive coaching during the 2019-2020 school year from RIASP veteran principals. These veteran principals have successfully completed a national model of Blended Coaching training facilitated by the Delaware Academy of School Leadership (DASL).  

  RIASP veteran principals will be matched with interested new and early career principals and provide 30 hours of one-to-one (in person and virtual) coaching support to the novice principals over the course of the school year.  

  The following are the requirements for principals to receive coaching.

  • $350 paid to RIASP by the principal or district.

  • 30 coaching hours of one- to -one (on site and virtual outside the school day)

  *Grant funded program (Rhode Island Foundation)

  
  

  
  

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• Share the Value of the SAT Suite of Assessments

  • When
    December 05, 2019
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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  Share the Value of the
  SAT Suite of Assessments

  December 5^th, 10AM-12PM
  RIASP Office Building 

  2480 Post Road, Warwick, Rhode Island

  Your stakeholders may know that the PSAT 10 and SAT open a pathway to college and career.  Do your students, parents, and staff know that by participating in the assessments, students get free access to scholarships, college and career resources, and skill-building for AP courses? 

  In this workshop, we will share how practice for the SAT in class and on Official SAT Practice is also building skills for Advanced Placement and other first year college courses, encouraging students to understand that Official SAT Practice is worth their time and focus. 

  We will explore BigFuture, the college search resource provided by College Board, and CareerFinder, the career search engine created by College Board and RoadTrip Nation. 

  Finally, we will dive into the College Board Opportunity Scholarships and develop plans to support all of your students in their pursuit of scholarship money for college.  Your students won’t want to miss their opportunity to take the assessments and access all these great tools and resources.

  
  

  
  

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• Making the Most of the SAT Suite of Assessments

  • When
    December 05, 2019
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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  Making the Most of the
  SAT Suite of Assessments
  

  December 5, 2019
  1PM-3PM
  RIASP Office Building

  2480 Post Road, Warwick, RI

  
  

  During this hands-on session, school/district teams will learn about the different ways they can leverage their PSAT and SAT results to improve student outcomes.  Specifically, we will discuss the reports available in the K-12 Reporting Portal and explore opportunities to integrate Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy into the existing school structures. 
   

  Please note: School/district participants should attend with a data analysis/implementation team and need to be able to detailed-level access to the K-12 Reporting Portal (student-level data).  Additionally, participants need to bring a fully charged laptop or other device.

  
  

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• Effective Conferencing with Low Performing Educators

  • When
    December 12, 2019
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    8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    2480 Post Road, Warwick RI 3rd Floor (RIASP Office Building)

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  Effective Conferencing with Low Performing Educators

  
  

  Audience: PreK-12 Administrators  Date: December 12, 2019 Check In: 8:00am-8:30am  Session:  8:30am-3:00pm  LINK TO REGISTER Location: RIASP Office Building: 2480 Post Road, Warwick, RI.  Cost of Session: Member Fee & Member Guest  $230 each. Non Member Fee  $250 each. Team of 3 or more $215 each (code required). Email nletoile@riasp.org Overview: Teachers who struggle often have difficulty reflecting on and adjusting their practice in response to information gathered during observations and shared during your conferences with them. Change is challenging, regardless of the research-based, foreseeable and positive outcomes that regularly result from the change. Maintaining a positive and professional relationship while sharing news that’s hard to hear, then charting a course forward takes time and patience. Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn and apply specific supervisory styles. Participants will learn apply  the components of effective conferences with teachers who struggle, then use that information to participate in authentic conferencing scenarios designed to help participants practice their skills with their colleagues in small groups.  Participants will be able to support educators to be reflective on data about their instruction, and change their practice to benefit their students.  Presenter: Carol Ann Gregory, M.S. Carol served as a teacher, union president, and vice principal in the Brookline Public Schools; middle school principal in the Westwood and Northampton Public Schools; Director of Human Resources in the Lexington Public Schools, and Assistant Superintendent in the Wellesley, Public Schools. In her various roles, Carol has been responsible for recruiting, hiring, inducting and mentoring new teachers and administrators, as well as the professional development, supervision and evaluation of professional staff.  As a consultant, Carol meets with works districts training and coaching their supervision and evaluation work including their work developing SEL in the classroom.  She teaches courses and workshops on topics including: Differentiated Instruction, Social and Emotional Learning, The Brain and Learning,Motivation and Intelligence, Observation and Analysis of Educator Performance, Evaluating Low Performing Educators in face-to-face, hybrid and online formats.

