Sacrament of Reconciliation
2025-12-06 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-20 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-03 09:00 - 10:00 UTC | Church of the Incarnation, 55 Williamsburg Lane, Dayton, OH, 45459, United States
My beloved Deaf friends,

I warmly invite you to experience the healing grace of God’s mercy through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Whether it has been a while or a regular part of your spiritual journey, this is a sacred opportunity to renew your heart and soul.

This will be held on the first and third Saturday of every month.

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive you…” 1 John 1:9”

Fr. Charles M. Onumaegbu
Chaplain for the Deaf Ministry

Rosary for Life
2025-12-06 09:20 - 10:00, 2025-12-13 09:20 - 10:00, 2025-12-20 09:20 - 10:00, 2025-12-27 09:20 - 10:00, 2026-01-03 09:20 - 10:00, 2026-01-10 09:20 - 10:00 | Women’s Med Center, 1401 E. Stroop Road, Kettering, OH, 45440
Prayer, Praise & Scripture, Wednesdays at 11 AM
Rosary every Wednesday at 12 Noon
Rosary every Saturday at 9:20 AM

Sensory Friendly and ASL Mass
2025-12-07 12:30 - 13:30, 2026-01-04 12:30 - 13:30 | St. John Fisher, 3227 Church St., Newtown, OH, 45244, United States
In an effort to embrace and welcome the members of the Deaf Community, as well as those with Autism, Down Syndrome, and other intellectual and developmental disabilities, all our welcome to this Sensory Friendly and ASL Mass where there will be lower lighting, no music and a shorter homily. At St. John Fisher every first Sunday at 12:30 p.m. For more information on what a sensory friendly mass is click HERE.

Clarity, Literacy and Voice: Strengthening Student Thinking Through Speaking
2025-12-09 08:00 - 15:30 | Hamilton County ESC, OH
Clarity, Literacy and Voice: Strengthening Student Thinking Through Speaking
– Audience: ELA teachers, content teachers, teacher leaders, and administrators

Implement structured conversations to encourage student thinking and communication in any subject.
Use active reading strategies that enhance comprehension and retention of material.
Develop quality writing tasks that allow students to synthesize and apply what they have learned in any subject area.

Important Session Information:
In the session Clarity, Literacy, and Voice: Strengthening Student Thinking Through Speaking participants will explore various strategies that provide clear, step-by-step guides for integrating structured conversations, active reading, and meaningful writing activities into any classroom setting.
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Bringing the Science of Reading to Life in Secondary Classrooms
2025-12-10 08:00 - 11:30 | Hamilton County ESC, OH
Bringing the Science of Reading to Life in Secondary Classrooms
– Audience: Middle and High School Content Area Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Literacy Specialists, Department Chairs and Curriculum Leads, Intervention Specialists, Administrators and Instructional Leaders

Understand key principles of the Science of Reading as they apply to adolescent learners.
Explore how Science of Reading practices can be integrated across content areas.
Engage in collaborative planning to embed SoR-aligned strategies into middle and high school instruction

Important Session Information:
This dynamic 3.5-hour session dives into the Science of Reading through the lens of adolescent learners. Discover how SoR principles apply beyond ELA and into every content area. Participants will walk away with practical, classroom-ready strategies and engage in collaborative planning to embed SoR-aligned practices into their instruction. Whether the teacher is new to SoR or ready to deepen their implementation, this session will equip and energize participants to make literacy a shared responsibility.

Participants can earn Ashland credit as well as CEUs and contact hours.
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Saturday Pro-Life Mass & Prayer Vigil
2025-12-13 08:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-20 08:00 - 10:00, 2025-12-27 08:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-03 08:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-10 08:00 - 10:00 | Holy Name Catholic Church, 2448 Auburn Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45219
Mass at 8:00 a.m. every Saturday at Holy Name Church on Auburn Avenue, followed by prayer vigil in front of Planned Parenthood. Please take the time to join us in this important work, praying for abortion to end at this location. Contact Mother Seraphina, FDM with questions at fdmsisters@gmail.com or 859-491-4900

Monthly Prayer Outside Planned Parenthood Hamilton
2025-12-13 10:00 - 14:00 | Planned Parenthood- Hamilton, 110 Ludlow Street, Hamilton, Ohio, 45011
Join Sidewalk Advocates For Life and Butler County Right to Life members as they pray outside the Planned Parenthood in Hamilton every 2nd Saturday of the month from 10AM to 2PM.

