Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Related Service Providers

Dates: 2/19/2025

New

Grab your lunch and join us for some bite-sized professional development about Assistive Technology! In session 1 on February 10th, we will review recent guidance issued by the US Department of Education about AT basics. Session 2 on March 11th will dive into what it means to "consider" assistive technology. Session 3 on April 10th, will be an overview of the SETT process for identifying assistive technology supports for students. All sessions will be held virtually via Zoom and can be accessed at this link: https://caiu-org.zoom.us/j/97653812907 Feel free to attend 1, 2, or all 3 sessions - be sure to register for for each session separately.

38. PBIS Advanced Tiers: Tier Two

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Interventionists, Building Administrators.

Dates: 2/20/2025

Gain a foundational understanding of Tier Two behavioral interventions, and develop the skills to implement and monitor their success.

39. Chronic Absenteeism and Attendance

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Administration, Teachers, School Counselors

Dates: 2/21/2025

Develop plans to help improve student attendance at tier-one and individual levels.

40. Winter Regional Instructional Technology Collaboration (RITC)

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Instructional Technology Specialists, Coaches and Integrators, STEM teachers, Media Specialist/Librarians or anyone involved in Instructional Technology at a district or school level

Dates: 2/21/2025

RITC meetings are a time of open collaboration and discussion about topics related to K-12 educational technology. Join us to collaborate with instructional technology professionals from IU12, IU13, IU15, IU 24 and beyond. We will spend time exploring topics, sharing ideas and resources and learning together! This is an excellent opportunity to make connections!

41. PCD Leadership Academy

Program: Partnership for Career Development

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Educators who work with gifted students/families

Dates: 2/27/2025

Educators of the Gifted networking meetings are held throughout the school year at CAIU. Meetings include networking opportunities for participants to share successes and discuss current issues with other knowledgeable and experienced administrators and teachers of the gifted working in our region, PDE updates, and current information on best practices for meeting the needs of gifted students. These synchronous sessions will be held in-person at the CAIU.

50. Sign Language Level 1

Program: Student Services

Dates: 2/27/2025 to 4/17/2025

This is a beginner class. No previous experience with sign language is needed. The course will include ABC's and numbers, basic vocabulary, light conversation and an introduction to Deaf Culture

51. Navigating the Future: STEELS Elementary

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Elementary Science teachers, administrators, curriculum leaders

Dates: 2/28/2025

Empower yourself with the knowledge and tools to lead the way in elementary education through our comprehensive training on the new STEELS standards. This workshop is designed for elementary educators seeking to deepen their understanding, unpack the standards, access valuable resources, and collaborate with their teams to seamlessly integrate STEELS into their classrooms. This is a Level 2 training, appropriate for educators who have a good understanding of 3-dimensional, phenomenon based learning. This workshop is supported by funding from PDE and is available at no cost to participants.

52. Literacy Enhancement for MLs

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Classroom Teachers, ELD Teachers, Reading Specialists Teams Recommended

Dates: 3/3/2025

New

An opportunity for teachers serving MLs to integrate their instruction. In this session, we'll dive into the critical components of oral language development as well as explore how understanding language proficiency levels and reading theoretical models can transform your approach to teaching Multilingual Learners (MLs). Discover how the PLUSS Framework can support MLs across all tiers of instruction, ensuring that language and literacy development are central to every lesson. In the afternoon, your team will analyze data and discuss how to align services that provide the tailored supports your MLs need to thrive.

53. Elevate your Teaching: A Book Study on "Ambitious Science Teaching"

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Science educators K-12, administrators, curriculum leaders

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

Enhance your science education practices with our book study on "Ambitious Science Teaching" by Mark Windschitl, Jessica Thompson, and Melissa Braaten. This comprehensive guide serves as a compass for educators aiming to refine their teaching methods, and learn the HOW of implementing STEELS. This book study will consist of 4 online sessions lasting two hours each. Participants will receive one copy of the book, Ambitious Science Teaching thanks to a special project funding from PDE. Sign up by 2/10 to receive your book on time! This workshop is supported by funding from PDE and is available at no cost to participants.

54. PBIS Tier One

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Interventionists, Building Administrators.

Dates: 3/4/2025

Three-day series for school teams looking to begin implementing school wide positive behavior supports at the universal level. Participants must register for all three sessions (11/5/24, 1/7/25, 3/4/25) Tier One Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) training for school teams focuses on establishing a strong foundation for creating a positive, inclusive, and proactive school culture. This foundational training is designed to help educators and school staff implement universal strategies that promote positive behavior and prevent behavioral issues across all students.

