WISD Summer 2023 Professional Learning Guide

SPRING/SUMMER 2023

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CATALOG

WASHTENAW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

Meet the Team

Washtenaw ISD Achievement Initiatives Department 1819 S Wagner Rd Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Jennifer Banks, Ph.D Director of Instruction jbanks@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1743

Amy Olmstead-Brayton Assessment Coordinator

aolmstead@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1265

Erica Rodriguez-Hatt Early Literacy/Coaching Coordinator ehatt@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1257

Sarah Devaney Research Assistant sdevaney@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1276

Alyssa Nicol

Early Literacy/English Learner Coordinator anicol@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1570

Puja Mullins Newcomer Supports Coordinator

pmullins@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1747

Additional Information

Team Video: https://youtu.be/UPvKJqvRuzY

Melissa Brooks-Yip Supervisor of Instruction mbrooksyip@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1266

Greg Myers EISJ Specialist gmyers@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1262

Danielle Dros Regional School Health Coordinator ddros@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1261

Heather Holshoe Math/Science Coordinator hholshoe@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1742

Elette Collins

Adult Ed./Grants Manager ecollins@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1210

Ghufran Al-Sheemary Newcomer Support gal-sheemary@washtenawisd.org

734.994.8100 ext. 1743

Team Website: https://www.washtenawisd.org/our-services/instructi

Meet the Team

Washtenaw ISD Community & School Partnerships Department

1819 S. Wagner Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Holly Heaviland, Ed.D. Executive Director hheaviland@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1250

Sarah Hierman Coordinator, Grants & Special Projects schierman@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1274

Shannon Novara Program Manager snovara@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x2177

Jessica Fonville, LLMSW Education Project Coordinator

jfonville@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1518

Stacey Doyle, LMSW General Edu. Social Worker sdoyle@washtenawisd.org

734-255-7620

Jessica Carruba Office Professional

jcarruba@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1273

Kim Warren Parent Liaison kwarren@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x2192

Margy Long Director, Great Start Collaborative mlong@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1277

Colleen Klus Community Engagement Specialist snovara@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x2178

Sara Saylor Children's Savings Account Coordinator ssaylor@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1745

Bonnie Lee

Children's Savings Account Program Assistant blee@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x3085

DarNesha Green, LMSW Social Worker & Transitions Coordinator dpickens@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1557

Jenna Blair School Program Coordinator & Teacher Consultant jblair@washtenawisd.org

734-474-8903

Team Website:

https://www.washtenawisd.org/ourcollaborations/community-school-partnerships/

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May Events

Justice Leaders: Policies and Procedures

Date: May 9, 2023 Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Justice Leaders

Target Audience: Leaders SCECHs: See Local District

A major challenge to enacting education justice is the reality that many schools are structured in ways that are antithetical to equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Hiring, communications, decision-making, resource allocation, and even the mission and vision of most schools do not create space for just practices. Too often education justice is seen as the work of individual teachers in individual classrooms, but we must work to align the entire system with justice. Prerequisite: Core Course

Sustaining Equity Teams

Date: May 16, 2023 Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Justice Leaders

Target Audience: Any SCECHs: See Local District

Check In & Planning with Your Team Teams is a follow up check-in designed for people who have completed the Building Equity Teams course. Prerequisite: Core Course and Building Equity Teams

Washtenaw County Coaching Collaborative

Date: May 18, 2023 Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Erica Rodriguez-Hatt

Target Audience: Coaches SCECHs: Available

Participate in a supportive learning community that seeks to explore effective coaching practices, address systemic needs for supporting and sustaining a coaching culture, and establish strong professional relationships to support the ongoing effort of coaching. The focus will be continued development of coaching tools and models, refining our emotional intelligence, and networking through lab site opportunities

Preschool Special Education Network: Session 4

Date: May 19, 2023

Location: TBD

Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm

Facilitator: Michelle Pogliano

Target Audience: Staff providing Special Education services to children 3-5 SCECHs: Not Available

This network provides special education providers of preschool age children the opportunity to build your professional network, stay on top of current topics and updates in the field of preschool special education, participate in the collective work to strengthen inclusive practices in Washtenaw County, explore evidence-based practices in early childhood special education. No need to have participated in Sessions 1-3!

