GT Courses for Initial 30 Hours and 6-Hour Updates
Laughing Yourself Smart:
Creativity and Instructional
Strategies
Feeling So Right: Social and
Emotional Needs of the Gifted
Apart and Away: Differentiation in the Real World
Inside the Brainiac Brain: The
Nature and Needs of the Gifted

Pre-AP/AP Vertical Teams
Pre-AP/AP Vertical Work
Forethought:
PLCs in Action
Content Area Sessions

Literacy Academy
(by invitation only)
How to Conduct A
Guided Reading Lesson
How to give a DRA2 Assessment
Teaching Writing w/ Rubric
Book Study-Katie Wood Ray
LLI Kit Training

ABYDOS Writing Institute
Open Ended Response
Socratic Seminar
Interacting with Text
Holistic Scoring

Texas ASCD Elementary Academy:
"Rigorous Assessment Strategies for
Elementary Mathematics: Before,
During and After Instruction"
Math 2012 TEKS - Revised Focal
Points and Alignment
Math 2012 TEKS: What's New in . . . ?

Response to Curriculum Focal
Points Training
Texas ASCD Secondary
Academy: "Rigorous
Assessment Strategies for
Secondary Mathematics:
Before, During and After
Instruction"

Basics of STEMScopes
Digital Science Program
STAAR Science Grades 3-5:
Focus on Success
Science Inquiry Institute
ELPS Academy for Science
K-4 Science Academy

Reading with Science
Instructional Strategies for
Struggling Science Students
STAAR Science for Grades 6-8
Focus on Success
Science Academy for Grades
5-8
STAAR Biology Focus on
Success
Biology End of Course
Success
Flipped Science Classroom
Science Notebooking for the
Secondary Classroom
STAAR Chemistry Focus on
Success
Chemistry End of Course
STAAR Physics Focus on Success
Physics End of Course

Writing Across the
Curriculum
TCI History Alive Training
TCM Primary Sources and
Reader’s Theatre Training
Kindergarten Atlas Training
DBQ Training at Region XI

Economics Training with the Dallas
Federal Reserve
Mini-DBQ Writing Training- sign up through Region XI
Relevant Consumption of Political
Information and icivics.com
TCI Academy: Levels 1 and 2
(History Alive!, World Cultures Alive!, and World Geography Alive!)

Aware 101 - Basic Reporting
Aware 201 - Assessments
Advanced Forethought:
PLCs in Action
Advanced Forethought:
General Sessions

Interactive Content that
Supports the Curriculum
SMART Content Creation
Teaching with Tablets
EPALS
Edmodo
Storytelling in the
Content Areas
What's New with
Google?
Microsoft Office 365 --
Bringing the Cloud to the Classroom
Cooperative Learning
Formative Assessment using Technology
Google Chromebook &
App Store
Windows Tablets &
Marketplace
Project Share --Why am I hearing more about it?

Using CLASS to Write Standard-Based IEPs
Best Practices in Working with Students with Disabilities
Pathways to Literacy
Language Differences vs. Learning
Disabilities
Bilingual Institute
Boys Town Specialized Classroom
Management
Co-Teaching : Initial Training
Summer Speech Camp
Behavior Strategies that Work

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1. I can get out of the heat and into the cool!
2. I will increase my knowledge of planning for learning
3. I will get content knowledge that I can apply in my classroom
4. I can get a break from my kids who are home for the summer!
5. I will learn new strategies to make my classroom the hotspot for learning next year
6. I can collaborate with my brilliant colleagues
7. I can earn flex time to use next school year
8. I can earn my GT hours
9. It’s free! Why not?
10.The trainers are GREAT!