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MTSS is made up of several components, including Response to Intervention and Positive Behavior Supports and Interventions.  Training will be designed to support teams to determine current readiness and next steps for MTSS implementation.  Public Consulting Group (PCG) will be providing this training.  Target audience:  District and school teams, principals and district administrators.  (This 2-day training will take place at Warsaw High School)

StrengthsFinder 301 – Strengths in Leadership—October 3, 2017

Participants in the 301 session will work to apply their StrengthsFinder assessment results to grow and improve their leadership capacity.  Activities will be based around diving deeper into individual assessment results to develop an approach to effective leadership practice.  While each participant pursues their unique path to leadership excellence, a focus on leveraging strengths will show participants how to produce genuine and consistent results from their leadership influence. 

11 Research tells us that teachers ask between 200-300 questions per day, and most of those questions are low level.  Join Cindy McKinney as you learn what goes into asking better questions.  Practice strategies using your own current units and produce higher level questions while exploring strategies to make sure everyone in your classroom is heard.  Target audience: teachers at all levels. 

How to navigate, use and create with the following Google tools: Gmail and contacts, drive, docs, sheets, forms, slides, calendar, text hangouts, video hangouts  Collaboration time will be provided.

This workshop provides teachers with hands-on training in Computer Science (“CS”) education. No prior experience in computing is required. Topics covered include computational thinking, a CS word wall, classroom strategies, programming with kids, and lots of “unplugged” classroom activities ready for immediate adoption. Attendees receive free curriculum guides and bling bags from Code.org. Among other take-aways, you will learn that yes- you can teach Computer Science.

How do we get students to be math leaders?  How do we achieve a love of math in our students?  Join Laurie Ferry as she helps us focus on growth mindset in the math classrooms.  Strategies for creating mathematicians in our elementary classrooms will be explored.  Target audience:  elementary teachers of math.          

Join Sandy Adams as she helps content area teachers navigate students understand what they are reading in their classrooms.  Participants will explore 12 different instructional frames that can be adapted to their own content areas and learn how to create SWRL lessons which embeds these frames with technology and critical thinking.  Target audience: middle and high school content area teachers, instructional coaches and principals.

These meetings are open to all member schools and districts.  Curriculum coordinators come together to discuss current events at the state and local level.

Discover the basics of growth mindset from the comfort of your own classroom or home!

• EXPLORE content at your own pace
• REFLECT on your own experiences
• DISCUSS with colleagues
• SUBMIT online reflection
• RECEIVE PGP’s

$30/member   $60/non-member

3 PGP’s earned upon submittal of 3 online reflections

Payment options include:

• Check by mail

• Charge by phone

• PO through school or district

• Schools and district rates available

All K-12 Counselors in Region 8 are invited to join fellow counselors to discuss the challenges and rewards of school counseling!  This year, we will provide time to break into small groups by leve (Elem/MS and HS) so we can drill down even more.

    First meeting, October 31, will be planning topics for the upcoming sessions.