Learning Connections
Muskingum Valley ESC - October 2019
October 1 - 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.
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Time: 9 am - 12:00 pm
Audience: Preschool Supervisors
October 1 - Professional Ethics and Solutions for the Struggling or Hard-to-Reach Child
Participants will meet state requirements in ethics through an engaging and interactive
session with real-life scenarios. You also will learn sensory strategies through hands on
activities to help the most challenging students access the curriculum and school
environment.
Presenters: Maria Sargent, Ph.D., Ashland University, and Susan Willeke, Education
and Communications Administrator, Ohio Ethics Commission
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St.,
Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Audience: Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Psychologists, Speech
Language Pathologists, Administrators
October 2 - 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
Dates: October 2, 2019; November 6, 2019; December 4, 2019; January 7, 2020; February 4, 2020
Audience: Year 4 Resident Educators, Mentors, Coordinators
Location: Online - Zoom
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
October 3 - 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, current research, state requirements and district happenings!
- Energize your leadership and learning skills through collaborative conversations, shared learning experiences and brainstorming!
October's Agenda includes Round Table Discussions and a presentation on OTES 2.0.
Sign-up today for the MVESC Principal collaborative! Register here.
October 4 and 23 - Phonological Awareness Series
This professional learning series is designed to support participants in foundational knowledge of phonological awareness and identify instructional strategies that are effective in the delivery of critical elements of phonological awareness.Participants will engage in interactive discussion and activities and will be provided with resources to extend their learning.
Audience: Preschool - 3rd-Grade Teachers
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
October 4 - FMLA Essentials
This program will provide a working knowledge of Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requirements and is ideal for growing organizations near the 50-employee threshold of the regulation or any manager new to FMLA.
Learning Objectives:
• Effectively determine the key qualifiers that must occur before an employer is expected to grant job-protected family and medical leave to its employees.
• Identify an employer’s essential obligations in handling and resolving employee requests for job-protected leave under FMLA.
• Discuss what an employer legally can require for employees who are eligible for job protected leave under FMLA.
• Effectively deal with those situations where you must comply with FMLA, state workers’ compensation laws and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Audience: HR Managers, Administrators, Treasurers
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
October 4 - Tips and Tricks for Classroom Management
Attend this session to learn effective strategies that support students with challenging behaviors. Participants will:
• Identify challenging behaviors and learn how to address those behaviors.
• Explore strategies that help improve behavioral outcomes.
• Learn ways to successfully implement positive reinforcement through hands-on examples of positive behavior intervention strategies for individual students and the whole class.
Presenter: Meredith Walker, MVESC Behavior Consultant
Audience: Teachers, Paraprofessionals
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Coshocton Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
October 8 - Are You Ready to Take the RESA?
This session will prepare participants to take the Resident Educator Summative Assessment (RESA) in Year 3. Listen and learn from a panel of experienced teachers who have previously taken the RESA. Amy Vincent, MVESC Mentor and Facilitator, will walk you through the task components and requirements as you learn ways to prepare for the RESA this year.
Presenter: Cathy Morgan, MVESC Director of the Center for Leading and Learning,
and Amy Vincent, MVESC Intervention Specialist
Audience: Year 2 Resident Educators and Mentors
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 4 - 6 p.m.
October 9 - Understanding Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Act and Foster Care
Children who are in foster care or who are experiencing homelessness need support to ensure they have equal access for a free and appropriate public education. This training will provide the guidance and resources you need to support districts and agencies around the McKinney-Vento Homeless Act and children in foster care.
Audience: District Administrators, Agency Personnel, Foster Care Contacts, Homeless Care Contacts
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
October 9 - PBIS Leadership Network
This Regional PBIS Leadership Network is intended for building and district leaders who already are implementing PBIS. Participants are to attend quarterly network meetings to support the implementation and sustainability of the PBIS Framework. The agenda will include time to network with other schools, ask questions and gain more information and resources about PBIS in grade-band-specific meetings. (other two meeting dates: February 25, 2020 and May 4, 2020)
Audience: PBIS Building and District Leaders
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Time: Elementary - 9 - 11:30 a.m.; Middle and High School - 1 - 3:30 p.m.
