CCEA 2019 Conference "Moving into the Future Together"

Join Santa Barbara Crystal Apple Winner, Glynda Maddaleno, to learn how anyone in any subject area can create a fun, exciting, and engaging environment that includes built-in differentiation, instant participation feedback, and can be used for any level of rigor. Come with an open mind and enthusiasm and leave with Interactive lessons and tools you can use in the classroom tomorrow!

Gateway High School has transformed its credit recovery program over to using an online course provider, Edgenuity. This has enabled our students the opportunity to access quality core courses, electives, and even world languages that they otherwise wouldn't be able to complete for graduation. We provide access to credentialed teachers 6 periods out of the day alongside Edgenuity courses. The courses provide robust standards-based instruction with a variety of tools that help the population of students we serve. Many of our students arrive with partial completion credits and Edgenuity provides the flexibility to customize courses to fulfill whatever they might need to meet graduation requirements. Students also have access to courses at home which helps increase opportunities. Edgenuity is used district-wide and as a district, we've increased our graduation rate for students a semester or more behind. This has a positive impact on graduation rates and meets the needs of all of our students.

Is the lack of Student Engagement in your classroom driving you crazy?  Have you felt like you keep going around and around only to end up in the same place?  Please join me in the session to learn about how to stop going in circles. Get ready to see things differently as you will be introduced to the role of Coaching students as an effective practice in engaging today's learners.  Learn why teaching to self-esteem does not work and why Coaching to self-efficacy does work towards encouraging a growth mindset in your students and their taking responsibility for their learning. Get SET to participate, have fun while learning, and gain energy to GO back to your classroom with easily implemented strategies.  Your Mission Impossible will become Mission Possible!

Students and teachers are discovering that writing in a math class can be an interesting and useful tool for us all. We will show how we have spent the last year incorporating writing, assessment(s), technology, and the co-teaching model to support and close the achievement gap and to master the standards continuum that spans the educational landscape. Our goal is to meet the CCR standards for ELA within the math class. As the students get more comfortable in expressing the ideas, concepts, and justifications of math problems we are hoping to see that success translate across curricula. As a site, we have added writing components to all core classes and into some elective courses.

Research and data continue to reinforce that a high quality education that includes the arts positively impacts students, including increased student engagement, achievement, attendance, and graduation rates. Join us in exploring how the arts can transform teaching and learning in the continuation school environment.

California statewide partners have joined together as the Create CA coalition to be solution partners with schools, districts and county offices to implement the state Education Code requirement for providing visual and performing arts instruction to all students. With one out of seven jobs in California now in the creative industries, the integration of the arts into a whole child curriculum has never been more urgent. The alignment with social/emotional priorities is impactful and exciting for school transformation. This interactive presentation will include a data walk, real strategies and next steps, as well as resources available to move forward with an integrated curriculum for all students. Planning partners include the California Department of Education, CCSESA (California County Superintendents Educational Services Association), California Alliance for Arts Education and the Alameda County Office of Education.

Valley High School in Escondido offers a Connections course once a day to all students enrolled. The Connections course is a trimester long course that can be repeated for elective credit.  The Connections class is intended to help students make the academic, career and college connections necessary to become successful in high school and post-secondary endeavors across interdisciplinary areas. The classroom and extended learning experiences will provide students with conceptual understanding and development in the following areas: goal setting, personal focus of responsibility, ownership of personal actions, decision making/problem solving, time management, organizational skills, critical thinking skills, communication skills, college/career readiness, financial literacy, computer skills, community service learning and development of a professional portfolio. Due to the developmental nature of the acquisition and mastery of all course components, this course is to be taught with fluidity which emphasizes skills in advancing levels of application which will include site adopted literacy routines aligned to both English Language Arts and College & Career Readiness Standards. Each unit of study is designed to foster student growth in content literacy (reading and writing).  All units are broken down to facilitate student participation in a required reading/writing activity two days per week.  Students may be enrolled in Connections up to two years and will continue to develop their skill, for a maximum of six trimesters of coursework. I intend to present on this course and how it can be adopted and modified to be taught in other continuation school settings. It can be a stand-alone curriculum or the literacy strategies can be applied across the content areas.