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1. MLDS Year 1 Northwest (St Joseph)

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

Welcome to MLDS NEW LEADERS YEAR 1 - St. Joseph Cohort! The Missouri Leadership Development System provides training and support to new principals and assistant principals through research-based learning experiences. NEW LEADERS YEAR 1 and their mentors will participate in five regional meetings that provide practical knowledge, skills, along with networking opportunities for building administrators. One of the meetings includes a coaching lab that provides hands-on, practical experiences for leaders to improve their skills in developing and growing teachers. The capstone to this year of learning includes registration to the NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP SUMMIT on May 29, 2025. The Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS) is an important component to support the effort of all buildings.

The NEW LEADERS YEAR 1 level is the initial phase of MLDS support and is designed for first year principals and assistant principals. Principals will be guided by an established mentor during this year of learning. Participation in both Year 1 and Year 2 completes DESE requirements for new administrator mentoring.

Mentors are encouraged to register but will not be billed or charged for registration.
  • Enrolled: 26/50
  • Wait: 0/0

2. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 1 (Maryville)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 6/17/2024 to 3/4/2025

LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 27/30
  • Wait: 0/0

3. MLDS Year 1 Northwest (Trenton)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Year 1 Building Leaders and Mentors

Dates: 6/17/2024 to 5/29/2025

Welcome to MLDS NEW LEADERS YEAR 1 - Trenton Cohort! The Missouri Leadership Development System provides training and support to new principals and assistant principals through research-based learning experiences. NEW LEADERS YEAR 1 and their mentors will participate in five regional meetings that provide practical knowledge, skills, along with networking opportunities for building administrators. One of the meetings includes a coaching lab that provides hands-on, practical experiences for leaders to improve their skills in developing and growing teachers. The capstone to this year of learning includes registration to the NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP SUMMIT on May 29, 2025. The Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS) is an important component to support the effort of all buildings.

The NEW LEADERS YEAR 1 level is the initial phase of MLDS support and is designed for first year principals and assistant principals. Principals will be guided by an established mentor during this year of learning. Participation in both Year 1 and Year 2 completes DESE requirements for new administrator mentoring.

Mentors are encouraged to register but will not be billed or charged for registration.
  • Enrolled: 8/50
  • Wait: 0/0

4. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 1 (Trenton)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 6/19/2024 to 2/25/2025

This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 16/30
  • Wait: 0/2

5. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 2 (Trenton)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 6/24/2024 to 3/26/2025

This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 22/30
  • Wait: 0/2

6. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 2 ( St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 7/1/2024 to 3/5/2025

LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 19/30
  • Wait: 0/0

7. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 3 ( Trenton)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 7/8/2024 to 3/18/2025

LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 16/24
  • Wait: 0/0

8. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 4 (St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 7/12/2024 to 4/15/2025

This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 22/30
  • Wait: 0/2

9. Data Treasure Hunt & Data Drill Down

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Superintendents, Principals, Teacher Leaders Serving on Leadership Teams

Dates: 7/22/2024

Julia Schmitz will be sharing processes and tools to assist leaders in organizing Report Card, APR, MAP/EOC and other academic data into a useful format. These tools will assist educators in taking a deeper dive to determine patterns that exist over time. During the session, participants will have time to analyze these trends to ultimately identify specific strengths and areas for growth. A laptop will be needed, along with access DESE Application Sign-In (DAS).

Lunch on your own

  • Enrolled: 1/36
  • Wait: 0/0

10. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 4 (Trenton)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 7/22/2024 to 4/1/2025

LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 24/30
  • Wait: 0/2

11. MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) Year 1 - Lathrop

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Lathrop School District (Lathrop, MO)

Audience: Beginning Teachers

Dates: 7/22/2024 to 3/20/2025

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

  • Enrolled: 14/20
  • Wait: 0/0

12. MTDS Mastering: Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring - Lathrop

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Lathrop School District (Lathrop, MO)

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

 

  • Enrolled: 9/20
  • Wait: 0/0

13. What Students Do Fostered by How You Teach Math - Session 4

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Math Educators

Dates: 7/24/2024

Are your students making connections in math class? Do they have the stamina needed to persevere through challenging problems? Can they share their thinking in multiple ways? Come learn engaging strategies to develop your students' critical thinking skills. Each session will focus on specific math practices through implementing strategies, routines and tasks to engage students in active learning, connecting math knowledge, and facilitating student communication through talking and writing. Collectively, participants will learn about the eight mathematical practices as outlined by NCTM.

June 27
 Session 1: Math Practice 3 (Critical Thinking/Justify Reasoning) + Math Practice 6 (Communicate and Compute w/ Precision)

July 10
Session 2: Math Practice 2 (Reason Contextually and Abstractly) + Math Practice 5 (Use of Tools Effectively & Strategically)

July 17
Session 3: Math Practice 1 (Persevere and Problem Solve) + Math Practice 8 (Look for and Express Repeated Reasoning)

July 24
Session 4: Math Practice 4 (Modeling Real-World Situations) + Math Practice 7 (Use of Structures and Patterns)

 *The above may be taken as a single session or in any combination of two to four sessions.

Lunch on your own

Optional 1 hour graduate credit available if you take an additional learning training and complete additional course work for both.
  • Enrolled: 5/30
  • Wait: 0/0

14. 4 C's for Behavior Management

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: K-12 Classroom and SPED teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Paraprofessionals

Dates: 7/25/2024

Behavior management can be time-consuming and energy-draining, but it does not have to be. Join us as we focus on the Four C's of establishing an effective behavior management system: climate, communication, curriculum, and culture. These principles apply at all levels of education. By incorporating the 4 C's, teachers can establish safe, healthy, and enjoyable learning environments for their students.

Lunch on your own.

Optional 1 hour graduate credit available if you take an additional learning training and complete additional course work for both.
  • Enrolled: 12/30
  • Wait: 0/0

15. Kindergarten Writing Teachers, This One is for You!

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Kindergarten Teachers, Title I, Special Education

Dates: 7/25/2024

This professional development opportunity is designed for kindergarten educators committed to enhancing their instructional practices and equipping young learners with foundational writing skills. You will leave feeling empowered to create an engaging and effective writing program in your kindergarten classroom.

