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Rigor with Heart: Integrating SEL to Thrive During Testing Season

Apr 29, 2025: This session will outline an experiential framework for SEL, engage participants in model activities, and provide supportive and collaborative planning time to bring joy, reflection, and rigor into the remainder of the year.

Franklin Covey 4 Disciplines of Execution for Educators

8/5/2025 The 4 Disciplines enables classroom teachers, school principals, and district superintendents to achieve their highest priorities.

Rigor with Heart: Integrating SEL to Thrive During Testing Season

Apr 29, 2025: This session will outline an experiential framework for SEL, engage participants in model activities, and...

Engage & Energize: Innovative Games and Activities to Boost Student Participation in PE

May 6, 2025: Participants will learn how to adapt traditional games, incorporate creative new strategies, and create a...

Constructing Reading Comprehension: A Blueprint & Instructional Tools

May 7, 2025: Nancy Hennessy is an experienced educator who currently works as a literacy consultant. She has...

Early Planning for a Successful Retirement: May 2025

May 8, 2025: Whether you are just starting your career or close to the end- you will learn...

Understanding Trauma-Informed Strategies and Expanding Resilience

June 17, 2025: This one-day interactive workshop will give you an overview of trauma and the effects it...

WRESA Summer Leadership Conference June 25-26, 2025

Education leaders from across North Carolina...

Early Planning for a Successful Retirement: July 2025

July 16, 2025: Whether you are just starting your career or close to the end- you will learn...

WRESA Regional AIG Credentials Course – 2025

July 23-24, 2025: Differentiation strategies for the regular classroom will be a focus and teachers will leave with tools...

Franklin Covey 4 Disciplines of Execution for Educators

8/5/2025 The 4 Disciplines enables classroom teachers, school principals, and district superintendents to achieve their highest priorities.

Leading the Way: School Administrators and the IDEA

Sept 9, 2025: The session will address the many facets that face school administrators as they lead schools...

Mentor Training – WRESA 2025

Sept 16, 2025: This course helps mentors in implementing best practices for guiding beginning teachers to reach their...

AI for Literacy (Secondary)

Sept 17, 2025: This workshop explores the exciting potential of artificial intelligence with practical skills and creative strategies...

MTSS and SLD

Sept 18, 2025: Is your school confused and frustrated about how MTSS and Special Education work (or don’t)...

Responsibility-Centered Discipline: 2025

Sept 23, 2025: This power-packed seminar will provide you with up-to-date insights and strategies for reaching and helping...

An Overview of the Science of Reading for Secondary Teachers

Sept 25, 2025: Participants will learn effective instructional strategies for both analog and digital learning environments.

Deep Dive into Dyslexia – The Science of Reading and Expert Teaching

Oct 7, 2025: In this one-day class, participants will unpack the definition of dyslexia and uncover some long-standing...

Courageous Literacy Leadership: Stepping Up and Stepping Out

Oct 14, 2025: In this dynamic and interactive experience, we’ll explore the essence of leadership—not defined by titles...

AI-Powered Personalized Literacy Coaching: Transforming Elementary Teacher Practice

Oct 21, 2025: This is about teachers using AI to enhance their practice, not about students using AI...

Canva for Literacy Projects (Secondary)

Oct 23, 2025: Participants will learn how to guide students in designing infographics, multimedia presentations, podcasts, and more,...

Responsibility-Centered Discipline (RCD) Day #2: Advanced Skills

Oct 29, 2025: Building upon the foundational concepts introduced in RCD Day #1, RCD Day #2 dives deeper...

Early Planning for a Successful Retirement: Oct 2025

Oct 30, 2025: This one-day session focuses on teachers/administrators who have taught 0 – 30 years and want...

Strengthening Your Student’s Social Muscle

Nov 5, 2025: This training will discuss proactive strategies utilizing visual sports, step by step problem solving techniques...

Vocabulary for Secondary Teachers

Nov 6, 2025: Participants will learn effective instructional strategies for both analog and digital learning environments.

National Board Support for New Candidates and Renewals – 2025

Nov 8, 2025: Lynn Carter will facilitate both sessions with her wealth of knowledge about the process.

Close Read Strategies for Secondary Educators

Dec 4, 2025: This session explores proven techniques from leading literacy experts like Timothy Shanahan, Sharon Vaughn, Timothy...

Differentiation Demystified

Dec 10, 2025: The session will begin with an introduction to the four cognitive processing styles followed by...

Retirement Consultations for Individuals

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Comprehension for Secondary Teachers

Feb 5, 2026: Participants will apply new learning to create an implementation plan for teaching reading comprehension in...

The Reading and Writing Connection for Secondary Teachers

Mar 12, 2026: Focus on the connection between reading and writing, the cognitive skills required, and the implications...

A Paradigm Shift: Adapting Your Culture from Providing to Improving Through Collective Leadership

Mar 26, 2026: Dawn Brookhart will provide professional development and learning focusing on the critical components of creating...

WRESA Online Learning

Ongoing Online Sessions...

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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – Online Book Study

Online Self-paced Course: This course examines the influence of smartphone usage on young people growing up in a...

Teach Like a Champion! – Online Book Study

Online Course: Based on the book "Teach Like a Champion", this course explores many of Doug Lemov’s widely...

MTSS Resource – No Fee, No Credit – Online

This course includes resources and explanations designed to provide you with a clearer understanding of what it means to...

AI: Artificial Intelligence Questions Examined Through “Klara and the Sun” – Online Book Study

We will examine areas of thought related to the use of artificial intelligence through the use of a fictional...

The Science of Reading: 5 Part Online Series

This course is designed...

Foundations of Reading Test Preparation – Online

This online course will prepare pre-service and teachers new to NC for the Foundations of Reading Test.

Online Book Study: Social and Emotional Learning – Online

All Learning is Social and Emotional: Helping Students Develop...

Engaging Students While Fighting Apathy – Online

...identify causes of student apathy and learn strategies...

Increasing Rigor with Higher Order Thinking – Online

We know that teaching higher order thinking is an important part...

Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K-6 Classroom – Online Book Study

This book will introduce you to technological tools.....

Online Book Study: Strategies to Support Student Learning in Online and Blended Environments

Ongoing: Craft a positive learning environment...

Online Book Study: Designing and Implementing Performance Tasks and Projects

Design meaningful and authentic...

Online: Substitute 101 – Substitute Teaching Certification

This course is designed for people who are interested in becoming substitute teachers in their respective school systems.

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – Online Book Study

Online Self-paced Course: This course examines the influence of smartphone usage on young people growing up in a society that is dependent on digital devices.

Teach Like a Champion! – Online Book Study

Online Course: Based on the book “Teach Like a Champion”, this course explores many of Doug Lemov’s widely respected strategies for building effective teaching practices.

Foundations of Reading Test Preparation – Online

This online course will prepare pre-service and teachers new to NC for the Foundations of Reading Test.

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Free Resources for Behavioral Health Support