Frontline Education

1. Guest Teacher Training - Online

Program: Guest Teacher

Audience: Individuals possessing a Bachelor's Degree

Dates: 2/15/2023 to 6/30/2023

The Guest Teacher Training Program (formerly called the Emergency Substitute Training Program), is endorsed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 27 school districts in Butler, Lawrence, and Mercer Counties, and the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV. This program assists you in obtaining an Emergency Permit to serve as a day-to-day substitute in local school districts during the 2022-2023 school year. The intent of this program is to increase the number of available substitutes for our public schools. In order to qualify for the training program, the candidate must possess a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. This training will be conducted ONLINE and is ASYNCHRONOUS. For further instructions, please contact Cheryl Pilch at cheryl.pilch@miu4.org when your registration is complete. REgistered individuals will received an invitation to the Guest Teacher Google Classroom on the next business day after registration has been completed.

2. Addressing Learning Disabilities in Education

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 6/13/2023 to 7/11/2023

ONLINE COURSE: With approximately 7 to 8% of students being diagnosed with learning disabilities, it is important for educators to examine their perceptions and expand their knowledge base of learning disabilities in order to meet these students' needs. Given the information provided throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to more completely understand what learning disabilities are, how they are identified, and how they are managed in the educational setting. It is with this knowledge through viewing videos, examination of research, discussions amongst colleagues, review of legal cases, assessment of student case studies, and development of sample lesson plans, IEP goals, accommodations, and modifications, that participants will have tools to implement strategies within their classroom to promote student achievement for all students with learning disabilities.

3. Writing Alive: Strategies, Techniques and Materials

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 6/13/2023 to 7/11/2023

ONLINE COURSE: This course is designed for teachers K- 12 in any subject area. Teachers will learn and utilize writing craft techniques that will be taught to students. This is what's included in the class: A packet of writing ideas, opportunities to enrich your own writing, videos from the experts in writing including Lucy Calkins, the reading and critiquing articles on writing, the gaining of new thinking about teaching elements of writing craft, opportunities to learn new strategies that simplify writing for students along with creating and sharing lessons based on the text: Craft Lessons. Three proven techniques to enhance writing ability will also be addressed: the AREA Approach, Readers' Theatre, and RAFT. Please plan on purchasing the text ahead of class: Craft Lessons, Second Edition, Authors: Ralph Fletcher and Joanne Portalupi. ISBN-13: 978-1571107060

4. Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom: Strategies, Techniques, and Materials

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educator

Dates: 6/20/2023 to 7/18/2023

This course will instill a thorough understanding of how to incorporate Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences in your K-12 classroom. Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom (2018) by Dr. Thomas Armstrong will be studied, as connections are made to chapters, responses are made to participants' posts, and a study guide is completed for each chapter. The course is asynchronous and online; assignments are to be completed by the end of each week on your own schedule. Will emphasize what each student is attracted to, becomes comfortable with, and is skilled in different ways of processing information. 3 lessons and hands-on or computer-generated projects will be developed to apply the theory of multiple intelligences. The instructor will provide sample lessons along with modeling of lessons. Participants will develop one artifact for each intelligence and create 3 lessons to share with the group. 1. Impact student learning by the teacher applying the principles of multiple intelligence teaching to assist students in processing information in their preferred manner(s). 2. Provide guidance in developing lesson plans that produce student learning. 3. Strengthen student growth in the classroom by studying and applying research on improving student achievement. 4. Increase the success of all students by adhering to the philosophy that all students will succeed in their classroom, not just can succeed. Text for this class Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom (2018) by Dr. Thomas Armstrong, 4th edition, ISBN #978-1-4166-2509-4. Suggest buying used at Amazon for about $6.00. Questions, please contact Dr. William Yerger at william.yerger@eastern.edu or call 610-248-4737

5. Social Emotional Learning

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 6/20/2023 to 7/18/2023

Schools primarily focus on teaching academics. However, with the rate of suicide, cyberbullying, and school violence on the rise, it is time that changes. Schools need to start educating the whole student. In addition to academics, schools, and teachers need to begin developing social-emotional learning skills. Some of the benefits of teaching social-emotional learning include improved attitudes, relationships, student social and emotional skills, academic performance, and better attendance. In this three-credit online course, participants will learn how to create a positive classroom climate where students feel safe. Students who feel safe in their classrooms are more likely to solidify and retain concepts long-term, which in turn will impact student achievement. By the end of the course, participants will be able to identify the five key competencies of social-emotional learning and design lessons that utilize digital tools to develop students' social-emotional learning skills. This course may be taken for 3 CPE credits OR 3 Southern New Hampshire University graduate credits. When enrolling, please choose the option that best meets your needs.

6. Autism in Education: Inclusive Practices

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 6/27/2023 to 7/25/2023

ONLINE COURSE: This course will provide participants with descriptions of disorders that fall under the autism spectrum. Participants will review the latest research in the autism field and the legal aspects of having students with autism in the classroom. We will explore fostering social competence in students with autism, developing and implementing IEPs for students with autism, and how to best meet these students' needs while promoting acceptance from other classmates. Participants will assess the success of instruction with learners with Autism and the improvement of outcomes for all students. Participants will explore methods of motivation and classroom management in settings with learners with Autism. Participants will take with them practical educational and instructional strategies to implement within their classroom along with research-proven strategies and methods to help learners with Autism gain meaningful access to elementary and secondary curriculum content.

