2016 Foxborough Summer Institute: Full Schedule

FOXBOROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND

OUR 2-DAY SUMMER INSTITUTE

TUESDAY, JUNE 28 & WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29

Foxborough teachers cost:

$35 for 1 day
$50 for 2 days

Outside Districts Cost:

$100 for 1 day
$150 for 2 days

Checks/Purchase orders should be made out to Foxborough Public Schools and mailed to FPS Summer Institute, 60 South Street, Foxborough, MA 02035. For questions please contact Amy Berdos, Assistant Superintendent at 508-543-1675.

When registering be sure to schedule your choice of one (1) Keynote for each day that you are attending, three (3) breakout sessions for each day, and your choice of sandwich for lunch!

9:15am EDT

Session I: ELL Alphabet (Tuesday)

Limited Capacity filling up

The purpose and scope of this workshop will be to introduce mainstream educators to WIDA and the increasing acronyms attached to teaching ELLs derived from this multi-state initiative. Specifically, participants will explore the WIDA.US website to become comfortable identifying ELL standards and supporting documents. We will examine the documents that are available for educators to download and integrate into their student management (grades PreK-12).

Speakers

James McAdams

Department Chair English Language Learners, Quincy Public Schools

I am a curious reader and enjoy the outdoors. I played men's league rugby and soccer before children got in the way :)

ELL Alphabet pptx

Tuesday June 28, 2016 9:15am - 10:45am EDT
Room 112

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

9:15am EDT

Session I: Engaging the African American and Hispanic Students in a White Dominant Culture (Tuesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Examine the values commonly held by members who identify with the main stream culture, African American Culture, and Latino/Hispanic Culture. Identify and develop strategies for effectively responding to cultural differences that have the potential to cause a breakdown in communication or negatively affect the progress and success of a student. This session also considers the impact of immigration on the student and his or family, and ways to address language barriers (grades PreK-12).

Speakers

Holly Geffers

Teacher - English, Foxborough High School

I love to read, run, bake, travel, and spend time with my family. I am very interested in learning about what people.

Tuesday June 28, 2016 9:15am - 10:45am EDT
Room 136

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

11:00am EDT

Session II: CCSS, WIDA ELD Standards, and MPI Integration into the SEI Classroom (Tuesday)

Limited Capacity filling up

The purpose and scope of this workshop will be to examine the relationship of CCSS and WIDA. We will examine Model Performance Indicators and (MPIs) and discuss how they can be integrated in to the educator’s classroom as support for the teaching of ELLs at various proficiency levels. Familiarity with WIDA ELD Standards will be helpful but not necessary (grades PreK-12).

Speakers

James McAdams

Department Chair English Language Learners, Quincy Public Schools

I am a curious reader and enjoy the outdoors. I played men's league rugby and soccer before children got in the way :)

Revised WIDA and the CCSS plus MPIs pptx

Tuesday June 28, 2016 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Room 112

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

11:00am EDT

Session II: Leveraging the Standards for Mathematical Practice to Support Struggling Learners (Tuesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Implementing the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice can seem like a daunting task. Teachers have many questions -- What does it look like when students are using the practices? How do I build them into an already packed curriculum? What about students who struggle in math, how do I ensure that all of my students develop the practices? This session will address those questions, offering a viable approach to placing the math practices at the center of math learning and doing for all students (grades K-12).

Speakers

Grace Kelemanik

Author of Routines for Reasoning, Fostering Math Practices

Grace Kelemanik has more than 30 years of mathematics education experience. A frequent presenter at national conferences, her work focuses on urban education, special populations, and teacher training. She is a former urban high school mathematics teacher and Project Director at Education... Read More →

Leveraging the SMPs Kelemanik pdf

Avenues of Thinking Tool pdf

Tuesday June 28, 2016 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Room 106

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Math, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Special Education, Elementary, High School, Middle School

1:15pm EDT

Session III: Connecting with your Middle Eastern, Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Students (Tuesday)

Limited Capacity filling up

Examine the values commonly held by members who identify with the Middle Eastern Culture, Asian Culture, South Asian Culture, and Southeast Asian Culture. Identify and develop strategies for effectively responding to cultural differences that have the potential to cause a breakdown in communication or negatively affect the progress and success of a student. This session also considers strategies for avoiding stereotyping and falling into "the single story" mindset (grades PreK-12).

Speakers

Holly Geffers

Teacher - English, Foxborough High School

I love to read, run, bake, travel, and spend time with my family. I am very interested in learning about what people.

Tuesday June 28, 2016 1:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 136

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

1:15pm EDT

Session III: Assessment of English Language Learners (ELLs): Evidence-based and Best Practices (Tuesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Participants will be introduced to ELLs and principles of second language acquisition. Patterns of expected performance of culturally and linguistally diverse children on cognitive measures will be discussed, with emphasis on degrees of cultural loading and linguistic demands. Use of assessment data to assist Teams in the determination of eligibility for special education services will be explored (grades PreK-12).

