With Ellin Oliver Keene

Spoken interactions between teachers and students and among students are at the heart of learning. Our oral language is the model upon which students build as they learn to articulate their ideas, explore questions and explain their thinking, yet we don’t often stop to scrutinize our discourse with students.  In this seminar, we’ll explore ways in which we can make relatively minor modifications in our oral language patterns that will lead to significant changes in the sophistication of students’ discourse. We’ll investigate ways in which we can we encourage student talk that reflects their understanding of texts and concepts more accurately.

Participants will begin by discussing the Outcomes of Understanding, a set of markers that indicate whether students understand deeply. They will have an opportunity to view video of teachers who have made changes in their oral language patterns that lead to deeper understanding for students. In addition, participants will learn about an observation tool they can use with colleagues to analyze classroom discourse and will receive several tools students can use to reflect on their oral language interactions with other students.

The Seminar will be based on Ellin’s new Heinemann publication, Talk About Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Comprehension (Heinemann, 2011).

Seminar Location

Adams 12 Conference Center
1500 E. 128th Ave.
Thornton, CO 80241

Credit

• Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance to use towards CDE credit.

Cost*

Early-Bird Registration Rate:  $150 per person**
(through May 11, 2012)

General Registration Rate:  $175 per person**
(after May 11, 2012)

Lunch included

Please Note:   Receipt of registration form guarantees registration rate.  Payment must be received by May 4, 2012.

Text

Included with registration:
Talk About Understanding: Rethinking Classroom Talk to Enhance Comprehension (Heinemann, 2011)

*Prices subject to change

**a 10% discount is offered for teams of 6 or more

Lab Date: November 15, 2012

Participants MUST be registered for the associated Math Institute.

Enhance your experience at the PEBC Math Institute by participating in a PEBC Lab Classroom.  “Seeing is Believing” has been an essential tenant upon which PEBC has based its professional development for the past 28 years.  When teachers, coaches, and principals see excellent instruction in action, they have a better chance of envisioning what is possible, and developing goals for their work back onsite.  Along with the lab host and a PEBC staff developer, lab participants will spend the day observing in a classroom, followed by debriefing their observation, and reflecting on the implications for their own classroom practice.

2 PEBC Lab Classroom Options

Classroom options TBD

Credit

• Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance to use towards CDE credit.

Cost*

Early-Bird Registration Rate:  $195 per person
(through October 26, 2012)

General Registration Rate:  $215 per person
(after October 26, 2012)

Please Note:   Receipt of registration form guarantees registration rate.  Refunds must be requested one month before the institute start date.

*Prices subject to change

Expand and refine your Cognitive Coaching^SM Skills to promote more effective teaching and learning.

The Cognitive Coaching^SM Seminar is an 8-day training that is split into three sessions during the 2012-13 school year.

Days 1-2: Wednesday, November 7 – Thursday, November 8, 2012
Days 3-5: Monday, February 25 – Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Days 6-8: Monday, May 13 – Wednesday, May 15, 2013

During the 8-day training, participants will learn to:

• Focus on strategies that enhance teachers’ intellectual growth and strengthen instructional decision-making for planning, reflecting, and problem-resolving
• Build trust by developing physical and verbal rapport
• Facilitate thinking through questioning and greater precision in language
• Develop a person’s autonomy and sense of community by increasing his or her efficacy and self-awareness
• Distinguish between coaching and evaluation
• Practice coaching interactions that are congruent with a variety of styles

Seminar Location

Renaissance Hotel
3801 Quebec St
Denver, CO 80207

Cost*

Early-Bird Registration Rate: $980 per person
(through October 22, 2012)

General Registration Rate: $1000 per person
(after October 22, 2012)

OR

$150 per person per day

Credit

• Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance to use towards CDE credit.

Registration is limited; please register as soon as possible and confirm your status before making travel arrangements.

About Cognitive Coaching ^SM
Research indicates that teaching is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers.  Behind Cognitive Coaching^SM there is the belief that each of us has the resources to enable us to grow and change from within. Cognitive Coaching^SM is a set of strategies, a way of thinking and a way of working that invites self and others to shape and reshape their thinking and problem solving capacities. The coach is actually a mediator, one who figuratively stands between a person and his thinking to help him become more aware of what is going on inside his head.

About Paula Miller
During Paula’s 25 years of education experience, she was a middle and high school Language Arts teacher, a staff developer for an urban district, a regional service center consultant, and a Language Arts director. She is a licensed secondary teacher and holds principal certification. Paula is an Education Director for PEBC. She holds a BFA in English and Speech Communications from S.M.U., an M.Ed (Reading Specialist) from Murray State University , and received Principal Certification from post-graduate studies at T.C.U.

