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Our Stu
Our Students - Engaged, Ready, Successful
Professional Development Plan
CESA 8 2013-14
2nd Semester
Our Students - Engaged, Ready, Successful
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Our Students - Engaged, Ready, Successful
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Educator Effectiveness 4-5
Curriculum Instruction Assessment 6-11
Literacy 12-13
Tools ● Data ● Technology 14-16
Virtual Learning Communities 17
Students ● Parents ● Community 18
Crisis Intervention 19
Leadership ● Governance 20-21
Information 22-25
Quality
Educational
Practices
Table of Contents
“Education is the most
powerful weapon which you can use
to change the world.”
- Nelson Mandela
2nd Semester – Professional Development Plan 2013-2014
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Effectiveness Coaches’ Network Group
February 26, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
Educator Effectiveness Coaches will meet to discuss their role, and help shape it in the Educator
Effectiveness System. Topics will include WI EE system overview, SLO development, instructional
coaching, Teachscape navigation, timeline management, and directing district work-flow.
Audience: District Educator Effectiveness Coaches
Cost: Free for participants from Educator Effectiveness member school districts.
$100.00 for all other participants.
Teachscape Focus-Training/Certification March 3, 5, 10, and 12, 2014, OR
June 16, 17, 18, and 19, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office
Participants will view the Charlotte Danielson Framework training videos as a group and have brief
conversations with colleagues over the course of four days. Before leaving, participants will
individually take the certification test.
Observers MUST complete this training and pass the certification process prior to evaluating
teachers in the system.
Cost: Free for participants from Educator Effectiveness member school districts
$100.00 for all other participants.
SLOs March 21, 2014
April 25, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
More information to come…
Audience: District Educator Effectiveness Coaches, Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $50.00 for participants from Educator Effectiveness or Curriculum Instruction and
Assessment member school districts. $150.00 for all other participants.
Danielson Domain 2: Classroom Environment April 2, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Aspen/Birch Rooms
Participants will engage in a dig into Danielson’s Domain 2: Classroom Environment. This will
include both a general overview and dig into teaching concepts and practices in each of the 4
subdomains:
Creating an Environment of Respect and Report
Establishing a Culture for Learning
Audience: District Educator Effectiveness Coaches, Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $50.00 for participants from Educator Effectiveness or Curriculum Instruction and
Assessment member school districts. $150.00 for all other participants.
Danielson Domain 3: Instruction April 17, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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EE Update(s)
Date(s) TBN
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Online
CESA 8 will provide a review of updates provided by the DPI and a chance for questions and
answers.
Audience: District Educator Effectiveness Coaches, Teachers, Administrators
Cost: Free for participants from Educator Effectiveness member school districts.
$15.00 for all other participants.
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Title I Math February 4, 2013
9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office
This workshop is uniquely designed to assist Title I teachers in using engaging standards-based
performance tasks for instruction and assessment to improve student performance. Participants will
learn how to integrate problem solving in the classroom and use effective classroom practices to
better meet the needs of Title I students.
Presenter: Carole Foreman
Audience: Elementary Teachers
Cost: $30.00 for all CESA 8 School Districts - Funded by Title I Grant
$75.00 for any district outside of the CESA 8 region
Developing Effective Fraction Instruction - Grades K-5
February 11, 2014 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
This hands-on workshop will focus on instruction that can be used to build deep conceptual
understanding of fractions. In this workshop we will look at the current research on how children
learn fractions developmentally.
Presenter: Carole Foreman Audience: Teachers Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $125.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Smarter Balanced Assessment: Are you Ready for the Rigor? February 19, 2014 – ELA
February 24, 2014 - Math
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
Participants will experience the SBA practice test and discuss its implications for instructional
practices. How will we provide SBA-like experiences to students BEFORE they take the tests?
Participants will walk away with some practical strategies for increasing the rigor in their daily
instruction.
Audience: All Educators
Cost: $50.00 per participant (per workshop) for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
member school districts.
$100.00 per participant per workshop for all other school districts.
