Building Affirming Learning Partnerships
Social-emotional health has long been a precondition for academic achievement. This need has been magnified by the cumulative impact of COVID-19, school closures, economic crisis, and persistent racial inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.  In this workshop, educators will strengthen their awareness and skills to embrace the whole child through social-emotional, culturally responsive, and healing-centered teaching practices, with a focus on building authentic relationships with all students and families.

Planning to Address Gaps While Maintaining the Bar
The pandemic has created and heightened inequities in education. Gaps in student learning could influence educators to focus too heavily on remedial teaching strategies at the expense of grade-level expectations. To advance equity, educators will explore tips on maintaining grade-level rigor when lesson planning, including building exemplars, anticipating challenges, and designing instructional scaffolds that support all students in accessing the content.

Accelerating Learning through Student Work Analysis
Looking closely at student work and analyzing it for strengths and growth trends is essential to good teaching. This workshop begins with intentionally considering the demands of the academic task, which serves as a foundation for all analysis. Then, teachers will explore strategies for collecting and analyzing student work, both in real-time and after class, to arrive at the most critical instructional next step.

Driving Instruction through Responsive Teaching
Many educators face the challenge of re-teaching material that students didn't grasp while also progressing through their curriculum. This workshop will focus on the art and structure of a responsive mini-lesson and the real-time instructional moves teachers can make to drive student achievement while maintaining grade-level instruction.

Supporting Students who are Multilingual in General Education  
The needs of multilingual learners are often underserved in the virtual and physical classroom despite the intentions of many teachers and school systems. In this workshop, educators will learn a range of strategies to support multilingual learners more effectively while improving access to the content for all students.

Supporting Students with Disabilities in General Education
School closures and hybrid schedules have made it difficult for schools to implement individualized education programs, thereby decreasing educational access for students with disabilities. In this workshop, general education teachers will leverage the Universal Design for Learning framework to design accommodations and modifications for students with IEPs and consider ways to use it to advance learning for all children.