This 1-Day K-2 Results for English Learners Update Institute is specifically designed for those who have already taken the 6-Day  CRLP Results for  English Learners Institute.  The Results Update provides an orientation to and practice with the updated Results planning tools.  Institute includes: Improved planning tools A leaner and more powerful before, during and after reading sequence to ensure English Learners engage, comprehend and express understanding of complex grade level-text Greater clarity and depth on fundamental principals related to: EL achievement Vocabulary Background knowledge Comprehension strategies  Student engagement and motivation

Teachers will learn the factors used to level books in the Fountas and Pinnell System (A-Z)

Workshop for grades 4 and 5 teachers in the PRIME2 project.

AB430 Administrator Credentialing Module II (Leadership & Management for Instructional Improvement) is now being offered to current SFUSD Administrators who need  their clear credentials by September 1, 2013. The workshops will be offered on January 21, 2012 , February 25, 2012 and March 10, 2012 at APD/Cabrillo to the first 24 participants who register via the OMS system. This module is 20 hours over 3 days. Areas of focus will be: School leadership, finance and HR; development of a school culture that addresses the needs of all students; data collection and analysis; alignment of funds to meet the goals of the Balanced Scorecard; and effective methods of evaluating, motivating and improving teacher performance. In addition there is a required 20 hour practicum to complete the module. All registration for the event will be paid by the APD/Cabrillo department. Attendance is mandatory for all three days. Do not register for the event if you are not available for all three sessions!!

English Learners Support Services (ELSS) is organizing an ECPLC of K-5  Spanish Bilingual/Biliteracy teachers to provide a forum where instructional issues can be addressed. The ECPLC will be composed of up to twenty teacher members and will hold eight afternoon meetings during the 11/12 school year. Members will be paid a stipend for their participation in the scheduled ECPLC meetings. 

Cooking the Common Core Bringing Educational Standards to Life in the School Garden The first workshop of its kind in San Francisco, Cooking the Common Core is designed to give 4th and 5th grade teachers and garden coordinators all of the skills and tools they need to offer engaging, standards-based cooking lessons for students in the outdoor classroom. Whether it is using multiplication tables to scale a recipe for four to feed the entire class, or following the steps of a recipe presented orally, the Common Core Standards in English language arts and mathematics naturally come alive through cooking. This three-workshop series will provide a fun, creative avenue for participants to learn new techniques to reach students with a variety of learning styles, encourage healthy habits, and gain confidence in the outdoor classroom. The interdisciplinary lessons being offered meet the academic standards in at least two core subjects and will include variations for teachers who wish to expand the activity into multiple class sessions, or use the cooking exercise to meet other core standards. During the workshops, teachers will participate in a hands-on cooking class for each recipe, which will include an in-depth explanation of the ingredients, materials, and procedures. Participants will cook and eat together. Lunch is provided. February 17, 2012 - Day 1: Use Your Noodle will feature the recipes "Handmade Fettuccine" and "Vietnamese Salad Rolls." March 16, 2012 - Day 2: Transformers will feature the recipes "Vegetable Fried Rice" and "Brassica Slaw." April 6, 2012 - Day 3: Under Wraps will feature the recipes "Quesadillas Verdes" and "Divine Dumplings." Priority registration is given to SFUSD teachers and green schoolyard coordinators who work with 4th and 5th grade students in the outdoor classroom.  If you are a 4th or 5th grade teacher or green schoolyard coordinator who teaches these grades, please register here.   If you do not work directly with 4th and 5th grade students in SFUSD, please email joyce AT sfgreenschools DOT org to be placed on the waiting list. We will contact you should space become available.

