This overview session introduces teachers to MagicSchool’s suite of tools designed to support and enhance your instructional practices. You’ll explore how MagicSchool can streamline your daily tasks and improve student learning experiences. We will also provide insights into Magic Student, highlighting what both you and your students can expect when using the platform. Join us to gain a foundational understanding of how MagicSchool can empower your teaching and classroom engagement.
Are you looking for a way to may your language arts stations more engaging for your upper elementary kids? Join me to learn about fresh, fun ideas that will have your students excited to do stations. You'll walk away with easy-to-use stations that are ready to go.
Designed for RLA teachers of grades 3-8, this session transforms your students into word sleuths, engaging them in dynamic and fun activities to enhance their language skills. Through interactive and collaborative games, students will solve vocabulary mysteries, expanding their vocabulary and improving their reading comprehension while enjoying a lively classroom environment. Learning outcomes include improved vocabulary retention, enhanced critical thinking, and strengthened teamwork skills.
Unlock the power of purposeful writing feedback and transformative writing conferences in this hands-on professional development session designed for educators of all grade levels. Participants will explore how to deliver clear, constructive, and growth-oriented feedback that motivates students and deepens their writing skills. Using Magic School, an AI-powered educational tool, educators will learn how to streamline the feedback process, personalize responses, and support diverse learners more effectively.
Join Us for an Engaging Workshop! Come and discover how to craft an exciting slide deck that will effectively organize phonics routines for whole group Tier 1 instruction. This is your chance to unleash your creativity! Teachers will have the opportunity to design their very own slide deck using an easy template, inspired by the scope and sequence for the first nine weeks. Get ready to make learning fun and structured!
In this session, educators will learn practical strategies for conferring with students to support and enhance their writing development. We will explore techniques for fostering meaningful conversations that guide students' writing growth, focusing on feedback, goal setting, and empowering student voice. By the end, participants will feel more confident in their ability to provide targeted, individualized support during writing conferences, helping students become more engaged and independent writers!
This training is designed specifically for early childhood teachers, focusing on building all components of skills-based learning. Teachers will gain valuable insights and practical strategies to enhance their literacy instruction. Participants will leave with ready-to-use resources and ideas to start creating and applying effective workstations in their classrooms immediately.
This session brings early writing instruction to life with strategies grounded in the Science of Reading and The Writing Rope. We'll explore how orthographic mapping supports young writers and how handwriting and keyboarding connect to written expression. You'll leave with practical, classroom-ready ideas to help your K–2 students become capable, confident communicators—right from the start.
Join Catherine Leach for an engaging and hands-on session that demystifies Extended Constructed Response (ECR) prompts and transforms them into powerful tools for literacy instruction. Participants will explore the “See It, Name It, Do It” framework to model, scaffold, and practice prompt deconstruction, helping students build confidence and clarity in their writing. Expect to leave with ready-to-use activities and student-friendly checklists that make prompt analysis accessible and meaningful.
Upper elementary teachers will participate in sentence-level revision exercises and gain a bank of tools to help them teach sentence expansion and more!
This session is designed for 3rd and 4th grade teachers seeking effective phonics routines to strengthen their students’ decoding and encoding skills. Participants will explore district phonics routines through interactive demonstrations and collaborative planning, gaining practical tools to implement immediately. By mastering these routines, teachers will enhance student reading fluency and confidence, fostering a more engaging and successful literacy environment.
Participants will Understand STAAR scoring for SCRs and ECRs. Identify key elements of an effective ECR. Use visual tools, rubrics, and scaffolds to guide writing instruction. Apply sentence- and paragraph-level strategies from The Writing Revolution 2.0. Teachers will work collaboratively in hands-on activities including rubric analysis, foldable creation (make and take), exemplar writing, and exploring graphic organizers. Group discussions will support reflection and classroom application. Teachers will leave with ready-to-use tools that support differentiation and student growth. Implementation will lead to more consistent writing instruction, improved student writing, and stronger STAAR performance.
