ELA/Literacy Summer Institute 2013

With Morgan Dunton and Lee Anne Larsen

Shifting Practices to Meet Common Goals

As implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts and Literacy continues, Maine Department of Education invites school/district teams to attend a two day event to explore transition issues and advance professional development plans.  Implementing the CCSS requires some shifting of curriculum and instructional practices. This two day institute, provided in three different locations, will provide teams with support to make these critical shifts.

Teams will learn:

• strategies for teaching close reading and developing text dependent questions
• strategies for teaching writing from sources and using evidence effectively
• methods of vocabulary instruction appropriate to context
• foundations of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) methodology

Team working time will be provided at intervals throughout the event.  Teams will be supported in using student data to set goals, beginning an inventory of assets, understanding integrated approaches to enhance capacity, and creating a work plan for continuing implementation preparedness.   14 contact hours will be awarded for participation in the two day institute.

Teams should consist of:

• a building administrator and/or a district administrator
• literacy/instructional coaches
• teachers from each grade span: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
• content/specialty teachers: special education, English language, all subject areas

Preference will be given to teams with at least three members and capped at ten.

Individual attendance is discouraged.

Teams must have a team leader and the team leader needs to participate in an orientation webinar on either May 21 or June 11 from 3:00-4:00.

Join us at one of these times and locations:

• June 25 & 26:  University of Maine at Presque Isle
• August 13 & 14: Jeff’s Catering, Brewer
• August 19 & 20: Ramada Inn and Conference Center, Saco

Cost:  $75 per person                                   
Registration at: http://www.maine.gov/education/lres/ela/elasummerinstitute2013.html

Designing a Standards-Based, Customized Learning Community

Sept. 9-10 & October 28-29

UMPI Campus Center

Sponsored by CACE

Featuring Bea McGarvey

Online Registration

Bea McGarvey is a Maine native who dedicated a 30 year career to Maine schools.  She has served in the past decade as a distinguished education consultant for more than 100 schools and districts, as well as state and federal education agencies, specifically in the areas of teaching and learning, leadership, and organizational development.  Currently, she is a partner in Total Leaders Associates and a senior associate at Marzano Research Lab.  McGarvey is co-author with Charles Schwahn of “Inevitable:  Mass Customized Learning –Learning in the Age of Empowerment.”

This training is designed for district/school teams up to 5 members.  Team registration fee of $1,675 CACE and $1,850 non-CACE covers four day training, materials and food service.  Additional members may register for $350 (single/non-team individuals $425).  If a school registers two teams, a third team or additional members are half price.

Designing a Standards-Based, Customized Learning Community:  A Consortium

Location:  UMPI Campus Center Multipurpose Room

Dates:  September 9-10 and October 28-29, 2013

Times:  8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration, Workhsop 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Purpose of the consortium:

• To present the customized Learning Vision for Maine Schools
• To increase the capacity of Maine educators to implement Standards Based Education

Outcomes:
Teams will increase their understanding of the components of true Standards-Based Education, specifically

• What the STRUCTURE looks like…
• What the CURRICULUM looks like…
• What ASSESSMENT looks like…
• What GRADING looks like…

Please register through the CACE website

Questions:   Please contact David Ouellette at 768-9590 or email at
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Space is limited to 100 participants.