School Improvement 101- Designing Empathy Interviews

Wednesday June 9, 2021 | 10:00-11:30am

Are you reaching the students and families you need to hear from most? Empathy interviews are a great strategy for connecting with fresh perspectives from your community. In this webinar you’ll learn about how to design empathy interview questions and design some of your own with help from colleagues from across the state. You’ll also learn a protocol to keep equity at the forefront as you consider the results. We have an awesome guest, Bethany Martinez from the Wahluke School District who will be sharing how she’s used empathy interviews to engage multilingual student, family, and community voice. 

School Improvement 201 - Driving Equitable Supports with the Tiered Fidelity Inventory

Wednesday June 9, 2021 | 3:00-4:30pm

How’s your team operating? Do you have a system that guides students to the right student supports? Do you know if the supports you’re offering are working? The Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) is a great tool to evaluate your team’s progress toward practices for continuous improvement and tiered supports. You can use this survey throughout the year with your team to set goals and monitor your progress. In this session we’re bringing you OSPI’s RJ Monton who will be talking about how he’s used the Tiered Fidelity Inventory with schools and how it’s impacted their practice. 

Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities

We want to support your full participation. To arrange accommodations for persons with disabilities, please contact Kefi Andersen and Bonnie Zimmerman by email, kefi.andersen@k12.wa.us and bonnie.zimmerman@k12.wa.us within 3 business days of this event. Please note that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not require OSPI to take any action that would fundamentally alter the nature of its programs or services, or impose an undue financial or administrative burden. 

Register for GATE Equity Webinars and 3 Free Clock Hours

1. Register for morning sessions: GATE Equity Webinar 101 – you only have to do this once for each school year. Zoom will email you the day before the webinar with a link to join the session.
2. Register for afternoon sessions: GATE Equity Webinar 201 – you only have to do this once for each school year. Zoom will email you the day before the webinar with a link to join the session.
3. Register monthly for your 3 Free Clock Hours on pdEnroller. Check our website for the link. It is updated by the first day of each month for that month’s topic.  Attend one or both sessions live ~ they are not the same webinar. Each is worth 1.5 clock hours. 
4. Clock hours will be awarded based on actual attendance time, when we have verified your attendance. This process takes a few days after the webinar.
5. pdEnroller sends you an email with a link to a short survey.  Complete and submit this survey.  
6. Clock hours are released to transcript and you can print a copy of them from your pdEnroller account if needed.
7. Clock Hours on pdEnroller are automatically transferred to your E-Certification the night all attendance steps are complete.  For more information on this, see this overview.

We cannot offer clock hours for viewing the videos after the fact, only for live attendance. 

Questions about this process? Contact ronnie.larson@k12.wa.us