VASCD2024

Join us to explore a system that is designed to support striving readers, ensuring they receive top-tier literacy instruction and avoid slipping through educational cracks. Take a peek into a partnership between a large district and a mission driven nonprofit and the strategies and resources that empower educators to address the unique needs of students. Don't miss this opportunity to learn and ask questions about the collective effort of ensuring students receive the high-quality education they deserve.

Classroom management skills can make or break the classroom experience for teachers and students. In this fun, interactive session, learn practical, easy-to-implement strategies to increase structure, consistency, and calm while reducing misbehavior, stress, and wasted time. Explore simple, innovative ways to teach and reinforce key routines and procedures and learn to use consequences to invite cooperation instead of confrontation while you model respectful communication and teach accountability. Leave with your toolbox overflowing with ideas you can use tomorrow!

The integration of research-based self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies can positively impact learners across grade levels. Given that SRL is a mechanism for supporting students to develop individualized learning strategies (e.g., goal setting, planning, time management), this session will engage with participants as they (a) further build their understanding of SRL and (b) learn how to infuse SRL strategies in their instructional plans. Personalized SRL-based learning supports will be discussed along with strategies for immediate implementation!

You are invited to join us in building bridges toward fostering a restorative school culture that prioritizes belonging, empathy, and accountability. This session offers a comprehensive exploration of strategies and practices aimed at transforming school environments into nurturing spaces where both adults and students feel valued, supported, and connected. Participants will emerge equipped with actionable steps and tools to initiate and sustain a restorative school culture, fostering positive relationships, resilience, and community.

In today's ever-changing educational landscape, fostering a culture of innovation can be difficult when teachers are resistant to new ideas. This session tackles that challenge head-on, providing coaches and leaders with research-based strategies to breakthrough resistance and ignite a passion for continuous improvement. You'll delve into the "Four Levels of Teacher Resistance" and learn targeted approaches to reduce resistance for each level. In addition coaches and leaders will experience and practice tools that breakthrough the “Nine Forms of Resistance,” understanding how to reduce resistance with varying unproductive adult behaviors. By the end, coaches and leaders will have immediately actionable steps to support a collaborative environment that embraces innovation, builds teacher buy-in, and unlocks the full potential of your entire school community.