January 8-9 & 23 – California Reading & Literature Project at UCI: CRLP Results: Word Recognition & Fluency Open Institute

This 3-day institute is organized around three key elements: standards-aligned assessment, teamwork and data analysis, and research-based instruction. This latest iteration of CRLP Results (2021) has been revised to highlight the latest research around the Science of Reading, including current assessments and interventions that support the implementation of the Common Core Foundational Skills standards. The focus of CRLP Results is on helping teachers make sound instructional decisions about students who are not proficient on benchmark assessments of grade-level ELA content standards.

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January 8-9 & 23 – California Reading & Literature Project at UCI: CRLP Results: Word Recognition & Fluency Open Institute

This 3-day institute is organized around three key elements: standards-aligned assessment, teamwork and data analysis, and research-based instruction. This latest iteration of CRLP Results (2021) has been revised to highlight the latest research around the Science of Reading, including current assessments and interventions that support the implementation of the Common Core Foundational Skills standards. The focus of CRLP Results is on helping teachers make sound instructional decisions about students who are not proficient on benchmark assessments of grade-level ELA content standards.

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January 15 – Book Club: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online

Join us January 15 and February 22, 2025 from 4:30-5:30 PST for book club to discuss media literacy and the book, Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, written by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg

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January 22 – UCI Science Project NGSS Certification Tier 2

This program provides space for educators to examine how creating a welcoming and affirming learning environment can support student engagement and rigorous sense-making while attending to three-dimensional learning. The two 4-hour in-person sessions, one 2-hour online session, and asynchronous activities will provide opportunities to examine how people learn, co-creating welcoming learning environments, and equitable science instruction. Participants will also engage in thinking around their own practice through question, data analysis and peer feedback. Participation in the Tier 1 NGSS Modules is recommended, but not required for Tier 2 modules. A small number of scholarships are available for individuals participating without district funding.

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January 23 – 24 – Mapping New California Histories

A UCHRI and UC Humanities Network Entanglement Program in partnership with the UC Irvine History Project, the UC Irvine Teacher Academy, and the UC Irvine Humanities Center.

Elevating the work of public historians, geographers, K-12 teachers, and community and university archivists, this event invites participants to share their work recovering stories and mapping the impact of diverse communities that have contributed to the political culture and democratic promise of California. By bringing together public historians from around the state, this convening aims to share new knowledge and collaborative curricula that link regional histories to an expanded vision of California as a whole. The program features regional history projects from eight UC campuses that document the entanglement of migration, conquest, land use, integration, contestation, creativity, and renewal that shape the region. The event includes hands-on opportunities to explore unique primary sources from around the state.

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January 29 – UCI Science Project Computer Science Community of Practice

The UCI Science Project is exploring strategies and structures to develop teacher efficacy and understanding of computer science for upper elementary to middle school STEM teachers by establishing a Community of Practice (CoP) during the 2024-2025 school year. This CoP will focus on three primary outcomes:

• Integration of Computational Thinking Practices into STEM pedagogy
• Shared understanding of approaches to embed computer science topics, ideas and experiences into classroom practice
• Increased collective teacher efficacy towards computing.

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February 13 – California Reading & Literature Project at UCI: Navigating the California Literacy Roadmap: Strategies for Equitable and Effective Instruction

Delve into The California Literacy Roadmap and discover how it can enhance literacy instruction by providing a framework for equitable and effective teaching practices. In this session, participants will be introduced to the roadmap’s key components and engage in activities that highlight strategies for fostering literacy development across all grade levels, with a particular focus on supporting English learners. The session will emphasize practical approaches for incorporating equity, culturally responsive teaching, and targeted strategies to meet the needs of all learners in literacy instruction. By the end of the day, you’ll gain actionable insights and tools to begin aligning your practices with the roadmap’s principles.

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February 22 – Book Club: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online

Join us January 15 and February 22, 2025 from 4:30-5:30 PST for book club to discuss media literacy and the book, Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, written by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg

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February 25-26 & March 6 – California Reading & Literature Project at UCI: Learning How English Works Open Institute

Learn more about how CRLP’s Learning How English Works can help educators identify the language demands of classroom tasks and student language production, explore linguistically-responsive routines that are ELD standards-aligned to engage students in content and language learning, collaboratively analyze student work and consider instructional responses based on their use of language.

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March 5 – Irvine Math Project Elevate Your Teaching: Equivalent Fractions and Fraction Addition

This PD session is focused on grades 4-5 teachers, understanding how to progress from the concrete to pictorial to abstract using multiple representations to develop fluency with fraction equivalence and addition. This PD session is free to 3 teachers for invited districts only.

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March 5 – Irvine Math Project Elevate Your Teaching: Grades 4-5 Fractions

This is a one day, stand-alone session on fraction equivalence and addition/subtraction of fractions. IMP is inviting approximately 15 OC districts with which we have not worked recently to send up to three teachers or TOSAs. This is intended to introduce or reintroduce ourselves to these districts and hopefully begin a dialogue about their math PD needs.

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March 8 – UCI Science Project Computer Science Community of Practice

The UCI Science Project is exploring strategies and structures to develop teacher efficacy and understanding of computer science for upper elementary to middle school STEM teachers by establishing a Community of Practice (CoP) during the 2024-2025 school year. This CoP will focus on three primary outcomes:

• Integration of Computational Thinking Practices into STEM pedagogy
• Shared understanding of approaches to embed computer science topics, ideas and experiences into classroom practice
• Increased collective teacher efficacy towards computing.

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March 12 – Irvine Math Project Elevate Your Teaching: Systems of Equations

This PD session is targeted at grades 8 or IM 1/Algebra I teachers to understand how to progress from the concrete to the pictorial to the abstract using multiple representations to develop fluency in solving systems of linear equations. This PD session is free to 3 teachers from invited districts only.

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