Professional Development Day

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The Secondary Standards and Equity Intensives are offered for a variety of content areas and connect to the ongoing focus on culturally responsive teaching and academic discourse for standards aligned instruction. Click the links to register in Frontline.

• Math (6-12 Math Teachers) - Teachers will explore structures, including Math Language Routines, that can enhance lesson syntheses. Teachers will then unpack the progression of learning in an upcoming unit, and plan opportunities for student to student talk. (Courtney Ortega & Keely Machmer-Wessels)

• Science Lesson Planning (6-8 Science Teachers) - Teachers will unpack the Performance Expectations (PEs) and identify opportunities for talk structures for an upcoming lesson. (Herberta Zulueta)

• 6th-8th Grade ELA (6-8 ELA Teachers) - 6-8 ELA teachers will unpack the 2nd Interim Assessment of the year, an argument or informational essay, including looking at student work. Teachers will look at ways to use student-to-student talk to support writing, and have time to backwards plan using curricular resources. (Jeanne Bruland)

• 9th Grade ELA (9th Grade ELA Teachers) - Fishtank Unit / Lesson Planning: In The Time of The Butterflies: 9th Grade teachers will have supported time to reflect on Unit 2 and do unit/ lesson planning for Fishtank Unit 4 In The Time of the Butterflies.  (Michelle Espino & Lizzie Humphries )

• 10th Grade ELA  (10th Grade ELA Teachers) -Fishtank Pilot Curriculum Training: 10th Grade teachers will receive training to pilot a new unit from the Fishtank ELA curriculum this spring. They will have time to lesson & unit plan based on the 10th grade unit they will be piloting this spring.   (Michelle Espino & Lizzie Humphries )

• 11th-12th Grade ELA (11th and 12th Grade ELA Teachers) - Academic Discourse: Building capacity around academic discourse in 11-12 ELA (Michelle Espino & Colette Kang)

• 6-12 ELD (6-12 ELD Teachers) - Articulate the equity dimensions of ELL education and your role in advancing language equity as an individual and as part of a larger community of ELL advocates. Build collective efficacy around and expand your toolkit for empowering ELD instruction. Plan a language-focused lesson that is grounded in the ELD standards and contextualized for the needs of your students and school community. (Holly Darling, Sonia Hansra, Amy Stauffer, Julie Kessler)

• ELA SPED (L1 Mild/Mod SCP ELA Teachers) - Fishtank ELA curriculum training & support. Preparing to teach a Fishtank unit in L1 Mild/Mod SCP classes and adapting for accommodations & modifications.  (Stephen Raser)

• HS Science (9-12 Science Teachers) - Attendees will identify and analyze practices/resources that leverage SEPs to support academic discussions; they will plan for intentional opportunities for students to share and exchange their ideas throughout an upcoming lesson. (Chris Junsay)

• UDL & Promoting Inclusive Practices for CTE (6-12 CS, Engineering and CTE Teachers) - Teachers will receive training on Universal Design for Learning & Promoting Inclusive Practices for CTE in collaboration with the Special Education department.  (Sam Berg, Brenda Touhy, Katie Cugno)

• Secondary Newcomer Instruction Intensive - In the Secondary Newcomer Instruction Intensive, we will address the following objectives: 1. Understand newcomer students assets and needs in the classroom; 2. Learn and apply language teaching strategies to support content learning for newcomers; 3. Make content comprehensible in English for emerging level English learners (Holly Darling, Julie Kessler)

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During this session, K-5 teachers will analyze Eureka Math2 curriculum embedded assessments, assess student progress and make data-informed instructional decisions.  Teachers will also have time to backwards plan for the upcoming module, identify learning goals and opportunities for progress monitoring. 

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AM session:

- Anti-bias education in the early years

PM session:

- Creative Curriculum (focus on Buildings Unit of Study)

- Classroom environment

- Teacher/child interactions (CLASS)

- Cross grade-level classroom observations (PK/TK)

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Diving Into Designated ELD will prepare teachers to implement the designated ELD with intentionality and quality to accelerate language and literacy outcomes for my ELLs. 

Teachers will:

• Explain what designated ELD is and what designated ELD isn’t.

• Explain how the designated ELD curriculum aligns to my ELA curriculum and supports ELLs with ELA texts and tasks.

• Unpack the components of an ELD lesson sequence with my peers in order to be prepared to teach designated ELD.

