Core STEM programs: Strengthen sessions
Professional development sets teachers and leaders up for success, whether they are new to or experienced with a program. Each Strengthen session promotes a deeper understanding of the program through targeted instructional practices.
Explore STEM Strengthen sessions by program below.
About Strengthen sessions
Support 猫咪AV implementation with sessions that target specific instructional practices for teachers and leaders in year one and beyond. When you’re ready to schedule your Strengthen session, contact us. An 猫咪AV expert will support you in selecting the session that best fits your needs and that will help you push student results forward.
Each package includes one Strengthen session. Additional sessions can be added as enhancements.
Desmos Math
Desmos Math lessons are powerful in their ability to elicit student thinking and spark interesting and productive discussions. Intuitive, memorable, and effective, Desmos Math helps you spend less time searching for new resources and more time teaching. And it’s been rated all green by !
Explore the Desmos Math sessions (grade bands 6鈥揂lgebra 1) for Begin packages and beyond. Select the session title or scroll to learn more about each session.
Begin packages
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Hybrid 15, on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 10 package (10 hr.) |
Hybrid 15, virtual package (15 hr.) |
Virtual package (7 hr.) |
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Begin: Enhancing planning for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dive into planning an upcoming Desmos Math lesson using curriculum resources and new protocols. Leave with a greater understanding of your unit story and a roadmap of an upcoming lesson to guide student learning, make connections across lessons, and measure student mastery of learning goals.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Enhancing practice for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn how to use Desmos Math Teacher Dashboard features such as anonymizing, pacing, and pausing to create engagement at the start of activities, sustain learning in the middle, and summarize student thinking at the end. Leave with a deeper understanding of how each of these tools can create a classroom culture that promotes critical thinking and student discourse.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Enhancing observations for leaders
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn to use our non-evaluative classroom look-for tool for Desmos Math to promote the use of instructional resources, focus on instructional delivery, and monitor instruction. Leave with an action plan for collecting and analyzing observation data to support teachers in their implementation of Desmos Math.
Audience: Leaders (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Unit-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into unit planning as you learn the story of how your upcoming unit is tied to other units and grade levels, and discover the big ideas you will explore alongside your students in Desmos Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Lesson-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into lesson-level planning as you learn how to create a roadmap for a lesson that guides student learning, makes connections across lessons, and measures student understanding of the learning goals in Desmos Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Increasing engagement with Instructional Routines
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore how the Desmos Math Instructional Routines Number Talks and Notice and Wonder spark conversation and provide opportunities for students to showcase their brilliance. Walk away with strategies for effectively using these Instructional Routines in your next lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice packages
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Hybrid 15, on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 13 package (13 hr.) |
Virtual package (9 hr.) |
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Practice: Enhancing planning for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dive into planning for an upcoming Demos Math unit and lesson by using the Unit Overview and Teacher Guide. Leave with a greater understanding of your unit story and a roadmap of an upcoming lesson to guide student learning, make connections, and measure student mastery of the learning goals.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Enhancing practice for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn how to use Desmos Math Toolkit features such as anonymizing, pacing, and pausing to create engagement at the start of activities, sustain learning in the middle, and summarize student thinking at the end. Leave with a deeper understanding of how each of these tools can create a classroom culture that promotes critical thinking and student discourse.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Enhancing observations for leaders
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn to use our non-evaluative classroom look-for tool for Desmos Math to promote the use of instructional resources, focus on instructional delivery, and monitor instruction. Leave with an action plan for collecting and analyzing observation data to support teachers in their implementation of Desmos Math.
