Collaborative transition planning is essential for creating meaningful, student-centered pathways to life after high school. This training will explore practical strategies for bringing students, families, educators, agencies, and community partners together to support successful postsecondary outcomes. Participants will learn strategies for building collaborative transition teams, engaging families, partnering with outside agencies, and connecting transition goals to meaningful opportunities in education, employment, independent living, and community participation. Educators will leave with tools to strengthen transition teams and develop plans that reflect each student’s strengths, preferences, interests, and goals for adulthood.
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This informal work session is designed to give alternate assessment teachers time to collaborate with colleagues while preparing work samples, instructional materials, and lessons aligned with required standards. There will be no structured training or formal agenda, so participants are welcome to come and go as their schedules allow. A color printer, laminator, and additional materials will be available, along with optional activities and lesson ideas that teachers may use or adapt for their classrooms. Up to 3 PD hours can be earned by attending this session.
Questions – contact Jennifer Dove at jennifer.dove@ckec.org
This informal work session is designed to give alternate assessment teachers time to collaborate with colleagues while preparing work samples, instructional materials, and lessons aligned with required standards. There will be no structured training or formal agenda, so participants are welcome to come and go as their schedules allow. A color printer, laminator, and additional materials will be available, along with optional activities and lesson ideas that teachers may use or adapt for their classrooms.
Move beyond key words, tricks, and memorized shortcuts and help students truly make sense of math word problems. In this interactive virtual session, participants will explore practical routines such as Three Reads, Numberless Word Problems, BET Lines, etc., while drawing from Mathematize It! by Kimberly Morrow-Leong, Sara Delano Moore, and Linda M. Gojak to strengthen students’ reasoning, representation, and problem-solving. Leave with strategies you can use right away with all learners—especially students who struggle with word problems.
Transform your classroom into a thriving culture of mathematical learning for every student. In this three-hour, in-person professional development, we’ll explore how teachers’ and students’ math autobiographies—their past experiences, beliefs, and emotions around math—shape engagement, confidence, and learning in today’s classroom. Participants will learn how to intentionally weave the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs) and Mathematics Teaching Practices (MTPs) into daily instruction while addressing math fears, honoring student voice, and building a community where curiosity, reasoning, and collaboration flourish. You’ll walk away with practical, ready-to-use strategies to foster deep thinking and create a classroom culture where math learning is meaningful, inclusive, and empowering.
As the first half of the school year comes to a close, take time to reflect, recharge, and reconnect with the math teacher you want to be! Grounded in Chase Orton’s The Imperfect and Unfinished Math Teacher and NCTM’s Mathematics Teaching Practices, this virtual session will focus on professional growth, purposeful reflection, and practical ways to strengthen mathematics instruction.
Come as you are—imperfect, unfinished, and still growing—and leave encouraged and ready to begin the new year with fresh purpose and ideas.
Fractions are a journey, not a single standard! Join us for a hands-on deep dive into the Kentucky Academic Standards for fractions in Grades 3–5, with a focus on how fraction understanding develops and connects across grade levels.
Participants will explore vertical alignment, key representations, and engaging tasks that build conceptual understanding. Come ready to model, make connections, and leave with classroom-ready activities you can use right away!
Number lines are a powerful representation for building mathematical understanding across K–12! In this hands-on session, participants will explore the progression from number paths to number lines to open number lines and how these tools support number sense, operations, magnitude, and student reasoning.
Using the What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide as an anchor, participants will build, model, and make sense of number lines in ways they can take directly back to the classroom.
The struggle can be where the learning happens! Join us for an engaging virtual session focused on how to create a math classroom where students are encouraged to think, persevere, problem-solve, and grow through productive struggle. Grounded in the Mathematics Teaching Practices, we’ll explore what productive struggle really looks like, how to support students without taking away the thinking, and practical ways to build a classroom culture where challenge is viewed as an important part of learning mathematics.
Come ready to rethink struggle and leave with strategies you can use right away!
Effective co-teaching doesn’t just happen—it takes intentional planning, shared ownership, and the right structures! Join us for a practical, interactive day focused on the different co-teaching models, purposeful co-planning, and strategies for making co-teaching work for ALL students.
Participants will explore how to move beyond simply having two adults in the room and toward true collaboration that increases student access, engagement, and success. You’ll leave with practical tools, planning strategies, and ideas you can put into action right away.
For the most meaningful experience, co-teaching partners are STRONGLY encouraged to attend together!