June Events

Meaningful Mathematics and STEM Showcase

Date: June 2, 2023

Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm

Location: Wayne County Community College - Downtown Campus

Target Audience: Educators & Students Grades 6 - 12

Facilitator: Tri-County Culturally Responsive Mathematics Institute

This event will challenge students to examine real situations- in their school, community, or the world at large - identify how mathematics is present in the issue, and demonstrate how mathematics can be used to find a solution. Students will be encouraged to put their training in mathematics to the test, taking their learning experiences and applying their skills to matters that exist beyond their textbook. Register at:

https://forms.gle/sk13UUKEjk7A5kZF7

Restorative Practices in Schools

Date: June 14, 15, 19, & 20, 2023 Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: High Point School Facilitator: Dr Keisha N Allen

Target Audience: School Staff SCECHs & SW CEUs: Pending

Restorative practices is a field within the social sciences that studies how to strengthen relationships between individuals as well as social connections within communities. When applied in schools, restorative practices proactively improves climate and culture. Restorative practices also provides responses to wrongdoing that focus on repairing harm. Washtenaw ISD will offer the Introduction to Restorative Practices training, the Facilitating a Restorative Conference training, and the advanced courses, Compassionate Witnessing and Family Group Decision Making.

Back to Basics: Radical Dreaming Workshop

Date: June 15, 2023

Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Amy Olmstead-Brayton

Target Audience: K-12 Educators and Leaders

SCECHs: Available

Join us for this one day, virtual workshop with Dr. Jamila Dugan, co-author of the best-selling book 'Street-Data: A next-generation model for equity, pedagogy, and school transformation' and her team of expert practitioners. Together we will get rooted in our collective wisdom around the purpose and practice of education and use liberatory thinking to joyfully prepare for the upcoming school year. By the end of the session educators will feel grounded, inspired, and ready to come back to school with pedagogical resources that lay the foundation for an incredible year!

More June Events

Culturally Responsive Mathematics Summer Institute

Date: June 19 - 22 & June 26 - 29, 2023 Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm

Location: Virtual

SCECHs: Available

Target Audience: Educators and Students Grades 6 - 12

Facilitator: Tri-County Culturally Responsive Mathematics Institute

The purpose of this summer work is to collaboratively create tasks that engage all students in meaningful culturally responsive mathematics, which will increase engagement and relevance to all students. Two weeks during the summer, students and teachers engage in shared learning and work in teams to modify tasks within current mathematics textbooks. The tasks created through this summer institute will be housed virtually and available statewide. The goals of this project is to deepen understanding of Culturally Responsive Mathematics and collaboratively learn and work on teams with students, teachers, and pre-service teachers. Register here: https://forms.gle/TaLLfZuL95bBWQdX8

Science Genius

Date: June 21 - 22, 2023 Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm

Location: WISD - TLC Facilitator: Heather Holshoe

Target Audience: Science

Educators Grades 6 - 12

SCECHs: Available

Participants will have a deeper understanding of how to foster inclusive and equitable learning spaces that celebrate diversity and promote student success and be better equipped to engage in culturally responsive teaching practices that recognize and honor the unique strengths and challenges of each student. Participants will be equipped with practical strategies for using hip-hop culture to engage diverse learners in STEM education, and be part of a growing community of educators who are committed to promoting science literacy and creativity through innovative approaches.

July Events

White People Working for Racial Justice

Date: July 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2023 Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Justice Leaders

Target Audience: Any SCECHs: Contact Your District This session is an affinity group space specifically designed for white people committed to racial justice to learn together, ask questions, make mistakes, work through defensiveness and guilt, and examine fears without burdening People of Color in the process. It invites white people to do the deep work required to claim and embody an anti-racist identity, understand the privilege they carry, learn how to move from ally to co-conspirator, build relationships of accountability, and interrupt racism in their lives and work.

Justice Leaders Core Course: Cohort 54

Date: July 10, 17, 24, & 31, 2023

Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Justice Leaders

Target Audience: Any SCECHs: Contact Your District

This Course is for people who are passionate about issues of equity, inclusion and social justice. Learning will focus on issues of privilege and oppression along lines of race, class, ability, immigration, gender, and sexual orientation. Educators will come to understand their own social identities, biases, and prejudices; increase their knowledge about the histories and present realities of various social identity groups; and begin considering how to incorporate this knowledge and awareness into their practice. Participants must be willing to relfect deeply in ways that may challenge previously held assumptions and world views. Homework readings and activities will be required.

