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VIRGINIA
SCHOOL UNIVERSITY
PARTNERSHIP
Upcoming Workshops
& Conferences:
February
26, 2010 - Building Capacity for Teacher Leadership: Teachers as School
Leaders and Coaches - Part 1
Presenter: Dr. Laurie McCullough
Location: Charlottesville, VA
This workshop is
intended for teachers and others in leadership roles. The day will focus
on developing the skills necessary to serve as effecive instructional
leaders for colleagues. The session is appropriate for instructional
coaches, department chairs, team leaders, mentors, and also for administrators
who wish to enhance their coaching and negotiation skills. Communication
and coaching will be the primary focus areas. The session will also
address the most important aspects of leading change, such as goal definition,
building consensus, managing decision-making, and measuring and celebrating
progress. Case studies and interactive experiences will be used to practice
problem-solving and reflection. Dr. McCullough presentered this workshop
in 2009 and is back by popular demand. Also participants of this workshop
and last year's workshop will receive registration information on Part
2 of the workshop which will be held on March 23, 2010.
WORKSHOPS COMPLETED 2009-10
October
16, 2009 - The Middle and High School Principal's Role in Creating
and Maintaining Strong Literacy Programs at the Secondary Level
Presenter: Virginia Bowerman
Location: Charlottesville, VA
This workshop is designed specifically to provide clear and concise
strategies for secondary principals, assistant principals, and curriculum
leaders in building and strengthening a culture of literacy achievement
for all students by creating a school-wide literacy program. The presenter
will review current trends in adolescent literacy achievement. Research-based,
essential literacy components for every classroom and best practices
in literacy education for middle and high school will be addressed.
In addition, the roles of literacy personnel and the use of data to
impact literacy achievement will be discussed. Strategies for improving
vocabulary acquisition, understanding instructional levels, and using
texts will be provided. Also participants will learn about intervention
programs available for working with struggling and ELL students, including
Response to Intervention. Administrators will have an opportunity to
talk with other principals about their efforts to increase literacy
achivement.
October
21, 2009 - Creating Independent, Strategie Readers and Writers in Middle
School and High School
Presenter: Sue Beers
Locatiion: Charlottesville, VA
In this workshop, participants will learn practical classroom strategies
for helping students become better readers of content area text and
better writers. A model for understanding the overall reading process,
including the reader, classroom climate, the reading task, text features
and processing strategies will frame specific classroom tools that can
be used to improve student comprehension of reading tasks. Tools and
strategies for pre-, during and post-reading comprehension activities
will be modeled and shared as participants learn how content area teachers
can improve the reading comprehension of all students while students
also gain and retain a deeper understanding of the content itself.
September
22-24, 2009 - Guiding Your Students to Higher Achievement with the
New Math SOL
(9/22 K-3; 9/23 Grades 4-8; 9/24 High School)
Presenter: Dan Mulligan
Location: Charlottesville, VA
November 4-6,
2009 Location - Hotel Roanoke, VA
This activity-based workshop will feature the latest information on
the impact of revisions to Virginias mathematics SOL. Participants
will become familiar with SOL changes, new expectations for student
understanding, ideas for the revision of existing assessments,
and new instructional strategies related to the challenges presented
by the requirements of the new SOL and related yearly testing in mathematics.
During each workshop participants will learn about:
essential components of curriculum, instruction, and learning
to better align with critical knowledge, vocabulary and skills;
adjustments to current pacing guides and curriculum maps;
and
ideas and strategies to focus division, school, and classroom
programs
on both formative and summative assessments.
Each participant will be provided with a toolkit of new resources
to assist Virginias educators in effectively preparing for
implementation
of the new mathematics SOL.
July 19-22, 2009- Summer Leadership Conference 2009
Edustat University 2009 in Charlottesville, VA: A Partnership among
Albemarle Public Schools, the Curry School, the Virginia School University
Partnership and SchoolNet, Inc  .
Conference Theme: Education's Role in Re-Imagining America's Future
Audience- Executive level staff of Curriculum, Technology, Instruction,
Assessment, Professional Development, and Education Technology Leaders,
Principals, and Teams of Principals and at least 2 members Leadership
Teams and/ or SchoolNet Project Teams
 Proposed
Keynote Speakers
Jay McTighe: Schooling By Design
Tony Wagner: Motivating the "net generation" to excellence
This collaborative forum will spark innovation and solutions for educators
preparing the digital generation to excel in the rapidly changing global
society.
Conference topics include:
Integrating critical thinking, creativity, and effective communication
skills into our expectations of K-12 learners.
Designing school improvement processes that support result-oriented
goals.
Facilitating frequent data-dialogues focused on ensuring that all students
achieve desired results.
