The 2015 Tennessee PTA Winter Training will feature the Amazing National Standards Race as teams from schools throughout the state compete to demonstrate their mastery of the PTA National Standards for Family School Partnerships for fabulous prizes.
The Fit KIDS program is designed to work as either a standalone assembly or as a year round fitness program. The assemblies are lead by Rick and Rocky Bonomo. The Bonomo brothers are two of the best clinicians in the country. Rick is a 3X NCAA wrestling champion and Rocky is a 2X All America and Former Head Wrestling coach at Lock Haven University.
Leveraging Back-to-School to Inform Parents about College- and Career-Ready S...Achieve, Inc.
As schools transition to higher, more rigorous standards, it is critical that parents are informed about what the transition means for their children, how tests (and homework) may look different, and what resources are available to help them be able to play an informed and supportive role in their students’ learning. On this webinar, leaders at the state and district levels shared concrete steps they took to leverage back-to-school to inform parents about the transition to College- and Career-Ready Standards. To ground the conversation in what parents are really saying about the standards and assessments, Michael Gilligan, Achieve’s Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, and Alex Bratty, a Partner with Public Opinion Strategies, a corporate and public affairs survey research firm, shared the latest research on what parents want to know about the transition to higher, more rigorous standards. Erin Hart and Christie Silverstein with Expect More Arizona’s Arizona Aims Higher Coalition then shared how this research propelled them to pivot from telling parents why the standards are important to informing parents about what is happening in classrooms and what they can do to help their students succeed. Throughout, speakers from the state- and district-levels shared best practices on how to engage parents and disseminate information and tangible resources that can be modified to share with parents. Related materials are at http://www.achieve.org/meetings-webinars
The Fit KIDS program is designed to work as either a standalone assembly or as a year round fitness program. The assemblies are lead by Rick and Rocky Bonomo. The Bonomo brothers are two of the best clinicians in the country. Rick is a 3X NCAA wrestling champion and Rocky is a 2X All America and Former Head Wrestling coach at Lock Haven University.
Leveraging Back-to-School to Inform Parents about College- and Career-Ready S...Achieve, Inc.
As schools transition to higher, more rigorous standards, it is critical that parents are informed about what the transition means for their children, how tests (and homework) may look different, and what resources are available to help them be able to play an informed and supportive role in their students’ learning. On this webinar, leaders at the state and district levels shared concrete steps they took to leverage back-to-school to inform parents about the transition to College- and Career-Ready Standards. To ground the conversation in what parents are really saying about the standards and assessments, Michael Gilligan, Achieve’s Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, and Alex Bratty, a Partner with Public Opinion Strategies, a corporate and public affairs survey research firm, shared the latest research on what parents want to know about the transition to higher, more rigorous standards. Erin Hart and Christie Silverstein with Expect More Arizona’s Arizona Aims Higher Coalition then shared how this research propelled them to pivot from telling parents why the standards are important to informing parents about what is happening in classrooms and what they can do to help their students succeed. Throughout, speakers from the state- and district-levels shared best practices on how to engage parents and disseminate information and tangible resources that can be modified to share with parents. Related materials are at http://www.achieve.org/meetings-webinars
Three Keys to Engaging Parent in Student Learningcatapultlearn
One of the objectives of all educational institutions is to nurture and cultivate parents’ engagement in the academic growth of their children. Teachers and administrators in faith-based nonpublic schools must make an added, deliberate effort to engage and support the parent role as the primary educator, especially since these parents have consciously chosen to send their children to a nonpublic school.
Presented by Dr. Ron Valenti
National Manager for Non-Public Schools
Catapult Learning
Parent Involvement In 21st Century SchoolsMary Johnson
Families, staff, community members and students all participate in developing families and students school friendly schools vision for student’s achievement.
Educators play an important role in recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect. But they also play a vital role in working to prevent maltreatment from ever occurring at all. Because of their unique leadership position in the community, educators can be the link to making meaningful connections with children, their families and the community.
This webinar will take a look at National Child Abuse Month and how educators can make a difference in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
View the recording at: http://www.schoolimprovement.com/resources/webinars/child-abuse-prevention-month-webinar/
Learn more online at http://www.schoolimprovement.com/child-abuse-neglect-prevention-month/
Symposium on Parent Engagement - Session 3 "How Family Engagement Impacts Stu...Schoolwires, Inc.
One of the nation’s leading experts in educational leadership and partnership shares critical findings from her extensive research on family engagement and how it impacts student achievement. Gain a deeper understanding of how to implement a capacity-building framework to engage families more effectively, and explore the specific components required to create successful family engagement initiatives.