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Personalized Learning Day 1 – Staging for Commitment
February 20, 2014 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office – Aspen/Birch Rooms
This session will hone in on the critical pieces to understanding the work that will take place under
the Personalized Learning Action Network. It will focus on the readiness, commitment, and
preparation needed to create an effective action network and launch your efforts to personalize
learning for your students. This full-day workshop will address:
Overview of the work to gain a shared understanding of personalized learning
Network role, levels of engagements, norms of operation
Readiness tool - diagnosis
Innovation paths - based on a district's culture and situation
Analysis of video examples of personalized learning
Overview of research supporting the work
This session can be useful whether you know you are committed to personalized learning and the
action network or if you are still unsure. After this session, expect to have the clarity needed to make
a decision regarding moving forward with an action network focused on personalized learning. This
session is critical to have a shared understanding of the Action Network and the vision of
personalized learning. This will be the basis of the collaborative work of the Network. The Action
Network will help accelerate results and scaling - even at different points, we can all benefit from
learning from each other.
Attendance: District teams made up of a core group of the Superintendent, 1 or 2 key district
office administrators, 1 or 2 key principals & teacher leaders.
Cost: $100.00 per participant from CESA 8 School District
Using the QEI to Write Your PDP February 20, 2014
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Online This workshop will introduce you to QEI, an electronic platform, where you can create, edit, and
complete the entire PDP process. Questions about the PDP process will also be answered.
Cost: $15.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $35.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Daily Learning Targets March 4, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
Learning Targets and Goals are a researched tool to increase student performance. Providing purpose
and direction for learners in the classroom allows for a 20 percent increase in achievement (Marzano,
2009).
Learn to research approaches to developing learning goals and targets. Participants will develop a
clear understanding of their impact on student learning, and develop tools to use LTs for assessment
and curricular support.
Audience: All Educators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
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Creating Collaborative Learning Environments
for Productive Group Work March 6, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
21st Century Learning Skills require the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with
peers. Participants will engage in developing and practicing proven strategies to create a culture of
collaboration in their classroom.
Audience: All Educators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Focus on Formative: Assessment for Student Learning Featuring: Dr. Donald Viegut, Author of “Common Formative Assessments”
March 18, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
“When teachers (1) realize the vast gold mine of information that formative assessments can provide,
and (2) analyze strengths and weaknesses in student understanding so as to set and achieve definite
goals for improvement, they are utilizing formative assessment results to their fullest potential.”
(Ainsworth and Viegut, 2006)
Audience: All Educators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
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Personalized Learning
Day 2 – Project Preparation and Design Session March 20, 2014
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office – Aspen/Birch Rooms
This first part of this day will delve deeper into the steps and process of designing personalized
learning. Participants will engage in activities around the Design Principles and team thinking on entry
points to leverage. Deeper information will be provided on the implications of technology and
personalization for 21st century learners. Developing Learner’s Profiles and strategies for fostering
independence of learners will also be examined. The second part of the day will provide “hands-on”
time to design and plan, whether initially planning a project, evaluating or redesigning. Staff will be
on-hand for coaching and support as the team plans and designs their work for the year.
Districts in the past have found this time to be useful to get work done: uninterrupted time away from
your district with staff available to coach and support!
Attendance: District and/or school teams that will discuss, plan or review a project related to the
Personalized Learning Initiative.
Cost: $100.00 per participant for CESA 8 school districts.
The Next Generation Science Standards Part 1
April 3, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office – Aspen/Birch Rooms
This session is an overview of the shifts and changes in the NGSS standards. Learn what they mean
for your own teaching K-12, and how you can navigate infusing them into your instruction.
Presenter: Chad Janowski, Shawano High School, CESA 2, 7, & 8 Leadership Team
Audience: Administrators, Curriculum Directors, and K-12 Science Educators are encouraged to
attend.
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
PBIS Tier 2 – Day 2 (S200)
April 10, 2014
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office
The school PBIS team, including administrator and coaches, participate in these four training days
which consists of intense, interactive activity-based preparation for implementation of tier 2 PBIS.