Lunch on your own

Optional 1 hour graduate credit available if you take an additional learning training and complete additional course work for both.
  • Enrolled: 29/30
  • Wait: 0/0

16. Teaching as a Career: Alternative Certification (Savannah)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Savannah (Savannah, MO)

Audience: Alternative Certification Teachers

Dates: 7/25/2024

This session is for those who are obtaining Alternative Certification. This session will provide participants with information on state requirements, certification, classroom management, navigating the DESE website, state assessments, and the Missouri Learning Standards. (Possibility for continued support thru network: zooms, etc.) Lunch on your own

This session is also offered on June 20
  • Enrolled: 5/25
  • Wait: 0/0

17. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 3 (St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 7/26/2024 to 3/20/2025

Wait List
This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 31/30
  • Wait: 0/2

18. Reading Success Plans (RSP) Information Overview

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Any educator and/or school leader responsible for development and implementation of Reading Success Plans

Dates: 7/26/2024

This session is a repeat for those who could not attend last year's sessions in Writing Individual Reading Success Plans.
Participants will examine:
* what Senate Bill 681 is requiring us to do in reference to stronger literacy development
* DESE guidance on overall development of individual student plans
* steps needed to ensure the correct skills needed for targeting instruction
* sample plans related to special education and ELL students

Lunch on your own

  • Enrolled: 14/25
  • Wait: 0/0

19. MTDS Mastering: Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring - Trenton

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Mentors for BTAP Year 1 Teachers

Dates: 7/29/2024 to 2/24/2025

Starting Soon

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

 

  • Enrolled: 11/15
  • Wait: 0/0

20. Understanding the De-Escalation Cycle

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Classroom and SPED teachers, Administrators, Counselors. Paras

Dates: 7/29/2024

Starting Soon
This session will provide an overview of the de-escalation cycle along with strategies to use throughout the stages of de-escalation and recovery.

Lunch on your own.
  • Enrolled: 11/25
  • Wait: 0/0

21. Early Childhood Special Education Including Early Childhood Outcomes

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Early Childhood Special Education Teachers or Directors

Dates: 7/30/2024

Starting Soon
Are you new to Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) and Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO)? Would you like an opportunity to gain skills in identifying and assessing young children, writing ECSE evaluations and IEPs, and or completing ECO? ECSE services are designed to promote child development and learning. Families, teachers, and other professionals work together as a team to develop and implement an Individualized Education Program (IEP) that supports the growth, development, and continuous learning. The ECOs are goal areas for all children receiving ECSE services. They focus on how children use their skills to accomplish meaningful tasks in the following three areas:

* gaining positive social-emotional skills, including social relationships
* learning and using new knowledge and skills
* using appropriate behaviors to meet their needs

Lunch on your own.
  • Enrolled: 14/25
  • Wait: 0/0

22. MTDS Mastering: Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring - Maryville

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: Mentors for BTAP Year 1 Teachers

Dates: 7/30/2024 to 2/25/2025

Starting Soon

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

 

  • Enrolled: 19/30
  • Wait: 0/0

23. MTDS Mastering: Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring - New to Missouri

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Mentors for BTAP New to Missouri Teachers

Dates: 7/30/2024 to 1/28/2025

Starting Soon

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

 

  • Enrolled: 0/30
  • Wait: 0/0

24. MTDS Mastering: Foundations of Coaching and Mentoring - St Joseph

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Mentors for BTAP Year 1 Teachers

Dates: 7/30/2024 to 2/25/2025

Starting Soon

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

 

  • Enrolled: 14/30
  • Wait: 0/0

25. Early Childhood Education: Providing a Framework of Expectations for PreK

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Early Childhood Teachers or Directors, Head Start, PAT

Dates: 7/31/2024

Starting Soon
Are you a new preschool teacher or new to early learning at large? This session will provide you tools and resources, as well as the opportunity to acquire skills to improve the educational and social-emotional outcomes for young children from ages 3-5. Join us as we work together to support high-quality programs in northwest Missouri.
Focus areas include:

* children learn and develop in their unique ways
* methods to assess and build on the strengths of each child
* use MEL standards to support the safe and healthy development of young children

Lunch on your own.
  • Enrolled: 9/25
  • Wait: 0/0

26. MTDS Purposeful Lesson Planning (BTAP Year 2) - Trenton

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Second Year Teachers

Dates: 7/31/2024 to 3/17/2025

Starting Soon
BTAP Year 2/Purposeful Lesson Planning and offers continued support for early career teachers.

This opportunity provides:
* application of The Artisan Teacher themes in lesson design
* application of high-yield strategies in lesson design
* consultant support
* teacher collaboration and networking

BTAP Year 2 is a four-day program designed to support teachers in applying The Artisan Teacher themes and high-yield instructional strategies in lesson design.

Upon completion, this program meets BTAP Year 2 certification requirements.
  • Enrolled: 18/30
  • Wait: 0/0

27. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 5 (St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 8/1/2024 to 4/2/2025

Starting Soon
LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 15/30
  • Wait: 0/0

28. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 6 (Maryville)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 8/2/2024 to 4/3/2025

Starting Soon
LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 14/30
  • Wait: 0/0

29. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 5 (St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 8/2/2024 to 5/6/2025

Starting Soon
This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 24/30
  • Wait: 0/2

30. MTDS Purposeful Lesson Planning (BTAP Year 2) - Maryville/St Joseph

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Second Year Teachers

Dates: 8/2/2024 to 3/18/2025

Starting Soon
BTAP Year 2/Purposeful Lesson Planning and offers continued support for early career teachers.

This opportunity provides:
* application of The Artisan Teacher themes in lesson design
* application of high-yield strategies in lesson design
* consultant support
* teacher collaboration and networking

BTAP Year 2 is a four-day program designed to support teachers in applying The Artisan Teacher themes and high-yield instructional strategies in lesson design.

Upon completion, this program meets BTAP Year 2 certification requirements.
  • Enrolled: 29/40
  • Wait: 0/0

31. Building Teacher Confidence and Capacity: Strategies for Managing Minor Classroom Behaviors

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Classroom and SPED teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Paras

Dates: 8/5/2024

Teacher confidence and capacity influence instructional practices, student outcomes, and overall job fulfillment. As educators, nurturing our confidence and self-efficacy is essential for creating positive learning environments. In this session, teachers will receive an overview of the "Guiding Hand” that can be used to effectively manage minor classroom behaviors through use of proximity, redirects, reteaching, providing choice, and conferencing. These strategies empower teachers to address minor behaviors while students remain in the classroom and continue learning.

Lunch on your own.
  • Enrolled: 14/25
  • Wait: 0/0

32. Leadership Academy - Northwest RPDC

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Principals and assistant principals with 3 or more years of experience.

Dates: 8/5/2024 to 4/1/2025

Welcome to Missouri Leadership Academy - Northwest Cohort! Missouri Leadership Academy is part of the Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS) and is intended for building level administrators to participate in both statewide and regional professional learning and networking for an intensive year of leadership development. Leadership Academy is designed for building leaders in Year 3 and beyond. The Leadership Academy emphasizes the importance of building capacity of instructional practices, leadership for change, and deep understanding of self and others that correlates to high academic achievement for students.

