Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Designing Effective and Equitable Online and Blended Learning Experiences
2022-01-26 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
The emerging emphasis on distance and blended learning has left many educators grappling with how to transfer effective face-to-face teaching practices to online learning environments. In addition, educators have scrambled to acquire new skill sets in order to support learners using technologies designed to engage students across a variety of learning modalities (e.g., flipped, fully remote, and more).

In this workshop with Eric Carbaugh and Kristina Doubet, we will explore a more comprehensive framework for meeting the needs of all learners during remote and blended/hybrid learning experiences. Specifically, we will investigate opportunities for students to 1) foster authentic connections with their teachers and their peers, 2) show what they’ve learned and receive feedback to foster growth, and 3) engage in authentic learning in diverse ways.

Through the lens of differentiated instruction, participants in this interactive workshop will investigate how to plan for virtual blended learning experience, as well as how to select and use technology tools to connect students with each other, with their teacher, and with content-effective practices for all learning environments.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will

Explore high-impact technology tools that promote engagement, connection, and interaction.

Evaluate the use of a variety of technologies for community building, formative assessment, feedback, and engagement.

Analyze the relationship between equity and online and blended learning.

Plan lessons for virtual and blended instruction using technology tools in order to foster connection, engagement, and understanding.

Preventive Practices to Avoid Risky Behaviors
2022-01-26 12:30 - 16:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Identify the role prevention play in protecting the mental well of students, staff and families.
Learn strategies to implement prevention in your school.
Learn how to turn existing prevention practices into best practices.
Identify local low to no cost prevention program opportunities available in your area.

Important Session Information:

Module 1 during the 2020-21 school year. We are offering both Module 1 & 2 during the 2021-22 school year.
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Vocation Night
2022-01-26 17:00 - 20:30 | Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, 6616 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH, 45230, United States
Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology is hosting a Vocation Night at the seminary, 6616 Beechmont Ave. Cincinnati on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. The evening begins at 5pm and ends at 8:30pm. The evening includes Mass at 5:15pm followed by dinner, talks, a tour and an opportunity to interact with the seminarians. The Vocation Night is open to single men aged 18-35 from within the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. If you have questions, please contact Fr. Dan Schmitmeyer at dschmitmeyer@catholicaoc.org

Effective Strategies for Content Teachers of ELS
2022-01-27 08:30 - 15:30
Learn theories of Second Language Acquisition.
Learn and apply effective strategies for instructing English Learners (ELs).

Important Session Information:
Join us for this two-day session (January 20th and 27th) designed for content, EL teachers, related services staff, and anyone working to support ELs seeking intensive instructional support grounded in research and includes effective instructional strategies such as differentiation, grouping and pacing.
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Stress Free Strategies for Inclusive Classroom Based Intervention
2022-01-27 08:30 - 15:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Compare and contrast models of service delivery and scheduling options related to classroom-based intervention.
Develop and deliver intervention to support speech, language, and literacy in the classroom setting.
Employ appropriate methods of progress monitoring.
Develop activities that encourage carryover of targeted skills in the classroom and home settings.
Completion of post-assessment.

Important Session Information:
roviding intervention in the classroom to maximize the impact of SLP services have been well-documented. However, practical application of inclusive collaborative intervention can be challenging. Scheduling, planning, progress monitoring, lesson development, and buy-in are common concerns as SLPs strive to provide efficient and effective services in the LRE for students on their caseloads.

This seminar will provide SLPs with proven, practical strategies to address these challenges along with multiple lesson ideas and innovative practices that facilitate curriculum – aligned progress and increased collaboration among educational professionals.
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Leading a School Change Initiative
2022-01-27 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-01-31 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Every school has a unique culture that grows from its history, size, organizational structure, geography, legends, resources, and demographics—as well as opportunities to make a shift in standard practices. We are in a historically unique time to create change. In this interactive workshop, Jeffrey Benson will guide participants through a series of activities that take an idea for school improvement into a plan.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will

Learn to build a force field analysis.

Understand and focus on the key interests in their initiatives.

Work with the four frames of building a campaign.

Prioritize and sequence strategies.