These are guided team work days to begin developing and refining the systems, data, and practices
necessary for sustainable tier 2 implementation.
Audience: Building-level tier 2 team that includes: Building administrator, external and internal
coaches, regular education representatives, special education representative, social
worker and/or psychologist. Target group size: six members.
Cost: Tier 2 training day 2 was included in the tier 2 building team registration fee.
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Instructional Coaching Certification
April 24, May 1, 2014 - CESA 8 Office
and May 7, 2014 with Jim Knight – location TBN
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (each day)
1 (optional) Graduate Credit (Pending Viterbo)
We are excited to introduce the CESA 8 Instructional Coaching Certification course. This 3 session
course will help educators and administrators develop skills to lead through coaching models in their
school district. Effective coaches build positive, trusting, relationships with staff in order to foster
growth in professional practice. Training coaches and sourcing their efforts leads to proven wide
range fidelity of school change.
Rolls Coaches may play:
Leaders in Professional Development
Educator Effectiveness Coaching
Co-Planning
Co-Teaching
Facilitating PLCs
Requirements:
Practice Coaching with a colleague
Develop action plan for coaching in district
Audience: Educators, Administrators
Presenters: Nathan Breitholtz, Associate CIA Director, CESA 8
Jim Knight, Director of the Kansas Coaching Project
Information: You must attend all three dates for certification and credit.
Participants not interested in certification or credit may just attend the presentation on
May 7th with Jim Knight.
Cost: $225.00 per participant (for all three dates) for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
member school districts for the workshop. $450.00 per participant for all other school
districts. Registration fee includes Jim Knight’s book, “Instructional Coaching: A
Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction.”
$125.00 for May 7, 2014 only with Jim Knight for Curriculum Instruction and
Assessment member school districts. $250.00 for all other school districts.
Registration fee includes Jim Knight’s book, “Instructional Coaching: A Partnership
Approach to Improving Instruction.”
Credit: In addition to the workshop fee $110.00 payable to Viterbo first day of class for
anyone wishing to take this for 1 graduate credit.
The Next Generation Science Standards Part 2 May 14, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office – Aspen/Birch Rooms
Participants will delve deeper into the major changes that come with NGSS. Learn what new
development there are around implementation and share major changes in the new
standards. Develop curriculum tools for mapping the standards into your classroom curriculum.
Presenter: Chad Janowski, Shawano High School, CESA 2, 7, & 8 Leadership Team
Audience: Administrators, Curriculum Directors, and 6-12 Science Educators are encouraged to
attend.
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
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“Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.” ― W.B. Yeats
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PBIS Coaches/Administrators Training - C100 May 28, 2014
8:30AM – 3:30 PM CESA 8 Office
Network with other coaches and discuss perceived and realistic roles of coaching, review the PBIS coaching role, and become acquainted with PBIS assessment tools. Coaches will identify three strengths and three areas that need improvement in their school-wide plan based on their SAS report and create an ongoing action plan to be utilized with the universal team during tier 1 universal training:
Understand the basic rationale and features of school-wide PBIS Define the coaches roles, functions, outcomes, and competencies Understand system assessments Gain and understanding of team roles and functions Understand the importance of tier 1/universal training components
Audience: Internal coaches at the universal level, external coaches, building principals Cost: $100 per building team (includes 1 external and 1 internal coach per team)
PBIS Universal Team Training – U100 & U200 Part I: Reflecting on Practice with the Use of a Framework
June 17-18, 2014
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM - daily
CESA 8 Office
The school PBIS Team, including administrator and coaches (internal and external), participate in these
two training days which consists of intense, interactive activity-based preparation for implementation of
school-wide PBIS. These are guided team work days to begin developing the materials needed for PBIS
Kick-Off and implementation. Teams will leave the training with an understanding of the essential
components of a multi-tiered system of support that provide behavior supports to all students.
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $1600 per building team (up to 8 members), $100 for each additional building team
member. This price includes U100, U200, U300 & Coaches Integrated Networking
Meetings.
