Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Organizing and Refreshing Your Classroom Library
2021-10-12 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Your classroom library is an important tool in supporting independent reading
for all children. This session will explore ideas for organizing your classroom
library in a way that engages young readers and ways to think about the
classroom library as a teaching tool. We’ll also discuss strategies for keeping
your library fresh and updated throughout the school year and how to
reorganize based on what you know about this year’s readers.
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Death Penalty Abolition Event (Hamilton County)
2021-10-12 17:45 - 18:30 | Bellarmine Chapel, 3801 St. Francis Xavier Way, Cincinnati, OH, 45207, United States
#NoDeathPenaltyOH is a statewide coalition of groups working to end the death penalty in Ohio.
Oct. 8-17 is Death Penalty Abolition Week for Faith Communities, and we’re hoping to have events occurring in every county across the state.
For those in Hamilton County (and from anywhere else), we invite you to join us on Tues. 10/12 at 5:45pm for an interfaith prayer vigil and invitation to advocacy. This event is co-sponsored by the Respect Life Office, Bellarmine Chapel and the Dorothy Day Center for Faith and Justice at Xavier University, and Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center.

Behavior Solutions: A Practical Roadmap for SEL Success in All Tiers Virtual Workshop
2021-10-13 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
If we have learned anything through teaching during this pandemic, it is that the term “behavior” doesn’t simply refer to a disruptive student. The term behavior refers to academic behaviors (skill-based) and social behaviors (will-based) and both need to be taught and reinforced in every tier of systematic SEL supports at your school.
Fostering positive behavior and SEL by utilizing the PLC at Work® and RTI at Work™ processes will boost your school’s positive school culture, increase attendance, improve behavior, prepare students for life, and address inequities in school discipline. This workshop is designed to create a practical roadmap for meeting the needs of the whole child.

Identify their school’s current reality in each tier.
Create a roadmap for successful schoolwide implementation.
Acquire strategies to avoid implementation barriers.
Discover how to function as a PLC with the focus on behavior and assign RTI in each tier.
Study each tier of behavioral support—prevention, intervention, and remediation—and understand how to construct successful behavior intervention processes at each tier.
Recognize the roles and responsibilities for the leadership team, intervention team, and teacher teams during SEL implementation.
Gain evidence-based solutions to address complex challenges such as engagement, motivation, and attendance.

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Behavior Solutions: A Practical Roadmap for SEL Success in All Tiers Virtual Workshop
2021-10-13 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
If we have learned anything through teaching during this pandemic, it is that the term “behavior” doesn’t simply refer to a disruptive student. The term behavior refers to academic behaviors (skill-based) and social behaviors (will-based) and both need to be taught and reinforced in every tier of systematic SEL supports at your school.
Fostering positive behavior and SEL by utilizing the PLC at Work® and RTI at Work™ processes will boost your school’s positive school culture, increase attendance, improve behavior, prepare students for life, and address inequities in school discipline. This workshop is designed to create a practical roadmap for meeting the needs of the whole child.

Identify their school’s current reality in each tier.
Create a roadmap for successful schoolwide implementation.
Acquire strategies to avoid implementation barriers.
Discover how to function as a PLC with the focus on behavior and assign RTI in each tier.
Study each tier of behavioral support—prevention, intervention, and remediation and understand how to construct successful behavior intervention processes at each tier.
Recognize the roles and responsibilities for the leadership team, intervention team, and teacher teams during SEL implementation.
Gain evidence-based solutions to address complex challenges such as engagement, motivation, and attendance.

