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Catalyst Summer Trainings Calendar

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Catalyst Summer Trainings At a Glance

Who Can Attend:  Invite Only (Please View Invite Here)--Certified and Demo Benchmark Teachers, Secondary Catalyst Cohorts, Resident Coaches, Admin

Description: Support the success of individual students by selecting relevant strategies to implement and reflecting on the impact they have on keeping students functioning members of the group.

The impact of trauma on a student’s brain often results in unmet needs in their school environment. Teachers who understand this impact and implement intervention and accommodation strategies are able to increase the student’s sense of safety and empowerment in the classroom. This course provides an opportunity to deeply analyze the needs of an individual student matched to relevant strategies.

Attendance to this course will:

·  Understand the impact of trauma experiences on brain development

·  Utilize strategies to reduce students’ stress response

·  Increase their ability to self-regulate in order to positively influence students’ future brain pathways

·  Connect adult actions to their impact on students’ mental states

·  Establish routines and procedures that create a predictable learning environment

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Who Can Attend: Teachers, Admin, and Support Staff from ECSE, Explorer Academy, Self-Contained environments, and Setting C environments.

Description: Support the success of individual students by selecting relevant strategies to implement and reflecting on the impact they have on keeping students functioning members of the group.

The impact of trauma on a student’s brain often results in unmet needs in their school environment. Teachers who understand this impact and implement intervention and accommodation strategies are able to increase the student’s sense of safety and empowerment in the classroom. This course provides an opportunity to deeply analyze the needs of an individual student matched to relevant strategies.

Attendance to this course will:

·  Understand the impact of trauma experiences on brain development

·  Utilize strategies to reduce students’ stress response

·  Increase their ability to self-regulate in order to positively influence students’ future brain pathways

·  Connect adult actions to their impact on students’ mental states

·  Establish routines and procedures that create a predictable learning environment

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Who Can Attend: Any teacher who teaches small groups of students.

Description: Maximize learning and engagement for the entire class during small group instruction.

Implementing small group instruction requires an understanding of one of the most complex formats a teacher encounters, especially when they are responsible to both the whole class and the small group learning at the same time. Management of routines, procedures, and behavior is a prerequisite to effectively differentiating curriculum and meeting all students’ needs. This course will ensure teachers are prepared to apply specific strategies that promote success for the students.

Attendance to this course will allow you to:

·  Apply management strategies to increase effectiveness of small group instruction.

·  Apply management strategies to increase effectiveness of whole group instruction and independence

·  Establish routines and procedures that create a predictable learning environment

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There are three different Foundations trainings geared at specific groups. Teachers will need to choose the Foundations course that suits their needs best.

Who Can Attend: Any Teacher, coach, or admin can attend this training, even if the teacher, coach, or admin has taken this course before.

*Grad Credit, Stipend, and CEU available and depends on if the course was previously taken

Description: Develop a variety of easy and practical behavior management strategies that really work.

Through self-paced online training videos, articles, and reflection exercises, you will learn strategies to strengthen relationships, increase equity, reduce frustration, and foster independence in the classroom. These effective strategies are based on more than 50,000 classroom observations.

Course participants will leave this workshop with a set of foundational tools that are immediately useable and focused on classroom management. The tools will support all students while using purposeful and deliberate communication to strengthen student voice, ownership, and independence with curriculum.

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PREREQUISITE: WHOLE GROUP CLASSROOM LEADERSHIP: FOUNDATIONS

Extend the learning beyond the Foundational Skills for even better results.

In this course, you will learn additional patterns of powerful communication strategies to further preserve the strongest leverage point of educators: relationships.

 Attendance in this course will allow participants to:

·     Be even more proactive and equitable in their practice

·     Develop approaches to support individuals and keep the rest of the group engaged in learning simultaneously

·     Support the facilitations of group discussions and solicit student sharing

·     Keep the focus on relationships instead of student behavior

·     Reduce surprise in the classroom

Please Bring: Writing utensils, snacks, beverages

Lunch: One hour, on your own

Attendance Options:

• 1 Grad Credit - OR -

• 7 CEUs - OR -

• Stipend at Appendix C

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Who is this training for?

• Paraeducators

• Support Staff

• PBIs and PBTs

Explore communication strategies that empower you to support the students in the classroom that most rely on you

This interactive and engaging course offers real world, tangible examples, purposeful reflection, and opportunities to collaborate and practice with other educators who are committed to preserving relationships, increasing engagement, and having more curriculum time for their students. 

Attendance in this course will allow you to:

·     Be even more proactive and equitable in your practice

·     Support the classroom teacher in managing individuals and the group

·     Increase flexibility and reduce surprise

·     Keep the focus on relationship instead of student behavior

·     Support individuals while increasing independence 

·     Work collaboratively with teachers to send a consistent message

·     Know when to work independently from the teacher while supporting the same goals

Attendance Options PARAS:

• First Time Taking Course: Hourly Rate of Pay

• Second Time Taking Course: If you have attended this course during either the 2021-2022 or the 2022-2023 school year, or attended the August 16, 2023 Supporting Whole Group Training, attendance will be on your own time and there will be no payment for attendance

Kickup Link August 16, 2023

Kickup Link August 22, 2023

In the Foundational Skills Review, the contexts, skills, and strategies learned at the Whole Group Leadership Foundational Skills and the Supporting Whole Group Leadership Foundational skills are reviewed.  They can be broken down into chunks and reviewed completely, or can just reviewed one context at a time as the need arises.

If you are interested in knowing more about a specific Beyond the Foundations skill, this training can be tailored specifically to what your school needs and can be quick and concise.

S.L.I.M.E training for paras and support staff covers entering spaces with and without students to ensure success in the classroom for all.