Comprehensive System of Personnel Development region 1
Proudly serving Eastern Montana and beyond
CSPD is dedicated to the education & information for any who desire to improve & educate themselves on topics relevant to the classroom.
Recordings if available are not a substitute for attending trainings and are available only at the discretion of the presenter for those who attend the training/PD event, OPI renewal units/hours can only be given for those in attendance during the PD.
Registration is required to receive the ZOOM link and a completed evaluation for your hours of attendance/OPI renewal units. When registering please double check your email information and check your spam folder for CSPD information. Please let me know if you are unable to make the trainings.
Stacy York Nation
May 1 ZOOM 4-6 pm
May 1--Trauma-Responsive Strategies that Create Resilience in Your Classroom
Participants will dig into the science behind behaviors and learn brain-informed strategies that assist students in the classroom. Our stress response system is like a rubberband. The more stressed we are, the more stretched we are. Students needs strategies to manage their stress and this class will help educators help students.
JUNE 3-6 Miles City Sleep Inn 8:30-3:30
CSPD Region 1 June Institute registration open
June 3 What Does it Mean to Know and Do Mathematics? with Rhonda Birney
In this workshop, we will focus on what it means to know and do mathematics in grades K-8. Participants will explore instructional practices that create safe learning spaces where students can take risks, share their thinking and collaborate with others. We will look at how we can explicitly attend to mathematical concepts and support students as they grapple with new concepts. From robust student-centered instructional routines to learning about how we can help students develop mathematical conjectures, participants will walk away with tools that can be embedded into practice regardless of curriculum or grade level.
June 4 Mathematical Progressions from Early Number to Proportional Thinking with Rhonda Birney
In this workshop participants will explore the mathematical progressions of early number, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and proportional thinking. Explicitly connecting representations and strategies requires an understanding of the mathematical trajectory. We will look at how models and strategies develop through the concepts and connect from one concept to another. We will see how our understanding of the progression impacts students’ conceptual knowledge and helps us provide just in time support for students who might have difficulties with a concept.
June 5 Executive Functioning Skills: EVERY day for EVERY Child
with Stephanie Lester
If you have ever wondered why some children just seem to need one more explanation, one more prompt, one more example before understanding an assignment. If you have found yourself saying,” You knew this yesterday, why don’t you know it today?” If you can predict which students will need transition support and which students will struggle with auditory directions, then this is the training for you. Adaptable thinking, planning, self-monitoring, self-control, working memory, time management, and organization are all executive functioning skills that can be encouraged in learning environments. Research supports intentionally embedding guidance and experiences throughout your daily routines that encourage the development of those executive functioning skills in young children. A variety of ways that each of the three cognitive processes (working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control) can be practiced and encouraged within daily routines EVERY day for EVERY Child will be introduced and discussed.
June 6 Making the Most of Assessments and Teaching for Cognitive Engagement with Stephanie Lester
Summative, formative – isn’t an assessment just an assessment? Using assessments to benefit students will be the focus of this session. What does a summative assessment tell us? How can we use that data to improve our instruction? How about using assessments formatively? Is it possible to find actionable data from those assessments? How to utilize assessment data to identify instructional skill levels for individual students which will support you as you strive to meet the individual needs of students. Progress monitoring will be discussed along with easy to use, quick tools that will effectively monitor student achievement providing valuable data that informs the next steps when differentiating instruction for students. Implementing goal setting based on assessment data is motivating and communicates the connection of skills to each students’ everyday experiences.
Have you ever wondered how to really be sure your students are doing as much of the cognitive work as possible – the writing, the thinking, the analyzing, the talking? (Lemov, 2015) This session will explore instructional strategies that are geared toward increasing the cognitive engagement of each student while embedding a variety of opportunities to respond (OTR) and checking for understanding (CFU) strategies throughout your lessons.
OCTOBER PIR days Hank Bohanon and Shawna Heiser in Sidney
MTSS and Behavior are the topics of discussion.
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LINKS for trainings from Montana Autism Ed Program
The link below contains training and registration information.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GzOA-V5fSyixkDJLwOBB7k0x3qhBcpHH/edit or http://mtautism.opiconnect.org/AEP
Autism Education Project: FREE Online Autism Training For more information please contact Doug Doty at 406-459-5303 or ddoty@mt.gov.
You can always find our upcoming trainings on the OPI Montana Autism Education Project blog under the“Training” tag.
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CSPD trainings/events are free of charge and offer OPI Renewal units for all trainings.