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January 2021
Active Reading and Writing for Middle and High School webinar series
The Western Montana CSPD is hosting this free three-part webinar series with presenter Yolanda Westerberg. This training will show teachers how to use the Two-Column Note systems within all content areas to (1) enhance students’ comprehension of text as they process, organize, and restate information, (2) encourage metacognition as students actively identify and organize main ideas and key supporting details, and (3) gather and organizing information to write from a variety of sources. Active reading strategies and teaching academic vocabulary…
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Early Childhood/Preschool Instruction Series webinars: Intentional Planning for Math Focusing on the Predictive Indicators for School Success
The Western Montana CSDP is hosting this series of early childhood/preschool instruction webinars with presenter Stephanie Lester. Each webinar can be taken independently or as part of the series. Topics range from phonological awareness to number sense. Visit the CSPD’s website for more information, you can register here to attend one or more of the series. This session’s topic is Intentional Planning for Math Focusing on the Predictive Indicators for School Success. Number sense is linked to future math achievement…
Find out more »Early Childhood/Preschool Instruction Series webinars: Developing Children’s Number Sense
The Western Montana CSDP is hosting this series of early childhood/preschool instruction webinars with presenter Stephanie Lester. Each webinar can be taken independently or as part of the series. Topics range from phonological awareness to number sense. Visit the CSPD’s website for more information, you can register here to attend one or more of the series. This session’s topic is Developing Children’s Number Sense. Number sense—or a child’s “fluidity and flexibility with numbers” (Gersten & Chard, 2001)—is a critical readiness…
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