Course # 2366
Audience: ALL
Location: Transportation Board Room
Presenter: Hunter McLeod
Description: This course will provide gang education on why kids join, gang indicators, gang mentality, why early intervention is so important, and what our current SROs are seeing in our region.
Course #2400
Audience: All secondary teachers
Location: MLHS Room 309
Presenter: Newsela Trainer, Alyssa Lipuma
Description: Bring your laptop and engage with National Newsela trainer via zoom. You'll have 2 90 minute sessions in which you will learn how to harness the power of Newsela in your classroom. Newsela is a tool available to the entire district with tons of leveled content to develop great readers. Connect to the Newsela content most relevant to your subject and students, and learn to leverage Newsela features to support meaningful learning. . Learn how to plan with Newsela and utilize its features to engage students and design assignments that supplement your learning environment.
Course # 2337
Audience: ALL Certificated and Classified
Location: Columbia Middle School Library
Presenter: Wayne Johnson
Description: This is a quick paced, "hands on" class. We will cover all aspects of first aid and CPR using CPR adult and infant dummies, the AED, epipens, and much more. New and renewed certification cards will be issued.
Course # 2344
Audience: SpEd Teachers
Location: LSC in Laguna
Presenter: Amy Martinez
Description: In this interactive training, session participants will learn how to use their Goalbook Toolkit account to identify a student’s present level of performance and use that data to develop scaffolded learning goals that are measurable and specific. Session participants will understand how instructional content in Goalbook Toolkit addresses learner variability while creating access to grade-level instruction. Participants will modify and adapt instruction for their specific students.
Course # 2353
Audience: ALL
Location: CB Tech Lecture Hall
Presenter: Jeff Utecht
Description: Join us for a thought-provoking session on how educational leaders can harness the power of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies in schools. Learn about best practices in the field, and discover how these tools can help streamline administrative tasks, enhance teaching practices, and improve student outcomes. Come prepared to engage in a lively discussion and leave with actionable ideas for implementing AI in your educational organization. (Have a guess about how generative AI helped write this description? We will explore that too!)
Course # 2382
Audience: 3-5 Elementary Reading Teachers
Location: LSC - McConihe
Presenter: Kelli Yager and Jana Crosby
Description: Prioritize, Pace and Plan your instruction- explore ways to identify must-haves for your lessons and where you might want to prioritize instructional time. Maximize Learning with Digital Resources-identify and integrate HMH Into Reading digital resources.
Course # 2342
Audience: Secondary Teachers
Location: Vanguard House 1 Seminar 2
Presenter: Mike Gobel - AVID
Description: Participants will examine the importance of centering their instruction on WICOR as an opportunity for students to access rigorous learning across content areas. Using current research and WICOR strategies, teachers will define and explore types of inquiry-based instruction for all content areas.
Course # 2346
Audience: Elementary Music and PE Teachers
Location: Park Orchard Gym
Presenter: Cyndi Dickinson and Denise Krober
Description: PE people -Ever wanted to incorporate dance into your curriculum but you feel unsure of what to do or how to do it? Music teachers - ever wanted to incorporate more physical activity into your lessons? We've got you!!! We've got lots of different dances, rhythm, and movement activities that you can immediately implement to enhance your PE/Music program and that your students will love! The activites taught can be used in either Music or PE classes, or we can share how we have done this as a collaborative/intersdisciplinary unit.
Course # 2335
Audience: ALL Certificated
Location: Vanguard House 1 Seminar 1
Presenter: Annie Kirking
Description: Drawing on the work of Dr. Lindsay Portnoy, participants will engage in a structured thought experiment protocol using self-identified sticky problems of practice. The goal is to use methods of design thinking to uncover root causes, lay bare possibilities, and envision realistic paths toward progress. The session will include planning and work time to build upon the design thinking experience.
Course # 2392
Audience: Secondary PE Teachers
Location: Vanguard Academy Fitness Room 284 & 286
Presenter: Open Ed National Trainer , Brian Devore
Description: This workshop puts the focus on using OPEN’s free standards-based curriculum resources, which give physical educators creative ways to engage students and teach lessons that ensure academic rigor in any instructional environment. This is an activity-based session — come prepared and ready to move! Every OPEN instructional module includes research-based teaching tools such as academic language resources, depth of knowledge tiered question techniques, Marzano academic rigor strategies, universal design strategies, and social and emotional learning integration. Additionally, this professional learning experience will address assessment and evaluation in learning management systems, and how to plan for changing educational environments.
Course #2406
Audience: K/1 Teachers
Location: Park Orchard Rm 116
Presenter: Rene Ward
Description: K/1 Teachers- Are you ready to do some math? Educators will experience math content with a hands-on approach using manipulatives and apply what they learn to how they can support all learners with this content throughout the year using centers and opportunities for small group differentiation. The math content for this session will be focused on understanding the ten frame to visualize the concept of benchmark numbers (5 and 10) and unpacking addition &subtraction situations to examine the relationship between addition, subtraction, and the equal sign.
Course # 2357
Audience: ALL
Location: MLHS Rm 310
Presenter: Stacey Rippy - Autism Therapy Services of ML
Description: All behavior is a form of communication. Knowing the why behind behavior can help in changing the behavior. This training will teach the functions of behavior and a useful tool to find out which function a behavior serves. Once we know the function we can create a functionally equivalent replacement behavior, one that is more desirable and acceptable but also functional.
Course # 2442
Audience: Elementary Counselors, Principals, Teachers
Location:MLHS 311
Presenter: Carol Lewis
Description: Have you ever wondered how to build a positive behavior support plan that inspires a struggling student to meet behavioral goals while building a sense of community? Participants in this institute will collaborate to explore ways in which students' strengths and interests can be leveraged to create plans that motivate them to meet behavioral expectations through behavior support plans that connect students, staff, and families. Participants will leave with concrete examples and ideas they can use in their school settings.
Course # 2435
Audience: Elementary teachers teaching a split
Location: Longview Rm 17
Presenter: Cara Johnson and Kandace Klenz
Description: Come join us for some tips & tricks... We will be looking at where to combine curriculum along with some great quick formative assessments for immediate use! Quick ways to assess for small groups, ideas for things that can be done together easily. Unique ideas to possibly find more support for you. This will also be a question and answer/brainstorming session on how to survive, squeeze as much in as you can and still meet the needs of two grade levels. Bring your daily schedule with you if you have it!
Course #2350
Audience: All Certificated
Location: MLHS Room 301
Presenter: Shelley Seslar - NCESD
Description: Educators and school personnel play a vital role in promoting student mental health and well-being, and identifying and responding to emerging mental illness in young people. Social emotional learning is the foundation of healthy well-being.
We will begin by defining social emotional learning (SEL) and discussing why it is essential and beneficial to teach SEL skills in school from kindergarten through high school graduation. You will learn the five essential competencies of healthy social-emotional skills and the key characteristics of each cluster. Through professional reflection paired with group sharing, you will takeaway many strategies for integrating teaching these skills to students. Instruction will include a series of videos from teachers explaining how they have integrated SEL in their settings, an individual workbook, and shared practices between colleagues, focusing on how to improve integration of the SEL competencies into academic instruction and school-wide programming. Resources for further research and SEL integration support will be provided.
This course covers Module 3 of the Classroom WISE: Well-being Information and Strategies for Educators mental health literacy course, developed by the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network, in partnership with the National Center for School Mental Health.