Welcome to the NSSED Professional Development web page! Fliers for workshops are accessible directly from this webpage and can be found simply by clicking on the title of the workshop. Online registration is now available. You may also register by
calling the NSSED Workshop Hotline (847-831-5100 ext. 6166) or sending an e-mail to prodev@nssed.org. Please be sure to take the time to register for a session in advance. If you are unable to make a session that you have previously registered for, we appreciate you taking the time to let us know.
NSSED and member district staff and parents attend workshops free of charge. For a list of our member districts, click here. If you are not an NSSED or member district staff member and are interested in attending a workshop, please call or e-mail Mary Kober (847-831-5100 ext. 201) for information on costs.
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Please click on the title of the workshop to access the flyer containing additional information.
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ACADEMIC |
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Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking
Date:Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Description:V/V stimulates concept imagery as it relates to reasoning for critical thinking and expressive language skills. Individuals become able to visualize and comprehend language whose previous language processing could be described as “in one ear and out the other.”
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University of Kansas: The Essay Test-Taking Strategy
Date:Tuesday,April 27, 2010 (a.m. session)
Description: The Essay Test-taking Strategy is a new strategy (published 2005) that has been developed at the University of Kansas-Center for Research on Learning to meet the demand of helping students deal effectively with the complex test-taking expectations. Students are taught to analyze the essay question to determine what information is required and what kind of relationships need to be expressed. They are taught to organize the information they know, write their answer within the structure and revise/edit to create a finished product. This intervention includes scaffolded lessons that can be used as part of the core curriculum or as a targeted intervention. The strategy includes formative and summative evaluations and ways to collect data.
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University of Kansas: The Error Monitoring Strategy
Date:Tuesday, April 27, 2010 (p.m. session)
Description: The Error Monitoring strategy is an editing intervention to be used by the students to detect and correct errors in written work. The strategy focuses on the importance of proofreading the written piece and eliminating errors independently BEFORE submitting it to the teacher. The second part of the strategy teaches the student to correct their spelling errors. This intervention is a basic spelling strategy that has been published at the Center for Research on Learning. The strategy includes formative and summative evaluations. Review, practice and scoring will be included in the training class.
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CORE Reading Leader Institute-Elementary
Date: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, June 16, 17 & 18, 2010 (all three days required)
Target Audience: This leadership institute prepares district administrators, site administrators and leadership teams to lead their elementary schools to meet the needs of struggling readers and to promote evidence-based instructional practices that support all readers.
Description: Participants will practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students. The institute also includes reading research that focus on addressing pressing issues of equity and the achievement gap. This institute can support any research-based program a district/school has adopted.
CORE provides expert technical assistance and professional development for K–12 literacy and math programs. CORE has a history of success in schools and districts of all sizes, from large urban districts to rural and remote schools. CORE helps districts build their own capacity for effective instruction by laying a foundation of research-based knowledge, supporting the use of proven tools, and developing leadership.
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BEHAVIOR / SOCIAL EMOTIONAL |
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Borderline Personality Disorder: How can we help them? -Mark Reinecke (NOTE: The extended time for this day)
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010 (Day 2 of a 3 day Series)
Description: Dr. Mark Reinecke is a clinical child psychologist at Northwestern University Medical School, Division of Psychology. He is the author and editor of numerous texts on depression in children and adolescents. Participants will learn: Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms and behaviors. Treatment strategies for students with Borderline Personality profiles. How school/home can work together to support them
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Managing Common Classroom Behavior Problems - Session 2
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 (a.m. session)
Target Audience: This workshop has been designed for general education and special education teachers and may also be helpful for teaching assistants and support staff. Participants are encouraged to attend as teams.
Description: Behavior and classroom management are a lifelong learning process. This workshop is based on Randy Sprick’s Safe and Civil Schools and provides participants with the opportunity to view video portrayals of behavioral challenges. Participants will work together through a problem solving process to discuss solutions. The areas of behavior that will be targeted are: Sleeping in Class, Class Clown, School Safety, and the Last Month of School.
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Intervention Integrity
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 (a.m. session)
Target Audience: This is appropriate for RtI team members, school psychologists, principals and other school staff who may be supporting the implementation integrity.
