DLC Coffee Chat Series

Grab your morning coffee and join us FRIDAYS at 8:30am CST for 15 minutes of timely learning and conversation.

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Determining EOY Student Progress

As part of our case manager closeout series, we'll be focusing on determining and communicating student progress data at the end of the year. We'll share a tool we love to use for this purpose and how you can adapt it for use with your own caseload. (Slide Deck)

 

Coffee Chat Archive

Support Successful Student Transitions

This time, we'll focus on tips, strategies, and tools for ensuring students are set up for success with their next case manager. Specifically, we'll dive into a resource you can use to share information with future teams. (Slide Deck)

Supporting Students with Dyslexia: Lessons Learned from virtual School

We focus on tips, strategies, and tools for ensuring your students with dyslexia have access to high quality learning opportunities. Anna Thorsen, both a dyslexia advocate and mom of a child with dyslexia, is our guest speaker. Together, we discuss lessons we've learned from virtual school and how to apply those lessons moving forward in our classrooms.

A Team Approach to Supporting Diverse Learners during Assessment

During this season of assessment, diverse learner teachers can support their students by providing their general education teachers with specific knowledge and strategies for support. This session will give some quick, effective, and high-leverage tips for engaging all teachers in the work of supporting diverse learners. (Slide Deck)

 

Building Reading Comprehension

Are you making a plan for closing your students' gaps in reading that have grown over the course of this year? One of the best ways to do this is to add strong reading comprehension strategies into lessons across all content areas. We discuss reading comprehension strategies that allow us to increase access to content material for our diverse learners. (Slide Deck)

Organizing and Analyzing Diverse Learner Data

After teaching a lesson and administering an assessment, then what? How can you take the information you've gathered and analyze it effectively? Join us as we review methods for organizing data, identifying trends, and determining next steps so that you can use your data to improve your diverse learners' outcomes. (Slide Deck)

Maximizing Small Group Intervention Time

This time we'll focus on ways to maximize small group intervention time, whether serving students virtually or in-person. We'll address ideas around working the clock, selecting and delivering content, and incorporating formative assessment. Join us for new ideas and ways you can ensure you are making the most of your time with your students. (Slide Deck)

 

Virtual Check In Check Out

Check in, check out (CICO) is an evidence-based intervention designed to support students who exhibit chronic, low-severity behaviors. Join us as we explore ways in which the intervention can be utilized during virtual learning to build relationships with students and help them maintain success in meeting their behavioral goals. (Slide Deck)

Accommodating a Lesson Plan for Diverse Learners

In this coffee chat, we will model the process of accommodating a general education lesson plan. We'll think aloud our process, identifying barriers, and embedded aligned supports to ensure that all students reach success. (Slide Deck)

Best Practices for Simultaneous Teaching

Are you teaching virtual and in-person students simultaneously? This time, we'll focus on tips, strategies, and tools for doing this effectively including building connections with students and families, working the clock, and building systems to ensure all students access the learning opportunities they need to succeed. (Slide Deck)

 

Supporting Sensory Needs in the Virtual Classroom

This time, we'll focus on tips, strategies, and tools for supporting sensory needs in the virtual classroom. Students with sensory challenges may continue to experience these challenges in the remote learning environment - but how do we support them without being physically present? We'll explore a variety of ideas to help us do so. (Slide Deck)

Co-Planning Practices for All Teachers

Teachers often have little time built into the day to collaborate with colleagues. So, how can we maximize our time together to increase student learning? We review three co-planning practices you can facilitate with your team to design instruction that better meets your students' needs. (Slide Deck)

Tracking Language Development

We focus on measuring language development of our multilingual learners to ensure they are on track for optimal growth. It's important to create and track language goals for our emergent bilinguals to inform our teaching practices and ensure supports are individualized and effective. (Slide Deck)

 

Virtual IEP Meetings, Revisited!

Due to remote learning, many of us have adapted to holding IEP meetings virtually - a challenge that was once brand new! Now as the semester comes to a close, we have an opportunity to reflect on what's working and what could be improved. We'll provide strategies that will increase meaningful team member participation while ensuring that IEP content is communicated effectively to all. (Slide Deck)

Engaging Learners with ADHD

We focus on tips, strategies, and tools for engaging our students with attentional challenges. Whether virtual or in person, you'll walk away with strategies you can apply to support your leaders with ADHD. (Slide Deck)

Alexa, how do I build skills for independence?

