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Jigsaw Learning Partners with Calgary Board of Education to Enhance Collaborative Response System-Wide
Jigsaw Learning has expanded its partnership with the Calgary Board of Education to deepen the implementation of Collaborative Response, focusing on onboarding resources, sustained support, resource development, and formative feedback to enhance collaborative practices across the school system.
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Master the Continuum of Supports Strategies for Success - Ep 50
Kurtis and Lorna discuss the utilization of a continuum of supports. Without clear strategies for using the continuum, it becomes 'a document that was created that one PD day'.
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Learning Forward Annual Conference - Collaborative Response: Every Child Deserves a Team
235 Learning Forward Annual Conference - Collaborative Response: Every Child Deserves a Team 2024-12-10 09:30:00 2024-12-10 14:45:00 #67aeebKurtis and Lorna are presenting at the Learning Forward Annual Conference in Denver, CO!
Feeling overwhelmed with the expectations being placed on teachers, leaders and educational systems to respond to the diverse needs of our learners? Are you wanting to take your PLC's and RTI efforts to the next level? Ensuring success for all students is a moral imperative for all schools, but takes a highly coordinated framework of structures and processes within a school to maximize the collective capacity of the team. Come learn about Collaborative Response, an organizational mindset that involves some fundamental shifts for schools and districts, such as layering collaborative team structures, transforming how we talk about student needs, focusing on students close to meeting expectations through thoughtful organization of data and evidence and ensuring tiering of supports rather than students. Simple shifts that emerge through a focus on Collaborative Response and the good news is that some likely already exist in your building! Numerous school and district examples, as well as access to a large number of resources, will be provided for school leaders wishing to join thousands of schools using Collaborative Response to ensure high levels of success for students and staff!
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North Central Teachers' Convention (NCTCA) - Stop Wasting My Time! Strategies for Effectively Facilitating Team Meetings
238 North Central Teachers' Convention (NCTCA) - Stop Wasting My Time! Strategies for Effectively Facilitating Team Meetings 2025-02-07 09:00:00 2025-02-07 10:00:00 #67aeeb Kurtis is presenting at the North Central Teachers' Convention (NCTCA)!!Stop Wasting My Time!! Strategies for Effectively Facilitating Team Meetings
Are you frustrated with productivity and impact when meeting in teams? Our time is precious so how do we ensure time spent together is maximized, whether engaging in PLC's, collaborative team meetings, staff meetings or any other meetings at your school? In this session, Kurtis will share specific structures and processes essential when engaging in collaboration, with multiple samples and resources shared. He will also present strategies for facilitators responsible for leading team meetings. Plan on leaving the session with some resources and strategies to impact your next meeting!
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North Central Teachers' Convention (NCTCA) - Intentional Use of Data to Guide and Inform the Collaborative Conversation
239 North Central Teachers' Convention (NCTCA) - Intentional Use of Data to Guide and Inform the Collaborative Conversation 2025-02-07 11:30:00 2025-02-07 12:30:00 #67aeeb Kurtis is presenting at the North Central Teachers' Convention (NCTCA)!!Intentional Use of Data to Guide and Inform the Collaborative Conversation
It is not unusual for schools to be data-rich, but information-poor, collecting reams of student data but not ensuring the effective utilization of the information to guide next steps. In this session, Kurtis will explore a number of practical and easy to implement strategies and considerations for school leaders looking to ensure intentional organization and use of data to truly engage teachers, teams and help guide timely, collaborative responses for students.
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Palliser District Teachers' Convention (PDTCA) - Every Child Deserves a Team: Layering Meeting Structures to Support the Whole Child
233 Palliser District Teachers' Convention (PDTCA) - Every Child Deserves a Team: Layering Meeting Structures to Support the Whole Child 2025-02-21 11:40:00 2025-02-21 12:40:00 #67aeebLorna is presenting at the Palliser District Teachers' Convention (PDTCA)!
Does it feel like you're talking about the same students over and over? Are you wanting to take your PLC's and RTI efforts to the next level? Do your team meetings lack the clarity and purpose you're looking for as a leader? In this session, Lorna will articulate, with multiple school samples and resources, the value of layering collaborative structures and processes within a school and how the introduction of a very intentional collaborative team meeting can work to respond to the needs of students collaboratively, while increasing the instructional capacity of everyone involved. In essence, schools reduce the number of meetings about students...by adding one more! By intentionally layering and connecting our PLC and RTI structures, we leverage and maximize the most powerful resource in any school for supporting the whole child - the teachers working within our building! Come learn what thousands of schools have learned about these purposeful collaborative structures and processes to ensure every student is supported by a team. Please ensure you have a device to access online materials through QR code or URL link.
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Palliser District Teachers' Convention (PDTCA) - Stop Tiering Your Students! Establishing, Refining and Utilizing a Continuum of Supports
234 Palliser District Teachers' Convention (PDTCA) - Stop Tiering Your Students! Establishing, Refining and Utilizing a Continuum of Supports 2025-02-21 13:00:00 2025-02-21 14:00:00 #67aeebLorna is presenting at the Palliser District Teachers' Convention (PDTCA)!
Over the past number of years, with the growth of tiered response systems in schools, educational organizations have become proficient at tiering students for intensifying levels of support. When done well, it ensures a systematic approach to supporting a greater number of students and maximizing resources. When not done well, it can lead to higher levels of support becoming overwhelmed and resources stretched thin as more and more students are identified as requiring intensified supports. The great news is there is a better way that comes when you STOP tiering students! This session will provide an explanation of the paradigm shift from tiering students to tiering supports and share considerations when establishing, refining and utilizing a continuum of supports in schools and districts that has long standing impact for teachers and students.
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