21 Things for 21st Century Educators – Take Out

This Take Out session is an online course for educators who want to develop and expand their technology skills to improve efficiencies and impact instructional delivery.

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21 Things for 21st Century Educators:

This is an online course for educators who want to develop and expand their technology skills to improve efficiencies and impact instructional delivery

Starts September 22, 2010

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3rd Grade Network for Michigan Citizenship Curriculum (MC3)

This network is designed to support teachers in their use of the Michigan Citizenship Collaborative Curriculum (MC3)

Starts August 23, 2010

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Beyond the Text:

Join us as we journey “Beyond the Textbook” – an enriching and intensive professional development experience. REMC 13 and Discovery Education are excited to provide this Day of Discovery at
no charge to area educators.

Starts July 27, 2010

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Career Technical Education Teacher Exploration

This event offers participants the opportunity to experience career and technical education beyond a traditional classroom environment.

Starts February 23, 2011

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Corrective Reading (SRA)

This is designed to accommodate the full range of struggling readers from deficient decoding skills (misidentifying words) to comprehension skills (not understanding what they read) or both. It is also designed to provide differentiated personalized instruction to each learner.

Starts April 16, 2010

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Educational Strategies for Students with ASD

This Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) module will teach participants to use educational strategies that build upon strengths of the student with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Starts February 1, 2011

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Educational Strategies for Students with ASD

This Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) module will teach participants to use educational strategies that build upon strengths of the student with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Starts November 3, 2010

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Effective Behavior Supports for Students with ASD

The Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) Module will teach participants to collect data through the functional assessment processes and to use that information to guide the development of behavioral strategies and to develop a positive behavior support plan for children with autism

Starts March 3, 2011

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Effective Behavior Supports for Students with ASD

The Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) Module will teach participants to collect data through the functional assessment processes and to use that information to guide the development of behavioral strategies and to develop a positive behavior support plan for children with autism.

Starts December 2, 2010

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Effective Practices for Teaching Students with ASD

This Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) Module will provide an overview of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including definitions, current theories, and research.

Starts October 7, 2010

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Enhance Your Curriculum with Distance Learning

This hands-on experience will give participants the opportunity to search a variety of resources and identify sites applicable to their content area.

Starts August 25, 2010

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Evidenced Based Literacy Strategies 3-5

A comprehensive explanation of how RtI/Differentiation work together in the classroom. Learn evidence based instructional strategies that apply to upper elementary students.

Starts August 16, 2010

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Evidenced Based Literacy Strategies 6-12

The literacy strategies presented are applicable across content subjects where reading text is necessary.

Starts August 27, 2010

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Helping Students Who Struggle with Basic Number Sense and Early Computation

This is one of three workshops designed to provide the content background needed by special education teachers and others who work with struggling students.

Starts November 9, 2010

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Helping Students who Struggle with Fractions, Decimals and Percents

This workshop is designed to provide the content background needed by special education teachers and others who are responsible for teaching the mathematics grade level content expectations.

Starts December 14, 2010

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Helping Students who Struggle with Whole Number Computation

This workshop provides multiple strategies and activities to help students develop fluency and conceptual understanding of basic whole number operations.

Starts October 7, 2010

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IEP Compliance & Basics

This Take Out training, offered on-site in local schools, will provide participants with basic information about writing a compliant and usable IEP.

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Ingham English Language Arts Network

Join colleagues who are teaching in Ingham districts to keep current with best practices and the latest information from state and national sources.

Starts October 6, 2010

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Ingham ISD’s PD Preview 2010-11

Ingham ISD consultants will present a preview of professional development offerings to constituent districts personnel for the 2010/11 school year…but this year it will look a little different!

Starts May 15, 2010

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Ingham Mathematics Network

This ongoing professional learning community is for K-12 teachers who have building and district level responsibilities for mathematics, and anyone else who wans to “talk math.”

Starts October 13, 2010

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Ingham Social Studies Network

This network links teachers and coordinators through discussion of issues and opportunites in for social studies.

Starts October 6, 2010

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International Book Club (LATTICE)

This monthly book club promotes cultural understanding and overcomes stereotypes by discussing international children’s literature.

Starts September 23, 2010

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Moodle- Creating a Blended or Fully Online Course

In this course educators will learn the skills necessary to teach and manage an online or blended course in Moodle.

Starts July 13, 2010

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Motivating Struggling Writers Using Technology

Teachers will learn about strategies to use with struggling writers from grades 4-12 in this online course designed by Red Cedar Writing Project Teacher Consultants.