  
  

  
  

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• How to Build High Performance Teams, and Advance Innovation and Collaboration to the Next Level to Increase Student Learning (Date Change)

  • When
    January 09, 2020
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    8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    2480 Post Road, Warwick (RIASP Office Building 3rd Floor)

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  How to Build High Performance Teams, and Advance Innovation and Collaboration to the Next Level to Increase Student Learning 
  

  High performance teams can solve complex problems at a much deeper level than individuals working alone, or typical teams in schools. In this workshop, participants will learn about the latest research on high performance teams and what distinguishes them from most school or district teams. Dr. Ash will discuss the five characteristics of extraordinary teams from all other teams (high genuine vulnerability trust, willingness to engage in conflict, team commitment, mutual accountability, and focusing on results). As school leaders, participants will also learn how to design a ‘backbone committee’ that will ensure your school has sufficient support to both lead complex change and overcome potential faculty and parent obstacles.

  Audience: K-12 Educators, Administrators

  Member Fee & Member Guest $250 each
  
  Non Member Fee for both days $275 each

  Team of 3 or more $225 each (code is required)

  (fee includes  Dr. Ash’s book)
  
  Date: January 9th

  Presenter: Dr. Paul Ash Paul Ash, Ph.D. Dr. Paul Ash recently retired as the Superintendent of Schools in Lexington, Massachusetts after ten years. During his 42-year career, Paul has held a wide range of school leadership roles: Superintendent of Schools, Westwood, MA; Assistant Superintendent for Personnel, Finance, and Administration, Wellesley, MA; Chair of the Legislation Committee, Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, President and Negotiations Chair, Dover-Sherborn Teachers Association, Dover, MA; President of the Massachusetts Association of School Personnel Administrators, and Member of the Newton School Committee, Newton, MA. Paul is a recognized expert at the state and national level on closing achievement gaps for minority, special education, and low-income student three podcasts, human resources/labor relations, financial operations, and professional development. 

  
  

  In 2010, the national newspaper Education Week highlighted Lexington’s professional development program as one of six national models on how professional learning can be used to improve student learning and teacher innovation. In 2015, his leadership in the area of professional development was further highlighted by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education http://www.doe.mass.edu/pd/casestudies/LPS-study.pdf 

  
  

  Paul is the co-author of the highly acclaimed book School Systems That Learn: Improving Professional Practice, Overcoming Obstacles, and Diffusing Innovation. The book focuses on how any school district can raise academic achievement for all students by creating an adult learning organization based on trust, collaboration in all directions, capacity building and leadership at all levels. 

  
  

  
  

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• Restorative Talk in Your Classroom: How Teachers Can Use Accountable Talk, Protocols, Goals, and Peer and Self-Evaluation to Support Restorative Academic Talk and Social Emotional Growth.

  • When
    January 14, 2020
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    8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    2480 Post Road, Warwick RI 3rd Floor (RIASP Office Building)

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  Restorative Talk in Your Classroom: How Teachers Can Use Accountable Talk, Protocols, Goals, and Peer and Self-Evaluation to Support Restorative Academic Talk and Social Emotional Growth. 

  Audience:  Classroom Teachers and Administrators 

  Date: January 14, 20202

  Presenter: Dr. Deborah Brady, Co-author of Instructional Practices That Maximize Student Achievement, of SEL in the Classroom, and SEL in the Home

  Overview: Proven accountable talk, pair, group, and team methods for teaching all students can support the learning of at-risk students. When students work with others and talk through ideas, they become more engaged and improve their literacy skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening).

