WISD Staff Development Always Centers Around Students Welfare.
     WALLER ISD- All WISD PreK- 12 grade teachers and instructional paraprofessionals attended a two day staff development conference on August 19 and 20 at WHS.  19 Workshop topics and 111 sessions were offered lasting 1.5 - 3 hours each session. Sessions offered included Bilingual Balanced Literacy, Breaking Poverty Barriers, Capturing Kids Hearts, Dating Violence, De-Escalating Violent Acts, Developmental Reading Assessment Training, Drug and Drug Paraphernalia Awareness, Effectively Using Student Journals in the Science Classroom, ESL/ELL Characteristics and Approaches, Gang Awareness, Making Connections by Building Strong Student-Teacher Relationships, Margaret Kilgo’s Instruction and Scope and Sequence Analysis for ELS, Reading, Mathematics and Science, Mastering Basic Access to District TAKS Assessment/Performance Data System, Multisensory Grammar, SIOP Refresher Training, Successful Writing Strategies and Activities for Elementary ELLs, and Understanding the Dual Language Program.