This session empowers educators to effectively utilize the IXL platform by understanding key components like Smart Scores and custom settings, navigating various features, pinning Skill Plans tailored to course content, and experiencing IXL from a student view. By the end of the session, teachers will be equipped with practical skills to enhance their teaching strategies and support student learning. ***If you a 3-4 or 9-12 teacher whos campus has IXL, you are more than welcome to join us!***
Do you want to learn more or get a refresher on the district phonics routines? This session is designated for K-2 teachers who are seeking clarification on effective phonics routines that will strengthen students' decoding and encoding skills. Participants will explore district phonics routines through interactive demonstrations and collaborative conversations that will help them gain practical tools to implement immediately. By mastering these routines, participants will create a more engaging and successful literacy environment.
Esta sesión está dirigida a docentes de educación dual en los grados K-2, con el propósito de fortalecer la alfabetización en español a través de rutinas de fonética estructuradas. Los participantes explorarán estrategias efectivas para mejorar la enseñanza de la fonética en un entorno bilingüe y adaptarlas a las necesidades de sus estudiantes. La implementación de estas prácticas promoverá una instrucción fonética consistente, el desarrollo de la conciencia fonémica y una mejora en la fluidez y comprensión lectora.
This presentation will be based Conscious Discipline Powers and Skills. Is targetered to all teacher or personel that works with students from PK-12. The idea is to learn how to foster healthy connections, self-regulation, and social-emotional learning in our students to be able to have a safe and healthy enviroment for teachers and students emphasizing the importance of adults first learning to manage their own emotions and behaviors before teaching these skills to children.
Esta sesión está diseñada para maestros de educación primaria que enseñan artes del lenguaje en español que buscan fortalecer las habilidades de escritura de los estudiantes mediante estrategias de lenguaje oral, fomentando una comprensión más profunda y una mejor expresión en formas habladas y escritas. Los participantes podrán aprender estrategias para ayudar a los estudiantes a verbalizar sus ideas antes de redactar sus respuestas a través de discusión en parejas y grupos en forma interactiva y colaborativa. Al implementar estas estrategias, los maestros pueden esperar una mejora en la capacidad de los estudiantes para articular ideas con claridad en formatos orales y escritos y tener un enfoque de enseñanza más interactivo y centrado en el estudiante.
This overview session introduces teachers to MagicSchool’s suite of tools designed to support and enhance your instructional practices. You’ll explore how MagicSchool can streamline your daily tasks and improve student learning experiences. We will also provide insights into Magic Student, highlighting what both you and your students can expect when using the platform. Join us to gain a foundational understanding of how MagicSchool can empower your teaching and classroom engagement.
Designed for RLA teachers of grades 3-8, this session transforms your students into word sleuths, engaging them in dynamic and fun activities to enhance their language skills. Through interactive and collaborative games, students will solve vocabulary mysteries, expanding their vocabulary and improving their reading comprehension while enjoying a lively classroom environment. Learning outcomes include improved vocabulary retention, enhanced critical thinking, and strengthened teamwork skills.
This session is designed for middle and intermediate school RLA educators seeking to boost student engagement through creative, standards-aligned instruction. Participants will explore how to repurpose popular TIkTok trends to teach tone, perspective, and argument, leaving with ready-to-use lesson ideas and assessment tools. Through modeling, discussion, and hands-on design time, attendees will learn how to create culturally responsive, high-impact literacy experiences that resonate with today's learners.
This session is designed for K–2 classroom teachers.Participants will leave the session with a toolkit of developmentally appropriate strategies to foster independent writing in K–2 classrooms, including techniques for scaffolding early writers, promoting student ownership, and integrating writing across the literacy block. Participants will actively engage with a variety of hands-on strategies (e.g., sound-stretching, labeling, picture planning, sentence scaffolding) to support independent writing development as well as collaborative discussion & reflection.
Are you using your digital licenses with Handwriting Without Tears effectively? Some teachers are! If not, join this session to discover what you might be missing and walk away with fun, effective strategies to help your students write with confidence. See how a lesson can be taught in less that 10 minutes to help you fit handwriting into your block.
Intended audience is early childhood educators who are interested in prioritizing Social Emotional Learning in the classroom to prepare for the Literacy Block. We will engage in interactive activities and the outcome of this session will be to take away resources and strategies to begin applying them in the classroom for the 2025-2026 school-year.
