English Learners: Culturally Responsive Practices
2022-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
This one-hour, online session shares ideas on how to make a school or classroom a safe and welcoming environment for English learners to succeed academically. We will examine culture and explain how culture can affect learning and behavior. Tips will be shared to build a school culture of diversity where all students feel safe and accepted.
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Ohio Death Penalty Stations of the Cross (Virtual)
2022-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 | OH
On Friday, March 25, virtually join Catholics across Ohio in praying the Stations of the Cross and raising awareness about the death penalty.
Across the U.S., a growing number of states are moving to abolish capital punishment — and Ohio is no exception. Currently, the Ohio legislature is considering two bipartisan bills that would abolish the state’s death penalty.
In light of Ohio’s abolition efforts, CMN invites you to join in a one-hour Lenten prayer experience for Ohio Catholics. Participants will contemplate Christ’s passion through the Stations of the Cross, and reflect on the urgent need to end capital punishment in Ohio.
Ohio Death Penalty Awareness Stations of the Cross (Virtual)
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Creating a Sense of Belonging though ‘Real Talk
2022-03-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
n this webinar, Dr. Paul Hernandez, author of The Pedagogy of Real Talk, will introduce the concept of ‘Real Talk’ as the action step needed in creating a sense of true belonging in the classroom.
Join us for this webinar to:
– Learn the concept of ‘Real Talk’ and its importance in connecting with students to create a sense of belonging
– Learn the importance and role of vulnerability in the classroom when conducting Real Talk
– Learn the importance and role of empathy in the classroom when conducting Real Talk
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Learning from Mistakes: Easier Said Than Done
2022-03-29 18:00 - 19:00 | OH
Some of our students’ most powerful learning comes from their mistakes, but are the choices we make as educators inadvertently shutting down the mistake-learning process in our classrooms?
In this webinar, educator Zak Cohen will introduce you to the Mistake Literacy framework — a learning acceleration framework that will guide you in creating a classroom space that leverages mistakes as a means of fostering a spirit of inclusivity, innovation, and bold engagement with learning.
Attendees will leave knowing:

how to apply the “recognize, react to, repair” protocol in the classroom,
what research tells us about how to optimize leaning from mistakes,
a set of instructional strategies and dispositions that contribute to safe and productive spaces for making mistakes, and
how to continue learning via the Mistake Literacy Professional Learning Playlist.

All attendees will receive verification of one-hour of professional learning time.
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Virtual Reality Is Transforming the Way Students Are Learning Complex STEM Concepts
2022-03-30 15:30 - 16:00 | Zoom
Attend this edWebinar to learn how virtual reality (VR) is revolutionizing the way students are learning complex concepts in science and math. You will discover how educators are able to bring lessons to life using VR, improving student engagement and learning outcomes.

The presenters will discuss how VR is connecting learners with experiences, from complex simulations to simple lab experiments. They will demonstrate how using VR’s immersive experiences promotes the connection between learner and concept, inspiring greater inquiry. What if a student could virtually enter a plant, become part of an ecosystem, or feel a connection with the smallest particles that make up the basis of life? All this and more are possible with VR, and you will be pleasantly surprised how easily it can be incorporated into your curriculum.

This edWebinar will be of interest to teachers, education technology leaders, and school and district leaders of the middle and high school grades. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation. Learn more.

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Parent Engagement in a Digital Age: How Technology Can Ease Back-to-School
2022-03-31 14:00 - 15:00 | OH
Join this edWebinar to explore how to start preparing now for a successful back-to-school by connecting schools and families online, all while navigating communication with the first-ever fully digital-native parent community. Charles Field, CEO of School Family Media, and Kara Stern, Resident Educator at Smore, will discuss how technology and communication apps are breaking down barriers that have limited parent engagement in the past and how, when schools return this fall, those same technologies will be equally crucial as the digital transformation in education continues.
They will share insights into parent expectations from their daily conversations with parent group leaders, teachers, and district staff, and discuss ways teachers and schools can become a successful part of this digital leap forward. This edWebinar will be of interest to teachers and school and district leaders of the PreK-8 grades. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenters
Charles Field is an entrepreneur and operator dedicated to leading companies as they define emerging business opportunities and scale into new markets. As Chief Executive Officer, Charles is responsible for establishing the vision for School Family Media (SFM), leading strategic initiatives, and leading the day-to-day success of the organization. Prior to SFM, Charles helped make the investment in School Family Media for Sunlight Capital Group. He has more than 10 years of direct experience building digital marketing and media businesses in the education sector. Charles received his MBA in marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from Amherst College.

