January 2016
This winter and spring, sign up for a training from the SABES PD Center for ELA to learn something
new, refresh your memory and skill set, engage with other practitioners, and/or get some practical
work done on your ELA Scope & Sequence. As always, please check out our SABES ELA page for
resources, PD activity details, and registration (http://www.sabes.org/pd-center/ela).
TITLE &
Presenter
OVERVIEW
F2F Date &
Time
Explore the required components of the Scope and Sequence for Jan 20 (Wed)
English Language Arts (ELA), and the rationale for integrated ELA 9 am - 4 pm
Developing an instruction for ABE/ASE students. Develop one comprehensive
ELA Scope & unit outline and be well on your way to developing one level of Snow date 2/3
an ELA Scope and Sequence for a full academic cycle.
Sequence
Amy Trawick
10 PD hours: 1 day F2F [6] +Online Forum [2] + Webinar [2]
March 16
(Wed)
9 am - 4 pm
F2F
Webinar
LOCATION Date & Time
Malden Immigrant
Learning
Center
March 3rd
(Th)
10 am - 12
pm
Worcester May 10th
– QCC
(Tu)
1 – 3 pm
Snow date 3/24
ELA Scope &
Sequence
Working
Session
Revise/update/expand your existing ELA Scope & Sequence. NOT Jan 21 (Th)
for beginners, this is best suited for people who have taken one 9:30 am –
of Dr. Trawick’s trainings or conference workshops on Scope &
12:30 pm
Sequence.
Snow date 2/4
3 PD hours
Amy Trawick
& Lakshmi
Nayak
Malden Immigrant
Learning
Center
NA
March 17 (Th) Worcester NA
9:30 am –
– QCC
12:30 pm
Snow date 3/25
One of the key advances prompted by the CCRS, "Building
Knowledge through Content-Rich Nonfiction" plays a critical role
in students' ability to read and communicate
Building
proficiently. Examine a text set, discuss the design of the
Knowledge & coherently sequenced set of resources, and consider implications
for classroom instruction. Learn how to identify strong writing
Vocabulary
and speaking activities that will help students collect and
Rachel Etienne articulate their learning through authentic career and college
experiences.
March 11 (Fri) Lawrence – online forum
9 am – 4 pm
Northern
during March
Essex
2016
Community
College
March 21
(Mon)
9 am – 4 pm
Holyoke –
Picknelly
Center
online forum
during
March-April
2016
March 15
(Tues)
9 am - 4 pm
Fall River – May 5th (Th)
Bristol CC 10 am -12 pm
or
4:00-6:00 pm
8 PD hours: 1 day F2F [6 ] + Online Forum [2]
Designing
Integrated
ELA Units
Amy Trawick
In this hands-on training, participants will draft a full unit aligned
with the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) for
English Language Arts (ELA). The unit will be contextualized
within meaningful topics identified by the program's Scope &
Sequence and will integrate reading, writing, speaking, and
listening standards. Participation will be enhanced by attending
in program teams. NOT for beginners, this is best suited for
people who have taken one of Dr. Trawick’s trainings or
conference workshops on Scope & Sequence.
10 PD hours: 1 day F2F [6] + Online Discussion [2] + Webinar [2]
Snow date 3/22
March 18
(Tues)
9 am - 4 pm
Snow date 4/5
(choose one
time)
Cambridge May 5th (Th)
- TERC
10 am -12 pm
or
4-6 pm
(choose one
time)
TITLE &
Presenter
OVERVIEW
F2F Date &
Time
CCRS Reading Anchor 1: "Read closely to determine what the text Feb. 26 (Fri)
says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific 8:30 – 3:30
Close Reading textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions pm
drawn from the text."
& Text-
Dependent
Questions
Shira Cohen
How do we fulfill the expectations of the CCRS with struggling
readers, advanced readers and everyone in-between? Close
Reading can be extremely engaging, productive and confidenceboosting for the struggling reader and the experienced reader
alike. Follow-up will be provided for implementation guidance.
6 PD hours + 1 extra PD hour for those who take the webinar
Selecting
Appropriate
Text
John Strucker
The ability to read complex text is an important predictor of
college and career readiness, and helping learners master
complex text is at the core of implementing the College and
Career Readiness ELA Standards. Take part in hands-on activities
to explore the following areas: how to determine reliability, how
to use CCRSAE rubrics to analyze text complexity for
informational and literary texts, and how to help students tackle
text complexity at the word, sentence, paragraph, and whole text
level. This face-to-face training will be followed up with a
webinar.
F2F
Webinar
LOCATION Date & Time
Worcester - To be
QCC
scheduled
with
participants
Snow date 3/4
(Fri)
Last Close
Reading
opportunity this
academic year!
April 7 (Th)
9 am – 3:30
pm
Malden –
Immigrant
Learning
Center
To be
scheduled
with
participants
April 29 (Fri)
9 am – 3:30
pm
Holyoke –
Picknelly
Center
To be
scheduled
with
participants
8 PD hours: 1 day F2F [6] + Online Forum & Webinar [2]
Strategies for
Refining the
Art of
Teaching
Reading &
Writing
This full-day workshop includes three sessions:
March 30
(1) "Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction across the
(Wed)
Content Areas: Critical Skills for Student Success on the High 9 am – 4 pm
School Completion Tests and in College and Careers"
(2) "Help Your Students Increase their Writing Fluency"
(3) "Help Your Students Develop Two Critical Writing Skills:
Sentence Combining and Summarization".
Worcester - online forum
QCC
MaryAnn Corley 7 PD hours: 1 day F2F [6] + Online Forum [1]
April 1 (Fri)
Strategies for This full-day training includes two sessions:
(1)
"Help
Your
Students
Write
a
Constructed
Response
for
9 am – 4 pm
Refining The
Success in College and Career"
Art of
(2) "Differentiating Writing Instruction: Create an Environment
Teaching
that Supports ALL Learners in Becoming Successful Writers".
Writing
Holyoke –
Picknelly
Center
online forum
online
NA
MaryAnn Corley 7 PD hours: 1 day F2F [6] + Online Forum [1]
The Recipe for ONLINE, self-paced (3-4 hours), lightly facilitated mini-course
Success: the introducing the CCRS and the Three Instructional Shifts for ELA.
Journal Entries are required.
College &
Career
Readiness
Standards for
ELA
COMING
SOON !!!
Amy Trawick
Register at www.sabes.org/pd-center/ela