ONLINE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SERIES:
FUNDAMENTALS UNLIMITED: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING SUPPORT
Presenter(s)
Schoolwide Professional Learning Team
Participants
Teachers, Specialists, School and District Administrators
Price and Registration
The cost of this Professional Learning Series is only $29 per session.
If you are interested in registering multiple participants, please call 1.800.261.9964 ext. 2 or email [email protected] for details.
Live Webinar Dates & Times:
Each live webinar is 45 minutes in length, and scheduled from 5:00 to 5:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, on the dates indicated below.
- Session 1: Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019
- Session 2: Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019
- Session 3: Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019
- Session 4: Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019
- Session 5: Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020
- Session 6: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020
- Session 7: Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2020
- Session 8: Wednesday, Apr. 22, 2020
Note: Webinars are recorded and made available to all participants for the duration of the series.
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Series Overview
Schoolwide supports research acknowledging that the most important factor influencing student achievement is quality teaching. Thus, the primary objective of this Professional Learning Series is to provide ongoing and personalized support for educators, and to maximize their use of Fundamentals Unlimited. Sessions will provide rich opportunities for educators to become familiar with Fundamentals Unlimited’s robust functionality, as well as highlight the connections between Fundamentals Unlimited and best instructional and leadership practices.
Session 1) Unpacking the Fundamentals Units of Study / Presenter(s): Melissa Wills and Sandi Szczepanski
Using Fundamentals Unlimited’s powerful searching and filtering capabilities, educators will locate and unpack units of study in order to better understand and utilize these comprehensive curriculum resources across the school year. SESSION COMPLETE - For more information about accessing a recording of this session please call 1.800.261.9964 ext. 2 or email [email protected]. |
Session 2) Personalizing Instruction with Fundamentals Unlimited’s Teaching Resources / Presenter(s): Jason Jezuit
Using Fundamentals Unlimited’s powerful searching and filtering capabilities, educators will learn to locate and review literacy resources that support best teaching practices, evidence-based instruction, student engagement, and learning. Participants will:
- Review filter options, to locate desired resources efficiently.
- Discuss resource types and their uses, including anchor charts and classroom environment, mini-lessons and guided reading plans, professional articles and short texts, graphic organizers and student forms, videos and student writing.
- Create folders in “My Library” of teaching resources, which can be easily accessed for whole-group and/or small-group instruction.
Session 3) Assessing Readers with Fundamentals Unlimited / Presenter(s): Melissa Wills
Educators will discuss what we need to know about our students as readers, why this is important for student growth, and how formative and diagnostic tools can inform differentiated instruction and positively impact student achievement. (Reference: professional eBook What You Need to Know About Reading Assessment). Participants will:
- Review and discuss filters, to plan for purposeful assessment.
- Access key assessments to be utilized across the year, such as benchmark assessments, which include running records, student surveys, and reflection forms; checklists; eBook unit quizzes; conference/note-taking forms; and reader response rubrics.
- Add select assessments to “My Library” and create folders for easy access.
Session 4) Assessing Writers with Fundamentals Unlimited / Presenter(s): Jason Jezuit
Educators will discuss what we need to know about our students as writers, why this is important for student growth, and how formative and diagnostic tools can inform differentiated instruction and positively impact student achievement. Participants will:
- Review and discuss filters—which align to text types, standards, and qualities of writing—to plan for purposeful assessment.
- Access key assessments to be utilized across the year, such as student rubrics, surveys and reflections, performance checklists, observation checklists and forms, standards-based rubrics, and continuums, prompts.
- Navigate EVAL: Scoring student work, inter-rater reliability, utilizing student samples, and benchmarks.
Session 5) Getting to Know the Texts on Fundamentals Unlimited / Presenter(s): Akilah Bond and Sandi Szczepanski
Educators will examine Fundamentals Unlimited’s selection of more than 1,000 texts and consider how they can be utilized for whole class read-alouds, shared reading, small group instruction and/or independent reading. Participants will:
- Review and discuss filter options in order to select texts that align with teaching intention and student need.
- Navigate eBooks and understand digital functions and features (i.e., highlighting, note-taking, and eLearning for some texts).
- Add texts to “My Library.”
- Learn how to assign texts to individuals or groups of students.
Session 6) Supporting Your Small Group Instruction / Presenter(s): Akilah Bond and Melissa Wills
Educators will discuss the what, why, and how of guided reading in order to meet the diverse instructional needs of all students. (Reference: professional eBook, What You Need to Know About Guided Reading). Participants will: - Use filters and search engine to access guided reading resources (i.e., articles, prompts, guided reading plans and template), assessments (i.e., running records, reader profile), and digital leveled texts, to deepen understanding of the reading process and how guided reading can support readers at different stages of reading development. - Create a folder of guided reading resources. - Assign guided reading texts to groups of students. |
Session 7) Implementing Science Content Literacy Units of Study / Presenter(s): Stefane Beddard
Educators will discuss how to integrate science content and standards with disciplinary literacy goals. (Reference: professional eBook What You Need to Know about Science Content Literacy). Participants will:
- Review a model content literacy unit overview.
- Set the stage for learning in a content literacy environment.
- Create a folder of resources to support essential content literacy skills: vocabulary, activating and building schema, questioning, and synthesizing ideas.
Session 8) Customizing Units and Personalize Learning / Presenter(s): Akilah Bond and Jason Jezuit
Educators will learn how to customize units of study, reflecting on teaching that has occurred, student schema, and evidence of learning. Participants will:
- Review units in “My Library” that have been previously implemented.
- Choose a unit to customize and understand customization possibilities and functionality. This includes moving lessons, searching for additional lessons, adding grammar lessons or lessons from other grade levels, deleting lessons, adding highlights and notes to lessons.
- Use the Fundamentals Unlimited “Planner” to map out lesson sequence, and include texts and assessments.
Requirement(s)
There are no requirements for this Series.
