Professional Development/Meetings
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ROE 40 Professional DevelopmentDirector of ROE #40 Professional Development Debbie Poffinbarger - dpoffinbarger@roe40.com Professional Development
2020-2021 Announcements:
Book Club #3 - Continued
Event Date: March 9, 2021 Event Time: 2:30 pm to 3:30 Event Address: Online Description: Book Club #3 – The Power of a Positive Team, by Jon Gordon Effective Engagement: The Key to Building Resilience in Youth and Families
Date: March 10, 2021 Time: 2 pm to 4 pm Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 (Send payment to ROE40, Attn: D.Poffinbarger, 201 W. Exchange, Jerseyville, IL 62052) or Free if your district is a member of the ROE40 Consortium This training session will provide attendees with effective engagement strategies that can be used to engage youth and families. The training will identify various strategies that can be done on an individual and an organizational level to increase the level of engagement between the professional and the client being served. This training will also challenge attendees to identify barriers to engagement and identify strategies on how to overcome those barriers. This training discusses resistance as a part of engagement and how to overcome resistance. At the end of the training, attendees will learn the concept of resiliency and begin to explore how they can begin building resiliency in the youth and families they are working with. REGISTER Educational Technology Roundtable
Date: March 16, 2021 Time: 2 to 4 p.m. Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: FREE Join us for an open discussion on current educational technology topics and trends. This networking meeting is open to all educational technology positions including technology directors, instructional technology coaches, curriculum coordinators, administrators, and any other positions interested in discussing the current state of technology in our schools. While a short presentation may lead off our time together, the majority of the meeting will be open for participants to share their experiences and challenges with the group. REGISTER Principal Collaboration
Date: March 16, 2021 Time: 10 am to 11 am Evidence of Completion: 1 Hour Join us for an informal conversation, allowing for hot topics to be discussed and an opportunity for information seeking. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87170301066?pwd=c2hDbjBVUFhzRnlQN0R1VXdtUlFyZz09 Meeting ID: 871 7030 1066 Passcode: 7WR4FA Ed Puzzle
Date: March 25, 2021 Time: 2 to 4 p.m. Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 (Send payment to ROE40, Attn: D.Poffinbarger, 201 W. Exchange, Jerseyville, IL 62052) or Free if your district is a member of the ROE40 Consortium EdPuzzle is a free tool that allows teachers and students to create interactive online videos by embedding either open-ended or multiple-choice questions, audio notes, audio tracks, or comments on a video. REGISTER PERA, Evaluations, & SB&/RIF: Putting It All Together
Date: March 26, 2021 Time: 8:30 to 11:30 Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 3 Hours The evaluation, retention, and dismissal of your staff is really a series of interconnected steps that create a cycle that must be followed each year. In this 3-hour workshop, the presenters will focus on the components of this cycle, presented in a concise, understandable format. Information will be shared on each step of the cycle including the PERA Joint Committee, the SB7/RIF Committee, the timelines in which each of these committees must complete their work, and the requirements that must be fulfilled. Participants should have access to, and can review, their own pertinent district documents relevant to this cycle (Joint Committee Agreements, Seniority List, Sequence of Honorable Dismissal List, FY21 MOUs, etc.,), and Q&A will be an essential component of the workshop. Evaluation: “This was an excellent workshop!! The PDF of the presentation is outstanding, and all of the supplemental resources will be very helpful. You are both extremely knowledgeable. This was an information-packed session that did not waste our time -- as a busy superintendent, I appreciated that! This could easily be a day-long session or multi-day session (which would be easier on people) due to the volume of information. These are topics that I know are not being implemented correctly in many districts. Thank you for offering this!” Target audience: This workshop is designed for Superintendents, Teacher/Principal Evaluators, PERA and RIF Joint Committee members (Admin and Union) REGISTER Book Club #4 - Interested in a Service-Learning Project that is driven around a student novel?