Strategies for Embedding Social Skills Throughout the Day
We will explore how to embed social skills into both structured and unstructured activities in the Pre K and K classroom. Additionally, we will highlight the significance of these skills and identify which ones can be easily practiced within the school environment.
Go beyond a student’s RIT score to dig deeper into the necessary TEKs they need to show growth for their next MAP assessment. Audience members will analyze data to determine if a TEK should be taught in whole group or small group and track data using a detailed spreadsheet over time to advance your TIA. A computer will be needed for this session.
Do your students ever get confused about a word? In order to build independence, do you ever utter the words "Sound it out!" only to have the person look at you confused. Learn how to quickly help your students decode unfamiliar words or text. During this session, we will review the syllable types, why syllable types are important to decoding and learn a easy step-by-step process for your students to use when decoding. You will leave this training with access to materials, games and activities that you can easily incorporate in you classroom or intervention class. Warning: We believe in making learning fun.
* This is not a Tier 1 Training* This training is for intervention teachers who have access to UFLI and are providing Tier 3 services to students through intervention. This session introduces beginner teachers to the UFLI (University of Florida Literacy Institute) curriculum, equipping them with foundational knowledge and practical strategies for effective reading intervention instruction. Participants will explore key components of the program, engage in hands-on practice, and gain confidence in delivering structured literacy lessons.
Come explore a multitude of ways to assess authentic reading responses that builds essential comprehension and response skills of all students. Examine the specific TEKS that students apply when responding to texts and review the alignment to state assessment response items. Leave with several resources, scaffolds, lessons, and organizers!
Do your students often skip over, guess, or surrender when faced with lengthy, complex words in their reading materials? Is their understanding compromised when they can't tackle these words? You can equip them with straightforward, effective strategies for reading and spelling multisyllabic words, enhancing their comprehension.
In an interactive environment, I will share with teachers ideas on how they can use Canvas to make their teaching lives easier! Throughout the session, they will learn how to do a multitude of things, including spelling tests, video lectures for small group rotations, creating quizzes, creating assignments using Google drive such as ECR's and SCR's, using Mastery Connect, and more!
This would focus on intervention students in internediate (but could apply to middle school also). Teachers will be given templates for helping students practice writing paragraphs and developing their ideas within a four sentence framework.
Maybe you need some assistance with helping your students with grip, or just a refresher on some HWTears multi-sensory strategies. Come to this session to learn a few tools and strategies that you may have missed, songs you haven’t sung, and new tools to connect handwriting and phonics! This will be an interactive session. Come to share what has worked for you too!
In this session I will be showing free literacy workstation resources. I will show how I differentiate these resources in my classroom. What data analysis I use so students are working on workstations that are designed for them.
Wanting to be more intentional about data collected and used during phonics instruction? Not sure what academic monitoring is or where to get started? This may be the session for you! We will discuss the purpose of academic monitoring and how to plan for, analyze, and respond to the data collected within our phonics block.
This workshop supports teachers' ability to foster student growth by implementing strategies that create a high-engagement classroom, tailored to meet the diverse needs of all learners, including both high performers and those needing extra support. Participants will explore effective teaching methods, testing strategies, and data evaluation techniques designed to maximize student learning and personal development. Additionally, educators will reflect on their practices and identify actionable changes to enhance their teaching, ultimately ensuring that every student has the opportunity to demonstrate exceptional growth.
Looking for a practical way to support every students while collecting meaningful data on the go? This session introduces a simple yet powerful tool: academic monitoring checklists that chunk asks into clear learning objectives. You'll learn how to create these checklists using your Essential Standard Internalization process, use them to provide just-in-time support, and gather data as you move around the classroom. Through hands-on practice and collaboration, you'll walk away with ready-to-use strategies that boost engagement and make differentiation manageable. Perfect for PK-12 teachers and coaches, this session turns everyday instruction into a valuable opportunity for targeted feedback and student success!
This session invites K–12 educators and leaders to engage in a Socratic Seminar exploring the principles and impact of dual language education. Through collaborative dialogue and reflection, participants will gain insights and actionable strategies to foster more inclusive, linguistically responsive school environments.
