Summer 2013 Secondary Professional Development
Math Sessions
HS Mathematics AP Courses – A Day with an AP Calculus Reader (6 hours)
This workshop will give participants a behind –the-scenes look at the AP Readings. During the annual readings, AP freeresponse questions are read by more than 11,000 college faculty and AP teachers from around the world. In these workshops,
participants will learn about the mechanics of the scoring process, the roles of the various contributors, and the steps to
ensure consistent grading. As part of this workshop, participants will engage in an AP Reading-style training, applying a rubric
based on a current free-response questions, and participate in a mock reading using the rubric.
HS Mathematics AP Courses – What our AP Diagnostic and Exam Data Says (3 hours)
Come discuss, analyze, and plan from the trends we see in our AP Diagnostic data and our AP Exam data. Join other calculus
and statistics teachers for careful analysis of our data and plan together how instruction will be impacted from the trends we
see in the data.
Secondary Instructional Coaches – The REFLECT and ACT of the CARA Cycle (6 hours)
Are you feeling as if your groups have no buy-in during your reflective conversations? Are you finding that your data is the
same every cycle? Are group actions shallow and nonproductive? Come join other ICs in the district to learn how you can
bring meaning to your reflective conversations. Learn how the actions of your groups can be the beginning of real coaching
that you want to do with individual teachers. This session is reserved for secondary instructional coaches who have completed
the Dana Center Instructional Coaching training.
HS Mathematics – Using Formative Assessment to Curb Retesting (3 hours)
There’s no better way to keep your numbers low in the retesting room than to take care of student misunderstandings in class
before they leave your room. Learn ways that you can assess where students are every day so that you can address their
needs and prevent them from having to retest after major assignments.
HS Mathematics – How do I use AWARE and AUTOSCORE to drive my instruction? (3 hours)
Learn how to use a variety of reports in AWARE and AUTOSCORE to help you analyze CBAs, find trends in your own data, and
identify strengths and weaknesses in your instruction. This session will be devoted to discussion topics related to data analysis
and ways to improve classroom instruction that will increase student achievement.
HS Mathematics Collaborative Planning (6 hours)
If you are dedicated to getting ahead in planning and staying ahead, join us for a day of best practices around collaborative
planning. This session is dedicated to teams of high school mathematics teachers who want to learn best ways to plan for
instruction that is based on the data and will keep you focused on student achievement. (Please attend with your content
campus team for best results!)
HS Mathematics – NEW TEKS Overview for Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II (3 hours)
Come learn about the future of our most basic mathematics courses – how the standards are changing, what that means for
our curriculum, and how we will fill the gaps as some standards move multiple grade levels. Join us for a careful reading of the
new TEKS and a discussion of where FISD math curriculum will need to go in the near future.
HS Mathematics - Bundling Math Content and Process SEs for STAAR (3 hours)
Many of the STAAR Math assessment items are dual coded. Process skill Student Expectations (SEs) can no longer be taught in
isolation. To prepare our students for STAAR, content SEs need to bundled with process skill SEs. In this 3 hour workshop you
will discover the need for bundling, see examples of bundled lessons, and learn how to bundle math content and process skills
in your lessons as well.
Targeted
Audience
Dates
Offered
AP Teachers
6/17
AP & PAP Teachers
7/30
ICs only (6-12)
6/18; 7/29
All Teachers
6/19; 7/31
All Teachers
6/17; 7/30
All Teams
6/21; 8/2
All Teachers
6/20; 8/1
All teachers
6/17; 7/31
Summer 2013 Secondary Professional Development
MS Mathematics - Dana Center - Middle School Math Problem Solving (12 hours)
Participants will explore problem solving as it appears in and connects to the state standards. Working with other participants,
teachers will examine and use a set of research-based strategies and tools to increase students' problem-solving skills. In
particular, participants will learn and practice questioning strategies that add complexity to problems and challenge students
to think critically about all aspects of a given problem.