Book Study: The Standards-Based Classroom

Date: July 13, 20, & 27, 2023 Time: 9:30am - 11:00am

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Amy Olmstead-Brayton

Target Audience: K-12 Educators SCECHs: Yes

Are you an educator who believes all students are capable of academic mastery but are feeling frustrated by your efforts to get them there? This work is HARD but there are strategies that can help! Join us for this 3-part book study as we explore our guiding text, 'The Standards-Based Clasroom' (Rinkema &Williams, 2019) and learn more about which practices related to curriculum, instruction and assessment are essential to make learning the goal for every student! Books P

More July Events

Healing the Pain of Teaching for Social Justice

Date: July 14, 21, & 28, 2023 Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Justice Leaders

Target Audience: Educators SCECHs: No

Working for social justice in schools is a life-long passionate endeavor. Our justice journey requires collective care, skills that address and dismantle the culture of grit, grind, and exploitation, and the capacity to hold space for honest and vulnerable conversations that address the pain, joy, grief, trauma, and rage educators are experiencing in the system of education. We will cover topics that cultivate space for educators to gather in collective care and explore the transformative practices of individual and cultural healing. Prerequisite: Core Course

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Date: July 26, 2023

Time: 9:00am - 1:30pm

Location: Virtual Facilitators: Stacey Doyle & Celeste Gentile

SCECHs & SW CEUs: Available

Target Audience: School staff and community partners working with adolescents in Washtenaw County schools

Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among adolescents ages 12-18. You’ll build skills and confidence you need to reach out and provide initial support to young people who are struggling. You’ll also learn how to help connect them to appropriate support.

Advanced Restorative Practices:

Compassionate Witnessing

Date: July 26 - July 27, 2023 Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: WISD - TLC Facilitator: Dr. Keisha N. Allen

Target Audience: School Staff SCECHs & SW CEUs: Pending

Learn techniques that can help you work with individuals and communities facing adversity or that have been impacted by trauma. You will learn how to help individuals heal in the wake of personal harm, foster trusting and supportive relationships, and develop methods for your own self-care to avoid burnout.

August Events

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally & Historically Responsive Education for Educators Beyond Year 2

Date: August 3 & August 10, 2023 Time: 10:00am - 11:30 am

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Melissa Brooks-Yip

Target Audience: Educators Beyond Year 2 SCECHs: Available

FOR EDUCATORS BEYOND 2ND YEAR OF TEACHING. In this Foundational Course 1 & 2, culture will be explored and revisited in profound, multifaceted ways. We will consider our own cultural identities and approaches to learning the cultures/identities of students. By the end of this session, participants will understand the culture and be charged to engage in self-identity work. The facilitator will also introduce participants to the culturally and historically responsive education model. Participants will learn a brief history of CHRE and the power of education among communities of color in the United States. "Cultivating Genius" book study recommended.

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Date: August 7, 9, 14, 22, & 23, 2023 Time: 9:00am - 1:30pm

Location: Virtual Facilitators: Stacey Doyle, Celeste Gentile, DarNesha Green, & Shannon Novara

SCECHs & SW CEUs: Available

Target Audience: School staff and community partners working with adolescents in Washtenaw County schools

Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among adolescents ages 12-18. You’ll build skills and confidence you need to reach out and provide initial support to young people who are struggling. You’ll also learn how to help connect them to appropriate support. Each date is a stand-alone course.

More August Events

Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally & Historically Responsive Education for 1st/2nd Year Educators

Date: August 9 & 16, 2023

Time: 10:00am - 11:30 am

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Melissa Brooks-Yip

Target Audience: New Educators SCECHs: Available FOR EDUCATORS IN THEIR 1st/2nd YEAR OF TEACHING. In this Foundational Course 1 & 2, culture will be explored and revisited in profound, multifaceted ways. We will consider our own cultural identities and approaches to learning the cultures/identities of students. By the end of this session, participants will understand the culture and be charged to engage in self-identity work. The facilitator will also introduce participants to the culturally and historically responsive education model. Participants will learn a brief history of CHRE and the power of education among communities of color in the United States. "Cultivating Genius" book study recommended.