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Curriculum Leadership Team Meeting
2021-10-14 08:00 - 15:00 | St. Ignatius School-Loyola Hall, 5222 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45247, United States

Teams: The Engine that Drives a Professional Learning Community at Work
2021-10-14 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
It’s important to remember that your goal isn’t to become a professional learning community. The goal is to improve the professional practice of every adult and every team in your school, and by doing so, the school will improve student learning—kid by kid, skill by skill. Janel Keating leads the work of high-performing PLC at Work® teams. This two-day virtual workshop will highlight what leaders and teams do to improve their professional practice, in an effort to help more students learn at higher levels.
Using videos of elementary and secondary teams doing the work, Janel will share practical tools coupled with specific leadership practices that will positively impact both student and adult learning. She will provide critical next steps for participants to take back to their schools and districts to effectively do the right work at the right time in the right way for the right reasons. You will be motivated and inspired to ask, “Why not us? Why not now?”
Preferred audience: school leadership teams, including principals, teachers, coaches, curriculum and assessment coordinators, and district administrators.
Learning Outcomes:

Understand the importance of establishing the “why” before the what and how.
Understand how to take collective responsibility for student learning, rather than working in isolation.
Identify structures that organize and guide the work of a team to include time, team structure to include singletons, norms accountability protocols, SMART goals, and planning tools.
Understand the work and the team products layered under the four critical questions of a PLC.
Discover how to implement a guaranteed and viable curriculum, unit by unit.
Explore ways to monitor student learning through an ongoing assessment process that includes frequent, team-developed common formative assessments.
Engage in analyzing common formative assessment data and student work.
Use the results of common assessments to:

Improve individual practice
Build the team’s capacity to achieve its goals
Intervene on behalf of students in an effort to enrich their learning

Establish what to be tight on/insist and require, and what to be loose on team autonomy.

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GIVECATHOLICAOC Training Session
2021-10-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Please join us for an informative GiveCentral training session regarding GIVECatholicAOC giving day.
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Collective Student Efficacy
2021-10-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Harness the power of collective efficacy to accelerate students’ learning. Do your students understand the potential of collaborating with others? Do they believe that they will learn more if they develop both “I” skills and “We” skills? Collective student efficacy requires more than pushing tables together and inviting students to talk or ‘work in groups’. Learn the essentials of task design, skill development, assessment, and shared definitions of success.
Success Criteria for participants
• Identify the vital components and evidence-based success criteria necessary for students’ collective efficacy
• Describe the “I” and “We” skills that need to be developed to ensure students have the skills and confidence to contribute to group success
• Explain the nature of learning design, lesson planning, and classroom structures that ensure opportunities for all students to engage in collective efficacy
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Engaging Readers with Nonfiction Texts
2021-10-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Students often choose fiction books when given the choice of reading
materials. They often see nonfiction reading as reading that is done for school
instead of for personal enjoyment. We can help students find books that
they want to read “for fun” if we think differently about the books we have
available, the ways we use nonfiction in our teaching, and how we book talk
nonfiction books.

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Behavior Solutions: A Practical Roadmap for SEL Success in All Tiers Workshop
2021-10-20 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link

Behavior Solutions: A Practical Roadmap for SEL Success in All Tiers Virtual Workshop
2021-10-20 10:00 - 16:30

Teams: The Engine That Drives a Professional Learning Community at Work
2021-10-21 10:00 - 16:30

This Holy and Living Sacrifice (EMHC Formation)
2021-10-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 7770 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH, 45255
In-person and online formation and training for new and veteran extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion will take place this fall in both English and Spanish. Some sessions will focus on ministry to the sick, hospitalized, and homebound. Please share with EMHCs in your parish and those looking to join this ministry. Click here to get more info and register.

