Leadership & Strategies
Ms. Laura Kile, Coldspring-Oakhurst High School
Curriculum and Instruction, M.Ed.
Robert Marzano
- Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback
- Summarizing and Note Taking
- Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers
- Cooperative Learning
- Modeling, Feedback, Celebration
The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction, 2007
- Engagement and Academic Achievement
- Organization of Classroom, Policies, Assignments, Expectations
- Creating a Culture of Respect to Maintain Effective Relationships with Students
- Communicate High Expectations for All
Ruby Payne
- Hidden Rules Among Classes
- Characteristics of Generational Poverty
- Role Models and Emotional Resources
- Creating Relationships
Gretchen Bernabei
Discover Writing: Revising the Essay
Strategies to Foster Strong Writers, Training Summer 2010, Fall 2012
Specific Targets: STAAR Writing, ELLs
- Kernal Essay: http://goo.gl/iqQfO
- Color Coding Elements of Writing
- Eight Minute Essay
"Evaluate your role as a teacher: go from being a sage on stage to a guide by their side."
Kimberly Howard, Richardson ISD
TCEA, #flipclass
@KdHoward2Components of Effective Classrooms
- Clearly designed and well-articulated expectations
- Collaborative Elements: "work smarter, not harder!"
- Stability, yet Surprise
- Rigor and Higher Order Thinking
- Project Based Learning
- Meaningful Assessments
Kile's Top Five Favorite Strategies & Activities
2. Think, Pair, Share
3. Jigsaw (with Google Docs collaborative notes element)
4. Create Your Own Quiz
5. Online Class Discussion/Debate
Additional Leadership Roles
C-OCISD GAFE & Other Training Led
Google Apps for Education, 2011-2013
- Piloted on campus and embedded in class 2011; Google Certified Trainer (status pending)
- High School Staff Trainings, 2011-2013: GAFE, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Calendars, Google Chrome
- Spring Tech Challenge 2013: https://www.smore.com/b50x
Region VI Techno Ninja Academy, October 2012
Co-Presenter with Kellie Lahey
Presentation site: Google Apps Get-n-Go!
- New Teachers: Gradespeed: http://goo.gl/3vjHQ
- District: Technology Tips and Tricks: http://goo.gl/U5vFL
Informal Staff Training
- Classroom Management Strategies for mentored teachers and teachers with growth plans
- Google, Chromebooks, Edmodo, Animoto, Twitter
- Strategies for teaching Advanced Placement and Gifted and Talented to increase rigor
North Texas Leadership Training for Christ
Event Coordinator since 2011; particpant since 1996
- Purpose: promote and foster leadership in youth
- Participants: Convention: 3,000 students 3-12 grade, over 200 churches; Puppets Event: 1,500 students, 240 teams
- Role: lead, organize, and schedule teams of students and judges for three day annual convention
Techs4Tex
Established 2013, #techs4tex
Board Member
https://sites.google.com/site/techs4tex/
Texas Google Summit, May 17-18, Lone Star College, The Woodlands
Event Planner and Presenter
"Whatever it Takes, We Educate!"
Contact Information
Resume: http://goo.gl/rbtmF
Smore: tinyurl.com/kilesmore
Email: lkile@cocisd.org
Location: Coldspring, TX
Twitter: @mslkile