Our annual Collegial Cafe is an opportunity to come together as a professional learning community, celebrate the work happening across our schools, and engage in meaningful conversations about teaching and learning.
This year’s Collegial Café featured:
Action Research presentations focused on improving student outcomes, including:
Data-Driven Differentiation: Exploring how the regular use of IXL Flex Diagnostic can help teachers efficiently identify student strengths and skill gaps across ELA domains, while targeting instruction for both struggling and high-achieving students.
Strengthening Comprehension and Complex Sentence Construction: Examining the impact of a co-taught, differentiated, center-based model on 9th grade ELA students’ reading comprehension and writing over a marking period.
Collegial Circle presentations focused on a wide range of instructional and student support topics, including:
Algebra I and Geometry Credit Recovery Program
Effective Reading Instruction: Structured Literacy
Executive Functioning (Smart, but Scattered)
Gamification in Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Harnessing the Science of Learning
Narrative Writing
Numeracy Briefs
NYS Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competency in Young Children
Second Step: A Little Spot of Feelings
Social Emotional Learning for Multilinguals
Student Data and Data Locker
Writing Revolution: 2nd Grade
Writing Revolution: High School ELA
Whether staff are presenting, learning, or simply connecting with colleagues, this event helps strengthen our district's shared commitment to high-quality teaching and student achievement. We hope to see you at our Collegial Cafe next year!