Holy Family, Price Hill (Spanish): Sept 25, Noon-2p
Online (Spanish, focus on sick/homebound/hospitalized): Oct 9, 2p-3:30p
Online (English): Oct 12, 1:30p-3:30p
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Anderson Township (English): Oct 21,7p-9p
Online (English, focus on sick/homebound/hospitalized): Oct 25, 1:30p-3:30p
St. Mary of the Assumption, Springboro (English): Nov 4, 7p-9p
St. John the Baptist, Tipp City (English): Nov 16, 7p-9p

Balance with Blended Learning
2021-10-24 08:00 - 17:00
In this self-paced, online book study based on Catlin Tucker’s book, Balance with Blended Learning, you will explore the practical and concrete strategies that she has used over the past decade to rethink the roles, responsibilities, and workflow in her own classroom. You will also learn how Tucker has used blended learning to reimagine her teaching by effectively partnering with her students to assess, track, and reflect on their learning. Discover how this redefinition of roles encourages students to take ownership of their learning while helping teachers to feel more effective, efficient, and energized.
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This Holy and Living Sacrifice (EMHC Formation)
2021-10-25 13:30 - 15:30 | Zoom

Teaching About the Holocaust in American Context
2021-10-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
What does it mean to be an American, and what should be America’s role in the world? These questions are as old as the Republic. They are revisited by each generation, especially in times of crisis. Learn how an examination of Americans’ responses to the Holocaust can help students analyze and evaluate longstanding national arguments about America’s commitment to democratic norms, immigration and refugees, and how individuals, groups, and the government should respond to the threat of genocide abroad.
In this edWebinar, learn how teachers can use materials produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to integrate teaching about Americans and the Holocaust across disciplines using primary sources to investigate evolving American attitudes and behaviors and reinforce issue relevancy for students.
This session will feature several free Museum teacher resources and a document-based inquiry activity developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
This edWebinar will be of interest to high school teachers, school and district leaders, and social studies curriculum coordinators. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenters
Dr. Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, curator, and archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past 18 years and served as the lead historian on the Museum’s special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from George Mason University. Her first book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (Doubleday, 2018), won the National Jewish Book Award for excellence in writing based on archival research.

David Klevan develops programs and educational resources for a diverse group of audiences at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He specializes in experiential learning in online and digital learning environments, the most recent which have been the Museum’s citizen history project, History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust, and the virtual field trip, The Holocaust: History and Memory. In addition, David oversaw development of the Museum’s first mobile app, and played a critical role developing and implementing the Museum’s flagship partnership programs with law enforcement officers and Washington, D.C. area schools.

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The Magic of Music and Movement in Early Childhood Education
2021-10-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
This hands-on, participatory edWebinar will bring to teachers a new perspective on using music with children. They will see the connection between music and movement and the active nature of the child, as well as how music can effectively be used to meet the cognitive, emotional, social and physical needs of young children.
The goal of the session is to reaffirm the use of music in the classroom by showing how, when combined with movement, it can be a vital and powerful tool in the education of children. To illustrate this, Stephen Fite will break music down into three essential elements—Rhythm, Repetition, and Melody—and discuss how each part affects us individually. When music and movement are combined, children are more likely to participate, but more importantly, will retain more information for a longer period of time.
This edWebinar will be of interest to anyone involved in early childhood education. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenter
As long as Stephen Fite can remember, he has always loved music. At the young age of five, he had big dreams of being the fifth Beatle. That whole British band thing never panned out, but he has found something even better. He has realized his dream of playing before crowds of screaming fans—the very young variety. The bonus is that through his play he is able to touch their lives by aiding in their education. He is an award-winning musician/writer whose albums have received 18 nationally recognized honors.
Stephen has been giving workshops and keynotes since 1986 and has presented keynotes at the following conferences: Kindergarten Teachers of Texas, Oklahoma Early Childhood Association, DLM Summer Institute, Southern Early Childhood Association, Missouri AEYC, Illinois PreK – Kindergarten Conference, Kaleidoscope Conference, and many more.
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Why Video and innovation are key to Classrooms of the Future
2021-10-25 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
The diversity of the modern classroom has driven an accelerated need for schools and districts to equip teachers with powerful yet simple tools. This new level of diversity — spurred more rapidly by the pandemic — has also driven a larger need for innovation in education.
Video became an absolute necessity in order for K-12 teachers to be able to provide the best possible learning environment for students. Now, more educators are discovering the value of video technology for in-person learning as teachers and students continue to return to the classroom as well as the simplicity of video as an avenue for innovation.
Join a panel of educators and edtech experts to learn how the role of technology, such as video, has evolved and will continue to do so for the modern learning environments.
In this edLeader Panel, you’ll learn:

How educators can innovate to create present and future successes
Why video will play a major role in every classroom environment — including in-person learning
The role of professional development in preparing educators for any scenario

This edLeader Panel will be of interest to K-12 district leaders, educational/instructional technology leaders, curriculum and instruction leaders, and IT/security leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenters
Prior to joining Screencastify, Shaun Conway was a classroom teacher and building administrator for more than 10 years. During his time in education, Shaun worked to expand blended learning strategies and 1:1 initiatives, while always focusing on meeting teachers and students where they are. Shaun is a Golden Apple Scholar and Distinguished Alumni from Illinois State University’s Department of History.

Sam Kary is the founder of New EdTech Classroom, a startup dedicated to teaching educators how to design innovative classrooms with technology. Sam is a former classroom teacher and instructional coach of a decade who spent his early career skeptical of technology’s role in education. Now, he works full time helping teachers learn how to use technology to design interactive, engaging, authentic learning experiences that cultivate 21st century skill development in the 4 Cs through his YouTube channel, online courses, and workshops. Sam is an ISTE Certified Educator, National Geographic Certified Educator, and Google Certified Trainer, and his work has been featured in Forbes for supporting teachers during emergency distance learning. Follow him on Twitter @newedtechclass, and take his free Teaching with Technology Starter Kit course at newedtechclassroom.com/starterkit.

After teaching business and technology courses for 20 years, Kimberly Nidy left the classroom and has served at the district level as an Innovation Specialist, Director of Instruction, and now Director of Technology. These roles have allowed her to work in the areas of defining and implementing innovative initiatives that support teaching and learning.

About the Moderator

Zack Blois is the Director of Marketing at Screencastify and is a former high school teacher and informal educator. After his time teaching, he spent the last 10+ years driving strategy, learning, and building teams at EdTech and general software companies.

Strengthen Instructional Leadership Teams
2021-10-25 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Collective leader efficacy (CLE) is a shared conviction among a school leadership team that they can improve the learning environment for all students. Unfortunately, many school leadership teams lack this conviction. In this webinar, Peter DeWitt, E.D. provides the research, explains the drivers, and engages participants in the cycle of inquiry that will help leadership teams develop collective leader efficacy as a leadership team.
Following this session, participants will be able to:

Define collective leader efficacy (CLE)
Develop an understanding of how leadership teams should function
Define certain drivers necessary to develop collective leader efficacy as a team
Engage in a cycle of inquiry where they can define a theory of action

Develop a program logic model to help them plan actionable steps

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Grading From the Inside Out
2021-10-26 10:00 - 16:30, 2021-11-02 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Grading From the Inside Out Virtual Workshop: A Live 2-Day Event with Tom Schimmer
The Grading From the Inside Out Virtual Workshop is focused on the practices and processes that will modernize grading and reporting systems to be more aligned to our standards-based instructional paradigm. By developing a standards-based mindset, participants of this Zoom-exclusive event will come to see how a seamless relationship between the formative and summative purposes of assessment will maximize the potential success of each and every learner. Rather than forcing grading reform through a new policy, grading program, or report card template, long-term grading reform begins on the inside—how we rethink grading practices and processes—and works its way out.
Participants are encouraged to attend this event as a team. Whether your purpose is to utilize sound grading practices in your own classroom, modernize grading practices across a grade level or within a department, or move to a standards-based grading model at the school or district level, this two-day digital training session is for you. Over the course of the workshop, widely held traditional beliefs about grading will be challenged as participants come to know what it takes to ensure that teachers produce accurate grades and confident learners.
Team time will be made available to support collaborative action planning.
Participants will:

Recognize why traditional grading practices are no longer relevant and how grading practices can be modernized in a standards-based instructional classroom
Develop grading true north (accuracy and confidence), the essential overarching vision for sound assessment and grading practices
Acquire a standards-based mindset and the specific strategies that lead to a rethinking of how grades are determined
Gain protocols and practices to hold students more accountable for learning without compromising the accuracy of their proficiency grades
Learn how to teach, assess, and report on student attributes, student growth, and cross-curricular competencies
Understand why homework should be repurposed to be a formative assessment strategy, and obtain ways in which homework can become a more productive, learning-centered exercise
Explore specific practices, including reassessment, grade determination, the five myths of standards-based grading, and the differences between levels of proficiency and the traditional grading scale

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Music and Movement Activities That Support Young Children's Social and Emotional Learning
2021-10-26 15:00 - 16:00
Healthy social-emotional development in early childhood can have a profound impact on a child’s overall development and learning. In fact, many early childhood experts see positive social and emotional skills as paramount for school readiness and later school and life success. With the interruption of the school year and less socialization opportunities, there is valid concern among researchers, educators, and parents that the COVID-19 pandemic has had—and will continue to have—a negative impact on young children’s social and emotional development.
Music education curriculum components not only support music development but are naturally supportive tools for social and emotional learning in early childhood. Developmentally appropriate, participatory, group, and dyad music and movement activities have special characteristics that can support young children as they develop socially and emotionally, and also support social competence and reduce stress.
In this edWebinar, Dr. Lili M. Levinowitz will review the important dimensions of social and emotional development and share some early research on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on young children’s social and emotional learning. She will then demonstrate fun and accessible music activities that support a range of social and emotional skills, such as cooperation, prosocial skills, and self-regulation, which all contribute to social competence and positive group process in the preschool classroom. Attendees will also gain strategies for extending the music making—and therefore the developmental benefits—to the home.
Attendees will leave this edWebinar with a deeper understanding of the ways in which active music making can naturally support children’s social and emotional learning during the preschool years, as well as having experienced some new songs and music activities they can use right away in their work with children.
This edWebinar will be of interest to preK-3 teachers. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenter
Lili M. Levinowitz, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Music Education at Rowan University. She is the co-author of the early childhood music and movement program, Music Together, and Director of Research for Music Together Worldwide. Dr. Levinowitz is considered a national authority on early childhood music. In addition to teaching very young children, she presents at national and international music education and early childhood education conferences. She also presents professional development webinars to early childhood educators and the music education community. She was recently a key contributor to the NAfME (National Association for Music Education) teaching guidelines for early childhood music education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her articles appear frequently in professional journals and popular magazines. She earned her M.M. and Ph.D. from Temple University and her B.M. from Westminster Choir College.

About the Host
Lisa Chouteau is the Music in Early Learning edWebinar series host. She is the senior video producer and manager of video production at Music Together Worldwide and holds a B.S. in business administration, training, and development from The College of New Jersey. Lisa is also an Emmy Award-winning television producer of public affairs and educational programming for Public Television and cable networks across the country.

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Math Storytelling: Our Innate Wisdom and Wholeness
2021-10-26 16:00 - 17:00
Join this edWebinar to hear from Sunil Singh, Amplify Math Advisor, on how infusing math with history and storytelling allows students to see connections between math and their everyday lives. This approach to mathematics also helps students see and appreciate the relevance of the math they’re working on and can contribute to more equitable and exciting experiences for students.
This edWebinar will be of interest to preK-12 teachers, particularly those who teach math, as well as school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenter
A high school math, physics, and English teacher for 19 years, Sunil Singh has taught every grade level, from Toronto to Switzerland. Sunil has given presentations on creative mathematics all over North America, including The Royal Conservatory of Mathematics in Toronto and The Museum of Mathematics in New York. Sunil is the author of Pi of Life and co-author of Math Recess: Playful Learning in an Age of Disruption. His newest book, Chasing Rabbits, will be available in October 2021. His current work includes working as an advisor for Amplify on the K-12 core math program.