The program includes includes:
* 3 state meetings: Kickoff (June), Winter Meeting (January) and Graduation (June)
* Outdoor Leadership Experience (October) held at YMCA Trout Lodge, Potosi
* 4 regional cohort meetings
* Optional legislative/DESE visit

Participants also need to register for the statewide Leadership Academy 39 (2024-2025)

Fee includes program registration for regional meetings. Transportation and lodging to state meetings is not included. An additional $300 fee will be paid to YMCA of the Ozarks for OLE.

Scholarships are available through Northwest RPDC! Please email Tiffany Otto (totto@nwmissouri.edu) if you have any questions.
  • Enrolled: 10/25
  • Wait: 0/2

33. MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) Year 1 - New to Missouri

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Beginning Teachers

Dates: 8/5/2024 to 4/1/2025

This BTAP program is specifically designed for teachers who have moved to Missouri with prior teaching experience from another state but are required to attend a "new" teacher training in order to meet BTAP requirements for certification in Missouri. This program will support you as a teacher new to Missouri but not new to teaching! In addition, this program will provide initial certification requirements required by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education while honoring the years of teaching experiences of attendees. Mentors will attend August and January sessions with their teachers.

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

-relationship-building skills

-on-demand learning, including videos by Mike Rutherford

-understanding grade-level expectations, Missouri Learning Standards, Missouri Priority Standards and assessment blueprints/resources

  • Enrolled: 2/25
  • Wait: 0/0

34. MTDS Teacher Academy

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Teachers with 3 or more years of teaching

Dates: 8/5/2024 to 4/10/2025

This program offers support for mid-career teachers.

MTDS Teacher Academy is part of the Missouri Teacher Development System and is open to any teacher who has:

-completed a Beginning Teacher Assistance Program in MO

-completed at least 3 years of successful teaching

-a strong desire for professional improvement

This opportunity provides:

-Statewide event with national expert, John Antonetti

-a copy John's book: 17,000 Classroom Visits Can't Be Wrong

-access to on-demand learning modules to enrich teacher learning anywhere and anytime

-consultant support

-networking with other teachers

-competency-based programming

  • Enrolled: 9/25
  • Wait: 0/0

35. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 6 (Maryville)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 8/6/2024 to 5/7/2025

This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 12/30
  • Wait: 0/2

36. MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) Year 1 - Trenton

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Beginning Teachers

Dates: 8/6/2024 to 3/24/2025

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

  • Enrolled: 23/25
  • Wait: 0/0

37. Leadership Teams: Empowering Teachers, Elevating Professional Learning Community Processes, Maximizing Student Learning Outcomes

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: District Leadership Teams

Dates: 8/7/2024 to 4/14/2025

Did you know that collective teacher efficacy is the most powerful influence leading to impact in schools? Looking to build capacity in a school-wide leadership team that focuses on elevating the teaching and learning experiences of all students? Looking to build capacity in a team that can effectively lead the CSIP goals recently established? Let us help you by providing leadership learning experiences for your team members. Come learn with and from other school teams in the same room!

Training highlights:
* Empowering teachers through shared leadership
* Developing a collaborative culture
* Goal setting: Where are we? Where are we going? Best path to get there?
* Exploring new ways to tackle challenges
* Aligning practices
* Designing professional learning that leads to impact

Leadership Teams include the principal and designated faculty members. It is important that Leadership Teams include adequate representation from all grade levels and disciplines to positively influence change and growth, generally a minimum of 4 staff plus the administrator.

Fee is $200 per team of 5, per session; $50 per session for each additional person. Lunch included.

Graduate Credit available to teachers participating in this learning experience. If your PDC is functioning as the Building Leadership Team, this training is still for you!
  • Enrolled: 28/40
  • Wait: 0/0

38. Math Fluency (K-5)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-5 Math Educators

Dates: 8/7/2024

State standards require students to demonstrate fluency, but what does that really mean? Fluency is more than a quick answer; it requires conceptual understanding of operations and properties along with students' knowledge of various strategies and representations. Join us to learn how to give each student access to the knowledge and power to become skilled and confident mathematical thinkers and doers. By the end of the session, participants will:

* Understand the definition and big ideas of fluency
* Investigate strategies for efficient and flexible learners
* Learn and play fluency games and routines for classroom use

Lunch on your own

Optional 1 hour graduate credit available if you take an additional learning training and complete additional course work for both.
  • Enrolled: 21/30
  • Wait: 0/0

39. MTDS Purposeful Lesson Planning (BTAP Year 2) - Lathrop

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Lathrop School District (Lathrop, MO)

Audience: Second Year Teachers

Dates: 8/7/2024 to 3/31/2025

BTAP Year 2/Purposeful Lesson Planning and offers continued support for early career teachers.

This opportunity provides:
* application of The Artisan Teacher themes in lesson design
* application of high-yield strategies in lesson design
* consultant support
* teacher collaboration and networking

BTAP Year 2 is a four-day program designed to support teachers in applying The Artisan Teacher themes and high-yield instructional strategies in lesson design.

Upon completion, this program meets BTAP Year 2 certification requirements.
  • Enrolled: 14/30
  • Wait: 0/0

40. MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) Year 1 - Maryville

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: Beginning Teachers

Dates: 8/8/2024 to 3/27/2025

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

  • Enrolled: 23/30
  • Wait: 0/0

41. Using the Great 8 for Effective Behavioral Management

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: K-12 Classroom and SPED teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Paras

Dates: 8/8/2024

Learn proven strategies that will assist the daily demands of behavior management in your classroom. Strategies to implement the 8 Effective Teaching and Learning Practices will be presented.

Lunch on your own.