Date: April 1 & May 3, 2021 Time: 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 5 Hours Fee: $75 (Send payment to ROE40, Attn: D.Poffinbarger, 201 W. Exchange, Jerseyville, IL 62052) or Free if your district is a member of the ROE40 Consortium We will read this children’s novel and tie it to a service-learning project, enjoying a good book and yet being able to apply it to your classroom. This is suitable for grades 3-12. Now that Bess Cunningham is in middle school, she's determined to get noticed. With her new glasses, her wild thrift-store clothes, and her job as stage manager for the school play, she's sure her days of being invisible are over. Being forced to volunteer with her parents at the local soup kitchen doesn't exactly fit into Bess's popularity plans, especially since she finds the place so creepy. But when she meets Gracie Jarvis Battle, an elderly homeless woman, Bess can't help but feel compassion for her. Bess grows more involved with trying to feed and shelter the older woman, but as the weather turns colder and Gracie grows thinner, Bess begins to wonder -- will her help be enough? *The book is available for $6.99 on Amazon or in your library most likely. REGISTER New Teacher Training
Date: 4/6 Time: 2:30 to 3:30 (each month) Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 1 Hours per each meeting you attend Fee: $125 or FREE if a member of the Consortium (Do not need to register) Join us for the opportunity to learn and share as new teachers to the profession, district, or region. Teaching strategies, best practices, observations, and great conversations about making you the best teacher out there. This group will meet monthly with a new topic each month to support your teaching. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83332066317?pwd=ajVlVjhvbGI3Mjh5SHpPdUpiQ1hLdz09 Meeting ID: 833 3206 6317 Passcode: 7f4DGw Building a Road to Resilience
Date: April 13, 2021 Time: 2 pm to 4 pm Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Contact us at (217)313-0774 for assistance if needed Fee: $75 (Send payment to ROE40, Attn: D.Poffinbarger, 201 W. Exchange, Jerseyville, IL 62052) or Free if your district is a member of the ROE40 Consortium This training introduces attendees to the concept of resiliency and how to build resiliency in the youth and families they are working with. This training challenges attendees to assess their own resiliency traits and begin exploring how their own traits impact their ability to build resiliency in youth and families. This training will define resiliency, and explore domains, characteristics, and traits that are needed in order to build and strengthen resiliency. This training will also identify strategies to build resiliency in outside supports and inner strengths in youth and families. REGISTER Principal Collaboration
Date: April 20, 2021 Time: 10 am to 11 am Evidence of Completion: 1 Hour Join us for an informal conversation, allowing for hot topics to be discussed and an opportunity for information seeking. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87170301066?pwd=c2hDbjBVUFhzRnlQN0R1VXdtUlFyZz09 Meeting ID: 871 7030 1066 Passcode: 7WR4FA Math STEM
Date: April 27, 2021 Time: 2 pm to 4 pm Place: Online Contact us at (217)313-0774 for assistance if needed Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: Free In this hands-on workshop, participants will complete several STEM projects that are specifically designed to TEACH mathematics. This process will demonstrate how the project can be used as a vehicle for instruction, not simply as the application of the concepts at the end of the unit. This shift of pedagogy has proven to be exceptionally effective, providing the learner with a context within which the concept is framed. Projects appropriate for grades K-12 will be addressed. Commonly available materials will be required including paper, scissors, tape, string, paper clips, aluminum foil, string, and several pennies. REGISTER 
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Book Club #4 - Continued
Date: May 3, 2021 Time: 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 5 Hours Fee: $75 (Send payment to ROE40, Attn: D.Poffinbarger, 201 W. Exchange, Jerseyville, IL 62052) or Free if your district is a member of the ROE40 Consortium We will read this children’s novel and tie it to a service-learning project, enjoying a good book and yet being able to apply it to your classroom. This is suitable for grades 3-12. Now that Bess Cunningham is in middle school, she's determined to get noticed. With her new glasses, her wild thrift-store clothes, and her job as stage manager for the school play, she's sure her days of being invisible are over. Being forced to volunteer with her parents at the local soup kitchen doesn't exactly fit into Bess's popularity plans, especially since she finds the place so creepy. But when she meets Gracie Jarvis Battle, an elderly homeless woman, Bess can't help but feel compassion for her. Bess grows more involved with trying to feed and shelter the older woman, but as the weather turns colder and Gracie grows thinner, Bess begins to wonder -- will her help be enough? *The book is available for $6.99 on Amazon or in your library most likely. REGISTER Poverty: Cycles of Risk
Date: May 6, 2021 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium This training session will allow participants to gain a deeper understanding of how poverty often reinforces other issues, such as exposure to violence, complex trauma, homelessness, and substance abuse and how living in poverty can impact the most vulnerable families in communities we serve. Participants will explore their own attitudes and beliefs about poverty and the people who are identified as living in poverty. Participants will explore the underlying conditions of poverty and how that impacts our communities. During the training, participants will take part in a poverty simulation. Finally, participants will learn and discuss strategies to change these underlying conditions within their community. REGISTER |
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