KSDE provides professional learning for schools free of charge.  Teacher Leader Consultants are used to assist with the following trainings:

• Vocabulary
  • Training 1: Using Bringing Words to Life, teachers will determine how to select words to teach, how to specifically teach those words, and how to transfer them into a student's lexicon. (3 hours)  Observe another teacher's classroom before training 2.
  • Training 2:  This training will address teacher concerns about "testing" words previously taught, will evaluate the walk-through/teacher planning sheet, and will provide additional transfer strategies.     
  • Training 3:

• Gaming Grammar:  Transferring Skills to Student Writing
  • Training 1:  Using VanCleave's work along with Hochman's The Writing Revolution, teachers will learn  I.E.C.C. (Identify. Expand. Combine. Create) to impact the sentence level of writing.  Various strategies will give teachers flexilibility to apply syntax & usage to mentor text, so writers may emulate great writing that will transfer to student writing,  
  • Training 2:  Teachers will construct and calibrate rubrics based upon the Kansas ELA standards to increase rigor and provide feedback that moves performance criterion forward.

• Providing timely feedback to Impact Content, Organization, and Form:
  • Training 1: 

• Credibility: SIFTing through the CRAAP:
  • Providing a 1-3 hour training about using SIFT to determine credibility within sources and how lateral reading can reinforce research.
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• Morphology:
• 2025 ELA Assessment & the 2023 ELA Standards