Develop a timeline for success.
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Shake Up Literacy Learning with Multitasking Mentor Texts
2022-01-31 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Join authors Pam Koutrakos and Maria Walther as they share their passion for using children’s literature to create joyful, student-centered literacy experiences. Learn how to use books as your teaching partners to mentor inquisitive learners and lead them on the path toward independence.
Participants will leave energized and prepared to:
– Seek out titles that honor and celebrate classroom learners
– Curate multimodal text sets that promote inquiry and enhance existing curriculum
– Create a variety of engaging learning experiences using multitasking mentor texts
– Integrate/connect different elements of literacy
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Preventive Practices to Avoid Risky Behaviors
2022-02-01 15:00 - 16:30
Identify the role prevention play in protecting the mental well of students, staff and families.
Learn strategies to implement prevention in your school.
Learn how to turn existing prevention practices into best practices.
Identify local low to no cost prevention program opportunities available in your area.

Important Session Information:

Schools play a critical role in supporting students’ mental, emotional, and behavioral development by establishing life-long coping skills and behaviors. This three-part, virtual series focuses on implementing preventative practices in your school to expand your students’ potential. Join us for part one of this series as we:

Review the continuum of care for mental, emotional, and behavioral development.
Explore how the models of prevention fit into the multi-tiered system of support (MTSS).
Gain familiarity with the six strategies of prevention planning.
Hear from local mental health professionals regarding supports available in your community Sessions are free to participants thanks to funding provided by the Ohio Department of Education.

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Grit Makes the Difference
2022-02-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Grit, tenacity, or resilience: Whatever you call it, this quality is integral
to success! In this workshop, Thomas R. Hoerr will focus on how to
develop students’ grit—and also offer ideas on developing your own
grit. Learning Outcomes: Participants will Understand the relationship
of grit to comfort zones and good failure. Learn how to develop and
reinforce grit in their students.
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RTI/MTSS Tools for Planning Tier I Interventions
2022-02-02 10:30 - 13:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
When your district is over-referring students for special education services, you know it is time to strengthen Tier l instruction. In this workshop, Margaret Searle and Marilyn Swartz will share tools and protocols proven to make this task less stressful for teachers.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will

Learn what Tiers 1, 2, and 3 should look like.

Identify the most urgent and important student concerns standing in the way of student growth.

Learn a six-step, strengths-based process that results in targeted Tier l action plans.

Receive 16 strength charts that help teachers clarify students’ needs—both academic and behavioral.

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Learning to Love Math: How to Engage and Motivate Students to Build and Sustain Math Understanding, Effort, and Enjoyment: A Deeper Dive
2022-02-02 11:30 - 14:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
How can you guide students to build math concept networks that require deep, accurate understanding? In this workshop with Judy Willis, we’ll explore the information described in the mini-workshop “Learning to Love Math” with a deeper dive.

We’ll first examine strategies to reduce the stress that blocks participation and understanding. Additional insights come from the whys and ways to facilitate passage of the sensory input of new learning into short-term memory encoding. And as we recognize the effect of patterning on learning, and memory in general, we’ll explore ways to promote students’ understanding math as parts of a pattern.

With the goal of transferring knowledge beyond drills and applying them to applications, we’ll discuss interventions to boost understanding. You’ll explore examples of a variety of mental manipulations (e.g., student meaning-making) that promote the construction of conceptual understanding and durable long-term memory networks.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will

Develop deep understanding of the effects of emotion, stress, and math negativity on math success, as well as interventions for these problems.

Evaluate and apply strategies for foundational/fact information that must be that be memorized.

Recognize ways to use patterning power for all memory development and concept constructions.

Explore what current brain research tell us about the most effective approaches for math skill acquisition and concept development.

Feel sustained and encouraged as you help your students love math.
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Ed Tech Essentials for Secondary Educators
2022-02-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
In a world awash in technology, what EdTech skills and strategies should educators focus on to ensure they are making the best use of online spaces for classroom learning? This workshop will include an overview of three technology strategies essential for all learning environments.

The first session in the series will examine ways to curate resources. In this session, we’ll explore how to pull together resources that connect to curriculum goals while supporting the needs of all students.

The second session in this series will examine how to use technology to assess and pivot instruction. This session will cover strategies for collecting and analyzing data so educators can take action through instructional pivots and interventions.

