Events in April 2014
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| 03/30/2014 | 03/31/2014(1 event)8:30 am: Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) - Assessment Literacy Series (Part 2) 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 It is recommended that participants have already attended "An Introduction to SLOs - Part 1" or have a solid understanding of the SLO process prior to attending this workshop. This session will focus on how to develop quality summative assessments that meet the criteria of SLOs. Participants will explore the following aspects of creating quality summative assessments and SLOs: - How to use Webb's Depth of Knowledge to create rigorous assessments - How to design effective multiple choice questions - How to create rubrics to accurately measure student performance - Tools to support building quality summative assessments that meet the demands of SLOs Participants need to bring a draft of an SLO or other summative assessment that they are currently using or plan to use in 2014-2015. Time will be built into this session to review and revise participants' assessments. Participants should also bring a digital device to support them in the development and revisions of their assessments. | 04/01/2014 | 04/02/2014(1 event)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. | 04/03/2014(1 event)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. | 04/04/2014 | 04/05/2014 |
| 04/06/2014 | 04/07/2014(1 event)8:30 am: Meeting the Needs of K-2 Writers in the Era of PA Core Writing Standards 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Lycoming College - Wertz Center, Jane Schultz Room Williamsport, PA 17701 United States This session is designed around the unique needs of K-2 writers. Participants will explore the continuum of development for young writers, paying close attention to what constitutes an emergent, early, and fluent writer. Participants will examine their own students' writing to determine where their students are on the writing continuum and how to support their young writers towards proficiency of the PA Core Standards for Writing. Participants will learn how to use writing demonstrations, small group writing, and independent writing to create a comprehensive and differentiated approach to teaching writing. The following essential questions will guide this session: How do I determine where my writer's are on the writing continuum? How do I differentiate my writing instruction while moving all writers towards proficiency of the PA Core Standards? How do I utilize teacher demonstrations, small groups, and independent writing to create a comprehensive and differentiated approach to writing instruction? Please bring examples of your own student's writing (produced independently) along with the PA Core Standards for Writing from your grade level. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. | 04/08/2014(3 events)N/A: School-Wide Positive Behavior Support Model School Visit Jersey Shore Elementary School N/A - Jersey Shore Area Elementary School 601 Locust Street Jersey Shore, PA 17754 570-323-8561 Jersey Shore Elementary School has been selected by PaTTAN as a model school in its implementation of School Wide Positive Behavior Support. The school is hosting three visits for schools that are interested in implementation of SW PBIS. The visits will summarize Tier One implementation including developing expectations, designing a matrix, effectively managing consequences, reinforcement efforts with students, data management, and evaluation of effectiveness at Tier One. The visits will also detail interventions at Tier Two and Three; including social and academic groups, check in and checkout, counseling interventions, and universal screening efforts. Visitors will have an opportunity to visit classrooms to visualize embedding SW PBIS into the classroom. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org.
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: An Introduction to John Collins Writing 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Lycoming College - Wertz Center, Jane Schultz Room Williamsport, PA 17701 United States An Introduction to John Collins Writing: Improving Student Performance through Writing and Thinking Across the Curriculum (Grades 4-12) - For teachers in all subject areas grades 4 and above, department heads, principals, supervisors, curriculum committee members, and special educators. This is our foundation workshop. It shows teachers in any content area how to use the five types of writing to increase students' understanding and retention of course content while simultaneously increasing student involvement and motivation to learn. Most importantly, this workshop gives teachers the help they need to efficiently and fairly evaluate writing so that students become more skillful as a result of the process. PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO... • Integrate writing into every class?without sacrificing the teaching of content • Use writing to save time during classroom instruction?without piles of additional papers to correct • Utilize writing as a catalyst to enhance the quality of classroom discussions • Employ the power of "effortful retrieval" • Empower students to use self-monitoring and peer feedback during the writing process?accomplish more in less time • Quickly create great writing assignments that promote learning of content and motivate students • Improve writing skills and content knowledge using the four essential writing assignments • Implement a portfolio and authentic assessment model that’s manageable • Use the Five Types of Writing to improve test scores and help achieve "Adequate Yearly Progress" • Tie it all together?integrating workshop content with portfolio and authentic assessment techniques, mastery learning, differentiated instruction and outcomes-based education in today’s classroom. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org.
