Start Date: January 30, 2023 End Date: March 10, 2023

Location: Google Classroom

This course is designed to be self-paced and you will work independently on these assignments.

The learning intentions of this course are to define trauma, and develop an understanding of how trauma impacts the brain and impacts students in school. Participants will also learn to identify and determine the next steps in responding and reacting to trauma as well as to apply the knowledge to their practice as an educator.

Module 1: Defining Trauma

Module 2: Impact of Trauma on the Brain

Module 3: Impact of Trauma in School

Module 4: Next Steps

Module 5: Reflection & Feedback

Audience: Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: January 31, 2023 Time: 8:30 AM-3:00 PM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

This session will focus on classroom management through a lens of social, emotional and behavioral expectations. Participants will leave with knowledge about how the social, emotional and behavioral expectations that we set for students can impact the classroom dynamic and environment.

Audience: Educators

Presenter: MaryBeth Napolitano

Date: February 15, 2023 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

Do students ignore the feedback you give? Are you looking for ways to create a culture where feedback is utilized and appreciated? Feedback is paramount to learning. This session will provide teachers with the background around a feedback culture and ideas and strategies for giving feedback that is useable and meaningful to students' growth as a learner.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: February 15, 2023 Time: 12:00-3:00 PM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

Are your students struggling to connect to the content? This session will introduce teachers to strategies that can be implemented to create a sense of belonging for students. Creating and cultivating a sense of belonging will encourage curiosity and inquiry mindsets. Current research reveals a direct link between the sense of belonging students experience and their persistence in their classes.

Audience: K-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: February 28, 2023 Time: 8:30-11:30

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

Games have been used as a learning tool for a long, long time. It helps to keep learning engaging and motivating. Now more than ever, students need the opportunity to work collaboratively with their peers, and game-based learning is a great way to tie in collaboration. Whether you are working on problem-solving skills, looking for a memorable way to review key concepts, or just want students working together - this session will provide the tools and inspiration you need to turnkey game-based learning in your own classroom. During our time together we will work through 3 topics: Introduction & Reflection, Digital Games, and Physical Games. Within each topic, you will be actively participating in different examples, as well as given time to create meaningful activities that can be used in your classroom. We will conclude our session by sharing our creations with others, so that we may find inspiration and new ideas that can be used at a later date. In addition, you will be given access to pre-created templates that can easily be personalized for any content area. Not only will you walk away from this course with the confidence of knowing that you can implement game-based learning into your curriculum in a way that directly supports student learning while also increasing their engagement, but you will also have the tools necessary to do so!

Audience: Educators

Presenter: Kristin Spinelli, MORIC

Date: February 28, 2023 Time: 12:00-3:00 PM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

Many of you may be familiar with the activity of an escape room. You are locked in a room with other people and in order to get out you must solve a series of puzzles within a given amount of time. In this session, you will learn how to take the fun and engagement of an escape room into your classroom, while directly supporting your students' learning and your curriculum. Using a Breakout EDU, students are tasked with a series of puzzles that they must complete in a pre-determined amount of time. However, instead of looking for a way out of a room, they are attempting to remove locks from a lockbox that has been given to them with a "key” inside. The puzzles students solve, will reveal combinations to the locks on the box provided. Our session will begin with a breakout in which you will be asked to work with others to use your critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills to break out before time runs out! Once you have experienced this activity for yourself, you will then be provided with time and support to start creating your own breakout. The breakout you create will directly support your learners' needs as well as the curriculum you are teaching. In addition, we will also discuss the ways in which you can create digital breakouts that will also directly support your curriculum and student needs while still being fun and engaging. These activities are great for reviewing, or can be used to introduce new topics! Either way, you will leave our time together having a completed breakout, that you can use in your classroom right away!

Audience: Educators

Presenter: Kristin Spinelli, MORIC

Date: May 17, 2023 Time: 8:30-11:30

Location: TBD

Do you ever get those blank stares from your students? Or right after the directions are given students who ask, “What are we supposed to do?” This course will guide participants through creating more clarity for student success. Participants will learn the four dimensions of clarity, the research behind teacher clarity as well as methods for creating more clarity in their classroom expectations.

Audience: Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: March 8, 2023 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

The person who does the most work does the learning. If you’re doing most of the work then you’re doing the learning. This session will help you create an engaging learning environment where students do the learning for themselves by fulling engaging in learning. This session will offer hands-on activities that can be implemented into the classroom immediately. We will discuss strategies for students to take ownership of their own learning, ideas to increase student cooperation, and methods of bringing excitement to your classroom.

Audience: 6-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton & Kelly Cave

Date: March 8, 2023 Time: 12:00-3:00 PM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

The person who does the most work does the learning. If you’re doing most of the work then you’re doing the learning. This session will help you create an engaging learning environment where students are inspired to work and engage in classroom activities. This session will offer hands-on activities that can be implemented into the classroom immediately. We will discuss strategies for students to take ownership of their own learning, ideas to increase student cooperation and methods of bringing excitement to your classroom.

Audience: 6-12 Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton & Kelly Cave

Date: March 14, 2023 Time: 12:00-3:00 PM

Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

Motivation that Works is a session that will discuss strategies and pedagogy around how to engage learners to be motivated. We will discuss how the brain works, the power of creating intrinsic motivators and strategies for building motivation within our students. This session will cover topics around motivation of students to learn and getting them to be success-driven. Teachers will walk away with pedagogical knowledge of motivation in the classroom and ideas for developing student’s desire for success in their learning.

Audience: Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: March 14, 2023 Time: 8:30-11:30 AM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

Do your students struggle to participate in classroom discussions? Are you looking for ways to get them involved in discussions? This session will review several discussion protocols that can be used to leverage student discussion. Research shows that students should do more talking than the teacher in the classroom and this session will help you to discover ways to enhance student engagement in discussions. This session will also address the needs of students who are English Language Learners and strategies to get them involved in classroom discussions.

Audience: All Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Start Date: April 3, 2023 End Date: May 31, 2023

Location: Google Classroom

This course will allow participants to learn mindfulness and movement strategies as well as self -care techniques to improve focus on creating a healthy and happy you for yourself, your students and your family. This course is meant to recharge, revitalize, and renew your inner why by focusing on evidence based strategies that will help you feel and perform at your best and enjoy what you do. These strategies can also be taken back to your classroom and used with your students. All of these strategies can help you and your students with improving memory and focus, management of stress and anxiety, increasing productivity and positive attitude. This session will be completely asynchronous.

Audience: Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton

Date: May 15, 2023 Time: 8:30 AM-3:00 PM

Location: Location: Central Valley Academy, 111 Fredericks Ave Ilion, NY

Room: LGI

What is differentiated instruction? Differentiated instruction (or differentiation) is a teaching method that involves tailoring lessons to individual student needs. Typically, differentiated instruction is provided at the classroom level. This session will provide teachers with ideas, strategies, and methods for differentiating their instruction to meet the needs of all learners. Teachers will spend some time working on an upcoming lesson to develop differentiated instruction.

Audience: Educators

Presenter: Jennifer Stanton & Kelly Cave