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This course includes resources and explanations designed to provide you with a clearer understanding of what it means to build Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) into the Academic, Behavior and Risk systems of your school.

It will include the following sections of content designed to help you and your staff build effective, reflective, sustainable systems.

Each section of content will include a video of explanation, links to resources, and quizzes designed to help you make connections to the most important criteria for each area of content designed to build your capacity for implementing strong MTSS structures in your school.

Type:      Ongoing and Online (Self-Paced)

Credit:    20 Contact Hours

Online book study for Amplify: Digital Teaching and Learning in the K-6 Classroom. Written by: Katie Muhtaris and Kristin Ziemke.       

This book will introduce you to technological tools and the power of using the tools in your classroom. You will discover how to help students become effective digital readers and thinkers. This book will serve as a great resource for showing students what they can do in the ever changing digital world.

Participants will complete the book and respond to questions after each chapter. The final step will be to develop a digital lesson integrating the NC Digital Competences for Educator and sharing the plan with the other participants.  If you have questions contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 104.  Contact Hours: 20

This course is designed as a follow up from the Introduction to the Science of Reading led by NCCAT Early Grades Literacy Specialist, Gin Hodge.  Participants will dig deeper into each of the five components of high quality reading instruction and will explore resources to support the explicit instruction of each component during face to face instruction as well as virtual instruction.  This self-paced, five hour course will dedicate a session to phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, oral language and vocabulary, and comprehension.  

Target audience: K-5 grades (Must View all 5 Sessions to Receive Credit)   Each participant will submit a final summary after viewing all 5 webinars to receive full credit for the course.  We highly recommend that you take notes on each webinar (on paper or in a word doc)  to assist in completing the final summary. Your summary will need to cover the 5 webinars that you viewed.  A good guideline to follow is roughly one paragraph for each webinar.  After completion, submit your final summary to Candie Sellers: csellers@wresa.org. 

There are no prerequisite requirements for this course.

Presenter: Cindy Hutchins Instructional Coach Buncombe County Schools.

Cindy taught fourth and second grade at W.W. Estes Elementary school for five years before becoming an Instructional Coach for Buncombe County Schools for the past five years. She is passionate about the Science of Reading and progress in the area of neuroscience related to how children learn to read.

If you have further questions, please contact Candie Sellers: csellers@wresa.org

 

Do you sometimes feel like you students are unmotivated and disengaged?  This online self paced course  will help you identify causes of student apathy and you will learn strategies for increasing engagement both virtually and face to face. This course will be 15 contact hours.

Main objectives include:

• identify reasons students lack engagement
• incorporate strategies which increase engagement for ALL students (including EL EC, and AIG)
• explore growth mindset and executive functioning and how both relate to apathy.

When you have completed the course, email April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org to notify April that you have completed the course and are requesting your certificate. After reviewing your assignments and, assuming everything looks good, April will send your certificate of completion for the course “Engaging Students While Fighting Apathy” for 15 contact hours.

Presenter:  Pam Sutton, Instructional Coach for Henderson County Public Schools

Facilitator:  April Spencer – If you have any questions about the course, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org

 

Welcome,                                                                                                                                                                        

Our online 3-year plan was created for your staff to prepare students to have a successful ACT experience. It is set-up to allow students in the 9th, 10th, or 11th grade information and resources in the same order as the ACT test is administered: English, Math, Reading, Science.

Each grade level has topic specific lessons designed as warm-ups that guide the students through the important concepts needed for success.

Good Luck in the upcoming year. If you have questions, please contact us:

Donna & Martin Talbert

appytrailseducconsultants@gmail.com             

Type:         Online and Ongoing
Time:         Self-Paced (Available At Your Convenience)

Fee:                       $45  WRESA Members ,  $70 WRESA Non-members

***Participant will also need to purchase the book

Contact hours:   20 hrs

Audience:             K-12 Teachers and staff

Online book study for All Learning is Social and Emotional: Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond.  Written by: Frey, Fisher and Smith.  Participants will read and respond to questions and reflect on what they are reading.  

 When students finally return to our school buildings, whenever that may be, they will be carrying accumulated trauma from the Pandemic and recent events. They will need more social and emotional support than ever before. This course will provide and/or extend the participants knowledge and strategies to promote SEL as well as strategies for remote teaching and learning.  Educators will be able to create a classroom/school culture that teaches resilience and respect in a safe environment. Our goal is to help our students build essential skills that will serve them in our classrooms and throughout their lives! 

Who should the audience be for this course?  This book study would be a wonderful resource and guide for whole school participation and would support the planning process for the development of a schoolwide SEL environment. School Improvement Teams and individual teachers will benefit as well. All of the ideas and strategies from the book can also be implemented in an individual teacher’s classroom for SEL. 

For more information please contact:  Candie Sellers at 828-774-5681 (ext. 104), or csellers@wresa.org or April Spencer, at aspencer@wresa.org (ext.103)

On any given day approximately 274,000 substitute teachers serve in this country’s classrooms. By the time a student graduates from high school, that person will have spent the equivalent of a full year being taught by a substitute. As a result, quality preparation of substitute teachers is critical for student learning.

WRESA would like to thank Henderson, Jackson and Macon Counties; Jan King, Director of School Learning and Leadership Development for Henderson County Schools; and Monica Shepherd, Northwest Regional Educational Facilitator, for sharing their time and resources with us.

Forms Needed to Apply to a School System:

Some of the forms that you will need to apply to a school system for employment as a substitute teacher are included in the course. The school system may have other forms which they require you to fill out as well.

Certificate of Completion:

Note that you must make 80% or above on each quiz, and must click “Mark as Complete”  after completing each section of the course.  Once you complete all of these Substitute 101 course requirements ,  it will indicate that you are “100% complete”.

When it shows that you are “100% complete, a new section will appear which allows you to print and download your certificate of completion. We recommend that you download the certificate as well as printing it to make sure you have a copy for possible future employment. You will need to provide this certificate to the school system where you are applying to be a substitute teacher. Your Blood Borne Pathogen and Diabetes training which you receive as part of your substitute training will be noted on your certificate.

 

 

Type:         Online and Ongoing
Time:         Self-Paced (Available At Your Convenience)

Cost:         $45 for WRESA Members
              $70 for Non-members

Credit:       15 Contact Hours
Audience:     6-12 Teachers

This session will help participants use higher order thinking to increase rigor. We will improve the quality of questions posed to students.

Main objectives include:

• using Webb’s Depth of Knowledge to scaffold students to think more critically,

• purposefully planning questions in lesson plans, and

• building rigor in both face to face and virtual environments.

NC Professional Teaching Standards Addressed in this Course:

• STANDARD II: TEACHERS ESTABLISH A RESPECTFUL ENVIRONMENT FOR A DIVERSE POPULATION OF STUDENTS.
• STANDARD IV: TEACHERS FACILITATE LEARNING FOR THEIR STUDENTS.
• STANDARD V: TEACHERS REFLECT ON THEIR PRACTICE.

You will have topics to review and a quiz/activity for each of the 6 lessons. Please complete each quiz/activity at the conclusion of each lesson.

Presenter: Pam Sutton, Instructional Coach for Henderson County Schools 

Facilitator: April Spencer – If you have any questions, email April at aspencer@wresa.org