The Aurora Learning Community Association (ALCA) is excited to announce our first annual ALCA Conference to be held February 24, 2010, at the Moore-Norman Technology Center's South Penn Conference Center, 13301 S Penn, Oklahoma City.

 

The pre-registration is $100 per participant up to February 8, 2010.  After the 8th, the cost for registration will be $120.
UPDATE:  Due to the effects of the weather on many of our districts, we are extending the pre-registration ($100) to Wednesday, February 17th.

 

Register online for the conference today!

 

 

Details: 

This unique conference provides valuable information and discussions in five strands supporting your Professional Learning Community's (PLC) focus on Standards, Curriculum, and Assessments. All professional staff including administrators, curriculum and IT coordinators, counselors, and teachers will greatly benefit.  

 

The conference sessions will be presented twice. To ensure your organization gets the most from the conference, a minimum of three participants is encouraged. In this way your team will benefit from all the sessions. 

 

Below are summaries of the five Strands.

 

Session: Comprehend State Data

Session: Comprehend EPAS, WIDA

Discover how to easily analyze your Oklahoma Core Curriculum Testing (OCCT), ACT EPAS, and WIDA data to impact student learning and provide a common discussion within your PLC.

 

Session: Standards Mapping: Unwrapping Standards

Session: Standards Mapping: Wrapping Standards

ALCA is introducing Standards Mapping, a powerful process for unwrapping and then wrapping standards and objectives around any educational resource or process.  Discover how to use the Standards Mapping process to quickly and easily align your curriculum standards (K12) and Career Cluster Knowledge and Skills (Career Tech) to tasks, test items, rubrics, curriculum, instructional plans, and other resources.  Standards Mapping supports and simplifies a district’s existing or planned curriculum mapping efforts. 

 

Session: Planning a Standards-wrapped Task

Session: Planning a Standards-wrapped Unit

For planning to be successful, learning tasks have to address differentiation, scheduling, sequencing, aligned standards that are wrapped, resources, appropriate assessments that may include rubrics, pre, post, or common assessments, automated Response To Intervention (RTI), collaborative development and sharing, tracking instructional time, and parental or professional mentor involvement.

To simplify this discussion, these topics will be addressed using the ALCA Planner.

 

Session: To T-Learn, B-Learn or E-Learn with iCAT

Session: To T-Learn, B-Learn or E-Learn with ALCA

The ALCA Manager will be used to discuss easy implementation of the Plan supporting b-learning (blended or online plus face-to-face), e-learning (online, not face-to-face) and t-learning (traditional or face-to-face only) This includes management of assigning student tasks, access to student progress on tasks, student support for task completion, grading, automated grading of tests, assessments using grade book features, student membership within a course, individual or group discussions (private or public), online rubric-based assessments, resources, and instruction process such as web content, form data, and collaborative development.

 

Session: Micro-Collaboration (Individual + Friends)

Session: Macro-Collaboration (Multiple Teams Coordinated)

Collaboration can take on a broad range of activities.  If done well, it can lead to powerful learning and professional growth. In ALCA, collaboration can be individual such as sharing learning blogs and wikis.  It can also support professional teams and communities within district to state-wide initiatives.  Discover the broad range of possibilities that are practical and even fun as an ALCA member.