Optional 1 hour graduate credit available if you take an additional learning training and complete additional course work for both.
  • Enrolled: 11/30
  • Wait: 0/0

42. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 7 (St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 8/9/2024 to 5/8/2025

This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 9/30
  • Wait: 0/2

43. MTDS Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) Year 1 - St Joseph

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Beginning Teachers

Dates: 8/9/2024 to 3/25/2025

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

  • Enrolled: 19/30
  • Wait: 0/0

44. New to School-Wide PBS

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: New to SW-PBS, Current Team Members and/or Coaches

Dates: 8/12/2024

All buildings experience turnover at one level or another each year. If your building has created a School-wide Positive Behavior Support system and desires to maintain fidelity of implementation, it's important to train new staff and administrators in the system. New to SW-PBS is designed to meet this need. The session will include an introduction to SW-PBS and its system pieces, as well as an opportunity for a representative from your existing SW-PBS team to share specific artifacts from your building's system. Save time and ensure fidelity of implementation by sending your new staff and a building coach to this session.
During this session, participants will:
* gain a working knowledge of the essential components of SW-PBS and how they are being implemented in your specific building
* familiarize new staff with the specific artifacts being utilized in their SW-PBS building
* gain a working knowledge of the 8 Effective Teaching and Learning Practices
  • Enrolled: 10/25
  • Wait: 0/0

45. Trauma Responsive: Building Student Support Team Capacity

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Nurses, Counselors

Dates: 8/12/2024 to 4/8/2025

As an educator, you face the impact of trauma in your school every day. Whether it is acute or complex trauma, those experiences disrupt brain activity and can lead students to exhibit disruptive and/or disengaged behaviors. This year-long cohort (6 sessions) requires a team of five* building representatives which could include, but are not limited to: building leader, classroom teacher, counselor, special education teacher, school nurse, school resource officer, etc. School representatives must attend all six sessions.

We will use the Missouri Model for Trauma-Informed Schools to address the underlying causes of trauma, identify student responses and implement highly effective school-wide systems of support.
*School wide teams will be based on the student population.

Session 1) Intro to Trauma - before school starts
Session 2) Reframing Responses to Trauma
Session 3) Missouri Model Implementation
Session 4) Emotional Poverty Part 1
Session 5) Emotional Poverty Part 2
Session 6) Data Analysis, Reflection, and Next Steps

Fee is $200 per team per session ($1,200 total per team); $50 per session for each additional person. Lunch included.
  • Enrolled: 7/52
  • Wait: 0/0

46. NEW to MAP-A Training

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Teachers, Administrators new or needing a refresher of MAP-A administration

Dates: 8/26/2024

Special Education personnel who are new to the administration of the MAP-A or need to be more familiar with the process, will learn information to equip themselves for full implementation. Participants will learn about the relationship between the MAP-A and the DLM, how to determine eligibility for MAP-A, Timelines for the MAP-A assessment, MAP-A resources, MAP-A terms and vocabulary, and Resources on DESE or DLM website. In addition, they will:
* Understand the similarities and differences for MAP-A ELA, math and science
* Know the responsibilities of test administrators and other school district roles
* Know how to use the Instruction and Assessment Planner
* Be familiar with the Kite® Suite
*Participants will need to bring their school calendars or lesson plan book which will be used as they develop a plan and their own "to do list" for administration of the MAP-A during the 2024-25 school year.
*Participants MUST also download and PRINT the latest version of the Test Administration Manual and the Accessibility Manual.
*Each participant will need to bring a laptop with paper copies or electronic access to the Essential Elements for their particular grade.
A link will be sent to each participant for these documents closer to the training dates.
Lunch provided.
  • Enrolled: 3/30
  • Wait: 0/5

47. MAP-A Training

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Educators administering the MAP-A

Dates: 8/29/2024

MAP-A professional learning builds participant knowledge in the process of completing the Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) for our students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. Teachers learn to utilize the process and components of this assessment, including the use of the educator portal, to embed the essential elements from the DLM into daily instructional opportunities for students. This process builds student knowledge and capacity to demonstrate growth on the summative version of the MAP-A.

Lunch provided.
  • Enrolled: 0/40
  • Wait: 0/0

48. Special Education Process Refresher Network (Trenton)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: K-12 Special Education teachers, coordinators

Dates: 8/30/2024 to 3/7/2025

This network is an overview of the special education process. SPED Process refresher is for teachers who have previously/currently taught special education but need updated information and tools. The course will review the following topics:
* Golden Thread
* Interventions
* Referral
* RED
* Initial Evaluation (including categorical eligibility criteria and observations)
* Re-Evaluation
* Notice of Meeting and Notice of Action
* IEP (including PLAAFP and SMART Goals)
* Prior Written Notice
* Monitoring Progress (including data collection)
* Progress Reporting
* Aligning goals/instruction to MLS
* Transitions (First Steps to ECSE, Part C to B, and Form C).

The MO Special Education Compliance Standards and Indicators and the MO State Plan for Special Education will be referred to throughout the instruction. Time will be embedded throughout to improve upon current draft documents.

Lunch included. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 3/24
  • Wait: 0/0

49. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 7 (St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 9/3/2024 to 5/1/2025

LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 26/30
  • Wait: 0/0

50. LETRS for Early Childhood Educators Cohort 2 (Trenton)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: PreK - K Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 9/4/2024 to 4/11/2025

This four-day series is designed to deepen your understanding of the what, why, and how of early literacy and language development, including assessment and instruction strategies. LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) provides the "science of reading” application of research into the classroom no matter the curriculum or program used. The blended learning format of this series includes four days of face-to-face training and self-paced online tutorials/videos of effective early childhood classroom instruction.
  • Enrolled: 7/24
  • Wait: 0/2

51. Instructional Coach/Leader Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 To Be Determined (To Be Determined, MO)

Audience: Instructional Coaches, Instructional Leaders

Dates: 9/5/2024 to 5/1/2025

Instructional Coaches voiced an interest and we listened!

Join us for the launch of the Northwest RPDC Instructional Coaches/Instructional Leaders Network. We will cover topics that impact your role, such as providing feedback through coaching cycles, coaching conversations, providing feedback that guides instructional changes, and various instructional coaching resources and styles. In addition, time will be allowed for conversations and networking with other Instructional Coaches/Instructional Leaders to troubleshoot during each meeting!

This will be a hybrid format that combines face-to-face and zoom meetings. Face-to-face will meet at Trenton or Chillicothe. Two meetings will be Zoom. Face-to-Face dates will meet 9:00am-2:00pm. Zoom dates will meet 9:00-11:30am.

Lunch provided
  • Enrolled: 5/32
  • Wait: 0/0

52. Special Education Process Refresher Network (St Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Special Education teachers, coordinators

Dates: 9/5/2024 to 3/19/2025

This network is an overview of the special education process. SPED Process refresher is for teachers who have previously/currently taught special education but need updated information and tools. The course will review the following topics:
* Golden Thread
* Interventions
* Referral
* RED
* Initial Evaluation (including categorical eligibility criteria and observations)
* Re-Evaluation
* Notice of Meeting and Notice of Action
* IEP (including PLAAFP and SMART Goals)
* Prior Written Notice
* Monitoring Progress (including data collection)
* Progress Reporting
* Aligning goals/instruction to MLS
* Transitions (First Steps to ECSE, Part C to B, and Form C).

