**NEW** - Executive Function and Self-Regulation - We use executive function when we perform such activities as planning, organizing, strategizing and paying attention to and remembering details. Students with executive function problems have difficulty with planning, organizing and managing time and space. This module is designed to provide an understanding of executive function and self-regulation and offer practical strategies for addressing related issues. Recommended grades 5-12. Approximately 2 hours. Contact: Peggy Rohan
**NEW** - Read & Write for Google Extension - This session focuses on a great accessibility tool available to all students in De Pere. You will learn how it can assist students with their writing on Google Docs and their researching on websites. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Josh Gauthier
**LIVE** - The Form to Sheets Workflow - Data collection has been a hot topic in the past few years. Paras and teachers alike are looking for ways to better track information. The goal of this session is to make you feel comfortable setting up a simple Google Form, understanding the connection to Sheets, and being able to do some basic sorting on the Sheet level to quickly find and organize the information. Tuesday June 2nd 1pm. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Josh Gauthier
**NEW** - Adobe Spark - Adobe Spark is an easy to use design website that can be used to create things such as collages, presentations, videos, and websites. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Cara Krebsbach
**NEW** - Code.org - Learn how to support students navigate to and around code.org in this brief video. Approximately 30 minutes. Contact: Cara Krebsbach
Top Ten: Go to strategies to use for educational assistants article - approximately 30 minutes. Contact: Jerry Nicholson
DPI Social Emotional Competencies Training - approximately 1 hour. Contact: Jerry Nicholson
DPI Trauma Based Care Tier 1 - approximately 9 hours. Contact: Jerry Nicholson
DPI Trauma Based Care Tier 2 and 3 - approximately 6 hours. Contact: Jerry Nicholson
Scaffolded Writing Instruction - This session will provide you with an understanding of the aims and goals of writing instruction in De Pere with strategies for how to support students in their writing. Approximately 1-2 hours. Contact: Peggy Rohan
**HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR K-4 PARA** Process of Learning High Frequency Words - This session will show you why it is important to teach students high frequency words and provide steps for teaching words so students will remember them. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Jessie Specht
Building Oral Reading Fluency - Helping our students become fluent is critical for proficient and motivated reading. Increase your knowledge about fluency, a critical element of reading often overlooked for students in the intermediate grades and beyond. Recommended for Grades 4-8. Approximately 90 minutes. Contact: Peggy Rohan
Beyond Sound It Out in Reading - Not all errors a student makes when reading are the same. This session explores the different kinds of errors students make and provides prompts for you to say to students, depending on their errors. . Recommended for grades K-4. Approximately 90 minutes. Contact: Jessie Specht
Structuring Numbers - Overview of breaking apart numbers to 20 and importance of being able to apply structuring to problem solving. Will also demonstrate how to use tools to leverage new learning if the child is unsuccessful or inefficient when structuring numbers. Recommended K-4. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Clarissa Wall
Learned Helplessness - One area of struggle for our learnings with special needs is the conditioning over time to wait until someone else does it for them. This session will provide strategies and resources to combat this in students and build more self-efficacy in our learners. Approximately 1-2 hours. Contact: Peggy Rohan
Understanding Equity and Inequity - This course explores the definition of equity and explores the importance of moving from mitigative equity action to transformative equity action. Approximately 90 minutes. Contact: Jane Mathes
Learning to be a Threat to Inequity -This course focuses on learning the aspects of an equity literacy framework. Approximately 2 hours. Contact: Jane Mathes
Understanding the IEP at a Glance Form - This session will take a close look at the components in the IEP at a Glance Form and how you as a paraprofessional can use this information to support students. Tuesday, May 26 at 11:00 am. Recommended grades 5-12. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Jane Mathes.
Insights into Students Who Test You - Appreciate the importance of building relationships with your students while at the same time helping them to manage their own behavior. Gain insight into dealing with students who test you, including learning different positions of control and questioning routines (30-second interventions). Approximately 45 minutes. Contact: Peggy Rohan
An Intro to Google Classroom - In our current environment, Google Classroom is the main hub for almost every class from grade 3 up to grade 12. This is where assignments are posted, submitted, and assessed. To better assist teachers and students, this session will help get you familiar with how to use Google Classroom and how students flow through it. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Josh Gauthier
An Intro to Google Docs - Google Docs is our main tool for writing anything from essays to filling out a graphic organizer. This session will familiarize you with the many tools that exist, as well as some tips and tricks for how to be more efficient and troubleshoot issues. Live stream on Thursday, May 14th at 1pm. Contact: Josh Gauthier
Google Drive Basics - Learn the basics of Google Drive to support students as they navigate Drive and organize their work. Approximately 15 minutes. Contact: Cara Krebsbach
All About Google Slides - Support student creativity by learning how to use various tools within Google Slides that will come in handy when creating presentations and projects. Approximately 45 minutes. Contact: Cara Krebsbach
Improve Your Gmail Skills - You use Gmail every day, but are you really using it as efficiently as you could be? This sessions will cover the main features and tips that could help make your email life a little bit less crazy. Tuesday, May 19th, 1pm. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Josh Gauthier
The Grand Chromebook Tour - Chromebooks are the dominant device in our schools. This session will aim to make sure you know the key features of this device, including built in applications, important keyboard shortcuts, and crucial settings. Thursday, May 19th, 1pm. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Josh Gauthier
An Introduction to Google Meet - Google Meet has been the primary way our teachers and students have been communication "face to face". Join this session to learn the different ways to create a Meet, options within a meeting, and best practices. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Josh Gauthier
Seesaw Beginners - Become familiar with the student side of Seesaw while learning how students access activities and how they can use Seesaw's tools to show their learning. Primarily used Kindergarten through Fourth Grade. Approximately 45 minutes. Contact: Cara Krebsbach
Digital Citizenship for Everyone - Students and teachers are encouraged more and more to be smarter about how they interact and create using online tools. This session will cover important concepts like Fair Use and Creative Commons, Netiquette, and Proper Sourcing. Recommended grades 5-12. Approximately 1 hour. Contact: Josh Gauthier