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FULMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
WORKSHOPS at FULMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
During my year as a Math Instructional Coach at Fulmore Middle School, I presented to staff and parents. In two of my workshops, I co-presented with the ELAR coach, and created both PowerPoints that I have attached here. My co-presenter always asked that I start the powerpoints with my ideas as it helped give her direction, so I added content and ideas that we should share and left space for her to add her thoughts relating to ELA strategies.
STAFF WORKSHOP
In this workshop, I was asked to share information relating to DuFour's principles that I used while leading Math PLCs and how I incorporated his questions in my meeting documents that I created and used to take meeting notes and record PLC norms. These meeting notes were documented in real-time and teachers and admin were added to these grade related documents. Since the principal wanted other PLCs to use the same or a similar format, she asked that I also share expectations and information about these.
This workshop was also highly focused on representing learning and I wanted to ensure that participants/teachers generated their ideas so there was more buy-in and ownership of strategies. I shared an exemplar that I had on representing learning to inspire teachers to generate their own ideas and used their ideas to create the Fulmore's Representing Learning Artifact. I know that this was an impactful workshop because not only Math teachers, but teachers who taught different content areas focused more on having students represent their learning. Some students even created podcasts as one way to represent learning. Below, you will find the PowerPoint and pictures relating to the specific workshops and strategies shared.
This workshop was also highly focused on representing learning and I wanted to ensure that participants/teachers generated their ideas so there was more buy-in and ownership of strategies. I shared an exemplar that I had on representing learning to inspire teachers to generate their own ideas and used their ideas to create the Fulmore's Representing Learning Artifact. I know that this was an impactful workshop because not only Math teachers, but teachers who taught different content areas focused more on having students represent their learning. Some students even created podcasts as one way to represent learning. Below, you will find the PowerPoint and pictures relating to the specific workshops and strategies shared.
This is the presentation that I created on Google Slides and shared with my co-presenter to add her content. We were able to collaborate really well on our own time over the weekend. Click on the picture to access the PDF format of the presentation.
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Here is the infographic that I created using staff members' ideas and shared it with them in a Google folder. Click on the picture to access a larger view.
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I incorporated the talking chip activity that I used in my classroom to heighten discussion and ensure that everyone had the opportunity to share their thoughts. Teachers loved this activity!
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PARENT WORKSHOP- FULMORE
I presented to Fulmore's PTA and shared the strategies that I planned on incorporating while at Fulmore as well as the ways that teachers planned on using these strategies. Below, I have included the PowerPoint that I created to share my ideas with parents. The ideas I incorporated and shared were a pool of strategies that I gained during my 24 years in the classroom and from attending workshops across the U.S. as well as from my country of origin. As a former full-time classroom teacher and now a coach, my focus has always been to provide ALL students with a rigorous education that includes strategies such as literacy, representing learning, tracking data and more, in order to close the achievement gap.
I created this PowerPoint to share with parents. Along with the instructional strategies, I wanted to share my story and journey. Click on the picture to access a PDF version of this PowerPoint.
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A parent being provided with interpretation services. I love that our district provided this for Spanish speaking parents and hope that they will continue to provide this service for parents who speak other languages.
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This picture shows the parents who attended my presentation. I took it while the second presenter was presenting.
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NAPE EQUITY PRESENTATION
I was the lead presenter at a NAPE Equity workshop where my team presented on a SAGE Growth Conversations initiative that I led at Fulmore Middle School to incorporate NAPE and growth mindset elements, a passionate focus of my educational journey and teaching career. Being a part of the NAPE cohort, participants were required to implement and present a research study on NAPE elements. Since I am very passionate about growth mindset and it powerful effects, and I already had plans to continue with the growth conversations I started implementing in my previous coaching and teaching roles, I thought this was a perfect opportunity to do a research study on this topic. We had choice in presenting individually or as a group, and I was initially going to present this project on my own. However, just before the NAPE conference, the teachers I coached who were a part of the previous cohort asked if they could join my presentation. Another project was selected for them to be a part of, but they wanted to be a part of my growth mindset initiative presentation.
At the start of my research, I met with the assistant principal who was the leader of my NAPE 2018-2019 cohort to let him know of my plans. He was very intrigued by the idea and said that he would like to be a part of my growth conversation initiative. I spent countless hours after work designing and creating documents to implement this initiative as it reminded me of my Peer-Tutoring initiative that I piloted during my grad program. I met with the assistant principal and shared my ideas about us telling our stories and meeting with students as a whole group, then in smaller groups and then individually. To the right is the presentation based on the SAGE Growth Conversation initiative (named after my website) that I spearheaded at Fulmore. This is not the original PowerPoint that I created because it was decided that one of our team members would create a PowerPoint and transfer all of my information to it.
After the presentation, participants from other districts as well as the NAPE facilitators/organizers came up to me to say I did an awesome job. One person even said that "our district is always looking for talent, you should look into the jobs we have to offer". The teachers on my team thanked me profusely because they knew how much work I put into this project and wanted to give credit where credit was due. They also knew that they asked to join in last minute and I had already put together everything to present, and they were very thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this presentation.
I do not have pictures of the workshop or the participants, but there were many school districts in and around Austin that participated.
At the start of my research, I met with the assistant principal who was the leader of my NAPE 2018-2019 cohort to let him know of my plans. He was very intrigued by the idea and said that he would like to be a part of my growth conversation initiative. I spent countless hours after work designing and creating documents to implement this initiative as it reminded me of my Peer-Tutoring initiative that I piloted during my grad program. I met with the assistant principal and shared my ideas about us telling our stories and meeting with students as a whole group, then in smaller groups and then individually. To the right is the presentation based on the SAGE Growth Conversation initiative (named after my website) that I spearheaded at Fulmore. This is not the original PowerPoint that I created because it was decided that one of our team members would create a PowerPoint and transfer all of my information to it.
After the presentation, participants from other districts as well as the NAPE facilitators/organizers came up to me to say I did an awesome job. One person even said that "our district is always looking for talent, you should look into the jobs we have to offer". The teachers on my team thanked me profusely because they knew how much work I put into this project and wanted to give credit where credit was due. They also knew that they asked to join in last minute and I had already put together everything to present, and they were very thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this presentation.
I do not have pictures of the workshop or the participants, but there were many school districts in and around Austin that participated.