Events in October 2019
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| 09/29/2019 | 09/30/2019 | 10/01/2019 | 10/02/2019 | 10/03/2019 | 10/04/2019 | 10/05/2019 |
| 10/06/2019 | 10/07/2019 | 10/08/2019 | 10/09/2019(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.
| 10/10/2019(1 event)8:30 am: Computer Science Academy 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Inspired by the highly successful Intro Computing course that has been taught at Carnegie Mellon University for the past 10+ years and is ranked in the top five CS courses in the country by Bloomberg News, CS Academy provides an online computer science curriculum, designed for high school students that is engaging, creative, rigorous, and fun. In CS Academy, students use interactive questions, coding activities, and built-in resources to learn coding and increase their understanding and application of computer science. IU17 District Participants will have 2-day cohort (12 instructional hours)
Registration Closes October 3, 2019. | 10/11/2019(1 event)8:30 am: Computer Science Academy 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Inspired by the highly successful Intro Computing course that has been taught at Carnegie Mellon University for the past 10+ years and is ranked in the top five CS courses in the country by Bloomberg News, CS Academy provides an online computer science curriculum, designed for high school students that is engaging, creative, rigorous, and fun. In CS Academy, students use interactive questions, coding activities, and built-in resources to learn coding and increase their understanding and application of computer science. IU17 District Participants will have 2-day cohort (12 instructional hours)
Registration Closes October 3, 2019. | 10/12/2019 |
| 10/13/2019 | 10/14/2019 | 10/15/2019(1 event)9:00 am: The ABC's of the Foreign Language Classroom 9:00 am - 2:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 The ABC’s of the Foreign Language Classroom is a supportive professional learning community of Foreign Language teachers, who strive to grow professionally and improve their practices in the classroom. These sessions are focused around developing a toolbox of 21st century strategies and best practices for the Foreign Language classroom. If you are starting to think of new, innovative ways that will freshen up your classroom, this is the perfect group for you! It does not matter the language you teach. It does not matter the level you teach. All that matters, is that you are willing to collaborate with this professional learning community. The training consists of two face-to-face workshops with colleagues that teach in any Foreign Language classroom. Participants are encouraged to sign up for both face-to-face sessions, but it is not required. Topics for training will include, but are not limited to: Comprehensible Input, Technology and Innovation in the Foreign Language Classroom, Aligning Classroom Instruction to ACTFL Standards. COST: $15 ACT 48 processing and materials. Lunch is NOT included. | 10/16/2019 | 10/17/2019(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: 10/17/2019 to 10/17/2019 Session Times: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (Registration begins at 7:45 AM) Registration Deadline: 10/11/2019 Semester: Fall Target Audience: Location: BLaST IU 17 Williamsport Office Directions: Please refer to our webpage at www.iu17.org for directions. Cost: 50.00 Includes Book, ACT 48 Processing and lunch. | 10/18/2019 | 10/19/2019 |
| 10/20/2019 | 10/21/2019 | 10/22/2019 | 10/23/2019 | 10/24/2019(2 events)9:00 am: The Interconnected Systems Framework for Integrating Mental Health Within MTSS Behavioral Support 9:00 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Participants will learn how school-wide systems of positive behavior support operate as a framework for an expanded continuum of mental health interventions. Participants will learn strategies for effectively integrating community and school-based mental health providers into school teams for an expanded system of behavioral health support. Participants will become familiar with tools to guide the development and implementation of an Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) to effectively expand school-based systems of behavior and mental health support. Cost: $25 includes ACT 48 processing and lunch 11:30 am: Fountas & Pinnell Classroom Awareness Session 11:30 am - 1:30 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 PLEASE JOIN US Please join us for this complimentary Lunch and Learn to hear about Every child has the right to grow up literate as a member of a dynamic learning community that values the richness of linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity. This occurs in a classroom community of readers and writers, where children are reading, thinking about, talking about and writing about a wide range of beautiful, engaging texts; where children's curiosity drives authentic inquiry that builds a deep understanding of their world; and where all parts of the literacy curriculum are thoughtfully connected to best support the learning needs of each individual child. At this event you will learn about what a coherent system of literacy instruction looks like, why it's important, and how to implement in every classroom. A Coherent, Multi-Text Approach to Literacy Instruction consists of: *Interactive Read Aloud | 10/25/2019(1 event)11:30 am: SWIS CICO Check In Check Out School-Wide Information System Data Entry Training 11:30 am - 1:30 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 11:15 AM | 10/26/2019 |
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