2011-12+Trainings

//Professional Development Course Offerings// ** 2011 - 2012 **  Register for these trainings at [|www.esu6.org] __**Administrators' Technology Bootcamp**__ September 8, 2011
 * Register at NCSA

__**Analytic Scoring**__ March 5 & 6, 2012 (gr. 5-8) March 7, 2012 (gr. 2-4) March 19 & 20, 2012 (gr. 9-11) ESU 6 will again facilitate the analytic scoring of student papers for grades 2-11. This process allows teachers throughout ESU 6 to discuss good writing and effective writing instruction as well as to consider their students' writing abilities as related to the six traits of writing. This data can then be used to intervene with specific students, inform instruction about specific traits, or provide data for refinement of writing programs.

__**Big 5: Fluency**__ January 17, 2012 (Feb. 10: make-up day) Registration Deadline: Jan. 3, 2012 Chances are you’ve heard about the strong correlation between fluency and comprehension. Yet, you know of students that can read well but can’t comprehend what they read. Why is this? In this session, we’ll explore these topics and gain a better understanding of the relationship between the two. During this session, participants will: identify fluency skills that will have the most significant impact on student achievement, gather ideas for how to teach these skills, learn how to diagnose reading fluency difficulties and how to intervene with readers that struggle to read fluently, and gather ideas for strengthening your core reading program for fluency instruction.

__**Big 5: Phonemic Awareness**__ September 30, 2011 Registration Deadline: Sept. 16, 2011 Have your students mastered all the phonological awareness skills they need to become proficient readers and writers? Walk away from this session feeling energized and ready to teach those pre-reading skills! During this session, participants will: learn about the continuum of phonological awareness skills and why they are important, learn how to diagnose phonological awareness skill deficiencies for the class and individual students, gather intervention ideas that can be used to catch students up in their phonological awareness skills, and gather ideas for strengthening your core reading program for phonological awareness skill instruction.

December 6, 2011 (Dec. 15: make-up day) Registration Deadline: Nov. 22, 2011 Are you looking for a better intervention plan to catch students up in their phonics skills? Walk away from this session with a better understanding of the phonics skills that students are expected to master at each grade level and what to do about it when they don’t. During this session, participants will: learn about the phonics skills continuum and when each skill should be mastered, learn how to diagnose phonics skill deficiencies for the class and individual students, gather intervention ideas that can be used to catch students up in their phonics skills, and gather ideas for strengthening your core reading program for phonics skill instruction.
 * __Big 5: Phonics__**

__**Big 5: Reading Comprehension**__ August 30, 2011 Registration Deadline: Aug 16, 2011 Are your reading comprehension test scores not what you want them to be? Are your students struggling to understand what they read? Are you teaching everything out of the core reading program and your students are still not performing well on the assessments? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you won’t want to miss this workshop! During this session, participants will: Identify comprehension strategies that will have the most significant impact on student achievement, gain a better understanding of the most important comprehension strategies to teach, learn how to diagnose reading comprehension difficulties and intervene with struggling students, and gather ideas for strengthening your core reading program for comprehension instruction.

__**Big 5: Vocabulary**__ October 28, 2011 Registration Deadline: Oct. 14, 2011 Vocabulary instruction should be explicit, easy, fun, and effective! Join us during this session to learn how Marzano’s 6-step process for teaching vocabulary words can make your instruction effective, yet fun. Participants will walk away with a vocabulary 6-step process planning guide. After this session, participants will be able to answer the following questions: Why should I teach some words explicitly? What criteria should I consider when choosing words? How might I introduce different kinds of terms most effectively? How might I encourage lasting and deep understanding of important vocabulary?

