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• Working Backward to Move Forward:

  • When
    Tuesday, May 14, 2024
  •  
    8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room

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  Work backwards to get where your students need to go!  There is so much information thrown at teachers all year long.  We have standards to follow, data to watch, and curriculum to finish.  This workshop will look at ways to break it down so we don’t get caught and lost in the weeds.  The focus will be on using our ELA standards, student data, and science of reading research to drive instruction.  

  Course Objectives:   

  At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Develop a clear understanding of the end goal. 

  • Use data to monitor and adjust their classroom instruction.

  • Generate lesson plans with complete thoughts.

  • Construct a classroom MTSS plan with individualized lessons

  Presenter: Robin Anderson, SHESC Salina

  
  

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

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• AAA Defensive Driving

  • When
    Monday, May 20, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    SHESC, Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    8

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  AAA’s Driver Improvement Program is a nationally recognized course that promotes safe and responsible driving.  The course teaches drivers how to prepare their vehicles for optimum visibility, compensate for environmental factors, react to potentially dangerous traffic situations, as well as update their knowledge of the latest technologies and traffic laws.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers.  Certification lasts for 3 years and individuals who complete the course are eligible for a state-mandated auto insurance discount.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points: (6)

  Lunch is on your own. 

  
  

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• Medic First Aid

  • When
    Tuesday, May 21, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    10

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  An efficient and effective training program that combines CPR, AED, and first aid training.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers, as well as OSHA and other federal and state regulatory requirements for training employees on how to respond to and care for medical emergencies.  Certification lasts for 2 years.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points: (6)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• AAA Defensive Driving

  • When
    Wednesday, May 22, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    SHESC, Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

  Register

  AAA’s Driver Improvement Program is a nationally recognized course that promotes safe and responsible driving.  The course teaches drivers how to prepare their vehicles for optimum visibility, compensate for environmental factors, react to potentially dangerous traffic situations, as well as update their knowledge of the latest technologies and traffic laws.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers.  Certification lasts for 3 years and individuals who complete the course are eligible for a state-mandated auto insurance discount.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points: (6)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• Medic First Aid

  • When
    Thursday, May 23, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

  Register

  An efficient and effective training program that combines CPR, AED, and first aid training.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers, as well as OSHA and other federal and state regulatory requirements for training employees on how to respond to and care for medical emergencies.  Certification lasts for 2 years.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points: (6 

  
  

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• Learning-Oriented Grading and Reporting Practices

  • When
    Thursday, May 30, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford St, Salina, KS 67401

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  “Grading is one of a teacher’s greatest challenges and most important professional responsibilities. However, few teachers have any formal training on grading methods and most teachers have limited knowledge about the effectiveness of various grading practices (Stiggins, 1993, Brookhart, 2004). When teachers develop their grading policies, they typically reflect back on what they experienced as students and use strategies that they perceived to be fair, reasonable, and equitable (Guskey & Bailey, 2001).” -Thomas R. Gusky

  Standards-Based, Standards-Referenced, and Competency-Based Education are all phrases associated with grading and reporting practices, but how are these different from traditional grading and reporting practices? Shifting to an evidence-based grading and reporting approach allows schools to:

  • support student learning
  • determine students for intervention
  • identify standards for reteaching
  • report transparent grades

  This session illustrates the differences between learning-oriented and traditional grading and reporting practices and how to transition to learning-oriented instructional, grading, and reporting practices.

  Join us for this interactive and thought-provoking workshop!

  Presenter:  Jolene Goodheart Peterson, SHESC Salina

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

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• Third Annual: Educators Recharge Retreat June 3-5, 2024

  • Start
    Monday, June 03, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Wednesday, June 05, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Ringneck Ranch, Tipton, Kansas
  • Spaces left
    2

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  Don't forget whose mental health matters most to ensure your students' well being....IT'S YOURS!

  If you feel your batteries are drained to empty, consider recharging at the "Third Annual: Educators Recharge Retreat" at the Ringneck Ranch, 655 Solomon Lane in Tipton, Kansas! Registration is free.  