Cooking the Common Core Bringing Educational Standards to Life in the School Garden The first workshop of its kind in San Francisco, Cooking the Common Core is designed to give 4th and 5th grade teachers and garden coordinators all of the skills and tools they need to offer engaging, standards-based cooking lessons for students in the outdoor classroom. Whether it is using multiplication tables to scale a recipe for four to feed the entire class, or following the steps of a recipe presented orally, the Common Core Standards in English language arts and mathematics naturally come alive through cooking. This three-workshop series will provide a fun, creative avenue for participants to learn new techniques to reach students with a variety of learning styles, encourage healthy habits, and gain confidence in the outdoor classroom. The interdisciplinary lessons being offered meet the academic standards in at least two core subjects and will include variations for teachers who wish to expand the activity into multiple class sessions, or use the cooking exercise to meet other core standards. During the workshops, teachers will participate in a hands-on cooking class for each recipe, which will include an in-depth explanation of the ingredients, materials, and procedures. Participants will cook and eat together. Lunch is provided. February 17, 2012 - Day 1: Use Your Noodle will feature the recipes "Handmade Fettuccine" and "Vietnamese Salad Rolls." March 16, 2012 - Day 2: Transformers will feature the recipes "Vegetable Fried Rice" and "Brassica Slaw." April 6, 2012 - Day 3: Under Wraps will feature the recipes "Quesadillas Verdes" and "Divine Dumplings." Priority registration is given to SFUSD teachers and green schoolyard coordinators who work with 4th and 5th grade students in the outdoor classroom.  If you are a 4th or 5th grade teacher or green schoolyard coordinator who teaches these grades, please register here.   If you do not work directly with 4th and 5th grade students in SFUSD, please email joyce AT sfgreenschools DOT org to be placed on the waiting list. We will contact you should space become available.

Literacy Collaborative Balanced Literacy PD.

English Learner Support Services will provide a professional development to preview and prepare for the implementation of the Chinese Core Curriculum. 

Checking for Understanding Using Everyday Mathematics Resources   The Department of Mathematics and Science at APD is pleased to offer Grade 1-5 teachers an Everyday Mathematics professional development opportunity. An exploration of resources in the Everyday Mathematics Program to inform instruction and prepare for district and state assessments        These sessions are designed for Grade 1-5 teachers.

 Están invitados TODOS los maestros de inmersión dual en español K-8, a la reunión de la RED.  La RED es la comunidad de colaboración y apoyo profesional para los maestros de programas de inmersión dual K-8. Por favor pasen la palabra.    Les agradecemos su colaboración y les esperamos a todos/as.

Literacy Collaborative Balanced Literacy PD.

The training will include four days of AVID ELL professional development to support middle and high school content area teachers in developing the skills necessary to teach language while teaching content.  It is designed to show teachers how to build effective, interactive EL strategies into your content curriculum.  This workshop is ideally for math and science teachers, but other content teachers are welcome.   Preference will be given to teachers whose schools send teams of three teachers, have AVID in place, are willing to share what they learn with others at their site, and sign up first. All teachers of English Learners, regardless of subject, must focus on language development while teaching their content area.  This training will show you strategies you can use to teach students to read, write and collaborate (listening and speaking) more effectively so they can better access content and demonstrate comprehension. Overview:  The workshops will focus on a framework of effective methodologies for writing, inquiry, collaboration, and reading (WICR) through the use of hands-on activities focusing on rigorous instruction for all students.  Foundational teacher beliefs as well as a discussion of the teacher’s role in creating updraft for all students will be explored. The workshop series will enhance the district’s curriculum and make connections to increase subject matter comprehension and foster a positive learning environment.  As a result of attending the training, participants will be able to increase equity and access for students by implementing these strategies in a positive learning environment.   Instruction: Will include the following, connecting the effects of each on student learning:  Social Contracts - Student-centered instruction - Adolescent brain development and the role of the affective filter - Language Registers -   Discourse Patterns of teachers and students - Effective instruction using an inquiry-based model - Costa’s Levels of Thinking - Academic Vocabulary instruction - Student engagement - Reciprocal Teaching - Cornell Notetaking and the Brain - Socratic Seminar - Teaching reading and writing with dance, play-doh, chants, and paper bags  

Literacy Collaborative Balanced Literacy PD.

Literacy Collaborative Balanced Literacy PD.

*This is not a class for NEW Promethean users Learn advanced skills such as adding multimedia, creating containers and restrictors, linking documents and web sites, and explore additional ways to integrate ActivInspire into existing curriculum. Second half of day will be on Learner Response Systems which incorporate solid questioning techniques and the use of ActivExpression devices.

