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Integrating Movement and Literacy in PE can be FUN!!

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Date:  May 1, 2018

Time:  9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Location:  WRESA

Registration Fee:  $45

Registration Deadline:  April 24, 2018

LIMITED TO 22 TEACHERS 

Come join us for a fun day of K-12 activities that will help you teach cross-curricular concepts for true integration of movement and literacy. This workshop will encompass new and exciting ways to incorporate expectations where students are encouraged to think, move, read, write, and speak in every class every day.  This is not a repeat of last year’s workshop, so whether you came last year or not, you are welcome. Come dressed to participate and have some fun.

This could count towards the literacy or content requirement for PE teachers. Dr. Natalie Boone, a professor of PE at Mars Hill University will lead this exciting day. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org, 828 774 5681, ext. 20.  Contact Hours: 5

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

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Mean Girls

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Without help, girls who are targets often suffer lasting effects…

Mean Girls

March 27, 2017    9:00 – 3:00      Cost: $45    Biltmore Park

LIMITED TO 50 participants

The effects include academic withdrawal, social withdrawal, depression, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, delinquency, crime, dysfunctional relationships, self-injury and even suicide. Unfortunately, the target herself all too often becomes a bully. Attendees will be provided tools for instilling social/emotional connections among girls that reduce relational aggression and improve academic outcomes. In this session you will learn to identify online communication and social media trends affecting today’s girls, discover how to instill social/emotional connections among girls, implement individual, small group and classroom strategies and activities, and design your own plan for addressing female relational aggression. This workshop is designed for anyone who interacts with 3- 12 grade females. Steph Jensen, MS, LPC, is an award-winning author and international speaker recognized for her insight and understanding of relational aggression. She is the author of Thrive in the Hive: Surviving the Girl’s World of Good and Bad Relationship Bee-haviors. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org or 828.774.5681, ext. 20.

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Teaching Critical Thinking via the Paideia Seminar– 2-day Training

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Date:  June 18-19, 2018  (2-day training)

Time:  9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Location:  Asheville Event Center, 291 Sweeten Creek Rd., Asheville, NC  28803

Registration Fee:  $175/WRESA Member; $200/Non-WRESA Member

Registration Deadline:  June 5, 2018

LIMITED TO 35 participants

 

Join Terry Roberts and the staff from the National Paideia Center for a two-day intensive training on planning, facilitating, and assessing Paideia Seminars in your classroom.  The Paideia Seminar is a formal, intellectual dialogue facilitated through open-ended questions about a text.  According to the 2012 book titled Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21st Century Literacy, the Seminar is perhaps the best strategy for consistently teaching your students to think with clarity, coherence, and sophistication.  In addition, the Seminar cycle is the most successful strategy for teaching the full range of state literacy standards: close reading of demanding text, collaborative speaking and listening, and effective writing.  During this two-day event, you will: participate in a model Paideia Seminar cycle, learn how to select powerful texts for discussion, write evocative, open-ended questions, practice your facilitation skills, and plan the first Seminar for your classroom. At the end of these two days, you will be fully prepared to begin implementing this profound teaching strategy in your classroom. This workshop could count towards your literacy requirements. For more information, contact April at aspencer@wresa.org, 828.774.5681, ext. 20.  Contact Hours: 10

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Wired Differently: 5 Keys to Working with Students with Mental Wellness Challenges (Grades K-12)

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Did you know current studies show that approximately 20 percent of all students are diagnosable for a mental, emotional or behavioral health issue?

Wired Differently: 5 Keys to Working with Students with Mental Wellness Challenges (Grades K-12)

February 23, 2017      9:00 – 3:00   Cost  $45     Contact Hours: 5  Biltmore Park

Limited to 50 participants.

The Wired Differently workshop provides five keys to working with students who do not have the capacity to handle the normal pressures, stresses, conflicts and expectations of everyday life. This workshop will help administrators, teachers, and other professionals understand how to support and teach this portion of the student population – while avoiding an unmanageable classroom environment. Mike Paget, M.Ed. is an innovator of effective approaches for working with extremely challenged students and has conducted seminars on creative techniques for managing classroom behavior, student aggression and crisis intervention. For more information, contact Dr. April Spencer, Secondary Curriculum/PD Coordinator at aspencer@wresa.org/828.774.5681, ext. 20.