__**Blue River Cohort Day**__ September 6, 2011 January 4, 2012 June 12, 1012 __**C4L**__ October 7, 2011 This work session is designed to support item preparation for districts opting to participate in NDE's Check 4 Learning system (to be eligible, districts were required to submit a Memorandum of Understanding to NDE by September 1). ESU 6 staff will be available to provide resources and assistance as necessary. Please note that questions submitted previously to ALTS will be available to their respective districts.
 * __Blue River Cohort Teacher Leaders Training__**

__**Counselor’s Network**__ October 11, 2011 November 30, 2011 March 28, 2012 The ESU 6 Counselors' Network is an opportunity to participate in professional development activities that enhance knowledge and skills through networking and collaboration. Training topics and discussion will be determined by network participants.

__**Decision Rules: Models, Ideas, & Resources (RtI):**__ November 21, 2011 Decision rules provide the instructional guidance you’ll need within your RtI framework. Join us to learn more about decision rules, how to create them, and gather samples from other school districts.

__**EIS Follow-up**__ October 4, 2011 December 1, 2011 These sessions are a targeted follow-up to those teachers who participate in the Effective Instruction Series training. These sessions will allow teachers to reflect on successes and challenges and continue collaboration with other new teachers.

October 6, 2011 February 8, 2012 April 24, 2012 The ELL Network is a forum for district personnel responsible for ELL programs and instruction to discuss pertinent issues, share and explore resources, and network with colleagues. These sessions are the primary means of sharing information throughout the ESU 6 Title III Consortium; however, we welcome all districts and personnel!
 * __ELL Network__**

January 9 - March 11 Instructor: Jen Madison
 * __Explicit Instruction Bookstudy__** (Doane Credit Available)

September 9, 2011 November 7, 2011 January 20, 2012 March 13, 2012 (April 20: make-up day) The Instructional Coaches’ Training is an opportunity to collaborate with area coaches in order to develop a toolkit to improve teaching and learning. During each session, coaches will learn about the skills necessary to successfully coach their colleagues. In addition, they'll spend ample time networking and sharing coaching ideas and experiences with others in the area. You won't want to miss this unique training and networking opportunity. Participants will have the option of completing additional assignments outside of the meeting times to earn college credit.
 * __Instructional Coaches Training__**

__**Interpreting & Using DIBELS Next**__ September 12, 2011 Are you looking for some ways to use your DIBELS Next results more effectively? DIBELS Next has new and improved measures, which means the reports and results look very different. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use your new results to change reading outcomes. Training content will include: How to read the new reports and interpret DIBELS data, how to use DIBELS to change reading outcomes, how to uses DIBELS to plan instruction, how to use DIBELS to evaluate individual and group reading progress, and how to use DIBELS to evaluate the effectiveness of your programs.

__**Language Arts Day**__ October 24, 2011 January 31, 2012 June 18, 2012 Language Arts teachers are invited to gather at these sessions to study NeSA-Reading and NeSA-Writing data and use this information to consider how to continue to improve student achievement. In addition to the data analysis and NeSA updates, we will study recent research, pedagogy, and strategies directly related to language arts instruction.

__**Leading Effective Data Meetings**__ October 25, 2011 Are you looking for new ways to facilitate both your school-wide and individual student data meetings? Walk away from this session with sample agendas, intervention ideas, templates, and other tracking forms that you can use during your data meetings.

__**Math Day**__ October 26, 2011 February 2, 2012 June 20, 2012 The base line for the NeSA-M has been established. We will look at data from the NeSA-M to determine where to focus to improving student achievement. Ideas will be shared to develop effective test preparation strategies through a sustained, long-term plan of instruction and opportunities to practice. We will continue to share strategies to practice and deepen students’ understanding of mathematics vocabulary.

__**Media Specialist Network**__ October 18, 2011 November 29, 2011 Feb. 14, 2012 The ESU 6 Media Specialist Network is an opportunity to participate in professional development activities that enhance knowledge and skills through networking and collaboration. Training topics and discussion will be determined by network participants.