Description: This training will focus on developing a system of integrity to assess and support high levels of intervention implementation. More specifically, participants will learn:
What areas to monitor for integrity purposes when a clear intervention script is not available
Learn and practice specific tools to monitor integrity of interventions
Learn how to interpret integrity data to make instructional decisions, including eligibility
Essentials to developing a system of integrity support across the Tiers, including defining roles and responsibilities
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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) - Initial Training **This Session is Closed**
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Target Audience: Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Support Staff
Description: Through participation in this program, you gain a practical, common-sense approach for identifying behaviors that can escalate into full-blown crises. Using these behaviors as a framework, the training program focuses on prevention, stepping you through a series of simple yet powerful nonverbal and verbal techniques that enable you to effectively defuse mounting hostility. Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training demonstrates how you can use empathic listening skills, verbal intervention strategies, and limit-setting techniques to calm hostile and agitated individuals. If verbal hostility turns into physical aggression, the safe, organized approach to intervention presented in this program shows you when—and how—to use physical intervention to maximize the safety of all involved. You also learn how to re-establish communication with the individual after the crisis is over, thereby creating the opportunity for constructive change to occur.
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Managing Traumatic Events in the School Setting: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Description: This session will include:
Review of the literature concerning the essential elements of a school trauma plan.
Instruction in a step-by-step, day-by-day plan to assist faculty & students after trauma, such as the death of a student or teacher, or other disturbing events.
Instruction in intervention techniques such as psychological first aid, defusing and CISD (Critical Incident Stress Debriefing) within schools following trauma.
Overview of theoretical concepts regarding the impact of trauma on an individual and organization level, normal resolution of grief, a critical review of the efficacy of CISD and special considerations when working with schools in the aftermath of suicide.
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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) - Refresher Training
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Target Audience: Session may be attended only by those who are certified in Non Violent Crisis Prevention Intervention
Description: Through participation in this program, you gain a practical, common-sense approach for identifying behaviors that can escalate into full-blown crises. Using these behaviors as a framework, the training program focuses on prevention, stepping you through a series of simple yet powerful nonverbal and verbal techniques that enable you to effectively defuse mounting hostility. Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training demonstrates how you can use empathic listening skills, verbal intervention strategies, and limit-setting techniques to calm hostile and agitated individuals. If verbal hostility turns into physical aggression, the safe, organized approach to intervention presented in this program shows you when—and how—to use physical intervention to maximize the safety of all involved. You also learn how to re-establish communication with the individual after the crisis is over, thereby creating the opportunity for constructive change to occur.
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Behavior Screeners
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Target Audience: All School staff, including members of district and/or building leadership teams
Description: Are you looking for a way to monitor the implementation of your social emotional learning standards? Do you have a read on the social emotional concerns of your students? This workshop will focus on assessment tools that can be utilized as a screener for social- emotional/ behavioral concerns. Participants should have a basic understanding of RtI /PBIS. Participants will: Understand the purpose of different social-emotional/ behavior screening tools . Learn to use data from screening tools to evaluate progress toward the Social/Emotional Learning (SEL) standards. Compare screening tools and how convergent data can be used within the school system. Evaluate your school’s current data to determine if they are answering the necessary questions
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Suicide Among Children and Adolescents -Mark Reinecke (NOTE: The extended time for this day)
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010 (Day 3 of a 3 day Series)
Description: Dr. Mark Reinecke is a clinical child psychologist at Northwestern University Medical School, Division of Psychology. He is the author and editor of numerous texts on depression in children and adolescents. Participants will learn: Theoretical constructs of suicide, Effective interventions & How school and home can work together to support youth.
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AUTISM |
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SCERTS Assessment Process Training; Using the SCERTS Assessment Tool to guide educational programming for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: Thursday, April 22nd and Friday, April 23, 2010
Description: This course will provide specific guidelines for administering the SCERTS Assessment Process (SAP), a curriculum-based assessment designed to pinpoint those areas of development that support a child’s social and communicative competence. This assessment tool facilitates the implementation of the SCERTS model, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary educational approach designed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The SAP is an ongoing assessment process designed: 1) to establish a child’s profile of developmental strengths and needs, 2) to determine meaningful, purposeful, and motivating educational goals based on a child’s profile and functional needs, 3) to select the most appropriate learning contacts and teaching strategies, 4) to determine the necessary transactional support (interpersonal support, learning support, support to families), and 5) to monitor progress over time
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- SCERTS Implementation and Problem Solving for High Functioning Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Monday, April 26th)
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RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION |
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Intervention Integrity
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 (a.m. session)
Target Audience: This is appropriate for RtI team members, school psychologists, principals and other school staff who may be supporting the implementation integrity.
