Thinking Strategies Institute
(Fall 2024)
November 18 - 21, 2024
$1899 Early Bird / $1999 General
November 18-21, 2024
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver Downtown
1190 Auraria Pkwy
Denver, CO 80204
$1899 Early Bird* / $1999 General
*Early Bird pricing ends October 18. 2024
$1799 Group Rate (groups of 6+)
Email events@pebc.org for more details
In what ways might we provide tools that increase learners’ agency, equity, and understanding? Thinking strategy instruction gives learners the power to fend off confusion and persevere. It takes them from helpless hand-raisers to agentic meaning-makers!
The “Thinking Strategies” are rooted in the proficient reader research and are proven to be effective when explicitly taught. Thinking strategy instruction involves each strand of the PEBC Teaching Framework; planning for lifeworthy learning, cultivating thinking oriented classrooms, crafting student centered workshops, engaging students in meaningful discourse, and assessing along the way to adjust instruction to meet students' needs. In this institute, educators will experience how the thinking strategies support understanding across grade levels and content areas with an emphasis on how to explicitly teach, support, and plan for student agency, equity, and understanding. Participants will visit PEBC Lab Classrooms where teachers and students utilize thinking strategies on a regular basis and where the PEBC Teaching Framework from Phenomenal Teaching by Wendy Ward Hoffer comes to life. Thinking to learn, and learning to think!
Includes
- Certificate of attendance for CDE credit
- Lunch each day
- Two lab classroom days
- Transportation to and from lab classroom schools
- One PEBC professional book of your choice
Facilitators
Annie Patterson
PEBC Senior Director of Lab Networks
Dana Sorensen
PEBC Senior Director Client and System Services
Michelle Morris Jones
PEBC Senior Director of Professional Development Design
Hotel Accommodations*
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Denver Downtown
1190 Auraria Pkwy
Denver, CO 80204
303-705-7300
Click here for the special PEBC rate
*Rate available until October 18th
Lab Classrooms
See the Thinking Strategies and elements of the PEBC Teaching Framework in action across grade levels and content areas! Two days in a PEBC lab classroom are included as part of the institute.
In each PEBC Lab classroom, participants will spend the morning observing the instruction and learning taking place in that classroom. With the lab classroom host and a PEBC staff developer, participants will spend time debriefing their observation, asking questions, and reflecting on the implications for their own classroom practice.
Leadership Lab Option
If you are a school or district leader, we now offer an option to spend the second Lab Classroom day in a Leadership Lab. You will spend the morning in a lab classroom at a school that has developed systemic practices across grade levels and has nurtured many lab classrooms over the last several years. You will learn with other leaders how to initiate, support, and sustain quality instruction in all classrooms.
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Learning Objectives
Thinking Strategies That Serve As Tools for Understanding
Experience the power of the Thinking Strategies, and learn to create and scaffold intentional and varied opportunities for all learners to authentically apply thinking strategies as tools for comprehension.
Community That Fosters Agency, Equity, & Understanding
Experience the synergy of being part of a community of learners, and learn how to plan for agency, equity, and understanding by gradually releasing responsibility of learning to all students and supporting them as independent thinkers and learners in culturally sustaining ways.
Lifeworthy Workshops That Prioritize Student Engagement
Experience the workshop model, and learn how to plan workshops that integrate lifeworthy learning so that students can engage with content that has meaning beyond the classroom and connects to their lives.
Classroom Discourse That Promotes Academic Conversations
Experience the impact of discourse, and learn how to create a classroom community of learners who engage in lively discussion where learners capitalize on the perspectives of their peers in service of understanding and language development.
Assessment That Supports Progress
Experience a variety of formative assessment strategies, and learn how to incorporate formative assessment techniques to gauge student understanding and adjust instruction.
Keynote Speakers
Wendy Ward Hoffer, PEBC’s Senior Director of Content Development and Publications, believes that math education is an important lever for civil rights activism. She designs and presents professional learning for teachers at all levels and across the curriculum focused on creating learning opportunities that honor students’ thinking. Wendy, a proud nerd, is the author of five books on teaching for understanding and the co-creator of PEBC’s math and science institutes, as well as many of our newest online courses.
Prior to her work with PEBC, Wendy taught middle school math and science at Expeditionary Learning schools, where she earned National Board Certification. Originally from Los Angeles, Wendy is the daughter of an immigrant, attended Dartmouth College, and earned her masters degree in education from Stanford University.
Wendy loves to swim, sing in Sanskrit, crush the New York Times mini-crossword and, above all, spend time with her teenage children.
Ashlee Saddler is the District Support Chief for the University of Virginia, Partnership for Leaders in Education. Through UVA-PLE, Ashlee supports transformational school and district leaders as they work to strengthen, develop, and refine instructional systems to provide quality learning experiences for all students. Over the past 16 years, Ashlee has proven to be a successful leader and has served as a director, principal, assistant principal in the Aurora Public School district. Ashlee embodies hard work, dedication, and integrity while creating an infectious energy that drives others to be their best. Ashlee holds herself and others to high expectations, a value held throughout her career.
Ashlee earned Master’s Degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her doctoral studies at Baylor University. The focus of Ashlee’s doctoral research centered on leader development and she continues to be committed to developing others in a way that leverages their strengths and positions them to grow in their own practice.
In support of the larger educational community, Ashlee serves as the Senior Director of Leadership with the Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC). Additionally, through Ashlee’s consulting business, she facilitates leadership development to leaders in business, educational, and non-profit sectors. Ashlee enjoys public speaking, presenting to educators, growing and developing as a leader, and mentoring upcoming leaders.
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