  Learning Outcomes: This practical workshop provides examples of how to use goal setting and protocols (Save the Last Word for Me or micro-labs), accountable talk, sentence frames, proven activities such as Get the Gist, Jigsaws, and even the 7-minute Socratic in a Fish Bowl can support students’ literacy, engagement, and social-emotional (habits of work) growth. Teachers will leave with tools: rubrics, activators, summarizers, and research-based activities that they can adapt and use in their classrooms.

  Participants receive a copy of Dr. Brady’s book Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom. Participants also receive templates, protocols, rubrics, and access to a website with further classroom materials.

  Member Fee & Member Guest $230 each and Non Member Fee $250 each (includes a copy of book) Team of 3 or More $215 each

  Deborah Brady, Ph.D. With over thirty years in public and private education, Debby Brady co-authored three books and a monograph: Instructional Practices That Maximize Student Achievement,  SEL in the Classroom, and SEL in the Home, and Developing High Performing Co-teaching Teams. Deb has served as an Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction in two districts, a college instructor of both graduate and undergraduate courses in curriculum, reading, literacy, and writing, a director of a writing center, a secondary reading coordinator, humanities and reading co-teacher, and English teacher. Deborah earned her doctorate at Lesley in educational studies where her research focused on the impact of a standards-based curriculum on teaching, learning and assessment. Her special areas of interest include curriculum development, UbD lesson and unit design, assessment and the use of data, secondary literacy across the disciplines, social-emotional learning, writing and its assessment, and developing high-performing co-teaching teams. 

  
  

  
  

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• Continued: Questioning & Assessment for Non-English Speaking Students

  • When
    January 27, 2020
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    8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    2480 Post Road, Warwick (RIASP Office Building 3rd Floor)

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  English Language Learners  Featuring Dr. Cindy Crimmin Questioning & Assessment for Non-English Speaking Students:

  
  Audience: K-12 Educators, Administrators 

  Date: January  27th. 

  Check In: 8:00am-8:30am 

  Session: 8:30am-3:00pm 

  LINK TO REGISTER 

  Location: RIASP Office Building: 2480 Post Road, Warwick, RI.
  

  Cost of Session:

  • Member Fee & Member Guest  $230 each.
    
  • Non Member Fee  $250 each.
    
  • Team of 3 or more $215 each (code required). Email nletoile@riasp.org

  Day 1: Questioning & Assessment for Non-English Speaking Students: Too often, teacher questions and assessment tools measure something other than the goals for which they were intended. Even the simplest question, if not phrased carefully, can prove incomprehensible to a student who otherwise understands the material being discussed. This session focuses on the role of teacher-language, practice and expectations and how these factors can impact second language learners in their classes.  We will explore through the lens of non-English speakers the strategies and materials often used in the classroom. In the process, educators will be called upon to share their current learning goals, instructional practices and favorite tools in light of this new perspective. After this session of the course, the participants will be able to: Rework assessment tools currently used in their practice to ensure that the language used, as well as supporting visual contexts, are best suited to evaluate the importing thinking and learning of non-English speaking students. Develop questioning strategies (such as extended wait time) and additional assessment tools that are crafted to be easily comprehended by non-English speaking students. Identify non-verbal cues, visuals, and tasks that can help ELL students better demonstrate what they know and are able to do. Develop ways to differentiate instruction for ELL students on the basis of formal and informal assessments.

  
  
  

  Instructor: Dr. Cindy Crimmin Ph.D., has served in both public and private schools. Beginning as a bilingual Ell and Science teacher in the Boston Public Schools at the middle school level, she has taught Spanish at all levels from early elementary to high school Advanced Placement and was a teacher of English language learners. Her strong interest in curricular design and in improving teaching and learning across the grades prompted her to complete a Ph. D. in Educational Administration at Boston College. That experience led her into administration, where she worked in curriculum leadership at the central office and served as an elementary principal in Watertown and Weston. In each role, Cindy always saw herself primarily as a teacher. She is an ESE approved Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) instructor for both the teacher and administrator licensure programs.

  
  

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