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- UDL: How to Provide Multiple Pathways to Personalize Learning - Crawford and Jeks
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Barriers Handout
Explicit Instruction Planning Graphic Organizer
Scenarios - Understanding Academic Language - Frances Ihle (00:59:47)
2015 SIM Conference -
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Understanding Academic Language is a learning strategy that can help students better comprehend content area textbooks. This strategy is needed because the writers of academic textbooks often use complex language structures that are very different from the everyday speech patterns with which students are familiar. Thus, many learners find academic text extremely difficult to understand. Built around the four-step TEXT Strategy, this manual provides a framework that teachers can use to convey this information. The six lessons outline the procedures for conducting the pretest and posttest, and the procedures and materials for teaching the TEXT Strategy. - Understanding Academic Language/Text Pattern Strategy - Frances Ihle, KUCRL (01:20:38)
2010 SIM Conference -
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A researcher and a practitioner collaborated to develop a new strategy designed to narrow the gap between text and reader. In this session, participants will learn about this strategy in the making, which teachers struggling readers how to decipher the language structures commonly present in content area textbooks. The presenter will share implementation data from a pilot and feedback from this session will guide further strategy development. - Unexplored Galaxies: Paragraph and Theme Writing - Schumaker 2010
- Unit Organizer Class Demo with Carmen Cantrell (01:23:00)
- Unit Organizer Classroom, Physical and Chemical Changes (00:04:59)
- Unit Organizer Overview Laura Friend - MS Science Teacher, Ferndale, WA (00:03:20)
- Unit Organizer: Map Critical Content, Identify and Sort Concepts (00:03:24)
Gail Cheever - Unit Organizer Routine - Sue Meyer, Sarah Davidson
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2021 SIMposium
Through use of the Unit Organizer Routine, teachers can "frame" a unit to enable students to understand the big picture of the unit. Use of the routine helps students understand how the unit fits within a course or sequence of units, see a method for organizing knowledge, define relationships among pieces of information, understand what they are expected to do, monitor their progress, and recognize what they have learned.
- Using and Extending the Strategic Math Series to Teach Rigorous Elementary Math Standards - Flores 2016
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presentation 2015
- Using Content Enhancement to Support Writing and Reading - Jan Bulgren (01:24:52)
2011 SIM Conference -
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Emphasis this session will be upon the many uses of CE devices, including as writing supports. Results of recent research will illustrate how students can use a Question Exploration Guide to write five-paragraph essays according to the 6-Trait Writing analysis guidelines. Research also will indicate the challenges students have in responding to questions requiring written responses. In addition, participants will consider uses of the Concept Diagram, the Concept Comparison Table, and the Concept Anchoring Table in writing responses. Previous research on the value of CERs to support note-taking also will be presented. -
Using Content Enhancement to Support Writing and Reading Comprehension - Jan Bulgren (01:07:32)
2010 SIM Conference -
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In this session, the emphasis will be upon the many uses of Content Enhancement devices, including as writing supports. Results of recent research will illustrate how students can use a Question Exploration Guide to write five-paragraph essays according to 6-Trait Writing analysis guidelines. In addition, participants will consider uses of the Concept Diagram, the Concept Comparison Table, and the Concept Anchoring Table. The presenter will offer suggestions for incorporating reading and comprehension strategy supports into CE instruction.
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SIM CE writing and reading supports - Using Gaming & Social Media to Enhance the Practice of Scientific Argumentation - Marilyn Ault, Jana Craig Hare, Amber Rowland (01:15:44)
2014 SIM Conference -
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Come play with us! Through the Reason Racer game, students practice the skills of argumentation including making claims that are supported by evidence and solid reasoning. Via social media, students utilize these same skills in authentic and engaging environments. Argumentation, reflected in both the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards, is an essential component for developing critical thinking skills necessary for students, scientists and all citizens to understand the world around them. This session will share classroom-based activities from two projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Student and teacher resources support planning, implementation, and evaluation activities primarily for the intermediate, middle, and high school levels.
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SIM14 Resources for the Practice of Scientific Argumentation Gaming and Social Media - Using Guskey’s Five Levels for Evaluating SIM PD - Sue Woodruff, Rosemary Tralli (01:35:31)
2005 SIM Conference -
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Effective evaluation can make or break implementation of a SIM program. Too frequently, educational leaders make decisions about programs such as SIM because student scores go up or down, without ever really knowing whether or not the program was the reason for the movement in students' scores. This highly interactive workshop will provide an opportunity for SIM PDers to explore all five of Guskey's levels of evaluation for professional development and to develop specific, practical methods for addressing them.
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Frame: Evaluation of SIM PD, 5 Critical Levels of PD Evaluation
Evaluating PD Survey July 2005 - Using Literacy Leadership Teams as a Driving Force During Times of Change - Amber Gilliam, Megan Lucas
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2021 SIMposium
This session will focus on the establishment, function, and change of one school’s leadership literacy team through the years. We will discuss the successes pre-pandemic and how the team has been a driving force for the school. Next, there were many adjustments and flexibility had to happen throughout this school year. Finally, we will address moving forward in how our team is helping to change our school culture and changes post-pandemic. Even though this will have a focus on a literacy leadership team, this can apply to ANY leadership team.
There are 2 different versions of our handout.
One is a PowerPoint slide
and the other is a Google slide. The Google slide will force a copy or the PowerPoint you can download and type on it or print.
You can find our session slide presentation here:
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Learning Lessons Along the Way
- Teacher led team
- Inclusion of all content areas
- Professional development decisions
- Team representatives
- Yearly goals
- Meeting format
- Goal setting
- Measurable targets
- Data collecting for decision making
- Using SIM with English Language Learners
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2018 KUCRL Learning Conference
- Using the SMARTER Instructional Cycle to Guide Collaboration in Inclusive Content-Area Courses (01:31:10) - Keith Lenz
2024 Northeast SIM Update Conference - Using Social Media in Professional Development - Aaron Sumner and Amber Nutt, KUCRL (00:55:53)
2009 SIM Conference -
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Podcasts, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and blogs make it easy to create and share content with others and to access content created by others. In this session, we'll look at ways "Web 2.0" technologies are being integrated into SIM professional development and provide tips on enhancing your own presentations and communications using social media. - Using Stories for Impactful Professional Learning
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2022 Florida Update - Janice Creneti
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Handout: Finding Your Personal Stories to Enhance Professional Learning
- Using Video Within Professional Learning - Jim Knight, KUCRL (00:52:03)
2013 SIM Conference -
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Microcameras such as iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Android phones and tablets may represent the single most significant change in the way professional development is conducted in schools in our generation. In this presentation, we'll explore how video might be used during many different approaches to professional learning, including teachers coaching themselves, coaches coaching teachers, administrators evaluating teachers, and teams learning about teaching practices.
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Using Video for PD (pdf)