*Prices subject to change

Institute Dates: April 18-19, 2013

With Jeff Cazier and Wendy Ward Hoffer

The Institute will be co-facilitated by Jeff Cazier, Prairie Middle School science teacher and PEBC lab host and Wendy Ward Hoffer, PEBC staff developer.  Jeff earned his M.A. in Instructional Technology from the University of Colorado at Denver and has been teaching middle school science for 16 years.   He has been featured in the ASCD video Classroom Instruction that Works.  Wendy, author of Science as Thinking (Heinemann, 2009) earned her M.A. in Education at Stanford University, is a National Board Certified middle school math and science teacher, and teaches Science Methods for the Boettcher Teachers’ Program which prepares urban educators.

Institute Location
Location TBD

Credit

• Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance to use towards CDE credit.

Cost*
Early-Bird Registration Rate:  $465 per person**
(through April 8, 2013)

General Registration Rate:  $485 per person**
(after April 8, 2013)

Continental Breakfast and Lunch included

Please Note:   Receipt of registration guarantees registration rate.  Registration is limited; please confirm your status before making travel arrangements.

Lodging, air travel, transportation to and from the Institute, and all other meals are the responsibility of participants.  Information regarding hotel accommodations, location of the conference and methods of payment are included in the acceptance letter.

Refunds must be requested one month before the institute start date.

*prices subject to change
**a 10% discount is offered for teams of 6 or more

With PEBC Staff Developers: Wendy Ward Hoffer, Moker Klaus Quinlan, Rachel Rosenberg, & Angela Zehner

The PEBC Math Institute is an experiential opportunity for teachers at all levels interested in engaging and motivating learners to construct their own understanding of mathematical concepts. Participants will experience minds-on math learning first hand to springboard us into conversations about how to create similar experiences for learners. Sessions will emphasize standards-based instruction within a community of engaged thinkers.

Pair with the MATH LAB EXPERIENCE! Spend the day visiting a PEBC Math Lab Classroom.

K-12 Educators who attend this 2-day institute will:

• Experience problem solving in a constructivist context;
• Investigate how classroom discourse promotes thinking and understanding;
• Develop their skills at facilitating discourse and promoting student engagement;
• Learn how to foster student independence and how to confer with individuals about their mathematical thinking;
• See how to focus on overarching concepts to encourage students to draw forth thinking and understanding;
• Learn transferable instructional strategies to support students in their thinking and understanding.
• Understand how to support all learners by integrating comprehension strategies throughout math instruction

The Institute will be facilitated by an experienced team of PEBC staff developers and lab hosts: Wendy Ward Hoffer, Moker Klaus-Quinlan, Rachel Rosenberg, and Angela Zehner.  Wendy is a PEBC staff developer, co-facilitator of the PEBC science institute, and works with math and science teachers locally and nationally to promote student thinking.  Moker, a PEBC staff developer and clinical supervisor for the Boettcher Teachers’ Program, works with teachers across the content areas to promote teaching for understanding.  Rachel, a fifth grade teacher at Harrington Elementary and PEBC lab host, models best practices in math and literacy instruction every day.  Angela, a former middle school math teacher and PEBC lab host, now serves as assistant principal and instructional leader at Prairie Middle School.

Institute Location
Adams 12 Conference Center
1500 E. 128th Ave.
Thornton, CO 80241

Credit

• Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance to use towards CDE credit.

Text (included in registration fee)
Minds on Math Workshop by Wendy Ward Hoffer
(Heinemann, 2012)

Cost*
Early-Bird Registration Rate:  $415 per person**
(through October 26, 2012)

General Registration Rate:  $435 per person**
(after October 26, 2012)

Lunch included

Please Note: Receipt of registration guarantees registration rate.

Registration is limited; please register as soon as possible and confirm your status before making travel arrangements.

Lodging, air travel, transportation to and from the Institute, and all other meals are the responsibility of participants.  Information regarding hotel accommodations, location of the conference and methods of payment are included in the acceptance letter.

Refunds must be requested one month before the institute start date.

*prices subject to change
**a 10% discount is offered for teams of 6 or more

You’ll learn from seasoned staff developers and education experts while you participate in hands-on, interactive sessions featuring key topics relevant to your instruction. You’ll come away with an arsenal of ready-to-use, research-based strategies and best practices you can implement immediately.

In each PEBC Lab, participants will spend the morning observing the instruction and learning taking place in that classroom.  With the lab host and a PEBC staff developer, participants will spend the afternoon debriefing their observation reading professional literature, and reflecting on the implications for their own classroom practice.

In 2011-2012, PEBC lab opportunities:

Thinking Strategies Institutes 
Thinking Strategies Institutes are four-day institutes focusing on the research and instructional practices surrounding the seven cognitive behaviors of successful thinkers. Participants engage in shared learning, facilitated classroom observation, structured conversations and study groups, and ongoing reflection of current practices and desired goals.  Days 2 and 3 of the institute are PEBC Lab visitation days.

Customized Lab Visits
Arrange for your group to come to visit a PEBC lab.  Contact PEBC and let us help you customize your visit to meet your professional learning needs.

