Participants will increase their understanding of executive functioning and the role it plays in engagement for learning. The day will include learning time, team time, reflection, and action.

8:00 Welcome and Sign-in 

8:10 Overview of day and connections with Strategic Plan

    Participants will create intentional connections between learning targets and strategic plan

8:30 Strategies to set the stage and Executive Functioning

Plan - Do - Review and Choice - Own - Reflect

The Plan-Do Review process incorporates Metacognition and Relationships

Participants will review Plan - do - review protocol and identify how they will use it to guide their learning and how they will use in their classrooms

Engagement: Participants will review engagement models and student agency

9:00 (Participants will choose from the following options)

• Strategies for serving students with extreme behaviors

  • Obstinate/Defiant Participants will learn strategies for supporting students with obstinate or defiant behaviors and how to avoid power struggles.

  • Increasing relevance/value for learning Participants will review The Will to Learn Value section and identify how to use value/relevance to increase engagement

  • De-escalation strategies Participants will learn de-escalation strategies 

10:00-11:00 - Plan

Using the Plan - Do - Review template, teams will dive into areas presented and determine how they will integrate and use them

11:15 check in - Identify what supports are needed for the afternoon to be as productive as possible.

11:30- 12:00 - Lunch

12:00 Do

Teams will create learning design with students in mind incorporating SEL, relationships, data collection and data use that lead to high engagement and relevance

2:15 -3:15 Review and Reflect, Share - connect

Participants will share their work and next steps reflecting on their collaboration and learning.