The MO Special Education Compliance Standards and Indicators and the MO State Plan for Special Education will be referred to throughout the instruction. Time will be embedded throughout to improve upon current draft documents.

Lunch included. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 1/24
  • Wait: 0/0

53. LETRS: Volume 2, Units 5-8 Cohort 8 (Maryville)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: Teachers that have completed LETRS Units 1-4 Training

Dates: 9/6/2024 to 4/4/2025

This training is only for teachers who have successfully completed LETRS Volume 1, Units 1-4.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.

This in-depth training looks into the science of reading research for teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing. Participants will link oral language to vocabulary, writing phases of development and spelling. Instructional practices will be reviewed for understanding writing phases across genre, and how explicit lesson planning can change comprehension, vocabulary retention and spelling. Participants will also walk away with the ability to distinguish between comprehension products and processes while using and viewing multiple lessons/resources for deepening the foundations of reading. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.
  • Enrolled: 28/32
  • Wait: 0/0

54. MAP-A Training

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Educators administering the MAP-A

Dates: 9/6/2024

MAP-A professional learning builds participant knowledge in the process of completing the Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) for our students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. Teachers learn to utilize the process and components of this assessment, including the use of the educator portal, to embed the essential elements from the DLM into daily instructional opportunities for students. This process builds student knowledge and capacity to demonstrate growth on the summative version of the MAP-A.

Lunch provided.
  • Enrolled: 1/40
  • Wait: 0/0

55. Northwest MTDS Grow Your Own (GYO) Regional Cohort

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Dates: 9/11/2024 to 2/11/2025

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 cohorts 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 for quarterly meetings 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 cohorts support the implementation and growth of GYO teacher recruitment programs in all Missouri school districts and charter schools. The state MTDS GYO Teacher Development Specialist, 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 cohort gatherings.

      To sign-up for the Teaching as a Career Externship, complete the form linked through the QR code on the Teaching as a Career Externship flyer or go to https://tinyurl.com/TeachExternship



      Lunch included
  • Enrolled: 3/25
  • Wait: 0/0

56. MLDS Advanced Leadership Cohort 3

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Principals and assistant principals with 3 or more years of experience

Dates: 9/12/2024 to 5/29/2025

Welcome to MLDS ADVANCED LEADERSHIP - Cohort 3! As an experienced leader, the MLDS Advanced series is a continuation of leader training through research-based learning experiences. ADVANCED LEADERSHIP - Cohort 3 participants will engage in four regional meetings that provide practical knowledge, skills, along with networking opportunities for building administrators. One of the meetings includes a coaching lab that provides hands-on, practical experiences for leaders to improve their skills in developing and growing teachers. The capstone to this year of learning includes registration to the NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP SUMMIT on May 29, 2025. The Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS) is an important component to support the effort of all buildings.

The ADVANCED LEADERSHIP - Cohort 3 level is designed for experienced principals and assistant principals with 3 or more years of experience. Enrollment in the MLDS Advanced Leadership series is best aligned after completion of NEW LEADER YEAR 1 and YEAR 2, but is not required. Please email Tiffany Otto (totto@nwmissouri.edu) if you have any questions.
  • Enrolled: 6/50
  • Wait: 0/0

57. K-5 Math Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 To Be Determined (To Be Determined, MO)

Audience: K-5 Math Teachers

Dates: 9/16/2024 to 11/18/2024

How can student-centered mathematics instruction be made more accessible and manageable for teachers? How can classroom discussions be planned to ensure student learning? In this elementary mathematics network, participants will investigate these questions as they explore the research of Margaret S. Smith and Mary Kay Stein in their book 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions. Participants will learn how to utilize the 5 Practices framework to effectively facilitate classroom discussions that are responsive to both students and the discipline. As teachers explore the set of instructional practices, they will have the opportunity to collaborate and plan for classroom implementation with other educators across the region. Sessions will address the following:

* The 5 Practices model for lesson preparation
* Motivating and engaging elementary mathematics students
* Promoting participation, collaboration, and problem-solving in the mathematics classroom
* Collaboration and integration of network attendee needs and resources

Please register by September 4 to reserve your copy of the 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions book.

Fee includes book and lunch. Optional Grad credit available
  • Enrolled: 1/25
  • Wait: 0/0

58. LETRS Volume 1: Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling - Cohort 8 (St. Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-6 Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 9/16/2024 to 5/5/2025

LETRS provides teachers with the tools and understanding to teach the essential skills needed for literacy. LETRS is NOT a program. Teachers learn the "science of reading" so they are able to apply research into classroom application no matter the curriculum or program used. Instruction is a mixture of 4 face to face learning sessions through structured modules PLUS 4 units of online videos including examples of effective classroom instruction. Teachers will be asked to apply the information on chosen students.

All training facilitated by a LETRS certified trainer. Training includes 5 sessions and 4 on-line modules/videos of effective instruction, with classroom observations.

Each participant must purchase materials for implementation. You must have the materials prior to session 1.
If you are a recipient of the MO Read, Lead, Exceed Scholarship, your materials and training will be provided for free.
  • Enrolled: 8/30
  • Wait: 0/0

59. 3-5 Science Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: 3-5 Science Teachers

Dates: 9/17/2024 to 3/11/2025

We know that formative assessments can help guide success of learning, so how are your assessments? Do you have assessments that can drive your students to success? Do you have enough assessments or assessment items to know if success has occurred? Do your assessments measure the rigor, alignment, and type of thinking needed to meet the Missouri Learning Standards? Do your assessments measure the information needed to know where your students are in relation to learning?

Come join us as we:
* Analyze district state science reports for strengths and challenges
* Revisit unwrapping of standards to ensure intent is captured in assessments and/or assessment items
* Generate a bank of assessment items
* Collaborate and network with other district teachers over science content/activities/skills needed to master standards
* Create benchmark assessments and/or assessment items for classroom use

Lunch included. Graduate credit available.
  • Enrolled: 1/25
  • Wait: 0/0

60. MLDS Year 2 Northwest

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Year 2 Building Leaders and Mentors

Dates: 9/17/2024 to 5/29/2025

Welcome to MLDS NEW LEADERS YEAR 2! The Missouri Leadership Development System provides training and support to building administrators through research-based learning experiences. NEW LEADERS YEAR 2 and their mentors will participate in five regional meetings that provide practical knowledge, skills, along with networking opportunities for building administrators. One of the meetings includes a coaching lab that provides hands-on, practical experiences for leaders to improve their skills in developing and growing teachers. The capstone to this year of learning includes registration to the NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP SUMMIT on May 29, 2025. The Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS) is an important component to support the effort of all buildings.

