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The Council of Chief State School Officers National Conference on Student Assessment (NCSA) is an annual conference that gathers the most dynamic and creative education professionals from around the country for an intensive, highly collaborative exploration of new technologies, best practices, and pressing issues.
Educators have entered a new era of challenges as measuring student learning during a pandemic requires innovation. It is now more important than ever for them to identify potential gaps and critical equity issues. This year, the NCSA is the central hub for timely discussions on these topics.
During this conference, participants will have an opportunity to discuss what indicators they measure, how they measure them, and how they use the data that is collected as they look ahead to the future of assessment and accountability.
This conference will take place from Monday, June 21 through Wednesday, June 23.
For more information or to register, visit the 2021 NCSA website.
Loyola University Maryland is offering two graduate level courses for health educators.
The first course, Standards-Based Methods and Assessment in Health Education, emphasizes the importance of the discipline and profession of health education focusing on both content and skills for teaching health education. For course specific questions, contact Brittany
Echols at baechols@loyola.edu.
The second course, Health Education Legislative and Specialized Training Including Human Sexuality, focuses on teaching standards-based health education that is inclusive, trauma-informed, age and developmentally appropriate, and scientifically accurate. This course is aligned to the specialized training requirements for teaching health education in Maryland Public Schools as required by COMAR 13a.04.18. For specific course questions, contact Kirsten Roller at kroller@bcps.org.
These courses will take place from Monday, May 17 through Saturday, June 19.
For more information, view this flyer or visit Loyola University's Health Education webpage.
After a year of isolation and trauma, there are a lot of expectations on this summer. How can educators support students’ needs in a balanced way over the summer? In this webinar, district leaders and youth development experts will share how they are approaching summer learning and enrichment.
This webinar will take place on Thursday, May 20 from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
For more information or to register, visit the Learning Forward webinar registration page.
This pandemic has exposed both the importance of students’ social and emotional well-being and their need to equitably access supports in order to thrive socially and academically. In this webinar, participants will examine strategies that build and strengthen students’ relationships to help ensure schools not only come back, but come back better at serving every student.
In this webinar, participants will understand not only the importance of students’ relationships to their personal, academic, and career success, but also how to incorporate intentional designs that reimagine students’ relationships as tangible outcomes to learning that far outlast one-time interventions. They will also discover strategies that help adults who work with young people become both intentional and inclusive in building developmental relationships with all youth. Participants will be introduced to the tools and tactics that could be implemented in standalone programming or be used to support a system-wide goal of relationship building. Participants will also be able to access a guided worksheet that includes reflection questions to drive both design and measurement, as well as prompts to identify strategies to implement with colleagues and students.
This webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 26 from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
For more information or to register, visit the edWebinar website.
The Maryland Center for Computing Education will feature an upcoming webinar on cybersecurity. The Cyber for Educators webinar will investigate how digital information is kept secure online and what happens behind the scenes in cybersecurity.
This webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 19 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm.
To register, visit the Cyber for Educators registration page.
The Essential Instructional Practices are a set of research-supported instructional practices that, when implemented in the classroom, can have a positive impact on student literacy achievement. The use of these practices in every classroom every day could make a measurable positive difference in literacy achievement.
A series of online professional learning modules have been developed to support educators in understanding and implementing the Essential Instructional Practices. These ten, self-paced modules contain content presentations accompanied by classroom videos that demonstrate each essential in practice. Reflection activities are included to support learners in checking their understanding and applying what they have learned to their own practice.
Participants can receive 3-4 COK hours or CPD credits upon completion of each module. To receive COK hours, participants should submit their certificate to MSDE when reviewing for licensing or submitting for credentialing. To earn CPD credits, participants should upload their information to the MDLearning Registration website.
For more information or to register visit the Literacy Essentials website.
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