Let’s finish the school year strong with high-quality Professional Learning! Welcome to Plano ISD’s Trade Learning Saturday! Ready to navigate through a playbook of innovative techniques, where winning strategies meet all-star approaches? All sessions qualify for 2024-2025 trade hours. You can score three trade hours by joining our team on March 1st!
Please bring your district device as some of the sessions may require technology.
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Participants will explore various communication methods, including phone calls, emails, and parent-teacher conferences, and learn how to tailor their approach for different family dynamics and cultures. The workshop will cover techniques for proactive communication, dealing with difficult conversations, and how to deliver constructive feedback while maintaining positive relationships. We will also discuss how to involve parents as allies in their child's academic journey, even when addressing challenging issues like behavior or performance concerns. Please bring a fully charged device.
Do your students struggle with time management, task initiation, organization, and other Executive Functions? Increase your knowledge of Executive Functions, the air traffic controller of the brain. Leave with practical, implementable strategies across classroom settings to promote development of students’ executive functions for academic, social, and behavioral success!
This is my 20th year as a Special Educator in PISD. My passions include everything related to Social Skills and Executive Functions, with a splash of Behavior Intervention/Support! I also am a Google for Education Certified Trainer.As an avid reader, my favorite topic to research... Read More →
Saturday March 1, 2025 9:00am - 10:20am CST
Jasper High School6800 Archgate Dr, Plano, TX 75024
Participants will learn 10 strategies and supports they can implement immediately in their classrooms for students with high functioning autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Training will isolate strategies from the STOIC model that impact success for your most challenging students. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated." - R. Collier
Do your students struggle with time management, task initiation, organization, and other Executive Functions? Increase your knowledge of Executive Functions, the air traffic controller of the brain. Leave with practical, implementable strategies across classroom settings to promote development of students’ executive functions for academic, social, and behavioral success!
This is my 20th year as a Special Educator in PISD. My passions include everything related to Social Skills and Executive Functions, with a splash of Behavior Intervention/Support! I also am a Google for Education Certified Trainer.As an avid reader, my favorite topic to research... Read More →
Saturday March 1, 2025 10:40am - 12:00pm CST
Jasper High School6800 Archgate Dr, Plano, TX 75024
In this session, attendees will learn effective strategies for increasing student peer collaboration in the classroom. Participants will learn how to design activities that encourage teamwork, communication, and shared problem-solving, ultimately enhancing student learning outcomes. Examples and tools will be shared to help attendees implement these strategies in their own classrooms where all students are engaged and supported. Participants will leave with actionable ideas to boost peer interaction and academic success. Please bring a device and any questions you have about peer collaboration in your teaching practice
Participants will learn 10 strategies and supports they can implement immediately in their classrooms for students with high functioning autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Training will isolate strategies from the STOIC model that impact success for your most challenging students. "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated." - R. Collier
