Archdiocese of Cincinnati

CORWIN - Assessments
2023-05-01 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Zoom
Presented by Dylan Wiliam, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Description coming soon…
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NCEA Webinar, The Science of Learning to Read: Our Children and Teachers Deserve Perfect!
2023-05-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
As a proud corporate sponsor of NCEA, I’m excited to share information about Curriculum Associates’ upcoming NCEA Webinar, The Science of Learning to Read: Our Children and Teachers Deserve Perfect!

Description: Throughout the country, the Science of Reading has dominated the educational landscape, leading educators to seek valid and reliable information regarding reading instruction. Danielle Sullivan, Curriculum Associates National Director, will lead a discussion about how the Science of Reading impacts effective reading instruction in elementary schools. In addition, Danielle will introduce Catholic school educators to Magnetic Reading Foundations, an EdReports.org all-green, perfect scores, foundational skills program.
Host: Danielle Sullivan, National Director at Curriculum Associates | Guest Attendee: Anthony Cook, Director, Strategic Relationships at Curriculum Associates
Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Time: 1 PM EST
Link to register: https://ncea.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816821022569/WN__cxHZIBiQYy3laSP3IkiKA

CORWIN - Teaching Methods for Active Learning
2023-05-08 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
In this webinar, author Gravity Goldberg will share a curated selection of high-impact, instructional strategies that new teachers can become familiar with and master early in their teaching careers.
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Living Rosary
2023-05-12 18:30 - 20:00 | OH
Come join us for the First Annual Living Rosary at the St. Thomas More School Football Field. All are welcome! Mother Seraphina and Bob Wurzelbacher will speak about the new ballot initiative and helping women in crisis pregnancies.
788 Ohio Pike Cincinnati, OH 45245
6:30-8:00pm

Roses for Mary
2023-05-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, 5440 Moeller Ave, Norwood, Ohio, United States
Join others in prayer for a Rosary Procession at the Holy Spirit Center at 2pm. All attendees are encouraged to bring roses for each intention to be prayed for during the Rosary. At the end of the procession, everyone will lay their “intention(s)” roses at the foot of the Blessed Mother statue. For more information click HERE.

CORWIN - A Guide to Detracking Math Courses
2023-05-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
There is a powerful, international momentum towards equity in mathematics. Angela Torres, Ho Nguyen, Elizabeth Hull Barnes, and Laura Wentworth are excited to share their evolving understandings about supporting powerful mathematics in heterogeneous classrooms. They will discuss many interconnected points when taking up bold systems work: vision-setting first and foremost, alongside considerations of research and policy; curricular, coaching, and professional supports for educators, and making adjustments over time as policies and practices shift.
This session will highlight
● How all students are mathematically brilliant
● How to bring a strengths-based perspective to all
● How learning in community is essential to creating change
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Novena for Life
2023-05-22 - 2023-05-30 | OH
The Feast of the Visitation commemorates when Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth and John the Baptist leapt in her womb at the news of Jesus. Please join in saying the Novena for Life that begins on May 22nd. Click HERE to sign up and receive daily reminders.

Exposing the Dangerous Language of the Bill
2023-05-23 18:30 - 19:30 | St. Henry Church Springboro, 6696 N Springboro Pike, Dayton, OH, 45449, United States
Dayton Right to Life is presenting an information session that will discuss and expose the deceptive and harmful language of the proposed amendment to the Ohio constitution. This information session will be from 6:30-7:30pm at St. Henry Church in
Springboro. For more information and to RSVP click HERE

Embracing the Chaos of STREAM Learning Through Literacy
2023-06-07 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Summer 2023 Webinar Series – NCEA
Who doesn’t love a little bit of chaos in life? In this session, participants will discover how to embrace STREAM learning (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art, Math) in the PreK-12 classroom and how to use read-aloud books, stories, and sample units to weave literacy into the push for cross-curricular STREAM lessons. Participants will explore texts at various levels and be guided to create similar units.
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Middle School Mayhem
2023-06-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Summer 2023 Webinar Series
This webinar is part of the summer webinar series inspired by NCEA 2023 Convention and geared toward Mission and Catholic Identity and Academic Excellence. Despite heroic teacher efforts, Covid adversely affected school socialization. If immaturity, lack of focus, impulsivity, lack of accountability, and disruptive behavior impede class productivity in your school, this session is for you! Learn how one Middle School reversed the Covid effect and equipped students to increase self-control, heighten autonomy, and become industrious learners. NSBECS Domain: Academic Excellence
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Ember Day - June 15
2023-06-15 08:30 - 16:00 | Sacred Heart of Jesus (McCartyville), 9377 State Route 119W, Anna,, OH, 45302, United States
The seminarians of the Archdiocese are hosting two Ember Day activities for men entering sophomore year of high to those who graduated from high school this year (2022). The day will include prayer, sports, activities and food. It’s an opportunity for high school boys to meet the seminarians and learn more about the faith.
In addition to this online RSVP, every participant will need to print and have a parent or guardian sign this permission form, and bring the form to the event:

English Permission Form
Spanish Permission Form

Dealing with Difficult People and Difficult Conversations for Administrators
2023-06-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Summer 2023 Webinar Series
Any and every leader inevitably has the challenge of dealing with difficult people and conversations, and the best know how to effectively manage these situations with adept skill and wisdom. Whether staff, a parent, or student, being prepared to deal with difficult situations with strategies that work provides a big advantage including a little less stress and a lot less damage control. This session we will share practical guidance to successfully navigate these challenges.
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Standing Up To Antisemitism: Educator Workshop
2023-06-21 08:00 - 2023-06-22 16:00 | OH
Join us for this two-day workshop to learn about the roots of antisemitism and the ways that we and our students can recognize and respond to antisemitism
today. The workshop will feature classroom-ready resources, a tour of the Maltz Museum, engaging speakers and more.
By understanding what antisemitism is, how it shows up,and how it impacts individuals and communities, we can help students recognize and, more importantly,
challenge antisemitism when they encounter it.
Cost: $20
Beachwood, OH
For more information, please contact lisa@facinghistory.org
Register at: facinghistory.com/standingup

Ten Ways to Bring the Faith to Life in the Elementary Classroom
2023-06-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Summer 2023 Webinar Series
Are you looking to bring the faith to life for your upper elementary students? In this session, I’ll share ten ways you can help students explore their faith and build community within the classroom. From bringing in the right guest speaker to teaching with the saints, I’ll give you all the tips and tricks that have worked in my classroom. You’ll leave with a toolbox full of resources and ideas to implement when you return to school.
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Ember Day - June 23
2023-06-23 08:30 - 16:00 | Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, 6616 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH, 45230, United States
The seminarians of the Archdiocese are hosting two Ember Day activities for men entering sophomore year of high to those who graduated from high school this year (2023). The day will include prayer, sports, activities and food. It’s an opportunity for high school boys to meet the seminarians and learn more about the faith.
In addition to this online RSVP, every participant will need to print and have a parent or guardian sign this permission form, and bring the form to the event:

English Permission Form
Spanish Permission Form

More Math Workshop
2023-06-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Summer 2023 Webinar Series
This webinar is part of the summer webinar series inspired by NCEA 2023 Convention and geared toward Mission and Catholic Identity and Academic Excellence. MORE Math Workshop! Come join the fun as we discuss and “play” with more math workshop resources! Help students master content in your math classroom with engaging and rigorous resources. Come to the session ready to learn and interact with other math educators and leave with activities you can implement in your classroom immediately!
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Dealing with Difficult People and Difficult Conversations for Teachers
2023-07-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Summer 2023 Webinar Series
This webinar is part of the summer webinar series inspired by NCEA 2023 Convention. Any and every educator inevitably has the challenge of dealing with difficult people and conversations, and the best know how to effectively manage these situations with adept skill and wisdom. Whether a parent, or student, being prepared to deal with difficult situations with strategies that work provides a big advantage including a little less stress and a lot less damage control. In this session, we will share practical guidance to navigate these challenges successfully.
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Coffee & Conversation
2023-07-15 09:00 - 11:30 | OH
Our next meeting will be held at St. Ignatius-Loyola Hall (southern location) 5222 North Bend Rd., Cincinnati on July 15, 2023 from 9:00-11:30. Everyone is welcome to attend as we work to create belonging for all in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Register here: https://airtable.com/shrYNpzvWRgLYXjS7
Coffee & Conversation will be held quarterly at these locations. Fall meeting dates and times will be announced in July! For more information, contact Lisa Averion, laverion@catholicaoc.org

Deaf Community Mass & Meeting
2023-07-15 17:00 - 18:30 | St. Christopher, 435 East National Rd, Vandalia, Ohio, 45377
Deaf Community Mass & meeting at St. Christopher 435 East National Road, Vandalia
5:00 Mass with ASL Interpreters
Meeting immediately following
All are welcome!