A RRIDE: Lessoning Planning for Social Justice

Date: August 15 & 17, 2023

Time: 9:00 am - 11:00am

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Justice Leaders

Target Audience: Educators SCECHs: No

AARIDE guides educators through lesson planning for social justice that scaffolds learning for students t every grade level. A RRIDE lesson planning centers social justice concepts, identity development, action, and harm reduction to cultivate a new generation of youth knowledgeable about inequity and committed to making the world more just.

Assessment for Learning Series

Date: August 15, 16, & 22, 2023 Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm Location: WISD - TLC Facilitator: Amy Olmstead-Brayton

Target Audience: K-12 Educators SCECHs: Yes

Join us for this intensive multi-day series for educators to deepen their understanding and use of effective classroom assessments. We will focus on the formative assessment cycle and its role in supporting student learning and agency. Participants will learn how to develop and use classroom assessment not only to gather accurate information about student learning but to also improve student engagement, motivation and achievement and create classrooms and schools that are truly learning- and student-centered. (This offering includes an initial two-day learning series plus a one-day application session.)

Even More August Events

Advanced Restorative Practices: Family Group Decision Making

Date: August 15 - August 16, 2023 Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: WISD - TLC Facilitator: Dr. Keisha N. Allen

Target Audience: Educators SCECHs & SW CEUs: Pending

Family group decision making (FGDM) is a process that provides families with an opportunity to bring together larger family networks—aunts, uncles, grandparents, neighbors, friends—to make important decisions that might otherwise be made by professionals. This process of engaging and empowering families to make their own decisions and plans for their family members’ well-being seems to lead to better outcomes, less conflict with professionals, more informal support and improved family functioning (Merkel-Holguin, Nixon & Burford, 2003).

WISD Early Childhood Conference 2023

Date: August 17 - 18, 2023 Location: High Point School

Facilitator: WISD Early Childhood Dept SCECHs: Available

Target Audience: Washtenaw County Early Childhood Educators and Families with children 0 - 5

This annual event brings together early childhood professionals from across Washtenaw County for two days full of connecting, learning, and fun! This conference will feature keynote addresses and breakout sessions on a wide range of early childhood topics from engaging parents to supporting social emotional learning at all ages to curriculum and more! This conference promises something for everyone who works with young children ages 0-5 and their families!

Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG) Training

Date: August, 2023 TBD

Location: TBD

SCECHs & CEUs: Available

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Facilitators: Holly Heaviland, Stacey Doyle, and more

Target Audience: Principals, Asst. principals, a school mental health professionals, school resources officers, etc

Under the CSTAG model, school-based multidisciplinary teams take a problem-solving approach by identifying students in need of assistance before their conflicts escalate into violence. A flexible case-by-case evaluation process is used that considers the individual circumstances and context of student behavior. CSTAG teams triage cases by gathering relevant information and using a decision tree to distinguish transient threats that can be easily resolved from substantive threats that pose a serious risk of violence. WISD will offer the Introduction training as well as a refresher course this August, the dates are to be determined.

Even More August Events

Community Mental Health Crisis Support for Children & Families

Date: August, 2023 TBD

Location: TBD

SCECHs & CEUs: Available

Time: 2-Hours - TBD

Facilitator: Melisa Tasker

Target Audience: Counselors, social workers, psychologists, principals, or youth serving organizations.

Have you ever needed advice or support with a young person experiencing a crisis? Come learn about how to access the CMH 24-hour mobile crisis team, obtain training on the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, and review the countywide protocol used if a young person is referred to UM Psychiatric Emergency Services.

Ten80 Racing Challenge Teacher Training

Date: Early August, 2023 Location: WISD - TLC

Facilitator: Heather Holshoe

SCECHs: Available

Target Audience: Any current Ten80 educator or those looking to implement the Ten80 Racing Challenge curriculum during the 2023-24 school year

This 2-day training provided by Ten80 will be a hands-on learning experience to help teachers learn the in's and out's of the Ten80 Racing Challenge Curriculum and aspects of Race Day Events.

