Archdiocese of Cincinnati

This Holy and Living Sacrifice (EMHC Formation)
2021-10-25 13:30 - 15:30 UTC | Zoom
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

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 | OH
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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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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Math Storytelling: Our Innate Wisdom and Wholeness
2021-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 | OH
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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PLCs Reimagined: A Fresh Approach to Teacher Collaboration
2021-10-26 17:00 - 18:00 | OH
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, 2021-11-03 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 | OH
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 | OH
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 | OH
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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Mathematics Professional Learning
2021-11-03 15:30 - 16:30 | OH
Join fellow educators for a weekly, one-hour virtual series of 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 member districts. Participants have the option of continued individual conversation/coaching available for a fee.

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Amplify Your Impact: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work
2021-11-04 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Amplify Your Impact: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work® Virtual Workshop: A Live 2-Day Event with Tesha Ferriby Thomas
Highly effective collaborative teams are vital to the success of every professional learning community (PLC). During this two-day virtual workshop through Zoom, participants will increase their capacity to coach and support collaborative teams as they engage in continuous improvement. Learn how to provide the clarity, feedback, and support necessary for teams to grow in the right work, and leave with a plan for implementing best coaching practices in your school or district.
Participants will:

Examine the current research and practices supporting coaching and collaboration
Explore a promising new approach for providing effective, job-embedded professional development to teachers
Discover a coaching framework anchored in the cornerstones of clarity, feedback, and support
Learn how coaching collaborative teams can improve teachers’ instructional practices and lead to increased student learning
Understand how to intentionally shift from coaching individuals to coaching collaborative teams
Acquire tools, processes, and products for coaching collaborative teams in a PLC at Work

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This Holy and Living Sacrifice (EMHC Formation)
2021-11-04 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Mary of the Assumption, 9579 Yankee Rd., Springboro, OH, 45066

STEM Conference
2021-11-09 | Univeristy of Cincinnati – Tangeman Center, 2600 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, United States
Registration is now OPEN! (Early Bird rate applies until August 1st)
(click here) Register by selecting one of the following Options:

Early Bird – $85 (until August 1st) – includes up to 6 contact hours
Regular Price – $100 (after August 1st) – includes up to 6 contact hours

Pre-service Teachers– $65/each: up to 6 contact hrs, breakfast, lunch, parking, and give-away.
Group Rate– $85/each for 5 or more teachers: up to 6 contact hrs, breakfast, lunch, parking, and give-away.

Submit your Proposals NOW! Don’t miss this opportunity to share your expertise! The deadline is September 27th.
We are looking for presentations on STEM, STEAM, or STREAM
Instructional Programs and Strategies and Interactive Workshops.
(Submit your proposal here.)

Nominations for 4 STEM Leadership Awards is open NOW
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(Deadline for nominations is September 1st)

(2) The Outstanding STEM Educator Longtime Achievement Awards,
(1) The Early Career STEM Educator Award, and
(1) The Mid- Career STEM Educator Award.

Response to Intervention at Work
2021-11-09 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Proven techniques to close learning gaps
RTI is not a series of implementation steps to cross off on a list, but a way of thinking about how educators can ensure each child receives the time and support needed to achieve success. This virtual workshop is designed for school teams who have started RTI but are still refining processes or experiencing challenges. The presenter has worked with hundreds of schools throughout North America and can help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable. RTI work must be divided between collaborative teacher teams and two schoolwide teams (a leadership team and an intervention team). Together, the entire school assumes responsibility for the learning of every student.
As an active virtual participant, you will learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail, and then discover how to create an RTI model that works. Acquire four essential guiding principles—collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access—and experience a simple process for bringing these principles to life in your school.

Drive implementation using the four guiding principles.
Create a school leadership team to steer the shift to a culture of collective responsibility.
Utilize collaborative teacher teams to define essential learnings.
Create a toolbox of effective interventions.
Build a schoolwide intervention team to address complex issues such as motivation, attendance, and behavior.

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Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap
2021-11-09 10:00 - 16:30 | Virtual- Register Above for Link
Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap Virtual Workshop: A Live 2-Day Event with Anthony Muhammad
In light of the mass movement for reform and fair treatment in the criminal justice system sparked by the death of George Floyd, this workshop is more important than ever. A fairer and more equitable school system can be the catalyst for producing a better world outside of the school system.
This virtual workshop will address the connection between educator mindset and student achievement gaps. The achievement gap topic has been explored through many lenses, including political, economic, and pedagogical. Despite these sincere efforts, student achievement gaps in American schools are as large as they have ever been. Dr. Muhammad’s theory is that none of these well-intentioned policies or strategies will have a fighting chance in an environment where the educators possess a Superiority or Victim mindset. A Liberation mindset is the key to unlock the potential of our staff and students.
The workshop experience will include examining current constructs and the mistakes of the past. Once we have confronted the mistakes of the past, we will start to examine our current reality and make concrete plans to create a Liberation mindset at our school. We recommend that the school send a diverse group of representatives, which could include teacher leaders, counselors, school administrators, and a district office representative.
Learning Outcomes:

Understand the facts about the American achievement gap and the factors and conditions that create it.
Recognize the power of educator mindset on professional practice and student performance.
Experience how to assess the current mindset of your school or district.
Create and learn how to apply a comprehensive school plan to transform your school into a Liberation mindset.