Speakers

John A. Santos

Tuesday June 28, 2016 1:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 116

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Special Education, Elementary, High School, Middle School

1:15pm EDT

Session III: Teaching Students to Read Like Mathematicians (Tuesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

One of the most frequent statements students make after reading a math word problem is “I don’t get it!”. One reason for this is that students read the problem like they would read any other piece of writing. It turns out that reading in math is different. Instead of reading to understand context, characters and conflict, mathematicians read for quantities and uncover relationships between those quantities to solve problems. In this session, participants will not only learn what makes reading in math difficult and what to pay attention to when reading a word problem, they will learn a powerful instructional routine, called the Three Reads, they can use to teach their students to read like mathematicians. This session is especially relevant for those SPED and ELL educators supporting student learning in math (grades PreK-12).

Speakers

Grace Kelemanik

Author of Routines for Reasoning, Fostering Math Practices

Three Reads FPS Kelemanik pdf

Three Reads Overview RfR pdf

Gas Task 3 Read docx

Tuesday June 28, 2016 1:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 106

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Math, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Special Education, Elementary, High School, Middle School

8:00am EDT

Keynote Choice: Instructional Practices that Improve Educational Opportunities of ELs (Wednesday)

Speakers

Dr. Michaela Colombo

Faculty Chair, Associate Professor, Leadership in Schooling, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Michaela Colombo is Faculty Chair and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She has worked with English learners and teachers of English learners for 25 years. She works in partnership with local school districts to provide... Read More →

Foxboro presentation colombo pdf

Wednesday June 29, 2016 8:00am - 9:00am EDT
Auditorium

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

9:15am EDT

Session I: ELL Alphabet (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

James McAdams

Department Chair English Language Learners, Quincy Public Schools

I am a curious reader and enjoy the outdoors. I played men's league rugby and soccer before children got in the way :)

ELL Alphabet pptx

Wednesday June 29, 2016 9:15am - 10:45am EDT
Room 112

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

9:15am EDT

Session I: Assessment of English Language Learners (ELLs): Evidence-based and Best Practices (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity filling up

Speakers

John A. Santos

Wednesday June 29, 2016 9:15am - 10:45am EDT
Room 116

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Special Education, Elementary, High School, Middle School

11:00am EDT

Session II: Engaging the African American and Hispanic Students in a White Dominant Culture (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Holly Geffers

Teacher - English, Foxborough High School

I love to read, run, bake, travel, and spend time with my family. I am very interested in learning about what people.

Wednesday June 29, 2016 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Room 136

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

11:00am EDT

Session II: Math…A Universal Language? (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, participants will engage in activities which will shift their mindset from American mathematical procedures and practices to one of a more multicultural outlook. They will grapple with a variety of mathematical representations thereby placing themselves in the mind of the learner. By embracing other mathematical representations, we can then understand the needs of our learners further and differentiate our instruction accordingly. After reviewing several differences in mathematics education throughout the world, we will then explore strategies that the presenter has found helpful in moving students towards language proficiency while harnessing their mathematics backgrounds to move towards computational fluency.
Participants will leave with several strategies to utilize in the mathematics classroom as well as a newfound respect for math in other countries. We will also share an intake assessment which will allow teachers to further educate themselves as to their students’ mathematical history (grades PreK-12).

Speakers

Julianna Pasetto

Math Teaching and Learning Specialist, New Bedford Public Schools

Yes! Those are all my kids! All seven! I have worn many hats in my career including a middle school math teacher, principal and math department head. I love to talk about math strategies, especially for students who are having trouble achieving proficiency and special populat... Read More →

Wednesday June 29, 2016 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Room 118

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Math, Elementary, High School, Middle School

11:00am EDT

Session II: CCSS and WIDA ELD Standards, and MPI Integration into the SEI Classroom (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

James McAdams

Department Chair English Language Learners, Quincy Public Schools

I am a curious reader and enjoy the outdoors. I played men's league rugby and soccer before children got in the way :)

Revised WIDA and the CCSS plus MPIs pptx

Wednesday June 29, 2016 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Room 112

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Special Education, Elementary, High School, Middle School

1:15pm EDT

Session III: Connecting with your Middle Eastern, Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Students (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

Holly Geffers

Teacher - English, Foxborough High School

I love to read, run, bake, travel, and spend time with my family. I am very interested in learning about what people.

Wednesday June 29, 2016 1:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 136

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School

1:15pm EDT

Session III: Assessment of English Language Learners (ELLs): Evidence-based and Best Practices (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

Speakers

John A. Santos

Wednesday June 29, 2016 1:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Room 116

ELL-SEI, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Literacy, Elementary, High School, Middle School | Special Education, Elementary, High School, Middle School

1:15pm EDT

Session III: Math…A Universal Language? (Wednesday)

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, participants will engage in activities which will shift their mindset from American mathematical procedures and practices to one of a more multicultural outlook. They will grapple with a variety of mathematical representations thereby placing themselves in the mind of the learner. By embracing other mathematical representations, we can then understand the needs of our learners further and differentiate our instruction accordingly. After reviewing several differences in mathematics education throughout the world, we will then explore strategies that the presenter has found helpful in moving students towards language proficiency while harnessing their mathematics backgrounds to move towards computational fluency (grades PreK-12).

Participants will leave with several strategies to utilize in the mathematics classroom as well as a newfound respect for math in other countries. We will also share an intake assessment which will allow teachers to further educate themselves as to their students’ mathematical history.

Speakers