The Quality Teacher and Education Act (Prop A) is proud to offer six professional development sessions to all interested SFUSD paraprofessionals. Session topics came from UESF/SFUSD PD Survey and alignment to SFUSD priorities. Registration is on a first come, first served basis. *PLEASE CONFIRM WITH YOUR SITE SECRETARY OR ADMINISTRATOR THAT YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT PROP A HOURS AVAILABLE TO ATTEND THIS PD. FROM THE LIST BELOW: Please select your top 3 choices. MARK YOUR CHOICES IN THE FIELDS BELOW. We will make every effort to meet your request, but cannot guarantee your first choice. Confirmation for your PD session will be emailed prior to FEBRUARY 10th. We ask that you please check email before that to ensure you are prepared and ready for your session. SESSION CANNOT BE CHANGED ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. SESSION CHOICES:   1.Mathematics Core Curriculum Kirstin Hernandez and Ho Nguyen, SFUSD Mathematics Team Target Audience: Secondary Paraprofessionals (6-12th grade) This workshop will provide an overview of the SFUSD Mathematics Core Curriculum and an introduction to the new Common Core State Standards.  Participants will engage in a math experience, connect it to the K-12 Standards for Mathematical Practice and discuss implications for student support.    2. Supporting students with IEPs to succeed in the general education classroom Maeve Mulholland, Special Education Services Target Audience: Special Education Paraprofessionals The focus of this presentation will be on using positive behavior support strategies and differentiation of instruction, to support all students to be successful in the general education setting   3. English Language Development: Overview and Engagement Strategies Carla Llewelyn-Vasquezand Lorena Segura, English Learner Support Services Audience: K-5 Paraprofessionals This workshop will help Paraprofessionals understand the purpose of ELD and provide an overview of the district’s Essential Elements of Effective ELD instruction. During this session, participants will view videos that demonstrate and incorporate the Essential Elements of Effective ELD instruction.  You will learn and engage in Structured Language Practices and engaging activities that promote language development.   4. Creating Language Objectives For All Learners Dana DeFranco, English Language Arts and Middle School Zone Team Target Audience: Secondary Paraprofessionals (6th-12th grade) The session will provide an overview of language objectives. We will analyze and discuss the purpose and need for planning language objectives when lesson planning and supporting students. Participants will have the opportunity to design scaffolds to support language objectives in ELA/ELD and content area classrooms.   5. Guided Reading Part II Elliott Peck and Michelle Maghes, SET PD Team Target Audience:  Paraprofessionals who have already taken Intro to Guided Reading Session This workshop will help paraprofessionals deepen their understanding of the use of leveled reading assessments/running records to determine each student's instructional reading level; analyze reading miscues and practice the prompts that help the child discover his/her own reading strategies; choose lesson objectives based on the child's performance that will accelerate his/her reading progress.   6.Special Education Workshop for Pre-K Presenters: Janice Polizzi and Menaka De Alwis, Special Education Services Target Audience: Pre-K Paraprofessionals Description: To be announced on OMS  

PD in Coaching practices.  Participants will learn how to create structures to support collaboration among teachers, facilitate grade level meetings, and peer coaching groups.

After school meetings. 

Professional Developement for selected High School ELA Core Curriclum Response & Development Group

Professional Developement for selected Elementary and Middle School ELA Core Curriclum Response & Development Group

The Department of Mathematics and Science at APD is pleased to offer K-5 teachers an Everyday Mathematics professional development opportunity. An Exploration of the Effective Use of  Everyday Mathematics Games in the Grades 3-5    

This 3rd-5th Grade 1-Day Results for English Learners Update Institute is specifically designed for those who have already taken the 6-Day  CRLP Results for  English Learners Institute.  The Results Update provides an orientation to and practice with the updated Results planning tools.  Institute includes: Improved planning tools A leaner and more powerful before, during and after reading sequence to ensure English Learners engage, comprehend and express understanding of complex grade level-text Greater clarity and depth on fundamental principals related to: EL achievement Vocabulary Background knowledge Comprehension strategies  Student engagement and motivation

The Department of Mathematics and Science at APD is pleased to offer K-5 teachers an Everyday Mathematics professional development opportunity. An Exploration of the Effective Use of  Everyday Mathematics Games in the Primary Grades, K-2  

Teachers will learn how to assess their students using the Words Their Way inventory and learn the Buddy System during their Word Work block.

