Videos

Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RIIbYVS5OaOHrefVyijucGWRmfB2cni5 This session will focus on the use of instructional strategies to support micro-level writing instruction at the secondary level (grades 4-12) for students who struggle with writing skills. While handwriting, keyboarding, and spelling will be discussed, emphasis will focus on how to explicitly teach sentence analysis and construction using the “Identify-Expand-Combine- and Create” strategy. Other strategies, including the use of grammar building charts and sentence unscrambling, will be presented.

After providing a variety of options for high school and middle school scheduling, the presenter will discuss the scheduling and implementation of the Intervention/Enrichment (IE) period at the secondary level. Additionally, the presenter also will offer examples of the “Unit” or “Community” lunch period, used by many schools to support MTSS interventions.

This video explores some options for students who are deaf or hard of hearing to successfully transition to life after high school.

Preparing for transition or change is a critical factor to success. Hear three perspectives on why transition planning is so vital for young adults.

This training is especially helpful for administrators who oversee students in their schools who qualify for 504 Service Agreements. This training will provide administrators with information on Section 504 including: • History of Section 504 • Definition • Qualifications for a 504 Service Agreement • Components of a 504 Service Agreement • Differences from special education • Current Trends • Litigation

This video will give a brief overview of types of stress and the importance of engaging in self-care to mitigate the effect of negative stress in your daily life.

This video presentation by Joan Sedita is part of a PaTTAN book study series. This five-week series focuses on the components of the Writing Rope and the integration of effective writing instruction into content teaching with the combined goals of improving students’ writing ability and content learning.

In this session participants will review the stages of the writing process (Think, Plan, Write, Revise), learn suggestions for teaching writing strategies at each stage of the writing process, learn about the role of syntactic knowledge for writing sentences, and learn instructional suggestions for teaching sentence writing and elaboration.

This five-week series focuses on the components of the Writing Rope and the integration of effective writing instruction into content teaching with the combined goals of improving students’ writing ability and content learning. In this session participants will learn instructional practices for teaching paragraph structure and writing skills, learn the five patterns of organization and related transition words, review the 3 main types of writing (opinion/argument, informational, narrative), learn instructional practices for teaching the structure of these writing types. Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f6xQSsptgpxnRhMDDr37c0Vv87odR0Kx

In this session participants will learn instructional practices for teaching students how to write summaries, learn instructional strategies for writing in response to prompts using text and other types of sources, review how writing can support content learning, reflect on how the instructional strategies throughout the book can be integrated to support a quality, research-based writing curriculum.