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In order to respond to the needs of 21st Century learners, we must transform our curriculum and
instruction to include explicit instruction of expository literacy. College and career readiness demands
that learners are skilled in critical reading and responding to informational text in all disciplines.
Exploring Expository Literacy: Increasing Academic Rigor through Critical Reading and Written Responses for Grades 7-10
March 19th, 2014
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
In this workshop, participants will receive a packet of materials that can be used in the classroom and explore
specific strategies to develop critical reading and written response to expository text including:
differentiating between narrative and expository text features/structures
understanding expository text features and structures and their role in comprehension and author’s
purpose
using structured note-taking to distinguish among central ideas, main ideas and supporting details
utilizing close reading scaffolds to annotate expository text
differentiating between paraphrasing and summarizing and using explicit instruction techniques to
teach both
using the “Great Short Answer” organizational scaffold to guide short answer, text dependent written
responses
exploring rubrics for assessing text annotations and short answer responses
Workshop Objectives: Improve teaching instruction and increase expectations for student performance in academic literacy as
recommended by Common Core Standards for ELA, including History/Social Studies, Science and Technical
Subjects.
Presenter: Darla Brink, Director of CESA 8 Literacy Center
Audience: Seventh through tenth grade educators, including social studies, science, allied and encore
teachers
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school districts.
$150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Exploring Expository Literacy: Close and Critical Reading Strategies for Grades 4-7
March 25, 2014
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office - Aspen/Birch Rooms
In this workshop, participants will receive a packet of materials that can be used in the classroom and explore
specific strategies to develop critical reading skills in reading expository text, including:
exploring elements of expository text
differentiating between narrative and expository text features/structures
understanding expository text features and structures and their role in comprehension and author’s
purpose
creating main idea statements and determining relevant supporting details
learning a three step close reading process
exploring a variety of summarizing scaffolds
Workshop Objectives:
Improve teaching instruction and increase expectations for student performance in academic literacy as
recommended by Common Core Standards for ELA.
Provide explicit instructional strategies and scaffolds to specifically address the needs of struggling
readers
Presenter: Darla Brink, Director of CESA 8 Literacy Center
Audience: Fourth through seventh grade teachers, Title I teachers, interventionists, reading specialists, special
education teachers.
Cost: $45.00 per participant for CESA 8 Title I School Districts.
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Creating Quality Written Responses:
Responding to Narrative, Expository and Persuasive Text for Grades 5-10 April 9, 2014 - 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office - Aspen/Birch Rooms
The 21st century learner must be able to think critically about text and create quality written responses to text
dependent questions from all modes of writing. Next year, the Smarter Balanced Assessment will assess our students’ abilities to construct written responses using specific evidence from text through both listening and text
comprehension.
In this workshop, participants will receive a packet of materials that can be used in the classroom and explore
specific strategies to develop written responses to narrative, expository and persuasive text including:
learning organizational scaffolds for teaching to students to create quality written responses
exploring a variety of short texts and text dependent questions to understand how to support our students
in understanding the academic language used in the questions
using close reading techniques to locate evidence in text to support responses
utilizing summarizing strategies for varying text structures
Workshop Objectives:
Improve writing instruction and increase expectations for student performance in academic literacy as
recommended by Common Core Standards for ELA, including History/Social Studies, Science and
Technical Subjects
Provide explicit instructional strategies and scaffolds to specifically address the needs of struggling
writers
Presenter: Darla Brink, Director of CESA 8 Literacy Center
Audience: Fifth through tenth grade teachers, including social studies, science, allied and encore teachers,
Title I teachers, special education teachers.
Cost: $45.00 per participant for CESA 8 Title I School Districts.
Brain Based Vocabulary Instruction: Teaching Critical Vocabulary for Grades 4-12
April 30, 2014 - 9:00 AM- 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office - Aspen/Birch Rooms
Teaching vocabulary is a key component of the Common Core State Standards. Helping our students “own” the
vocabulary is critical to their achievement on assessments and their success in career and college. Education and memory research reveal several vocabulary exercises that help students retain vocabulary.
