Alaska Staff Development Network
Working Together To Make Schools Better
May 30 and 31, 2023 with online follow up work due June 28, 2023.
Join the Rev. Dr. Michael Oleksa, a leader in the development of cross-cultural communication in Alaska and student of Native cultures for Communicating Across Cultures, a three-credit, 500-level multicultural education course.
June 01 and 02, 2023 with online follow up work due June 28, 2023.
In Alaska Alive!, you will learn about Alaska’s history and the history of education in the state from one of Alaska’s most dynamic presenters. Explore the culture of the Native peoples of Alaska and the connections between the environment and emigrations.
PREPARING FOR THE FALL FORECAST
Science of Reading: Implementing with Intention
May 24, 25, 26, 2023
Downtown Hilton Hotel, Anchorage
Please join us for the 2023 Alaska School Leadership Institute (ASLI). ASLI is designed for leadership teams from rural and small schools, but school teams from anywhere in Alaska can participate. Our focus will be on planning for successful SOR implementation.
ELEMENTARY EDUCATORS: Registration is open for virtual and in-person spring workshops–no cost to you. One optional credit available. These workshops are designed for K-5 educators new to teaching computer science who want to explore how to begin teaching the CS Fundamentals curriculum.
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SECONDARY EDUCATORS: You don’t have to be a software developer to teach computer science! Our intensive and highly supportive summer professional learning programs are designed to prepare any secondary educator to provide high-quality computer science instruction.
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Presenters: Dr. Jo Boaler and Cathy Williams
Dates: April 5,12, 27, May 17
UPDATE: April 19th has been canceled and May 17 has been added
Time: 3:45-5:00
Credit: One optional credit available
Learn how to engage all students through open, in-depth and connected content!
Big Ideas raise individual standards to a higher level so that students can learn mathematics as a meaningful subject of connected ideas. This approach has been shown by research to engage secondary students and increase achievement and is the best approach for teaching heterogeneous groups of students.
Target Audience: Grade 6-10 educators.
Presenter: Catherine Whitcher
Dates: March 23,30 and April 6
Time: 3:45-5:15
Credit: One optional credit
Simplify Your IEP process and build compliant and meaningful IEPs with more confidence.
Join us for a Special Education Strategy webinar series that is designed to help you build IEPs that work in the real world to prepare every child for further education, employment, and independent living.
Target Audience: K-12 Educators, School Leaders, MTSS Teams
with Lexie Domaradzki and Shelby Skaanes
Dates: March 6,13,20,27
Time: 3:45 – 5:15 p.m.
Registration Fee: No cost
Credit: One optional credit
Registration opens in January.
Enhance your teaching of language comprehension with the Science of Reading.
The upper strand of the Scarborough Rope Model includes Background Knowledge, Vocabulary, Language Structure, Verbal Reasoning, and Literacy/Print Knowledge. In this webinar series we will focus on the role of many of these elements in developing skilled readers, engage with research, and provide guidance for classroom application to support effective core and intervention instructional practices.
Target Audience: Grade 3-12 Educators
Presenter: Dr. Judy Elliott
Dates: February 14, March 7, April 4, May 2
Time: 3:45-5:15
Registration Fee: No cost
Credit: One optional credit
Registration opens in January.
Where are you now? Where do you want to be? By when?
In this series we will explore data-based decision making, and the systems and infrastructures necessary to build the capacity for sustainable Multiple Tiers of Systems of Supports (MTSS) implementation. Move your team from collecting and admiring data to data-driven decision making.
Target Audience: K-12 Educators, School Leaders, MTSS Teams
Presenter: Heath Peine
Dates: February 13, 20, 27 and March 9
Time 3:45-5:15 p.m.
Credit: One optional credit
Registration opens in January.
Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement – if you get it right.
The key is, does feedback help someone understand what they don’t know, what they do know, and where they go? That’s when feedback is so powerful, but a lot of feedback doesn’t answer these questions—and doesn’t have the desired effect. Dive deeper into this core message of the Visible Learning research and switch the conversation from the giver to the receiver of the feedback message.
Target Audience: K-12 Educators
Presenter: Dr. Ruby Payne
Dates: February 8,15, 22
Time: 3:45-5:15
Credit: One optional credit
Registration opens in January.
Do you know what happens in the brain and the body that produces many of the emotional responses that you get from students?
This series focuses on the science behind emotions. Many of our current understandings of discipline are based upon a cognitive approach and ignore the science of emotions. Learn quick, practical strategies for helping individuals calm down and regulate their responses.
Target Audience: K-12 Educators
