Identify the key purposes of screening assessment in the early grades. Analyze current practices to determine steps for improving screening at their building or district. (30 minutes) 

Assessment and Intervention Sequence: Assessment | Ohio Department of Education and Workforce 

Explain the role of progress monitoring in identifying growth and areas in need of additional intervention in students' reading. Identify areas of strength and areas in need of improvement related to approaches to progress monitoring in their classroom, building or district. (45 minutes) 

Assessment and Intervention Sequence: Progress Monitoring | Ohio Department of Education and Workforce 

Explain the importance of explicit and systematic phonics instruction to student reading. Analyze their current practice to identify areas for improvement based on course learning. (60 minutes) 

Explicit and Systematic Phonics Instruction | Ohio Department of Education and Workforce 

Explain the significance of vocabulary for reading comprehension.Identify and implement effective strategies for teaching vocabulary. (60 minutes) 

Vocabulary | Ohio Department of Education and Workforce 

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These video clips illustrate many of the concepts and practices introduced in Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching. Teachers, faculty members, and teachers-in-training are invited to view these video clips, to analyze and critique the instructional procedures 

Participants will be able to describe the role of background knowledge in reading comprehension. Examine their own practice to identify ways to better build background knowledge. (45 minutes) 

Background Knowledge | Ohio Department of Education and Workforce

Explain the key processes and strategies for supporting students' paragraph writing.Incorporate strategies to promote paragraph writing into their instruction. (45 minutes)

Writing: Paragraph Skills | Ohio Department of Education and Workforce

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Explore teaching practices to enhance learning in a K-12 math classroom. Based on the book by Peter Liljedahl.

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Maximizing Intervention and Minimizing Math Anxiety: Strategies for Student Success

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• Using Primary Resources, Library of Congress

• Document Analysis for Students, National Archives

• Engaging Students with Primary Sources, Smithsonian

Click HERE to access the playlist containing links to explore training videos to improve your understanding of Clevertouch features, software, apps and accessories to help support and engage student learning.

Product Training Video

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The INFOhio website (infohio.org) is a statewide online library and resource hub designed to support students, teachers, and families in Ohio from Pre-K through 12th grade. Its main purpose is to provide free access to high-quality educational resources that support teaching, learning, and research. 

Link to Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio

Paraprofessionals will learn how to use positive interactions with students to increase instructional control. 

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• Webinar Recording 

  • Our complete catalog of recorded webinars

• (In the "Hear From Your Peers" section, click "Understanding Student Strengths and Learning: Completing the Puzzle".)

• Webinar Slides

• Handouts:

  • CogAT Overview Brochure

  • Iowa Assessments Brochure

  • Cognitively Speaking - Using Score Profiles to Differentiate Instruction

School-based mental health and wellness initiatives are key to ensuring students are in school, healthy, ready to learn and prepared for success. Click HERE to access resources shared by ODEW.

Join me as I guide you through a broad set of self-regulation interventions culled from my years of research and practice along with strategies for adapting them to your setting. You will leave my program with the essential skills, interventions and strategies to help children find harmony with themselves, their families, and the world around them!

You will learn:

• The most effective calming, sensory, motor or behavioral techniques for a given type of behavior

• Peer-to-peer video feedback as a social intervention for children and teens with ASD

• Sleep interventions for children with erratic sleep schedules

• Interventions for repetitive and restrictive behaviors for a child with stereotypy

• Organization strategies for home and school for teenagers with ADHD

• And more!

LINK -Available as both a Live Webinar or as a Digital Seminar. 

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Passcode: 3LJ$a.C3 

Resources:  enCORE Training Guide

District Slide Deck

enCore 102 Checklist

Click HERE to access a list of approved courses by the American Speech Language Hearning Associaltion and the Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board.

Book Study Link

Before You Quit Teaching is a book written by Dr. Ruby Payne. 

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Explore resources to aid and support enlish language learners in your classroom.

Podcast (25 minutes)

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This is a two part series that provides a challenge, initial thoughts, perspectives and resources, a summation, and a summative assessment to evaluate how behavior management and high-quality instruction are interlinked. 

INFOhio's quality resources and tools for children and the adults who lead them support Ohio Learning Standards. Choose to complete individual classes in the INFOhio Learning Pathway, or complete the full Digital Content Learning Pathways linked below to earn contact hours for the following:

• Ages 3-5, Grades K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 Digital Content Learning Pathways

“Don’t teach to the test” and 10 other do’s and don’ts of test preparation 

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