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:
Teaching Fine Arts Remotely
Date: November 24, 2020 Time: 1:30 - 3:30 Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium This workshop will include motivational and instructional tools to help take your Fine Arts students to an active & enjoyable level of participation in a remote or blended learning atmosphere, although many of the tools will be useful in improving communication, curriculum management, and student achievement in the everyday classroom, as well. The use of media platforms, including, but not limited to Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, and social media will be discussed. The discussion will include internal apps and trouble-shooting common problems such as VOIP (slow voice processing challenges), lagging or inconsistent internet speeds, students lacking internet and/or devices. This session will also introduce additional tips and tools to help make remote/blended learning a more enjoyable experience for both you and your students. REGISTER Flipped Classroom
Date: December 3, 2020 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 Place: Online Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium Evidence of Completion: 2 hours The Flipped Classroom is a blended learning model in which traditional ideas about classroom activities and homework are reversed, or "flipped." In this model, instructors have students interact with new material for homework first. REGISTER Youth Mental Health
Date: December 8, 2020 Time: 8:00 am to Noon Place: Online Fee: $125 or FREE if a member of the Consortium Evidence of Completion: 6 hours 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 Principal Collaboration
Date: December 15, 2020 Time: 10:00 to 11:00 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 Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Date: December 16, 2020 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 pm Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium Description: Living in a home with domestic violence can have a significant impact on a child’s emotional and physical well-being. More than half of families where a woman is abused, the children are abused as well. This training will provide an overview of the cycle of violence, warning signs that may be exhibited by children, and ways you can help. REGISTER Converting Lessons to Online
Date: December 17, 2020 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 pm Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 2 Hours Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium Participants will experience several effective strategies and tools for online instruction that capitalize on the unique aspects of distance learning. Teachers will learn to use a flowchart for converting their lessons. REGISTER New Teacher Training
Date: 1/5, 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 Banking Simulation
Date: January 12, 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 Revinova Banking Simulation: In this workshop, teachers will learn how to use the Revinova Banking Simulation in their classrooms by experiencing a complete lesson that utilizes it. Revinova is a FREE web-based financial literacy platform that enables students to use a virtual bank account in conjunction with an online storefront. Items in the storefront are chosen by the teacher to meet specific curricular goals, such as using a budget as a constraint as students "buy" materials for a project. Students accounts can be used to make purchases and to move money between accounts. Each student has access to checking and savings accounts, investment accounts, personal loans, and credit services in the form of a credit card. Each team also has access to a corporate account to pool funds and to allow full transparency. REGISTER Google Classroom - Advanced
Date: January 13, 2021 Time: 2:00 to 4:00 Place: Online Fee: $75 or FREE if a member of the Consortium Evidence of Completion: 2 hours Contact us at (217)313-0774 for assistance if needed REGISTER Youth Mental Health
Date: January 14, 2021 Time: 8:00 to Noon 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 AA1448 - ISBE Teacher Evaluation Professional Practice Refresher
Presenter: Patrick Durley Date: February 17, 2021 Time: 8:30 to 3:30 Place: Online Evidence of Completion: 6 Hours Fee: $150 (Please send check to Jerseyville office, paid to ROE #40, c/o Debbie Poffinbarger. Simply print the registration form for billing documentation.) This course focuses on Domains 2 and 3 of the Charlotte Danielson 2013 Framework for Teaching. Administrators who evaluate teachers must demonstrate a high rate of inter-rater reliability and communicate evaluation outcomes in constructive and supportive ways. Administrators who evaluate teachers must also recognize and control for bias when conducting an evaluation and determining results. School districts in Illinois must provide professional development to administrators to strengthen these skills on a sustained basis. This course requires participants to view teaching, record data according to the Professional Practice rubric, and craft evaluation conferences that are both constructive and supportive. Participants will also be expected to have a high degree of inter-rater reliability when they determine a final rating based on the evidence gathered during the observations. REGISTER 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: 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 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 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 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. 
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