Here are Summer Professional Learning resources to investigate on your own. Some have costs associated with them, others do not. All are allowable activities for Highly Capable apportionment.
Highly Capable funds for 2019–20 school year must be expended by August 31, 2020, with all activities and purchases concluded by that date. Please contact us with any questions about allowability of expenditures.
Washington Association of Educators of Talented and Gifted (WAETAG) offers a free monthly webinar, with free clock hours, through Zoom. Some featured speakers have included Dr. Gail Hanninen, Dr. Brian Housand, Lisa VanGemert, and Camille Jones. WAETAG will post more speakers on the website throughout the year. Our next webinar is July 30, featuring Brian Housand speaking about Superheroes and the Gifted. Based on the book, “The Hero Within” by Carol Pearson, it should provide coordinators with a foundation to launch more conversations in their districts.
ESD 113 offers searchable professional development (PD) sessions. Search the ESD 113 pdEnroller for Hi-Cap or Exceptional Students (both monikers). This August, Jen Flo, ESD 113 Advanced Learning Administrator, is facilitating a book study on the book, “A More Beautiful Question” by Warren Berger. Through the book study, participants will learn about the critical role questioning plays in problem solving and critical thinking. We also introduce creativity and share questioning strategies such as the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), 5 Whys, and more. This session is a repeat of a session from earlier in the summer. More will be posted in the next couple of weeks.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) opens the door to conversations around giftedness – everyone agrees that removing barriers to student learning is best practice. The 2020 Conference will be online beginning August 5, 2020.
Buck Institute is a leader in trainings about Problem Based Learning. The three-day foundational course: PBL 101 Workshop: An Introduction to Project Design is online August 18-20, 2020. PBL works August workshop
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