The third session in this series will examine strategies to support students as they create products of learning. We will look at how to develop the supporting resources necessary for everyday artifacts of student learning as well as for larger independent and collaborative projects.

All three sessions include interactive activities that model student experiences.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

Learn how to curate resources that align to curriculum goals and differentiated instruction needs;

Learn how to check for understanding with digital tools to take action based on formative assessment data;

Learn how to facilitate creative experiences for students to demonstrate their learning.
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Accelerating Learning for ELLs
2022-02-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
In this workshop, Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele will address what works in teaching English language learners, how to accelerate learning for students’ learning literacy and content in an additional language, and how to support colleagues in accelerating learning for ELLs.

Participants will walk away with a five-part framework for understanding how to design learning opportunities so that students grow content and language together, as well as practical strategies for accelerating growth with ELLs that can be implemented the very next day.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to

Identify five components for effective instruction of ELLs.

Explain why these components support the learning of language and content at the same time.

Implement strategies for accelerating ELL learning in K–12 settings.

Walk away with tools for supporting their colleagues’ growth in teaching ELLs.

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Using Interactive, Differentiated Strategies to Engage and Equip ALL Learners (Four-part series)
2022-02-03 15:30 - 17:00, 2022-02-10 15:30 - 17:00, 2022-02-17 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Tailoring instruction to meet the diverse needs of learners is difficult enough in face-to-face settings, let alone in the digital world. The recent challenges that accompany oscillating learning environments have shone a spotlight on the varying needs of students, leaving many teachers wondering if it’s possible to move all students forward while attending to their different learning needs.

This series of four interactive workshops led by Kristina Doubet will feature tools—both traditional and digital—that can help teachers engage, support, and challenge diverse learners in a variety of learning settings. Participants will experiment with tools and strategies, study classroom examples, and “meet” with colleagues to discuss how they might engage, support, and challenge every learner to take their next steps.

Session 1: Creating a Collaborative, Supportive, Interactive Learning Environment

Session 2: Strategies to Harness Interests and Learning Preferences

Session 3: Strategies to Differentiate for Readiness

Session 4: Flexible Grouping and Classroom (or Online) Management
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Being the Chief Empathy Officer
2022-02-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Good leadership is based on relationships, and strong leaders lead through empathy.
In this session, Thomas R. Hoerr will define the aspects of empathy and show how
empathy can be grown. Empathy will be focused upon in hiring and professional
development. Learning Outcomes: Participants will learn The components of
empathy. How to develop their personal empathy. How to use empathy in cultivating
growth that leads to student success.

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Sessions To Help Teachers Build Better Readers
2022-02-05 09:00 - 16:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
To boost achievement in reading, teachers need research-based strategies that are classroom-tested and easy to use.
After you attend Super Saturday, you will be able to build better readers with proven strategies that can be integrated into your lesson plans right away.

Choose from 25+ fun and engaging sessions.

Participate from the comfort of your home or school.

Interact live with presenters during every session.

Earn up to 20 hours of continuing education credit.

Learn to deliver explicit K-12 reading instruction.

Access a huge collection of digital resources.

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Super Saturday Reading Conference
2022-02-05 09:00 - 16:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
ONE-DAY VIRTUAL & INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE

Learn how to build better readers.

To boost achievement in reading, teachers need research-based strategies that are classroom-tested and easy to use.
After you attend Super Saturday, you will be able to build better readers with proven strategies that can be integrated into your lesson plans right away.

Choose from 25+ fun and engaging sessions.
Participate from the comfort of your home or school.
Interact live with presenters during every session.
Earn up to 20 hours of continuing education credit.
Learn to deliver explicit K-12 reading instruction.
Access a huge collection of digital resources.

REGISTER NOW

Super Saturday Reading Conference
2022-02-05 09:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
ONE-DAY VIRTUAL & INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE

Learn how to build better readers.

To boost achievement in reading, teachers need research-based strategies that are classroom-tested and easy to use.
After you attend Super Saturday, you will be able to build better readers with proven strategies that can be integrated into your lesson plans right away.

Choose from 25+ fun and engaging sessions.

Participate from the comfort of your home or school.

