2024-2025 Spring Professional Learning

 

After your last session, please complete the PD evaluation form by 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 13th. Your PD hours will be emailed to you by the end of the following week. You are responsible for updating your ELIS account. 

 

The link will not open until 3:30 pm on March 13th.

 

 

PreK - Room 211

Strand Name	Audience	Facilitator(s)	Description	PD Credit	Location
Brisk AI Program Training	PreK-12 teachers	Brisk Team	The Brisk team will present remotely on the AI platform. Bring your laptop and get ready to explore all the program has to offer!	1 hour	Chorus Room
Mastery Manager - Basics	ALL	Jen Kenney and Yolanda Hossack	Dive back into the basics of creating an assessment, accessing your data, and using the program in your classroom. This section is for those who need a little refresher and more time in the program.	1 hour	Room 511
Mastery Manager - Advanced	ALL	Jen Kenney and Yolanda Hossack	This session is for those who have been using the program and want to advance their skills. The use of AI tools, rubrics, and more will be covered as we look at the program's advanced features.	1 hour	Room 511
Book Study - 7 Mighty Habits	K-3rd	Katie Ludes	Join Katie as she leads you through 7 Might Habits. In this no-nonsense guide, primary reading expert and classroom teacher Lindsay Kemeny shares seven ways K-3 teachers can modify their current work to transform their reading instruction. Each chapter focuses on a critical area of foundational reading-from the most efficient ways to teach phonemic awareness and phonics to the most effective ways to boost comprehension. Kemeny clears up confusing terms and concepts and offers up "do-tomorrow" strategies to help kids acquire reading skills efficiently and successfully transfer those skills to their reading. Readers will find the literacy routines and lessons Kemeny uses every day with her students detailed in the book, along with links to video demonstrations showing how she puts them into practice.	1 hour	Room 210
Illinois Literacy Plan Part 2	3rd-5th	Joy Kamp	Joy returns to focus on developing listening and speaking skills through oracy, using data to drive oracy and literacy instruction, integrasting oracy with phonological awareness and phonics, and building a langue-rich classroom through oracy.	1 hour	Room 211
World Language Adoption	WL Teachers	Tyler Castle	World language teachers will continue their adoption cycle by looking at resources, preparing a budget, and identifying resources to improve their instruction.	1 hour	Room 504
MS101	MS Teachers	Cealy Depersia	Cealy will lead the MS101 group as they continue collaborating and creating lessons to tap into the SEL standards and implement them in all curricular areas.	1 hour	Room 505
Curriculum Mapping	1st/2nd (ELA and Math)		1st and 2nd-grade teachers will begin looking at their vertical alignment from one building to the next. ELA and Math will be the primary focus for this strand as we begin an audit of vertical alignment from PreK through 12th grade in the following years.	1 hour	Room 502
Curriculum Mapping	3rd/4th (ELA and Math)		3rd and 4th-grade teachers will begin looking at their vertical alignment from one building to the next. ELA and Math will be the primary focus for this strand as we begin an audit of vertical alignment from PreK through 12th grade in the following years.	1 hour	Room 500
Curriculum Mapping	5th/6th (ELA and Math)		5th and 6th-grade teachers will begin looking at their vertical alignment from one building to the next. ELA and Math will be the primary focus for this strand as we begin an audit of vertical alignment from PreK through 12th grade in the following years.	1 hour	Room 503
AI Policy	Committee	Art Stafford	Committee members will be part of creating a district-wide policy regarding the use of AI. This policy will then be presented to the board for adoption purposes.	1 hour	Room 509
Creative and Effective Feedback Strategies for Academic, Behavioral, and Social Growth in K-5	PreK-5	Amberely Maierhofer	Emphasize actionable feedback that promotes student growth, strengthens family-teacher bonds, and supports overall relational development. Educators will consider feedback initiatives, rooted in best practices, in the following areas: effort and growth, learning processes, emotional awareness, goal setting and reflection. We will incorporate creative methods and utilize timely delivery practices that can lead to student growth and strengthen the communication bonds with families, students and classroom teachers. The four sessions will build successively upon each other to provide takeaways to implement right away. K-5 and 6-12 sessions are carefully planned to provide safe and appropriate best strategic pivots and practices for each respective grade-band. Participants will be encouraged to engage in the workshop by sharing ideas, offering resources and/or artifacts to support other educators, and small group work.	1 hour	Room 212
Creative and Effective Feedback Strategies for Academic, Behavioral, and Social Growth in 6-12	6-12	Amberely Maierhofer	Emphasize actionable feedback that promotes student growth, strengthens family-teacher bonds, and supports overall relational development. Educators will consider feedback initiatives, rooted in best practices, in the following areas: effort and growth, learning processes, emotional awareness, goal setting and reflection. We will incorporate creative methods and utilize timely delivery practices that can lead to student growth and strengthen the communication bonds with families, students and classroom teachers. The four sessions will build successively upon each other to provide takeaways to implement right away. K-5 and 6-12 sessions are carefully planned to provide safe and appropriate best strategic pivots and practices for each respective grade-band. Participants will be encouraged to engage in the workshop by sharing ideas, offering resources and/or artifacts to support other educators, and small group work.	1 hour	Room 212
Art of Education/NAfME	FA	Amy Siefken	Independent study through purchased programs	1 hour	Room 804
HS SIP	HS Team	Art Stafford	Art will begin the process of a School Improvement Plan with the committee to set actionable goals at the high school.	1 hour	Room 505
Flexible Seating	PreK-3	Frank Cooney reps	Join representatives from Frank Cooney as they check in with you on the use of flexible seating in the classroom. They will introduce you to new strategies to implement immediately in your classroom.	1 hour	Room 213
Special Ed Collaboration	PreK-12	Luke Krippel	Luke will lead this session that will focus on collaborating on all things special education.	1 hour	LRC
CPR and more!	ALL	Rodney Monbrum and Brad Schmitt	Are you still in need of your CPR certification? Join Brad and Rod as they break apart CPR into this four strand sessions, providing a more in-depth look at its life-saving use.	1 hour	Wrestling Gym
Transforming Lessons and Learning Through Technology Integration	ALL	ELN - Self-guided	After completing this course, participants will be able to do the following: 1. Distinguish the uses of technology that support student attainment of content knowledge and 21st Century Skills. 2. Identify and employ a variety of appropriate technology tools to support effective, innovative learning opportunities for all students. 3. Identify or create student learning opportunities for the attainment of knowledge and skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, communication, problem-solving, creativity, and innovation through the use of technology. Course Guide	4 total hours after completion	Room 510
Empowering Collaborative Leadership	Administration	ELN - Self-guided	Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to do the following: 1. Provide support and resources for establishment and maintenance of a collaborative leadership culture focused on improvement. 2. Facilitate and successfully deploy a dynamic process of change and growth that embeds a shared, collaborative leadership culture where all stakeholders commit to collaborative leadership practices. 3. Monitor and assess stakeholder growth in the scope of collaborative leadership skills. Course Guide	4 total hours after completion	Room 510
Designing Quality Classroom Assessments	ALL	ELN - Self-guided	Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to do the following: 1. Identify and implement the four methods of assessment. 2. Choose and implement the quality guidelines for developing assessment items. 3. Create and complete an Implementation Plan with at least six new activities/strategies that will assist in designing quality classroom assessments. Course Guide	4 total hours after completion	Room 510