Starts September 7, 2010

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention is an 8-hour course in crisis prevention for human service providers.

Starts August 24, 2010

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Recertification

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention is a recertification course in crisis prevention for human service providers.

Starts November 9, 2010

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PALS 2-6

Peer-Assisted Literacy Strategies (PALS) is a whole class program that helps teachers ensure they are increasing opportunities to read for all students.

Starts March 8, 2010

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PALS High School

High School PALS is an intervention that focuses on reading comprehension and fluency for students in grades 6-12.

Starts April 27, 2010

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PALS: 2-6

Peer-Assisted Literacy Strategies (PALS) is a whole class program that helps teachers ensure they are increasing opportunities to read for all students.

Starts May 14, 2010

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PALS: K-1

An introduction to a 20-week program that helps kindergarten and first grade teachers ensure students are getting a solid foundation in early reading skills. PALS promotes greater student achievement in reading than more conventional reading strategies such as sustained silent reading or round robin reading. PALS includes teacher training lessons, daily direction cards, student games sheets, and reproducibles.

Starts May 3, 2010

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Principal Academy

This session is designed for principals, assistant principals, and central office administrators wanting information regarding research supported leadership practice that improves student outcomes.

Starts June 18, 2010

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Principal/Director Academy (RtI)

This session will focus on the dual focus necessary to move toward an effective RtI implementation. Designed for administrators who must lead the change initiative, the session centers on both the how and why of RtI.

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Reading in the Content Areas

This is an in-district PD offering for middle and high schools interested in a building-wide focus on improving student content area reading comprehension.

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REED

This Take Out training, offered on-site in local schools, will clarify the differences between the ER (Evaluation Review) and REED (Review of Existing Evaluation Data).

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Regional Technology Academy 2010

Take part in a fun filled day of 90 minute technology sessions. There will be beginning courses on using your computer to the latest Web 2.0 technology. Please register for four sessions.

Starts July 26, 2010

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REMC 13 Technology Workshops

REMC 13 staff is available to provide technology workshops during professional development and inservice days, before and after school meetings, and during the summer.

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REWARDS®

REWARDS® is an intense, short-duration intervention program that uses teacher-directed instruction, requires minimal teacher training, and aligns with components of scientifically based reading research. It explicitly teaches decoding and fluency with an integrated approach.

Starts August 24, 2010

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REWARDS® PLUS Science and Social Studies

REWARDS® PLUS is an intense, short-duration intervention program that uses teacher-directed instruction, focusing on the use of Science and Social Studies text that a student would encounter in middle school and high school.

Starts August 25, 2010

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Road to the Code

MiBLSi is proud to offer an Intervention Day: Road to the Code Training with a “Make it & Take it” Session.

Starts March 30, 2010

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RtI: Implementing Research-Based Tiered Systems of Prevention and Intervention

This training session, specifically designed for itinerants, will focus on the development of systems of support for all learners; this will be done within the context of RtI.

Starts April 21, 2010

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SIOP Training 2010

The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is providing substantive, research-based professional development opportunities by organizing and supporting several regional SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) workshops for teams of ESL and general education (content area/classroom) teachers from local school districts.

Starts August 23, 2010

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Teaching and Learning Online

In this course educators will learn the skills necessary to teach and manage an online or blended course.

Starts June 14, 2010

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Teaching and Learning Online – Take Out

In this Take Out session, educators will learn the skills necessary to teach and manage an online or blended course.

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The Six-Minute Solution: A Reading Fluency Program

This reading program is a fast, fun, research-based way to increase reading fluency and comprehension. It can be used for small or large intervention.

Starts April 27, 2010

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Workkeys Assessment: Paraprofessionals

Ingham ISD provides WorkKeys Assessments for individuals interested in becoming a NCLB Highly Qualified Paraprofessional.

Starts July 29, 2010

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Workkeys Assessment: Paraprofessionals

Ingham ISD provides WorkKeys Assessments for individuals interested in becoming a NCLB Highly Qualified Paraprofessional.

Starts August 4, 2010

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Writing in the Content Areas

This is an in-district PD offering for middle and high schools interested in a building-wide focus on improving student writing in all content areas.

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Writing Workshop with Young Adult Author, Laura Resau

In this three hour workshop teachers and students will learn how to use examples from Laura Resau’s books and writing journals as a starting point for student writing activities and then use them to guide classroom writing practice.

Starts May 3, 2011

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