Learning Opportunities
Learning opportunities in multiple locations have included:
Seminar Series
- Differentiated Instruction: Meeting the Needs of all Students
- TelePD- Differentiation for Administrators
- How to Series- Strategies for Good Teaching
- Understanding By Design
- Universal Design, Building in Access Right From the Start
- Assessment for Learning
- Standards-Based Grading and Reporting
- Communicating with Parents about Standards
- Building Leadership Capacity
Ongoing Groups
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The Curriculum Coordinators Club
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Principals Breakfast Group
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Occasional Superintendent Series
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Western Team Leadership Collaborative
(Co-sponsored with the Great Maine Schools Project)
A Special and Alternative Educators Learning Group
Summer Institutes/Courses (through the University of Maine at Farmington's Outreach Program)
- Authentic Assessment in Today’s Classroom K- 12
- Differentiated Instruction: Meeting the Needs of Every Student K-12
- Creating Professional Learning Communities: Using Protocols for Collaborative Inquiry
- Improving Literacy and Learning in Your Middle or High School
On Site Assistance Available on Request
Assistance in the design, implementation and assessment of site-specific professional learning and school development
initiatives are available on request. The content and form can be custom designed to meet your student,
educator and system needs.
Possible learning venues include:
- Mini-courses/Seminar Series
- Courses or Institutes (offered in collaboration with University of Maine at Farmington’s Outreach Program)
- On-site or Electronic Coaching/Consultation
- Learning Seminars
- Role-Alike Groups
- Study Groups
Assessment
- Assessment That Informs Teaching & Learning
- Using Data: Getting Results
- Grading & Reporting in a Standards-Based System
- Local Assessment System Design
- In Pursuit of Understanding
- Helping Parents Understand Standards
Instruction
- Instructional Strategies That Work
- Differentiated Instruction in the Content Area
- Helping All Kids Learn -Universal Design for Learning
- Teaching for Understanding
- Learning that Matters:
An Introduction to Place-
Based Learning
- Literacy Strategies Across Content Areas
- Using Technology to Enhance Learning
- Professional Development for Ed.
Techs.
- Asbergers 101
Leadership &
School Development
- Building Distributed Leadership Capacity
- Creating Professional Learning Communities:
Using Protocols for Collaborative Inquiry
- Faculty Meetings that Promote Learning
- Designing a Coherent Professional Development System
- Youth Leadership Development
- Mentoring New Teachers
- An Intervention Pyramid to Help Students who are not Successful
- Grant Writing Assistance
Coaching
Coaching is on the rise. Educational leaders are now discovering the one-
on-one support that business executives and managers have used for years.
A coach can help you become a more powerful leader, a more
understanding person, and feel less stressful in a high performance workplace.
Coaching for individual school leaders and/or leadership teams has been and will
continue to be provided to WMP educators.
Regionalized Statewide Networks
- Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEARUP)
- Spreading Educator to Educator Development (SEED) – Integrating Technology
in the Classroom to Support Student Learning
- The Great Maine Schools Project (GMSP), Supporting Promising Futures: A Call
to Improve Learning for Maine’s Secondary Schools
- Partnership of Partnerships (POP)
Videos and Facilitator Guides on Teaching, Assessment and Professional Community
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