MS Mathematics - Moving Forward with Pre-AP Math Problem Solving (3 hours)
Employers repeatedly say they look to hire people who are problem solvers. In a world of immediate gratification, how do we
teach perseverance and help develop students who routinely look for creative solutions? In this session, participants will
explore desired student behaviors related to problem solving and what can be done in the middle school Pre-AP math
classroom to promote the identified behaviors.
MS Mathematics - Middle School Math Stations (3 hours)
Learning stations have been proven effective at the middle school level for helping students master concepts in mathematics,
as well as providing opportunities for differentiation. This session will provide teachers with tools and strategies for designing
and implementing learning stations in mathematics at the middle school level.
MS Mathematics - Teaching Mathematics Conceptually (3 hours)
NCTM advocates that learning mathematics is maximized when teachers focus on mathematical thinking and reasoning. This
session will provide strategies and techniques for implementing conceptual based teaching in the middle school mathematics
classroom.
MS Mathematics - Wading into the New Math TEKS (3 hours)
With the many shifts and changes found within the newly adopted math TEKS, we need to be proactive as we move towards
the 2014-2015 implementation year. Teachers will receive and be given time to explore a Side by Side Comparison Document
(in-depth analysis of the current and newly-adopted TEKS for their grade level). In addition to looking at how this time of
transition will be framed in FISD, participants will examine possible consequences for students if the transition is not
implemented with integrity.
PAP teachers who
DID NOT attend this
training Summer
2011
8/1 – 2
PAP teachers who
attended Dana Ctr
Problem Solving
Summer 2011
6/17; 7/31
All teachers
6/18; 7/30
All teachers
Highly
recommended
6/18; 7/30
All teachers
6/19; 7/29
MS Mathematics - Targeting Instruction in MS Math Labs (3 hours)
In this session, participants will explore ways to identify and address individual student misunderstandings through researchbased tasks and activities. This course is recommended for all 2013-2014 middle school math lab teachers.
Math Lab and
Resource Math
teachers
Highly
recommended
Recommend 1
participant from
each grade level
team
6/20
MS Mathematics - Bundling Math Content and Process SEs for STAAR (3 hours)
Many of the STAAR Math assessment items are dual coded. Process skill Student Expectations (SEs) can no longer be taught in
isolation. To prepare our students for STAAR, content SEs need to bundled with process skill SEs. In this 3 hour workshop you
will discover the need for bundling, see examples of bundled lessons, and learn how to bundle math content and process skills
in your lessons as well.
6/17; 7/31
Summer 2013 Secondary Professional Development
ELAR Sessions
SpringBoard Initial Institute Days 1 & 2 (GT Update) (12 hours)
The Initial Institute is an extensive initiation to the SpringBoard Program. Areas of focus include: SpringBoard content, activities
and instructional tools, alignment to the College Board Standards for College Success as well as to the TEKS, and assessments
of student progress. This training prepares teachers to use SpringBoard materials in all aspects of classroom instruction with an
emphasis on 'backward design.'
SpringBoard Advanced Institute Days 1 & 2 (GT Update) (12hours)
The Advanced Institute provides a close examination of SpringBoard strategies and activities that help students meet rigorous
expectations in reading and writing. Participants examine how reading and writing expectations have shifted over time,
analyze the instructional shifts required by the TEKS, and apply Springboard reading and writing strategies (TP-CASTT, TWIST,
Lit Circles, and Effective Feedback) in both literary and nonfiction texts. Participants will analyze student exemplars using a
common protocol, and participate in modeling based on SpringBoard Writing Workshops and Prompts. Finally, participants will
explore how and why to teach grammar in context. Please plan to bring your Teacher's Edition and Online username and
password. Anyone who has taken the SpringBoard Initial 2-day Training and plans to teach MS ILA or HS English should enroll
in this 2-day course.