  Two Sessions:

  June 3-5, 2024

  OR June 5 -7, 2024

  Day 1: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm

  Day 2: 7:30 am - 10:00 pm

  Day 3: 7:30 am - 11:00 am

  Activities & Benefits Include:

  • Escape rooms
  • Teambuilding activities
  • Inspirational talks
  • Storytellers
  • Mental health tips and strategies
  • Music
  • Fire Pit
  • Card & board games
  • Cornhole & horses
  • Golf outing
  • Hiking
  • Art activities
  • Opportunities to explore the ranch
  • Vendor presentations
  • Overnight Lodging
  • All Meals

  
  

  Each session is limited to 30 people!

  NOTE: Registration preference will be given to people who have not participated in previous retreats.  If we have space, we will allow repeats.
  

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• Fostering Mathematical Mindset

  • When
    Tuesday, June 04, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    605 E. Crawford St, Salina, KS 67401
  • Spaces left
    24

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  "Research on the brain tells us that the difference between successful and unsuccessful students is less about the content they learn and more about their mindset. A growth mindset is essential but to inspire students to high levels of mathematics learning, students also need a mathematics mindset." -Jo Boaler, Mathematical Mindsets, 2016

  If a mathematical mindset is essential to student learning, how do we help students improve their mindset? In this session, teachers, instructional coaches, counselors, and administrators will learn how to create, support, and sustain a mathematical mindset in our classrooms and schools.

  Participants are eligible for 0.5 graduate-level credit by attending this workshop and completing a short reflection. Additionally, attendees can get up to three graduate credit hours for attending and applying the contents of this workshop to their classroom/school setting.

  Presenter: Jolene Goodheart Peterson

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (0.5)

  
  

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• Third Annual: Educators Recharge Retreat June 5 -7, 2024

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 05, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Friday, June 07, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    Ringneck Ranch, Tipton, Kansas
  • Spaces left
    24

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  Don't forget whose mental health matters most to ensure your students' well being....IT'S YOURS!

  If you feel your batteries are drained to empty, consider recharging at the "Third Annual: Educators Recharge Retreat" at the Ringneck Ranch, 655 Solomon Lane in Tipton, Kansas! Registration is free.  

  Two Sessions:

  June 3-5, 2024

  OR June 5-7, 2024

  Day 1: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm

  Day 2: 7:30 am - 10:00 pm

  Day 3: 7:30 am - 11:00 am

  Activities & Benefits Include:

  • Escape rooms
  • Teambuilding activities
  • Inspirational talks
  • Storytellers
  • Mental health tips and strategies
  • Music
  • Fire Pit
  • Card & board games
  • Cornhole & horses
  • Golf outing
  • Hiking
  • Art activities
  • Opportunities to explore the ranch
  • Vendor presentations
  • Overnight Lodging
  • All Meals

  
  

  Each session is limited to 30 people!

  NOTE: Registration preference will be given to people who have not participated in previous retreats.  If we have space, we will allow repeats.
  

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• Teambuilding in the Classroom

  • When
    Thursday, June 06, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Ropes Course, Gate 2 Gross Memorial Coliseum, 1435 US 183 Alt., Hays, KS

  Register

  What can Islands teach us about teambuilding, responsibility, problem solving, determination, and goal setting?  How can the TP Shuffle enhance cooperation, acceptance, tolerance, and interpersonal skills?  Join us for an exploration into how adventure education merges intellectual, social, physical, and emotional learning, therefore enhancing student learning, responsibility, and interpersonal skills.  Learn how adventure education can enhance any classroom content (not just physical education), build the Habits of the Mind in students, and how these disciplines can be implemented even if a Ropes Course isn’t available.  Participants will participate in low and high ropes course elements, as well as on-the-ground games, initiatives, and challenges. 