Enhance your teaching strategies by collaborating with your school librarian. This summer training session will cover practical methods for integrating library resources into your curriculum, fostering a culture of reading, and supporting diverse learning needs. Discover the benefits of collaboration, such as improved student outcomes, technology integration, and reduced planning time. Learn how to effectively share, cooperate, coordinate, and integrate efforts with your librarian to enrich the educational experience and support student success.
This session is geared towards the early childhood teachers who are gearing up to teach beginning writers. Teachers will learn how to implement the Pasadena ISD curriculum in a structured manner. We will engage in data analysis, modeling and have the opportunity to see real examples of the work being implemented in a Pre-K Classroom. Implementation of this session will result in more young children successfully writing independently and being better prepared for the K-4 writing experience.
*** This session is a repeat from the 3rd and 4th grade Focus Conference. *** Designed for educators in grades 2-4, this session guides teachers in creating and facilitating escape room activities that promote critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving. Participants will engage in hands-on experiences and collaborative planning to design immersive escape challenges tailored to their curriculum. By incorporating these interactive games, teachers will boost student motivation, deepen content understanding, and foster a dynamic, student-centered learning environment.
**This session is a repeat from Poolside PD 3-4: Constructed Responses- How to Scaffold a Response** Looking for ways to make a constructed response manageable and hands-on? In this session we will focus on enhancing student writing through the effective scaffolding of constructed responses. This workshop will provide you with practical hands-on strategies to break down a constructed response into manageable, bite-sized components.
Are you interested in ways to make revising less of a chore and more engaging for students in your writing block? This session will walk participants through the importance of revising within the writing process. Participants will explore the TEKS expectations for revising, engage in hands-on activities, and learn how to integrate revision into authentic writing experiences. This session will also highlight the alignment to STAAR to ensure instructional impact.
Discover how to transform your classroom into a vibrant community of writers where students see themselves as real authors and illustrators. You will explore tools for publishing, designing writing opportunities from TEKS, effective strategies to support student authors, partnership collaboration and celebrating your student work.
Are your students struggling to understand complex text? Join us as we explore strategies for helping students enter the text, make their thinking visible, and discuss key ideas.
Este desarrollo profesional está dirigido a maestros de educación primaria que enseñan artes del lenguaje en español que buscan aprovechar los recursos del programa Maravillas para mejorar la enseñanza de la lectura, escritura y comprensión en estudiantes multilingües. Los participantes podrán explorar los materiales y herramientas del programa Maravillas para fortalecer la enseñanza del lenguaje. La sesión incluirá actividades interactivas y colaborativas, tales como: exploración de Materiales, revisión de los componentes clave del programa Maravillas, incluyendo libros de lectura, guías de enseñanza y herramientas digitales. La implementación de los recursos de Maravillas en la enseñanza del lenguaje ayudara a incrementar la participación de los estudiantes en actividades de lectura y escritura.
Beyond Language: Fostering Sociocultural Competence in the Dual Language Classroom" focuses on the third pillar of dual language education by empowering educators to cultivate students’ cultural awareness, identity, and cross-cultural understanding. Participants will explore practical ways to integrate sociocultural learning into instruction using targeted Ellevation strategies that support multilingual learners in building empathy and global competence.
This professional development session is designed for PreK-1st grade teachers to enhance their fluency tracking methods using MClass and CLI. The focus will be on letter fluency and nonsense word fluency, enabling students to track their progress individually and as a class.
* This is not a Tier 1 Training* This training is for intervention teachers who have access to UFLI and are providing Tier 3 services to students through intervention. This advanced UFLI training is designed for experienced implementers seeking to refine and elevate their instructional practices through targeted differentiation and effective scaffolding techniques. Participants will deepen their understanding of the curriculum while exploring strategies to meet diverse student needs and enhance literacy outcomes.
Participants will Understand STAAR scoring for SCRs and ECRs. Identify key elements of an effective ECR. Use visual tools, rubrics, and scaffolds to guide writing instruction. Apply sentence- and paragraph-level strategies from The Writing Revolution 2.0. Teachers will work collaboratively in hands-on activities including rubric analysis, foldable creation (make and take), exemplar writing, and exploring graphic organizers. Group discussions will support reflection and classroom application. Teachers will leave with ready-to-use tools that support differentiation and student growth. Implementation will lead to more consistent writing instruction, improved student writing, and stronger STAAR performance.