Asynchronous Professional Learning Courses

Essential Practices for Disciplinary Literacy Instruction in the Secondary Classroom

Target Audience: Grade 6 - 12 Educators

SCECHs: Available

Facilitator: GELN, MAISA, DLTF (Melissa Brooks-Yip)

Our students learn the foundations of literacy throughout their elementary school years. As students continue to develop their skills through middle school and high school, literacy instruction must also help them meet increasingly complex subject area demands. These demands include developing the critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills specific to each discipline.

Cultivating Genius Book Study

Target Audience: All Educators

SCECHs: Available

Facilitator: Melissa Brooks-Yip

Through reading, discussion and activities, participants will learn, reflect and begin to apply the Culturally and Historically Responsive Framework in Cultivating Genius. Course opens June 26, 2023.

Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning: Summer Cohort

Date: August 7 - September 4, 2023

Target Audience: K-12 Educators

SCECHs: Yes

Facilitator: Amy OlmsteadBrayton

Join us for this three-part, self-paced series as we explore 'The 7 Strategies of Assessment for Learning' and discover how to use the formative assessment process to foster student learning and agency to make your classroom more student-driven! This series will be entirely virtual and selfpaced (information on access course materials will be sent following registration). Copy of text '7 Strategies of Assessment for Learning' also available to all Washtenaw County educators.

MiSTEM-Sponsored Events

CS Fundamentals

Add+VantageMR ® Course 1

Date: Various June and July Dates

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Math Recovery

Location: Virtual

Date: Various May and June Dates Time: Varies Facilitator: Code.org

Target Audience: Educators Grades K-5

This free high quality professional learning workshop will provide an intro to computer science pedagogy, overview of the online curriculum, teacher dashboard, and strategies for teaching "unplugged" classroom activities. Workshops last 6-7 hours and will prepare you tot each the Code Studio courses for grades K-5. More information can be found here: https://bit.ly/3UOmbdu

Add+VantageMR ® Fractions Course

Date: June 13, 20, & 27; July 13 & 25; August 1 & 3, 2023

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Math Recovery

Target Audience: Educators Grades PK - 5

Attendees will use diagnostic assessments and learning trajectories to guide the teaching of fraction topics. During this blended learning and practice-based professional development, participants work with students using the tools from the course to better understand students' current knowledge and how to help them advance. For registration and additional information, please go to http://bit.ly/41cgAjP

Data Science: Bootstrap

Date: July 24 - 28, 2023 in Grand Rapids, MI OR July 31 - August 4, 2023 in Marquette, MI

Facilitator: Bootstrap

Target Audience: Educators Grades 7 - 12

The MiSTEM Math and Computer Science Action Areas are bringing educators a comprehensive learning series to meaningfully integrate mathematics and computer science. This 5-day workshop series will equip educators with the ability to implement module based math lessons that capitalize on the modern digital tools that computer science offers to support effective and efficient teaching and learning. Educators will have access to FREE CURRICULUM RESOURCES to implement in the 2023-24 academic school year. For more information and how to apply please go to: http://bit.ly/40SE25g

Cereal City K-5 Curriculum Training

Date: August 1 - August 17, 2023

Location: Virtual

Facilitator: Cereal City Science

Target Audience: K-5 Science Educators

This training prepares teachers to implement Cereal City Science Units and provides educators with tools and strategies to turn the science classroom into a student-led environment of figuring things out. These 6-hour training sessions focus on teaching strategies associated with specific curriculum content of the grade level kit. Teachers explore investigations and activities developed to engage students in the practices that help them figure out phenomena and develop content knowledge. Dates vary based on grade level and focus area. Register here: https://forms.gle/a8FxG1WM9SzDzM837

Target Audience: Educators Grades PK - 5

Attendees will use diagnostic assessments and learning trajectories to guide the teaching of whole number topics. During this practice-based professional development, participants begin working with students to develop their knowledge and skills for day-to-day practice. The course focuses on foundational learning of whole number topics such as number words and numerals, structuring numbers, addition and subtraction, and topics that affect the development of future mathematical understanding. For registration and additional information, please go to http://bit.ly/41cgAjP

