Registration is now closed for the 2006-07 professional development series, Assessing for Learning. 

After analyzing data from the 2005-06 Benchmark Assessments, SDE and WIN staff determined there are six areas of weakness:  main idea, inference, figurative language, stylistic elements, point of view, and vocabulary. WIN consultants will provide instructional strategies to help teachers improve student achievement with special emphasis on these six areas of weakness during the year-long series of regional sessions. 
  

September Series:  Figurative Language (Irony) and Inference

• Columbia, 13^th 
• Florence, 21^st
• Columbia, 28^th (See photos from this workshop)
   

November Series:  Elements of Style and Inference

• Columbia, 6^th
• Florence, 9^th
• Columbia, 13^th
   

January Series: Point of View, Elements of Style, Inference, and Video Clips

• Columbia, 17^th
• Florence, 22^nd
• Columbia, 31^st

March Series:  Vocabulary

• Columbia, 7^th
• Florence, 15^th
• Columbia, 21st
   

Of the 31 participating schools, 13 have registered for onsite services with WIN consultants.  Each of these 13 schools will receive 6 school-level sessions between October 2006 and March 2007. 
  

WIN consultants are developing support documents that will provide additional information related to each regional session.  These notebooks will be available at the January sessions.

Click here for the Project Overview PowerPoint Presentation used during September series. 

Click here for Impact data for schools receiving WIN’s services in 2005-06.