Kara Stern is a veteran progressive educator with a demonstrated history of creating innovative learning experiences for teachers and students at the classroom, city, and state levels. She has been a high school teacher, a middle school principal, head of school, education non-profit ED, and now in-house education expert at a tech startup. Creating, supporting, and sustaining equitable, caring school and classroom communities has been Kara’s throughline.

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Ignite My Future in School: Engage Students in Computational Thinking
2022-03-31 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Looking for creative ways to get your students thinking? Learn how computational thinking can make an impact in your classroom. Computational thinking is where creativity meets tech, with a twist of problem solving.

In this edWebinar, attendees will learn how Ignite My Future’s 65+ free STEM resources will engage students in relevant, problem-solving activities. Ignite My Future’s transdisciplinary lessons, professional development materials, and support from industry experts will help you to foster and grow your students’ 21st century skills. Learn how you can help students build and apply critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills to real-world problems.

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

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Beyond Test Anxiety: Strategies to Reduce Anxiety for Teachers and Students
2022-04-04 15:00 - 16:00 | OH
While students are battling unprecedented levels of anxiety, bullying, and depression, educators are facing major challenges curricula alone can’t solve. Teachers are getting burned out due to the pressures of standardized testing, lack of time to plan and teach, overcrowded classrooms, personal matters, and student issues that originate from outside of school. In this interactive edWebinar with a classroom teacher and a former school counselor, attendees will learn to:

Identify causes and effects of student and teacher anxiety
Select strategies to help students reduce test anxiety
Practice anxiety-reducing techniques for themselves

We believe that the single greatest influence in the classroom is the teacher. Unfortunately, their innate ability to inspire and motivate their students sometimes comes at the expense of their own well-being. Therefore, reducing anxiety for teachers and students is critical to classroom success. Join us in this session to tackle both!

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Don't Suspend Me!
2022-04-04 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Inequities in school discipline remain a challenge nationwide. It’s time that educators learned what actions they can take to create positive, meaningful long-term changes in behavior instead of suspending students from school.
In this webinar, Jessica and John Hannigan will discuss their Don’t Suspend Me! Alternative Discipline Framework for designing effective discipline using restorative, reflective, and instructional methods of supports and share lessons learned and new tips for implementation since the publication of the bestselling first edition of Don’t Suspend Me!
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Don't Suspend Me
2022-04-04 18:30 - 19:30 | OH
Inequities in school discipline remain a challenge nationwide. It’s time that educators learned what actions they can take to create positive, meaningful, long-term changes in behavior instead of suspending students from school.
In this webinar, Jessica and John Hannigan will discuss their Don’t Suspend Me! Alternative Discipline Framework for designing effective discipline using restorative, reflective, and instructional methods of supports and share lessons learned and new tips for implementation since the publication of the bestselling first edition of Don’t Suspend Me!.
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Middle Grade Teacher Virtual Book Club with Franki Sibberson
2022-04-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Are you a teacher of grades 3-6 who loves to find new books for your students to enjoy? Join other middle grade teachers virtually to read and discuss children’s books. We’ll meet on the first Tuesday of the month. Each month, we’ll focus on one middle grade novel to read and discuss. Teachers will be able to consider the learning each novel offers students. The selected title will be shared with participants one month before each meetup. We’ll read the book in its entirety before the meeting. We’ll also spend time sharing a variety of other books that we’ve discovered for our classrooms. Questions about the content? Please contact Jill Reinhart, Jill.Reinhart@escco.org. Questions about registration? Please contact Jessica Seymour at Jessica.Seymour@escco.org. By registering for any ESC of Central Ohio virtual or in-person events, you will be automatically subscribed to our professional development monthly email or any other emails that are relevant to your position. You may unsubscribe at any time.
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7 Strategies for Using Summer as a Springboard to a Successful Fall
2022-04-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Join this edWebinar as we reimagine summer and how to use it as an indispensable launchpad for the next school year rather than a disconnected time to play catch-up from the previous year. We’ll share essential, practical strategies from district leadership that teachers and administrators can use in their own communities.