Description: This training will focus on developing a system of integrity to assess and support high levels of intervention implementation. More specifically, participants will learn:
What areas to monitor for integrity purposes when a clear intervention script is not available
Learn and practice specific tools to monitor integrity of interventions
Learn how to interpret integrity data to make instructional decisions, including eligibility
Essentials to developing a system of integrity support across the Tiers, including defining roles and responsibilities
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Advanced AIMSweb Applications II: Open Workshop and Troubleshooting
Date: Tuesday, April 13th (a.m. session)
Target Audience: This training is appropriate for AIMSweb District Managers, School Managers, RTI Users and Progress Monitor Teachers. Participants must provide their own laptop and AIMsweb login information.
Description: This workshop provides dedicated time for AIMSweb users to work alongside one another in a supportive, consultative environment. Participants will be grouped according to similar work task needs, including, but not limited to: Entering demographic information into the system for program evaluation reporting,RTI case management and intervention tracking through the use of the AIMSweb RTI tab, System “clean up,” such as assigning appropriate levels of access to staff, Determining local normative patterns for the grade levels, classes or specific sub-groups, Using “intervention lines” in progress monitoring to compare progress on interventions
Participants will be asked to submit “work request tickets” prior to the workshop in order to best meet everyone’s needs. Once you have registered for the workshop, you will receive an email confirmation with a link to a Google doc work request form.
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Advanced AIMSweb Applications II: Systems-Level Reporting
Date: Tuesday, April 13th (p.m. session)
Target Audience: This training is appropriate for those responsible for using AIMSweb for case management and program evaluation at the AIMSweb District Manager or School Manager levels. Participants must provide their own laptop and AIMSweb login information.
Description: This workshop will focus entirely on the reporting features within AIMSweb, including the use of reports for determining AYP sub-group progress, classroom and school comparisons, year-to-year comparisons and individual student progress considerations. This workshop is intended to be a follow-up to the October 20th AIMSweb Advanced Applications training, and will provide a more in-depth analysis of AIMSweb reporting features. Participants might consider attending the April 13th morning workshop in order to ensure that necessary demographic information has been entered into their AIMSweb accounts in order to generate systems-level reports.
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Behavior Screeners
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Target Audience: All School staff, including members of district and/or building leadership teams
Description: Are you looking for a way to monitor the implementation of your social emotional learning standards? Do you have a read on the social emotional concerns of your students? This workshop will focus on assessment tools that can be utilized as a screener for social- emotional/ behavioral concerns. Participants should have a basic understanding of RtI /PBIS. Participants will: Understand the purpose of different social-emotional/ behavior screening tools . Learn to use data from screening tools to evaluate progress toward the Social/Emotional Learning (SEL) standards. Compare screening tools and how convergent data can be used within the school system. Evaluate your school’s current data to determine if they are answering the necessary questions
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Developing Effective Building Leadership Teams (Follow-up session) 3:45-5:15
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Target Audience: This workshop is designed for members of building based school improvement or RtI teams. It is strongly recommended that principals and/or administrative leaders attend with other key members of their team. Description: Two follow-up after school sessions on January 27 and May 5, will focus on providing coaching support as teams create and implement the plan that they designed at the initial training.
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MIDDLE SCHOOL / HIGH SCHOOL |
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Borderline Personality Disorder: How can we help them? -Mark Reinecke (NOTE: The extended time for this day)
Date: Friday, March 12, 2010 (Day 2 of a 3 day Series)
Description: Dr. Mark Reinecke is a clinical child psychologist at Northwestern University Medical School, Division of Psychology. He is the author and editor of numerous texts on depression in children and adolescents. Participants will learn: Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms and behaviors. Treatment strategies for students with Borderline Personality profiles. How school/home can work together to support them
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Managing Traumatic Events in the School Setting: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Description: This session will include:
Review of the literature concerning the essential elements of a school trauma plan.
Instruction in a step-by-step, day-by-day plan to assist faculty & students after trauma, such as the death of a student or teacher, or other disturbing events.
Instruction in intervention techniques such as psychological first aid, defusing and CISD (Critical Incident Stress Debriefing) within schools following trauma.
Overview of theoretical concepts regarding the impact of trauma on an individual and organization level, normal resolution of grief, a critical review of the efficacy of CISD and special considerations when working with schools in the aftermath of suicide.
