Events in April 2020
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04/05/2020 | 04/06/2020 | 04/07/2020 | 04/08/2020(1 event)9:00 am: PIIC Coaching Caravan ~ CANCELLED 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. | 04/09/2020 | 04/10/2020 | 04/11/2020 |
04/12/2020 | 04/13/2020 | 04/14/2020(1 event)8:00 am: Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (YMHFA) ~ CANCELLED 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Southern Tioga School District Professional Learning Hub, 133 Hannibal St. Blossburg, PA 16912 PA USA 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. Registration closes on March 25, 2020 to give us time to order the books. Facilitator: Kelly Swartwood Credits: 8.00 Course Dates: 4/14/2020 Session Times: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (Registration begins at 7:45 AM) Registration Deadline: 3/25/2020 Semester: Fall Location: Southern Tioga School District Professional Learning Hub, 133 Hannibal St. Blossburg, PA 16912 Cost: $30.00 includes Book & ACT 28 processing. Lunch is NOT included | 04/15/2020 | 04/16/2020(1 event)8:00 am: QBS ~ Initial Training ~ CANCELLED 8:00 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This training requires demonstration of 18 verbal and physical competencies. Participants should come prepared and willing to demonstrate mastery of each competency. Safety Care Training is a two-full-day training that teaches the goals of safety management, interdisciplinary treatment, creates an understanding of challenging behavior, establishing a safe environment, practicing safety habits, delivering and differential reinforcement. Safety care training teaches incident minimization, de-escalation procedures, incident management (physical safety techniques) and post incident procedures. Notes: This is a physical training. Participants should dress appropriately in loose, comfortable clothing. Please refrain from wearing flip flops, sandals, clogs, or open toed shoes. Athletic shoes such as sneakers are most appropriate. The training will require participants to shuffle backward, twist and turn and transition from a standing to floor position. Participants should only register if they are willing and able to demonstrate the physical competencies. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the facilitator. ** Participants must attend the entire two-day training to receive certification and Act 48 credit. Partial credit will not be awarded. Training limited to 10. Lunch is NOT provided. | 04/17/2020(2 events)8:00 am: QBS ~ Initial Training ~ CANCELLED 8:00 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This training requires demonstration of 18 verbal and physical competencies. Participants should come prepared and willing to demonstrate mastery of each competency. Safety Care Training is a two-full-day training that teaches the goals of safety management, interdisciplinary treatment, creates an understanding of challenging behavior, establishing a safe environment, practicing safety habits, delivering and differential reinforcement. Safety care training teaches incident minimization, de-escalation procedures, incident management (physical safety techniques) and post incident procedures. Notes: This is a physical training. Participants should dress appropriately in loose, comfortable clothing. Please refrain from wearing flip flops, sandals, clogs, or open toed shoes. Athletic shoes such as sneakers are most appropriate. The training will require participants to shuffle backward, twist and turn and transition from a standing to floor position. Participants should only register if they are willing and able to demonstrate the physical competencies. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the facilitator. ** Participants must attend the entire two-day training to receive certification and Act 48 credit. Partial credit will not be awarded. Training limited to 10. Lunch is NOT provided. 8:00 am: QBS/Safety Care Specialist Recertification ~ CANCELLED 8:00 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This training requires participants to demonstrate 18 verbal and physical competencies. Participants should come prepared and willing to demonstrate mastery of each competency. Cost: $65 plus (Varies depending on number in the class) Workshop Details: | 04/18/2020 |
04/19/2020 | 04/20/2020 | 04/21/2020 | 04/22/2020 | 04/23/2020(2 events)8:30 am: Foundations of Reading: Beyond Blending and Segmenting, Advanced Phonemic Awareness -CANCELLED 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Early literacy skills underpin later reading success. The research strongly supports phonemic awareness as an essential foundational skill related to reading success. This training will focus on the research evidence related to phonemic awareness to advanced levels for primary students in grades Kindergarten through Second Grade. Participants will be instructed in how to successfully implement a direct, explicit and systematic phonemic awareness instruction into daily classroom practice. Specifically, instructional practices shared will support student's consistent engagement with manipulating sounds at the word, syllable, onset-rime and phoneme level. Language awareness skills will focus on classic nurserv rhvmes. Assessments related to phone mic awareness will also be offered. Competencies: Participants will be able to: Define Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Describe the importance nursery rhymes to early literacy skill development Overview of the research behind the curriculum & its alignment to the Pennsylvania Core Standards Define the 10 components included in the Phonemic Awareness curriculum Review of the scope & sequence for each skill over the 35 weeks of lessons Lesson modeling, including hand motions, of a complete lesson Hands-on experience with the curriculum through lesson practice with participants Using Phonemic Awareness in an intervention setting Phonemic Awareness and Phonics: Working together to help students decode Assessing and monitoring student progress with Phonemic Awareness. Sign in begins at 8:00 AM. Registration closes: April 17, 2020 Lunch is provided. ACT 48: 6 hours | 04/24/2020 | 04/25/2020 |
04/26/2020 | 04/27/2020 | 04/28/2020 | 04/29/2020(1 event) | 04/30/2020(1 event)8:30 am: School-Wide Information Systems Training (ZOOM) 8:30 am - 11:30 am ZOOM none School Wide Information System or SWIS Suite is a reliable, confidential, web-based information system to collect, summarize, and use student behavior data for decision making. This data assists our PBIS teams to make more effective and efficient decisions when they have the right data in the right form at the right time. SWIS provides school personnel with the information they need to be successful decision makers. The SWIS Suite has assisted teams to improve their internal decision making and overall support plan design for individual students and their families. This training details the universal SWIS application to record and monitor office discipline referrals and make data based decisions to implement their School Wide Positive Behavior Support System. Teams purchasing the SWIS system will learn how to implement, monitor and utilize the data to implement PBIS with fidelity. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 28, 2020 | 05/01/2020 | 05/02/2020 |