Week of Oct 26th
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| 10/26/2014 | 10/27/2014(1 event)8:30 am: Math Design Collaborative Training 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 The Math Design Collaborative provides middle school and high school teachers with readily available formative assessment lessons (Fals) to enhance and activate the conceptual understanding of the math skills required of a 21st century learner. These well-crafted lessons have been aligned to the PA Core and are embedded with the NCTM math practices. AUDIENCE: Middle School Math Teachers (grades 5-9); the enrollment is limited to 24 participants (not to exceed 4 per school). COST: $100 (includes four (4) days training and two (2) on-sight visits). DATES: September 29-30, 2014 (Northeast Bradford High School) and October 27 and November 24, 2014 (BLaST IU 17 - Canton Office). SUBSTITUTES: School districts will receive substitute reimbursement for the initial training and ongoing support hours. School districts will be invoiced upon completion. Lunch will be provided onsite. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org.
| 10/28/2014(2 events)8:00 am: Quality Behavior Solutions - Safety Care Specialist Certification 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 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. 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. This training is not open to parents, outside agencies, or districts not within IU 17. School districts served by BLaST IU 17 will not be invoiced. Registration fees will be covered by IDEA funding. Lunch will be provided on site. ** Participants must attend the entire two-day training to receive certification and Act 48 credit. Partial credit will not be awarded. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. 9:00 am: Principal Effectiveness: Framework for Leadership 9:00 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Participants will be provided with information and details to implement the Principal Effectiveness Tool. Any administrator who EVALUATES PRINCIPALS is invited to attend. This session is open to any superintendent and/or administrative staff that evaluates principals – may include principals who evaluate assistant principals. This is NOT for principals evaluating teachers. To register for this event, please visit www.elrnr.org.
| 10/29/2014(3 events)8:00 am: Quality Behavior Solutions - Safety Care Specialist Certification 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 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. 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. This training is not open to parents, outside agencies, or districts not within IU 17. School districts served by BLaST IU 17 will not be invoiced. Registration fees will be covered by IDEA funding. Lunch will be provided on site. ** Participants must attend the entire two-day training to receive certification and Act 48 credit. Partial credit will not be awarded. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. 8:30 am: SLO Building for Librarians 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 The Pennsylvania Department of Education strongly encourages educators to collaborate on the development of Student Learning Objectives (SLO). These sessions are designed to allow for teachers from specialty areas to collaborate on SLO development that are focused on the content standards from their particular areas. An IU facilitator will guide teachers in completing the SLO Template based on collegial conversations about specific content instructional areas and performance measures that are often germane to a few people within each district. All participants will need to have an introductory understanding of the SLO process as a prerequisite for this sessions. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. 10:00 am: Intruder Lockdown Training Videoconference 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This is a basic course for employees provided by law enforcement which describes general practices for dealing with an active shooter and how to respond when an active shooter enters your vicinity. Included in the discussion will be a profile of an active shooter, how you should respond when law enforcement arrives on the scene, lessons learned from past and recent shooting incidents, and steps to consider when preparing for and managing an active shooter situation. The course will also include an update on current threat awareness and steps you can take to better prepare for and enhance your own personal safety. Students will be able to identify potential scenarios for using run, hide, or fight options if faced with an active shooter situation. Students will also have a better awareness of various threats they may potentially encounter and steps they can take to enhance their personal safety, both on and off the job. This 2-hour program will include: • How to prepare for and respond during an act of workplace violence or active shooter situation. This is valuable information you can use both on and off the job to stay safe if ever faced with an Active Shooter situation. To register for this event, please visit: www.elrnr.org. | 10/30/2014(2 events)8:00 am: Quality Behavior Solutions Safety Care Specialist Recertification 8:00 am - 4:00 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 This training requires demonstration of 18 verbal and physical competencies. Participants should come prepared and willing to demonstrate mastery of each competency. Participants will recertify on verbal and physical de-escalation techniques. Various therapeutic holds will be demonstrated and practiced. They will learn to de-escalate a crisis situation and test out of core competencies. 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. This training is not open to parents, outside agencies, or districts not within IU 17. School districts served by BLaST IU 17 will not be invoiced. Registration fees will be covered by IDEA funding. Lunch will be provided on site. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. 8:30 am: Nearpod Training 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Looking to change the way you teach? Nearpod allows teachers to create tasks that were previously inconceivable. With the explosion of technology devices available for engaging student learning, the Nearpod program provides educators with an effective yet creative option for the development and delivery of lesson content. Nearpod provides users with options for differentiation, opinions, videos, exploration and recall while recording student responses for grading. Using Nearpod in a traditional face-to-face classroom or synchronous online cyber class allows for student-learning objectives to be delivered with immediate feedback on responses. Either way, students and teachers are viewing the same screen, allowing teachers to monitor live student progress while keeping every student actively engaged in the lesson. Join technology coach Penny Johnson as she guides you through a hands-on exploration of all that Nearpod has to offer. This session will address both the free and paid version of Nearpod. Participants are required to bring their own laptop in order to fully participate. In addition to laptops, Tablets are also recommended. However, all participants must have a laptop in order to build Nearpod presentations throughout the day. If you would like to inquire about the PA statewide consortium pricing for licenses, please open the following link and complete the request for licenses. Multi-user license promo code: PA-2014-001 To register for this event, please visit www.elrnr.org.
| 10/31/2014(1 event)9:00 am: Principal Effectiveness: Correlation and Elective Data/SLOs 9:00 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Day Two is for Superintendents and Principals who have completed Principal Effectiveness: Framework for Leadership in the past. This session is on the new correlation piece of the evaluation tool. PREREQUISITE: You must have attended Principal Effectiveness: Framework for Leadership. To register for this event, please visit www.elrnr.org. | 11/01/2014 |