Professional Development Updates
Education, Innovation, & Service Center
Will County Regional Office of Education
Dr. Lisa Caparelli-Ruff, Regional Superintendent
Education, Innovation, & Service Center
Heather Siegel-Hickman, Ed.D.
Director of Professional Development
hsiegel-hickman@willroe.org * 815.630.3103
Presented by ACT Trained Facilitators
The content of the ACT Instructional Mastery Math course provides candidates with the information necessary to provide effective ACT Math test preparation, identify and recommend test-taking strategies, and understand test structure and content. This course is focused on using a variety of techniques—applicable to different types and levels of student— to solve ACT math problems.
Includes:
- Structure of the Math ACT Test
- Initial Student Assessment
- Skills, vocab, symbols, formulas, and real-life settings on the Math ACT
- Using a Calculator
- Practicing with Authentic Math ACT Tests
- Tips and Memorizations
Why Take It?
- Comprehensive review of math coaching techniques
- Tools for teaching students of all levels
- Understand how each aspect of ACT math can be integrated into the general math curriculum
- Analyze Math test items and discern student misconceptions
The ACT Instructional Mastery English course provides candidates with the information necessary to facilitate effective preparation for the ACT English test, identify and recommend test-preparation and test-taking strategies, and understand test structure and content.
Includes:
- English content from Career and College Readiness Standards (CCRS).
- Item Analysis: What skills does each item measure?
- Coaching skills and remediation for improving
- English performance
Why Take It?
- Know what ACT English is really looking for
- What is typically tested
- What is typically not tested
- Learn how to thoroughly analyze student practice tests
- Learn how to replace fear of the unknown with practical question-by-question techniques
Numeracy Plan Series:
- Thursday, Nov. 19: Teaching for Understanding: Using the Five Pedagogical Approaches in the IL Comp. Numeracy Plan (primary audience: classroom teachers, interventionists, instructional coaches, curriculum and content area leaders)
- Thursday, Jan. 21: Numeracy Plan K-5 Institute: Developing Numeracy from the Ground Up (primary audience: classroom teachers, interventionists, instructional coaches, curriculum and content area leaders)
- Thursday, Jan. 28: Numeracy Plan 6-8 Institute: Developing Mathematical Thinkers (primary audience: classroom teachers, interventionists, instructional coaches, curriculum and content area leaders)
- Thursday, Feb. 4: Numeracy Plan 9-12 Institute: Mathematics for Advanced Learning (primary audience: classroom teachers, interventionists, instructional coaches, curriculum and content area leaders)
Mathematics Network:
Learn and Network: The sessions will include targeted topics such as designing rich mathematical tasks, facilitating math discourse, the science of math, inquiry vs. direct instruction, and more as well as dedicated time to network with other educators and leaders.
In It for Princess Donut 👑😸
Imagine reading the transcript of a video game - the interactions between and among the characters, the obstacles and successes, the rewards and punishments. Alternately, if you’re an audiobook listener, as I am, imagine someone narrating every action within. That - combined with a Deadpool-esque running profanity-laced snark - and you have Dungeon Crawler Carl. This series was commended to me by one of our superintendents and also two English teacher friends, and I thank them all.
I am told that this is quite a sensation and is being made into a television show. I’m not sure who the exact audience is for this book or show, but apparently it’s a wide one. In addition to wondering who the audience is that the author had in mind, I also wonder, at what age are young people starting to read these? Minus the profanity and video game style violence depicted throughout, it seems geared toward a young adult audience.
I welcome anyone else’s take on these. I am up for all of them primarily for Princess Donut (IYKYK).
Michael Myers's mask started out as a 1975 William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk mask that was purchased for around two dollars.
After considering several mask options, the crew tasked with finding and creating the iconic mask selected "he Capt. Kirk mask was chosen due to its appearance of having no real facial features that could be easily made out. The production crew removed the eyebrows and sideburns, the face was painted flat white, the hair was teased out, and the eyes were opened up and reshaped with scissors."
This an more can be found on the Halloween Movie Fandom page linked here.
Coaching and Professional Learning Support
1. Take the Resilience Supportive Schools Illinois Survey in IWAS
2. Log into RSSI to see your School Profile
3. Use the Learning Resource Hub and the ROE SEL Coaches for professional learning support and coaching to advance your work
