Additional Session: Co-teaching and Adapting Instruction for Inclusion Classrooms Grades 6 – 8 with Rick Welsh

October 23, 2019   Grades 6-8

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Biltmore Park/WCU

Registration Fee: $85 each day

 

Are you working with your inclusion teacher effectively? Do you both know the best way to incorporate this process in your 3rd – 8th grade classrooms.   Rick Welsh will be leading a training for co- teaching teams. There will be a high degree of input and participation from the co-teaching teams with minimal emphasis placed on lecture. The entire workshop is co-taught so teams are provided numerous opportunities to learn new strategies and compare their current practices with the models presented.  For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org

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Co-teaching and Adapting Instruction for Inclusion Classrooms Grades 3 – 5 with Rick Welsh

September 26, 2019  Grades 3- 5

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Biltmore Park/WCU

Registration Fee: $85 each day

 

Are you working with your inclusion teacher effectively? Do you both know the best way to incorporate this process in your 3rd – 8th grade classrooms.   Rick Welsh will be leading a training for co- teaching teams. There will be a high degree of input and participation from the co-teaching teams with minimal emphasis placed on lecture. The entire workshop is co-taught so teams are provided numerous opportunities to learn new strategies and compare their current practices with the models presented.  For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org

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Using Desmos in the Math 3 Classroom

Date: October 18, 2019

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Biltmore Park/WCU

Registration Fee:  $50

 

Desmos is an online calculator and graphing calculator that NC students will be utilizing during EOG and EOC exams. This workshop will introduce the Desmos calculator assuming no prior knowledge of the calculator and demonstrate how Desmos can be used instructionally to develop the content understanding of algebra and function. Participants will need to bring a laptop and be ready to spend most of the day engaging in the mathematics of NC Math 3, but also extending their own mathematical knowledge beyond Math 3. Dr. Katie Mawhinney from Appalachian State University will be the presenter. For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org

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Using Desmos in the Math 1 Classroom

Date: September 6, 2019

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location: Biltmore Park/WCU

Fee: $50

 

Desmos is an online calculator and graphing calculator that NC students will be utilizing during EOG and EOC exams. This workshop will introduce the Desmos calculator assuming no prior knowledge of the calculator and demonstrate how Desmos can be used instructionally to develop the content understanding of algebra and function, single variable statistics, and linear regression. Participants will need to bring a laptop and be ready to spend most of the day engaging in the mathematics of NC Math 1, but also extending their own mathematical knowledge beyond Math 1. Dr. Katie Mawhinney from Appalachian State University will be the presenter. For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org

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High Frequency Tier 2 and Tier 3 Interventions Math Institute (K-2)

Date:  August 9, 2019

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Registration Fee: $85

Location: WCU/Biltmore Park

 

There will be three different presenters/workshops for the three different math grade level bands. (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) Come learn about Tier 2 and 3 interventions that support core instruction. Learn to consider conceptual frameworks in an interventional approach that develops student ability to access grade level content. Issues of fluency and flexibility will be addressed. We will also consider how this may affect your writing of IEP goals. Dr. Valerie Faulkner from NCSU and her team will be presenting. For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org.

Class Limit has been met.  Please call 828-774-5681 ext. 18 to be added to the waiting list.

What Do Great Instructional Leaders Do?

Date: July 25, 2019

Time:  9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Grade Levels: K-12

Location: WRESA

Registration Fee: $45

 

An administrator handles virtually everything related to students, teachers, parents and everything in between. How do they find time to be the instructional leader daily? This session will provide tips and tools to help administrators become highly effective curriculum and instructional leaders. Research shows that successful schools always have an effective leader at the helm.  This one-day workshop will provide the strategies every administrator needs to be an effective curriculum and instructional leader. Candie Sellers will lead this this workshop. She has over 30 years’ experience as a teacher, principal and central office administrator.  If you have questions, contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 26. Contact Hours: 5

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Restorative Practices Overview

Date:  July 15, 2019

Time:  9 am – 3 pm

Location: Biltmore Park/WCU

Registration Fee: $65

 

Restorative practices are a social science that studies how to build social capital and achieve social discipline through participatory learning and decision making. The use of restorative practices helps to (a) reduce crime, violence and bullying, (b) improve human behavior, (c) strengthen civil society, (d)  provide effective leadership, (e) restore relationships, and (f) repair harm (www.iirp.edu). This full-day presentation focuses on the key researched-based theories behind restorative practices. Such theories include: explicit practice, fair process, the social discipline window, and the compass of shame. In addition, participants learn about the continuum of restorative practices, ranging from the use of affective statements, affective questions, small impromptu conversations, circles, and formal conferencing. Participants engage in activities to reinforce their learning and leave with tools that can be easily and quickly implemented in their schools.  Alisha Schiltz, Ph.D. is a school psychologist and licensed Restorative Practices trainer through the International Institute for Restorative Practices. Dr. Schiltz has led district implementation and evaluation of Restorative Practices and facilitated training for district staff on a regular basis.

