Comment on a Session

This session was amazing! It provided me with the information that I need for planning professional development and coaching sessions for the upcoming year.

It has been a while since I have had the opportunity to facilitate professional development and to coach others. Therefore, I was searching for a model to use and reminders of how to effectively assist others through coaching.
I found just what I needed in VECTOR, in the video regarding the need for a coach, and in the suggestions on how to be "intentional" in developing a relationship with those who are being coached.

Thank you so much for this insightful session!

I am so glad I chose to view this video. I believe that virtual coaching, as well as strategy and content enhancement PD, are going to be vital in moving forward and slowing the swell of mechanical one size fits all program-based instruction.

I really appreciated that he focused on socioeconomic factors. We could and should be doing so much more to ensure all of our students have equal access to education despite their socioeconomics, disability, or ethnicity. 

Loved the integration of content literacy with math; great to know that math strategies are continuing to be a vital part of SIM. The information will be very helpful to me in my work with math at the K-8 level. It helped. me think about students who struggle with executive function skills and how structuring their learning is so necessary.

I found this session incredibly useful! The included handouts and links will be helpful when presenting SIM to administrators and teacher teams. The crosswalk documents on the "Integrating SIM with Other Programs, Strategies, and Initiatives" webpage help bridge understanding between current initiatives/programs and SIM. This allows leaders to understand SIM works in tandem with current implementations as opposed to being "yet another thing." I am very excited to take these documents back to my school in August as we currently utilize many of the programs referenced (AVID, Read 180, Corrective Reading).

Having been out of the loop for a while, this was a great session to be refreshed in the familiar and updated in all things new with SIM!  It gave me an opportunity to explore the new web pages/sites and update my own directory information.  This session was also effective in reigniting my passion for SIM that I hope to bring into a new position for next school year! Nice job, Jocelyn!

Jocelyn's webquest and presentation were so valuable! With the wealth of content on the KUCRL website, having a refresher on what's there and how to find what you need is invaluable, especially with all the changes!

I was glad that there was a session that explained more about the Science of Reading.  I have been hearing about this for several months, but I did not know much about it.  It was helpful to go through a video about what the Science of Reading entails.  The handout was also beneficial as it provides an overview of the components that make up the research in this initiative.  It was helpful to discuss how SIM learning strategies and Content Enhancement Routines fit into this body of research and address many aspects of the reading and writing process that is needed to develop these comprehensive skills. 

This session was very interesting because we were shown how pre-service teachers were trained to use the Proficiency in Sentence Writing.  Students were required to show video evidence of the model stage and reflect on their learning.  There was a lot that I took away from this session as it pertains to coaching teachers in implementing the writing strategies! It was helpful to hear what worked and what needed to be changed or improved.  It was also interesting to learn about what the students thought of the assignment/experience.

All of the sessions so far have been helpful and provided new information that I could use in my work.  I appreciated the keynote with information about the Finnish educational system and the values surrounding their environmental organization.  I appreciated the information from Jocelyn to update our overviews around the SIM work. Thank you all for the work that provides excellent information to support our work with SIM!

I really enjoyed the Keynote about the Finnish school system. I was amazed at how far 35,000 could go in certain Finland areas. I was absolutely floored at how many potential teachers they had who wanted to go into the teaching profession. His myth busters were great. Very thought provoking on may levels.