Participants will learn how to use the Single Paragraph Outline to teach upper elementary and intermediate students to compose well-organized paragraphs.
This session is designed for upper elementary, middle, intermediate, and high school teachers who are looking for engaging and effective ways to deliver grammar instruction. Participants will experience a TRTW-style grammar lesson, map out the essential elements, and collaborate to create a lesson that they can pack up and take with them along with resources and ideas for future planning.
During this session, Intermediate RLA teachers will develop a clear vision for successfully leveraging CommonLit 360's digital resources through exploring the design, guiding principles, and core lesson types and accompanying resources. Participants will also build their skill set for delivering a CommonLit 360 reading lesson effectively, with a focus on key components and pacing. The session will highlight how the PISD RLA Intermediate Curriculum integrates CommonLit resources and how to use the platform’s features to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.Teachers will watch exemplar videos to envision how to masterfully execute before, during, and after reading learning with intro decks, reading modalities (whole class, partner), question modalities (turn & talk, think & share), and assessing and reflecting on data.
Want to facilitate a strong writing foundation that takes your students beyond the basics? Join this information-packed session to get hands-on strategies you can take back to your classroom that will get your students writing like champions! Let's set our little writers up for future success with tools adapted from The Writing Revolution and more!
***This session is a repeat from the 3rd and 4th grade Focus Conference*** In this session we will discuss the connection between vocabulary and comprehension, what it means to "know" a word, and explore various vocabulary activities that can easily be incorporated into your language arts classroom!
***This session is a repeat from the 3rd and 4th Grade Focus Conference*** During this session we will explore and practice engaging activities that are targeted to a writing/grammar skill, offer peer interactions, and are versatile and adaptable to various proficiency levels.
We will present engaging strategies to elevate reading classrooms. We will showcase practical skills that can be seamlessly integrated into everyday teaching, featuring both electronic and hands-on activities. Teachers will have the opportunity to participate in these activities to gain firsthand experience of the student perspective.
Explore how mentor texts can enhance reading and writing instruction for students through practical, standards aligned strategies. Engage in hands on activities to help you leverage the power of mentor texts. You will walk away with a clear understanding of how to use mentor texts to support student growth.
This session is designed for K–2 classroom teachers.Participants will leave the session with a toolkit of developmentally appropriate strategies to foster independent writing in K–2 classrooms, including techniques for scaffolding early writers, promoting student ownership, and integrating writing across the literacy block. Participants will actively engage with a variety of hands-on strategies (e.g., sound-stretching, labeling, picture planning, sentence scaffolding) to support independent writing development as well as collaborative discussion & reflection.
In this session I will be showing free literacy workstation resources. I will show how I differentiate these resources in my classroom. What data analysis I use so students are working on workstations that are designed for them.
This presentation will provide dual language teachers with essential structures and routines to establish a strong foundation for bilingual literacy at the beginning of the school year. Participants will explore effective strategies for classroom organization, instruction, and language development to ensure a smooth transition for students in both English and Spanish. Through interactive demonstrations, collaborative planning, and hands-on practice, teachers will gain practical tools to implement clear instructional routines, foster student engagement, and create a structured learning environment that supports long-term academic success.
This session is tailored for Pre-K to 2nd grade teachers eager to bring phonics instruction to life with engaging, hands-on routines. Through interactive modeling and collaborative activities, participants will learn dynamic strategies to build foundational reading skills. Implementing these lively routines will boost young learners’ phonemic awareness and early decoding and encoding abilities, creating a joyful and effective literacy classroom.
Únase a nuestra celebración para descubrir ideas divertidas sobre cómo preparar a sus estudiantes para MClass Lectura y CLI, con un enfoque en la fluidez en el aula
This session will guide educators through using prompts as a lens for focused reading and note-taking. Whether you're new to ECRs or looking to refine your approach, this session offers practical tools and collaborative opportunities to elevate your literacy instruction.
