KIPP NYC Professional Development Day PREVIEW of Workshops

Workshop
Building Community Through Sign Language

Presenter
Perri Lawrie and Nichol Starr,
KIPP Infinity Elementary

Session Description
Come sharpen your nonverbal skills! We will explore how sign language as a shared language can build relationships amongst students, teachers, and families. You will learn a wide range of signs to use in your classroom and school community. So youve got a pretty strong classroom culture and your teacher-talk-to-student-talk ratio is looking pretty good? The next step is to ensure that youre truly engaging everybody in the cognitive work of your classroom. This session will show you how to improve your use of Cold Call, Wait Time, and Everybody Writes to systematically up the cognitive engagement and work of your students all your students. Why do my students make bar graphs when they should make line graphs? Why don't my students ever put the independent variable on the x-axis? What does a high-quality graph look like at 5th grade? 8th grade? High School? You will leave with tools to identify and remediate common mistakes in graphing, adapt a rubric for evaluating graphs at different grade levels, and brainstorm examples of labs/demos that provide excellent opportunities for students to practice graphing. This professional development workshop is dedicated to the integration of interactive learning activities into the upper elementary and middle school curricula. Participants are engaged in comprehensive hands-on activities that address the pedagogical use of interactive boards to create student-centered learning activities. Participants use the experience gained during the handson activity to generate lesson plan outlines for the use of interactive technology in the classroom to support a specific content area. Why should kids do research? What do we want them to get out of it? How should our approach to research change as students progress through the middle grades? And how can we be sure that technology is helping--not complicating--the process? We'll discuss an approach that allows us to keep our best practices front and center as we help students take advantage of Web 2.0 tools. In this visually interactive session, participants explore the theory of Flow and the 5 qualities which distinguish it from other positive states of experience; identify personal and school related experiences of Flow; and create a visual anchor to access a state of flow. This session will explore strategies for the successful retention and graduation of multicultural college students. Special attention will be paid to a model yielded from qualitative research that explored how social sources of selfknowledge influence the academic self-concept of high-achieving African American collegians.

Mayme Hotstetter, Engaging Everybody

Relay School of Education

Graphing: Getting Your (Science) Students Through the Gridlock

Brent Maddin,
Relay School of Education

Using Interactive Boards to Create Student-Centered Learning Activities

Steven Goss and Jeannie Crowley,

Bank Street College of Education

Reimaging Classroom Research in Grades 5 8

Shoshana Wolfe,
Bank Street College of Education

Flow, Baby, Flow

Mary Ashton,
People Works

Effective strategies for the retention and graduation of multicultural college students

Dr. Tara Williams,

Penn State University