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Rethinking Text Sets
2021-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
It is important that we expand our definition of text when we create text sets
for students in grades 2-6. Text sets should not only include books, but also
podcasts, articles, blog posts, videos, and more. In this session, we’ll look
at ways to build a text set that includes a variety of media. We’ll also explore
resources for finding text that is appropriate and accessible for students.

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PLCs Reimagined: A Fresh Approach to Teacher Collaboration
2021-10-26 17:00 - 18:00
Are your professional learning communities ready to navigate the latest landscape of teaching and learning, regardless of how the new school year unfolds?
Join this edWebinar to gain ready-to-use strategies that will reinvigorate tired PLCs and create future-focused teacher communities. Learn how to create engaging spaces for educators to collaborate, practice, adapt, and support each other and their students.
In this edWebinar, attendees will:

Explore how to establish a collaborative learning community
Identify concrete measures of a successful PLC
Learn how effective coaching can elevate your PLC and improve student outcomes

This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers, school and district leaders, and district curriculum coordinators. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenters
Albert Morton is a project manager on the service team with HMH. He has worked with large strategic accounts including East Baton Rouge, San Antonio ISD, Greenville SD, and currently Atlanta Public Schools. He has successfully partnered with all levels of leadership in these districts and facilitated the successful implementations of HMH intervention programs. His entire teaching career has been dedicated to working with the most challenging students in the school and investing in them the tools and knowledge needed to be successful within and outside of the classroom. Albert holds a BA in marketing and a certification in middle school language arts. He is a master speaker certified in transforming school cultures and holds a professional certification in life coaching. This diverse background has equipped him to successfully merge multiple passions to support, design, and create impactful change in education, business, and his community at large.

Dr. Lisa Corbin, an instruction and leadership coach with the International Center for Leadership in Education, has been in the education field for over 26 years. Her experience includes classroom teaching in elementary and middle schools, serving as a K-12 instructional specialist, terms as an elementary school assistant principal and principal, and various leadership roles at the district level in a large urban district. She has written grants, managed multimillion-dollar budgets, developed curricula, and supported teachers and administrators in standards implementation, data analysis and accountability. Dr. Corbin resides in Chesapeake, Virginia. She is an active volunteer in her community and she enjoys reading, writing short stories, and traveling with her family.

About the Moderator
Laura Spear is a product marketing director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, supporting educators with award-winning professional learning. She has over 20 years of experience in marketing and product development focused on learning and professional development solutions. Laura is a former senior product developer at Pearson K12 Assessments managing the Alan S. and Nadine Kaufman Intelligence Assessments and Keymath. Laura lives in Florida where she enjoys spending time outdoors with friends and family.

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Yes We Can! An Unprecedented Opportunity to Improve Special Education Outcomes
2021-10-27 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Yes We Can! An Unprecedented Opportunity to Improve Special Education Outcomes Virtual Workshop: A Live 2-Day Event with Heather Friziellie
As states adopt more rigorous academic standards, schools must determine how to ensure all students—including English learners, children with special needs, children from poverty, and children facing trauma—learn at the highest levels. During this virtual training, general and special educators will discover how to utilize PLC best practices to develop collaborative partnerships, close achievement gaps, and maximize learning for all.

Learn strategies for building a school culture that believes all students can succeed.
Examine collaborative structures to support high levels of learning.
Explore the essential elements of a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
Understand how to design a balanced and coherent system of assessment.
Discover a protocol for unpacking and prioritizing units at the team level, including scaffolding instruction.
Design standards-aligned instruction with a focus on tailoring learning based on data.
Understand the connections among response to intervention (RTI), professional learning communities (PLCs), and special education.
Create individualized education program (IEP) goals specific to student areas of deficit.
Develop systems for efficiently and formatively monitoring student progress toward learning goals.
Develop a plan for site-based next steps.