Speaker: Dr. Karen Mapp, Senior Lecturer on Education – Harvard Graduate School of Education
Approximately 9 years after founding the Equality Charter School, executive director Caitlin Franco oversaw the school’s expansion to its current capacity of more than 600 middle school and high school students. Over the years, Caitlin Franco has helped curate a welcoming atmosphere at Equality Charter School that encourages parent involvement.
Schools that strengthen relationships with their students’ parents and guardians can reap the following benefits:
Positive environment: When parents feel accepted, it can lead to school and learning becoming a more central focus in the student’s household. Parents are also more likely to reinforce values and behaviors that contribute to a positive school culture.
Improved academics: Engaged parents also tend to communicate more readily with educators and support their children in reaching their learning goals. Parental involvement is also linked with attendance rates, a key factor for academic achievement.
Parent representation: While parents are directly impacted by most school policies, their opinions are often missing from essential meetings. Schools should make an effort to include parents in important decisions to ensure that all stakeholders’ needs are considered.
Three Keys to Engaging Parent in Student Learningcatapultlearn
One of the objectives of all educational institutions is to nurture and cultivate parents’ engagement in the academic growth of their children. Teachers and administrators in faith-based nonpublic schools must make an added, deliberate effort to engage and support the parent role as the primary educator, especially since these parents have consciously chosen to send their children to a nonpublic school.
Presented by Dr. Ron Valenti
National Manager for Non-Public Schools
Catapult Learning
Parent Involvement In 21st Century SchoolsMary Johnson
Families, staff, community members and students all participate in developing families and students school friendly schools vision for student’s achievement.
Educators play an important role in recognizing and reporting child abuse and neglect. But they also play a vital role in working to prevent maltreatment from ever occurring at all. Because of their unique leadership position in the community, educators can be the link to making meaningful connections with children, their families and the community.
This webinar will take a look at National Child Abuse Month and how educators can make a difference in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
View the recording at: http://www.schoolimprovement.com/resources/webinars/child-abuse-prevention-month-webinar/
Learn more online at http://www.schoolimprovement.com/child-abuse-neglect-prevention-month/
Symposium on Parent Engagement - Session 3 "How Family Engagement Impacts Stu...Schoolwires, Inc.
One of the nation’s leading experts in educational leadership and partnership shares critical findings from her extensive research on family engagement and how it impacts student achievement. Gain a deeper understanding of how to implement a capacity-building framework to engage families more effectively, and explore the specific components required to create successful family engagement initiatives.
Speaker: Dr. Karen Mapp, Senior Lecturer on Education – Harvard Graduate School of Education
Approximately 9 years after founding the Equality Charter School, executive director Caitlin Franco oversaw the school’s expansion to its current capacity of more than 600 middle school and high school students. Over the years, Caitlin Franco has helped curate a welcoming atmosphere at Equality Charter School that encourages parent involvement.
Schools that strengthen relationships with their students’ parents and guardians can reap the following benefits:
Positive environment: When parents feel accepted, it can lead to school and learning becoming a more central focus in the student’s household. Parents are also more likely to reinforce values and behaviors that contribute to a positive school culture.
Improved academics: Engaged parents also tend to communicate more readily with educators and support their children in reaching their learning goals. Parental involvement is also linked with attendance rates, a key factor for academic achievement.
Parent representation: While parents are directly impacted by most school policies, their opinions are often missing from essential meetings. Schools should make an effort to include parents in important decisions to ensure that all stakeholders’ needs are considered.
Most schools offer parent portals so families can monitor their student's performance and attendance. Often they don't spend time working with families to understand what to look for and what to do if they have concerns. This session explores how schools can work with families to better use the parent portals available and build relationships that empower families to address any concerns that arise.
The Health Consumers Council of Western Australia ran Patient Experience Week Events in April 2016. Uniquely these events were consumer driven, and drew together consumers, carers, community and service providers to celebrate and promote the importance of patient experience. It highlights HCC's services and the Recommendations from the Clinical Senate debate run in December 2015 entitled "The Patient Will See You Now - Moving Beyond Accreditation to the Patient Experience"
Talk given by Andrey Falko, Principle Software Engineer at Salesforce, at Jenkins meetup on October 2016
Salesforce has a very high security bar, especially around the path to production for software. Last year, we worked on an initiative to use Jenkins to deliver software securely and reliably to production. We will present our approach for seamlessly on-boarding new and legacy components into our service. We'll walk you through how we integrated Docker into our system to give users more control and to enable CD. As a bonus, we will also review into how we are fusing the above with our monitoring systems to allow for self-service deployments.
About: Andrey Falko is a Tech Lead in the Diagnostics, Visibility and Analytics Cloud at Salesforce. In his 7+ years at the company he has built and scaled CI systems for three different groups. Use cases have been large systems such as Salesforce's flagship CRM product, a virtual machine management system, and more recently, SOA components in the Salesforce Infrastructure Cloud.