What would the first weeks of fall look like if summer school helped families establish confidence and feel supported? The untapped potential in summer school is an opportunity to build strong family-school partnerships, conduct a soft launch of new processes, tools, and routines, and pre-teach standards for the upcoming grade. It’s a time to lay the groundwork with families early to have a positive and effective start to the school year.

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

Reading Comprehension for English Learners
2022-04-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
What does reading comprehension mean for English learners? Do they need strategies or more background knowledge? This online session examines the unique needs of ELs and supports that help ELs make sense of a text. This session will be of particular interest to EL Teachers, Reading Teachers and Classroom Teachers. Join Jill Kramer and Katie Mikita for this one hour session.
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K-3 Mathematics Curriculum Leadership Team Meeting
2022-04-08 08:00 - 15:00 | St. Ignatius School-Loyola Hall, 5222 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45247, United States

40 Days for Life Closing Rally (Dayton)
2022-04-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Closing Rally for Spring 2022 Campaign Guest Speaker is Jena Powell, Ohio House of Representatives, District 80. Jena has shown strength in standing fin promoting pro-life legislation in the Ohio Congress. She will share updates about legislation and will offer further inspiration regarding ways to influence the culture through the legislative process. Please join us!
Address: 1401 East Stroop Road Kettering, OH 45429
Time: 2:00 PM

Leading Change through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency
2022-04-11 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
In this webinar, the authors of Leading Change through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency tell the story of a school community that contended with its approach to teaching and valuing students of diverse backgrounds. The authors will discuss roadmaps, barriers along the way, and educator commitment to implementing and sustaining the work of Cultural Proficiency.
Participants will:
– Experience Cultural Proficiency as personal and professional work
– Hear stories through vignettes and data, based on work conducted across
an actual school district, that resulted in improvements in school climate, achievement, mindset, and equitable educational practices
– Learn about engagement, leadership, and implementation frameworks for uncovering and remedying educational inequities
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Key Engagement Strategies for Your Classroom
2022-04-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Whether you are reading an article filled with data, watching the news, or simply talking to fellow educators, the consistent, widespread concern is clear: students of all ages seem to have completely disengaged from school.
This webinar will help you:

Understand why student engagement continues to be such an issue in today’s classrooms
Explore key factors that may inhibit engagement

Learn strategies and actions you can take to reignite student interest and re-engage today’s learners
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4-8 Mathematics Curriculum Leadership Team Meeting
2022-04-14 08:00 - 15:00 | St. Ignatius School-Loyola Hall, 5222 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45247, United States

Advance Beyond Doing Reading to Teaching Reading
2022-04-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Our class periods and reading blocks are often filled with students practicing and applying comprehension skills; they are “doing” a lot of reading. However, these experiences cannot replace the explicit teaching of individual comprehension skills.
It’s only when students receive explicit instruction on specific strategies that they can think about and beyond any text.
This 60-minute webinar will honor the various experiences packed into the typical reading block/ELA class period and show educators how to teach reading comprehension — starting with the introduction of a reader’s three voices.

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Pre-K is STILL the Place for Play
2022-04-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
In this edWebinar, early childhood educators will receive simple tips on how to integrate purposeful play into their day-to-day practices in a developmentally appropriate way that supports children’s holistic development.

Educators will be encouraged to continue to focus on using child-centered, play-based approaches and intentional interactions to help their children to thrive, and to encourage parents and guardians to do the same. This is especially important in the current environment where many Pre-K programs, including publicly funded programs, are becoming more academically driven and focused on rote learning, which can be detrimental to children’s long-term development. This session aims to be as collaborative as possible with attendees encouraged to share their strategies and tips with each other as well.