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Date: Saturday, April 17 & 24, 2010 (9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
Target Audience: Attendance at both sessions is strongly encouraged for middle school and high school parents. These sessions are free of charge to NSSED district parents
Description: The Third Annual Visions will provide a basic yet comprehensive overview of what every parent of a student with an IEP needs to know about Post Secondary Transition Planning. Transition Planning is a process designed to identify student goals for life after high school (school, work, or both) and steps necessary to meet those goals. Making Sense of the Transition Process: A transition Overview, The Importance of Self-Advocacy and Self Determination Skills, visions of Post Secondary Education.
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Suicide Among Children and Adolescents -Mark Reinecke (NOTE: The extended time for this day)
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010 (Day 3 of a 3 day Series)
Description: Dr. Mark Reinecke is a clinical child psychologist at Northwestern University Medical School, Division of Psychology. He is the author and editor of numerous texts on depression in children and adolescents. Participants will learn: Theoretical constructs of suicide, Effective interventions & How school and home can work together to support youth.
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TECHNOLOGY |
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Advanced Boardmaker v5 Macintosh Training
Date: Wednesday, March 10 2010 CANCELED due to low enrollment
Target Audience: Teachers, therapists, and aides who attend this training must have basic computer and Boardmaker skills, such as being able to search for symbols, create a grid, place symbols into the grid, save, and print what was created..
Description: Take your Boardmaker skills to the next level through this advanced training. In this workshop you will learn how to: 1) create multi-page boards, 2) float the symbol finder above other applications 3) give a symbol multiple names, 4) set the default font in the symbol finder, 5) create your own symbol category, 6) create custom symbols and add them to the symbol finder, 7) add photos to the symbol finder, 8) import old Mac boards and symbol libraries, as well as Win boards, and 9) create your own template boards. Finally, participants will learn to locate Boardmaker templates as well as social stories, games, calendars, and more via web resources!
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Beginner Boardmaker Training for Parents
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 (a.m. session)
Target Audience: Parents who have never used or have just started using Boardmaker software to create picture-based materials for their children. NOTE: you do not need to own the software to participate
Description: You’ve probably noticed picture schedules, communication displays, labels, and picture directions throughout your child’s classroom. Have you ever wanted to create similar items for the home? Now you can! We are offering a special training just for parents to learn how to use Boardmaker™, the software program with thousands of Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) that allows you to create a variety of items using those pictures.
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PARENTS |
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Thoughts from Siblings of Children with Special Needs - Moderated by Tammy Besser, JCFS (APS)
Date:Tuesday, March 16, 2010( EVENING session, 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m)
Target Audience: For Parents of children with disabilities and for the siblings (high school and beyond) of people with disabilities.
Description: Listen and learn from a panel of adult siblings of people with special needs as they discuss their relationships with their siblings, pivotal moments in their lives, challenges they have experienced, and their thoughts on future planning. Panelists will also take questions from the audience. The discussion will be moderated by Tammy Besser, LCSW, who coordinates Sibshops and Teen Sibshops developed by Don Meyer of the Sibling Support Project. A helpful resource list will be available.
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Beginner Boardmaker Training for Parents
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 (a.m. session)
Target Audience: Parents who have never used or have just started using Boardmaker software to create picture-based materials for their children. NOTE: you do not need to own the software to participate
Description: You’ve probably noticed picture schedules, communication displays, labels, and picture directions throughout your child’s classroom. Have you ever wanted to create similar items for the home? Now you can! We are offering a special training just for parents to learn how to use Boardmaker™, the software program with thousands of Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) that allows you to create a variety of items using those pictures.
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Date: Saturday, April 17 & 24, 2010 (9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
Target Audience: Attendance at both sessions is strongly encouraged for middle school and high school parents. These sessions are free of charge to NSSED district parents
Description: The Third Annual Visions will provide a basic yet comprehensive overview of what every parent of a student with an IEP needs to know about Post Secondary Transition Planning. Transition Planning is a process designed to identify student goals for life after high school (school, work, or both) and steps necessary to meet those goals. Making Sense of the Transition Process: A transition Overview, The Importance of Self-Advocacy and Self Determination Skills, visions of Post Secondary Education.
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- Monday Morning Series: Planning Beyond the Place and Money Note: this date has changed. (Monday, March 15th 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m) While there is no fee for these sessions, advance registration is required. Please contact mades@nssed.org
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Monday Morning Series: Understanding the Purpose and the Power of telling your Family's Story (Monday, April 12th 9:30 a.m.-11:00a.m.) While there is no fee for these sessions, advance registration is required. Please contact mades@nssed.org
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Monday Morning Series: Putting it all Together for You and Your Family (Monday, May 10th 9:30a.m.-11:00a.m.)While there is no fee for these sessions, advance registration is required. Please contact mades@nssed.org
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APS: Social Skills Training and Parent Training in the School Setting (Tuesday May 18, 2010 9:30 a.m.-11:00a.m). While there is no fee for these sessions, advance registration is required. Please contact mades@nssed.org
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TEACHING ASSISTANTS |
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TA Workshop: Professionalism
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010 (a.m. session)
Target Audience: Teaching Assistants and Staff Members
Description: This session will include a survey of professional behavior based on research from Corporate America and a discussion of how these behaviors have relevance in the school setting.
