Title: Adding Rigor & Relevance Using Smart Centers (1 - day workshop)

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1 Title: Adding Rigor & Relevance Using Smart Centers (1 - day workshop) This workshop is one you won t want to miss! Come and gain knowledge of how to add rigor & relevance to your center time. Each Smart Center is aligned to the NEW Common Core Reading Standards, The Five Reading Components, Bloom s Taxonomy (Depth of Knowledge Levels), Dr. Gardner s Multiple Intelligences & the Content Area Requirements. These innovative centers encourage inquiry and meaningful experiences while integrating the content areas! Our Smart Centers are differentiated and include plenty of informational text that allows student to be highly engaged. Leave this workshop being renewed, re- energized and encompass a love for center time in your classroom! At the end of this workshop you will be able to write and create a rigorous Smart Center utilizing your own materials in your classroom. As you examine the samples our presenter brings; you will catch a glimpse of how Smart Centers can be effective and highly engaging for every student. An added bonus; you will also discover how to rotate, assess, hold students accountable and use formative and summative assessments during Smart Center time. In addition, you will learn how to rotate and create a Professional Learning Community that allows you to change your Smart Centers every 9 weeks! Come and be amazed! Make & Take (additional charge): Each participant will work in a group to create, write, and organize their own Smart Center (materials provided by the school). Title: Rigor & Relevance with SMART GUIDED READING! (1- day workshop) Come and be amazed at how simple Guided Reading can be through these effective, research based practical strategies. Based on exemplary practices used by high achieving schools, participants will focus on the critical elements of guided reading within the balanced literacy framework. Quick Write, Vocabulary, Making Connections, Word Work, Fluency, & Comprehension are the components that allow for differentiation and keeps the students

2 HIGHLY engaged! Come and view some of our BEST strategies for each of these components. Our Smart Literacy Guided Reading Bags are aligned to the New Common Core Standards, Content Area Requirements, The Five Components of Reading, and Bloom s Taxonomy (Depth of Knowledge Levels). You will leave this session knowing how to write and create a rigorous Guided Reading lesson utilizing your leveled readers (core curriculum), Time for Kids, Poetry, Fiction, Informational Text, and more! This workshop is a must if you struggle with engaged students, or highly effective Best practices during your guided reading time. An added bonus- you will get a glimpse of how to hold students accountable, create formative and summative assessments, and of course utilize materials in your own classroom! Make & Take (additional charge): Participants will write, create, and organize their own Smart Literacy Bag. Materials provided by the school. Title: Smart Writer s Portfolio- Essentials of Literacy (1- day workshop) No more morning work! This daily practical tool is a MUST in every Classroom! Based on research and effectively organized, this strategy meets the New Common Core Standards and Content Area Requirements. Discover how to engage every student in writing to improve vocabulary & comprehension. Boost your student s self esteem, allow for differentiation through the genres of writing and create your mornings to be delightful! Smart Writer s Portfolio is a compliment to your existing writing program. It is one of our most popular workshops. Thousands of teachers across the nation have boasted about this workshop saying, It is one of the most effective, easiest, and highly engaged practical writing tools yet! Participants will leave this session knowing how to boost students writing scores, create an effective tool for writing and add rigor to their morning work and morning message. Each

3 participant will leave being able to use the strategies immediately to improve vocabulary and comprehension. Title: Music & Research in Every Classroom! (1- day workshop) PLAYING MUSIC = Success! The research shows if we play music we stimulate the brain on multiple levels, assist students with comprehension, fluency, while building their vocabulary and bonus~ Music makes learning fun! Come to this invigorating, energizing session and discover how to incorporate music into your classroom on a daily basis and across ALL the content areas. This musical tool is one of the most popular strategies that assist teachers in improving literacy instruction, vocabulary, and comprehension no matter what grade or content area you teach! Participants will leave this session knowing how to add music to their classrooms. They will also learn how to create their own musical big books using music in their classrooms. Make & Take (additional charge): Each teacher will leave this session with their own musical big books to use with their students. Additional Materials provided by the school. Offered as a Key Note Session: LITERACY: ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES! You won t want to miss this engaging, dynamic, and practical Keynote Session! Discover and learn how to set up, create, and makeover YOUR classroom into a LITERACY rich environment! Gain the knowledge of how to design your classroom space into a research- based environment promoting Reading, Fluency, Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Student Independence. You will learn great tips that will allow for critical thinking and differentiation, as well as modification of

4 content and materials, to meet the needs of your diverse learners. Join April, and be renewed, refreshed, and re- energized! This session is sure to make you laugh and giggle as April shares real life experiences! Title: Classroom Demonstrations: Real time, Real students (1/2 day workshop) (THE MOST EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEACHERS CAN RECEIVE!) SMART SCHOOLS Training & Research presenter will model methods and strategies, using organizational systems, and implementing classroom management processes while teachers observe from the back of the room. Teachers watch the research based strategies in action with their own student population. This really is the BEST professional development! Participants will be trained how to pull small effective groups and implement a rigorous guided reading lesson using Quick Writes, Vocabulary, Word Work, Making Connection, Fluency, and of course comprehension. Teachers will gain knowledge of how to incorporate Bloom s Taxonomy of Higher Order Questioning and differentiate instruction in all areas including Center time using the Smart Centers. Teachers will view students working heterogeneously together in a rigorous Smart Center aligned with the New Common Core Standards and Depth of Knowledge Levels. As teachers examine the demonstration they will see students highly engaged, interactive, and building on the reading components: vocabulary, phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, and fluency. Students gain independence, achieve reading proficiency, build comprehension, vocabulary, and background knowledge, the essentials to reading! Teachers will discover how to give formative and summative assessments, hold students accountable, and watch students create quality products at higher levels! Classroom demonstrations are the key to success and a high adoption rate!

5 Title: Smart Model Classroom Makeovers: Putting It All Together! (1-2 days) Our Smart Schools team will arrive at the school and do a complete makeover on one of your classrooms! After consulting and interviewing with the chosen grade level and hearing the needs and requirements of their classrooms, we will design and construct a plan for the room. Each model classroom is designed to showcase all of the powerful teaching and learning strategies in real time for teachers. Teachers will learn how to organize, sort, and design the classroom space into a research- based environment promoting student independence. Each model classroom is transformed into a literature- rich, student- centered environment aligned to the New Common Core Standards. The set up includes: organization of guided reading, family time, calendar, Social Studies, Science, Art, Shared Reading, Independent Reading, Classroom Library, Writer s Workshop, and as a bonus- each makeover classroom will receive 10 Smart Centers (created with your school s materials), 5 Smart Literacy Bags using your classroom materials, and one Smart Writer s Portfolio as well as the editing pencils. Model classrooms include all tubs, baskets, labels, die- cuts, and items used for the makeover. You will be amazed at the transformation of this Smart Model Makeover!