In this workshop, participants will receive a packet of materials that can be used in the classroom and learn how
to identify vocabulary for explicit instruction and explore specific research supported vocabulary activities to
help students build their listening, speaking, reading and writing vocabularies, including:
Current research on vocabulary instruction involving tier two words, indirect and direct instruction,
multiple exposures, structural analysis, context clues, and using resources
Strategies such as semantic and mind mapping, word art, right/left brain definitions, context mapping,
synonym circles, vocabulary tableau, vocabulary links, Wordle walls, shades of meaning chains,
grammar connection
Technology enhancements
Workshop Objectives:
Improve vocabulary instruction and increase expectations for student performance in academic literacy
as recommended by Common Core Standards for ELA, including History/Social Studies, Science and
Technical Subjects.
Provide explicit instructional strategies and scaffolds to specifically address the needs of struggling
students
Presenter: Darla Brink, Director of CESA 8 Literacy Center
Audience: Forth through tenth grade teachers, including social studies, science, allied and encore teachers,
Title I teachers, special education teachers.
Cost: $45.00 per participant for CESA 8 Title I School Districts.
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Google 101 February 25, 2014
9:00 AM- 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
(3 additional online components)
Gmail – March 5, 2014, 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Drive – March 12, 2014, 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Apps and Extensions – March 20, 2014, 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Are you thinking of jumping aboard the Google band wagon or has your district deployed Google Apps and
you are feeling left in the dust? If so this Google 101 workshop is for you!
Join us for this one-day, hands-on workshop specifically designed for beginning and non-Google users. We
will start with the basics and go on to discover some of the online collaborative tools (apps) that are free for
educational institutions and non-profits.
When you leave you will have a new comfort level and understanding of Google Apps.
No prior experience with Google products is needed as this is a basic knowledge workshop.
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $100.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $200.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Technology Coaches Network
February 6, 2013 – CESA 8 Office
March 26, 2013
May 1, 2013
(Times and locations to be determined)
Technology can do great things to improvement student engagement and increase productivity, but that’s
only if we know how to use the technology. These series of meetings will split time between demonstrating
how to use various technologies (participants will help determine areas of interest) and participants sharing
their current success stories/strategies.
Audience: District technology coaches, administrators, lead teachers
Cost: Free for all participants from CESA 8 Level 1 – Technology Services Member Districts.
$165.00 per participant for all other districts
iPads 101 March 14, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
Are you thinking about purchasing an iPad and want to learn more about it, or do you have one and want to
put it to better use? Is your iPad just an expensive toy to play solitaire on? If so this workshop is for you.
Whether you are a newbie to iPads or a veteran user join us to learn how to make the iPad indispensable in
your life. We will spend a great deal of time going through the many, many settings. What are they? What do
they do? Should I change them…or not?
Are you using the iPad in your classroom…with children? Is security an issue? What about organization,
how can you find all of your apps? These questions and many more will be answered.
Then we will delve into the apps that came with your iPad. Is there enough to use in your classroom without
ever purchasing another app? Come and find out.
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
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Smart Boards 101
March 20, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
Learn how to create dynamic presentations and key into student engagement through the use of your
smart board. Participants will be introduced to the tool and teaching strategies on the implementation of
its use.
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
CCSS/Smarter Balanced: How to Teach Elementary Keyboarding
March 24, 2014
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
The Common Core State Standards and Smarted Balanced Assessment will require a certain level of
keyboarding skills by students in elementary grades. This workshop, designed for elementary teachers
and administrators will define the need, outline the standards, and explore ways in which students can
be prepared to enter text efficiently.
Presenter: Becky Dickson, Suring High Business Teacher
Cost: $75.00 per person for CESA 8 Curriculum Instruction and Assessment Department
member school districts. $150.00 for all others
iPads 101 ½ March 28, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
Now that you know the basics come back and learn more…
Join in this- session where we will take the time to really experience the iPad. This workshop will begin
with “must see” apps and websites for educators. We will showcase apps, search and download, and
then we will peer up and share apps that we have previously used or new apps that we find. The day will
include plenty of hands-on time.