55. Sign Language Level 2

Program: Student Services

Dates: 3/4/2025 to 4/22/2025

This class assumes that the participant has acquired basic skills taught in an introductory course. The course will continue vocabulary development. Additionally, Level II will teach classifiers and directionality. An introduction to ASL grammar will also be presented.

Program: Educational Services

Audience: School Psychologists, School-Based Mental Health Professionals, Directors of Student Services

Dates: 3/11/2025

PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND BREAKOUT ROOM CONVERSATIONS This series will provide school psychologists with the opportunity to learn alongside one another.

65. AT Lunch and Learn

Program: Educational Services

77. Strengthening STEELS Instruction: Practical Tools for Administrators and Coaches

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Instructional coaches, administrators, science leaders

Dates: 3/19/2025

New

This half day session will equip coaches and administrators with an understanding of 3-dimensional, phenomenon-based teaching aligned with the STEELS standards, and how to help their educators. Participants will gain practical strategies and tools to support science teachers in enhancing their instructional practices, fostering student engagement, and driving deeper conceptual understanding. This is a Tier 3 training, appropriate for educators who have a good understanding of 3-dimensional, phenomenon based learning. This workshop is supported by funding from PDE and is available at no cost to participants.

78. Executive Functioning Training

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Instructional Coaches, General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Administrators, paraprofessionals, and related service providers.

Dates: 3/20/2025

New

Join us to learn about Executive Function Skills, how they develop, impact academic behavior and social function, and strategies to help support someone with executive skills deficits. The afternoon will emphasize classroom-based strategies, including tried and true methods, like Get Ready-Do-Done, and other methods to address individual skills; such as retrieval practices, self-regulation check-ins, time management, cognitive flexibility, planning and prioritizing, and strategies for organization.

79. Multilingual Learners and STEELS

Program: Educational Services

Audience: Science educators K-12, ELD educators, coaches, administrators

Dates: 3/25/2025

Join us for a full day session where participants will experience and understand ways they can support their multilingual learners in 3-dimensional, phenomenon based learning environments that are aligned to the Pennsylvania STEELS (science, technology and engineering, environmental literacy and sustainability) standards.

80. Educator in the Workplace: United Cerebral Palsy of Central PA

Program: Partnership for Career Development

Audience: All PCD participating school faculty, staff and administrators

Dates: 3/25/2025

New

The Partnership for Career Development's (PCD) Educator in the Workplace series provides a unique opportunity for all school faculty and staff within our participating schools to gain hands-on knowledge of our region's myriad career opportunities for their students. Come see what is out there waiting for our future workforce! Your students can only dream about careers they know about. Help them discover more by educating yourself on available pathways right here in Central PA! UCP has many offerings for your students with a heart for helping in the area and is excited to share their opportunities with you - join us for a presentation and dinner!

81. MTSS Elementary Refinement teams

Program: Educational Services

Audience: For existing school teams (Grades K-5 building leadership and advanced tier teams). Pre-requisite requirement: Teams attended the MTSS Novice cohort in 2023-2024 school year.

Dates: 3/26/2025

This four-part series uses self-assessment tools to guide teams in refining an existing MTSS framework, increasing its effectiveness and ensuring sustainability through equitable and universally-designed practices. You must register for each date separately - 9/18, 11/13, 2/19, 3/26

82. (PESI) 2-Day Advanced Training: Treating Complex Behavioral Challenges in Severely Dysregulated Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI attendees that HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED the course through PESI and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/30/2025 to 3/31/2025

Children, adolescents, and young adults displaying verbal and physical aggression, tantrums, or inattentiveness pose significant challenges to effective treatment and education. The severe behavioral challenges they exhibit sabotage our ability to help improve development, learning, and family life. But, how do we help a child break through the self-regulation issues that limit their progress? Join expert and author John Pagano, PhD, OTR/L, as he guides you through the latest research on brain development and how to successfully integrate environmental adaptation, sensory modulation, positive behavior, and physical self-regulation activities to help young clients manage their intense feelings without inappropriate verbal, physical, or self-injurious behaviors. Dr. Pagano will teach you:

• Tools to differentiate sensory integration and behavioral challenges
• Step-by-step developmentally sequenced activities for diverse levels (from severely developmentally disabled to highly capable) and across age levels
• Interventions for the most problematic environmental and body triggers
• Techniques to manage sensory overload and self-injurious behaviors
• Strategies to teach frustration tolerance and reinforce appropriate actions
• Sensory, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care to improve relationships and social skills
• Movement strategies and role-playing games to manage intense feelings
• Strategies to modulate arousal levels to decrease self-injurious behavior and suicidal ideation
• Activities to be used in a variety of settings, including individualized, small group, and class-wide
Through engaging case studies with treatment videos, demonstrations, and hands-on activities you will leave this program with the essential skills and confidence to integrate individualized activity programs that are not only fun, but will significantly decrease disruption and improve l

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI attendees that HAVE COMPLETED the course through PESI and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/31/2025

Do you work with challenging children and teens who seem absolutely resistant to every intervention you offer? Clients who are stuck, repeating the same patterns over and over and you feel like you're powerless to help them? You know the ones that repeatedly refuse to listen and don't stop to think before they act. Or those who refuse to take responsibility for their behaviors and constantly pass blame onto others? Do they leave you feeling stagnant and burnt out in your practice? Watch this seminar and learn innovative interventions that will help even your most resistant clients become unstuck. Your day will consist of creative, interactive, hands-on training that will re-energize your work. You will leave with fresh new art strategies and approaches that you can use immediately to engage even your most difficult and challenging clients. These tools are fun and playful. They will offer you an opportunity to refresh yourself as well! No art experience is necessary, just an openness to try something creative. Art therapy materials recommended: Crayons, markers or colored pencils, 2 sheets of white and colored paper, glue or glue stick. *Participants will learn how to implement therapeutic art interventions. They will not be certified as an art therapist.

87. (PESI) Autism Assessment in Adults: Differentiating the Complexities of Autism from Co-Occurring Mental Health Issues

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI attendees THAT HAVE COMPLETED the course and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/31/2025

New

Autism diagnoses in adults are on the rise. Adults are now reporting that their childhood diagnosis of anxiety, ODD, OCD, alone doesn't make sense - autism is suspected. How do you separate the complex characteristics of autism from common co-occurring mental health diagnosis?

In this session, autistic psychologist, speaker, and author, Dr. Wenn Lawson will teach you to how to assess for autism and separate it from other co-occurring mental health issues in adults. Watch and learn:

• How to interlace a neurodiversity affirming lens with DSM-5™ diagnostic criteria
• The interplay between poor mental health and autism and impact of unmet needs
• How autism presents differently in different gender identities

The impact of a diagnosis in adulthood can lead to self-injury, employment and relationship problems, other mental health issues including suicidality.

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI attendees that HAVE COMPLETED the course through PESI and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/31/2025

Students CAN expand their basic reading and writing skills, even when diagnosed with Dyslexia and/or Dysgraphia. This presentation is filled with abundant child-centered, classroom-proven strategies and materials for building skills in the seven foundational areas for reading: phonemic and phonological awareness, vocabulary and word knowledge, changes in word meaning, sentence structure, narrative composition and spelling. Even more strategies and materials are provided for underlying characteristics that affect students' performance such as anxiety, executive function, auditory processing and visual processing. Take away strategies designed to accelerate your students' progress in reading and written expression through innovative and successful field-tested methods and practical tips.

93. (PESI) Early Intervention for ASD: Building Rhythms in Relationships through DIR®

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI attendees THAT HAVE COMPLETED the course through PESI and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/31/2025

New

Rhythms in life are present in many forms, and for children and families, these rhythms are most present within their interactions and daily life. Yet, a child with ASD may have difficulty with rhythmicity due to underlying sensory processing and motor challenges, which impacts synchrony within relationships. Looking through a Developmental, Individual, Relationship-based® (DIR) lens, Stacy Rosello, MA, OTR/L, will teach you why rhythms are important to early intervention for autism. You'll learn strategies and tools to help foster and match rhythms between the child and caregiver. Attend and you'll learn how to:

• Recognizes the unique neurobiological profiles of the child and caregiver
• Help the caregiver understand the idiosyncratic characteristics and subtle nuanced signals of their infant, toddler or preschooler
• Match child and parent rhythms within their interactions and teach the caregiver how to respond sensitively and to adapt contingently by embedding rhythms into routines and rituals, the child adapts and becomes empowered, driving development. In time, these meaningful experiences create connectedness and cherished family bonds.

OBJECTIVES
1. Theorize the reasons why achieving rhythm in a relationship for a child with ASD may be difficult. 2. Use DIR strategies to support rhythmicity and "synchrony” in interactions to foster relationships in a child with ASD and caregiver. 3. Create rhythmicity within relationships to build routines and rituals that foster family bonding.