Audience: Leaders (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Using the 5 Practices to orchestrate math discussions
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Explore how you can use Smith and Stein鈥檚 5 Practices with the Desmos Math dashboard to collect and discuss student ideas. Leave with strategies for fostering class discussions based on student work.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Unit-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into unit planning as you learn the story of how your upcoming unit is tied to other units and grade levels, and discover the big ideas you'll explore alongside your students in Desmos Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Lesson-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into lesson-level planning as you learn how to create a roadmap for a lesson that guides student learning, makes connections across lessons, and measures student understanding of the learning goals in Desmos Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Increasing engagement with Instructional Routines
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore how Desmos Math routines, such as Number Talks and Notice and Wonder, spark conversations and provide opportunities for students to showcase their brilliance. Walk away with strategies for effectively using these instructional routines in your next lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Building language with math routines
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore how the routines Stronger and Clearer and Compare and Connect bolster students as they make sense of new contexts and mathematical problems in Desmos Math. Leave with strategies for using these routines to students as they simultaneously learn mathematical practices, content, and language in your upcoming lessons.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
猫咪AV Math
猫咪AV Math is a core math curriculum that serves 100% of students in accessing grade-level math every day. The program delivers engaging grade-level math lessons; flexible, social problem-solving experiences both online and off ; and insights, data, and reporting that drive performance.
Explore the 猫咪AV Math Strengthen sessions (for grade bands 6鈥揂lgebra 1 and Geometry鈥揂lgebra 2) for Begin packages and beyond. Click the session title or scroll down to learn more about each session.
Begin packages
| On-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 10 package (10 hr.) |
Hybrid virtual package (15 hr.) |
Virtual package (7 hr.) |
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| One session per package | On-site 3 hr. sessions |
On-site 3 hr. sessions |
Virtual 1 hr. sessions |
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Begin: Enhancing planning for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Prepare to teach 猫咪AV Math lessons effectively, by engaging in collaborative backward planning with experts. Work alongside our facilitators to understand how to target key concepts and make successful instructional decisions across a unit, and leave with a completed unit plan for your class.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Enhancing practice for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
See the Launch, Monitor, Connect problem-based learning model in action, and practice integrating these practices into your facilitation of lesson activities. Leave with guidelines for using the Launch, Monitor, Connect model that you can implement during your next lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Enhancing observations for leaders
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn to use our non-evaluative classroom look-for tool for 猫咪AV Math to promote the use of instructional resources, focus on instructional delivery, and monitor instruction. Leave with an action plan for collecting and analyzing observation data to support teachers in their implementation of 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Leaders (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Unit-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into unit planning as you learn the story of how your upcoming unit is tied to other units and grade levels, and discover the big ideas you will explore alongside your students in 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Lesson-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into lesson-level planning as you learn how to create a road map that guides student learning, makes connections across lessons, and measures student understanding of the learning goals in 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Increasing engagement with instructional routines
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore how to use Instructional Routines such as Notice and Wonder to support and engage students as they make sense of new contexts and mathematical problems in 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice packages
| On-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 15, on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 13 package (13 hr.) |
Virtual package (9 hr.) |
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| One session per package | On-site 3 hr. sessions |
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Virtual 1 hr. sessions |
Virtual 1 hr. sessions |
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Practice: Enhancing planning for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Prepare to effectively teach 猫咪AV Math lessons by engaging in collaborative backward planning with experts. Work alongside our facilitators to understand how to target key concepts and make effective instructional decisions across a unit, and leave with a completed unit plan for your class.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Enhancing practice for teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
See the Launch, Monitor, Connect problem-based learning model in action, and practice integrating these practices into your facilitation of lesson activities. Leave with guidelines for using the Launch, Monitor, Connect model that you can implement during your next lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Enhancing observations for leaders
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn to use our non-evaluative classroom look-for tool for 猫咪AV Math to promote the use of instructional resources, focus on instructional delivery, and monitor instruction. Leave with an action plan for collecting and analyzing observation data to support teachers in their implementation of 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Leaders (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Using differentiation supports