Writing Challenges: Strategies for Success! (6 hours)
We need student writers who view writing as a process, engage willingly in prewriting and revising activities, and employ a
range of writing strategies depending on the purpose of their writing. In this session, we will explore new ways to engage
students deeply in the writing process, including tips for writing conferences and revision activities. We will also learn highyield, research-based strategies that work with both struggling and stellar writers
Formative Assessment for Student Writing (6 hours)
The primary goal is to give teachers tools to make the process of providing writing feedback more student-centered, enabling
more time for writing practice for students and less paperwork for teachers.
Targeted
Audience
Dates
Offered
Necessary for all
teachers who will be
implementing
SpringBoard
curriculum for the
first time (all HS, all
MS Pre-AP, and all
ILA at phase-in
campuses)
Highly
recommended for
all ILA teachers
Highly
recommended for
all teachers who
attended the Initial
Spring Board
Institute last
summer
6/17-18;
6/19-20;
6/20-21;
7/29-30;
7/31-8/1;
8/1-2
Suggested for ELAR
teachers, especially
7th grade, English I,
II and III
6/17; 6/18;
6/20; 7/30;
7/31; 8/1
Suggested for all
ELAR teachers
interested in
increasing student
ownership in the
writing process
6/17-18;
6/19-20;
6/20-21;
7/29-30;
7/31-8/1;
8/1-2
6/17; 6/ 18;
6/19; 7/29;
7/31
Summer 2013 Secondary Professional Development
Social Studies Sessions
Targeted
Audience
Dates
Offered
HS & MS Social Studies Exam View & Aware (3 hours)
Come learn how to use Exam View and Aware in the social studies classroom. Teachers will learn how to build tests, score and
analyze data using both programs.
6/19
HS & MS Social Studies for Today’s Learners: Technology Integration, Deeper Content, and Effective Strategies (12 hours)
Designed to provide teachers with practical everyday strategies for implementing the flipped classroom in Social Studies.
Through thoughtfully planned interactive lectures participants will deepen their content knowledge. Technology facilitator
and classroom teachers will also introduce how technology has successfully been integrated into the classroom and provide
time to explore and plan your own lessons/strategies that can be implemented in the next school year.
Social Studies: DBQ (6 hours)
Come learn from the experts on how to implement document based questions into your social studies classroom. The DBQ
project presenters will show teachers practical steps to a successful program to increase students' ability to analyze primary
sources and develop document based essays.
6/20-21;
7/30-31
7 & 8 grade
teachers
7/29
Social Studies Out of District Offerings by Content Areas – Middle School & High School
Global Classroom
www.dfwworld.org
Choices- United Nations
www.dfwworld.org
Choices – Iran Through the Looking Glass: History, Reform, and Revolution
www.dfwworld.org
Choices – Human Rights
www.dfwworld.org
Texas History
www.region10.org
Hatton W. Sumners Institute on the Founding Documents
www.texaslre.org; $50.00 registration fee – returned upon completion of institute
Economics & US History
http://www.dallasfed.org/educate.cfm; $25.00 fee – covers breakfast, lunch and snacks
US History
www.region10.org
Economics & Popular Culture
www.dallasfed.org; $25.00 fee – covers breakfast, lunch, and snacks
World Culture &
World Geography
teachers
World Culture &
World Geography
teachers
World Culture,
World Geography,
World History
teachers
World Culture,
World Geography,
World History
teachers
Texas History
6/20-21
8th Grade US History
& Government
8th Grade,
Economics & HS US
History
HS US History
6/24-28
Economics
6/18 & 19
6/27
8/13
8/15
6/13
7/23&24
(hosted in Frisco)
6/13 - 14
Summer 2013 Secondary Professional Development
Health/PE Sessions
HOT Ideas for KOOL Secondary Physical Education! (6 hours)
This activity-based & conceptually-oriented presentation will share ideas that promote healthy lifestyles through healthrelated fitness activities as well as pedometers. Activities will span the components of health-related fitness as well as those
that promote the brain/body connection. Pedometers will be utilized to not only increase PA levels, but also reinforce math
and reading/writing skills all through physical activity
Secondary: NEW Ideas & Activities -- Improving the Quality of Physical Education (6 hours)
The objective of this course is to provide professional development for secondary physical education teachers to help identify
and discover innovative, meaningful strategies for improving quality physical education and enabling positive change through
sharing, collaboration, and networking.
Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (6 hours)
Now in its 13th year, the ADAP student curriculum has been taught to over 20,000 students in seventeen states and the
District of Columbia. Region 10 is collaborating with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to bring the ADAP training to
interested Region 10 schools. ADAP includes curriculum for secondary school students, a training program for campus staff and
health professionals, as well as a parent education component.
Current Trends in Substance Abuse (6 hours)
Discussion for secondary health teachers promoting healthy students/safe schools including Drugs 101, Alcopops, DEA talk
about prescription drugs, and drug testing.
Science Sessions
HS Science - Moodle Question-banks and Online Quizzes (6 hours)
Experienced Moodle users will get training in creating/uploading question item banks as well as creating and assigning online
quizzes for the science classroom. Time will be provided to work within your own Moodle site to implement gained skills.
HS Science - WAC and the Science Classroom (3 hours)
Come learn about how to use primary resources to promote writing in the science classroom. Various science-based sources
for articles will be shared, along with how to create writing prompts in order to implement the Assertion, Evidence,
Commentary model of writing into a science classroom.
HS & MS Instructional Coaches – The REFLECT and ACT of the CARA Cycle (6 hours)
Are you feeling as if your groups have no buy-in during your reflective conversations? Are you finding that your data is the
same every cycle? Are group actions shallow and nonproductive? Come join other ICs in the district to learn how you can
bring meaning to your reflective conversations. Learn how the actions of your groups can be the beginning of real coaching
that you want to do with individual teachers. This session is reserved for secondary instructional coaches who have completed
the Dana Center Instructional Coaching training.
HS Science - Flipped Classroom Applications in the Science Classroom (6 hours)
Come learn from teachers with experience in various flipped-classroom structures. See how they have implemented this
practice and what types of technology they have used. Time will be provided to use the technology to create something for
your classroom.
Targeted
Audience
Dates
Offered
PE
6/21
PE
7/30
Health
6/18
Health
7/29
Targeted
Audience
Dates
Offered
6/17; 7/29
6/18; 7/30
ICs only
6/18; 7/29
6/19; 7/31
Summer 2013 Secondary Professional Development
MS Science - Seeing R.E.D. in Science (6 hours)
Learn how to make the most of your RED Data Collectors with hands-on training guided by the FISD scope and sequence for
middle school science. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of how the RED Data Collectors work, and discover the multiple
applications for each sensor. Each workshop presents different lab activities using the RED Data Collectors, in addition to data
analysis recommendations and applications. After completing this training, you’ll be ready to confidently implement this
technology into your classroom in hands-on, inquiry-based activities.
MS Science - Subgroup Surprise (6 hours)
Every FISD student is a part of some subgroup. This workshop explores the needs of students by subgroup and how to gain
success with each group in order to lead our entire student population to increased academic achievement in science.
MS Science - Journaling 2: Extreme Journaling (3 hours)
Need some new ideas for journals? Schooled in Journaling 1? In this session, teachers will participate in hands-on learning of
how to take your journals to the next level. Topics covered will include overlays, journal foldables, student reflections, and
much, much more!
MS Science - Making Science Fair a Smashing Success (3hours)
Exploring practices and procedures to help make your campus science fair a success. Participants will discover best practices
for sharing requirements for the fair with the community, how to correctly instruct students and parents to complete required
paperwork, and be trained to effectively use the judging applications.
6/12*; 8/5*
6/26*
6/18; 7/30
6/17; 7/23*
G/T Modules will be held during the following weeks:
June 17 – June 21
June 24 – June 28
July 29 – August 2
G/T Updates will be offered through the GT Department and other departments throughout summer
professional development.