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Gateways to Success in STEM: Sketching and Spatial Visualization
2021-11-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Spatial visualization (SV) is the ability to think in 3D. Did you know that up to 60% of students in STEM programs have weak SV skills? This skills gap can lead to difficulty in engineering, technology, and science classes which require proficiency with 3D thinking. Thankfully, studies have shown that SV skills are teachable and improve student outcomes in STEM fields. SV training is especially beneficial for women and other underrepresented populations that may have had less experience in playing with building toys as children and find themselves at a disadvantage when entering STEM fields.
Sketching 2D and 3D shapes is the recommended approach to improving SV skills. Sketching is also important for creativity, project-based learning, and teamwork. However, few curricula include this training, and many educators don’t know where to begin.
In this edWebinar, attendees will learn:

Best practices for how to easily incorporate SV and sketching training into any STEM class
How student persistence can be measured and increased with sketching assignments
How teachers can improve their own SV skills without learning CAD
How the Spatial Vis software, which is free for teachers, teaches SV with engaging sketching assignments, automatic grading, and personalized feedback

This edWebinar will be of interest to teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, CTE directors, and STEM coordinators and teachers at the middle school, high school, and higher education levels. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenters
Lelli Van Den Einde, Ph.D. is a teaching professor in structural engineering at the University of California San Diego and Co-founder and President of eGrove Education. She incorporates integrated pedagogical innovations such as peer instruction, flipped classroom, and project-based learning into core structural engineering courses; prepares and advises next-generation faculty; advises student organizations; and is committed to activities that broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM and foster a supportive environment for diverse students. Her research focuses on engagement strategies for large classrooms and developing K-16 curricula in earthquake engineering and spatial visualization.

Lizzy Cowan has a cognitive science background and is the user experience researcher and designer at eGrove Education, Inc. She has been developing spatial visualization and sketching products for seven years and has a deep understanding of the unique challenges students face when learning these skills. She focuses on creating an engaging and personalized learning experience for students and valuable resources for educators. Additionally, she provides sales and technical support to instructors using the Spatial Vis software in their classrooms.

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Purposeful Read Alouds in Middle Grades
2021-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Read Aloud is no longer a time for children to settle down after recess and listen in
a passive manner. Instead, it is a time for the reading community to come together
and think together around a common book. During the course of the school year, a
class can experience 6-10 chapter books together while still allowing time for other
elements of literacy instruction. In this session, we’ll examine why it’s important
that these books be carefully chosen and what routines you can put in place for
students to grow as readers, knowing they each may access the common text in a
different way.

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Purposeful Read Alouds in Middle Grades
2021-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
These one-hour virtual sessions take a deep dive into a specific topic. Each session will include an introduction to the topic, some connected readings, time for conversation and questions. Participants will leave with some new thinking and some resources to expand their thinking following the session. Note: Sessions are provided at no cost for member districts. The opportunity for continued individual conversation/coaching is available for a fee. Purposeful Read Alouds in Middle Grades. Read Aloud is no longer a time for children to settle down after recess and listen in a passive manner. Instead, it is a time for the reading community to come together and think together around a common book. During the course of the school year, a class can experience 6-10 chapter books together while still allowing time for other elements of literacy instruction. It is important that these books be carefully chosen and that there are routines in place for students to grow as readers, knowing they each may access the common text in a different way. A zoom link will be emailed to registrants. Questions about the content? Please contact Jill Reinhart at 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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Returning to Rigorous Mathematics, Part 2: Strengthening Student Thinking with the Practice and Process Standards
2021-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
As students return to a hopefully more typical school year, learning is likely to be anything but typical. Student and teacher experiences over the past 18 months have varied greatly and classrooms are filled with students representing a wider range of learning needs than ever before. The challenge for teachers is to help each student move their mathematics learning forward. While it will take time for most students to return to typical “on-grade-level” expectations, we must support students to move forward rather than picking up instruction where “regular school” left off in March 2020. Responding to this wide range of learners is part of the job in education; the pandemic has made this part of the work more prominent in many classrooms.
In this second edWebinar of a two-part series, Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D. will share tasks and strategies for continuing to emphasize the mathematical practice and process standards while teaching grade-appropriate content. More open-ended tasks provide opportunities for students to apply mathematics in a variety of settings and develop their skills around representing mathematical ideas and arguments. These tasks also provide contexts for the accelerated learning introduced in part one of the series. Join Sara to explore instructional strategies and tasks to develop the practices while emphasizing current content.
This edWebinar will be of interest to teachers and school and district leaders at the elementary level. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
Returning to Rigorous Mathematics, Part 1: Using Spaced Practice to Accelerate Learning

