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:
Youth Mental Health
Date: January 22, 2021 Time: 12:30 - 3:30 Address: Online Evidence of Completion: 6 hours Fee: $125 (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. Contact us at (217)313-0774 for assistance if needed Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth. This 2-hour, self-paced online class, and then participation in a 4-hour, instructor-led videoconference gives adults who work with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial support to children and adolescents (ages 6-18) who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care. REGISTER The Effects of Methamphetamine on Children
Date: January 26, 2021 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium There is a strong connection between methamphetamine use and abuse by parents and child maltreatment. This training will provide an overview of methamphetamine production and use, as well as the warning signs, risk factors and dangers to children. REGISTER New Teacher Training
Date: 2/2, 3/2, 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 Book Club #3 – The Power of a Positive Team, by Jon Gordon
Date: Feb 9 and March 9, 2021 Time: 2:30 to 3:30 Place: Online Evidence of Completion: TBA hours per each meeting you attend Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium A book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected. Worldwide bestseller — the author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams - and provides practical tools to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance. Jon Gordon doesn’t just research the keys to great teams, he has personally worked with some of the most successful teams on the planet and has a keen understanding of how and why they became great. In The Power of a Positive Team, Jon draws upon his unique team building experience as well as conversations with some of the greatest teams in history in order to provide an essential framework, filled with proven practices, to empower teams to work together more effectively and achieve superior results. Utilizing examples from the writing team who created the hit show Billions, the National Champion Clemson Football team, the World Series contending Los Angeles Dodgers, The Miami Heat and the greatest beach volleyball team of all time to Navy SEAL’s, Marching bands, Southwest Airlines, USC and UVA Tennis, Twitter, Apple and Ford, Jon shares innovative strategies to transform a group of individuals into a united, positive and powerful team. Jon not only infuses this book with the latest research, compelling stories, and strategies to maintain optimism through adversity... he also shares his best practices to transform negativity, build trust (through his favorite team building exercises) and practical ways to have difficult conversations—all designed to make a team more positive, cohesive, stronger and better. The Power of a Positive Team also provides a blueprint for addressing common pitfalls that cause teams to fail—including complaining, selfishness, inconsistency, complacency, unaccountability—while offering solutions to enhance a team’s creativity, grit, innovation and growth. This book is meant for teams to read together. It’s written in such a way that if you and your team read it together, you will understand the obstacles you will face and what you must do to become a great team. If you read it together, stay positive together, and take action together you will accomplish amazing things TOGETHER. You can purchase your own book from Jon Gordan’s website or on Amazon for $11.29 or used for $8 REGISTER Smart Grid
Date: February 11, 2021 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium Smart Grid for Schools: This program is funded by the electrical utilities in Illinois to instruct K-12 students about electricity, the electrical grid, and "smart" technology. Models are shipped to your classroom for two weeks so that your students can design and build their own electrical grid and program their own "Smart Home." All activities are also available through on-line simulations at www.cemastprojects.org. Also, a solar farm heliodon (devise the simulates the position of the sun) is available so students can design their own community solar farm and test it throughout the day and seasons. All materials, curriculum, and simulations are available free of charge with free shipping. Teachers will also receive a stipend for participating. REGISTER Principal Collaboration
Date: February 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 Childhood Trauma
Date: February 18, 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 Description: Children who have experienced complex trauma often have difficulty identifying, expressing, and managing emotions, which can lead to their behavior being unpredictable and explosive. Traumatic experiences in childhood have been linked to increased physical and mental health issues that can last into adulthood. PCA Illinois offers several trainings addressing childhood trauma, secondary trauma, and how to be trauma sensitive. REGISTER New Teacher Training
Date: 3/2, 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 New Teacher Training
Date: 3/2, 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 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 Description: 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 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 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 Description: 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 Reilience
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 Book Club #4 - Continued
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 Description: 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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Other Professional Development For your convenience we have included some workshops hosted by other organizations that may be of interest to you. Click on the green link for more information regarding fees, dates, presenters, registration and locations. For all off-site workshops, please use the contact listed for that event if you have additional questions.
TeachIllinois is a brand new, 100% online, center for educator professional development. Educators can either self-register, or districts can bulk register their staffs. Upon completion of the material, learners will complete the ISBE Seminar Evaluation Form, after which, the official ISBE Evidence of Completion form will be made available. All e-learning courses are currently free, although in the near future TeachIllinois will start charging a nominal, per-PD-hour fee. New content is added every month, and we welcome suggestions for future courses. Our e-learning platform is robust enough that a PD provider (such as a District) could subscribe and create their own ‘channel’.
For questions, please contact Matt Weld, Director of the Area 5 Learning Technology Center: mweld@roe41.org. TEACH ILLINOIS MASTERCLASS SERIES
We are starting a series of Masterclasses on TeachIllinois that will take a deeper dive into a wide variety of topics. Each will be at least 3 hours of live webinars with the instructor, with the content and materials left up to what the instructor feels best suits the topic. BUILDING RESILIENCY MASTERCLASS (7 PD Hours): Educator resiliency sits solidly at the base of a successful teaching career. Without a toolbox of strategies and a personal self-regulation practice, we are less able to cope with everything that an educator faces each day such as classroom management, parent communication, planning, and assessing. Join yoga instructor, former classroom teacher and school administrator Matt Weld as we develop the basis of your own self-regulation practice. We'll discuss short readings, conduct breathing exercises, and flow through a short yoga practice each week for 5 weeks. The course consists of five 60-minute live webinars and four short readings. January 13, 20, 27, and February 3 and 10. $68. Enroll in Resiliency Masterclass McKinney-Vento Training Videos
Illinois Service Resource Center offers FREE online training where educators can earn FREE Professional Development hours! Check out all of the options at https://www.isrc.us/isrc-elearning-academy |