From UI to UX: Building Ethnographic Praxis in a Usability Engineering CultureSalesforce Engineering
Talk given by Rebecca Buck, Lead UX Researcher at Salesforce, at Praxis Conference 2015 in October.
In this never before shared case study, we explain how our UX research team increased its scope of work from surface-level UI issues to a full portfolio of user-centered research. We use organizational ethnography and organizational change literature to develop a three phase model of research team growth. We then discuss the implications of our model for strengthening ethnographic praxis in cultures dominated by usability engineering. We conclude with a reflection on building internal bridges to facilitate change. Keywords: organizational change, UI, UX, research, ethnography, usability, lean.
“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.” (Poincaré 1914: 129)
The Director General of WA Health addressed the launch of Patient Experience Week. He spoke to the importance of compassionate care and outlined Recommendations from the WA Clinical Senate.
Talk given by Kate Bowerman, Joan Carter, Melissa Kulm, and Karen Marginot, at STC webinar on October 2016
Do you work in a different location than your team? Finding it difficult to get out of stealth mode as a “work in place” technical communicator? This workshop will change that. Four Salesforce remote writers will share their real-world success stories and tips for getting visibility and recognition as a full-fledged member of a global team. Also, they’ll discuss how to participate in corporate culture and build goodwill with your stakeholders across time zones and offices.
Trending Topic: It's All About Family Engagementreneelajackson
The trinity of family and community engagement is relational trust, promising practices, and compliance. It's time to rethink family and community engagement - moving from management and presentation of information to relationships and capacity building, as well as, helping families, communities, staff, and students learn together.
Alki is participating in National PTA's School of Excellence for the 2019-2020 school year. This presentation will provide information about the framework of family/school partnerships. The School of Excellence timeline and National Standards are also included.
This workshop will explore the barriers and opportunities within our schools and in our communities to building relationships and partnerships with our families. It is essential to engage family members in culturally responsive ways as partners in the healing process but the traditional methods of reaching families are not effective, especially for students and families experiencing trauma. Participants will hear personal stories, reflect on how our beliefs and practices impact families, and learn concrete strategies to engage and empower families.
Boosting School-to-Home Communication: Proven Strategies & TacticsSchoolwires, Inc.
Engaging parents and boosting school-home communications is a priority in Fremont School District 79 (IL). And creating the environment that celebrates collaborative practices is central to the district’s vision and promotes home-school connections! In this event, Dr. Gildea, Superintendent of Fremont Schools, shares how her district has implemented best practices in K-12 parent communications for future ready schools, addressed the challenges and hurdles to effective parent engagement via communication strategies, and juggled the many demands of preparing today's child for tomorrow's world. She also provides tested tips and tactics that work and that you can use today!
Bridging the Engagement Gap - Building Community Support and Involvement in Y...eBOARDsolutions
When schools, parents, families, and communities work together to support learning, students tend to earn higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school longer, and enroll in higher level programs. To ensure that the students of today are ready for the careers of tomorrow, families, schools, and community groups need to work together to promote engagement that is systemic, sustained, and integrated into school improvement efforts. Join Dr. Wanda Creel, Chief Academic Officer of Lee County Schools, FL as she outlines strategies for helping schools and districts build a set of day-to-day practices, attitudes, beliefs and interactions that support effective community engagement.
View the webinar in its entirety: https://bit.ly/2F4EuaV
The Literacy Rotarian Action Group, Rotary staff, and members of The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisers will highlight strategies for successful basic education and literacy grant projects: conducting a community needs assessment, working effectively with local Rotarians and resources, and monitoring and evaluating a projects success. Participants will share examples and discuss a variety of service areas, including primary and adult education, technology, teacher training, and resource improvement.
Learning
Learning can be defined in many ways, but most psychologists would agree that it is a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience. During the first half of the twentieth century, the school of thought known as behaviorism rose to dominate psychology and sought to explain the learning process.
The three major types of learning described by behavioral psychology are classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.
Behaviorism
Behaviorism was the school of thought in psychology that sought to measure only observable behaviors.
Founded by John B. Watson and outlined in his seminal 1913 paper Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It, the behaviorist standpoint held that psychology was an experimental and objective science and that internal mental processes should not be considered because they could not be directly observed and measured.
Watson's work included the famous Little Albert experiment in which he conditioned a small child to fear a white rat. Behaviorism dominated psychology for much of the early twentieth century. While behavioral approaches remain important today, the latter part of the century was marked by the emergence of humanistic psychology, biological psychology, and cognitive psychology.Classical Conditioning
Classical conditioning is a learning process in which an association is made between a previously neutral stimulus and a stimulus that naturally evokes a response.
For example, in Pavlov's classic experiment, the smell of food was the naturally occurring stimulus that was paired with the previously neutral ringing of the bell. Once an association had been made between the two, the sound of the bell alone could lead to a response.