About the Presenter
Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D. serves as Vice President for Content and Research and Chair of the Mathematics Advisory Board at ORIGO Education. A fourth-generation educator, Sara’s work emphasizes the power of deep understanding and multiple representations for learning mathematics. Her interests include building mathematical comprehension and operation sense, incorporating high-quality literature into mathematics instruction, and connecting mathematics with engineering design and computational thinking. Sara has served as a classroom teacher of mathematics and science, a mathematics teacher educator at the University of Kentucky, Director of the Kentucky Center for Middle School Academic Achievement, and Director of Mathematics & Science at ETA Hand2Mind. She has authored numerous articles in professional journals and is a co-author of the Mathematize It! series of books. She is also a member of the Visible Learning for Mathematics writing team, including two volumes of the Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom series.

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Addressing Essential Literacy Skills Through Science
2021-11-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Skilled readers weave together vocabulary, background knowledge and an understanding of language structures to make sense of what they read. With such limited time in our elementary classrooms, how can we attend to these essential aspects of reading instruction, alongside building foundational skills? Join Rebecca Abbott, Professional Learning Lead from UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science, to learn more about how a literacy-rich, phenomena-based approach to teaching science can tap into students’ natural curiosity about the world, provide a content-rich context for learning, and simultaneously support your ELA goals.
This edWebinar will be of interest to kindergarten through middle school teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, STEM coordinators, summer school coordinators, and technology coordinators. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenter
Rebecca Abbott is the professional learning lead for The Learning Design Group at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science. In her nine years at The Lawrence, she has been supporting instructional leaders and teachers in implementing research-based science instructional materials and approaches designed by the team at The Learning Design Group. She taught in San Francisco Bay Area schools for over 15 years, including serving as an interdisciplinary instructional coach and English learner specialist.

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The Next Level of Asset-Based Pedagogy: Relevant, Responsive, and Linguistic
2021-11-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
To help all students thrive, we need to move from simply recognizing the benefits of diversity to creating a mutually responsive and asset-oriented learning environment. With approximately five million emergent bilingual students in public schools across the United States, it is more important than ever to refocus curricula, pedagogies, and classroom environments to value and include our diverse student population.
Join Lexia educational expert Maya Goodall for this edWebinar as she explains the evolution of equitable cultural inclusion in the classroom, and how you too can develop a culturally sustaining pedagogy. With examples from the guiding principles behind Lexia® English Language Development™, Maya explains how to cultivate not just culturally responsive practices, but ones that are culturally sustaining.
This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.

About the Presenter
Maya Goodall, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning, has worked in education for over 20 years, teaching both nationally and internationally. Maya has a rich professional background that includes teaching in the classroom, coaching, training, and implementing and designing curricula with measurable outcomes. She founded Lingual Learning, a curriculum company dedicated to helping students become confidently bilingual. Maya speaks three languages and holds an M.Ed. and MA in applied linguistics.
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Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
2021-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
How can schools bring an equity lens to their trauma-informed education initiatives? Schools can do more than respond to the trauma that some students have already experienced; they can play a key role in preventing trauma and disrupting the larger social forces that create trauma in our world. This edWebinar will present a fresh take on trauma-informed practices, with takeaways for teachers, school leaders, and anyone else who is invested in making change in education.
Alex Shevrin Venet, author of Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, will introduce participants to the key understandings of the Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education framework, sharing stories from her work as a teacher and supporting schools with trauma-informed education. Participants can expect to leave with a new understanding of their role in trauma-informed education and ideas for how to get started.
This edWebinar will be of interest to PreK-12 educators, school leaders, district leaders, chief equity officers, and at-risk coordinators. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenters
Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, author, and professional development facilitator based in Vermont. She teaches at the Community College of Vermont, Antioch University New England, and Castleton University. Previously, she was a teacher and leader at an alternative therapeutic school. Her first book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, is now available wherever books are sold or directly from W. W. Norton at 20% OFF. Follow Alex on Twitter @AlexSVenet.

About the Moderator
Rhiannon M. Kim (M.S., CCC-SLP, E-RYT 200, RYT 500) is a biracial racially ambiguous Korean and white woman. She has worked in public education for 15 years in various roles: para educator, interventionist, prek-5th grade speech language pathologist, and a preK-12 consulting SLP. She is in her third year of a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) program focusing on healing-centered anti-oppressive trauma-responsive practices. Her healing-centered embodied anti-oppressive pedagogy invites people to engage in generative conflict, to navigate discomfort, and to embrace complexity. She is also an adjunct lecturer, consultant, and lay practitioner and teacher of Buddhism and Yoga. Follow Rhiannon on Twitter @_rhiannonkim.
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