Virtual Retreat

OPENING REMARKS
Kelley Michalowski, Executive Director

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3EhPn3Q

CHOICE A: "TEACHING FINANCIAL LITERACY"
Mark Morgenthal, M.Ed. ASEP DCF Regional School Essex Campus

If you are interested in personal finance lessons for your students, this is an opportunity to infuse financial litercy into your teaching. You'll learn how to use your content area to focus on the following themes: how To budget, how to save an emergency fund, how to pay down debt, how to set financial goals, and how to improve your credit report scores. You'll also gain some resources that you can use in your own classroom

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3lp3o7i

CHOICE B: "ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS AND SPEAK SPONTANEOUSLY"
Adam Bierman, M.A. Teacher, DCF Regional School Cherry Hill Campus

Classroom instructions ,leading meetings, providing feedback, and facilitating Q&A sessions can be very stressful! However, with the right mindset and proper practice, you can communicate in a confident and compelling manner. This session will provide hands on interactive resources to help you speak spontaneously with greater confidence and clarity. Also provide motivational interviewing techniques. To help students , adults, family members self-manage their actions , behaviors, and goals

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/2XiEkGH

CHOICE C: "SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM: ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE SCHOOL"
Laurel Smith, M.Ed., LDTC, NCED DCF Southern Regional Child Study Team
Jacki Tucker, M.Ed. Teacher, DCF Regional School Ocean Campus

This workshop will introduce you to Social Emotional Learning and its five competences. It will provide you with a variety of tools to take along with you as you take this practice back to your classroom. This workshop is based on activities for Elementary and Middle School Students.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3kbz1Sl

CHOICE D: "INTRODUCTION TO THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH®"
Laura Lang, Teacher & NHA Trainer, DCF Regional School Union Campus
Said Chatir, Teacher & NHA Trainer, DCF Regional School Union Campus

The Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) is a relationship-focused methodology founded strategically in “The 3 Stands™” for helping children (and adults) build Inner Wealth™ and use their intensity in successful ways. It has become a powerful way of awakening the inherent greatness in all children while facilitating parenting and classroom success. The essence of NHA is a set of core methodologies originally developed for working with the most difficult children. It has a proven impact on every child, including those who are challenged behaviorally, socially and academically.

Objectives of Presentation:

1. Explain why conventional methods of parenting, therapy and teaching often fail with intense children, despite the best of intentions.

2. Shift a challenging child to using his or her intensity in successful ways, even if the child is diagnosed with ADHD, ODD or exhibits other difficult behavior.

3. Apply the core methodologies of the Nurtured Heart Approach to build Inner Wealth in all children and create a richer social-emotional environment.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/395wl2z

CHOICE E: "ASBESTOS AWARENESS TRAINING"
Chris Glowacki, CIH, CIEC Project Manager, VHB + Brinkerhoff
Training of custodial and maintenance workers is one of the keys to a successful operations and maintenance (O&M) program. If building owners do not emphasize the importance of well-trained custodial and maintenance personnel, asbestos O&M tasks may not be performed properly. This could result in higher levels of asbestos fibers in the building air and an increased risk to building workers and occupants.

This training is directed towards maintenance staff.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3klNtr3

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: "LEADING FROM THE INSIDE"
Kimberly Honnick, Ed.D. Professor of Professional Practice
College of Education—Kean University
Former Principal & Executive Director Newark Public Schools
Leadership Consultant, John Maxwell Team
CEO & Founder: "Bo Knowz Learning" https://www.boknowzlearning.com

The educational landscape of today is vastly different than it was a year ago and educators are on the forefront to create remarkable change in our students, coworkers, and communities. In this keynote session by educational entrepreneur and highly sought-after leadership consultant: Dr. Honnick, you will get an opportunity to participate in a personal assessment of your own strengths and weaknesses, while understanding how to work with others. You'll get an opportunity to have conversations in breakout groups and discuss strategies to improve climate and culture within your own classrooms and schools. The fundamental question Dr. Honnick will answer is: "How do I lead when I am not in charge?"

Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89235937538

CHOICE A: "DEVELOPING A PROFESSSIONAL IDENTITY: PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING A RESUME AND COVER LETTER"
Jennifer Mascolo, Psy.D., NCSP. Licensed Psychologist NY & NJ, Nationally Board Certified School Psychologist, St. John's University Training Coordinator,
https://jmascolo.com

This virtual workshop will focus on providing practical suggestions for teachers to support students in writing resumes and cover letters. Tips along with online resources will be presented. Finally, a sequential, stepwise, online lesson plan for support resume and cover letter writing will be reviewed.

