TEPSA Presents: Member Webinars 2024
It’s All About That Group…Bout That Group…Small Grouping!
Kodi Wright, Carmen Dufrene, and Kara Callihan
At NHE everyone student in grades K-2 receive 3 thirty minute reading small group rotations every day in addition to their whole group instruction. This session will explain to you how we have used those small group rotations to turn our reading program around. It will provide you with details of how to group students, how we use data trackers and what we do during those small group instructional times to move each student to reading levels that exceed EOY grade level expectations.
Attendance Rocks!: Ideas for Implementing a Comprehensive Campus Attendance Plan
Christopher Stowe
Hear ideas of what did and what did not increase attendance from a principal who created a comprehensive attendance plan to increase daily attendance and decrease chronic absenteeism on his campus in his first year. Hear the story from initial goal-setting and research to implementation and success in leading the district in Average Daily Attendance and reducing chronic absenteeism by half.
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Building and Sustaining Campus Systems of Support
Nicole Johnston
Student discipline can take up so much time and effort, and can absolutely derail a campus. This session will focus on easy to implement systems that promote student to student, and student to adult connectedness that you can leverage into improved student behavior, strong campus culture, and overall positive campus climate. We will also follow up with Behavior SOS and MTSS systems to help sustain the positive culture you’ve created.
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid…We’re Spilling the “Tea”!
Melinda Peña and Wesley Sanchez
Teacher evaluations, parent phone calls, TIA, professional developments, data, and an inbox full of deadlines… together, these can be overwhelming for school administrators. The increasing demands for school leaders can easily shift our focus away from our teachers, yet they are the single, most important members on our team! We are spilling the “tea” on how you can inspire your teachers while embracing reality to keep them focused on serving students.
School leaders will leave with ideas to boost morale and re-energize your teams, a master schedule to support tiered intervention, and ways to receive staff feedback to sustain a culture of collaboration. Join us so we can fill your cup with ways to balance it all!
Put Me In Coach: How to Prioritize Instructional Leadership On Your Campus
Yolanda Delaney, Nicole Johnston and Kandi Kempf
Are you spending more time in your office than in the classroom? Join this session and learn how Canyon ISD has prioritized instructional leadership across campuses. We will share tips and tools to help you provide quality instructional feedback to your staff and grow your teachers. Walk away with ideas to manage your time, decrease discipline, and ignite your passion for leading instructionally on your campus.
Do Your Teachers Feel Appreciated?
Kathleen Eckert
Add up ARDs, 504s, state assessments, department meetings, staff development trainings, parent emails and conferences, and grading guidelines, and the sum total is that teachers are constantly being pulled in 20 different directions. On top of that, as much as administrators want to show appreciation to teachers, our hands are tied by financial guidelines and budgets. See how I make my teachers feel valued and appreciated through a variety of strategies that let my teachers know they are the best! Participants will leave with ideas to quickly and easily implement for little or no cost.