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn how to leverage embedded differentiated supports in 猫咪AV Math to ensure that all students can be successful. Walk away with a plan for supporting students in your classroom including English Language Learners (ELLs), students with disabilities, students who may need extra support, and advanced students.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Using data to drive instruction
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Grow your proficiency in data analysis.Turn student data gathered within 猫咪AV Math into differentiated instruction targeting specific skills. Walk away ready to use the data provided in the curriculum to align embedded support to your students鈥� unique needs.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Addressing prerequisite skills
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Explore 猫咪AV Math鈥檚 just-in-time approach to addressing prerequisite skills. Leave with a deeper understanding of how to use embedded curriculum resources to identify and support prerequisite skills essential for your next unit.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Orchestrating math discussions
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn strategies for leading discussions that promote more math talk among all students in your classroom. Walk away with strategies and 猫咪AV Math curriculum tools you can bring back to your classroom to enhance discussion in your next lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Building language with math routines
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore how Math Language Routines support students as they make sense of new contexts and mathematical problems in 猫咪AV Math. Leave with strategies for using these routines to support students in learning mathematical practices, content, and language in your upcoming lessons.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Unit-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into unit planning as you learn the story of how your upcoming unit is tied to other
units and grade levels, and discover the big ideas you鈥檒l explore alongside your students in 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Lesson-level planning
Virtual, 1 hour
Dive into lesson-level planning as you learn how to create a roadmap for a lesson that guides student learning, makes connections across lessons, and measures student understanding of the learning goals in 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Increasing engagement with Instructional Routines
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore how to leverage Instructional Routines such as Notice and Wonder to support students as they make sense of new contexts and mathematical problems in 猫咪AV Math.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
猫咪AV Desmos Math
猫咪AV Desmos Math is a new core PreK鈥�12 program from 猫咪AV and Desmos Classroom 鈥攁vailable in English and Spanish鈥攖hat applies a problem-based approach to develop deep conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Using technology inspired by students鈥� natural curiosity, 猫咪AV Desmos Math connects the classroom and fosters real collaboration, discourse, and perseverance in problem-solving. Captivating activities, powerful teaching tools, and lots of support enable students to develop math proficiency that lasts a lifetime.
Explore the 猫咪AV Desmos Math Strengthen sessions (for grades PreK鈥揂lgebra 2) for Begin packages and beyond. Click the session title or scroll down to learn more about each session.
Begin packages
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| On-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 15, on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 10 package (10 hr.) |
Hybrid 15, virtual package (15 hr.) |
Virtual package (7 hr.) |
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| One session per package | On-site, 3 hr. |
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Begin: Enhancing planning for K鈥�5 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dive into planning for 猫咪AV Desmos Math, both big picture and day-to-day. Practice using lesson and unit planning protocols that will help you build a deep understanding of the math content you鈥檒l be teaching and the planning resources available to you in the curriculum. Walk away with practical strategies for planning, even when you may not have much time.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Begin: Enhancing planning for 6鈥揂1 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dive into both big-picture and day-to-day planning for 猫咪AV Desmos Math. Practice using lesson and unit planning protocols that will help you build a deep understanding of the math content you鈥檒l be teaching and the planning resources available to you in the curriculum. Walk away with practical strategies for planning, even when you may not have much time.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Begin: Enhancing practice for K鈥�5 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dig into 猫咪AV Desmos Math’s Launch, Monitor, Connect framework to level-up the student discourse in your math class. Explore in-the-moment differentiation support to help you orchestrate discussion and make the most out of key opportunities for conversation and collaboration.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Begin: Enhancing practice for 6鈥揂1 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dig into 猫咪AV Desmos Math’s Launch, Monitor, Connect framework to level up the student discourse in your math classroom. Learn strategies for leveraging the tools in the Teacher Dashboard to orchestrate discussion, and practice planning moves to make the most out of key discussion moments.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
Practice packages
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| On-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 15, on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 13 package (13 hr.) |
Virtual package (9 hr.) |
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| One session per package | On-site, 3 hr. |
Virtual, 3 hr. |
Virtual, 1 hr. |
Virtual, 3 hr. |
| Enhancing planning for K鈥�5 teachers |
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New session