Now more than EVER, women in crisis need people like you to show compassion and share life-affirming resources in a time of need. Learn how to help abortion vulnerable mothers CHOOSE LIFE using the peaceful, prayerful, proven method of Sidewalk Advocates for Life. A comprehensive, free training is available. Contact Jackie at Hamiltonsafl@gmail.com for more information.

Standards Mastery Webinar for i-Ready Users
2025-12-15 10:00 - 11:00
Standards Mastery Webinar for i-Ready Users
Standards Mastery offers targeted digital assessments that help you understand how students are performing on Reading and Mathematics standard in Grades 2-8. It allows you to quickly identify performance trends, gain insights into students’ current understanding and possible misconceptions, and connect to resources to support student proficiency.
Join Kirstin George, i-Ready Associate Partner Success Manager, in learning about Standards Mastery, along with how to incorporate Standards Mastery in your regular practices.

Date: December 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM- 11:00 am
Location: Virtual
Join Zoom Meeting
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HCESC Design Challenge: Creating Impactful Learning Experiences
2025-12-16 09:00 - 14:30
HCESC Design Challenge: Creating Impactful Learning Experiences
– Audience: Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Directors, Supervisors, and District Administrators

Early-Stage Solutions & Prototypes: Leave with concrete ideas, tools, draft strategies, and tangible starting points that can be tested back in their districts.
Shared Insight & Cross-Team Learning: Gain new perspectives by collaborating with peers across the county. Sharpen thinking while borrowing strategies, resources, and models from other leaders, creating a collective bank of innovation.
Momentum & Alignment Around a Pressing Challenge: The Design Challenge builds alignment within and across districts to sustain focus on solving high-impact problems.

Important Session Information:
District and business leaders from across Hamilton County will come together for a one-day Design Challenge centered on a critical question: Too few students graduate with meaningful workforce exposure. How might we strengthen our partnership with the BAC and local businesses to design impactful learning experiences that change this reality?
A Design Challenge is a structured, collaborative process that brings the region’s voices together to generate creative solutions to a shared problem. Using the framework of a design sprint, a fast-paced approach to problem solving that moves from defining challenges to prototyping solutions in a single day, participants will engage in hands-on collaboration, share insights across districts, and co-create strategies that no single system could accomplish alone.
This event is designed as an incubator for possibilities. It will give leaders and business partners a chance to surface barriers, imagine new opportunities, and test potential solutions that connect students more directly to the region’s vibrant workforce. By the end of the day, participants will have developed prototype ideas, identified priority strategies, and built stronger cross-district and business relationships.
Together, we will lay the groundwork for bold, student-centered innovations that prepare every graduate for the future that awaits them.
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Jr High Math Teacher Collaboration CLT
2025-12-17 09:00 - 15:00 | Archdiocese of Cincinnati CSO, 100 East 8th Street, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, United States
Session Details
Looking for Jr High Math teachers~ to join Math CLT
As a follow up from the Jr High Math teacher collaboration I had this month, I have a group of 20+ teachers who want to begin to meet monthly with the following goals:

Better understand how different schools structure their math pathways and why.
Explore ways to accelerate learning opportunities for our math students.
Identify what supports elementary schools may need to better prepare students for high school.
Collaborate on instructional practices, textbooks and resources and teaching strategies highly effective for instruction on mathematical practices.
Collaborate towards building pacing guides, formative and summative common assessments. Etc.