  Course Objectives:

  At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Understand how adventure education merges intellectual, social, physical, and emotional learning.
  • Analyze how to integrate adventure education to encourage development of the Habits of the Mind, such as positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, self-motivation, critical thinking and problem solving.
  • Analyze how adventure education can help create a caring/responsive school culture.
  • Outline how to integrate adventure education initiatives/activities into their content area and classroom. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: College Credit (.5), Hours (6), PD Points (6)

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• Book Study: Help for Billy (Virtual)

  • Start
    Friday, June 07, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Friday, June 14, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom

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  "Help for Billy" is a pragmatic manual to help guide families and educators who are struggling with traumatized children. Based on the concept of the neuroscience of emotions and behavior, Heather Forbes provides detailed, comprehensive, and logical strategies for teachers and parents. This easy-to-read book, with tables, outlines and lists, clears the way for a better understanding of the true nature regarding traumatic experiences affecting the brain and learning.

  Participants must purchase “Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom” by Heather T. Forbes (ISBN-10: 0977704092, ISBN-13: 978-0977704095) before the first session.

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points: (6), College Credit (.5)

  
  

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• Book Study: The Reading Comprehension Blueprint

  • Start
    Monday, June 10, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Monday, June 24, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Join me in reading and discovering how to help students make meaning through text as we read and complete activities using Nancy Hennessy's book Z published by Brookes Publishers. Nancy has created a blueprint for explicit instruction of comprehension and in a companion "activities" book provides numerous concrete ways to help students access background knowledge, leverage vocabulary, and use their reasoning skills to analyze and understand text. This session is for all grade levels. Structured Literacy is woven throughout the strategies that Nancy shares. You will need to purchase the following book:

  The Reading Comprehension Blueprint, Author Nancy Hennessy, 2021, ISBN 978-1-68125-403-6 available from Brookes Publishing or on Amazon. She also published an Activity Book that goes along with this book, it is not required.

  Presenter: Darla Smith, SHESC

  Credit: Hours (7.5), PD Points (7.5), College Credit (.5)

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• Everything Science Fair - Your Guide to a Successful Fair

  • When
    Wednesday, June 12, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

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  Bring NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) to life in your classroom by letting students guide their research.  Learn how to help students create successful projects and host a science fair at your school. You will also learn about how to participate in a Regional Science and Engineering Fair. During the workshop, you’ll create your own mini-project and discuss potential pitfalls and teacher collaboration. All participants will leave with Andi’s Science Fair “Book” that helps walk you and students through the process.  

  Come learn from Andi Dale, who has developed a very successful science fair at South Central Middle School in Protection, KS.  This year, for the first time, SCMS took 17 students to a Regional Science and Engineering Fair, where 9 students qualified for the Kansas State Science and Engineering Fair.  Four of those students placed 1st at the state competition and one placed 3rd!

  Presenter:  Andi Dale, Science Teacher, South Central Middle School, USD 300

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

  
  

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• A Framework for Understanding Poverty

  • When
    Thursday, June 13, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC, Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    10

  Register

  This training is based on the work of Dr. Ruby Payne, participants will look at the hidden rules that are part of economic classes and how this affects student learning and behavior.

  Objectives:

  At the end of the training, participants will:

  • Analyze resources for a student and identify possible interventions.
  • Identify hidden rules of poverty, middle class and wealth and how they affect student behavior.
  • Demonstrate registers of language and how this affects student learning.
  • Support and build relationships of mutual respect with students and parents of all economic levels.
  • Analyze discipline strategies that work with students from poverty.
  • Understand input strategies; evaluate which strategies a student may be lacking; and identify tools and resources to build missing strategies.
  • Explain and demonstrate metacognition.
  • Integrate mental models.

  "A Framework for Understanding Poverty Workbook” by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. (ISBN: 978-1- 938248-77-1) will be included in the registration for all participants.  

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics

  • Start
    Tuesday, June 18, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Wednesday, June 19, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E Crawford St, Salina, KS 67401
  • Spaces left
    7

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  Much of how classrooms look and much of what happens in them today is guided by institutional norms laid down at the inception of an industrial-age model of public education. These norms have enabled a culture of teaching and learning that is often devoid of student thinking. In this session, teachers will learn how to transform their classrooms from a space where students mimic to where students think.

