Unlock the full potential of your literacy block by designing and delivering high-impact small group instruction through strategically implemented literacy stations. This engaging and practical session will equip educators with tools, strategies, and systems to effectively differentiate, manage independent learning, and maximize instructional time in K–2 classrooms. Participants will explore how to create purposeful station rotations that support foundational skills, reading comprehension, writing development, and vocabulary growth while ensuring that all learners are challenged and supported. A dedicated portion of this session will focus specifically on aligning small group instruction and literacy stations for the Gifted. During this time, participants will examine how to elevate learning for advanced readers and twice-exceptional (2e) students through intentional differentiation, extension menus, and tiered tasks. Educators will leave with ready-to-use tools that promote depth, complexity, and critical thinking, all while addressing the academic and social-emotional needs of high-ability learners in the general education setting.
**This is a 2 Hour session!** Session Cap: 50 people
Elementary: Looking for a powerful way to differentiate while challenging all learners? Depth & Complexity Frames are the answer! These dynamic tools help students showcase their learning over time while fostering deductive and inductive reasoning. In this interactive session, you’ll collaborate with fellow educators to design your own frames and discover how they can create personalized learning pathways that promote deeper thinking and growth. Walk away with ready-to-use strategies to transform differentiation in your classroom!
Session Cap: 25 people Join us for an energizing session designed to reinvigorate your approach to phonics instruction while exploring the powerful role of decodable texts in supporting early readers. Whether you're looking to refine your instruction or explore new tools to support your students, this session will provide you with fresh ideas and actionable takeaways to elevate your phonics teaching utilizing our district-adopted resource Benchmark Phonics.
Session Cap: 25 people In this session, participants will learn to create and implement differentiated literacy stations that engage students in activities to develop reading, listening, speaking, thinking and writing skills. The session will allow participants to view examples of how individual and paired texts can be used to support literacy stations. Selected texts will be used to highlight social studies content while fostering critical thinking and literacy development. Through five hands-on learning stations, participants will have the opportunity to practice and apply key social studies concepts and build essential skills in literacy.
This session is designed for K-2 RLA teachers to explore the mClass progress monitoring system and effective intervention activities that support diverse learners, including gifted students. Participants will learn how to analyze mClass data to identify students’ strengths and areas of weakness and tailor instructional strategies accordingly. The session will provide activities that promote critical thinking and advanced problem-solving skills, ensuring that all students, including those who are gifted, are appropriately challenged and engaged.
Ready to take your PLC process to the next level? Join this action-packed session where we’ll dive into how to create dynamic flex groups and seamlessly integrate the MTSS framework in your K-2 classroom! You’ll discover fun, data-driven strategies for grouping students based on their needs—including our gifted learners—while providing personalized support that challenges every student and maximizes their growth. Learn how to collaborate effectively with your team and ensure all students, from those needing intervention to those ready for enrichment, get exactly what they need. Walk away with hands-on tools and strategies you can immediately implement to make your PLCs work even harder for your little learners!
We have created a resource bank of extension and enrichment activities for each unit. (Yes...every grade and content area K-2!) Join us as we explore the resources and then you'll have the opportunity to curate your own extension and enrichment YAAG for next year so you can roll into August with high-level, engaging activities ready to go!
Session Cap: 100 people Elementary: Discover how to challenge and engage all learners—especially gifted students—by using Depth and Complexity thinking tools and graphic organizers. In this interactive session, we will focus on creating engaging and easily differentiated lessons that you can use immediately in your classroom. We will collaborate to build a variety of graphic organizers that support deeper thinking across all subjects. Walk away with ready-to-use templates tailored to your students' needs!
Looking for a way to save time and streamline your science lessons in Savvas? In this K-2 session, teachers will model how to create efficient, editable playlists that reduce clicks and support team planning. Similar to a music playlist, a Savvas playlist is a curated sequence of lessons, Google Slides, resources, videos, assessments, and custom content—all organized in one place for easy sharing and access. You'll have time to build your own, digitally share with other campuses, and walk away with ready-to-use playlists for your science units next year!
We have created a resource bank of extension and enrichment activities for each unit. (Yes...every grade and content area K-2!) Join us as we explore the resources and then you'll have the opportunity to curate your own extension and enrichment YAAG for next year so you can roll into August with high-level, engaging activities ready to go!
We have created a resource bank of extension and enrichment activities for each unit. (Yes...every grade and content area K-2!) Join us as we explore the resources and then you'll have the opportunity to curate your own extension and enrichment YAAG for next year so you can roll into August with high-level, engaging activities ready to go!