Meeting Link: [CLICK HERE]

CHOICE B: "INFUSING TECHNOLOGY INTO CONTENT AREAS"
Jessica Shupik, Ed.S., M.S.Ed. ASEP DCF Regional School Cherry Hill Campus

Learn how to use the NJSLS for Computer Science & Design Thinking with your content area in this interactive session. You will walk away with sample lessons that can be modified for your students and used immediately.

Meeting Link: LINK EMAILED TO PARTICIPANTS DUE TO CAP

CHOICE C: "PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE TO EMPLOYMENT"
Stephanie DAlessio, M.A.Ed. ASEP DCF Regional School Monmouth & Ocean Campus
John Henry, STEAM and Sustainable Schools Specialist, LEED Green Associate, NJ School Board Association (NJSBA)

Participants of this workshop will learn the basic fundamentals of Project Based Learning (PBL) and how to successfully create and implement PBL activities in the classroom. Participants will work in teams to brainstorm and engineer creative ideas into solutions to real world problems through an interactive example of a state wide PBL challenge called STE(A)M Tank. Information will be shared on how teachers and their students can join for the NJSBA 2021-2022 STEAM Tank Challenge.

Meeting Link: LINK EMAILED TO PARTICIPANTS DUE TO CAP

LUNCH

CHOICE A: "HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT"
Liz Jackson, Senior Biologist - Education, NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife
Why do adults miss the “little things”? This session explores the nuance of paying attention and discusses why we miss so much right in front of us. Participants will be brought down to a kid-perspective of the natural world in this virtual “Outdoor Hide & Seek” experience.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3zhEbk7

CHOICE B: "PROJECT-BASED LEARNING IN THE MATH CLASSROOM"
Vince Jablonski, Teacher, DCF Regional School Cherry Hill Campus

In this session you'll get an idea of how to boost student achievement through math projects. Projects may be organized and tiered for different grades. It is a chance to teach students math applications in real life situations and collaborate with other subjects and careers. You'll offer your students a chance to get away from the textbooks. Some simple projects that are offered for cross-curricular learning include: marine navigation, orienteering/use of a compass for pirate treasure hunt, a shark attack data-based lesson, and the Thundercat Speedboat Dolphin Watch Ride business project.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3CdZAg8

CHOICE C: "SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM: MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL"
Laurel Smith, M.Ed., LDTC, NCED DCF Southern Regional Child Study Team
Jacki Tucker, M.Ed. Teacher, DCF Regional School Ocean Campus

This workshop will introduce you to Social Emotional Learning and its five competences. It will provide you with a variety of tools to take along with you as you take this practice back to your classroom. This workshop is based on activities for Middle and High School Students.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/2VUr3UA

CHOICE D: "IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH®"
Melanie Andrews, MSW, Child Study Team Case Manager & NHA-Advanced Trainer, DCF Upper Central Region

This Presentation is for those whom have previously had NHA training. Nurtured Heart Approach can successfully transform relationships with the most challenging behaviors. This presentation is a notch up from the Nurtured Heart Introduction presentation that will promote awareness of how to implement the necessary strategies and techniques to dissolve situations of conflict before they arise. We will also highlight ACE’s and positive practices in targeting what is “Going Right” with student, parents, educators and team members. You will leave with a deeper understanding of why NHA is so important today and learn purposeful tools to implement the Nurtured Heart Approach in your workplace and in your everyday personal life. You will feel more confident and informed in resolving challenging situations.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3kb9hFN

CHOICE A: "BRIDGES TO THE NATURAL WORLD: USING NATURE AS A BASIS FOR TEACHING STEM"
Dale Rosselet, M.A. Vice-President of Education – New Jersey Audubon

Ms. Rosselet is Vice President for Education at New Jersey Audubon and has 40 years’ experience teaching and conducting teacher professional development in both formal and non-formal situations. She is Chair of the New Jersey Commission for Environmental Education and past President of the Alliance for New Jersey Environmental Education. Ms. Rosselet has co-authored several ecology-based curriculum guides for teachers including Bridges to the Natural World and NJ WATERS: A Watershed Approach to Teaching the Ecology of Regional Systems. She has a BA in Environmental Studies from Ramapo College of New Jersey and a MA in Environmental Education from Rowan University.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3zhHqYO