  By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready to implement Toolkit 1, Toolkit 2, and Toolkit 3 including:

  • Identify what types of tasks to use in a Thinking Classroom.
  • Form collaborative groups in a Thinking Classroom.
  • Establish where students work in a Thinking Classroom.
  • Arrange the furniture in a Thinking Classroom.
  • Answer questions in a Thinking Classroom.
  • Introduce tasks in a Thinking Classroom.
  • Use hints and extensions to maintain flow in a Thinking Classroom. 
  • Consolidate and summarize learning in a Thinking Classroom. 
  • Create meaningful notes in a Thinking Classroom. 
  • Assess learning in a Thinking Classroom.

  This workshop is inspired by the book: Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning by Peter Liljedahl. Purchasing the book is not required, but it may be a helpful companion for your classroom implementation. 

  Presenter: Jolene Goodheart Petersen, SHESC, Salina

  Credit: Hours (12), PD Points (12), College Credit (1)

  
  

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• Emotional Poverty

  • When
    Tuesday, June 18, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 1
  • Spaces left
    10

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  Based on the work of Dr. Ruby Payne, “Emotional Poverty” uses a brain-based approach to look at the underlying causes of anger, anxiety, and violence; how they develop; and the tools that can be used to change those responses.  Emotions are processed 200 to 5,000 times faster than thought.  Learn about the emotional sources of behavior and what motivates good behavior and the underlying causes or unsafe and disruptive behavior. 

  Course Objectives:

  At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Understand the origins of anger, anxiety, and avoidance.
  • Identify language to talk about brain regulation, integration, and emotional competence.
  • Have tools to address and reduce anger, anxiety, and avoidance and to motivate appropriate behavior.
  • Help build strong inner selves in students through validation.
  • Understand personal emotional realities.
  • Promote the safety and well-being of students. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• Emotional Poverty

  • When
    Wednesday, June 19, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    10

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  Based on the work of Dr. Ruby Payne, “Emotional Poverty” uses a brain-based approach to look at the underlying causes of anger, anxiety, and violence; how they develop; and the tools that can be used to change those responses.  Emotions are processed 200 to 5,000 times faster than thought.  Learn about the emotional sources of behavior and what motivates good behavior and the underlying causes or unsafe and disruptive behavior. 

  Course Objectives:

  At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Understand the origins of anger, anxiety, and avoidance.
  • Identify language to talk about brain regulation, integration, and emotional competence.
  • Have tools to address and reduce anger, anxiety, and avoidance and to motivate appropriate behavior.
  • Help build strong inner selves in students through validation.
  • Understand personal emotional realities.
  • Promote the safety and well-being of students. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• STEM On the Dairy Farm Immersive Professional Development

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 19, 2024
  •  
    11:30 AM
  • End
    Thursday, June 20, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Courtyard by Marriott, Salina, 3020 Riffel Drive

  Register

  Join us for 2 days of hands-on learning with Midwest Dairy.  You will visit a dairy farm where you will experience phenomena in agriculture and learn how to implement your experiences into the classroom.  You will receive access to free USDA-approved and NGSS-aligned units and a science kit so you can take what you learn back to your students.

  Facilitator:  Pam Kraus, SHESC Salina

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

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• Book Study: Connections Over Compliance (Virtual)

  • Start
    Monday, June 24, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Monday, July 01, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Children who carry chronic behavioral challenges are often met with reactive and punitive practices that can potentially reactivate the developing stress response systems.  This book addresses the need for co-regulatory and relational touch point practices, shifting student-focused behavior management protocols to adult-regulated brain and body states which are brain-aligned, preventive, and relational discipline protocols. This new lens for discipline benefits all students by reaching for sustainable behavioral changes through brain state awareness rather than compliance and obedience.