The NEW LEADERS YEAR 2 level is designed for second year principals and assistant principals. Principals will continue to be guided by their established mentors. Completion of NEW LEADERS YEAR 1 is a prerequisite for participation in NEW LEADERS YEAR 2 activities. Participation in both Year 1 and Year 2 completes DESE requirements for new administrator mentoring.

Mentors are encouraged to register but will not be billed or charged for registration.
  • Enrolled: 25/50
  • Wait: 0/0

61. Post-Secondary Transition Academy

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 To Be Determined (To Be Determined, MO)

Audience: MS/HS Special Education Teachers and Directors

Dates: 9/17/2024 to 9/18/2024

Transition Academy is designed to help educators plan for students transitioning from high school to the adult world. This can be a challenging time for students, especially those with disabilities, as they enter a world of unfamiliar routines, new environments, and novel experiences. To ease these transitions and make them as smooth as possible, teachers and school personnel, along with others (e.g., families, and community agencies), should assist students with disabilities in the process of selecting appropriate goals and developing the requisite skills to achieve these goals in three main areas:
* Work: A job they want and are good at
* Education/Training: Gain the skills needed for the job
* Living: A place they want to live along with Community involvement. Activities they undertake to become a part of their community after they finish high school and throughout adulthood

Optional 1 hour graduate credit available if you complete additional course work.
  • Enrolled: 3/25
  • Wait: 0/0

62. 6-8 Science Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: 6-8 Science Teachers

Dates: 9/18/2024 to 3/12/2025

We know that formative assessments can help guide success of learning, so how are your assessments? Do you have assessments that can drive your students to success? Do you have enough assessments or assessment items to know if success has occurred? Do your assessments measure the rigor, alignment, and type of thinking needed to meet the Missouri Learning Standards? Do your assessments measure the information needed to know where your students are in relation to learning?

Come join us as we:
* Analyze district state science reports for strengths and challenges
* Revisit unwrapping of standards to ensure intent is captured in assessments and/or assessment items
* Generate a bank of assessment items
* Collaborate and network with other district teachers over science content/activities/skills needed to master standards
* Create benchmark assessments and/or assessment items for classroom use

Lunch included. Graduate credit available.
  • Enrolled: 1/25
  • Wait: 0/0

63. Biology Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Biology Teachers

Dates: 9/19/2024 to 3/13/2025

We know that formative assessments can help guide success of learning, so how are your assessments? Do you have assessments that can drive your students to success? Do you have enough assessments or assessment items to know if success has occurred? Do your assessments measure the rigor, alignment, and type of thinking needed to meet the Missouri Learning Standards? Do your assessments measure the information needed to know where your students are in relation to learning?

Come join us as we:
* Analyze district state science reports for strengths and challenges
* Revisit unwrapping of standards to ensure intent is captured in assessments and/or assessment items
* Generate a bank of assessment items
* Collaborate and network with other district teachers over science content/activities/skills needed to master standards
* Create benchmark assessments and/or assessment items for classroom use

Lunch included. Graduate credit available.
  • Enrolled: 0/25
  • Wait: 0/0

64. Special Ed Director Network: Clarifying Compliance Through Collaboration

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Special Ed Directors

Dates: 9/19/2024 to 3/28/2025

This Academy is a network of directors who will discuss DESE "hot topics”, Compliance Conversations, and the monthly SPED "to-do” list. Time for the directors/administrators to interact/collaborate and exchange information will be provided.

Lunch included.
  • Enrolled: 5/20
  • Wait: 0/0

65. Teacher Academy Graduates: Developing Stories Through Powerful Task Design

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Dates: 9/19/2024 to 3/20/2025

Powerful Task Design is open to any teacher who has a strong desire for continuous professional improvement. It is recommended to attend Teacher Academy prior to attending this program but not required.

This opportunity provides:
* state event with national expert, Dr. John Antonetti
* a copy of Antonetti's book: Powerful Task Design
* consultant support
* networking and collaboration with other teachers

This is a five-day program including one state-wide meeting day with Dr. Antonetti.
  • Enrolled: 4/25
  • Wait: 0/0

66. Early Childhood Network - East

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Trenton (Trenton, MO)

Audience: PreK Educators

Dates: 9/24/2024 to 3/12/2025

The Early Childhood Network collaboration is a great place to be surrounded by like-minded professionals. Discussions about what success looks like for a young child, newest research findings in early childhood, and how the Missouri Early Learning Standards help us to assess the youngest learners will all be shared. Each session will offer opportunities for collaboration around hot topics in preschool.

Participant learning experiences include:
* Exploring Early Childhood Practices trauma informed practices with young children
* Building content skills through the Missouri Learning Standards
* PLAY and the importance of critical thinking and problem solving at an early age

Lunch included. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 0/24
  • Wait: 0/0

67. MTDS Mastering A: Facilitating Self-Directed Student Learning

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 To Be Determined (To Be Determined, MO)

Audience: Year 3 or more teachers

Dates: 9/24/2024 to 4/14/2025

This program is for educators who have two years or more teaching experience and are interested in competency-based learning environments. This collaborative group will focus on guiding students to become assessment-capable learners utilizing success criteria, student goal setting, student reflection of learning, and student articulation of learning paths.

This is a four-day program with two additional days of teaching studies (classroom observations).
  • Enrolled: 2/30
  • Wait: 0/0

68. Science of Reading Network for Administrators

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Administrators of teachers who are enrolled in LETRS

Dates: 9/24/2024 to 3/4/2025

This network will develop administrative understanding of how to support teachers aligning their practice and decision making with the Science of Reading (SOR). This session is for administrators who have teachers involved in LETRS or hoping to begin LETRS training and desire to be ‘lead learners' in the science of reading.

Topics will include but not limited to:
* Implementation of SOR
* Putting LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) into practice
* Growing individual teacher knowledge toward systemic understanding

Because this is a series, please plan to attend all sessions. This will allow us to tailor content to the needs of the group.
  • Enrolled: 5/36
  • Wait: 0/0

69. MLDS Leadership RoundTable

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Virtual (Virtual, MO)

Audience: K-12 building principals and assistant principals

Dates: 9/25/2024 to 4/30/2025

Want to engage in CONVERSATION and COACHING on current dilemmas and issues in education with other K-12 building leaders? Join us for LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE; a Zoom virtual chat session with other leaders in the northwest region consisting of 2-3 currently relevant topics generated FROM leaders, FOR leaders. No cost for participation. Sessions will last from 9:00-10:00 am.