CHOICE B: "IMPLEMENTING D.O.E. PORTFOLIOS "
David Caruso, English Teacher, DCF Regional School Burlington Campus
Dianne Morris, District Testing Coordinator—DCF Central Office

In this session you will learn the procedures and requirements for the DOE portfolio appeal. As well as implementing Constructed Task Responses (CRTs) into daily classroom activities and the curriculum. Getting started and becoming aware of the process at the beginning of the school year will help educators prepare for the process and help with planning and coordinating with other educators and classroom support staff.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3liR0Ws

CHOICE C: "INTRODUCTION TO THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH®"
Khalilah Hughes, Teacher & NHA-Advanced Trainer, DCF Regional School Cherry Hill Campus
Jerome Bush, Teacher & NHA Trainer, DCF Regional School Cherry Hill Campus

The Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) is a relationship-focused methodology founded strategically in “The 3 Stands™” for helping children (and adults) build Inner Wealth™ and use their intensity in successful ways. It has become a powerful way of awakening the inherent greatness in all children while facilitating parenting and classroom success. The essence of NHA is a set of core methodologies originally developed for working with the most difficult children. It has a proven impact on every child, including those who are challenged behaviorally, socially and academically.

Objectives of Presentation:

1. Explain why conventional methods of parenting, therapy and teaching often fail with intense children, despite the best of intentions.

2. Shift a challenging child to using his or her intensity in successful ways, even if the child is diagnosed with ADHD, ODD or exhibits other difficult behavior.

3. Apply the core methodologies of the Nurtured Heart Approach to build Inner Wealth in all children and create a richer social-emotional environment.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3EhQzEm

CHOICE D: "GOOGLE WORKSPACE ON STEROIDS"
Kaman Hung, D.HSc. Curriculum, Instruction & Technology—DCF Central Office

Google Workspace for Education is a powerful collaborative environment with equally untapped classroom potential. This session will explore a few advanced approaches to classroom integration of Google Workspcae tools including: Google Drawings, hyperdocs, and explore the use of Google Classroom beyond documents, slides, and discussions to include audio, video, feedback, and rubrics.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3AddFK2

CHOICE A: "EATING HEALTHY TO BE YOUR BEST SELF"
Amanda Rodrigues, Ed.D. Professor of Health & Human Performance—College of Education, Kean University

Nutrition seems pretty straight forward, right? Eat fruits and veggies, don’t eat processed food, limit your fat intake, keep your portions in check, eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full. So why does it get so confusing and how does making the right food choices become such a daunting chore for so many of us? While the basics are pretty simple to implement, proper eating and nutrition really is a science (food science!) In this session we’ll be breaking it down to the basics, explaining how nutrients impact your health, and clearing up the confusion around media and marketing. We'll break down the basics of nutrition and healthy eating. set the records straight on carbs, fat, protein and how they impact your overall health and wellness, debunk the media myths and marketing confusion around what is actually healthy, and show you how to make healthy “swapportunities” to maximize your nutrient intake on a daily basis.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3nI9K4F

CHOICE B: "USING DESIGN THINKING TO INCORPORATE SEL INTO THE CLASSROOM"
Jessica Shupik, Ed.S., M.S.Ed. ASEP DCF Regional School Cherry Hill Campus

The initial step in design thinking is using empathy to understand the problem or the person(s) affected by the problem. This directly relates with the CASEL core competency of social awareness while building on self-awareness and laying the groundwork for responsible decision-making. Learn about the design-thinking process and how you can use it to incorporate SEL into your classroom.

Meeting Link: LINK EMAILED TO PARTICIPANTS DUE TO CAP

CHOICE C: "IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NURTURED HEART APPROACH®"
Melanie Andrews, MSW, Child Study Team Case Manager & NHA-Advanced Trainer, DCF Upper Central Region

This Presentation is for those whom have previously had NHA training. Nurtured Heart Approach can successfully transform relationships with the most challenging behaviors. This presentation is a notch up from the Nurtured Heart Introduction presentation that will promote awareness of how to implement the necessary strategies and techniques to dissolve situations of conflict before they arise. We will also highlight ACE’s and positive practices in targeting what is “Going Right” with student, parents, educators and team members. You will leave with a deeper understanding of why NHA is so important today and learn purposeful tools to implement the Nurtured Heart Approach in your workplace and in your everyday personal life. You will feel more confident and informed in resolving challenging situations.

Meeting Link: https://bit.ly/3nAlLZJ