The In's and Out's of Dyslexia: Instructional Adaptations
2023-07-17 13:00 - 14:00 | OH
Summer 2023 Webinar Series
This webinar is part of the summer webinar series inspired by NCEA 2023 Convention and geared toward Mission and Catholic Identity and Academic Excellence. The In’s and Out’s of Dyslexia: Instructional Adaptations We are blessed to be experiencing a time in our educational careers when we are learning about dyslexia and the neurological impact that dyslexia has on reading, writing, and social interactions. This session will address the identification process, ways to partner with families, and strategies to implement for academic success in our Inclusive Catholic environments.
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Annual Northern (now St. Augustine Deaneries) Farm Mass
2023-07-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Buck and Fran Siefring Farm, 3598 SR 705, New Weston, OH, United States
Archbishop Schnurr will preside at the Annual Northern (now St. Augustine Deaneries) Farm Mass. Come join us to celebrate and give thanksgiving for faith, farm, and family!
Catholic families who have farmed and nurtured the same land for 100 years or more will be recognized with the Catholic Century Farm Awards.
Stay after Mass for refreshments, music, and square dancing! All are welcome.

Problem-Based Learning for Gifted Learners
2023-08-01 09:00 - 15:00 | Houston Early Learning Center, 3310 Compton Road, Cincinnati, OH, 45251, United States
Important Session Information:
With today’s ever-changing job market and economy, students must be prepared to solve real-world problems and meet new challenges. Help prepare your students for these challenges while meeting state standard requirements with this Problem-Based Learning workshop. Come away with a full plan, materials and a google drive of information ready to present to your students as a result of this workshop.

Developed by medical school staff at Case Western University in the 1950’s, Problem Based Learning originated as a way to solve medical issues. In recent years, Problem-Based Learning has evolved to be a unique way to engage higher level students by challenging them to creating solutions to revelant, real-world problems. Teachers in any discipline in grades 6-9 are encouraged to attend!

Gain insight on the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning with gifted/high ability students.
Create a series of Problem Based Learning scenarios tailored to your classroom standards and discuss with like-minded educators.
Create a pacing guide for a problem based learning unit designed for your classroom, using techniques and materials presented in this course.

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Adapted & Tactile Book Maker’s Day
2023-08-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Hamilton County ESC, OH
Important Session Information:
Are you looking to increase learning and engagement among students when using reading materials and activities and supporting students with visual impairments? Throughout this make and take, let your reading materials come to life by adding tactile elements and movement to increase engagement and motivation. This two-hour, hands-on course will provide ideas for accessible, interactive books. We will explore the benefits of tactile features for learners and the benefits of movement and learning. You will practice what you learn by adding tactile features to two books that you will then be able to take with you. Don’t let your book pages stay flat on the paper, bring them to life with this make and take course.

Discuss three benefits of incorporating movement into reading opportunities throughout the school day.
Identify three benefits when adding tactile elements and overlays to symbol based activities for learning.
Design at least two interactive reading books incorporating active engagement through a make and take portion.

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Facilitated K-3 Dyslexia Course
2023-08-07 08:30 - 2023-08-11 15:30 | Hamilton County ESC, OH
Important Session Information:
Join our trained facilitators to engage in Ohio’s free online Introduction to Dyslexia Course, K-3 and additional facilitated activities that provide deeper learning focused on the course content. This meets the requirements for the 18 hours of professional learning required by Ohio’s Dyslexia Law for K-3 teachers in Ohio.

Gain an understanding of literacy development based on comprehensive scientific findings from cognitive, psychological, and educational disciplines.
Identify and use in practice the essential components of reading instruction all students need to develop foundational literacy skills.
Recognize risk factors and characteristics of dyslexia and understand how reading difficulties vary in presentation and degree across ages, grades, and in response to educational experiences.
Identify distinctive properties of different text types (for example., decodable, leveled, authentic), understand how and when to use each for instruction, and learn how to scaffold rigorous text reading while independent reading skills are developing.

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Save the Date! Sunday, August 27, 2023 Festival of Faiths
2023-08-27 12:00 - 17:00 | Xavier University’s Cintas Center, 1624 Musketeer Drive, Cincinnati, OH, 45207, United States
Greater Cincinnati’s 6th Annual Festival of Faiths, celebrating our community’s religious diversity.
Online programming will continue Monday through Wednesday, and the festival will end with an in-person Peace Walk at Ault Park on Thursday, August 31, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Presented by EquaSion
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Science of Reading: Managing Change for Real Results - edWeb
2023-08-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Presented by Susan Lambert, Chief Academic Officer of Elementary Humanities, and Host of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Amplify; and Javonna Mack, Lead Content Teacher, Caddo Parish Public Schools (LA)
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Learn more about viewing the live presentation and the recording, earning your CE certificate, and using our new accessibility features.
Learn the simple steps that ensure success in managing any major change—especially the shift to the Science of Reading. Join this edWebinar to hear Susan Lambert, host of Science of Reading: The Podcast, in conversation with Javonna Mack, Science of Reading Star Award winner and Lead Content Teacher at Caddo Parish Public Schools. Susan and Javonna discuss how leaders at all levels can:

Create a climate of change by mobilizing their practice, process, and people
Build shared understanding for the need for Science-of-Reading-based literacy programs
Successfully navigate change through evidence-based stages of implementation
Make the shifts that deliver better literacy outcomes for students

Additionally, Susan will share FREE high-quality professional learning resources designed to support this change. This edWebinar will be of interest to elementary school teachers and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the session.

About the Presenter
Susan Lambert is the Chief Academic Officer of Elementary Humanities at Amplify, and the host of Science of Reading: The Podcast. Her career, which includes roles as a classroom teacher, building administrator, and district-level leader, has been focused on creating high-quality learning environments using evidence-based practices. Susan is a mom of four, a grandma of four, a world traveler, and a collector of stories. Her professional quarantine accomplishments include the production of knowledge-based learning modules for kindergarten through grade-two students, available through Amplify’s free resources website and Wide Open Schools.

Javonna Mack is the 2023 Science of Reading Star Award winner and Lead Content Teacher of Caddo Parish Public Schools. She has 21 years of experience working for the state of Louisiana, 13 within the Caddo Parish School System supporting PreK–6 instruction. Specializing in literacy, Javonna uses her experience to support teaching and learning on various campuses and at district professional development events. She focuses her support on ensuring application of Science of Reading principles and proper implementation of the Amplify Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) curriculum. Javonna enjoys reading and is an avid walker—you will often find her in her neighborhood parks or hiking trails. She is also a mother of four and grandmother of seven granddaughters.

CoTeaching Inquiry Lab Cohort - Audience: K-12 coteaching pairs of teachers
2023-08-29 08:30 - 15:30 | Hamilton County ESC, OH
Important Session Information:
The CoTeaching Inquiry Lab Cohort is a professional learning experience that builds coteaching strategy and designs. Cohort members will learn, observe, hone, and coplan collaborative teaching practices. Participants will have the opportunity to volunteer their classroom as an on-site lab. These volunteers will codesign the cotaught lesson alongside the facilitator/coach before all participants observe live coteaching and apply learning in real time. Focus areas will include: coplanning for learner variability in the cotaught classroom, organizing the teachers for coteaching, coteaching models, and other sustainable practices for collaborative instruction. The overall purpose is to develop coteaching practices that utilize two teachers to transform the experience for ALL learners.

Blended coaching will be conducted between lab sessions. Coaching cycles will include collaboration and conversation about the coteaching practices each team is developing.

Learn, observe, and hone collaborative teaching practices.
Coplan collaborative instruction.
Participate in coaching cycles around their own artifacts of practice.

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Teaching with Clarity for Instructional Leaders: How to Help Teachers Prioritize and Do Less so Students Understand More
2023-09-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
ASCD Virtual Author Workshop with Tony Frontier
Teaching with Clarity for Instructional Leaders: How to Help Teachers Prioritize and Do Less so Students Understand More

What will you learn?
Drawing from his book Teaching With Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More, Tony Frontier will explain a practical framework and action steps that can be used to prioritize, and align, teachers’ and students’ strategic efforts to support responsive, standards-based learning in every classroom.
In this workshop, participants will learn

Learn how to identify, and address, the problem of curricular clutter.
Learn how to effectively align time and effort spent teaching by prioritizing standards, local initiatives, and students’ learning needs.
Identify the six elements that create clarity for teaching and learning.
Learn practical action steps related to developing curriculum, instruction, and assessment that are aligned to each of the six elements of clarity to prioritize students’ strategic efforts to learn.

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2023 Rural Farm Mass - St. Mary Deanery
2023-09-08 19:00 - 22:00 | 5565 Moran Road, Ripley, OH 45167, 5565 Moran Road, Ripley, OH, 45167, United States
The 2023 Southeastern Rural Farm Mass will be held on Friday, September 8, at the home of Gary and Shirley Moran.
It’s happening rain or shine. Please bring a chair and a dish to share.
September 8 is a blessing as Shirley has a special devotion to Mary and has a couple of Mary gardens. It is a beautiful 250 acre beef cattle farm with civil war era house.