(This workshop is intended for participants who have a good working knowledge of iPad basics.)
Audience: All Educators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Smart Boards Advanced Training
March 31, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
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Flipping Your Classroom
April 1, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
This workshop will introduce participants to the flipped classroom model. They will engage in the
creation and use of recording tools to develop flipped content
Develop an understanding of the use of Camtasia, Screencast o matic, Recording lessons, and
more Discover how to post content and share with students and/or staff
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $75.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $150.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Google Jedi Gmail, Docs, Flubaroo, Doctopus, Chrome,
Designing a Virtual Learning Community
April 7, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
This workshop will start with a brief overview of the Google suite of digital tools, dig deep with third
party tools like Doctopus, Autocrat, and Flubaroo (tools to make your educational life easier), and wrap
up with 60 exciting extensions in 60 minutes.
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $75.00 per participant (per workshop) for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
member school districts. $150.00 per participant (per workshop for all other school
districts.
Separate Tech Modules: Tech Time Series (See individual dates below)
3:30 – 5:00 PM – daily
Online
Twitter in the Classroom – April 2, 2014 Learn how to use the amazingly wide variety of possibilities in Twitter for learning, assessment,
organization, and much much more.
Blogger, Ning, and EdMoto - Oh My! – April 10, 2014 Learn how to create your own collaborative workspace with staff or students to promote
engagement and 21st century learning.
Free Website Creation – April 24, 2014 Discover how to use FREE and easy online platforms to create your own classroom or school
website.
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $15.00 per participant (per workshop) for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
member school districts. $30.00 per participant (per workshop) for all other school
districts.
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EPortfolios to Monitor Growth in Learning Date – TBN
3:00 – 5:00 PM
Online
Develop the use on an E Portfolio to monitor growth, create goal setting, and develop an awareness of
where students are in their learning. Create a feedback loop with live and continuous comments
enabling the student and teacher to engage in conversations synchronously and asynchronously.
Audience: Teachers, Administrators
Cost: $20.00 per participant for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $40.00 per participant for all other school districts.
Regional Virtual Learning Communities
Supporting all Teachers in Their Collaboration
Six Sessions - Dates and Times TBN
Specific content area groups scheduled monthly
Topics determined by group
Support singleton teachers in their professional growth
Collaborate on common state and local initiatives
Cost: $20.00 per participant (per workshop) for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
member school districts. $40.00 per participant (per workshop) for all other school
districts.
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Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System’s
Dispute Resolution Options
March 12, 2014
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CESA 8 Office
It is important for parents and school staff to resolve any issues right away, before these issues fester
and negatively impact their relationship.
Learn how the Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System can help with early dispute resolution.
Workshop includes information about free WSEMS services for mediation, facilitated IEPs, and
facilitated resolution meetings; when to use each option; how to make a request; who are the
mediators and facilitators as well as related federal and state laws; and more.
Cost: FREE
Audience: Directors of Special Education, Principals, School Psychologists, Special Education
Teachers, Counselors, District Family Engagement Liaisons, and Parents Presenter(s): Nissan Bar Lev, CESA 7 Special Education Director & Jan Serak, WI FACETS
Executive Co-Director
Self-Advocacy Training March 17, 2014
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM CESA 8 Office
Self-advocacy means speaking up for oneself. It requires knowledge of personal strengths and
challenges, understanding of rights as a citizen, and involves acting in an assertive manner to make
needs known to others. Self-advocacy includes the following essential components: 1. Knowledge of
self; 2. Knowledge of rights; 3. Communication; 4. Leadership During this seminar participants will explore a self-advocacy curriculum that helps students become
self-advocates and discover their potential. All participants will receive a copy of the “Becoming a
Self-Advocate” curriculum. Cost: Free Audience: School/District Staff, Paraprofessional, General Education Teacher, Special Education
Director, Transition Coordinator/Designee, CESA Staff, RSN Director, WSPEI
Coordinator, WSTI Coordinator, CESA Educational Consultant, Other Post-
Secondary Education, UW, Independent, WTCS, Family/Parent, others.