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Become a Better Instructional Coach
2021-10-28 08:30 - 11:30 | Educational Service Center of Central Ohio, 2080 Citygate Drive, Columbus, OH, 43219, United States
There’s never been a better time to help your teachers meet the needs of their students by
enhancing your own instructional coaching skillset.
This free, four-part series provides you with the opportunity to develop and refine your practice,
monitor your effectiveness, and create a network of support throughout the Central Ohio community.
Over four sessions, we’ll discuss topics that cover:
• Relationship building and adult learning
• Coaching conversations/questioning stems
• Instructional context for student success (e.g., use of high-quality assessments and high-quality instructional
materials, learning environments, and digital learning tools)
• Role of data and tools for success and monitoring
• Essential elements in literacy/numeracy coaching that
impact student learning
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Data Walls Reimagined: Tips and Strategies to Improve Your PLCs
2021-10-28 14:00 - 15:00
Used effectively, data walls are a powerful tool that help guide student-centered discussions to help all your students grow. Are you looking for strategies to increase the level of student-centered discussions? Are you curious about data walls and would like to know more before bringing the idea to your PLC? Are you currently using data walls, but interested in learning new strategies to make them more effective?
In this edWebinar, we will examine numerous data wall strategies you can apply right away with your grade level PLC teams. Class Composer’s unique approach to data visualization will be presented as a time-saving alternative to using paper-based data walls. In this edWebinar, viewers will learn:

Strategies to ensure no child falls through the cracks during discussions
Ways to foster student-centered dialogue
How to manage the process of creating and updating data on the cards displayed on the data wall
Tools to make your data walls digital

This edWebinar will be of interest to K-8 teachers, school and district leaders, assessment leaders, instructional coaches, and MTSS and RTI coordinators. There will be time for questions at the end.

About the Presenter
Mike Cronley is the CEO and Cofounder of Class Composer. He taught 3rd grade for 12 years near the Denver, Colorado area. Mike is passionate about improving the ways elementary schools collect and use data to make a positive impact on the lives of students. Mike earned his undergraduate degree from the Ohio State University and his teaching certificate from the University of Colorado Denver.

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Leveraging Micro-Credentials to Strengthen Equitable Career Pathways in Rural Communities
2021-10-28 15:00 - 16:00
Can micro-credentials be used to create new pathways to social mobility for rural learners who are impacted by poverty, particularly for Black, Latino, and Indigenous people? Digital Promise joins learners and leaders from the University of Maine System’s All Learning Counts Initiative and the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative to highlight preliminary findings from our ongoing research on the use of micro-credentials in rural postsecondary institutions. The conversation will focus on career pathways in K-12 education and information technology. Attendees will hear directly from rural postsecondary leaders and learners to understand how they are:

Using micro-credentials for affordable, flexible, and meaningful skill development that leads to better opportunities and higher wages
Increasing efforts to prioritize social mobility for poverty-impacted communities
Developing educator-industry partnerships to promote sustainable career pathways

This edLeader Panel is intended for K-12 educators and school and district leaders, adult education and career service providers, higher education institutions, employers, and community leaders interested in leveraging micro-credentials to create real-time pathways toward social mobility for people in rural communities. There will be ample time to ask questions.

About the Presenters
Rosa Redonnett is the associate vice chancellor for student success and credential attainment for the University of Maine System. In collaboration with the vice chancellor for academic affairs, the associate vice chancellor provides system-wide leadership to enhance and promote student success through collaborative efforts within the University of Maine System, with other higher education institutions, and within the PreK-20 education community. This position provides system-wide leadership and support on furthering campus efforts specific to adult credential and degree attainment and the development and implementation of a system-wide approach to micro-credentials. Rosa is a member of the core team of MaineSpark, Maine’s statewide attainment initiative, specifically the Adult Promise (adult degree and credential completion) component of that work and serves as the UMS representative to the State Workforce Board.

