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formerly MLPPDMS
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Program: RPDC - Agency for Teaching, Leading and Learning
Location: Park Central Office Building (Springfield, MO)
Audience: First / Second year teachers that were unable to attend the first session
Dates: 9/8/2023
Beginning teachers are one of our greatest assets. Yet, 17% of teachers leave the career within the first five years (Gray et al., 2015). Effective professional development is a key factor of teacher retention (Podolsky et al., 2018).
This program is part of the Missouri Teacher Development System MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) meets Missouri's BTAP certification requirements. This opportunity provides:
MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) meets Missouri's BTAP certification requirements.
-networking with other new teachers and educational consultants
-just-in-time learning (critical firsts)
-awareness of the phases of a new teacher
-relationship-building skills
-on-demand learning, including videos by Mike Rutherford
Dates: 9/8/2023 to 2/1/2024
MTDS Grow Your Own (GYO) Network
Missouri students need great teachers. Your role as a builder of the next generation of educators is SO important! Together we can help build the future of Missouri teachers.
Regional Grow Your Own networks are designed:
-to connect district GYO program designers/facilitators through active collaborative groups.
-to promote resource/information sharing among colleagues.
-to create opportunities that inspire students to become great educators.
-using the Aspiring Level state competencies as a focus.
Join us if you are a designer/facilitator of a GYO club/chapter or class who wants to:
-connect with other leaders who work with the next generation of educators.
-hear relevant guest speakers.
-learn about resources and opportunities that support your program.
-share the fantastic happenings of your group of future teachers.
Regional networking sessions support the implementation and growth of GYO teacher recruitment programs in all Missouri school districts and charter schools. The state MTDS GYO Coordinator, Sandy Humbyrd, a former Ed Pathways Dual Credit Class Teacher & Ed Club Sponsor, who completed doctoral work on Missouri's GYO programs, will be facilitating network gatherings.
Location: Park Central Office Building (ROOM 112) (Springfield, MO)
Dates: 10/2/2023 to 3/5/2024
Location: Alumni Center, 300 S Jefferson, Springfield (Springfield, MO) [map]
Dates: 10/16/2023 to 3/18/2024
Dates: 11/13/2023 to 4/22/2024
Program: DESE - Grants
Dates: 11/29/2023
Dates: 1/11/2024
Dates: 1/18/2024
Dates: 1/24/2024
Dates: 1/25/2024
Location: Mountain Grove Elementary School (Mountain Grove, MO) [map]
Dates: 2/19/2024 to 4/29/2024
Location: TBD (Springfield, MO)
Dates: 3/11/2024 to 5/17/2024
Program: RPDC - Central
Location: 9 Central RPDC (Warrensburg, MO) [map]
Audience: 1st Grade Teachers, 2nd Grade Teachers, 3rd Grade Teachers
Dates: 4/5/2024
Audience: Skyline School District Staff ONLY - K-5 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Coaches, Administrators
Dates: 4/8/2024 to 4/7/2025
Dates: 4/24/2024
Dates: 5/1/2024 to 7/25/2024
Location: 5. Virtual (Virtual, MO)
Dates: 5/2/2024
Program: RPDC - South Central
Location: 6 Eminence School District (Eminence, MO)
Audience: Elementary K-5 Teachers, Title Reading Teachers, Special Education Teachers or Interventionists, & Administrators
Dates: 5/17/2024 to 3/31/2025
Location: 6 Waynesville - Freedom Elementary (St. Robert, MO)
Dates: 5/21/2024 to 3/11/2025
Dates: 5/21/2024 to 8/7/2024
Program: RPDC - Kansas City
Location: Frontier School of Innovation – Elementary (Kansas City, MO)
Audience: Limited to MO Read, Lead Exceed Participants
Dates: 5/23/2024 to 3/24/2025
Dates: 5/28/2024 to 8/6/2024
Dates: 5/30/2024
Audience: Marshall and Glasgow School District Staff ONLY - K-5 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Coaches, Administrators
Dates: 5/30/2024 to 3/17/2025
Location: Stonegate Elementary School (Raymore, MO)
Audience: Limited to Raymore Peculiar School District teachers preregistered through MO Read, Lead, Exceed
Dates: 5/31/2024 to 5/5/2025
Dates: 6/5/2024
Learning Blade is an online system that allows ANY teacher to provide Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), Computer Science (CS) and Career and Technical Education (CTE)
Program: RPDC - Northwest
Location: 5 Varies, St. Joseph (St. Joseph, MO)
Audience: Year 1 Building Leaders and Mentors
Dates: 6/6/2024 to 5/29/2025
Dates: 6/11/2024 to 8/5/2024
Dates: 6/13/2024 to 8/8/2024
Dates: 6/17/2024 to 6/21/2024
Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)
Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators
Dates: 6/17/2024 to 3/4/2025
Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)
Dates: 6/17/2024 to 5/29/2025
Program: RPDC - Southeast
Location: 1 Southeast Missouri State University - Cape Girardeau (Cape Girardeau, MO) [map]
Audience: ALL EDUCATORS - Elementary Teachers, Secondary Teachers, Post-Secondary Instructors/Professors, Library Media Specialists, Building Administrators, District-Level Administrators, Instructional Technology Specialists, Instructional Coaches, etc.
