Accelerate Academic Achievement with Dr. Kate Kinsella and Teresa Hancock

Drawing on scholarship and extensive classroom experience, Dr. Kinsella and co-author, Theresa Hancock, introduce research-based instructional principles and practices to prepare mixed-ability classes for the vocabulary demands of academic interaction, text analysis, and constructed response. Participants engage in hands-on lesson modeling, observe video footage, review sample lessons, and analyze CCSS competency aligned word lists to establish a school-wide academic vocabulary initiative.

Participants will learn effective ways to:

• Analyze text to establish conceptual, topical, and high-utility vocabulary priorities

• Examine competency-aligned lists with words to infuse in units of study

• Frontload central lesson concepts using a viable process and customized organizers

• Explicitly teach high-utility academic word families with a consistent interactive routine

• Integrate examples and practice using common collocations (academic word partners)

• Structure brief, constructed verbal and written responses applying new lesson terms

• Guide informed analysis of text context to ascertain new word meaning

• Set up an organized vocabulary notebook with relevant sections and note-taking guides

• Design and implement brief formative assessments to provide meaningful review

Day 1 (January 29, 2022 8:30am-12pm) will be held in person at the Marin County Office of Education

Day 2 (February 1, 2022 3:30-5pm) will be held virtually

No cost for Marin County Educators (cost covered by grant funds )

$100 for Educators outside of Marin County

1 CEU from Dominican available

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