  Participants must purchase “Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline” by Lori L. Desautels (ISBN-10: 1948018896, ISBN-13: 978-1948018890) before the first session.

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points: (6), College Credit (.5)

  
  

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• Packaging Our Kids

  • When
    Tuesday, June 25, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    9

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  Social Media and marketing target students every day.  In fact, the average American is exposed to 4,000 to 10,000 ads daily, and an estimated $177 billion was spent on social media ads in 2022.  Youth see 554 brands a day, 3,000-5,000 images of perfect people a day, and 70% of kids’ movies have weight-related stigma in them.  All of this affects not only what they buy, but who they think they are, how they see themselves, how they act, and the at-risk behaviors they engage in.  This workshop will look at the various forms of advertising (social media, TV, product placement, websites, etc.), what it does to our kids, and how it has ‘packaged our children’.  It will also give guidance on how to talk to kids about these marketing and manipulation practices and how to make more positive choices about how they define themselves. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• Packaging Our Kids

  • When
    Wednesday, June 26, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

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  Social Media and marketing target students every day.  In fact, the average American is exposed to 4,000 to 10,000 ads daily, and an estimated $177 billion was spent on social media ads in 2022.  Youth see 554 brands a day, 3,000-5,000 images of perfect people a day, and 70% of kids’ movies have weight-related stigma in them.  All of this affects not only what they buy, but who they think they are, how they see themselves, how they act, and the at-risk behaviors they engage in.  This workshop will look at the various forms of advertising (social media, TV, product placement, websites, etc.), what it does to our kids, and how it has ‘packaged our children’.  It will also give guidance on how to talk to kids about these marketing and manipulation practices and how to make more positive choices about how they define themselves. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• A Framework for Understanding Poverty

  • When
    Thursday, June 27, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC, Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

  Register

  This training is based on the work of Dr. Ruby Payne, participants will look at the hidden rules that are part of economic classes and how this affects student learning and behavior.

  Objectives:

  At the end of the training, participants will:

  • Analyze resources for a student and identify possible interventions.
  • Identify hidden rules of poverty, middle class and wealth and how they affect student behavior.
  • Demonstrate registers of language and how this affects student learning.
  • Support and build relationships of mutual respect with students and parents of all economic levels.
  • Analyze discipline strategies that work with students from poverty.
  • Understand input strategies; evaluate which strategies a student may be lacking; and identify tools and resources to build missing strategies.
  • Explain and demonstrate metacognition.
  • Integrate mental models.

  "A Framework for Understanding Poverty Workbook” by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. (ISBN: 978-1- 938248-77-1) will be included in the registration for all participants.  

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• How Do We Become A State School of Character? (Virtual)

  • When
    Monday, July 08, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Have you heard about other schools being recognized as State Schools of Character or National Schools of Character and wondered what they did to get that recognition?  Or have you been working hard to build a caring, responsive, safe, and positive school culture and just aren’t sure of the process or steps to applying?  If so, this workshop is for you.  Participants will learn about the Kansas State Schools of Character recognitions; the application process; the standards articulated in Character.org’s “11 Principles Framework for Schools”; and how to plan, implement, assess, and sustain their comprehensive character development initiatives.  Participants will also learn what Kansas Schools have gone through the process. 

  It is recommended that participants purchase “The 11 Principles of Effective Character Guidebook” by Character.org.

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (2.5), PD Points (2.5)

  
  

  
  

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• Movement Strategies to Boost Engagement & Learning

  • When
    Tuesday, July 09, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    8

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  The best exercise for the brain is exercise.  Simply standing gives 10-15% more oxygen to the brain.  Movement is integral to improving cognitive engagement and needs to be intentional throughout the school day.  Active classrooms and schools decrease behavior issues, foster student engagement and focus, build social-emotional skill development, and increase staff job satisfaction.  Participants will learn activities that promote an energized learning environment where mental and emotional growth is met with physical, social, and cognitive engagement.  This workshop will not be strenuous, but come ready to be out of your seat and physically active. 