Interact live with presenters during every session.

Earn up to 20 hours of continuing education credit.

Learn to deliver explicit K-12 reading instruction.

Access a huge collection of digital resources
Register

Elevating Professional Learning Through Microcredentials
2022-02-07 10:30 - 12:00, 2022-02-10 10:30 - 12:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Far too often, professional learning focuses on compliance (e.g., checking off another box or earning “hours”) rather than strengthening and demonstrating skills that affect student learning. Those participating in these more compliance-oriented professional learning activities may gain knowledge, but evidence suggests that this knowledge is unlikely to transfer into practice. Microcredentials, at their best, can help bridge this gap by providing educators with opportunities to take action and then reflect on the effect of that action.

A microcredential is defined as a performance-based assessment intended to allow the educator to demonstrate competency in a skill. If well-designed, microcredentials also align with what we know works in professional learning. Microcredentials are job-embedded, sustained, and relevant learning experiences that are focused on student outcomes. Educators completing microcredentials must document evidence of proficiency in the context of their work.

In this interactive workshop, Eric Carbaugh will provide essential information and lessons learned for schools and districts seeking to implement microcredentials. Key topics addressed include deciding whether to adopt existing microcredentials or design your own, tips for design and implementation, and an overview of the structures and supports necessary for success.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will

Identify how microcredentials can support school or district goals as well as individual educator growth.

Understand ways in which microcredentials reflect high-quality professional learning.

Explore essential components of design and implementation.

Develop a plan for implementing microcredentials.

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RTI/MTSS Talking Partners: A System for Solving Tier 2 Academic and Behavior Problems
2022-02-09 10:30 - 13:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
How can you reduce referral paperwork and the frustration of waiting for support when you are worried about a struggling student? In this workshop, Margaret Searle and Marilyn Swartz will demonstrate how to set up a system of peer coaching that helps a teacher develop a targeted intervention plan for both home and school.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will

Explore the advantages of establishing an RTI/MTSS peer coaching system for teachers.

Get tips for developing and updating the list of high-priority students who need assistance.

Receive a tool for pinpointing students’ strengths and needs.

Learn a six-step, strengths-based process for developing a Tier 2 intervention plan.
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Games to Promote Mathematical Thinking with Stephanie Warner
2022-02-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Join fellow educators for a series of weekly, one-hour virtual sessions that dive deep into mathematics topics. Each session will focus on a different instructional strategy and include a demonstration, time to practice with your peers, and Q&A with the session lead. Participants will leave with new perspectives and some resources to expand their thinking. Sessions are provided at no cost for ESC member districts!
Games to Promote Mathematical Thinking

Spirit Work and the Science Collaboration
2022-02-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Based around the stories of 8 school districts, this webinar with Michael Fullan and Mark Edwards will share their insights about how deep caring for others linked to collaboration can achieve amazing results under complex conditions. Through powerful case studies and vignettes, the authors will discuss how spirit and collaboration represent revolutionary potential for education and pave the way to a brighter future.
Participants will come away with:
– A lifeline amid overwhelming conditions
– Hope for themselves and the future of education
– Practical ideas for building cohesion throughout school communities
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Weekly Literacy Professional Learning Chats with Franki Sibberson
2022-02-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Join fellow literacy educators for a weekly, one hour virtual series of sessions that dive deep into literacy topics. Each session will include an introduction to the topic, connected readings, and time for conversation and questions. Participants will leave with new perspectives and some resources to expand their thinking. Sessions are provided at no cost for member districts. Participants have the option to schedule continued individual conversation/coaching available for a fee.
Feb. 15 | Planning Mini-lesson Cycles

Curriculum Leadership Team Meeting
2022-02-16 08:00 - 15:00 | St. Ignatius School-Loyola Hall, 5222 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45247, United States

A Hands on Approach to Understanding Fractions
2022-02-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Join fellow educators for a series of weekly, one-hour virtual sessions that dive deep into mathematics topics. Each session will focus on a different instructional strategy and include a demonstration, time to practice with your peers, and Q&A with the session lead. Participants will leave with new perspectives and some resources to expand their thinking. Sessions are provided at no cost for ESC member districts!
| A Hands-On Approach to Understanding Fractions