Dates: 6/18/2024
Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training
Dates: 6/19/2024 to 2/25/2025
Dates: 6/24/2024 to 6/28/2024
Dates: 6/24/2024 to 3/26/2025
Dates: 6/26/2024
Participants also receive access to an A.I. Survival Guide with over 25 pages of additional resources.
Duane Martin and Emily Omohundro from Ed Counsel Law Firm will also discuss legal and policy ramifications.
Location: Varies (Varies, MO)
Audience: Building Leaders in Year 3 and Beyond
Dates: 6/27/2024
Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)
Dates: 7/1/2024 to 3/5/2025
Dates: 7/8/2024 to 3/18/2025
Location: 3 North Kansas City School District (Kansas City, MO)
Audience: Limited to MO READ, LEAD, EXCEED Participants Only
Dates: 7/9/2024 to 2/27/2025
Program: RPDC - Heart of MO - Regional Professional Development Center
Location: B105 Assessment Resource Center, 2800 Maguire Blvd, University of MO (Columbia, MO)
Dates: 7/9/2024 to 3/24/2025
Volume I includes 4 on-line units with a face-to-face training for each unit. All components are required and participants must attend all four face-to-face trainings. Units include: The Challenge of Learning to Read; The Speech Sounds of English; Teaching Beginning Phonics, Word Recognition, and Spelling; and Advanced Decoding, Spelling and Word Recognition. LETRS gives teachers the skills they need to master how to teach the five essential components of literacy, plus writing, spelling, and oral language. Teachers also learn: How to implement instructional routines and activities, Approaches to differentiate instruction to meet the literacy needs of all students, Bridge to Practice activities that ensure they can transfer what they learn in LETRS to the classroom.
Dates: 7/9/2024
Location: 6 S&T Phelps Health Annex E101 Seminar Room (Rolla, MO) [map]
Audience: Building Principals
Dates: 7/11/2024
Dates: 7/12/2024 to 4/15/2025
Location: 1 Southeast Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Cape Girardeau, MO) [map]
Dates: 7/16/2024 to 9/22/2025
Dates: 7/16/2024
Dates: 7/17/2024
Audience: Superintendents, Principals, Teacher Leaders Serving on Leadership Teams
Dates: 7/22/2024
Dates: 7/22/2024 to 4/1/2025
Location: 5. Lathrop School District (Lathrop, MO)
Audience: Beginning Teachers
Dates: 7/22/2024 to 3/20/2025
Audience: Mentors for BTAP Year 1 Teachers
Dates: 7/22/2024 to 2/26/2025
This program offers learning and support for mentor teachers.
MTDS Mastering: Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring is part of the Missouri Teacher Development System.
This opportunity provides:
-coaching, observation, and feedback training and support.
-consultant support
-regional networking with other mentor teachers
-opportunities to apply newly acquired skills with beginning teachers
-competency-based programming
Program: RPDC - Northeast
Location: 4 Truman State University (Kirksville, MO)
Audience: non-traditionally certified teachers
Dates: 7/23/2024 to 7/25/2024
Dates: 7/23/2024
Location: 9 University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg, MO) [map]
Dates: 7/24/2024 to 2/20/2025
Location: 6 West Plains Public Library (West Plains, MO)
Audience: First and Second year teachers needing to fulfill BTAP certification requirements
Dates: 7/24/2024 to 4/3/2025
Beginning teachers are one of our greatest assets. Yet, 17% of teachers leave the career within the first five years (Gray et al., 2015). Effective professional development is a key factor of teacher retention (Podolsky et al., 2018).