For more information please contact PEBC: 303-861-8661 or info@pebc.org .

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Colorado Convention Center

Four Seasons Ballroom

700 14th Street

Governor Bob Wise to Keynote Luncheon

Governor Bob Wise will be the keynote speaker at this year’s PEBC Annual Business & Education Luncheon.  Governor Wise is president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. He is author of the book Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation and chair of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Under Governor Wise’s leadership, the Alliance continues to build its reputation as a respected authority on high school policy by advocating for reform in America’s secondary education system and working to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared for college, careers, and to be contributing members of society. 

We have all long known that the high school dropout rate has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of our cities.  The Alliance for Excellent Education recently published The Economic Benefits of Reducing the Dropout Rate in the Nation’s Largest Metropolitan Areas, an economic impact fact sheet for every state and the District of Columbia, which shows the true impact of our students not graduating from high school. Lowering the high school dropout rate will greatly increase the economic vitality for some of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. The results shown in this report are part of the Alliance’s continuing work linking improved educational outcomes to economic returns.  The city-by-city findings include the growth in jobs, home ownership, levels of spending and investment, and car sales that will result from cutting the high school dropout rate in half.  Click to see the national impact of halving the dropout rate.  Click to see the impact on Denver.

At the luncheon, PEBC will present the Cal Frazier Investing in Education Award.  This award, begun six years ago, was designed to honor those members of the education and business communities who most embody a genuine and passionately held belief that the public education system is one of this democracy’s most valuable assets.  Check back here soon to see the award recipients.

For table sponsorship, contact Francie Miran at 303-861-8661 or fmiran@pebc.org

Deepening Understanding: Learn more about the role of comprehension instruction and literacy in the content areas

Thinking Strategies Institute is offered to:

• Superintendents, District Managers, Principals, K-12 Teachers, Staff Developers, and Literacy Coordinators
• Teacher participants are encouraged to attend with their principal or building/district leader

Thinking Strategies Institute participants will:

• observe extensively in a PEBC lab classroom where teachers emphasize comprehension learning;
• investigate comprehension instruction in grades kindergarten through twelve;
• discuss specific strategies to enhance comprehension in one’s own reading in a variety of texts;
• understand comprehension in relation to other essential elements in a literacy program, including the rituals and routines necessary for creating a literate classroom and community;
• explore staff development and assessment strategies to promote best practices in instruction;
• debrief observations with PEBC staff developers;
• consider examples of how leadership impacts instruction in literacy.

Institute Location
Renaissance Hotel
3801 Quebec St
Denver, CO 80207

Credit

• Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance to use towards CDE credit.

Registration Fee
Early-Bird Registration Rate:  $1,675 per person*
(through October 8, 2012)

General Registration Rate:  $1,700 per person*
(after October 8, 2012)

Registration fee includes:

• 1 PEBC book of participant’s choosing
• two breakfasts and four lunches
• transportation to and from schools

Please Note: Receipt of registration form guarantees registration rate.

Please register as soon as possible.  Space is limited and fills up quickly.

Lodging, air travel, transportation to and from the Institute, and all other meals are the responsibility of participants.  Information regarding hotel accommodations, location of the conference and methods of payment are included in the acceptance letter.  Refunds must be requested one month before the institute start date.

*Prices subject to change

Deepening Understanding: Learn more about the role of comprehension instruction and literacy in the content areas

Thinking Strategies Institute is offered to:

• Superintendents, District Managers, Principals, K-12 Teachers, Staff Developers, and Literacy Coordinators
• Teacher participants are encouraged to attend with their principal or building/district leader

Thinking Strategies Institute participants will:

• observe extensively in a PEBC lab classroom where teachers emphasize comprehension learning;
• investigate comprehension instruction in grades kindergarten through twelve;
• discuss specific strategies to enhance comprehension in one’s own reading in a variety of texts;
• understand comprehension in relation to other essential elements in a literacy program, including the rituals and routines necessary for creating a literate classroom and community;
• explore staff development and assessment strategies to promote best practices in instruction;
• debrief observations with PEBC staff developers;
• consider examples of how leadership impacts instruction in literacy.

Institute Location
Renaissance Hotel
3801 Quebec St
Denver, CO 80207

Credit

• Each participant will receive a certificate of attendance to use towards CDE credit.

Registration Fee
Early-Bird Registration Rate:  $1,675 per person*

General Registration Rate:  $1,700 per person*

Registration fee includes:

• 1 PEBC book of participant’s choosing
• two breakfasts and four lunches
• transportation to and from schools

Please Note:   Receipt of registration form guarantees registration rate.
Registration is limited; please confirm your status before making travel arrangements.
Lodging, air travel, transportation to and from the Institute, and all other meals are the responsibility of participants.  Information regarding hotel accommodations, location of the conference and methods of payment are included in the acceptance letter.  Refunds must be requested one month before the institute start date.

*Prices subject to change