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 BETTER CALIFORNIA
TEACHERS SUM
TOGETHER 2015

WELCOME
#CATeachersSummit
#COEcsudh
7:00am Registration and Breakfast
9:15am Keynote Speaker #1 Yvette Nicole Brown
9:45am Local Ed Talk #1: Abdul Issa
10:00am Edcamp Model Overview (Kate Fisher)
10:25 -10:35am IDEA generation and BREAK
10:35am Edcamp Session I
11:10am Edcamp Session II
11:45am SMACKDOWN
12:00-12:45pm Lunch, Welcome – Afternoon
1:00pm Ed Talk Speaker #2: Jeanne Sesky
1:15pm Ed Talk Speaker #3: Brain Guerrero
1:30pm Stretch Break
1:40pm Keynote Speaker #2 Leland Melvin
2:00pm Call to Action Session
2:40pm Closure
2:45pm Operational Networking
Antonia
Issa
California State University

Lahera
Dominguez Hills, Director,
School Leadership Programs

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Dr. John
Davis
California State University
Dominguez Hills
Dean, College of Education

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 Abdul
Issa
Special Education
Department
Chair and Teacher

BRINGS TO
YOU
Connection, Community, Content

Connect
Connection,
Community,
Content
- Abdul Issa
abdulmissa@gmail.com
 [
[ Connection
Analyze our lives in order to identify our
basic human needs and express those
needs to others using strong emotional
vocabulary
 [
[ Community
Establish a safe, learning community
that values and empowers each of
our voices
 [
[ Content
Use a cycle of Praxis to engage with
our world in order to access the
curriculum and Standards of the
Common Core
 THANK YOU
Connection, Community, Content

- Abdul Issa
abdulmissa@gmail.com
Edcamp Model
Overview
Room A B C D
Part 1 – Connecing with Part 1 – Special Ed in the field Part 1 – Technology: When Part 1 – Collaborative
students Part 2 – Special Ed with you don’t have it Classrooms
Part 2 – Connecting with general Ed Part 2 – Technology: When Part 2 – The arts
Colleagues you do have it (best practices)

E F G H
Part 1 – Reading Part 1 – Questioning in Part 1 – Strategies to engage Part 1 – Addressing
strategies Pre K1 Common Core learners NexGen Science
Part 2 – The changing Part 2 – Assessment in Part 2 – Motivation / Standards
landscape of early Ed Common Core Resiliance Part 2 – Addressing CC
math

J K
Part 1 – ELD Dual Part 1 – Session 1 of “Things
Language that suck”
Part 2 – Reading for Part 2 – Session 2 of “Things
diverse learners that suck”

IDEA GENERATION
• Whoever is here are the right people
• Whenever we start is the right time
• Wherever we are is the right place
• Whatever happens is only what could have – so
be prepared to be surprised
• Law of TWO FEET – if you are neither
learning nor contributing move to a new space
• All important issues will be raised

OPEN
7 word description of
your topic
Facilitators will take notes
Edcamp
SESSION I
Edcamp
SESSION II
SMACK
DOWN
LUNCH
Dr. Jeanne
Sesky
Literacy Educator and
Educational Consultant and
Education Management

BRINGS TO
YOU
Five Practices to Boost Literacy in the Core

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Five Practices to
Boost Literacy in
the Core
- Jeanne Sesky
 ELA
Common Core
Learning
Standards and
Unit
Development
Zone of Proximal What I can’t do
Development
What I can do
with help

What I can do
 Qualitative Quantitative
• Levels of meaning or • Word length or
purpose frequency
• Language • Sentence length
conventionality & • Text cohesion
clarity
• Knowledge demands
• Structure

Reader and Task

• Reader motivation, knowledge, & experiences
• Task purpose, complexity, questions posed

Common Core State Standards for

English Language Arts Appendix A p.4
Life – It Can Be Laughable!
Find Something to laugh
about.

- Maya Angelou
 THANK YOU
Five Practices to Boost Literacy in the Core

- Jeanne Sesky
 Brian
Guerrero
President, Lennox Teachers
Association, ELA Common Core
Specialist, Lennox School District

BRINGS TO
YOU
Transforming Education through Teacher Leadership

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Transforming
Education through
Teacher Leadership
- Brian Guerrero
BREAK
CALL
TO
ACTION!
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