ENGAGE 2024 Professional Learning Conference: Full Schedule

Make sure you stick around for lunch on Tuesday and Karaoke in the Student Union! (12:00-1:00)

10:30am CDT

Get in the Game: Using BOY data with your K-1 students to make the most of your time with engaging practice!

In this session, you will learn about engaging ways for students to set goals right at the beginning of the year. In this make and take session, you will leave with small group activities and goal setting ideas to implement at the beginning of the year.

Presenters

Mercedes Plemons

1st Grade Teacher, Northwest ISD

Kaitlyn Ehn

1st Grade

Get in the Game Using BOY data to make the most of time with students pdf

Tuesday July 23, 2024 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT
BNHS AC-137 2775 Bobcat Blvd, Trophy Club, TX 76262, USA

Instruction, Planning

CONTENT AREA ELA
Audience K-2
TOPIC Assessment

8:30am CDT

On Data Suite for APs and Principals

Did you know that we have a system that allows you to find historic data for your campus? Are you looking for an easy way to find this data? Do you want to know what to do once you have this data? RAAD/PEIMS are ready to help you. This session will introduce you to a data dashboard system that will allow you to find student graduation rates, historic discipline data, and even current accountability data.

Presenters

Jennifer Allen

District PEIMS Coordinator, Northwest ISD

Melissa Desimone

Director of Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Wednesday July 24, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
BNHS AC-106 2775 Bobcat Blvd, Trophy Club, TX 76262, USA

Planning

CONTENT AREA All Contents
Audience Administrators
TOPIC Assessment

8:30am CDT

Ready-Set-Grow: MAP Growth can be used to measure if all students are growing throughout the year

MAP Growth is a universal screener that measures what 2nd-5th know and what they're ready to learn next through targeted skills and TEKS. In this session, you will learn how to pull reports from MAP and set goals. Report: Student Profile and Goal setting.

Presenters

Colleen Main

MTSS Intervention Specialist, Northwest ISD

Jennifer Gill

Wednesday July 24, 2024 8:30am - 10:00am CDT
BNHS AC-105 2775 Bobcat Blvd, Trophy Club, TX 76262, USA

Planning, Instruction

CONTENT AREA ELA; Math
Audience Elementary
TOPIC Assessment

10:15am CDT

The Power of Pretests!

Who doesn't love a Win-Win? Strategies that benefit both students and teachers! Find out how pretests provide instructional guidance for teachers and enhance learning opportunities for students.

Presenters

Nancy Krueger

3rd Grade Math and Science, Justin Elementary

Wednesday July 24, 2024 10:15am - 11:45am CDT
BNHS AC-114 2775 Bobcat Blvd, Trophy Club, TX 76262, USA

Instruction, Planning

CONTENT AREA Math
Audience Elementary
TOPIC Assessment

1:00pm CDT

STAAR Accommodations - Everything you ever wanted to know!

We will be talking a close look at ALL the supports STAAR and TELPAS have to offer. Who can be eligible? What do they look like in Frontline? What do they look like on STAAR?

Presenters

Mica Tucker

Holly Blackmore

Wednesday July 24, 2024 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
BNHS AC-106 2775 Bobcat Blvd, Trophy Club, TX 76262, USA

Learning Environment

CONTENT AREA Special Education, PEIMS Reporting
Audience All Levels
TOPIC Assessment

2:45pm CDT

Simple MAP Data Protocols

MAP is a fabulous test that gives us a better understanding of where our students are. We want you to be able to use the data in easily and in meaningful ways. By attending this session, you will leave with a data protocol that you can do with your PLC, your teacher BFF, or even by yourself. You will be able to see where your students MAP data fits in relation to other points of data and build a plan of what to do next.

Presenters

Melissa Desimone

Director of Research, Assessment, and Accountability

Mica Tucker

Jennifer Bailey

MTSS Coordinator, Northwest ISD

Jennifer Bailey, M.Ed is Northwest ISD’s MTSS Coordinator. Jennifer began her career 25 years ago as a special education teacher. Since then, she has taught general education, English as a Second Language, targeted intervention for reading and math, and supported title one schools... Read More →

Wednesday July 24, 2024 2:45pm - 4:15pm CDT
BNHS AC-106 2775 Bobcat Blvd, Trophy Club, TX 76262, USA

Planning

CONTENT AREA ELA; Math, Science
Audience All Levels
TOPIC Assessment