| 04/09/2014(1 event)8:30 am: School-Wide Positive Behavior Support System - Tier Two Interventions 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. | 04/10/2014 | 04/11/2014(1 event)8:30 am: Student Learning Objectives (SLOs): An Introduction (Part 1) 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 This session is an introduction to Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) and their role in PA's educator effectiveness system. Participants will design, build, and review SLOs for use in guiding instruction and determining student mastery and/or growth as part of PA's educator effectiveness system. This training is open to all school districts and required for SLO Pilot districts. Participants will review the requirements and timeline for the SLO Pilot; review each component used in the SLO process, including the role of high-quality performance measures; and examine tools and techniques available to teachers and principals. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. | 04/12/2014 |
| 04/13/2014 | 04/14/2014(2 events)8:30 am: NISL Course 4: Driving for Results 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This course is appropriate for all principals, assistant principals, superintendents, assistant superintendents, and IU Executive Directors as continuing professional education to meet the requirements of Act 45. This course is also appropriate for new principals and assistant principals as part of the Principal's Induction Program. Sixty Act 48 PIL hours will be awarded to participants who complete the course. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. 5:00 pm: Source4Teachers Open House 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 Visit the Source4Teachers Open House at the Board Room at the Canton Office of BLaST IU 17. | 04/15/2014(3 events)8:30 am: NISL Course 4: Driving for Results 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This course is appropriate for all principals, assistant principals, superintendents, assistant superintendents, and IU Executive Directors as continuing professional education to meet the requirements of Act 45. This course is also appropriate for new principals and assistant principals as part of the Principal's Induction Program. Sixty Act 48 PIL hours will be awarded to participants who complete the course. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org. 5:00 pm: Source4Teachers Open House 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 Visit the Source4Teachers Open House in the Tioga conference room of the Williamsport of of BLaST IU 17. | 04/16/2014 | 04/17/2014 | 04/18/2014 | 04/19/2014 |
| 04/20/2014 | 04/21/2014 | 04/22/2014 | 04/23/2014(1 event) | 04/24/2014(1 event)8:00 am: Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC) 8:00 am - 3:30 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 The Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC) is a state-wide system of support that enhances the work of school-based instructional coaches. School-based instructional coaches provide professional development for teachers and school leaders focused on refining classroom practices, increasing student engagement, and improving student achievement. Sessions will be designed around PIICs four elements of coaching and include strategies for one-on-one and small group coaching, analyzing data, using evidenced-based literacy/instructional strategies, and strategies to promote reflective practices. Because these sessions focus on the process of coaching, it is applicable to all curriculum models including Learning-Focused Schools, Reading Apprenticeship, and Standards Aligned System. The content of these sessions is applicable to PreK-12 teacher leaders, instructional coaches, department chairs, curriculum coordinators, and principals. Identified PIIC coaches are required to attend all sessions throughout the year while non-PIIC participants are encouraged but not required to attend all sessions throughout the year. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org.
| 04/25/2014(2 events)8:30 am: Keystones to Opportunity: Family Literacy and Family Engagement 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 This training is designed for teachers participating in the Keystones to Opportunity grant. Literacy is a set of skills that students must develop over time. All stakeholders need to be knowledgeable about the foundational underpinnings of literacy instruction, best practices in literacy instruction and differentiation to support the needs of all students. In order for students to be college and career ready, it is imperative that they develop the foundational skills required to be literate, problem-solving adults. Participants need to have access to their district's vision and Keystones to Opportunity Needs Assessment. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org.Â
8:30 am: Student Learning Objectives (SLOs): An Introduction (Part 1) 8:30 am - 3:30 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 This session is an introduction to Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) and their role in PA's educator effectiveness system. Participants will design, build, and review SLOs for use in guiding instruction and determining student mastery and/or growth as part of PA's educator effectiveness system. This training is open to all school districts and required for SLO Pilot districts. Participants will review the requirements and timeline for the SLO Pilot; review each component used in the SLO process, including the role of high-quality performance measures; and examine tools and techniques available to teachers and principals. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org.
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| 04/27/2014 | 04/28/2014(1 event)8:30 am: Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) - Assessment Literacy Series (Part 2) 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 33 Springbrook Drive Canton, PA 17724 USA 570-673-6001 It is recommended that participants have already attended "An Introduction to SLOs - Part 1" or have a solid understanding of the SLO process prior to attending this workshop. This session will focus on how to develop quality summative assessments that meet the criteria of SLOs. Participants will explore the following aspects of creating quality summative assessments and SLOs: - How to use Webb's Depth of Knowledge to create rigorous assessments - How to design effective multiple choice questions - How to create rubrics to accurately measure student performance - Tools to support building quality summative assessments that meet the demands of SLOs Participants need to bring a draft of an SLO or other summative assessment that they are currently using or plan to use in 2014-2015. Time will be built into this session to review and revise participants' assessments. Participants should also bring a digital device to support them in the development and revisions of their assessments. | 04/29/2014(1 event)All day: School-Wide Positive Behavior Support Model School Visit – Jersey Shore Elementary School All day - Jersey Shore Area Elementary School 601 Locust Street Jersey Shore, PA 17754 570-323-8561 Jersey Shore Elementary School has been selected by PaTTAN as a model school in its implementation of School Wide Positive Behavior Support. The school is hosting three visits for schools that are interested in implementation of SW PBIS. The visits will summarize Tier One implementation including developing expectations, designing a matrix, effectively managing consequences, reinforcement efforts with students, data management, and evaluation of effectiveness at Tier One. The visits will also detail interventions at Tier Two and Three; including social and academic groups, check in and checkout, counseling interventions, and universal screening efforts. Visitors will have an opportunity to visit classrooms to visualize embedding SW PBIS into the classroom. To register for this event please visit www.elrnr.org.
| 04/30/2014(1 event)8:30 am: Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) - Assessment Literacy Series (Part 2) 8:30 am - 3:00 pm 2400 Reach Road Williamsport, PA 17701 USA 570-323-8561 It is recommended that participants have already attended "An Introduction to SLOs - Part 1" or have a solid understanding of the SLO process prior to attending this workshop. This session will focus on how to develop quality summative assessments that meet the criteria of SLOs. Participants will explore the following aspects of creating quality summative assessments and SLOs: - How to use Webb's Depth of Knowledge to create rigorous assessments - How to design effective multiple choice questions - How to create rubrics to accurately measure student performance - Tools to support building quality summative assessments that meet the demands of SLOs Participants need to bring a draft of an SLO or other summative assessment that they are currently using or plan to use in 2014-2015. Time will be built into this session to review and revise participants' assessments. Participants should also bring a digital device to support them in the development and revisions of their assessments. | 05/01/2014 | 05/02/2014(1 event) | 05/03/2014 |