July 10-13 - Edmond North High School One Class Cost: $300 Two Class Cost: $500 Four Day Class Cost: $500 Tuesday - Friday Methodology 2: PK-12 Tuesday - Wednesday Academic Make and Take x 4 Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies: PK-4 Calling ALL Specialty Teachers! What does GE Look Like for ME?: PK-12 Catch Them before They Fall: PK-2 Color Your World with Literacy, Math and Learning: PK-4 Discipline! Mastering Best Practices: PK-12 Engaging the Brain for Learner Success: PK-12 Fairy Tales, Fables and Myths, Oh My: PK-6 First Eight Days: 1-6 Games + Fun = Learning: K-12 Let s Get Literate: K-5 A New Look at Nursery Rhymes /Fables: PK-5 Reaching Reluctant Writers and Teaching Grammar Too: MS Wiggles to Word Champs: PK-5 Thursday - Friday Academic Make and Take x 4 Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies: PK-4 Calling ALL Specialty Teachers! What does GE Look Like for ME?: PK-12 Catch Them before They Fall: PK-2 Color Your World with Literacy, Math and Learning: PK-4 Discipline! Mastering Best Practices: PK-12 Engaging the Brain for Learner Success: PK-12 Fairy Tales, Fables and Myths, Oh My: PK-6 Let s Get Literate: K-5 More Games + Fun = Learning: 3-12 A New Look at Nursery Rhymes /Fables Another Dose: PK-5 Reaching Reluctant Writers and Teaching Grammar Too: MS NEW! The Vigorous and Rigorous Classroom: 2-6 Wiggles to Word Champs: PK-5
Thursday - Friday Methodology 2: PK-12 Instructor: Various This class offers a fresh look at all 17 practices and how to put the puzzle together in deeper implementation. The class will include more structures to easily implement into your instruction to improve not only your implementation of GE, but also enhance your overall instruction. Tuesday - Wednesday Academic Make and Take x 4 Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies: PK-4 Instructor: Ashley Watters Be ready to have the time and supplies to make and take items to use in your own classroom in the areas of language arts, math, science and social studies. The supplies will be available with lots of patterns and ideas to share. These items will help you in meeting state and national standards and your own classroom objectives. Calling ALL Specialty Teachers! What does GE Look Like for ME?: PK-12 Instructor: Sue Early In this class we will explore, discover and create meaningful avenues for each area of Specialty to use the G.E. Methodology. There will be hands on activities as well as a firsthand look at how this is done in each area. You will leave with a plethora of ideas and means in which to tailor all of the methodology to fit the needs of your venue of teaching. This will be an interactive and engaging class. Catch Them before They Fall: PK-2 Instructors: Michelle Hoelscher & Brandy Peters Benchmark, strategic, intensive, oh my! Data should never make you cry!! This class will be filled with common core lesson ideas, make and take activities, teaching strategies, and intervention lessons that will bring your data to life as you work to catch your students before they fall.
Color Your World with Literacy, Math and Learning: PK-4 Instructor: Debbie Flowers Areas of Focus: Literacy, Math, Critical Thinking and Integration Color Your World with Literacy, Math and Learning is a class that highlights the 17 Practices, through both domains: Academic Excellence and Culture of Respect. All activities are brainfriendly, creative and connected to grade appropriate standards. You will gain a deeper understanding of the practices, learn innovative structures which will increase learning and have many opportunities to make items and manipulatives you can use in your classroom. So join us this summer for a fun filled week of literacy, math and learning the GE Way! Discipline! Mastering Best Practices: PK-12 Instructors: Susan Early Investigate ways to set the ideal tone in your classroom through Positive Discipline, learn how the brain influences behavior, and examine classroom management strategies. This session will also give you an expanded understanding of the Seven Keys to Discipline, teaching methods based on Kohlberg s levels of intrinsic motivation, and techniques for dealing with the hard-toreach student. We will focus on teaching from the heart and being proactive with discipline techniques that stop misbehaviors before they become a problem. Come and develop ideas to put into your class the first day of school to make sure your classroom has a WIN/WIN atmosphere! Areas of Focus: Classroom Management, Differentiated Instruction, and Critical Thinking Skills. Engaging the Brain for Learner Success: PK-12 Instructors: Susan Early Participate in the eight most important ways to transition students brains for different kinds of learning. Eric Jensen s techniques for managing students states will be explored and practiced so you will be ready to take these tools back to your classroom and implement them immediately. Manage students emotional states and thereby achieve success in meeting your teaching objectives. Areas of Focus: Classroom Management and All Subject Areas. Fairy Tales, Fables and Myths, Oh My: PK-6 Instructor: Charrel Lenaburg We will dig deeper into the use of teaching with fairy tales, fables, and mythology in the early childhood and elementary classroom. We will share ideas on implementing, integrating and covering literacy standards through the use of storytelling, multimodal presentations and drama circles. Please bring along your own devices as we will also be integrating technology into our presentations.