We’ll discuss how tech tools, such as Alexa, can increase student speech, help them manage their own schedule, get tips for a class project, or even set reminders for class jobs. Join us and get creative ideas for how you can use tech tools to build your students' independence in 2021! (Slide Deck)

 

Leveraging Paraprofessionals in Supporting Behavior

We'll focus on ways we can leverage our paraprofessionals to support positive behaviors. As we transition back into buildings or in our efforts to continue virtual instruction, our paras play an important role in ensuring our students feel safe and successful. (Slide Deck)

Using a Goal Matrix to Extend Student Learning

We'll discuss the why, what, and how of using a Goal Matrix. This tool will guide your planning process for incorporating authentic opportunities to practice IEP and ILP goals, communicating with families, and even managing the never ending modes of data collection. (Slide Deck)

Juicy Sentences: A Comprehension Strategy

Juicy Sentences offer students a way to access a text, zooming in on meaning while connecting ideas to broader themes. Walk away with some ways to engage your students in this strategy, whether virtual or in-person! (Slide Deck)

 

Strategies for Planning Math Intervention

The most common question we get about math intervention is: WHERE DO I START? There are many competing priorities for content, it’s difficult to know how to begin. In this week’s chat, join us for a discussion of how to start, where to start, and how to keep in going in line with student math needs. Walk away with ideas for how to structure your time to get the most out of math intervention. (Slide Deck)

Systematic Reading Intervention in Virtual Settings

We know we can really move the bar on teaching students to read with systematic reading intervention. But what does this specific type of intervention look like when delivered virtually? Join us for a discussion of ways to do this in keeping with what we know makes these programs successful! (Slide Deck)

Increasing Writing Opportunities for ELs in the Virtual Classroom

Building writing skills is one of the most important ways to build overall language proficiency, but supporting multilingual learners to practice these skills virtually is a challenge. Join us for a discussion about strategies we can use to get students writing, even when we're not physically with them! (Slide Deck)

 

Using Tasks Boxes in the Virtual Setting

Task boxes are a great way to engage students even when you’re not present with them. Make sure to join us to learn about what task boxes are, how we can use them in person, and how they might support our students to meet their goals during distance learning! (Slide Deck)

Virtual Co-Teaching

Co-teaching services are now being provided in the virtual environment. How can we leverage this model of service to drive our students' learning and success? Join us for a quick discussion on Virtual Co-Teaching Power Moves to move us beyond meeting minutes and into authentic student learning. (Slide Deck)

Equipping Families as Learning Facilitators

Families are now in the front seat of learning and taking on many new roles as "learning facilitators." We know that engaging families will mean increased success for students... but what do they need to know and do to best support their child? And through what means can we equip and empower them in this new role? Join us to discuss! (Slide Deck)

 

Virtual Behavior Supports

How can you promote positive behavior during remote learning? Join us for this quick chat for tips, strategies and tools to do just that... and what to do to get back on track when it's a challenge! (Slide Deck)

Virtual Progress Monitoring

We need up to date data on what our students can do in order to create plans for learning. How can you monitor progress with accuracy and efficiency during remote learning? Join us for a quick chat as we discuss tips, strategies, and real life examples of how to conduct virtual progress monitoring. (Slide Deck)

Bridging the EL Assessment Gap

Without spring data, we'll need to find new ways of understanding our learners' needs. We discuss tips, strategies, and tools for bridging the English Learner assessment gap. (Slide Deck)

 

Engaging families first.

School is starting and now is the time to prioritize connecting with families. How do we do communicate early and often? How can we ensure families of diverse learners are empowered as partners? Here are several tools to support your work. (Slide Deck)

Virtual IEP meetings.

Holding IEP meetings virtually is a new challenge for most of us. Listen in on this short chat, full of ideas and resources for effective IEP meetings held in virtual settings. (Slide Deck)

Student well being.

How can we support student well being during school closure? Join us for a discussion full of ideas and resources for doing this well. (Slide Deck)

 

Executive functioning.

How can we support our students' development of valuable executive functioning skills remotely? Takeaway from useful strategies, tips, and tools from this 15 minute power session. (Slide Deck)

Remote speech support.

Listen in on our conversation about supporting students' speech and language development while school buildings are closed. Featuring Joanne Berns, local speech language pathologist. (Slide Deck and additional materials)

Remote behavior support.

How do we support students who need to develop self-regulation? How do we do this when we cannot be in person? Join us for a 15-minute chat with some practical tips and tools for supporting and promoting positive student behavior during school closure. (Slide Deck)