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 30, 2009

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Arts Integration to Develop 21st Century Skills

Participants will deepen their understanding of quality arts integration in the classroom by designing a lesson/project or unit and implementing the plan under the direction of Russell Granet.

Starts October 14, 2009

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Coffee with KeyTrain®

Participants will receive answers to their KeyTrain® questions and gain information about updates and enhancements to this learning system.

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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 May 10, 2010

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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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Day of Discovery

Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) and the Discovery Education Network (DEN) present a full day conference on how computers, the internet and technology can enhance all teacher’s classrooms.

Starts October 24, 2009

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Differentiation Is Doable

This Professional Learning Community provides your school group time to plan and apply the 2009 presentions by Carol Ann Tomlinson or this year’s Mid-Michigan Consortium guest speaker, Steve Kahl.

Starts March 10, 2010

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Educational Strategies for Students with ASD (revised date!)

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 April 27, 2010

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Functional Behavior Assessments and Effective Behavior Supports

Participants will gain an understanding of positive behavior support (PBS), functional behavioral assessment (FBA), and behavior intervention planning (BIP).

Starts September 11, 2009

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Functional Behavior Assessments and Effective Behavior Supports

Participants will gain an understanding of positive behavior support (PBS), functional behavioral assessment (FBA), and behavior intervention planning (BIP).

Starts November 4, 2009

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Functional Behavior Assessments and Effective Behavior Supports

Participants will gain an understanding of positive behavior support (PBS), functional behavioral assessment (FBA), and behavior intervention planning (BIP).

Starts January 22, 2010

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Functional Behavior Assessments and Effective Behavior Supports

Participants will gain an understanding of positive behavior support (PBS), functional behavioral assessment (FBA), and behavior intervention planning (BIP).

Starts October 26, 2009

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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 ISD 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.

Starts May 13, 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 28, 2009

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Knowing Your Students…

This interactive session will provide participants with an overview of the importance of understanding student interests and individual learning profiles to differentiate instruction effectively within the classroom.

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Michigan Citizenship Curriculum

This videoconference series is intended for 4th grade teachers who will be using the Michigan Citizenship Curriculum; participants will be reviewing units and lessons of the curriculum, and engaging in discussion with teachers from five other ISDs.

Starts August 25, 2009

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Mythology and Storytelling

This workshop brings together nationally acclaimed master storyteller, David Gonzalez, with area teachers to help break down the elements of storytelling and discuss the genre of mythology as a vehicle to transmit stories so that they come to life in the imagination of the audience.

Starts December 1, 2009

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention is a 12-hour course in crisis prevention for human service providers.

Starts February 2, 2010

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention is a 12-hour course in crisis prevention for human service providers.

Starts August 17, 2009

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Recertification

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

Starts October 5, 2009

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Recertification

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

Starts January 25, 2010

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Recertification

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

Starts April 23, 2010

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Overview of Universal Supports for 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 February 23, 2010

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Overview of Universal Supports for 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 September 22, 2009

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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 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.

Starts March 8, 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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Passport to Success

This four-part professional learning community series is focused on examining the research, best practices, local successes and national models to help ALL students as they travel throughout the educational system on their individual journeys.

Starts October 8, 2009

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Peer-to-Peer Supports

This Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) module will teach participants specific steps needed to develop a peer-to-peer support program for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Starts December 8, 2009

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PLAAFP—Basics

This Take Out training, offered on-site in local schools, will allow staff to review their own PLAAFP (Present Level of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance) statements from IEPs they developed.

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Positive Behavior Supports

This Take Out training, offered on-site in local schools, will highlight Positive Behavior Supports, an effective behavioral support system recently been endorsed by Michigan’s Department of Education.

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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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Professional School Counseling Matters

This Professional Learning Community for middle and high school counselors will focus on the roles, structures and best practice strategies inherent in a quality school-counseling program.

Starts November 18, 2009

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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

Now celebrating its 10th year, the Regional Technology Academy is offering 100 classes to all staff members in schools throughout five counties.

Starts July 27, 2009

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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 March 26, 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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Special Education Compliance

This Take Out offering, offered on-site in local schools, will customize information and services related to special education compliance issues.

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Teaching and Learning Online

Educators will learn the skills necessary to teach and manage an online or blended course.

Starts November 10, 2009

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Teaching and Learning Online

Educators will learn the skills necessary to teach and manage an online or blended course.

Starts September 22, 2009

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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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Teaching Math to Young Children

In this one-day workshop for special education teachers, Title I teachers and para-professionals, participants will review mathematical problems that are useful for building on young children’s counting abilities to learn the concepts of addition and subtraction.

Starts November 17, 2009

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Teaching Math to Young Children, Grades 2-3

In this workshop, participants will look at types of problems that are useful for building on young children’s counting abilities to learn the concepts of multiplication and division as well as multi-digit addition and subtraction.

Starts December 2, 2009

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Teaching Math to Young Children, Grades K-1

In this workshop, participants will review types of problems that are useful for building on young children’s counting abilities to become fluent in addition and subtraction.

Starts November 10, 2009

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Teaching Relevant Algebra I to All Students

Participants will explore Algebra I topics including linear, quadratic and exponential functions, from a real-world perspective and learn many engaging activities that can be used in your classrooms.

Starts October 1, 2009

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Teaching Shakespeare

North America’s leading classical theatre, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada, will conduct a workshop to help teachers rediscover the power and fun of Shakespeare so they can inspire and enlighten their students.

Starts November 7, 2009

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The Importance of Understanding ALL of Our Students

Dr. Ruby Payne will present a framework for understanding poverty that has the potential to illuminate some of the challenges public schools face as we work to help every child in our system achieve and succeed.

Starts September 2, 2009

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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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Transition and IEP Success

This workshop is designed for special education educators who want to learn more about state and federal mandates and how to improve transition planning activities.

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