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SC/SVNTP 6.19.2020 Select Your EVENTS and Click on the Date to Register! (All sessions: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.) Offered twice VIRTUALLY “The Engaged Brain: Increasing Attention, Participation, & Engagement with All Learners” Saturday, August 15th 8:30 am - 12:25 pm Saturday, August 22nd 8:30 am - 12:25 pm A lively, interactive webinar on brain-compatible instructional design for classroom and remote learning environments. • Part 1: Learning & Neuroscience - In this lively, interactive 1-hour session (8:30-9:35), participants gain a better understanding of how students' brains work and how to create lessons that match how the brain wants to learn. (20-minute break) • Part 2: Active Engagement – (9:55-11:00) This session shares a variety of easy-to-implement strategies and structures designed to get students of all learning styles actively engaged in their learning. We will cover classroom implementation as well as adaptations for digital/remote learning. (20-minute break) • Part 3: Lesson Design & Tech Tools – (11:20-12:25) Now that we have a dozen or more engagement tools, we will learn to use online tech tools to seamlessly weave together classroom and virtual learning in a way that doesn’t exhaust us or our students, maintains rigorous learning expectations and supports differentiation. ADDITIONAL TRAINING (in-person or virtual TBD) “Conscious Classroom Management: Bringing out the Best in Students and Teachers” Santa Cruz Santa Cruz COE Saturday, September 12th 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Silicon Valley Sunnyvale ESD Board Room Saturday, October 3rd 8:30 am - 12:30 pm • Positive Assumptions & Connections -participants will learn how their beliefs about challenging students influences how they respond to them, how to read the invisible request that underlies negative behaviors, how to use body language & voice to convey care, how to connect with the most difficult students. • Teaching Procedures & Routines – now that we have laid the foundation for assuming the best about challenging students, participants will learn how to teach procedures in a way that maximizes learning, reduces arguing & wasted time, leave with multiple ways to use visuals & other nonverbal techniques for classroom management. • De-escalations & Consequences – participants will practice ways to effectively deescalate volatile situations & learn how to use consequences to teach behavioral lessons rather than to punish. While we are hopeful the events below will be held in-person, there is still a possibility they may be rescheduled or held virtually. A decision will be made by August, 22 and registrations will be honored for either contingency. Presenting on August 22 nd & October 3rd grades K-12 through her work with the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina and Duke University’s Talent Identification Program. On the national level, as an educational consultant with Conscious Teaching, Katie brings her passion and enthusiasm for education and educators to schools and districts across the country. Katie Anderson is a 15-year classroom veteran, teaching all Presenting August 15 th & September 12th Grace Dearborn, Conscious Teaching’s top national trainer, taught for 15 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grace has trained thousands of teachers across the country since joining Conscious Teaching in 2009, including annual trainings in San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, and San Antonio.