September 30, 2011 Discover how to use MIMIO hardware and software to enhance student learning and promote effective student engagement. Learn the tools within MIMIO Notebook, through developing instructional lessons that can be implemented immediately this Fall. Time will be spent downloading and modifying lessons from MIMIO Connect to enhance instruction and engagement. Participants are encouraged to bring curriculum to use as a resource for developing lessons that meet the learning needs of their students. This session is also a great follow -up for folks who attended the basic MIMIO Board training with Julie Everett this summer.
 * __MIMIO Follow-up__**

September 20, 2011 September 21, 2011
 * __MRL Academy, Session 2__**

November 3, 2011 February 7, 2012 This is an opportunity for ESU 6 MRL Academy participants to receive technical assistance from ESU 6 staff members. Individuals will have time to complete academy activities and collaborate with other members. No new material will be presented, however previous content will be reviewed as requested. Lunch and amenities are included.
 * __MRL Academy Workday__**

__**Nebraska Career Connections**__ September 19, 2011 Objectives of this training session include providing all administrative users of Nebraska Career Connections with a basic understanding of the new platform as well as all prior features and enhancements that are integrated in the system. __**Nebraska Career Connections Curriculum Manager/PLP Workshop**__ January 5, 2012 This is a workshop designed to assist //Nebraska Career Connections// administrators with completing the Curriculum Manager Template, so that students can create educational plans based upon the actual courses offered in their high schools. This workshop will also include a review of the Administrative Database Management System (ADMS) resources and tools.

__**PDAC**__ September 1, 2011 November 2, 2011 February 15, 2012 April 11, 2012 The four meetings of the Professional Development Advisory Council (PDAC) provide the professional development staff valuable input and the opportunity to share the current service plan. PDAC consists of representatives from each of the 16 districts and provides guidance and input about professional development program offerings.

September 29, 2011 (Walk-Through Observation) November 9, 2011- CANCELLED December 13, 2011 February 21, 2012 The ESU 6 Principals' Leadership Network is an opportunity to discuss the latest research about instructional leadership and collaborate with area principals. We encourage principals from all levels to gain and share in this training series. Each session will focus on an important leadership concept, showcase examples of best practice and provide networking opportunities.
 * __Principals' Network__**

September 1, 2011 November 2, 2011 February 21, 2012 April 2, 2012 (snow day) Join us at ESU 6 or stay in your own building and video conference with us and ESU 6 colleagues using LifeSize (remote technology). We will share ideas, learn from each other, and hear important updates.
 * __RtI Network__**

November 8, 2011 February 16, 2012 June 19, 2012 The NeSA-S will be given in the spring of 2012 for grades 5,8, and 11. Revised science standards have been created and will be measured with this assessment. Jim Woodland, Nebraska Department of Education Science Consultant will be sharing information about the standards and the assessment.
 * __Science Day__**

__**Tech Plan Session**__ November 4, 2011 The Technology Plan online tool has been updated and moved to the CDC - Consolidated Data Collection - accessed through the NDE portal. This workshop will provide an overview of the look and feel of the new collection site from login to submit.

__**T.I.G.**__ September 27, 2011 November 22, 2011 January 18, 2012 February 29, 2012 ESU 6 is offering a collaborative opportunity to integrate technology resources into the local curriculum. The Technology Integration Group (TIG) will be comprised of representatives from each of the 16 school districts. Content for the series will be based on "Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works" (Pitner, H. et.al, 2007), and will include the opportunity to more fully integrate technology into the classroom.

February 17, 2012 (Feb. 24: make-up day) Motivating students to read can be very challenging; yet motivating students to use technology is never an issue. So why not combine the two? In this workshop, we'll explore various ways to use iPods to motivate our students to read. You'll learn how to teach students to self -assess their fluency skills which will also increase their comprehension skills. Walk away from this workshop with a list of April's favorite apps and the instructional materials and ideas you need to improve your students' reading achievement through the use of iPods.
 * __Using iPods to Enhance Reading__**