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The Rebellious Read Aloud
2022-04-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Children yearn to see themselves in our classrooms. In this session, we’ll discuss how our culture reveals itself in the classroom and make connections between diversity and our students using children’s books. Confidently engage in conversations about diversity and inclusion and identify higher-order thinking questions to use with children’s books about diversity.
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Closing the Implementation Gap: Turning Ideas Into Goals—and Goals Into Impact
2022-04-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Learn how to turn the good ideas of your leadership teams, professional learning communities, and educators into real systematic impact and bypass the implementation gap in your school or district.
By implementing the evidence-based and field-tested Building to Impact 5D methodology found in the all-new book, Building to Impact, by Arran Hamilton, Douglas Reeves, Janet Clinton, and John Hattie, you will:

D1: Discover goals worth pursuing
D2: Design actions that generate deep impact
D3: Deliver interventions and collect data
D4: Double-back to evaluate impact
D5: Double-up to sustain and scale success

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Closing the Implementation Gap
2022-04-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Please join my colleagues for a free webinar, in partnership with EdWeek, to discuss key strategies on how to bypass the implementation gap from our upcoming book, Building to Impact.
At the webinar, Douglas Reeves, Arran Hamilton, and Janet Clinton will show you how to use the evidence–based and field-tested Building to Impact 5D methodology to turn the good ideas of your leadership teams, PLCs, and educators into real systematic impact, and:

D1: Discover goals worth pursuing
D2: Design actions that generate deep impact
D3: Deliver interventions and collect data
D4: Double-back to evaluate impact
D5: Double-up to sustain and scale success

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3 Strategies to Close Learning Gaps Over the Summer
2022-04-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Presented by Renae Abboud, M.Ed., Vice President of Customer Experience, McGraw Hill; and Cassandra Harrington, ELA Curriculum Specialist, Grades 6-12, Williamson County Schools (TN)

Recent news and reports reveal that educators’ worst fears about student learning loss have been realized in many parts of the country. In response, schools and districts are considering several intervention models, including high-intensity summer school programs.

This timely edWebinar will explore three proven strategies for accelerating learning growth in reading and math through short, intense periods of instruction. Attendees will gain valuable information about how to reignite students’ motivation through personalized instruction. Join us to see how you can help students in every learning environment get back on track for success this summer by providing them with engaging, adaptive, leveled lessons.

This edWebinar will be of interest to PreK-12 school, district, and education technology leaders, as well as Title I directors. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation. REGISTER

The ABCs of Powerful Professional Development™
2022-04-25 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
In this webinar with Mastermind author Daniel Bauer, leaders will discover how integrating more authenticity, belonging, and challenge will transform their life and leadership experiences.
Participants will learn how to:
– Create more authenticity in their school
– Foster more belonging within their community
– Challenge their community and inspire better results
– Transform their life and leadership
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Aspiring Administrator Leaders Program
2022-04-26 16:00 - 17:30, 2022-04-26 16:00 - 2022-06-28 17:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
This program is designed to introduce prospective leaders to the essential responsibilities, skills, challenges and rewards associated with school administration from a practitioners’ perspective. Program attendees will:

Explore typical duties and responsibilities of a building administrator to help candidates make an informed decision relative to entering a principal-preparation program.
Enhance leadership skills and recognize personal strengths and weaknesses.
Use Ohio Standards for Principals as program foundation.
Interact with practicing building and district administrators.

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Hamilton County ESC Spring Symposium
2022-04-27 08:00 - 15:30 | Hamilton County ESC, OH
Learn strategies to support students in any setting and decrease discipline referrals.
Receive tools to increase staff retention, instructional time, and student engagement.
Gain professional connections and ideas to address challenging behavior, work refusal, and lack of compliance.

Important Session Information:

Crack the behavior code with Hamilton County ESC as speakers explore behavior from a building, classroom, and individual perspective. This symposium provides a platform for educators to strengthen their understanding of behavior and collaborate on ways to support behavior in the world of education. This is an opportunity to broaden your knowledge and resources to implement at school, foster positive classroom culture, and increase academic achievement and student engagement.
Learn more about guest speakers and the agenda at www.hcesc.org/spring-symposium.
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Hamilton County ESC Spring Symposium
2022-04-27 08:00 - 15:30 | Hamilton County ESC, OH
Crack the behavior code with Hamilton County ESC as speakers explore behavior from a building, classroom, and individual perspective. Join us a well-know keynote speaker Jessica Minahan, MEd, BCBA, covers practical strategies to reduce anxiety and defiant behavior in the classroom, as well as increasing engagement and reducing oppositional behavior in students.
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4-8 ELA Curriculum Leadership Team Meeting
2022-04-28 08:00 - 15:00 | St. Ignatius School-Loyola Hall, 5222 North Bend Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45247, United States