Participants need only register one time to attend the sessions they're available to participate in. Instructions for topic ideas and a Zoom link will be emailed to participants closer to the first session in September
  • Enrolled: 19/60
  • Wait: 0/5

70. Rural Advocate East - Principals

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 North Central Missouri College (Trenton, MO)

Audience: High School Principals

Dates: 9/26/2024 to 4/24/2025

THIS SESSION IS BY INVITATION ONLY

Come join this networking opportunity for Rural School Administrators.
* Question/Answer with Nancy Greeley
* Current educational celebrations and challenges

Sessions will run from 8:30 am until 11:00 am and breakfast will be provided.
  • Enrolled: 2/25
  • Wait: 0/0

71. Early Childhood Network - West

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: PreK Educators

Dates: 9/26/2024 to 3/14/2025

The Early Childhood Network collaboration is a great place to be surrounded by like-minded professionals. Discussions about what success looks like for a young child, newest research findings in early childhood, and how the Missouri Early Learning Standards help us to assess the youngest learners will all be shared. Each session will offer opportunities for collaboration around hot topics in preschool.

Participant learning experiences include:
* Exploring Early Childhood Practices trauma informed practices with young children
* Building content skills through the Missouri Learning Standards
* PLAY and the importance of critical thinking and problem solving at an early age

Lunch included. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 5/24
  • Wait: 0/0

72. K-8 Leaders Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-8 Building Leaders

Dates: 9/26/2024 to 4/24/2025

This network will provide an opportunity for K-8 leaders to collaborate and focus on K-8 issues, needs, and solutions. The purpose is to build relationships within the K-8 leaders in our region as well as provide time for K-8 leaders to have conversations that are specific to you! This opportunity will not replace Rural Advocate East meetings or any of the other programs. This is just an extra layer of support.

This network will meet four times throughout the year. Two of the meetings will be face-to-face and include site visits with two of our K-8 schools. The other two meetings will be Zoom meetings. Agendas for each session will be developed based on your input/needs and will be provided to you prior to each session.
  • Enrolled: 1/10
  • Wait: 0/0

73. LETRS Now What? Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Teachers who have completed LETRS Volume 1 & Volume 2

Dates: 9/26/2024 to 4/17/2025

Want to stay current on the science of reading resources, news, hands on activities and deepening your district literacy system? This space is for you. Come share, learn and keep the passion of literacy alive and well. These sessions are only open to those who have completed LETRS volume 1 and 2.

Because this is a series, please plan to attend all sessions. This will allow us to tailor content to the needs of the group.

Lunch provided.
  • Enrolled: 10/32
  • Wait: 0/0

74. Rural Advocate East - Superintendents

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 North Central Missouri College (Trenton, MO)

Audience: Superintendents

Dates: 9/26/2024 to 4/24/2025

THIS SESSION IS BY INVITATION ONLY

Come join this networking opportunity for Rural School Administrators.
* Question/Answer with Nancy Greeley
* Current educational celebrations and challenges

Sessions will run from 11:30 am until 2:00 pm and lunch will be provided.
  • Enrolled: 6/25
  • Wait: 0/0

75. Title I ELA Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Title I Teachers, Interventionists

Dates: 9/30/2024 to 4/16/2025

We know intervention is structured in many different ways. No matter how your day looks, let's ensure we make the most of every minute! This network connects the power of literacy with how to prioritize the needs of students in meaningful, targeted ways. Time will be spent building efficiency with engaging instructional strategies and networking resources within teams. Sessions will address the following:
* Empowering instructional strategies
* Success plans for students
* Building a literacy team
* Prioritizing developmental needs of readers
* Building literacy through assessment
* DESE updates as they develop
* Connecting title and intervention needs with classroom instruction

Lunch included. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 7/24
  • Wait: 0/0

76. Special Education Teacher Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Special Education Teachers

Dates: 10/1/2024 to 3/18/2025

Participants will demonstrate an understanding of specially designed instruction and the application of it for instruction, as well as how that is to be defined within the IEP. Strategies will be provided to assist educators in:
* Understanding the Golden Thread (Special Education Process)
* Writing compliant Reviews of Existing Data and evaluation reports
* Conducing Observations to determine negative educational impact
* Making quality eligibility determinations
* Writing present levels of academic achievement and functional performance, individualized SMART goals, special education services in the Least Restrictive Environment, regular education placement, and Accommodations/Modifications
* Specially designed instruction and engaging instructional strategies to enhance instruction for students
* Progress-monitoring goals and progress reports
Lunch provided. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 3/25
  • Wait: 0/0

77. NW Curriculum Leader Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Curriculum leaders, Building leaders, Teacher leaders

Dates: 10/2/2024 to 4/11/2025

This network will provide information about current trends and issues in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Participants will be informed about current happenings at DESE, such as: literacy updates, math updates, MO Leap Blocks, State assessment information, etc. Time will be allowed to share ideas of what is working in districts to help improve learning.
  • Enrolled: 3/30
  • Wait: 0/0

78. Diving Deeper into Teaching the MLS in Grades 6-12 Math

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Math Teachers

Dates: 10/3/2024 to 3/6/2025

This network will focus on instruction for developing conceptual understanding across the domains. We will explore strategies for promoting student reasoning, conceptual understanding and critical thinking. Each session will show the learning progression of the priority standards in Grades 6-12. Teachers will have the opportunity to collaborate and plan lessons with peers across the region.

Lunch provided. Graduate credit available.
  • Enrolled: 1/25
  • Wait: 0/0

79. Year 2 Trauma Responsive Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Nurses, Counselors

Dates: 10/3/2024 to 4/3/2025

Team members must have completed Year 1 Trauma Responsive Training

During the trauma-informed journey, schools will address all of their practices and policies, introduce new supportive practices and policies and work to measure the efficacy of their work through student and staff responses. Following the foundation of knowledge from the Year 1 cohort, this year will focus on putting that knowledge into practice by creating trauma responsive systems and incorporating research and evidence based practices to support all members of the school community. These sessions will be aligned to the Missouri Model for Trauma-Informed Schools. The four full day sessions will focus on the following:
Session 1) Prioritizing Staff Needs
Session 2) Changing Discipline Through Restorative Practices
Session 3) Creating Space to Regulate
Session 4) Connecting Community

School representatives must attend all sessions.

