Events in February 2020
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01/26/2020 | 01/27/2020(1 event)8:00 am: NASRO Training 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 The NASRO Basic School Resource Officer Course is a forty-hour (40) block of instruction designed for law enforcement officers and school safety professionals working in an educational environment and with school administrators. The course provides tools for officers to build positive relationships with both students and staff. | 01/28/2020(2 events)8:00 am: NASRO Training 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 The NASRO Basic School Resource Officer Course is a forty-hour (40) block of instruction designed for law enforcement officers and school safety professionals working in an educational environment and with school administrators. The course provides tools for officers to build positive relationships with both students and staff. 9:00 am: TDA ~ A League of Learners 9:00 am - 2:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This professional development offering will take the form of a professional learning network for administrators, curriculum coordinators and teacher leaders (grades 3-8) who are willing to collaborate in round table discussions and dive deeper with text-dependent analysis. Participants will gain a deep understanding of learning progressions in order to monitor student growth and differentiate classroom instruction. Participants must have previously attended Teaching Deliberate Analysis in order to participate in A League of Learners. COST: $80 | 01/29/2020(3 events)8:00 am: NASRO Training 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 The NASRO Basic School Resource Officer Course is a forty-hour (40) block of instruction designed for law enforcement officers and school safety professionals working in an educational environment and with school administrators. The course provides tools for officers to build positive relationships with both students and staff. | 01/30/2020(1 event)8:00 am: NASRO Training 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 The NASRO Basic School Resource Officer Course is a forty-hour (40) block of instruction designed for law enforcement officers and school safety professionals working in an educational environment and with school administrators. The course provides tools for officers to build positive relationships with both students and staff. | 01/31/2020(3 events)8:00 am: NASRO Training 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 The NASRO Basic School Resource Officer Course is a forty-hour (40) block of instruction designed for law enforcement officers and school safety professionals working in an educational environment and with school administrators. The course provides tools for officers to build positive relationships with both students and staff. 8:30 am: School-Wide Information Systems Training 8:30 am - 11:30 am 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, none 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This is a requested training for schools purchasing the SWIS system and implementing School-Wide Positive Behavior Support. The training details getting to know SWIS, using SWIS data for discipline decisions, SWIS data entry and reporting schedule, common navigation, logging into and out of SWIS, generating reports, tools, building fluency, and annual account activities. Registration closes on 1/31/2020. 11:30 am: SWIS CICO Check In Check Out School-Wide Information System Data Entry Training 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 CICO-SWIS provides school staff with an online space to enter CICO point card data easily and efficiently online. Data are summarized across five reports allowing teams to: 1. Monitor individual student progress: Three reports give teams a way to see 1. If each student is meeting his/her goals each day. 2. How each student is doing at each check-in period. 3. The overall impact of plan changes made throughout the course of the intervention. 4. The impact of the intervention on each student’s office discipline referral count. 2. Review the overall integrity and fidelity of the program: Targeted (Tier II) and Universal (Tier I) teams can review two graphs in CICO-SWIS to see: 1. Overall student progress in the targeted intervention. 2. Overall effectiveness of the CICO intervention in the school. Registration begins at 8:15 AM | 02/01/2020 |
02/02/2020 | 02/03/2020 | 02/04/2020 | 02/05/2020(1 event)5:00 pm: STEM On The Move Open House ~ Mansfield University 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Mansfield University Campus, #307 Alumni Hall Facilitator: Mansfield University Description: The Open House is a showcase of STEM on the MOVE materials for all teachers in public and private schools, and community educators. It is an opportunity for educators to view and learn about the new items purchased for the Innovation Lending Library of the BLaST IU 17 as well as resources being used in the region’s K-12 schools by STEM faculty of Mansfield University. Please come to meet the new coordinator, learn about the new grants, and get a copy of the student scholarship application. STEM giveaways at 6:00 pm. Welcome at 5:00 Prize Drawing at 6:00 Date: Wednesday, February 5 Registration Deadline: February 3 Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm Location: 307 Alumni Hall – MU Campus Cost: NO cost Act 48: no | 02/06/2020(1 event)8:00 am: Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (YMHFA) 8:00 am - 4:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Description:This training runs from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm full participation is required. Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders. Facilitator: Kelly Swartwood - SDO-03509+ Credits: 8.00 Course Dates: 2/6/2020 Session Times: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (Registration begins at 7:45 AM) Registration Deadline: 1/31/2020 Semester: Fall Location: BLaST IU 17 Williamsport Office Directions: Please refer to our webpage at www.iu17.org for directions. Cost: $50.00 Book, ACT 28 processing and lunch will be provided. | 02/07/2020 | 02/08/2020 |
