Essential Risk Management Issues and Employee Professionalism

Start the year off right with high quality professional development for all employees that highlights essential risk management and professionalism topics.  Each video, approximately 35 minutes in length, provides legal education and common-sense approaches to real-world issues facing school employees.  These videos can be available to you and your school system for use throughout the year, whenever you need them.

 

Video 1

So, Now You Are A School Employee – Practical Survival Tips for The Class Room and Beyond is a 3-part series of short vignettes designed to introduce new and returning employees to the expectations of working in public education in the 21^st Century.

Part I –   Student Supervision

Part II –  Appropriate Relationships and Social Media

Part III –

• Duty to Report Child Abuse
• Student Confidentiality
• Employee Use of E-mail

Video 2

Legal Issues in Athletics – is practical professional development for coaches, volunteer coaches, principals and athletic directors regarding appropriate conduct and avoiding liability on the field, in the locker room and on social media.

 

Highlights:

• Show the videos as many times as you like and ensure all your employees understand the level of expectations for your district, whether hired in August or mid-school year.
• This series is designed for large or small group training, or for use by single individuals.
• Includes questions and discussion topics that allow a facilitator to extend the conversation and training.
• No annual subscription required; your purchase may be used for years to come.

Contact WRESA for cost.             

 Jan Webster Ed.D. email  jwebster@wresa.org  or call 828-774-5681 ext. 21

Legal Disclaimer: Purchase constitutes a perpetual, limited license to show the videos an unlimited amount of times to any employee or volunteer of the school district.  Videos and Moodle may not be shared with or shown to any one not employed or volunteering for the school district.   Videos and content may not be resold or transferred to any third-party.

DATES:         Sept 27. Grades 6-8

TIME:            9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

LOCATION:   Asheville Event Center

REGISTRATION FEE:  $65 per person, per day

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  September 17, 2018 

Are you working with your inclusion teacher effectively? Do you both know the best way to incorporate this process in your 2nd – 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 and contrast their current practices with the models presented.  The training also relies heavily on multiple examples of actual instruction that have been successfully co-taught in inclusion classrooms across the country.  A field-tested method for grouping students which 1) naturally facilitates the inclusion process and 2) provides both co-teaching partners with more equitable roles, will be used to deliver instruction in math, language arts/English, social studies/history, and science. Participants will enjoy experiencing instruction from the point of view of their students.  They will also be encouraged to consider with their partners how the strategies presented throughout the workshop can be used in their classrooms.   Rick has presented at WRESA in the past and has been working with inclusion topics in North Carolina and across the country since 1992. This workshop is limited to 12 two-person teams. (Max of 24 participants each day) Both the regular-ed teacher and the inclusion teacher need to sign up to attend together. For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 20.  Contact Hours: 5

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Gravity Goldberg – Supporting Truly Independent K-8 Readers

DATE:  October 3, 2018

TIME:  9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

LOCATION:  Asheville Event Center

REGISTRATION FEE:  $75 Non-Refundable

It’s time to develop clear, incisive pictures of student readers who are self-directed, passionate, and working with a full sense of agency. In this session, Gravity Goldberg applies the work of Dweck, Hattie, and Johnston to help you put a strong plan in place for cultivating independence in students’ reading processes. Goldberg reveals how we can use her framework from Mindsets and Moves called the 4Ms to lean on. When you are a miner, a mirror, a model, and a mentor–you are taking on roles that bring about students’ agency, responsibility, and authority as readers.              

Dr. Gravity Goldberg is a national consultant and author who partners with districts to support meaningful learning opportunities for teachers and students. She specializes in student-centered literacy practices, building independence, and instructional decision-making. Gravity’s work ranges from demonstrating lessons and leading workshops to developing curriculum and customizing professional development programs. Dr. Goldberg was a former staff developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and an assistant professor of education at Iona College where she was awarded the Excellence in Teaching honor.  She is author of Mindsets and Moves: Strategies That Help Readers Take Charge (Corwin, 2015) and co-author of the What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? series (Corwin, 2017) and Conferring With Readers: Supporting Each Student’s Growth and Independence (Heinemann, 2007). She blogs at drgravitygoldberg.com and she can be reached at gravity@drgravitygoldberg.com and @drgravityg. If you have questions, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 20.

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DATE:  June 20-21, 2018

TIME:  8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Location: WCU at Biltmore Park

Registration Fee: $95

Registration Deadline:  6/11/18

Reconnect for Resilience (RFR): A two-day trauma informed, skills-based approach, was developed as a response to the public health crisis of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES).  Drawing from concepts taught in other somatic modalities such as Somatic Experiencing (SE) and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM).  Reconnect for Resilience offers participants a set of practical strategies to promote balance and well-being in the face of stress or trauma.

Schools and communities are becoming increasingly aware that emotional dysregulation among their members negatively impacts their ability to be resilient and to thrive. As a trauma informed curriculum, we teach how both acute and relational stress and trauma can throw the nervous system out of balance, and we offer simple, easy to learn and to teach tools to support our children, parents and community.

For more information, contact April Spencer at aspencer@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 20.  Contact Hours: 12  

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AUDIENCE: Teachers Grades 2-8

DATE: September 20, 2018

TIME: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

LOCATION: Asheville Event Center

REGISTRATION FEE: $85 Non-Refundable

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 10, 2018

Running a writing workshop seems like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. Ralph Fletcher will break it down into manageable parts. This intensive one-day workshop will explore crucial issues in the writing classroom:

Essentials & Non-negotiables

How Mentor Texts Lift Student Writing

Rekindling the Joy in the Writing Classroom

Helping Students Write Non-formulaic Nonfiction

Engaging Boy Writers

Ralph Fletcher is a mentor to teachers and young writers everywhere. He is the author of more than 20 books. His newest book, The Writing Teacher’s Companion, offers a step-by-step guidance for supporting young writers. Ralph frequently works with young writers in schools and speaks at education conferences in the US, and abroad, helping teachers find wiser ways of teaching writing. If you have questions contact Candie Sellers at csellers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext.26. Contact Hours 5

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Date: July 18, 2019

Time: 9 am – 3 pm

Location: WRESA  

Audience:  K-12 (New Administrators and Assistant Principals)

Registration Fee: $45

Registration Deadline:  July 8, 2019

 

Being a school administrator has its challenges to say the least. The job description is broad. An administrator handles virtually everything related to students, teachers, parents and everything in between. During all this the administrator is also the instructional leader. This one-day workshop offers 10 Must Dos to be an effective school administrator. Our WRESA staff member, 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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