October 15 and 22 - Ohio Improvement Process Leadership Teams (BLTs/DLTs)
This half-day professional learning is designed to support participants in their development of high functioning building and district leadership teams. Participants will engage in interactive discussions and activities and will be provided with resources to extend their learning.
Audience: Teachers and Administrators Serving on Building and District Leadership Teams
Date: October 15, 2019
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Date: October 22, 2019
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
October 16 - Gifted 101 for Grades K-12
In this learning session, participants will learn the basics of teaching this student population by:
• Examining characteristics of students who are gifted.
• Reviewing and knowing their district’s processes to identify students who are gifted.
• Exploring resources and frameworks that support higher-level thinking and complexity.
• Learning the components and how to develop Gifted Written Education Plans.
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Muskingum Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Audience: First-year gifted service providers (general educators and AP instructors)
October 16 - SST 12 Transition Network
It takes a village to prepare our students with disabilities. This network will discuss ways various entities can work together to improve outcomes for students as they transition from school into adulthood. Participants will discuss needs of professional learning districts, collaborate around what has worked in areas of the region, receive updates from the Ohio Department of Education and Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities and investigate evidence-based practices in
secondary transition.
Location: SST Region 12 Office, 60788 Southgate Road, Suite 201, Byesville, OH 43723
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Audience: Special Education Directors, Employment Navigators, Intervention Specialists, Building Administrators, anyone serving students age 14 or older
October 16 and 17 - Ready Bodies, Learning Minds
During this training, participants will:
• Learn the essential connection between motor/sensory development and the ability to perform tasks necessary for increased independence and behavioral control.
• Receive information regarding the research-base for the program.
• See multiple demonstrations of lab set-up and activities adapted to students with multiple impairments.
• Practice those lab activities.
Presenter: Athena Oden, PT, Ready Bodies, Learning Minds
Audience: Intervention Specialists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Administrators, School Psychologists, Parents
Location: Zane State College/Ohio University Zanesville Campus, Campus Center Building, 1555 Newark Road, Zanesville, Ohio 43701
Time: 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
October 17 - Internal Monitoring Series
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.
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.
Other two series dates: January 7, 2020 and march 5, 2020.
October 21 - I Suspect a Disability. Now What? (Five-part Series)
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.
Location: Online - Zoom Webinar
Time: 3:45 - 4:45 p.m.
October 21 - 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.
October 25 - LAMP Words for Life for Accent: Vocabulary Review, Programming and Basic Implementation
Participants will learn about LAMP Words for Life, as well as programming, customizing and basic implementation of the vocabulary for Accent products. This training is not for those using LAMP Words for Life on an iPad. A Prentke Romich Company Accent device or laptop is required for this training. Please bring an Accent 800, 1000, 1200 or 1400 running
the latest version of software. Participants may bring a laptop computer preloaded with PASS demo software and the appropriate language system. If you want to use a Mac laptop, you will need a Windows 7 or higher emulator with PASS installed. PASS software is not compatible with iPads.
Presenter: Jennifer Monahan, M.A., CCC-SLP
Audience: Occupational Therapists, Paraprofessionals, Parents, Speech-Language Pathologists, Teachers
Location: MVESC Zanesville Office, Coshocton Room, 205 N. Seventh St., Zanesville, OH 43701
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
October 2 - 8:00 a.m. 5th Grade Student Connections
Give your students who are gifted opportunities to interact with other students who are gifted! Grade 5 students will be presented with challenges and will have opportunities to use problem-solving and deductive reasoning skills through the following activities:
- STEM Challenge
- Code Master
- Jabberwock Poetry
- Problem Solving
- Abstract Self Portraits
Contact Susan Larson at susan.larson@mvesc.org with questions.
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