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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training
February 11, 2014
7:30 AM – 3:30PM
Crivitz School District
A potentially violent situation is an unsettling situation for everyone involved. The person who has “acted out”
may run the gamut of emotions from fear to embarrassment. The person who attempts to intervene is subjected
to tremendous stress and fear for his/her own personal safety.
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training will teach you how to prevent an emotionally and physically
threatening situation from escalating out of control. The training will teach you practical techniques to help you
defuse and explosive situation and feel confident about it. The NCI techniques emphasize both the staff person
and the acting out person. NCI only recommends physical restraint when all verbal and paraverbal techniques
have been exhausted.
Presenter: Bill Verschay, Certified NCI Trainer (CESA 8)
Audience: All Educators
Cost: $70.00 per person for SNPD Member Districts
$100.00 per person – Non-member Districts
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Refresher Training -
Trauma-Informed Care Refresher February 28, 2014
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
CESA 8 Office A potentially violent situation is an unsettling situation for everyone involved. The person who has “acted out”
may run the gamut of emotions from fear to embarrassment. The person who attempts to intervene is subjected
to tremendous stress and fear for his/her own personal safety.
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training will teach you how to prevent an emotionally and physically
threatening situation from escalating out of control. The training will teach you practical techniques to help you
defuse an explosive situation and feel confident about it. The NCI techniques emphasize both the staff person
and the acting out person. NCI only recommends physical restraint when all verbal and para-verbal techniques
have been exhausted.
Presenter: Bill Verschay, Certified NCI Trainer (CESA 8)
Cost: $70.00 per person - SNPD member districts (Includes training workbook and lunch)
$100.00 per person - SNPD non-member districts (Includes training workbook and lunch)
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training
February 28, 2014 ~ 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM
March 1, 2014 ~ 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
CESA 8 Office
A potentially violent situation is an unsettling situation for everyone involved. The person who has “acted out”
may run the gamut of emotions from fear to embarrassment. The person who attempts to intervene is subjected
to tremendous stress and fear for his/her own personal safety.
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training will teach you how to prevent an emotionally and physically
threatening situation from escalating out of control. The training will teach you practical techniques to help you
defuse an explosive situation and feel confident about it. The NCI techniques emphasize both the staff person
and the acting out person. NCI only recommends physical restraint when all verbal and para-verbal techniques
have been exhausted.
Presenter: Deb Wall, Certified NCI Trainer (CESA 8)
Cost: $70.00 per person - SNPD member districts (Includes training workbook and lunch)
$100.00 per person - SNPD non-member districts (Includes training workbook and lunch)
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School Psychologist Networking Meeting
February 13, 2014 April 11, 2014
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM CESA 8 Office
Cost: $45.00 per person for SNPD member districts
$70.00 per person for SNPD non-member districts
Technology Technician Team Meetings February 12, 2014
Other dates throughout the year TBN 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Participants in the CESA 8 technology network will meet throughout the school year to discuss and
trouble shoot critical technology issues local districts are facing.
Audience: District Network Technicians
Cost: Free for all participants from CESA 8 Level 1 – Technology Services Member
Districts. $15.00 per participant (per workshop) for all other districts
CD Networking Meeting
February 27, 2014
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM CESA 8 Office
Cost: $45.00 per person for SNPD member districts
$70.00 per person for SNPD non-member districts
DAC Meetings
February 18, 2014 – 12:30 – 3:30 PM April 8, 2014 - 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
The DAC learning network will focus on a variety of timely topics. The network sessions are designed
to provide important learning and network sharing opportunities.
Audience: District/School Assessment Coordinators
Cost: $25.00 per participant (per meeting) for Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
member school districts. $50.00 per participant (per meeting) for all other school
districts.
CESA 8 RSN-Special Education Leadership Network Meetings March 7, 2014
May 16, 2014
9:00AM – 2:30PM
CESA 8 Office These are valuable meetings that provide directors an opportunity to receive legal, federal, and DPI
updates, along with sharing of district initiatives and presentations of current topics of interest.
