CEHS Summer Partnership Institute
Summer 2017
About the Summer 2017 CEHS Partnership Institute
Dates, Times, and Details
June 7th
9:00am-12:00pm
Creating Vocabularians: Engaging Strategies for All Content Areas - 90 minutes
Description: An interactive session to provide sixteen practical, creative, and engaging strategies to support vocabulary learning in all content areas that will motivate students and deepen their comprehension.
Writing to Learn: Motivating Strategies for Meaningful Content Area Learning - 90 minutes
Description: An interactive session to provide effective writing to lean strategies and activities to support students in content area learning, deepen their understanding, and enhance retention. These writing strategies foster problem solving skills and promote a powerful learning experience for students.
Instructor(s): Lee Welz
Location: 286 Millett Hall
June 8th
9:00am-12:00pm
Thinking and Talking about Race and Socioeconomic Status in the Classroom
Description: Promotes understanding of: -Ways in which a student’s race/ethnicity affects that student’s educational experience and how a teacher’s race/ethnicity intersects with that experience. -Students’ varied economic backgrounds, which can have profound effects on student achievement. -Planning classroom interactions such that differences can enhance rather than detract from a respectful and empowering classroom atmosphere. -Strategies to help all students learn.
Instructor(s): Dr. Christa Preston Agiro
Location: 286 Millett Hall
June 12th
9:00am-12:00pm
Assessment
Description: This workshop is an introduction to learning progressions and formative assessments. Workshop attendees will be engaged in various activities that explore formative assessments, how to utilize them, and how to the use the results to make effective instructional changes. Activities will include: brainstorming assessment points, creating a formative assessment timeline, planning a formative assessment within a unit, and participating in formative assessments activities.
Instructor(s): Dr. Nimisha Patel & Dave Herick
Location: 286 Millett Hall
June 13th
9:00am - 4:00pm (Lunch on your own from 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Connecting a School Garden to Content Standards
Description: A workshop to understand the basics of creating a school garden and integrating a garden space into your school curriculum. This workshop will offer you guidance and materials to 1) plan lessons that connect content standards to a school garden 2) practice how to use interactive science notebooks for developing literacy skills in science and 3) exchange lesson ideas with a network of teachers at other school garden sites.
Instructor(s): Dr. Michelle Fleming & Colleen Saxen, MPH, OSU Master Gardener
Location: 286 Millett Hall
June 14th
9:00am - 4:00pm (Lunch on your own from 12:00pm - 1:00pm)
Book in a Day
Description: An interactive session including a jigsaw of the book Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom. Books must be purchased individually.
Instructor(s): Dr. Amy Elston
Location: 286 Millett Hall
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Proactive Circle Conversations to Promote Social and Academic Development
Description: This interactive session focuses on restorative circle conversations as a proactive means to support both the social and academic aspects of learning. An overview of restorative discipline, connections to classroom community, and connections to academic content will be provided. During this session, participants will engage in circle conversations and work with colleagues to develop circle conversation guides related to social needs and/or content topics of their choice.
Instructor(s): Dr. Romena Holbert
Location: 286 Millett Hall
June 28th- **NEW ADDITION**
9:00am- 12:00pm
Addressing HB 367: The Health & Opioid Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum
Description: HB 367 requires all schools to adopt a health education curriculum that includes opioid prevention education. The Health & Opioid Prevention Education (HOPE) Curriculum is a set of K-12 health education lessons designed to help schools combat the opioid epidemic and meet the requirements of HB 367. The HOPE Curriculum includes lesson plans for health education teachers and classroom teachers; administrator guides; and community connections. The session will also incorporate the recommendations from the “Ohio Joint Study Committee on Drug Use Prevention Education” to present a collective plan for drug prevention in schools.
Instructor(s): Dr. Kevin Lorson
Location: 402 Millett Hall
July 12th
9:00am - 12:00pm
Mental Health in the Schools
Description: A discussion on the mental health needs of students including how to respond to student distress.
Instructor(s): Dr. Tara Hill & Dr. Leslie Neyland-Brown
Location: 286 Millett Hall
July 12th
1:00pm-4:00pm
Safe Space Ally Development Training
Description: The Safe Space Training is a comprehensive 3 hour Ally Development training that teaches potential new allies skills on how to serve and support the LGBTQA+ community. Allies attending the entire 3 hour training will have the option of completing a Safe Space Ally Action Plan and listed on this site as someone who is part of the Safe Space Ally Development Network. The trainings teaches bold skills-based that focuses on Social Justice Allyship & active bystander intervention action.
Instructor(s): Petey Peterson
Location: 286 Millett Hall
July 19th
9:00am-12:00pm
Developmentally Appropriate Child Guidance: Addressing Disruptive Behavior in the Early Childhood Classroom
Description: Do you find that every year there is at least one child who is chronically disruptive? Have you noticed that your discipline techniques do not work with him/her? Are you searching for a way to stop unacceptable classroom behavior without punishment? In this workshop participants will practice techniques that facilitate self-control & social competence without damaging self-esteem.
Instructor(s): Dr. William Mosier
Location: 286 Millett Hall
July 31st
9:00am - 12:00pm
Toward a Psychology of Understanding ADHD
This interactive session will use examples of “out-of-control” behavior concerns of the participants to address the identification and intervention strategies for helping young children to resist distraction, exercise enhanced self-control and sustain focused-attention.
Instructor(s): Dr. William Mosier
Location: 286 Millett Hall
August 1st
9:00am - 12:00pm
What’s New in Children’s Picture Books in Content Areas?
Description: Take a look at two dozen 2017 children’s picture books appropriate for use in K-3 classrooms, exploring ways to incorporate them in your lesson plans.
Instructor(s): Stephanie Bange
Location: 286 Millett Hall
August 2nd
9:00am - 12:00pm
Introduction to Co-Teaching
Description: An interactive session to provide a basic understanding of the co-teaching models.
Instructor(s): Tracey Kramer & Dr. Amy Elston
Location: 286 Millett Hall
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Co-Teaching – Improving your Co-Teaching Relationship
Description: An interactive session to work with your co-teaching pair and learn about one another in preparation to work together in the classroom.
Instructor(s): Tracey Kramer & Dr. Amy Elston
Location: 286 Millett Hall
August 3rd
9:00am - 12:00pm
Teaching Strategies for Promoting Active Participation in the Classroom
Description: An interactive session to provide practical strategies for active participation in any content area.
Instructor(s): Tracey Kramer
Location: 286 Millett Hall
August 4th
9:00am - 12:00pm
An Introduction to Project Based Learning
Description: An interactive session to gain an understanding about what PBL is and what is not PBL; Gain skills and knowledge to design, assess, and manage a standards-based project that is relevant and rigorous.
Instructor(s): Pat Murakami
Location: 286 Millett Hall
How to Register
Low enrollment may cancel sessions. Registrants will be notified of cancelled sessions. All sessions are on a first come, first serve basis. Registration will close 2 weeks prior to each session. Sessions will have a cap of 38 participants.
Questions?
Email: amy.elston@wright.edu
Location: Wright State University, Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH, United States
Phone: (937)775-4473