94. (PESI) Ethical Considerations in Autism Related Services: Operating at the Highest Level Possible

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI attendees THAT HAVE COMPLETED the course and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/31/2025

New

Join Drs. Kathleen Platzman and Karen Levine guide you through the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) toolkit-developed by autistic self-advocates-which provides the field feedback on what is ethical and what is not. Using the ASANs toolkit as a guide, we'll look at:

• Many common practices within autism related services and supports that have serious ethical concerns
• Way to provide ethical services to ensure we are operating at the highest ethical level possible, looking through the lens of autistic self-advocates

This session is in part based on the ASAN toolkit entitled, "For Whose Benefit: Evidence, Ethics, and Effectiveness of Autism Interventions".

95. (PESI) Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI attendees that HAVE COMPLETED the course through PESI and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/31/2025

The interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors have created obstacles for young people like never before. Research suggests that while today's youth enter adolescence much sooner, they actually reach adulthood much later...resulting in an "extended adolescence.” Our traditional therapeutic tools now fall short, as we endeavor to help clients meet the demands of adulthood. Watch award-winning author and international speaker Sharon Saline, Psy.D., and national trainer and child/family consultant Steve O'Brien, Psy.D., for an enlightening experience designed to redefine and redesign your treatment approach to help young people forge a path to adulthood.

You will learn strategies to:

• Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
• Reprogram the dopamine dependent brain
• Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
• Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
• Instill motivation to advance real-world engagement
• Promote "connected independence” in young adults

This timely and engaging training will shed new light on Generation Z youth and equip you with practical, contemporary tools for empowering these young people to shift gears and move toward a rewarding and meaningful adulthood.

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI activity attendees that ALREADY COMPLETED the course and are requesting Act 48 hours.

Dates: 3/31/2025

It's guaranteed… this recording will guide you through focused, clear and successful methods for treating children. You will walk away with evidence-based techniques that will not only re-energize your practice but also help your clients to:

Decrease:
• Aggression
• Distractibility
• Impulsivity
• Over-Activity
• Sensory Sensitivity
• Irritability/Temper Tantrums
• Hopelessness
• Panic/Anxiety

Increase:
• Effective Communication
• Self-Control
• Coping with Environmental Change & Transitions
• Task-Focus & Persistence
• Empathy & Remorse
• Respect
• Social Skills

Jennifer Wilke-Deaton, M.A., L.P.A., national speaker, expert and author will teach you more than 50 techniques that can quickly improve the lives of children and adolescents with ODD, ASD, ADHD and mood disorders. Learn how to troubleshoot and adapt techniques for preschool through high school aged kids through real-life case studies, video/audio clips, reproducible client-friendly worksheets, and step-by-step directions for every intervention. Jen's passion, caring, humor, and time-tested approaches will make this day of learning fly by! You will leave invigorated and empowered to treat the top childhood disorders.

100. (PESI) Psychopharmacology in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI activity attendees that HAVE COMPLETED the course and are requesting Act 48 hours.

Dates: 3/31/2025

Many individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are on medications that are not supported in the literature as being effective in treating symptoms of ASD, which is confusing and alarming. This program will review the latest research in psychopharmacology and ASD as well as:

• Benefits of certain pharmacological interventions in treating the symptoms of ASD
• Potential side effects of psychotropic medication that can mimic or cause behavioral issues
• Your role as a treating clinician in assisting your client's with ASD in psychopharmacological management.

101. (PESI) School Refusal: Real Help for Children and Teens Who Can't or Won't Go to School

Program: PESI, Inc.

Audience: PESI Attendees that have ALREADY COMPLETED the course through PESI and are requesting Act 48 hours

Dates: 3/31/2025

School refusal creates chaos in families and often becomes a vicious cycle in which students become trapped. Often a symptom of anxiety and depression, school refusal creates an immediate short-term relief for kids seeking to escape aspects of the school day. But the result typically includes falling further behind academically, increased feelings of disconnection from peers, and lowered self-esteem. Join Susan Gibbs, LPC, to learn from her extensive experience in addressing school refusal effectively. She will bridge the clinical and educational words and share approaches for both environments so you can help struggling students and families.

You will leave with the ability to:
• Identify the 4 functions of school refusal
• Anticipate and plan for 5 critical times of day
• Create student and family specific plans that focus on the student's inner wealth and human connection
• Equip parents and educators with age-appropriate interventions to successfully handle school refusal in-the-moment
• Apply the Nurtured Heart Approach to school refusal

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