A former teacher and district administrator, Dr. Jennifer Carroll currently is the personalized professional learning lead for the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC), which is a non-regulatory service agency in rural southeastern Kentucky. Dr. Carroll provides curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional learning support to 25 rural school districts in the service region. She is the lead on KVEC’s work around micro-credentials which includes the development of over 20 micro-credentials as well as supporting districts in including micro-credentials as a component of clinical, competency-based professional learning.

Antonio Mabiala is a University of Maine System Micro-Credentials earner. He works in access control with a focus on IP video surveillance, enterprise networking, unified communications, virtualization, and storage. He also manages IT services and audio/visual. Antonio has lived in Lewiston, ME for the last three years.

About the Moderator
Brian Tinsley is a senior research and communications associate on the Adult Learning team at Digital Promise. He is also a developmental psychologist committed to the pursuit of educational equity across the life course. He has a particular interest in the impact of social and educational contexts on the socioeconomic plight of marginalized populations. Brian currently co-leads research on the implementation and use of micro-credentialing programs in rural communities, as well as the development of Learning and Employment Records (LERs). Brian earned his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies in human development from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Attendance and Academics: Making Critical Connections
2021-10-28 16:00 - 17:00
Attendance begets discovery, exploration, learning, and achievement—it is the keystone of student growth and well-being. Prior to the pandemic, one out of six students missed nearly a month of learning. Now, data suggests students are missing more learning opportunities than ever. Join this edLeader Panel of instructional leaders to learn how they are making critical connections between attendance and achievement in their districts and what strategies they’re implementing to improve both.
This edLeader Panel will be of interest to preK-12 district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenters
Jennifer Lawson currently serves as the chief academic officer for the Cobb County School District where she previously served as the assistant superintendent of teaching and learning. She leads Cobb County School District academics in 112 schools that serve approximately 107,000 students. Prior to joining the Teaching and Learning team, Jennifer has served as a principal in both the Cobb County Schools and Marietta City Schools. Her professional career and passion for working with children began as an elementary teacher almost 25 years ago.
Jennifer received her bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Alabama, and her Master of Education and Specialist in Education from the University of Georgia. She is committed to serving students through innovative and engaging educational programs, where her continued goal is to ensure every child is provided with learning opportunities and experiences that lead to a self-determined, choice-filled life. Jennifer and her husband, David, live in West Cobb with their three teenage boys—John David, Matthew and Luke.
Helen Chan Hill serves as the assistant superintendent of curriculum, instruction and professional development for the Pasadena Unified School District. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her M.A.Ed. from Loyola Marymount University. This is her 21st year as an educator, coming to PUSD via Teach For America, and teaching at both Washington middle and elementary schools. She joined the central office as a district math coach with the PUSD Math Pipeline Project, before moving into administration. Helen additionally serves on the board of the Association of Pasadena School Administrators and is a firm believer in supporting students, teachers and administrators alike in lifelong learning. Her passion for education is influenced by her experience as an immigrant and English language learner herself, resulting in her becoming a vocal proponent of public education and its potential and responsibility to serve all students. With her husband a PUSD alumnus, and her son and daughter themselves current PUSD students, it is her joy to see them and their classmates thrive in a positive learning environment.

Dr. Monica Lee is a senior research associate at the Annenberg Institute. Her research interests include nudge experiments in education, as well as examining non-cognitive factors such as absenteeism and social-emotional learning via a quantitative lens. Much of her role centers around management of the SFUSD-Annenberg Research Partnership, in addition to collaborating on research projects across the Institute.
Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. in educational policy and an M.A. in economics from Stanford University, an Ed.M. in education policy and management from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in human and organizational development from Vanderbilt University. Her background as a first-generation college student and immigrant informs her work and scholarly interests.
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