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Join the Literacy Team in a facilitated and collaborative space for CEA analysis. We will use the OUSD Literacy Task Card to support teachers in analyzing their students’ EL Ed assessments - building capacity for both analyzing students’ skills/needs and identifying the highest leverage next steps for instruction.

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Dual language educators will convene to cultivate our dual language identity and community,  analyze student work and reading data with a bi-literacy lens.

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All Dual Language elementary sites are invited to participate in the first of the PD series  Disrupting Anti-Black Racism with Quetzal Education Consulting  in the afternoon.  The remaining sessions of this series will be provided during the summer Multilingual Institute, week of June 3rd.  Location: ICS -to be confirmed

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Teachers will receive training on implementing Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB) in their classes,  identify opportunities for student talk protocols in upcoming units, and utilize the critical friends protocol to workshop a lesson/unit.

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Teachers will have the opportunities to explore foundational training in standards, curriculum & best practices for all OUSD teachers teaching Physical Education

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Moderate-ESN curriculum on IEP goal implementation using the new standards aligned TeachTown curriculum

8:30am-11:30am session - Frontline Registration

12:00pm-3:00pm session - Frontline Registration

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This is an opportunity for secondary music teachers to practice strategies to develop academic vocabulary and engage with the text (music).

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Engage with elementary music and dance teachers to design lessons for equitable and creative learning in dance and music. These workshops will involve hands on teaching strategies...we will be dancing and singing. 

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This teacher-facing session is designed to help teachers improve their implementation of Sown to Grow.  

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These 3 differentiated sessions, are designed to help Principals improve their Implementation of Sown to Grow.  Leaders can attend the session that best aligns to their current level of implementation, in order to strengthen their practice:  Not Launched, Launched Not Consistent, and Emerging Consistency.  The session will include collaborative planning time with other leaders, and MTSS partners.

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Relationships are at the core of a successful learning community. The Caring School Community program helps to foster relationships that are characterized by genuine warmth and interest. Students and adults spend time getting to know and appreciate one another, learning about each other's interests, opinions, and ideas. Through this program, students develop the skills and dispositions they need to interact constructively with others.

In this Deep Dive into the Caring School Community program participants will:

• Connect as a learning community, and consider how to build that community throughout the school.

• -Generate understanding of the conditions necessary for students to succeed socially, emotionally, and academically.

• Explore the Caring School Community program and supportive materials, and develop plans to implement this framework.

• Experience strategies and techniques that are integrated throughout a Caring School Community classroom and school.

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Did you miss all or part of the Puberty or Sex Ed PD during the fall semester? This full day make-up training will prepare teachers to deliver or support instruction of the the Healthy Oakland Kids Puberty Ed curriculum (Grade 5) or in the Healthy Oakland Teens Sex Ed curriculum (Grade9)  We will cover important information about CA laws and district policies related to puberty and sex education, and we will also have plenty of time to practice the essential skills needed for covering these topics with students of different ages and learning needs.  A delicious catered lunch will be provided by Cafe Platano.  

Who should attend this PD?

• Any teachers in the following categories who have not previously been able to attend a Healthy Oakland Kids Puberty Ed training or a Healthy Oakland Teens Sex Ed training:

• 5th Grade GenEd & SpEd SDC Teachers

• 9th Grade Biology, ELA & SpEd SDC Teachers

• 5th-9th Grade SpEd RSP Teachers and SpEd instructional aides.

• 9th Grade Newcomer Bio & ELA Classroom Assistants

• YAP Teachers

(Please note, training for middle school teachers will be offered in the spring, so Middle School teachers should not register for this training)

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OUSD Office of Equity, Latino Student Achievement targeted initiative, invites you to a day-long summit on Professional Learning Day to advance equity for Latino students, families and staff. All OUSD staff & community partners are invited!  

OUSD’s Latino student population has grown to over 47%, representing diverse ancestries, generations, identities, and experiences.  Come learn more about the multiple stories and dynamic intersectionality of Oakland’s Latino students and families, and best practices to engage, empower and support their thriving, joy and achievement in our schools.  

Morning sessions:

-Opening Panel: Student, Parent, Staff speakers

-Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices with Latino students

-Engaging Latino Families with Literacy

-Chicano/Latino History

Afternoon sessions:

-Engaging Latino boys, girls, nonbinary youth

-Supporting Latino LGBTQ  student mental health

-Supporting Maya Mam students and families

-Accessing support for Latino newcomer students

-Black-Brown History of Alliances

-Disrupting Anti Blackness within Latino communities

-Affinity Circles

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