For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org

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Developing Mathematical Ideas

Making Meaning of Operations

Dates:

Monday, June 24 – June 25, July 15-16, 2019  8:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.

Location: Buncombe County Schools, NC, USA

175 Bingham Road

Asheville, NC 28806

 

Spend some time this summer diving into the meaning of each of the four operations. We’ll concentrate whole numbers, how the operations are related to each other, what kinds of situations they model, and how each can be represented. An then, we’ll devote time to extend and deepen these meanings to accommodate fractions.

The primary goal of Making Meaning for Operations is to help elementary and middle school teachers (regular ed and special ed) learn the mathematics content they are responsible for teaching in a profound way. Having a deeper and more connected understanding of these operations allows ALL teachers to better serve ALL our students who struggle to make the correct meanings of these operations. During our four days together, we will make sense of the content, recognize where and how the content of individual grade levels is situated in the trajectory of learning from kindergarten through middle school, build connections among different concepts, and analyze student thinking from a mathematical perspective. Through this work, teachers learn how to orient their instruction to specific mathematical goals and to develop a mathematics pedagogy in which student understanding takes center stage regardless the learner and or challenges the learner brings to the table.

The curriculum also offers teachers opportunities to explore mathematics in collaborative lessons led by facilitators, to share and discuss the work of their own students, to view and discuss video clips of mathematics classrooms, and to read an overview of related research.

MMO Workshop

Monday, June 24 – June 25, July 15-16, 2019  8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Buncombe County Schools, NC, USA

175 Bingham Road

Asheville, NC 28806

We will meet in the Maple room.

Fee: $150

Day 2: 6/25/2019 from 8:30 to 3:30

Day 3: 7/15/2019 from 8:30 to 3:30

Day 4: 7/16/2019 from 8:30 to 3:30

 

*Participants are required to fully participate in all four days*

Daily Agenda

Daily Agenda

8:30 to 11:30 – Session

11:30 to 12:30 – Lunch (On Your Own)

12:30 to 3:30 – Session

 

We will meet in Maple.

Individual schools are responsible for stipend payments, if eligible. Verification of time will be provided when requested.

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WNC Trauma Skilled Schools Institute

The National Dropout Prevention Center in partnership with Western RESA invites you to attend the Trauma-Skilled Schools Institute.

Dates: July 8-9, 2019.

Registration fee for this two-day event is $250 per person

Location: Valley Springs Middle School  224 Long Shoals Road   Arden, NC 28704

The Trauma-Skilled Schools Institute is a two-day professional development event that provides in-depth training in the National Dropout Prevention Center’s Trauma-Skilled Schools Model. The Trauma- Skilled Schools Model focuses on the implications for adverse childhood experiences on school behavior and learning, the development of essential resiliency skills in the classroom and in other school experiences, and on acquisition of educator skills that enable trauma-impacted students to succeed in school.

The Trauma-Skilled Schools Institute goes beyond “trauma informed” and “trauma sensitive” to action.  The Institute may be utilized as a first step for schools to begin local implementation of the Trauma-Skilled Schools Model, may be a beginning step for schools desiring to implement the model with additional training and support of the National Dropout Prevention Center, or may be utilized by participants as one of several additional professional development activities leading to individual Certification as a Trauma-Skilled Specialist.

Audience: Administrators, principals, teachers, counselors, dropout prevention coordinators, alternative education teams

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WNC Diploma Planning Institute

Diploma Planning Institute Training

Audience: Administrators, principals, teachers, counselors, dropout prevention coordinators, alternative education teams

Dates:  July 10-11, 2019

Time:  9:00 AM-3:00 PM

Location:  Valley Springs Middle School 224 Long Shoals Rd Arden, NC 28704

Cost: $250 per person

 

The Diploma Planning Institute is a two-day working event during which school and district teams consider local data, research, existing initiatives, and local contexts to develop research-based and working plans to improve student success and graduation rates. The Diploma Planning Institute has been provided in over 30 settings to teams from over 200 participating schools and districts and has resulted in significant graduation rate gains over three to four years in many schools. The Diploma Planning Institute will guide school and district teams to move from “random acts of dropout prevention” to carefully selected and research-based action plans that will significantly improve graduation rates. Participating teams will receive ongoing support from NDPC and resources that will support their local initiatives.

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