Learning Connections
Muskingum Valley ESC - January 2020
January 6 - Learn to Lead Webinar Series
Join these webinar sessions to work through the Ohio Department of Education’s Learn to Lead Course. During the sessions, participants will work collaboratively through the course modules of:
1. The Call for Teacher Leaders
2. The Journey from Good to Great
3. Unpacking Leadership Explorations
4. Exploring the Leader Within
5. Understanding Change Dynamics
6. The Power of Team
7. Communication: The Key to Leadership Success
Remaining Dates: January 7, 2020; February 4, 2020
Presenter: Cathy Morgan, MVESC Center for Leading and Learning Director
Audience: Year 4 Resident Educators, Mentors, Coordinators
Location: Online - Zoom
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $25.00
January 7 - Internal Monitoring Series: Day 2
Wondering how to improve the quality and consistency of ETR and IEP documents written for students with disabilities in your district? The Ohio Department of Education’s Office for Exceptional Children now expects each district or community school to have a process in place for ensuring special education records and processes meet state and federal requirements. This series will help teams of district and building educational leaders develop a feasible and sustainable plan for monitoring special education activities and outcomes in their systems.
Presenter: Sponsored by SST 12
Audience: District and Building Administrators, Teachers, Intervention Specialists, Related Service Providers
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Time: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
January 14 - Academic Rigor
Year 1 and 2 Resident Educators, are you preparing for the Resident Educator Summative Assessment (RESA) next year? The RESA guidelines contain directions that incorporate academic, rigorous learning expectations for students and academic, rigorous content for instruction. How do you define rigor? What does rigor look like when designing lessons or instructing students? Resident Educators and Mentors, attend this webinar for information and discussion on the importance of academic rigor and how to incorporate rigor into your lessons. The session will include a close look at the tasks, questions and criterion aligned with academic rigor.
Presenter: Cathy Morgan, MVESC Center for Leading and Learning Director
Audience: Year 1 and 2 Resident Educators, Mentors, Coordinators
Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m.
Location: Online - Zoom
Cost: $25.00
January 14 - Principal Collaborative
Power-up school leadership through collaborative MVESC networks!
Attend these sessions to:
- Learn from others and generate ideas! Hear how others are approaching best practices, state requirements and common educational topics.
- Stay tuned in to current legislature, research, state requirements and district happenings!
- Energize your leadership and learning skills through collaborative conversations, shared learning experiences and brainstorming!
Audience: Elementary, Middle and High School Principals
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
January 14 - Special Education Directors Network
Being in the world of special education means constant changes. This network is designed to share updates from the Ohio Department of Education, allow time for networking with other districts and offer professional learning around special education-related topics. The SST 12 staff members also will showcase great things happening in districts around the region.
Presenter: Sponsored by SST 12
Audience: Special Education and Student Services Directors
Location: Zane State College, 9900 Brick Church Rd, Cambridge, OH 43725
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
January 16 and 17 - Explicit Reading Instruction at the Adolescent Level with Anita Archer
January 16, 2020: English Language Arts
January 17, 2020: Science and Social Studies
Dr. Anita Archer is an educational consultant to school districts on explicit instruction - the design and delivery of instruction, behavior management and literacy instruction. She is nationally known for her professional development activities, presenting in every state throughout her 40-year career. In this session, you will learn ways to intervene with older students before, during and after a lesson. You won’t want to miss seeing Dr. Archer model explicit instruction throughout the training!
Audience: Administrators, Curriculum Directors, Instructional Coaches for Grades 6-8,
Intervention Specialists, Principals, Teachers
Location: Zanesville-Muskingum Co. Welcome Center, 205 N. 5th Street, Zanesville, Ohio 43701
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $10 for lunch and snacks. Training is FREE courtesy of the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant.
January 17 - Preschool Itinerant Network: Day 2
This professional development network will provide an overview of the best practices for the itinerant teacher and support itinerant teachers by focusing on the partnership between itinerant and teacher/caregiver. The group will extend their learning by applying the coaching practices in the book, Coaching for Powerful Intentions, to their work in early learning classrooms. This is an Ohio-approved training.
Presenter: Sponsored by SST 12
Audience: Preschool Itinerant Teachers and Administrators
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
January 22 and 23 - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Days 4 - 6: February 26-28, 2020
Deliver actual results for your organization during this six-day course. Enhance your leadership and facilitation skills with problem solving, analytical tools. Apply Lean Six Sigma principles and lead a team through a 13-week improvement project in your organization with guidance from an experienced Black Belt instructor.
Presenter: Brad Hollingsworth, MVESC Director of Process and Organization Improvement
Audience: School Districts, ESCs, State and Local Government Agencies, Non-Profits
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
January 23 - I Suspect a Disability. Now What?
Intellectual Disability and Multiple Disabilities by Karla Frye
This five-part after-school series is designed to help teachers and intervention specialists see how school psychologists assess various disability conditions. The series also will explain the role teachers play in making eligibility determinations for suspected children (data collection, interview questions, behavior checklists, adaptive behavior, etc.). Contact hours will be available for each part of the series. Participants may elect to do any or all of the sessions in the series.
Audience: Teachers, Intervention Specialists
Location: Online-Zoom Webinar
Time: 3:45 - 4:45 p.m.
January 24 - How to Universally Design Lessons
Audience: Curriculum Directors
Location: SST Region 12 60788 Southgate Rd Suite 201 Byesville, OH 43723
Time: 8:30 am - 11 am
Optional Lab: 12:30 pm - 3 pm
January 27 - 8:30 a.m. Curriculum Council
Join the MVESC Curriculum Council Network to:
- Learn from others and generate ideas.
- Hear how others are approaching best practices, state requirements and common educational topics.
- Stay updated on current legislature, current research, state requirements and district happenings.
- Energize your leadership and learning skills through collaborative conversations, shared learning experiences and brainstorming.
- Connect with with other leaders to learn new and better ways of doing things.
January 29 - Preschool Supervisor Network
These learning sessions provide preschool supervisors with special education updates, expert speakers related to the latest, relevant topics and time for networking.
Presenter: Sponsored by SST 12
Audience: Preschool Supervisors
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
February 25, 2020 - Blended Learning Strategies that Work in Today's Classroom with Weston Kieschnick
Audience: Administrators, Teachers, Intervention Specialists
Location: Zanesville-Muskingum Co. Welcome Center, 205 N. 5th Street, Zanesville, Ohio 43701
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cost: Free for MVESC member districts, $125.00 for non-member districts.
How can educators bring together the best of old-school wisdom and new-school technology to enhance instruction and improve student outcomes? In this session, International Center for Leading in Education (ICLE) Senior Fellow and Author Weston Kieschnick will explore proven teaching strategies from Bold School.
March 11 - Higher Level Thinking
How can we elevate learning among gifted learners?
7.5 gifted PD hours available toward Gifted Competencies (6.0 + 1.5 deliverable)
Presenter: Christie McGee
Audience:
Location: Muskingum Valley ESC, 205 N. 7th Street, Zanesville, Ohio 43701
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cost: MVESC Member Districts - $110.00, Non-Member Districts - $125.00
Students identified as gifted need opportunities for higher-level thinking and complexity to challenge their minds and imaginations. When gifted students are engaged in learning, they flourish.
In this learning session, you will learn and explore:
Depth and complexity frameworks
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Practical applications for the classroom setting
Appropriate technologies to support instruction of gifted students
Differentiation strategies
Center for Leading and Learning
Email: mary.archer@mvesc.org
Website: www.mvesc.org
Location: 205 North 7th Street, Zanesville, OH, United States
Phone: 7404524518