Preventive Practices to Avoid Risky Behaviors
2022-03-09 12:30 - 16:00, 2022-03-16 12:30 - 16:00 UTC | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Identify the role prevention play in protecting the mental well of students, staff and families.
Learn strategies to implement prevention in your school.
Learn how to turn existing prevention practices into best practices.
Identify local low to no cost prevention program opportunities available in your area.

Important Session Information:

Module 1 during the 2020-21 school year. We are offering both Module 1 & 2 during the 2021-22 school year.

The Key to Recovery: Mastering Challenging Reading and Math Skills
2022-03-09 13:00 - 14:00
In both reading and math, some essential skills are extraordinarily difficult for students to master, and these challenging Trip Steps can cause a stumble in learning.
Join our NCEA webinar to gain insight into Trip Steps and their important role in accelerating Catholic students’ learning this year and beyond. You’ll discover:

How these essential yet challenging skills were identified
Which grade levels have the most Trip Steps for reading and for math
How to focus instruction and practice on mastery of these essential skills
How identifying and addressing Trip Steps in a rigorous curriculum improves student outcomes
How administrators, teachers, and families can use their knowledge of Trip Steps to guide greater student growth

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Free Mathematical Resources for Content Knowledge and Instructional Delivery
2022-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Join fellow educators for a series of weekly, one-hour virtual sessions that dive deep into mathematics topics. Each session will focus on a different instructional strategy and include a demonstration, time to practice with your peers, and Q&A with the session lead. Participants will leave with new perspectives and some resources to expand their thinking. Sessions are provided at no cost for ESC member districts!
Free Mathematical Resources for Content Knowledge and Instructional Delivery

Math Chats: Free Mathematical Resources for Content Knowledge and Instructional Delivery with Matthew Fannon
2022-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Are you feeling uncomfortable with teaching a particular concept? Are you struggling with having time to create meaningful practice problems for your students? We have you covered! Come learn about the many free mathematics resources that can help you understand mathematical concepts, create engaging opportunities for students to explore mathematics, and provide resources for meaningful formative assessments.
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Makey Makey
2022-03-10 08:00 - 15:30 | Educational Service Center of Central Ohio, 2080 Citygate Drive, Columbus, OH, 43219, United States
Learn how combining a “Maker Mindset” and the Design Thinking Process to make your classroom technology more accessible to all. In this session, we will learn how to make buttons and switches and connect them to your device using the Makey Makey controller. The course fee includes a Makey Makey controller and other supplies. Please bring your own device. Member districts pay $75 for the materials cost. The cost for non-member districts is $175 ($75 for materials and $100 for instruction). Questions about the content? Please contact BJ Thaman at BJ.Thaman@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.
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How Classroom Conversations Engage, Enrich, and Empower Students
2022-03-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Student-led conversations are a powerful tool for instruction and assessment in an elementary classroom. Join experienced elementary school classroom teacher Jennifer Orr as she shares strategies you can use immediately to start your students talking in ways that will deepen their learning, challenge them, and increase their ownership as learners.
About the Presenter:
Jennifer Orr has been an elementary school classroom teacher for more than 20 years, teaching students from kindergarten through 5th grade. She is the author of Demystifying Discussion: How to Teach and Assess Academic Conversation Skills, K–5, and is a National Board Certified Teacher.
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Collective Equity
2022-03-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
Collective Equity is the catalyst for transforming learning environments into equitable spaces for increasing engagement, accelerating achievement, and enhancing belongingness and self-efficacy for all students. The Collective leverages relational trust where all members can individually and collectively show up in the fullness of who they are. When the Collective Equity Framework is implemented, the learning community is strengthened through a laser-like focus on increasing the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and stamina of educators in order to implement culturally fortifying practices that are visible.
Join us for this webinar where you will:
– Learn tangible culturally fortifying practices that cultivate class cohesion, mitigate students feeling disliked and disrupt barriers that perpetuate inequities
– Learn equity dispositions that create equitable learning environments for all
– Increase their awareness of protocols that enact cultural humility, appreciation of diverse perspectives and personal awareness to build brave spaces that intentionally validate all members of the learning community
– Gain an understanding of the Collective Equity Framework designed to collectively uplift all members of the learning community
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Foundations for a Successful Tutoring Program
2022-03-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
There are critical foundations that must be present to launch and maintain a successful tutoring program in any school district. With ESSER and California-specific funding available for tutoring, it’s imperative that your tutoring plans are effectively carried out. Where will you find tutors? Who will train your tutors? How will you ensure that tutoring services do not result in learned helplessness? How will you make certain that your tutoring plan address your instructional initiatives? And how do you get your students to show up?
Webinar participants will:
• Explore the research on acceleration of learning
• Discover the critical foundations for tutoring programs
• Learn the critical components of effective tutoring
• Identify where to focus your tutoring programs
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Reflective Practices for Teachers: Navigating the Fourth Quarter
2022-03-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
NCEA has the workshop for you to help refresh your mind and spirit as you wind down the school year. This virtual workshop will share trade secrets on how to keep students engaged after spring break, practice self-care and how to tie up the loose threads to end the school year.

NCEA Director of Professional Learning Colleen McCoy-Cejka will be the presenter on topics such as:

Student engagement during highly distractible times of the school year
How to keep up energy while managing high-energy students
Flexible assessment options for students appropriate for end-of-year wrap ups
Engaging parents/volunteers to effectively close up the classroom for the year
What to keep and what to get rid of at the end of a school year
Documentation and data to mitigate learning gaps/leaning loss moving forward

Register today for the virtual seminar-style mini-presentations and group discussions with colleagues from about the country following each topic presentation
(NSBECS 4, 7, 8, 9).

Ensure Continuous Learning in Ohio
2022-03-16 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
In this webinar you will discover how Renaissance:

Supports instruction, measures performance, and guides growth with connected Renaissance solutions while providing high-quality student data (HQSD) to guide instructional decisions
Focuses instruction and practice on developing the most critical skills in literacy and math
Guides growth to proficiency across a connected instructional ecosystem for all grade levels including data to guide young learners toward proficiency on the Ohio Third-grade Reading Guarantee
Targets practice at the just right level for each student, from remediation to acceleration across skill and practice products.

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What Kids Are Reading (and Not Reading) in 2022
2022-03-17 15:00 - 16:00
During the pandemic, independent reading has played a key role in keeping the learning faucet open for many students. So, which print and digital books are students reading the most at each grade level—and how can you maximize the impact of daily reading time?

Join us for the answers, based on the new 2022 edition of What Kids Are Reading—the world’s largest annual survey of K–12 students’ reading habits. You’ll get tips for using this free report in your district, along with insights on:

The three types of reading practice that students need at every grade level
Strategies for motivating each type of reading practice
Ways to guide students to the right texts for each type of practice—and common mistakes to avoid
Administrators’ critical role in creating a strong culture of reading

This edWebinar will be of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, reading directors and coaches, and interventionists. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation. Learn more.

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Culturally Relevant Math Tasks in the Classroom
2022-03-21 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered
In this webinar, the authors of Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks will explore how teachers can find, adapt, and implement math tasks that engage and empower students by helping them learn and understand math more deeply and make connections to themselves, their communities, and the world around them.
Participants will:
– Learn to critically reflect on their day-to-day practice
– Leave with tools and strategies for designing culturally relevant math tasks
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Aspiring Administrator Leaders Program
2022-03-22 16:00 - 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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English Learners: Culturally Responsive Practices
2022-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 | 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. Intended audience includes EL teachers, content and general education teachers, coordinators and administrators.
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English Learners: Culturally Responsive Practices
2022-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 | 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
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
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
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
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
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