Fee is $200 per team per session ($800 total per team of 5); $50 per session for each additional person. Lunch included.
  • Enrolled: 11/60
  • Wait: 0/0

80. LETRS for Early Childhood Educators Cohort 1 (St Joseph)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: PreK - K Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 10/4/2024 to 3/28/2025

This four-day series is designed to deepen your understanding of the what, why, and how of early literacy and language development, including assessment and instruction strategies. LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) provides the "science of reading” application of research into the classroom no matter the curriculum or program used. The blended learning format of this series includes four days of face-to-face training and self-paced online tutorials/videos of effective early childhood classroom instruction.
  • Enrolled: 23/32
  • Wait: 0/0

81. 6-12 ELA Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: 6-12 Teachers, Title I, Special Education, Literacy Coaches

Dates: 10/9/2024 to 3/19/2025

Text complexity becomes harder for students to access as they move through grades. This network collaboration is built to energize and deepen the toolbox for student engagement in literacy. How can we help you with the demands you face daily? Sessions will address the following:
* Prioritizing effective practices using student evidence
* Responding to different genre and formats
* Collaboration and integration of network attendee needs and resources
* Motivating meaningful tech engagement
* Updated DESE resources as they develop
* Understanding and using DESE resources

Lunch included. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 0/24
  • Wait: 0/0

82. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies (Maryville/St Joseph, MO)

Audience: STEAM Teachers

Dates: 10/9/2024 to 1/28/2025

STEAM is more than just a buzzword. It is an educational model that builds the creative problem-solving and critical thinking skills students will need in the workforce. There are a variety of ways to promote STEAM learning at your school, but where do you start? The STEAM Network will explore a variety of ways to implement STEAM Education.

* STEAM Kits and Technology
* NWRPDC STEAM Lending Library Resources
* Classroom Lessons
* Clubs/Organizations, ie STEAM Camp, Science Club
* Work-Based Learning Opportunities, ie field trips, Makerspace
* Career Connections
* And more

Lunch provided
  • Enrolled: 0/20
  • Wait: 0/0

83. MLDS Aspiring Leaders Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Educators that serve as leaders in their buildings in any capacity or desire to become a principal or assistant principal.

Dates: 10/11/2024 to 5/29/2025

Welcome to MLDS ASPIRING LEADER NETWORK! The MLDS ASPIRING NETWORK develops teacher leaders seeking quality professional learning that will take their leadership to the next level or prepare them for accepting their first principal position in the future. Acquire the skills and practices needed to recognize and develop excellent classroom instruction, understand yourself and others, develop your decision-making skills to make the right call on tough decisions, and learn to read and shape a school's culture. ASPIRING LEADER participants will engage in three regional meetings that provide practical knowledge, skills, along with networking opportunities for future building administrators. The capstone to this year of learning includes registration to the NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP SUMMIT on May 29, 2025.

  • Enrolled: 3/25
  • Wait: 0/0

84. 5-12 Social Studies Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 Varies, St. Joseph (St. Joseph, MO)

Audience: Grades 5-12 Social Studies Teachers

Dates: 10/14/2024 to 3/3/2025

Make plans to join northwest Missouri's regional Social Studies Network! This year, we will focus on how to write and understand curriculum with Missouri's state standards and how to adapt to your grade level and district. Connect with area teachers to share and exchange strategies, ideas, and methods. This network will assist you in staying current with trends in Social Studies education as well happenings at the state level.
  • Enrolled: 1/23
  • Wait: 0/0

85. K-12 Art Teacher Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: K-12 Art Teachers, Curriculum Directors

Dates: 10/15/2024 to 3/26/2025

This network will provide teachers an opportunity to collaborate with others about current trends and needs. We will focus on effective practices related to Arts Education through:
* instructional strategies
* units of instruction - project selection
* classroom management techniques
* assessments and grading
* curriculum implementation
* integration/enhancement of the arts
* resources

Lunch provided. Graduate credit available
  • Enrolled: 1/24
  • Wait: 0/0

86. SW-PBS Sustainability Tier 1

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Coaches, team member, administrators who have completed Tier 1

Dates: 10/15/2024 to 4/15/2025

Has your SW-PBS team noticed a shift in the implementation of your Tier 1 system? If so, this training opportunity will allow team members to systematically evaluate and create a plan to increase implementation with fidelity under the guidance of NW SW-PBS consultants. These sessions are open to coaches, team members, and administrators of schools implementing School-wide Positive Behavior Support that have completed Tier 1 training. Teams will also be given the opportunity to network with other SW-PBS buildings.
  • Enrolled: 8/24
  • Wait: 0/2

87. Special Education Tiered Monitoring - Cohort 2

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 To Be Determined (To Be Determined, MO)

Audience: Cohort 2 Special Education Directors

Dates: 10/23/2024

The training for school districts in Special Education Monitoring Cohort 2 provides critical information about the special education monitoring process and walks through the steps for using IMACS 2 to complete the required special education self-assessment, provide initial evaluation and C to B transition timeline data, and submit requested student documents for verification.
  • Enrolled: 6/40
  • Wait: 0/0

88. SW-PBS Maintenance Tier 2

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. St Joseph (St Joseph, MO)

Audience: Coaches, team member, administrators who have completed Tier 2

Dates: 10/29/2024 to 4/2/2025

Has your SW-PBS team noticed a shift in the implementation of your Tier 2 system? If so, this training opportunity will allow team members to systematically evaluate and create a plan to increase implementation with fidelity under the guidance of NW SW-PBS consultants. These sessions are open to coaches, team members, and administrators of schools implementing School-wide Positive Behavior Support that have completed Tier 2 training. Teams will also be given the opportunity to network with other SW-PBS buildings.
  • Enrolled: 8/24
  • Wait: 0/2

89. LETRS for Early Childhood Educators Cohort 4 (Maryville)

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5. Maryville (Maryville, Mo)

Audience: PreK - K Teachers, Title, Special Education or Interventionists, Administrators

Dates: 11/5/2024 to 4/14/2025

This four-day series is designed to deepen your understanding of the what, why, and how of early literacy and language development, including assessment and instruction strategies. LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) provides the "science of reading” application of research into the classroom no matter the curriculum or program used. The blended learning format of this series includes four days of face-to-face training and self-paced online tutorials/videos of effective early childhood classroom instruction.
  • Enrolled: 10/20
  • Wait: 0/0

90. Transition Network

Program: RPDC - Northwest

Location: 5 To Be Determined (To Be Determined, MO)

Audience: MS/HS Special Education Teachers and Directors

Dates: 11/7/2024 to 1/31/2025

Transition Network will provide special education teachers of students ages 15 and older compliance guidance, resources, and networking opportunities. Though secondary transition planning is a part of the individual education program (IEP) process, it is not intended to be a static activity that only occurs annually during a student's IEP meeting. Ongoing transition planning helps students develop independence, which in turn helps provide students better opportunities to reach their career and adult-living goals.
  • Enrolled: 1/24
  • Wait: 0/0