Who Should Attend:
Principals and Teacher Leaders
Assistant Superintendents
Chief Academic Officers
Chief Information Officers
Directors of Education Technology
Directors of Professional Development
SchoolNet Project Teams
WORKSHOPS COMPLETED 2008-09
February 24, 2009
Building
Capacity for Teacher Leadership-Teachers as School Leaders and Coaches
Audience: teachers, administrators, coaches, instructional specialists
Presenter:
Dr. Laurie McCullough, Assistant Superintendent, Waynesboro City Schools;
VASCD Curriculum Leader of the Year 2008
This workshop is intended for teachers in leadership roles. The day
will focus on helping these teachers develop the skills necessary to
serve as effective instructional leaders for colleagues. The session
is appropriate for instructional coaches, department chairs, team leaders,
mentors, and also for administrators who wish to enhance their coaching
skills. Communication and coaching will be the primary focus areas.
The session will also address the most important aspects of leading
change, such as goal definition, building consensus, managing decision-making,
and measuring and celebrating progress. Case studies and interactive
experiences will be used to practice problem-solving and reflection.
July 30-31, 2008 Summer Leadership Conference
"WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHANGE LEADER?"
Presenter: Dr. Tony Wagner, Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group
(CLG), Harvard School of Education
This two day leadership conference for school district administrators,
principals, assistant principals, and lead teachers focused on the key
points from Wagner's book Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming
Our Schools, written in collaboration with Robert Kegan and colleagues
of the Change Leadership Group, and published by Jossey-Bass in 2006.
Wagner is also the author of Making the Grade: Reinventing America's
Schools and How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited.
His latest book is The Global Achievement Gap: Why Our Kids Don't Have
The Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship-And What
We Can Do was published in 2008. During this conference, school teams
participated in problem solving and planning for addressing the challenges
of 21st Century leadership in their school divisions.
September 16, 2008
Research-based Standards and Strategies to Increase Student Success
on the VGLA (Virginia Grade Level Alternative)
Presenter: Stephanie Haskins, Director of Special Education, Staunton
City Schools, Charlottesville, VA
This workshop for administrators, classroom and special education teachers
examined how the collection of VGLA evidence is a natural fit within
the regular classroom in equipping teachers with understandings and
materials that help them with the process. Key topic included: defining
VGLA, including the intent as well as candidates; examining specific
resources; creating quality assessments aligned with the SOLS, and managing
the VGLA process in any school division. Participants also received
a CD of practical resources to use with student instruction and assessment.
October 2, 2008
Reading Motivation-Proficiency, Persistence, Passion
Presenter:
Dr. Linda Gambrell, Immediate Past President of the International Reading
Association, Distinguished Professor of Education, Clemson University
This workshop for administrators, lead teachers, reading specialists,
curriculum
specialists and classroom teachers in grades 3-8 focused on major research
which can be applied in classroom instruction to promote literacy motivation,
discussion in teaching and learning, and comprehension monitoring. Gambrell
provided guidelines for improving the literacy skills of struggling
learners. Key strategies and activities to use across all content areas
were provided to participants.
October 27, 2008
Response to Intervention- What Teachers and Administrators Need to
Know and Do
Presenter:
Dr. Tom Jenkins, Response to Intention Consultant, Wilmington, NC
During this workshop, Dr. Jenkins provided teachers and administrators
with hands-on activities, models, and information to assist schools
and school divisions in the implementation of RTI, including universal
screening, standard protocol intervention, problem solving model, curriculum-
based measurement, and student outcome measures. Jenkins explained the
similarities and differences in current identification and referral
procedures for intervention and special services for students, including
practice and understanding of discrepancy analysis and its uses in assisting
at-risk students.
November
5, 2008
MASTERING THE MATH SOLS: Synthesizing and Applying All We Have Learned
from 3 years of Yearly SOL Testing in Math
Presenter: Dr. Dan Mulligan -President and Consultant-Simply Achieve,
Inc
This activity-based workshop featured new assessment and instruction
strategies that are grounded to meet the opportunities and challenges
presented by teaching and learning in an era of yearly testing in mathematics.
Participants were actively involved in using model structures to empower
students with a deep understanding of problem-solving skills and provided
an understanding of how to improve students' mathematical performance
through Identifying essential components of curriculum, instruction,
and learning to better align with essential skills: (Critical Thinking,
Problem Solving, Communication & Collaboration); balancing division
and classroom assessment programs to reflect an emphasis on both formative
and summative models; focusing teacher professional learning community
discussion to include strategies to guide students to become inquisitive,
disciplined thinkers and questioning minds; creating valid and reliable
measurement tools to support the impact of yearly SOL test results on
student mastery of essential knowledge and essential skills specified
by the Virginia Standards of Learning. Participants were provided with
a toolkit of new math strategies.
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