First Eight Days: 1-6 Instructor: Chelsea Blackburn Start your school year off RIGHT with The First 8 Days. Come ready to get reenergized for the new school year and learn strategies to implement into the first two weeks of school that will revolutionize the way your classroom operates. Establish climate early, new ways to review rules and procedures, teambuilders, the GE Practice Implementation plan and more are in store! Games + Fun = Learning: K-12 Instructor: Trish Waller Do you have the TESTING BLUES? Don t let the pressure of testing ruin your LOVE of teaching. Learn how to make and use a variety of games to enhance the learning in your GREAT EXPECTATIONS classroom. Activities include Bingo, Tic Tac Toe, Jeopardy, and more! Adapt these activities to fit any subject at any level. Your students will be having so much fun they won t even realize they are learning. Participants are encouraged to bring their GREAT EXPECTATIONS Methodology Handbook to class. Areas of Focus: Critical Thinking, Differentiated Instruction, and Make & Take. Let s Get Literate: K-5 Instructor: Amanda Wilson This action packed make & take class includes: think clouds, reading notebooks, non-fiction walk and vocabulary poster (and more). All make & takes include a strategy that is tactile and easily implemented into any K-5 classroom. Come campout with us! Areas of Focus: Reading, Language Arts, Writing, Spelling with Adaptations for All Subjects A New Look at Nursery Rhymes /Fables: PK-5 Instructor: Lisa Whitwell This class presents easy and cheap cross-curriculum group projects and individual learning activities based from familiar nursery rhymes. Upper elementary students will enjoy the familiarity and exploring the rhymes from a different angle while younger students will be thrilled with the scientific magic. Teachers will appreciate the make and take experiments and ideas. Areas of Focus: Science, Math, Journaling and Higher Level questions through familiar nursery rhymes Reaching Reluctant Writers and Teaching Grammar Too: MS Instructor: Toni Hasenbeck All of our students may be expected to write about our subject area for standardized testing. All teachers should be reinforcing grammar skills in all subject areas. This class will be
helpful to math, science, social studies and Language Arts teachers. Be prepared to leave SI with writing assignments you can use in your class. Wiggles to Word Champs: PK-5 Instructor: Lisa Whitwell Run through an entire year s thematic curriculum, gain new insights on building vocabulary, increase higher level thinking skills, discover new books, and still teach to the variety of needs and learning styles in an early childhood classroom. Thursday - Friday Academic Make and Take x 4 Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies: PK-4 Instructor: Ashley Watters Be ready to have the time and supplies to make and take items to use in your own classroom in the areas of language arts, math, science and social studies. The supplies will be available with lots of patterns and ideas to share. These items will help you in meeting state and national standards and your own classroom objectives. A.C.T.I.V.A.T.E. Your Classroom!: 3-8 Instructor: Joy Osborne Focus: Common Core, teacher effectiveness in accordance to new evaluations, hands-on learning, music as a reading tool, technology, foldables, multiple meaning vocabulary, critical thinking, integration of contents, and comprehension. A: Academic achievement (test strategies and formative assessments) C: Comprehension (genres, nonfiction, task cards, reciprocal teaching) T: Technology (scavenger hunts, QR codes and more) I: Interactive note booking (organization, foldables, and reference skills) V: Vocabulary (academic and multi-meaning) A: Accuracy (monitor, prior knowledge, and Reader s Theatre) T: Tunes (using music to teach figurative language and fluency) E: Engage all learners through exciting new ways to learn Participants are encouraged to bring a flash drive to copy and save materials on and take back to the classroom and use immediately. Calling ALL Specialty Teachers! What does GE Look Like for ME?: PK-12 Instructor: Sue Early In this class we will explore, discover and create meaningful avenues for each area of Specialty to use the G.E. Methodology. There will be hands on activities as well as a firsthand look at how this is done in each area. You will leave with a plethora of ideas and means in which to tailor all of the methodology to fit the needs of your venue of teaching. This will be an interactive and