Practice: Enhancing planning for K鈥�5 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dive into both big-picture and day-to-day planning for 猫咪AV Desmos Math.听Practice using lesson and unit planning protocols that will help you build a deep understanding of the math content you鈥檒l be teaching and the planning resources available to you in the curriculum. Walk away with practical strategies for planning, even when you may not have much time.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Practice: Enhancing planning for 6鈥揂1 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dive into both big-picture and day-to-day planning for 猫咪AV Desmos Math. Practice using lesson and unit planning protocols that will help you build a deep understanding of the math content you鈥檒l be teaching and the planning resources available to you in the curriculum. Walk away with practical strategies for planning, even when you may not have much time.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Practice: Enhancing practice for K鈥�5 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dig into 猫咪AV Desmos Math’s Launch, Monitor, Connect framework to level-up the student discourse in your math class. Explore in-the-moment differentiation support to help you orchestrate discussion and make the most out of key opportunities for conversation and collaboration.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Practice: Enhancing practice for 6鈥揂1 teachers
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Dig into 猫咪AV Desmos Math’s Launch, Monitor, Connect framework to level up the student discourse in your math classroom. Learn strategies for leveraging the tools in the Teacher Dashboard to orchestrate discussion, and practice planning moves to make the most out of key discussion moments.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Teaching a digital lesson for K鈥�5 teachers
Virtual, 1 hour
Get ready to facilitate digital lessons with your students. Explore what鈥檚 possible with the Teacher Dashboard and plan to make the most of these exciting instructional moments.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Snapshots in the Teacher Dashboard for 6鈥揂1 teachers
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore how to use the Snapshots tool in the Teacher Dashboard to create a collaborative classroom that invites and celebrates student thinking. Leave with planning tips and tricks that will get you ready to use Snapshots during your busy math classes.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff (maximum 30 participants)
猫咪AV Science
猫咪AV Science is a K鈥�8 science curriculum that blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers.听
Explore the 猫咪AV Science sessions (for grade bands K鈥�5 and 6鈥�8) for year one packages and beyond. Select the session title or scroll to learn more about each session.
Begin packages
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Hybrid 15, on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 10 package (10 hr.) |
Hybrid 15, virtual package (15 hr.) |
Virtual package (7 hr.) |
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Begin: Enhancing planning for teachers
(grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn how to use a planning protocol to internalize an upcoming 猫咪AV Science unit. Leave with a plan to support students engaging in three-dimensional learning while also meeting the diverse needs of students in your classroom.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Begin: Enhancing practice for teachers
(grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn how 猫咪AV Science supports phenomenon-based learning. Experience a sequence of model instruction from the curriculum, and walk away with a plan for how you can enhance the curriculum through your teaching practice to build a powerful culture of 鈥渇iguring out鈥� in your science classroom.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Enhancing observations for leaders (grades K鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn to use the non-evaluative classroom walkthrough tool for 猫咪AV Science to promote the use of instructional resources, focus on instructional delivery, and monitor instruction. Leave with an action plan for collecting and analyzing observation data to support teachers in their implementation of 猫咪AV Science.
Audience: Leaders grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Supporting diverse learners: Exploring the resources (grades K鈥�8)
Virtual, 1 hour
Learn how to use lesson-specific differentiation briefs, embedded assessments, and activity-specific teacher support notes to maximize instruction for diverse learners with 猫咪AV Science.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Begin: Strengthen Focus: Supporting diverse learners with embedded supports: Teacher modeling and student discourse (grades K鈥�8)
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore ways to leverage and build upon two key instructional elements in 猫咪AV Science, and plan how you鈥檒l use these supports to engage diverse learners in your next lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice packages
| Strengthen sessions |
| On-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 15, on-site package (15 hr.) |
Hybrid 13 package (13 hr.) |
Virtual package (9 hr.) |
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| One session per package | On-site, 3 hr. |
Virtual, 3 hr. |
Virtual, 1 hr. |
Virtual, 3 hr. |
| Enhancing planning (K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8) |
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| Supporting diverse learners: Multimodal learning and multiple at-bats听(碍鈥�8) |
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| Grading with 猫咪AV Science听(碍鈥�8) |
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Practice: Enhancing planning for teachers
(grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn how to use a planning protocol to internalize an upcoming 猫咪AV Science unit. Walk away with a plan to support students engaging in three-dimensional learning while also meeting the diverse needs of students in your classroom.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
New session
Practice: Enhancing practice for teachers
(grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn how 猫咪AV Science supports phenomenon-based learning. Experience a sequence of model instruction from the curriculum, and walk away with a plan for how you can enhance the curriculum through your teaching practice to build a powerful culture of 鈥渇iguring out鈥� in your science classroom.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Enhancing observations for leaders
(grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Learn to use the non-evaluative classroom walkthrough tool for 猫咪AV Science to promote the use of instructional resources, focus on instructional delivery, and monitor instruction. Leave with an action plan for collecting and analyzing observation data to support teachers in their implementation of 猫咪AV Science.
