The Alabama State Department of Education's MEGA 2026 Conference 2026 is a week-long, in-person event that provides attendees with opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions, participate in in-depth training sessions, and learn from leading experts across the education spectrum.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learning For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.The K-5 2019 Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics Overview is professional learning for elementary teachers, special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and elementary math coaches. The 3-hour session focuses on understanding the new 2019 Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics and its conceptual framework: Position Statements, Mathematical Teaching Practices, Student Mathematical Practices and the K-5 Content Areas.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learningAPLDS For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.During this 1-day session, participants will explore the structure of the 2023 Alabama Course of Study: Science, including the conceptual framework, position statements, and how to interpret the content standards. This professional learning opportunity will also allow participants to develop a deeper understanding of the three dimensions associated with each content standard: disciplinary core ideas, scientific and engineering practices, and crosscutting concepts.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learningAPLDS For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.The 8*8 Math Practices series takes teachers and school administrators through a deep dive into the eight student mathematical practices and eight effective math teaching practices from the Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics. In the discourse and student thinking session, teachers will experience four of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices, including discourse, questioning, productive struggle, and student thinking.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learning For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.The 8*8 Math Practices series takes teachers and school administrators through a deep dive into the eight student mathematical practices and eight effective math teaching practices from the Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics. In the doing mathematics session, teachers will experience four of the eight student mathematical practices, including modeling with mathematics, using appropriate tools, making use of structure, and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learning For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.The 8*8 Math Practices series takes teachers and school administrators through a deep dive into the eight student mathematical practices and eight effective math teaching practices from the Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics. In the reasoning session, teachers will experience four of the eight student mathematical practices, including making sense of problems, attending to precision, reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, and constructing arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learningAPLDS For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.The 8*8 Math Practices series takes teachers and school administrators through a deep dive into the eight student mathematical practices and eight effective math teaching practices from the Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics. In the understanding and worthwhile task session, teachers will experience four of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices, including establishing goals, implementing tasks, connecting representations, and building procedural fluency from conceptual understanding.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learningAPLDS For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.This 1/2-day PLO deeply delves into Maslow's hierarchy of needs and how it relates to educator wellness and inspiring students. We will explore self-care strategies educators can use to promote physical, mental, social, and emotional wellness.

AMSTI professional learning courses can only be taken once for To view a calendar of events and REGISTER for this professional learning experience, please go to the link: https://www.amsti.org/professional-learningAPLDS For questions, please contact your AMSTI facilitator.This one-day session focuses on mathematical routines and is intended to motivate teachers to use routines to promote sense-making. Consistent use of routines connects to Student Mathematical Practice and ALCOS standards, provides formative assessment, and supports the development of conceptual understanding through student sense-making, reasoning, and discourse.

How do we prioritize and plan for K-5 math instruction when there are so many standards and all of them are important? Join us to dive into the newly released list of critical standards and AMSTI's updated resources to support the 2019 ALCOS: Math. Participants will use these tools to discuss ALCOS implementation for math grade-level planning and classroom instruction.