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No More Fighting or Fearing Fractions

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Developing a love for fractions does not have to be a fantasy in your classroom!

No More Fighting or Fearing Fractions

March 14,2017        9:00-3:00    Cost: $55.00

This workshop will provide teachers with a variety of instructional strategies to show students how to conquer fractions while winning over students and parents too!  Teachers will learn about flipped videos, guided notes for math journals, task cards, models, activities, and manipulatives that together provide students with a multidimensional approach to learning. Jessica Hudgins, a fifth grade teacher in Henderson County, will lead this session. Please contact Karen Sumner (ksumner@wresa.org) 8284180011 ext 26 with questions.

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Online – Book Study: The Differentiated Classroom (Grades K-12)

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Have you read Differentiated Classroom, the newly revised book from differentiation guru Carol Ann Tomlinson?

Online – Book Study:  The Differentiated Classroom (Grades K-12)

May 1 – June 10       Cost: $45 plus the book   Contact Hours:  20

Based on 40 years of research and practice with differentiated strategies, Tomlinson focuses on learning environments, curriculum, instruction, and successful strategies to support differentiation in the classroom. Our study of the book will help you learn more about how, when, and why we differentiate for all of our students. Participants will need to purchase the book The Differentiated Classroom ($27.38 from Amazon). This course is applicable for K-12 teachers.  Dr. Karen Sumner, Secondary Curriculum/PD Coordinator,  (828.774.5681 or ksumner@wresa.org) will facilitate this course.  This course will be for 2.0 CEUs.

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Everything Notebooking – Grades K-12

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Want to reduce lost work, repeated questions, and class time lost to organizational details?

Everything Notebooking – Grades K-12

February 15, 2017   9:00 – 3:00    Cost: $55

Come learn about the rudiments of and best practices for subject area interactive notebooks. We will develop a sample notebook in this make and take session, including organization and structure options, graphic organizers to use with any subject, and foldables that work great to enhance content learning. This workshop is appropriate for K-12 teachers, any subject. Karen Sumner will facilitate this session. Contact her at ksumner@wresa.org with questions.

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Reading Research to Classroom Practice

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Dates: July 23,24 and July 30,31 and August 8 (Total of 5 days)

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Grades: K-12

Location: WCU/ Biltmore Park Location

5-day Registration Fee: $250 (Limited to 40 participants)

Registration Deadline: July 9, 2019

This five-day course will develop and enhance the instructional competencies of educators to effectively teach students with persistent reading difficulties. Course work will focus on collection and analysis of data, selection and implementation of research-based instructional reading practices, and implementation of interventions to improve student outcomes. Participants must attend all 5 days to receive full credit.  If you have questions, contact Candie Sellers, at csellers@wresa.org or 828.774.5681   Presenters: Dr. Karen Sumner and Carley Stein

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Latest and Greatest Chapter Books

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This one-day workshop is designed to offer teachers a motivating selection of fiction and informational text for classroom instruction.

Latest and Greatest Chapter Books

February 21, 2017     9 a.m. – 3 p.m.   Cost: $95

Newly-published chapter books will be presented along with their correlated Common Core and Essential Standards (Grades 3-8). Participants will leave with five chapter books as well as ways to use them in standards implementation: integration of units, motivating reluctant readers, character education, content area instruction and encouraging engaged, recreational readers. Participants will earn 5 hours of credit for the day with an optional additional five hours available for electronic follow up activities. Dr. Karen Sumner, Elementary Curriculum/PD Coordinator, will facilitate this session. Contact her at ksumner@wresa.org/828.774.5681, ext. 26 with questions.  Contact Hours: 5 (Optional additional 5 hours available)

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Foundational Reading Skills: In the Middle

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Middle school teachers- want to help students who struggle to comprehend difficult text?

Foundational Reading Skills: In the Middle

May 11, 2017    9 a.m. – 3 p.m.       Cost: $45

Ever thought-“I would love to support struggling readers but am not sure how?” Ever wonder why some kids appear to “read” but fail to comprehend the text? Come spend the day reviewing the basics of what good readers do, how to assess reading needs and gaps, and how to guide and direct your students to adopt strong reading habits. This session is for teachers in grades 5-8. Presenter will be Dr. Karen Sumner, Elementary Curriculum/PD coordinator at WRESA. Contact her at ksumner@wresa.org/828.774.5681 ext 26 with questions.

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