K-5 Workshops with Shelley Lawrence

Recipe for a Successful School Year - workshops with Shelley Lawrence

All training is at no cost.  Open to members of the BJE Consortium.

Day 1- Creating A Classroom Community to Maximize Student Learning



Participants will:

• Take a deep dive into teacher language
• Learn the characteristics of powerful teacher language. 
• Understand the ways that teacher language shapes student learning.
• Explore how teacher language is a key component in creating a warm, engaging classroom community
• Explore the role that classroom rules play in creating a productive learning environment
• Explore one way to co-create rules with students
• Learn the characteristics of powerful classroom rules
• Leave with a structure for creating and teaching rules during the first 6 weeks of school.
• Morning Meeting as a powerful tool to create community

What is a Morning Meeting? Why take the time? What are the benefits? What is one possible structure?

 

Day 2- Classroom Organization That Promotes Student Learning and Independence



How teachers set up the classroom reflects:

• What we believe about children and community
• What we believe about how students learn
• Fosters independence 

Ways that classroom organization builds students’ executive functioning skills

• Participants will learn organizational strategies they can take back to their classrooms.
• Participants will learn how to arrange their classrooms to promote student agency.
• Using the environment as an additional teacher in the classroom
• Role of anchor charts to capture/reinforce student learning
• Tools in the environment to support student learning

Day 3 Student Engagement-Strategies to Engage Students From the First Day of School

• What is student engagement?
• What does it look like and sound like?
• Exploration of strategies that get all students engaged
• Turn and talk
• Clock partners
• Questioning techniques
• Teacher language

Teachers will leave with strategies to use on the first day of school.

UPCOMING

New Teacher Coaching/Mentoring Group–Teachers in their first 3 years as lead teachers

Meet monthly via Zoom (Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Jan, Feb, March, Apr, May) with Shelley Lawrence



Topics covered will be:

• Classroom set-up/first 6 weeks of school
• Difficult conversations
• Parent-teacher conferences
• Differentiation
• Supporting striving learners
• Meeting the needs of our strongest learners
• Parent communication
• Assessment

 To register please contact Marie Perez ([email protected])

For more information and location, please contact by email either Betty Winn ([email protected]) or Marie Perez ([email protected])