Teachers, Grades 5-12
This highly interactive, tool-focused presentation will help you discover powerful formative assessment strategies for preparing your students for success on the PARCC and Smarter Balanced Common Core assessments. Katie will share dozens of proven assessment tools you can use in all disciplines and easily integrate into your everyday instruction.
(Full day)

Professional Development Sessions

Reading, Writing, and Literacy

Common Core State Standards

The Common Core State Standards are the next generation of standards for K-12 students. Katie McKnight is uniquely qualified to explain the key points of these new standards to both teachers and administrators.

• The Common Sense Guide to the Common Core
• Transitioning to the Common Core State Standards
• Creating a School-Wide Literacy Plan that Meets Common Core State Standards
• Creating a School-Wide Technology Plan that Meets Common Core State Standards
• Common Core, Student Inquiry and Learning for 21st Century
• Mastery Learning for the CCSS/Differentiated Instruction Focused Classroom
• Project Based Learning to Meet Common Core State Standards
• Getting Ready for Common Core State Standards: Textual Complexity
• Old World, New World and Common Core State Standards
• Formative Assessment & Common Core State Standards

Technology