Add+VantageMR ® Course 2

Date: June 19 - 22 & June 26 - 29, 2023

Location: Virtual Facilitator: Math Recovery

Target Audience: Educators Grades PK - 5

Attendees will use diagnostic assessments and learning trajectories to guide the teaching of whole number topics. During this practice-based professional development, participants begin working with students to develop their knowledge and skills for day-to-day practice. Expand and deepen knowledge and understanding of the mathematical development for all students by implementing diagnostic assessments for multiplication and division and place value understanding. Prerequisite: Add+AdvantageMR Course 1. For registration and additional information, please go to http://bit.ly/41cgAjP

CS Discoveries and CS Principles

Date: July 24 - 28, 2023 in Grand Rapids, MI OR July 31 - August 4, 2023 Virtual Facilitator: Code.org

Target Audience: Educators Grades 6 - 12

TThe computer Science Discoveries and the the Computer Science Principles are nine day workshops available to any educator in Michigan. Participants will start the learning series with a five-day summer session and 4 days during the academic year. CS Discoveries is for middle school educators and CS Principles is for high school level educators. These are professional learning and high quality curriculum that covers the Michigan CS Standards. Scholarships are made available through the MiSTEM Network and funded by the MiSTEM

Coming Soon!

Preparing Your Campus for Higher Newcomer Enrollment

September 8, 2023

Rapid Literacy: Strategies for Newcomers Who are SLIFE

September 8, 2023

Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning: Fall Cohort (Self-Paced)

September 11, 2023 - January 31, 2024

New Teacher Network Community of Support

September 27, November 29, 2023; January 31 & March 20, 2024

Deep Dive and Share Fair: Culturally & Historically Responsive Instructional Coaching for Lesson/Unit Planning

October 12, November 16, & December 7, 2023; January 18 & February 15, 2024

Newcomer Educator Network

October 10, November 14, & December 12, 2023; January 9, February 13, March 12, April 9, & May 14, 2024

Implementing Disciplinary Literacy Practices for Secondary Instructional Coaches

October 12, 2023, January 18, & March 14, 2024

NGSx Training

Dates and Registration TBA

Molding Math Mindset Workshops

Dates and Registration TBA

Other Trainings Available Upon Request

ALICE Training

Date: Available by Request Time: 3 Hours

Location: WISD - TLC Facilitator: Sgt Eugene Rush

Target Audience: School Staff SCECHs & SW CEUs: Available

ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) Training is the leading program for response to violent critical incidents (VCI). VCI are man-made forms of violent disaster, including: active shooter, violent intruder, mass shooting, terrorism, workplace violence, and other unexpected tragedies. The mission of ALICE is to save lives – this training program empowers individuals to make their own survival decisions, using proactive response strategies, should they be faced with violence.

If you are interested in a personalized ALICE Training at your school building, please contact Jessica Carruba at jcarruba@washtenawisd.org.

Assessment Literacy and Continuous Improvement

Date: Available by Request Time: Various

Location: In-person or Virtual

Target Audience: Educators and Leaders

Want to see any of the following for your professional development?

Socially Just Assessment & Grading, Standards-Based Teaching & Grading, "Grading for Equity" Book Study, Formative Assessment in the Disciplines, Effective Feedback, Clarifying Learning Targets, Designing Effective Formative & Summative Assessments, Student Self/Peer-Assessment & Goal Setting, "Street Data" Book Study, Student-Centered Continuous Improvement, or Critical Collaborative Inquiry

Reach out to Amy Olmstead-Brayton at aolmstead@washtenawisd.org

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AND INFORMATION

Meet the Team

Washtenaw ISD Administration

1819 S. Wagner Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Naomi Norman Superintendent nnorman@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1300

Ashley Kryscynski Communications & Public Relations Specialist akryscynski@washtenawisd.org

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Melissa Cischke

Admin. Asst. to the Superintendent & Board mcischke@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1300

Serving

Website:

www.washtenawisd.org

Educational Equity Policy: www.washtenawisd.org/about-us/our-district/equity/

Cherie Vannatter

Deputy Superintendent cvannatter@washtenawisd.org

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Greg Peoples Ombuds

gpeoples@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1317

Kim Woods

Admin. Asst. to the Deputy Superintendent

kwoods@washtenawisd.org

734-994-8100 x1320

Meet the Team

734-994-8100

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