We will be meeting from 9:00-2:30pm as a team 6 times throughout the year.
Nov 19th Dec 17th Jan 22nd Feb 25th Mar 26th May 12th
Meetings will be held at HCESC ~ Hamilton County Educational Services Center
All materials, lunches, cost of substitutes and CEU’s will be paid for. Sub reimbursement is available if needed.
CLICK HERE to RSVP and join the team.
Who Should attend?
Math teachers in grades 6-8

Dayton PIE YA Group
2025-12-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Our Lady of the Rosary, 22 Notre Dame Avenue, Dayton, OH, 45404, United States

Sensory Friendly Mass
2025-12-20 17:00 - 18:00 | St. Christopher, 435 East National Rd, Vandalia, Ohio, 45377
The celebration will have…
Low lighting. No music. Shorter Homily.
Gluten-free – Precious Blood only option if needed.
Freedom to move around, wear headphones, use a fidget, or special seating.
*Regular Mass – Sensory Friendly space Available in the Chapel

ALL are welcome!

Productive Math Struggle: A 6-point Action Plan for Fostering Perseverance Book Club
2026-01-05 08:00 - 2026-05-29 17:00 | Virtual
Audience: K-12 Educators, Gifted Specialists, School Leaders, Administrators

Determine what productive math struggle is, what is look like, and why it is important;
Develop a better understanding of your own math identity, help your students define their individual math identities, and learn about activities that help students explore math identity.
Learn about activities to build and promote in a productive math community in your classroom.
Learn about strategies and teacher tips for struggle moves that don’t rescue student answers but rescue student thinking.

Important Session Information:

All students face struggle, and they should—it is how they learn and grow. The teacher’s job is not to remove struggle, but rather to value and harness it, helping students develop good habits of productive struggle. But what’s missing for many educators is an action plan for how to achieve this, especially when it comes to math.
Persevering through difficult challenges to reach new learning is the core of Productive Math Struggle. When left unsupported, struggle can become unproductive and demoralizing, negatively influencing students’ mathematical identities. The authors guide teachers through six specific actions—including valuing, fostering, building, planning, supporting, and reflecting on struggle—to create a game plan for overcoming obstacles by sharing

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The Science Behind Writing Success: Building Effective K-12 Writing Programs
2026-01-07 09:30 - 11:00 | Incarnation School, 45 Williamsburg Lane, Centerville, OH, 45459, United States
Designed to empower K-12 leaders with the knowledge needed to strengthen writing instruction and achievement, this engaging session will explore how to
leverage the science of writing to prepare students for success in school and beyond.
During this dynamic, two-and-a-half-hour session led by the team at Smekens Education, attendees will:

Discover how Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope (reading comprehension & word recognition) and Joan
Sedita’s Writing Rope (composition & transcription) form a unified, science-backed approach to literacy.
Explore the top five research-driven recommendations for establishing effective classroom practices in writing.
Capture the vision for a school-wide writing program that focuses on essential standards-aligned writing
skills, prioritizes time for instruction and practice, and provides effective feedback.
Understand the multifaceted nature of teaching writing, including balancing foundational language skills, the
expression of ideas, and ultimately writing about texts.
Understand how to teach writing skills explicitly and systematically, using the gradual release of responsibility and a clear scope and sequence to foster
consistent student growth.
Uncover time-saving strategies to integrate reading and writing instruction, reducing cognitive load and maximizing classroom efficiency.
Learn how to build teacher capacity for effective, research-based writing instruction through professional development that flexes to fit any budget.This event will help instructional leaders gain evidence-based methods for building better writers at every level. Participants will leave energized and equipped with an
understanding of how to create a cohesive, systematic writing program that produces real results.

REGISTER: Click Here

The Science Behind Writing Success: Building Effective K-12 Writing Programs
2026-01-07 13:30 - 15:00 | St. Philomena Montessori School, 9377 St. Rt. 119W, Anna, OH, 45302

The Science Behind Writing Success: Building Effective K-12 Writing Programs
2026-01-08 09:30 - 11:00 | Archdiocese of Cincinnati CSO, 100 East 8th Street, Cincinnati, OH, 45202, United States

The Science Behind Writing Success: Building Effective K-12 Writing Programs
2026-01-08 12:30 - 14:00 | Virtual – Receive Link When Registered

Test Event
2026-01-10 08:00 - 17:00