  Course Objectives: 

  At the end of the course, students will be able to:                                                          

  • Implement movement-based activities to improve student engagement
  • Create a classroom climate that models safety and belonging for all students
  • Utilize various strategies for students to participate in pairs, groups, and teams
  • Understand the research behind cognitive engagement and embodied learning
  • Explore the concept of movement integration in the classroom

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

  
  

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• Movement Strategies to Boost Engagement & Learning

  • When
    Thursday, July 11, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 1

  Register

  The best exercise for the brain is exercise.  Simply standing gives 10-15% more oxygen to the brain.  Movement is integral to improving cognitive engagement and needs to be intentional throughout the school day.  Active classrooms and schools decrease behavior issues, foster student engagement and focus, build social-emotional skill development, and increase staff job satisfaction.  Participants will learn activities that promote an energized learning environment where mental and emotional growth is met with physical, social, and cognitive engagement.  This workshop will not be strenuous, but come ready to be out of your seat and physically active. 

  Course Objectives: 

  At the end of the course, students will be able to:                                                          

  • Implement movement-based activities to improve student engagement
  • Create a classroom climate that models safety and belonging for all students
  • Utilize various strategies for students to participate in pairs, groups, and teams
  • Understand the research behind cognitive engagement and embodied learning
  • Explore the concept of movement integration in the classroom

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: PD Points: (6), Hours (6), College Credit (.5)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

  
  

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• Book Study: Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms (Virtual)

  • Start
    Monday, July 15, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Monday, July 22, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  In "Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms" Dr. Marcia Tate delivers 12 brain-based principles for avoiding teacher burnout and increasing health and wellness.  These research-backed strategies help teachers thrive personally and professionally.  Each chapter digs into the benefits of these self-care and stress management tips and offers suggestions for bringing the practice to life in the classroom. 

  Participants must purchase “Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms: Twelve Brain-Based Principles to Avoid Burnout, Increase Optimism, and Support Physical Well-Being” by Marcia L. Tate (ISBN-10: 1952812976, ISBN-13: 978-1952812972) before the first session.

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

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• Effective Behavior Interventions

  • When
    Tuesday, July 16, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room

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  This workshop is designed to help teachers, counselors, and specialists who have one or two students with challenging behaviors.  These behaviors can include chronically disrespectful, disruptive, failing academically, inactive and unresponsive, and physically dangerous or assaultive.  Participants will learn how to plan and implement validated, tiered strategies to increase motivation and improve behaviors.  Participants will also learn how to use data to ascertain the reason for the behavior, apply targeted, evidence-based interventions, and evaluate results. 

  Course Objectives: 

  At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Develop and implement effective evidence-based interventions for individual students.
  • Use data to monitor and adjust interventions for students. 
  • Identify and assist students who are experiencing severe emotional problems.
  • Change the behavior of challenging students and reduce the need for referrals to special education.

  The “Early-Stage Interventions” book by Randy Sprick, Ph.D. will be provided. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

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• Effective Behavior Interventions

  • When
    Wednesday, July 17, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

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  This workshop is designed to help teachers, counselors, and specialists who have one or two students with challenging behaviors.  These behaviors can include chronically disrespectful, disruptive, failing academically, inactive and unresponsive, and physically dangerous or assaultive.  Participants will learn how to plan and implement validated, tiered strategies to increase motivation and improve behaviors.  Participants will also learn how to use data to ascertain the reason for the behavior, apply targeted, evidence-based interventions, and evaluate results. 

  Course Objectives: 

  At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Develop and implement effective evidence-based interventions for individual students.
  • Use data to monitor and adjust interventions for students. 
  • Identify and assist students who are experiencing severe emotional problems.
  • Change the behavior of challenging students and reduce the need for referrals to special education.