Audience: Leaders grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Supporting all learners with complex texts (grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Collaborate to solve common reading challenges alongside other educators. Learn strategies to support students in grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 in accessing complex texts in 猫咪AV Science units by engaging in a model reading sequence. Leave with a plan for incorporating effective strategies into your upcoming 猫咪AV Science reading lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Supporting English learners (grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Explore strategies and engage in model activities to support multilingual/English learners in grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 in developing their abilities to do, talk, read, write, visualize, and construct arguments in 猫咪AV Science. Leave with strategies to support a deeper understanding of the critical role that language and literacy play in developing scientific understanding.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Writing in science (grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Develop an understanding of how the 猫咪AV Science writing approach supports students in grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 in engaging in science practices, making sense of science ideas, and growing as writers. Leave with a plan for supporting student writing in your next unit.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Assessment system (grades K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Available: Fall 2024
Analyze a sample formative assessment, deepen your understanding of 猫咪AV Science unit learning progressions, and participate in discussions to understand the relationships between different types of assessments and your unit鈥檚 learning goals. Walk away with strategies for collecting, analyzing, and responding to student assessment data.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades of K鈥�5 or 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Engineering Internships (grades 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Plan for the first 猫咪AV Science Engineering Internship course of your grade level (6鈥�8) by exploring the Futura workspace and digital tools students will use during the Internship experience. Leave with an understanding of how students will apply science concept knowledge to construct design solutions. This session will feature one of the following Engineering Internships based on your need: Metabolism, Plate Motion, or Force and Motion unit.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Science Seminar (grades 6鈥�8)
On-site or virtual, 3 hours
Experience a Science Seminar sequence of a sample 猫咪AV Science grade 6鈥�8 unit from the student perspective to gain an understanding of how students apply science concepts to engage in argumentation about a phenomenon. Leave with a plan for teaching a Science Seminar unit in your own classroom.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades 6鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Supporting diverse learners: Exploring the resources (grades K鈥�8)
Virtual, 1 hour
Learn how to use lesson-specific differentiation briefs, embedded assessments, and activity-specific teacher support notes to supplement instruction for diverse learners with 猫咪AV Science.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Supporting diverse learners: Teacher modeling and student discourse (grades K鈥�8)
Virtual, 1 hour
Explore ways to leverage and build upon two key instructional elements in 猫咪AV Science and plan for ways to use these supports to engage diverse learners in your next lesson.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Analyzing student work (grades K鈥�8)
Virtual, 1 hour
Engage with a protocol to analyze real student work and plan for instructional next steps in 猫咪AV Science. (You are required to bring student formative assessment samples to this session.)
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Supporting diverse learners: Multimodal learning and multiple at-bats (grades K鈥�8)
Virtual, 3 hours
Learn strategies to develop an understanding of how 猫咪AV Science鈥檚 multimodal approach supports diverse learners.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
Practice: Strengthen Focus: Grading with 猫咪AV Science (grades K鈥�8)
Virtual, 1 hour
Develop an understanding of how to use assessment resources in 猫咪AV Science to grade students three dimensionally and use practices that align with district/school guidelines.
Audience: Teachers, instructional staff grades K鈥�8 (maximum 30 participants)
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