engaging class. Catch Them before They Fall: PK-2 Instructors: Michelle Hoelscher & Brandy Peters Benchmark, strategic, intensive, oh my! Data should never make you cry!! This class will be filled with common core lesson ideas, make and take activities, teaching strategies, and intervention lessons that will bring your data to life as you work to catch your students before they fall. Color Your World with Literacy, Math and Learning: PK-4 Instructor: Debbie Flowers Areas of Focus: Literacy, Math, Critical Thinking and Integration Color Your World with Literacy, Math and Learning is a class that highlights the 17 Practices, through both domains: Academic Excellence and Culture of Respect. All activities are brainfriendly, creative and connected to grade appropriate standards. You will gain a deeper understanding of the practices, learn innovative structures which will increase learning and have many opportunities to make items and manipulatives you can use in your classroom. So join us this summer for a fun filled week of literacy, math and learning the GE Way! Discipline! Mastering Best Practices: PK-12 Instructors: Susan Early Investigate ways to set the ideal tone in your classroom through Positive Discipline, learn how the brain influences behavior, and examine classroom management strategies. This session will also give you an expanded understanding of the Seven Keys to Discipline, teaching methods based on Kohlberg s levels of intrinsic motivation, and techniques for dealing with the hard-toreach student. We will focus on teaching from the heart and being proactive with discipline techniques that stop misbehaviors before they become a problem. Come and develop ideas to put into your class the first day of school to make sure your classroom has a WIN/WIN atmosphere! Areas of Focus: Classroom Management, Differentiated Instruction, and Critical Thinking Skills. Engaging the Brain for Learner Success: PK-12 Instructors: Susan Early Participate in the eight most important ways to transition students brains for different kinds of learning. Eric Jensen s techniques for managing students states will be explored and practiced so you will be ready to take these tools back to your classroom and implement them immediately. Manage students emotional states and thereby achieve success in meeting your teaching objectives. Areas of Focus: Classroom Management and All Subject Areas.
Fairy Tales, Fables and Myths, Oh My: PK-6 Instructor: Charrel Lenaburg We will dig deeper into the use of teaching with fairy tales, fables, and mythology in the early childhood and elementary classroom. We will share ideas on implementing, integrating and covering literacy standards through the use of storytelling, multimodal presentations and drama circles. Please bring along your own devices as we will also be integrating technology into our presentations. Let s Get Literate: K-5 Instructor: Amanda Wilson This action packed make & take class includes: think clouds, reading notebooks, non-fiction walk and vocabulary poster (and more). All make & takes include a strategy that is tactile and easily implemented into any K-5 classroom. Come campout with us! Areas of Focus: Reading, Language Arts, Writing, Spelling with Adaptations for All Subjects More Games + Fun = Learning: 3-12 Instructor: Trish Waller Are you and your students feeling the stress of TESTING? This fun and active class is just what you need to add some pizzazz to your testing preparation. Activities include Musical Chairs, Scavenger Hunt, Survivor, and more! Join Trish as she shares ways to engage students in learning as you implement the 17 GREAT EXPECTATIONS practices. You will leave with new activities to add to your testing bag of tricks. Participants are encouraged to bring their GREAT EXPECTATIONS Methodology Handbook to class. Areas of Focus: Critical Thinking, Differentiated Instruction, and Make & Take. A New Look at Nursery Rhymes /Fables Another Dose: PK-5 Instructor: Lisa Whitwell This class presents more nursery rhymes with easy and cheap cross-curriculum group projects and individual learning activities based from familiar nursery rhymes. Upper elementary students will enjoy the familiarity and exploring the rhymes from a different angle while younger students will be thrilled with the scientific magic. Teachers will appreciate the make and take experiments and ideas. Areas of Focus: Science, Math and Writing Reaching Reluctant Writers and Teaching Grammar Too: MS Instructor: Toni Hasenbeck
All of our students may be expected to write about our subject area for standardized testing. All teachers should be reinforcing grammar skills in all subject areas. This class will be helpful to math, science, social studies and Language Arts teachers. Be prepared to leave SI with writing assignments you can use in your class. NEW! The Vigorous and Rigorous Classroom: 2-6 Instructor: Chelsea Blackburn Get students moving and talking academically in your everyday lessons! This course will provide you with a plethora of ideas that are adaptable to most any content area. An emphasis will be placed on vocabulary and cooperative learning structures. Your bum will never be numb and your brain will be on fire with activities to get your students learning! Wiggles to Word Champs: PK-5 Instructor: Lisa Whitwell Run through an entire year s thematic curriculum, gain new insights on building vocabulary, increase higher level thinking skills, discover new books, and still teach to the variety of needs and learning styles in an early childhood classroom.