Professional Learning Reflections (Fall 2017)
Title: Changing How We Feel By Changing How We Think
Date: September 22, 2017
Who: Chris Byington (South Middle School)
Strategies for positive thinking positively which changes how students feel which changes how
students learn.
Title: CRPDC - Helping children deal with trauma
Date: October 5, 2017
Who: Michael Abbott (South Middle School)
How to give trauma-informed care and watch for different types of stress, which comes in 4 types:
Positive - Tolerable - Toxic - Traumatic
Title: Second Year Teacher Professional Development Day
Date: October 16, 2017
Who: All 2nd Year Teachers
During this professional development, I was able to see the steps to writing and readers workshop. I
was also able to have some professional development on conferring with students. I feel more
comfortable being able to find the students strengths and weakness during a conference. I feel that I
am able to implement the share part of reader's and writer's workshop. Overall I had a great experience.
Thank you for the opportunity!
Title: Number Talks (NKC Visit)
Date: October 17, 2017
Who: Elementary Math Task Force
We spent the day observing Number Talks in North Kansas City. Some things we took away from this
great day of observation were the importance of naming strategies and having your problems sequenced
in a manner that helps students to build their strategies from one problem to the next.
Title: Creating Motivating & Engaging Maker-spaces
Date: October 28, 2017
Who: Jenny Baker (Matthes Elementary)
Ideas on the continued implementation of makerspaces in the library for all ages, resources and items to
be purchased (both books and materials) that support an innovative maker-space for our students.
Title: PBIS Training
Date: October 30, 2017
Who: Matthews Elementary Team
We worked on philosophical understandings of behavioral supports, discussed the pyramid to
intervention for behavioral supports, and gathered resources to conduct our first all staff training here at
Matthews on the background or foundational understandings of PBIS.
Title: Math Proficiency and Beyond
Date: November 2, 2017
Who: Elementary Math Task Force
We spent the day at Union Station getting training on math strategies and problem-solving. We learned
a great progression for teaching strategies in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We also
were able to talk about the importance of problem solving and growth mindset.
Title: Early Childhood STEM Event (Union Station)
Date: November 3, 2017
Who: Sarah Carollo and Sarah Mitchell (Early Childhood)
This conference was focused on how to implement developmentally appropriate STEM activities in
early childhood classrooms. We spent some of the day learning about each component of STEM
(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the other part participating in STEM activities
that we could use in our classrooms.
Title: Greg Tang
Date: November 15, 2017
Who: Christina Stark (Matthews Elementary) & Leann Lamb (Stony Point)
We learned various strategies for mathematical fluency.
Title: Out of District Collaboration
Date: November 16, 2017
Who: Stephanie Piedimonte and Linda Kelly (GVHS)
We were able to learn and see in action the "best practices" from other teachers in the areas of transition,
pre-employment, and life skills. We were also able to gain knowledge and ideas on how to accommodate
our growing life skills population of students.
Title: Kansas City Social Studies Consortium
Date: December 6, 2017
Who: Nicollette Thompson and Leslie Dealy (GVHS)
Dr. Swan administered quite possibly the most effective professional development conference I have
attended. She explained and we created an Inquiry Design Model Blueprint over material that we could
immediately implement into our classroom. She was helpful in guiding us through the process. There are
ideas from the conference that I have already implemented with success. It directly ties in with the
Social Studies C3 Framework, and we were able to align it to Standards Based Grading. Even though it
was a content based conference, it is something that I think most teachers would benefit from.
students learn.
Positive - Tolerable - Toxic - Traumatic
was also able to have some professional development on conferring with students. I feel more
comfortable being able to find the students strengths and weakness during a conference. I feel that I
am able to implement the share part of reader's and writer's workshop. Overall I had a great experience.
Thank you for the opportunity!
great day of observation were the importance of naming strategies and having your problems sequenced
in a manner that helps students to build their strategies from one problem to the next.
be purchased (both books and materials) that support an innovative maker-space for our students.
intervention for behavioral supports, and gathered resources to conduct our first all staff training here at
Matthews on the background or foundational understandings of PBIS.
a great progression for teaching strategies in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We also
were able to talk about the importance of problem solving and growth mindset.
early childhood classrooms. We spent some of the day learning about each component of STEM
(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the other part participating in STEM activities
that we could use in our classrooms.
pre-employment, and life skills. We were also able to gain knowledge and ideas on how to accommodate
our growing life skills population of students.
attended. She explained and we created an Inquiry Design Model Blueprint over material that we could
immediately implement into our classroom. She was helpful in guiding us through the process. There are
ideas from the conference that I have already implemented with success. It directly ties in with the
Social Studies C3 Framework, and we were able to align it to Standards Based Grading. Even though it
was a content based conference, it is something that I think most teachers would benefit from.
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