Early Career Teaching Institute: Full Schedule

Welcome to ECTI 2026! You will be able to register for individual workshop sessions on Monday during our intention setting session.

8:45am CDT

Constructing Age-Accessible Learning about Mass Violence Though Students Perspectives

Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:45am - 10:15am CDT

Discovery Building: Steenbock's On Orchard

LEARN FROM INCREDIBLE STUDENTS! This session, co-led with student presenters, will support educators in teaching difficult histories of mass violence and/or genocide in ways that are accessible for their students. Participants will explore this new concept and students' understandings of it to consider how their own values, contexts, students, and assumptions shape their own ideas. Then, by analyzing and reflecting on student-generated data, participants will consider the connections and tensions between their conceptions and students’. Finally, they will work together to identify and modify part of a lesson to make it more age-accessible. This session aims to empower teachers in their capacity to facilitate the learning of complex and emotionally-provocative histories more broadly by centering the voices of students in their decisions-making.

In this session, you will:

Reflect, discuss, and identify what age-accessible learning looks like in your classroom.

Compare and contrast your notions of age-accessibility to students’.

Indentify or draft learning opportunities about/through difficult histories that are age-accessible for your students.

Presenters

Dr. Irene Ann Resenly

Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education, Purdue Univerity

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Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:45am - 10:15am CDT
Discovery Building: Steenbock's On Orchard 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715, USA

Workshop

Pedagogy & Learning Design Student-Centered Pedagogy, Assessment & Data
Curriculum & Content Areas Social Studies
Professional Practice Reflective Practice

1:15pm CDT

Analyzing Student Learning in Coaching/Mentoring Conversations

Tuesday July 28, 2026 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT

Computer Sciences and Statistics: Room 1221

How can we use data to support coaching/mentoring conversations and plan for differentiation in the classroom? We'll focus on building a culture of collaboration, collective efficacy, reflective practice, and teacher ownership of student learning through utilizing data to inform coaching/mentoring practices. We will dive into formative assessments and analyzing student learning to inform next steps in instruction through coaching/mentoring conversations or in a cycle.

In this session, you will:

Use the analyzing student learning template from the Dane County New Teacher Project.

Use the results of an ASL tool to collaborate with student teachers on differentiation and instructional next steps.

Use coaching moves and questions in planning conversations.

Presenters

Lisa Hennessey

Teaching Faculty and Secondary Math Program Coordinator, UW-Madison

Pro-active | Communicator | Organized | Coach | Problem-solverDetermined lifelong learner and educator. Dedicated to leading team and individual growth and development, centering equity. Warm demander in all relationships.My purpose is to ensure that all students are seen and valued... Read More →

Tuesday July 28, 2026 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT
Computer Sciences and Statistics: Room 1221 Computer Sciences and Statistics, Madison, WI 53715, USA

CT ONLY Workshop

Learner Populations Teacher Preparation
Pedagogy & Learning Design Assessment & Data
Professional Practice Coaching & Mentoring

10:30am CDT

Prioritizing Growth: Your students' and your own

Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT

Computer Sciences and Statistics: Room 1263

Growth motivates better than compliance. We will look at how to use standards to: assess growth, involve students in their own progress monitoring, use formative assessments to drive instruction, engage planning teams in student-centered planning, and use coaching supports to continuously improve practice.

In this session, you will:

Understand the importance of using student learning to drive instruction.

Be an advocate on veteran teams for student-centered planning.

Understand the importance of being a reflective practitioner.

Presenters

Kathleen Doherty

Lecturer (Retired MMSD New Educator Mentor & Instructional Coach), UW-Madison LaFollette School of Public Affairs

I've been involved in K-12 education for more than 30 years, 25 with MMSD. I've worked in a range of positions: a middle and high school social studies teacher; curriculum, technology & learning consultant; new educator mentor; and instructional coach. I believe strongly in the power... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Computer Sciences and Statistics: Room 1263

Workshop

Pedagogy & Learning Design Student-Centered Pedagogy, Assessment & Data
Professional Practice Staff Collaboration, Reflective Practice

1:15pm CDT

Navigating Educator Effectiveness: Professional Development through Teacher Evaluations

Wednesday July 29, 2026 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT

Discovery Building: Room 1170

Research shows that teacher evaluation is professional responsibility that often causes stress, confusion, and leads to cognitive dissonances between teaching philosophies and practice (Potter, 2024; Robinson, 2019). This session will explore common criteria and methods of teacher evaluation frameworks to build greater understanding of how educators are assessed for effectiveness (Stronge, 2014; Danielson, 2022). By gaining a more clear understanding of what goes into evaluations, teachers, particularly in their early career, can build a healthy relationship with these processes and shift their mindset from one of compliance to working toward professional growth. In this session, participants will explore and practice ways to operationalize the processes of teacher evaluation as a means for their own professional development. This session will look at how teaching content and practices connect to evaluation frameworks, and how the feedback teachers receive can be turned into professional goals as a means to improve practice and student achievement.

In this session, you will:

Understand the criteria and methods commonly used in teacher evaluation.

Connect teacher evaluation criteria and frameworks to practices already in use.

Consider how teacher evaluation can be used as a means of professional development rather than for accountability and compliance.

Presenters

Evan Metcalf

Graduate Student- Mead Witter School of Music, UW-Madison

Wednesday July 29, 2026 1:15pm - 2:45pm CDT
Discovery Building: Room 1170 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715, USA

Workshop

Pedagogy & Learning Design Assessment & Data
Professional Practice Reflective Practice

Early Career Teaching Institute

8:45am CDT

Dr. Irene Ann Resenly

1:15pm CDT

Lisa Hennessey

10:30am CDT

Kathleen Doherty

1:15pm CDT

Evan Metcalf

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