  The “Early-Stage Interventions” book by Randy Sprick, Ph.D. will be provided. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

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• AAA Defensive Driving

  • When
    Tuesday, July 23, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    SHESC, Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    10

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  AAA’s Driver Improvement Program is a nationally recognized course that promotes safe and responsible driving.  The course teaches drivers how to prepare their vehicles for optimum visibility, compensate for environmental factors, react to potentially dangerous traffic situations, as well as update their knowledge of the latest technologies and traffic laws.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers.  Certification lasts for 3 years and individuals who complete the course are eligible for a state-mandated auto insurance discount.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points: (6)

  Lunch is on your own. 

  
  

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• Medic First Aid

  • When
    Wednesday, July 24, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room
  • Spaces left
    10

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  An efficient and effective training program that combines CPR, AED, and first aid training.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers, as well as OSHA and other federal and state regulatory requirements for training employees on how to respond to and care for medical emergencies.  Certification lasts for 2 years.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit:  Hours (6), PD Points: (6)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• AAA Defensive Driving

  • When
    Thursday, July 25, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    SHESC, Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

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  AAA’s Driver Improvement Program is a nationally recognized course that promotes safe and responsible driving.  The course teaches drivers how to prepare their vehicles for optimum visibility, compensate for environmental factors, react to potentially dangerous traffic situations, as well as update their knowledge of the latest technologies and traffic laws.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers.  Certification lasts for 3 years and individuals who complete the course are eligible for a state-mandated auto insurance discount.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points: (6)

  Lunch is on your own.

  
  

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• Medic First Aid

  • When
    Friday, July 26, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

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  An efficient and effective training program that combines CPR, AED, and first aid training.  This comprehensive program meets the required training for School Bus Drivers, as well as OSHA and other federal and state regulatory requirements for training employees on how to respond to and care for medical emergencies.  Certification lasts for 2 years.   

  No Fee for Environmental Compliance Members. 

  Presenter: Noalee McDonald-Augustine

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points: (6 

  
  

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• Student-Centered Mathematics Learning with Instructional Routines

  • When
    Tuesday, July 30, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    SHESC, 605 E. Crawford St, Salina, KS 67401

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  Research shows that if students aren't thinking in the first 3-5 minutes of class, they won't think for the rest of that class period (Liljedahl, 2017). Because of this, it is crucial that students actively engage in thinking early, often, and throughout the class period. In this workshop, participants will engage in instructional routines that promote thinking and facilitate discourse. 

  This correlates with components of KESA, including quality instruction and balanced assessment. It also supports standards and literacy in the math classroom. 

  Presenter: Jolene Goodheart Peterson
  

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (.5)

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• Annual PDC Training (Zoom)

  • When
    Wednesday, July 31, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    29

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  Annual PDC Training is required by Kansas Regulation 91-1-217. This session will fulfill that requirement. This training is beneficial to districts by having at least one PDC member and any new members attend this annual update. We will discuss the roles and responsibilities of PDC councils, the weighted point system, criteria for quality staff development, awarding points and other topics related to PDCs.

  After registering through our registration system, Wild Apricot, please register for the Zoom link, as well.  It will be in the confirmation information.

  Please note if you are part of the Smoky Hill ESC Professional Development Consortium, the event is FREE.  Make sure you select the correct ticket for this event.

  Presenter:  Jaye Ditter, SHESC Hays

  Credit: Hours (2), PD Points (2)

  
  

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• Implementing Mathematical Language Routines in the Classroom

  • Start
    Thursday, August 01, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Friday, August 02, 2024
  •  
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    2707 Vine St, Ste. 17, Hays, KS 67601
  • Spaces left
    10

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  K-12 mathematics classrooms are often littered with rules that expire and tricks without meaning or connection. While well-intended, these rules and tricks create a weak mathematical foundation in students that eventually crumbles. Rather than simplifying mathematics instruction with tricks and mnemonics, implement routines that amplify deep mathematical learning. In this two-day workshop, participants will learn the eight mathematical language routines, ready for immediate classroom implementation.

  Mathematical Language Routines support high-quality instruction for all learners, including English Language Learners and Special Education students. These adaptable routines are found in the top mathematics resources and can be embedded into any curriculum.