02/09/2020 | 02/10/2020 | 02/11/2020(1 event)8:30 am: Functional Behavioral Assessment & Behavior Intervention Plans 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Course Description: Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans training describes how to conduct a functional behavioral assessment, provides practice completing data collection forms, completing hypothesis statements, and designing behavior support plans. Sign-in begins at 8:15. This is a 2 day event. The 2nd day will be 02/11/2020. Registration closes: 01/09/2020 ACT 48 Credit Hours: 12 Cost: $40 (includes lunch, materials & ACT 48 processing) | 02/12/2020(1 event)9:00 am: PIIC Coaching Caravan 9:00 am - 2:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 To enhance your Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC) experience, join us for our PIIC Coaching Caravan. To continue growing our coaching toolkit and coaching best-practices, participants will take their learning on the road and visit four different districts within the BLaST IU17 region. At each district, coaches will focus on one of the four elements of coaching including one-on-one and small group coaching, analyzing data, using evidenced-based literacy/instructional strategies, and strategies to promote reflective practices. Complete the entire Coaching Caravan to get the full four-quadrant experience! Participants will witness the quadrants in action, and then reflect on how these practices could be used within their own building or district. These caravans will focus on the process of coaching and is applicable to all identified PIIC coaches; however, it is also applicable to PreK-12 teacher leaders, instructional coaches, department chairs, curriculum coordinators, and principals. When registering with payment, the participant is purchasing the bundle, which consists of the four visits. If an event occurs and the participant is unable to attend, please let Rebecca Gibboney (rgibboney@iu17.org) know in advance for planning purposes. Schedule: 10/09/19- East Lycoming; 2/12/20-Southern Tioga; 4/8/20-Northeast Bradford Cost $150 Registration closes October 2, 2019. | 02/13/2020(1 event)8:30 am: SW PBIS Tier 2 Team Training 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This is a requested training designed for schools to initiate the development of Tier Two interventions in their School-Wide Positive Behavior Support System. Participants attending with a tier two team, including an administrator, can complete the steps to establish a check in check out system. Teams will audit existing interventions, establish entrance and exit rules required to access tier two interventions, and determine from existing data interventions that are in need of development. Participants will complete the online training for Check In/Check Out System available through SWIS with a subscription. Cost: $15 (includes materials and ACT 48 processing) Lunch is NOT provided. ACT 48 Credits: 10 Sign-in begins at 8:15 AM | 02/14/2020(1 event)N/A: SW PBIS Tier 2 Team Training N/A - 1:00 am 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This is a requested training designed for schools to initiate the development of Tier Two interventions in their School-Wide Positive Behavior Support System. Participants attending with a tier two team, including an administrator, can complete the steps to establish a check in check out system. Teams will audit existing interventions, establish entrance and exit rules required to access tier two interventions, and determine from existing data interventions that are in need of development. Participants will complete the online training for Check In/Check Out System available through SWIS with a subscription. Cost: $15 (includes materials and ACT 48 processing) Lunch is NOT provided. ACT 48 Credits: 10 Sign-in begins at 8:15 AM | 02/15/2020 |
02/16/2020 | 02/17/2020 | 02/18/2020(2 events)9:00 am: StartSole 9:00 am - 11:30 am 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 A Self-Organized Learning Environment, or SOLE, can exist anywhere there is a computer, internet connection, and students who are ready to learn. Within a SOLE, students are given the freedom to learn collaboratively using the internet. SOLE sessions are characterized by discovery, sharing, spontaneity and limited teacher intervention. Every SOLE session activates the learners’ creativity, requires critical thinking, and refines communication skills. You will get access to free tools to implement SOLE in your classroom and find out how to earn free CEUs. Registration closes on February 14th. Sign in starts at 8:30 AM. There is no charge for this event. Lunch is NOT provided. 12:30 pm: Computer Science: UNPLUGGED 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Ready to take the dive into Computer Science? This session will give you an overview of Computer Science in our PA and explain Computer Science beyond the coding. You will leave with a toolbox of activities to do you in your classroom, no matter the content, to enhance the computer science experience for your students. Registration closes on February 14th. Sign in begins at Noon. Lunch is NOT included. There is no charge for this event.
| 02/19/2020 | 02/20/2020 | 02/21/2020(1 event)9:00 am: Computer Science Collaborative 9:00 am - 2:00 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 Collaborate and network with Computer Science teachers and leaders from districts in the BLaST IU17 region. This collaborative will share ideas (new and old), develop course work and support one another to lead the way for Computer Science in our region. This group will focus on local and statewide Computer Science initiatives and how to instill the values of the critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity in 21st Century Learners. Registration deadline is February 17th. Sign in begins at 8:30 AM. COST: $25 Lunch is NOT included. | 02/22/2020 |
02/23/2020 | 02/24/2020(1 event)8:30 am: SW PBSS - Team Training for Tier One Intervention 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This training details the steps in establishing Tier One interventions in a School-Wide Positive Behavior Support System. The first day will include an overview of SWPBS, discussion of the Self Assessment Survey, establishing an Office Discipline Referral form, and establishing your building wide expectations. During day two teams will complete a building matrix, begin to write lesson plans to teach their expectations, and establish an acknowledgement system. On day three, teams will finalize their acknowledgement plan and clarify office vs. classroom based consequences, and establish procedures for discouraging inappropriate behavior. PARTICIPANTS SHOULD REGISTER AS A TEAM TO ATTEND FOR THE 2019-2020 SCHOOL YEAR. THE DATES ARE: 1/23/20, 2/24/20 & 3/19/20. Registration closes 1/16/20. Sign in begins at 8:00 AM Lunch is provided. AT 48 is provided. | 02/25/2020 | 02/26/2020(2 events) | 02/27/2020(1 event) | 02/28/2020(1 event) | 02/29/2020 |