How Classical Conditioning Works
Operant Conditioning
Operant conditioning is a learning process in which the probability of a response occurring is increased or decreased due to reinforcement or punishment. First studied by Edward Thorndike and later by B.F. Skinner, the underlying idea behind operant conditioning is that the consequences of our actions shape voluntary behavior.
Skinner described how reinforcement could lead to increases in behaviors where punishment would result in decreases. He also found that the timing of when reinforcements were delivered influenced how quickly a behavior was learned and how strong the response would be. The timing and rate of reinforcement are known as schedules of reinforcement.
How Operant Conditioning Works
Observational Learning
Observational learning is a process in which learning occurs through observing and imitating others. Albert Bandura's social learning theory suggests that in addition to learning through conditioning, people also learn through observing and imitating the actions of others.As demonstrated in his classic "Bobo Doll" experiments, people will imitate the actions of others without direct reinforcement. Four important elements are essential for effective observational
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This MS PowerPoint presentation shows the importance of teacher relationships to students, parents and other teachers and how it impacts upon students performance.
This session explores the research of Kathy Hoover-Dempsey to understand what factors need to be present to motivate families to be meaningfully engaged in their children's education.
Schools often have unintentional barriers to family engagement. This session explores some of the barriers we have discovered in conducting Family Engagement Assessments in the US and Australia.
There are 13 things families can do to support their children's education in meaningful ways. This session for the Iowa Family Engagement Symposium explores each of those strategies.
National PTA and Kindle are renewing their commitment to support increased family engagement in literacy efforts. This webinar provides an overview of the 50 Classrooms of Kindles donation, the Family Reading Experience, and a sneak peek at the Summer Reading Challenge National PTA will launch in 2015.
Family engagement is an effective strategy to increase student achievement and improve schools. However, many schools struggle with how to engage all families in meaningful ways. The National PTA Standards for Family-School Partnerships provide a framework for structuring and assessing family engagement. This session will explore how to use the National Standards strategies centered around arts education programs and activities to fully engage all families in their children’s education.
This presentation will introduce National PTA Smart from the Start grant recipients to Head Start. Grantees will partner with local Head Starts to implement the Energy Balance curriculum with parents of preschool aged children.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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3. Key Finding
Effective programs to engage families and
community embrace a philosophy of
partnership. The responsibility for
children’s educational development is a
collaborative enterprise among parents,
school staff, and community members.
(Henderson and Mapp)
4.
5. • Student achievement improves
• Teacher morale rises
• Communication increases
• Family, school, community
connections multiply
Outcomes of Family-School Partnerships
6. Standard 1
Welcome All Families
Goal 1: Create a climate that welcomes all families
Indicators:
• Developing personal relationships
• Creating a family friendly atmosphere
• Promoting opportunities for volunteering
Goal 2: Build a respectful, inclusive school community
Indicators:
• Respect all families
• Remove economic obstacles to participation
• Ensure accessible programming
7. Standard 2
Communicating Effectively
Goal: Sharing information between school and families
Indicators:
• Use multiple communication paths
• Survey families to identify issues and concerns
• Have access to the principal
• Provide information on current issues
• Facilitate connections among families
8. Goal 1: Sharing information about student progress
Indicators:
• Ensure parent-teacher communication
• Link student work to academic standards
• Use standardized test results to increase achievement
• Share school progress
Goal 2: Supporting learning by engaging families
Indicators:
• Engage families in classroom learning
• Develop family ability to strengthen learning at home
• Promote after school learning
Standard 3
Supporting Student Success
9. Standard 4
Speaking Up for Every Child
Goal 1: Understanding how the school system works
Indicators:
• Understand how the school and district operate
• Understand rights and responsibilities under federal and state laws
• Learn about resources
• Resolve problems and conflicts
Goal 2: Empowering families to support their own and other
children’s success
Indicators:
• Develop families’ capacity to be effective advocates
• Plan for the future
• Smooth transitions
• Engage in civic advocacy for student achievement
10. Standard 5
Shared Power
Goal 1: Strengthening the family’s voice in shared decision
making
Indicators:
• Have a voice in all decisions that affect children
• Address equity issues
• Develop parent leadership
Goal 2: Building families’ social and political connections
Indicators:
• Connect families to local officials
• Develop an effective parent involvement organization that
represents all families
11. Standard 6
Collaborating with the Community
Goal: Connecting the school with
community resources
Indicators:
• Partner with community groups to
strengthen families and support
student success
• Organize support from community
partners
• Turn the school into a hub of
community life
• Link to community resources
12. Let’s Get Ready to Race!
1. Form a team with five players.
2. Decide on a team name!
3. Select a team timer and a
team score keeper.
4. Write your team name on
your score sheet.
On your mark!
Get set!
Go!