2025 GOCSD Innovation Summit

Come elevate your current practices on how to balance rigor, relationship building, routines, rituals, and maximize student potential in your classroom. Come see how microshifts can make MACRO progress and performance.

Interactive read-alouds are a powerful way to build language comprehension, but teachers need the right tools to make them impactful. In this session, discover how to develop interactive read-aloud guides and text sets that support vocabulary, background knowledge, and critical thinking. We’ll share our process for creating resources that help our K-3 teachers explicitly teach the language side of Scarborough’s Reading Rope. Walk away with practical strategies and a clear framework for designing read-aloud supports. By the end of this session, participants will understand how to develop and implement interactive read-aloud guides that strengthen comprehension across classrooms.

Looking for strategies to strengthen literacy instruction in your district? Have questions about RSPs? Join us for a collaborative session designed for educators supporting literacy development. Connect with colleagues, gain practical insights, and leave with ideas to implement in your schools. This meeting will serve as the GoLiteracy Network’s first meeting of 2025-26.

In this session, we'll dive into two powerful strategies from Marzano's framework to engage reluctant learners and boost classroom participation. Learn how to craft and ask in-depth questions that spark curiosity and encourage critical thinking, while also exploring techniques to increase response rates from students who are hesitant to participate. Through practical tips and actionable strategies, you'll walk away with tools to foster a more interactive and inclusive learning environment, ensuring every student has a voice.

This high-energy BOOM session will walk attendees through four powerful leadership systems designed to streamline operations, empower teacher leaders, and build sustainable structures that save time and reduce stress. Each segment will be fast-paced and full of ready-to-use templates, calendars, tools, and ideas to take back immediately. When the timer buzzes, the next topic begins—whether you’re ready or not! At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to implement at least three time-saving systems in their building or department that support instructional leadership, culture building, and staff empowerment.