Join us for an interactive session where you'll learn to harness the power of IXL to boost student engagement and track progress. Experience IXL from a student's perspective, navigate key engagement features, and seamlessly assign skills through IXL or Canvas LMS. Discover how to use Score Reports to monitor student proficiency and integrate IXL into your lessons using the PDSA cycle. Elevate your teaching with these essential tools and strategies! ***If you a 3-4 or 9-12 teacher whos campus has IXL, you are more than welcome to join us!***
Go beyond a student’s RIT score to dig deeper into the necessary TEKs they need to show growth for their next MAP assessment. Audience members will analyze data to determine if a TEK should be taught in whole group or small group and track data using a detailed spreadsheet over time to advance your TIA. A computer will be needed for this session.
In an interactive environment, I will share with teachers ideas on how they can use Canvas to make their teaching lives easier! Throughout the session, they will learn how to do a multitude of things, including spelling tests, video lectures for small group rotations, creating quizzes, creating assignments using Google drive such as ECR's and SCR's, using Mastery Connect, and more!
Este desarrollo profesional está dirigido a maestros de educación primaria que enseñan artes del lenguaje en español que buscan aprovechar los recursos del programa Maravillas para mejorar la enseñanza de la lectura, escritura y comprensión en estudiantes multilingües. Los participantes podrán explorar los materiales y herramientas del programa Maravillas para fortalecer la enseñanza del lenguaje. La sesión incluirá actividades interactivas y colaborativas, tales como: exploración de Materiales, revisión de los componentes clave del programa Maravillas, incluyendo libros de lectura, guías de enseñanza y herramientas digitales. La implementación de los recursos de Maravillas en la enseñanza del lenguaje ayudara a incrementar la participación de los estudiantes en actividades de lectura y escritura.
Are you looking for a way to may your language arts stations more engaging for your upper elementary kids? Join me to learn about fresh, fun ideas that will have your students excited to do stations. You'll walk away with easy-to-use stations that are ready to go.
In this session World Language and Spanish Language Arts teachers will learn strategies to teach vocabulary using individual students white erase boards. Teachers will participate in cooperative group activities using white erase boards and will create lessons focused on vocabulary drills using white erase boards. The goal is for teachers to encourage students to work cooperatively, talk more in the target language and provide opportunities for physical movement in the classroom.
Want to get your students actually excited about reading? Join us to discover practical ways to make independent reading work in your classroom! You’ll walk away with ready-to-use strategies for setting up your space, keeping students accountable (without reading logs), and creating genuine excitement around reading. This interactive session is packed with ideas you can use tomorrow to get your students choosing to read - and enjoying it!
This professional development session explores the power of repeated reading to support students struggling with reading fluency. Participants will experience the challenges of fluency firsthand, engage in the strategy as learners, and develop actionable plans to implement repeated reading effectively in their classrooms.
Have you tried to introduce stations in your classroom, but it resulted in mass chaos, or it just didn't enhance your student learning the way you wanted it to? Let's look at a 20-day plan that will prioritize station routines, behavior expectations, and accountability pieces to ensure your start to stations is less "mass chaos" and more "order and harmony".
En esta sesión se presentarán los libros por nivel para la instrucción de grupos pequeños según habilidades. Además, exploraremos otros recursos complementarios de Just Right Reader.
Spelling tests? Word lists? Writing word 10x for homework? Those are all things of the past! K-4 teachers are invited to our session to learn about best practices as it relates to phonics assessments, at home practice, and knowing when a student has actually got it! Participants will leave being with a sound understanding of phonics assessment do's & don'ts to help monitor the acquisition of skills and ensure that they stick!
In this session, educators will learn practical strategies for conferring with students to support and enhance their writing development. We will explore techniques for fostering meaningful conversations that guide students' writing growth, focusing on feedback, goal setting, and empowering student voice. By the end, participants will feel more confident in their ability to provide targeted, individualized support during writing conferences, helping students become more engaged and independent writers!
This workshop supports teachers' ability to foster student growth by implementing strategies that create a high-engagement classroom, tailored to meet the diverse needs of all learners, including both high performers and those needing extra support. Participants will explore effective teaching methods, testing strategies, and data evaluation techniques designed to maximize student learning and personal development. Additionally, educators will reflect on their practices and identify actionable changes to enhance their teaching, ultimately ensuring that every student has the opportunity to demonstrate exceptional growth.