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TA Workshop: Building a Community Toolkit: Tips, Techniques and Materials for successful Community Based Instruction
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 (a.m. session)
Target Audience: For Teaching Assistants and Staff Members.
Description: This workshop will provide some answers to the above questions. Presenter will focus on:
-Utilizing IEP goals in the community. Defining the purpose.
-Share ideas of how to use “extra time” when in the community (will have actual worksheets and activities to share)
-Give suggestions for how to further involve students with more significant disabilities into community activities
-How to work on student’s independence while having students remain safe in the community
-How to remain professional when in stressful community situations
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Managing Traumatic Events in the School Setting: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Description: This session will include:
Review of the literature concerning the essential elements of a school trauma plan.
Instruction in a step-by-step, day-by-day plan to assist faculty & students after trauma, such as the death of a student or teacher, or other disturbing events.
Instruction in intervention techniques such as psychological first aid, defusing and CISD (Critical Incident Stress Debriefing) within schools following trauma.
Overview of theoretical concepts regarding the impact of trauma on an individual and organization level, normal resolution of grief, a critical review of the efficacy of CISD and special considerations when working with schools in the aftermath of suicide.
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Date: Saturday, April 17 & 24, 2010 (9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
Target Audience: Attendance at both sessions is strongly encouraged for middle school and high school parents. These sessions are free of charge to NSSED district parents
Description: The Third Annual Visions will provide a basic yet comprehensive overview of what every parent of a student with an IEP needs to know about Post Secondary Transition Planning. Transition Planning is a process designed to identify student goals for life after high school (school, work, or both) and steps necessary to meet those goals. Making Sense of the Transition Process: A transition Overview, The Importance of Self-Advocacy and Self Determination Skills, visions of Post Secondary Education.
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CORE Reading Leader Institute-Elementary
Date: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, June 16, 17 & 18, 2010 (all three days required)
Target Audience: This leadership institute prepares district administrators, site administrators and leadership teams to lead their elementary schools to meet the needs of struggling readers and to promote evidence-based instructional practices that support all readers.
Description: Participants will practice with resources used to analyze data, observe classroom teaching, monitor implementation over time, and plan intervention with teachers and students. The institute also includes reading research that focus on addressing pressing issues of equity and the achievement gap. This institute can support any research-based program a district/school has adopted.
CORE provides expert technical assistance and professional development for K–12 literacy and math programs. CORE has a history of success in schools and districts of all sizes, from large urban districts to rural and remote schools. CORE helps districts build their own capacity for effective instruction by laying a foundation of research-based knowledge, supporting the use of proven tools, and developing leadership.
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Developing Effective Building Leadership Teams (Follow-up session) 3:45-5:15
Date: Wednesday,May 5, 2010
Target Audience: This workshop is designed for members of building based school improvement or RtI teams. It is strongly recommended that principals and/or administrative leaders attend with other key members of their team. Description: Two follow-up after school sessions on January 27 and May 5, will focus on providing coaching support as teams create and implement the plan that they designed at the initial training.
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES |
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NSSED has partnered with other local special education cooperatives to increase the range of professional development opportunities available to you. Below are links to the workshops being offered by these other cooperatives. PLEASE NOTE: You are responsible for covering the costs of attending these workshops. Please contact the cooperative hosting the workshop directly for cost and registration information. If you have any questions about attending workshops given by other cooperatives, or would like assistance in locating other professional development opportunities, please contact Carrie De La Cruz, NSSED District Services Coordinator, at 847-831-5100 ext. 266 or cdelacruz@nssed.org.
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NSSED is committed to the professional growth of parents and educators. We welcome your suggestions and comments.
Please contact:
Marilee Ciello
Director of District Services & Professional Development
847-831-5100 x248
Carrie De La Cruz
District Services Coordinator
847-831-5100 x266
Mary Kober
Office Support Specialist
847-831-5100 x201
Judy Sutton
Professional Development Specialist
847-831-5100 x222
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