Writing genre

Objectives: 1.  To provide physical education curriculum training on simple quick games, overarm throwing movement, and sidearm movement patterns from the district adopted physical education curriculum. 2.  Participants will gain knowledge on management strategies, safety considerations, and instructional tools that will enable them to teach these lessons.

Intensive PD in Balanced Literacy Framework

Module 3 of the AB430 administrator training program is being offered to SFUSD administrators in need of their Clear Credential.  It consists of 20 hours of classroom instructional resources using technology, academic data management and assessment technology, financial and human resource management using technology, and professional development through technology. It also consists of 20 hours of practicum. Guided by the Module 3 provider the administrator will develop and complete a follow-up plan that demonstrates an application and extension of learning for this module. ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED TO 24 PARTICIPANTS. Participants must sign up through the OMS system.

The Department of Mathematics and Science at APD is pleased to offer K-5 teachers an Everyday Mathematics professional development opportunity. An Exploration of the Effective Use of Everyday Mathematics Games in Grades 3-5  

We are having a follow-up ConnectEdu/Promethean training for all Plan Ahead teachers on February 2nd  from 8:30 to 3:30.  A substitute will be provided by our department. A light breakfast and lunch will be served.   The agenda will include: Overview and framing of the program including student evaluation results, connect edu student interest results, highlighting success stories ConnectEdu training Promethean  training Discussion about professional development The February 2nd training will be held at John O'Connell High School @ 2355 Folsom Street in their computer lab ( parking is available in their lot and on the surrounding streets).

Creative to the Core: Reformatting Writing Genres Through Art and Science For Middle and High School Teachers - In the context of the deYoung Museum's New Guinea Highlands & Oceania Exhibit and the California Academy of Science's Aquarium, teachers from all subjects will engage in content-rich expository and creative writing practices and explore collaborative techniques they can immediately use in the classroom or on field trips. Teachers will be paid their UESF agreed upon extended hourly rate.

Objectives: 1.  To provide physical education curriculum training on rainy day/indoor/inclement weather physical activities.  Participants will gain instructional strategies and tools that will enable them to teach these lessons.

The Department of Mathematics and Science at APD is pleased to offer K-5 teachers an Everyday Mathematics professional development opportunity. An Exploration of the Effective Use of Everyday Mathematics Games in the Primary Grades  

Los maestros aprenderan los factores usados en el sistema de Fountas y Pinnell de niveles de libros

Keas/Kems Middle School Workshop

We are having a follow-up ConnectEdu/Promethean training for all Plan Ahead teachers on February 1st  from 8:30 to 3:30.  A substitute will be provided by our department. A light breakfast and lunch will be served.   The agenda will include: Overview and framing of the program including student evaluation results, connect edu student interest results, highlighting success stories ConnectEdu training Promethean  training Discussion about professional development The February 1st training will be held at John O'Connell High School @ 2355 Folsolm Street in their computer lab ( parking is available in their lot and on the surrounding streets).

How do I teach the 2nd Specialized ELD class for Long-Term ELs?  Long Term ELs should be concurrently enrolled in an ELA class. Learn strategies for a course designed specifically for Long-Term ELs, sometimes called “Academic Language Development.”  This course focuses on powerful oral language development, explicit literacy development, instruction in the academic uses of English, high quality writing, extensive reading of relevant texts, and an emphasis on academic language and complex vocabulary.   Teachers who attend must implement the new English 3D curriculum in their Specialized ELD course.  The actual course titles may vary from school to school, and be called reading, academic literacy, expository writing, etc.  However, the course should focus on writing.  This is not an intervention course.  It is a high level academic course designed to advance Long-Term ELs ability to utilize academic English to be successful in grade-level and College Preparatory Classes.

This 2nd and 3rd Grade 1-Day Results for English Learners Update Institute is specifically designed for those who have already taken the 6-Day  CRLP Results for  English Learners Institute.  The Results Update provides an orientation to and practice with the updated Results planning tools.  Institute includes: Improved planning tools A leaner and more powerful before, during and after reading sequence to ensure English Learners engage, comprehend and express understanding of complex grade level-text Greater clarity and depth on fundamental principals related to: EL achievement Vocabulary Background knowledge Comprehension strategies  Student engagement and motivation