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Forest County/LEA Interagency Agreement Meeting April 29, 2014
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Crandon School District
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this opportunity to come together with your area
school districts and County Birth to 3 Program to discuss current transition practices and update
transition/inter-agency agreements.
Spring Title I Meeting May 22, 2014
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM CESA 8 Office
Spring ESEA Meeting. This event will provide the most current updates and support in ESEA
planning and Title I reporting. Our DPI representative will be here. CESA 8 staff will share the
results of the Needs Assessment and will identify Title I professional development needs of school
staff across the CESA 8 region.
Audience: Title I Coordinators Cost: This workshop is free but registration is required
Principal’s Network Meetings February 28, 2014
(Other dates to be determined)
9:00 – 11:30 PM
CESA 8 Office – Maple Room
February Topic - SLOs for Administrators
Audience: All administrators are welcome to come
Cost: Free for participants from Curriculum Instruction and Assessment member school
districts. $30.00 per participant for all other school districts.
CESA 8 Board of Control Meetings CESA 8 PAC Meetings
Thursdays 5:30 PM
CESA 8 Office-Aspen/Birch Rooms
February 6, 2014 March 6, 2014 April 3, 2014 May 1, 2014
May 29, 2014 (BOC meeting and Annual Meeting)
Fridays 9:00 AM
CESA 8 Office-Aspen/Birch Rooms
February 7, 2014 March 7, 2014 April 4, 2014 May 2, 2014
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Registration Information
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District Membership Information
Curriculum Instruction and Assessment (CIA)
Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine, Clintonville, Coleman, Crandon, Crivitz, Florence, Gillett, Goodman-
Armstrong Creek, Lena, Marinette, Menominee Indian, Niagara, Oconto, Oconto Falls, Peshtigo,
Suring, Wausaukee, and Wittenberg-Birnamwood
Educator Effectiveness
Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine, Bonduel, Bowler, Crandon, Crivitz, Florence, Gillett, Goodman-Armstrong
Creek, Gresham, Laona, Lena, Menominee Indian, Niagara, Oconto, Peshtigo, Shawano, Suring,
Tigerton, Wausaukee, and White Lake
Level 1- Technology Services
Coleman, Crandon, Crivitz, Marinette, Peshtigo, Suring, Wabeno, White Lake, and Wittenberg-
Birnamwood
RSN
Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine, Bonduel, Bowler, Clintonville, Coleman, Crandon, Crivitz, Florence, Gillett,
Goodman-Armstrong Creek, Gresham, Laona, Lena, Marinette, Marion, Menominee Indian, Niagara,
Oconto, Oconto Falls, Peshtigo, Shawano, Suring, Tigerton, Wabeno, Wausaukee, White Lake, and
Wittenberg-Birnamwood
Students Needs Professional Development (SNPD)
Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine, Bonduel, Bowler, Clintonville, Coleman, Crandon, Crivitz, Florence, Gillett,
Gresham, Laona, Lena, Marinette, Marion, Menominee Indian, Oconto, Oconto Falls, Peshtigo,
Shawano, Suring, Tigerton, Wabeno, Wausaukee, White Lake, and Wittenberg-Birnamwood
Title I
Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine, Bonduel, Bowler, Clintonville, Coleman, Crandon, Crivitz, Florence, Gillett,
Goodman-Armstrong Creek, Gresham, Laona, Lena, Marinette, Marion, Menominee Indian, Niagara,
Oconto, Oconto Falls, Peshtigo, Shawano, Suring, Tigerton, Wabeno, Wausaukee, White Lake, and
Wittenberg-Birnamwood
For more information visit our webpage at www.cesa8.k12.wi.us
or call us at 920.855.2114
Check out www.myQuickReg.com for more information about these opportunities and more.
CESA 8 Office Hours
Monday – Thursday 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Fridays 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM
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Cooperative Educational Service Agency 8 223 West Park Street
Gillett, WI 54124-0320 920.855.2114
920.855.2299 fax www.cesa8.k12.wi.us
For workshop and registration information go to:
www.myQuickReg.com