This program is part of the Missouri Teacher Development System. MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) meets Missouri's BTAP certification requirements. This opportunity provides: -networking with other new teachers and educational consultants -just-in-time learning (critical firsts) -awareness of the phases of a new teacher -relationship-building skills -on-demand learning, including videos by Mike Rutherford MTDS BTAP meets Missouri's BTAP certification requirements. If you are attending a workshop for which you have not registered, a late fee will be applied. Lunch will be provided. Please notify us of any dietary restrictions at least seven (7) days in advance.
MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) meets Missouri's BTAP certification requirements. This opportunity provides:
-just-in-time learning (critical firsts)
MTDS BTAP meets Missouri's BTAP certification requirements. If you are attending a workshop for which you have not registered, a late fee will be applied. Lunch will be provided. Please notify us of any dietary restrictions at least seven (7) days in advance.
Audience: K-12 Math Educators
Dates: 7/24/2024
Dates: 7/25/2024 to 1/31/2025
Audience: K-12 Classroom and SPED teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Paraprofessionals
Dates: 7/25/2024
Audience: Kindergarten Teachers, Title I, Special Education
Location: 6 Washington District Technology and Learning Center (Washington, MO)
Dates: 7/25/2024 to 4/17/2025
Location: 5. Savannah (Savannah, MO)
Audience: Alternative Certification Teachers
Dates: 7/26/2024 to 3/20/2025
Audience: Any educator and/or school leader responsible for development and implementation of Reading Success Plans
Dates: 7/26/2024
Location: 3 KCRPDC-Union Station (Kansas City, MO) [map]
Audience: Special Education teachers, related service providers, coordinators, school psychologists, behavior interventionists, administrators
Dates: 7/29/2024 to 7/30/2024
Location: Bolivar - Lime Bank (Bolivar, MO) [map]
Audience: Teachers with an Initial Certificate or considered Teachers of Record in their District in their first 2 years of teaching.
Dates: 7/29/2024 to 3/24/2025
MTDS BTAP meets Missouri's BTAP certification requirements.
Dates: 7/29/2024 to 2/24/2025
Dates: 7/29/2024 to 4/16/2025
Audience: K-12 Classroom and SPED teachers, Administrators, Counselors. Paras
Dates: 7/29/2024
Dates: 7/29/2024 to 5/5/2025
Audience: Early Childhood Special Education Teachers or Directors
Dates: 7/30/2024
Location: Ozark Christian College - Casteel Admin Building - Joplin (Joplin, MO) [map]
Dates: 7/30/2024 to 3/25/2025
Dates: 7/30/2024 to 2/25/2025
Audience: Mentors for BTAP New to Missouri Teachers
Dates: 7/30/2024 to 1/28/2025
Audience: Non-traditionally certified teachers that have yet to go through the BTAP program.
Dates: 7/30/2024 to 8/13/2024
Audience: All Educators
Dates: 7/30/2024 to 10/16/2024
Dates: 7/31/2024
Audience: Early Childhood Teachers or Directors, Head Start, PAT
Audience: Pre-K and Kindergarten Teachers
Dates: 7/31/2024 to 4/15/2025
Dates: 7/31/2024 to 4/16/2025
Dates: 7/31/2024 to 4/17/2025
Dates: 7/31/2024 to 3/18/2025
Volume 2 includes 4 on-line units with a face-to-face training for each unit. All components are required and participants must attend all four face-to-face trainings. Units include: The Mighty Word: Oral Language and Vocabulary; Digging for Meaning: Understanding Reading Comprehension; Text-Driven Comprehension Instruction; and The Reading-Writing Connection. LETRS gives teachers the skills they need to master how to teach the five essential components of literacy, plus writing, spelling, and oral language. Teachers also learn: How to implement instructional routines and activities, Approaches to differentiate instruction to meet the literacy needs of all students, Bridge to Practice activities that ensure they can transfer what they learn in LETRS to the classroom.
Location: 6 Comfort Suites in Rolla (Rolla, MO) [map]
Dates: 7/31/2024 to 4/14/2025
Audience: Second Year Teachers
Dates: 7/31/2024 to 3/17/2025
Dates: 7/31/2024 to 3/26/2025
Audience: Administrators, Teachers, Counselors, Paraprofessionals, Coaches - anyone who works with youth ages 12-18
Dates: 8/1/2024