  Mathematical Language Routines support structured literacy in the classroom! 

  Presenter: Jolene Goodheart Peterson, SHESC Salina

  Credit: Hours (12), PD Points (12), College Credit (1.0)

  Lunch is on your own.

  Hybrid Event

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• Fostering Mathematical Mindsets

  • When
    Monday, August 05, 2024
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    2707 Vine St, Ste #17, Hays, KS 67601
  • Spaces left
    10

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  "Research on the brain tells us that the difference between successful and unsuccessful students is less about the content they learn and more about their mindset. A growth mindset is essential but to inspire students to high levels of mathematics learning, students also need a mathematics mindset." -Jo Boaler, Mathematical Mindsets, 2016

  If a mathematical mindset is essential to student learning, how do we help students improve their mindset? In this session, teachers, instructional coaches, counselors, and administrators will learn how to create, support, and sustain a mathematical mindset in our classrooms and schools.

  Participants are eligible for 0.5 graduate-level credit by attending this workshop and completing a short reflection. Additionally, attendees can get up to three graduate credit hours for attending and applying the contents of this workshop to their classroom/school setting.

  Presenter: Jolene Goodheart Peterson

  Credit: Hours (6), PD Points (6), College Credit (0.5)

  
  

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• ELA & FastBridge Support Cadre

  • Start
    Thursday, September 05, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Thursday, May 08, 2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 2

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  ELA & FastBridge Support Cadre

  It takes some time to feel comfortable sorting and looking at all of the data in FastBridge.  In this cadre, we will take time to look into the basics of which FastBridge research-based assessments can best support the needs of our students. Which students do we give those assessments to and why?  We will also dig into the data and how to sort students to provide the best instruction for each individual.  SHESC consultant Robin Anderson has years of experience coaching teachers through the many facets of FastBridge and will be facilitating the group's conversations.  We would love for you to join us for this quarterly meeting, if you cannot make them all we invite you to make as many as possible.

  Audience: Principals, Curriculum/ MTSS leaders
  

  Facilitator: Robin Anderson, SHESC Salina

  Hours (6)   PD Points (6).  College Credit (.5)

  
  

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• ELA & FastBridge Support Cadre - Hays

  • Start
    Thursday, September 19, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Thursday, May 15, 2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    SHESC Hays, 2707 Vine St., STE 17, Training Room

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  ELA & FastBridge Support Cadre

  This cadre will provide a place for people to talk about their FastBridge data and what that data means to their ELA instruction. Does your instruction match the needs of your students? We will use the Science of Reading as our foundation to discuss what reports to look at and where to dig deeper.  We will look at progress monitoring and how to know if we are helping students to move in the right direction. Cadre participants will drive topics and discussions. This will be a chance to learn new strategies and pick up a tip or trick from each other.  This cadre will meet quarterly and would love for you to join us at all or as many times as your schedule allows.

  Audience: Reading Teachers, Interventionists, and MTSS leader
  

  Presenter: Robin Anderson, SHESC Salina

  Hours (13)  PD Points (13) College Credit (.5)

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• Adaptive Schools Foundation Training

  • Start
    Thursday, October 24, 2024
  •  
  • End
    Tuesday, February 18, 2025
  •  
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    SHESC Salina, 605 E. Crawford, Room 1

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  The training not only explores what makes teams effective, but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning. 
  

  In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participants will develop: 

  • An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups

  • New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development

  • An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools

  • Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms, and values of each

  • Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus

  • Ways to value and use dissension, argument, and conflict

  • Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful

  REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 2, 2024 for information about registration contact Darla Smith, dsmith@smokyhill.org. Cost is $300 a person and include materials and lunch. Please bring a team of 3-5 people

  - consider your leadership teams or PLC's.

  Space is limited register soon!

  Presenter: Carol Brooks Simoneau, Director for Thinking Collaborative

  Credit: Hours (24), PD (24)

  To learn more about Carol's work go to: https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/aboutas 

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