7. Be Mindful: Teacher and Student Wellness

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 6/27/2023 to 7/25/2023

Being Mindful: Teacher and Student Wellness is a course that explores and allows participants to develop and implement classroom strategies that cultivate teacher and student well-being. Mindfulness is a management strategy that can be implemented in any classroom. Well-being and mindfulness must first be addressed before learning can take place. Mindfulness is paying attention to purpose in the present moment in such a way that is balanced for both teacher and student. Participants will explore curricula for mindfulness in the classroom, as well as scientific research, best practices, and the holistic education of the mind and body that we strive to provide our 21st-century students. Both teacher and student must maintain a level of self-care and awareness in order to make great academic and personal strides. Participants will develop an action plan to introduce mindfulness in the classroom so that awareness, insightfulness, and presence are established so academic goals can be met. This course may be taken for 3 CPE credits OR 3 Southern New Hampshire University graduate credits. When enrolling, please choose the option that best meets your needs. Textbook: The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students by Daniel RechtSchaffen Publisher: W.W.Norton and Company, 2014, 1st Edition ISBN# 978-0393708950

8. LETRS, Volume 1 (Summer 2023)

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: K-6 General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers and Reading Specialists

Dates: 7/6/2023 to 7/27/2023

LETRS is an acronym for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling. LETRS is an empowering professional development course of study for instructors of reading, spelling, and related language skills. LETRS is not a literacy curriculum. Instead, it provides knowledge and tools that teachers can use with any good reading program. It is designed to bring deeper insight and knowledge to reading instruction, provide answers that instructional materials cannot, and allow teachers to reach, through explicit, scientifically-based methods, students who might otherwise fail. These in-person workshops will be held at the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV. Unit 1 The Challenge of Learning to Read Unit 2 The Speech Sounds of English Unit 3 Teaching Beginning Phonics, Word Recognition, and Spelling Unit 4 Advanced Decoding, Spelling, and Word Recognition Participants must attend the Unit 1 Workshop as the prerequisite for any of the other Unit Workshops. The cost of $369.00 is for the Volume 1 LETRS participant book and that includes a one-year online license for the LETRS professional development course.

9. ADHD in Education

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 7/18/2023 to 8/15/2023

ONLINE COURSE: With more and more students being diagnosed with ADHD, it is important for educators to examine their perceptions and expand their knowledge base of this disability category in order to meet these students' needs. Throughout the course, participants will explore the debate surrounding medication and the myths associated with ADHD. Furthermore, they will complete activities providing them with first-hand experience about what it is like to live with ADHD. We will examine research-proven strategies and methods to help learners with ADHD gain meaningful access to elementary through secondary curriculum content. With the information covered in the course, participants will take away practical strategies to implement across all school environments and ways to provide effective instruction to students with mild to severe ADHD.

10. Building Bridges: Working With (Difficult) Parents & Families

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 7/18/2023 to 8/15/2023

Parent management skills are just as important as classroom management skills. Parents can reinforce concepts and expectations, and provide both academic and behavioral support which directly affects student success. Parents can also hinder and cause strain on the academic success of students. This course provides strategies and techniques to handle difficult parents, strengthen parent communication, and bridge the gap between home and school. This course also supports the teacher's role in effectively facilitating parent conferences. A teacher's ability to engage not only students but parents as well is crucial to the overall academic and personal achievements of our youth. This course may be taken for 3 CPE credits OR 3 Southern New Hampshire University graduate credits. When enrolling, please choose the option that best meets your needs. Textbook: How to Handle Difficult Parents: Proven Solutions for Teachers by Suzanne Capek Tingley Publisher: Prufrock Press Inc., 2012, 2nd Edition ISBN# 978-1-59363-958-7

11. Beyond Flipped Instruction

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 7/25/2023 to 8/22/2023

ONLINE COURSE: The course Beyond Flipped Instruction, focuses not only on flipped instruction but also on, technology integration, and differentiated instruction, which is inherently associated with flipping the classroom. Through an examination of ways to move lower depth of knowledge content and activities out of the "spotlight” in the classroom, teachers are able to greatly influence student achievement by increasing the amount of class time used for higher-level activities such as discussions, projects, labs, and group activities. This course will impact student learning by providing teachers with a clear and specific strategy to use when meaningfully integrating technology into the classroom. Student learning will be positively impacted because flipping the classroom provides avenues for a student-centered learning environment. Participants will analyze specific models of flipped instruction and design strategies for using the teaching model in their own classes.

12. Culturally Responsive Teaching

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 8/1/2023 to 8/29/2023

ONLINE COURSE: Diversity in the classroom is increasing. For the first time in history, the majority of students are racial and ethnic minorities. Unfortunately, the teaching styles, materials, and classrooms do not reflect these diverse cultures and backgrounds, thus leaving the majority of students disconnected from the learning process. Students need to be exposed to authors and characters that look, sound, and act like them. Classrooms need to reflect diversity, not only on holidays but all the time. Spanish culture, achievements of minorities, and black history need to be embedded daily not taught only during a designated month or on a holiday. When students' backgrounds are not considered, problems such as language barriers, systemic discrimination, and lack of representation occur. In this three-credit online course, participants will explore the principles of culturally responsive teaching and examine teaching strategies that promote a culturally responsive classroom.

13. The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Teachers K-12

Dates: 8/1/2023 to 8/29/2023

This online class will be extremely helpful for the first-time teacher just as much as for the seasoned professional! This course will provide an educator's goldmine of pertinent information to make not only the first day of school but every day run smoothly. The book utilized, The First Days of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher (5th edition, 2018) by Harry Wong & Rosemary Wong, is the updated edition of a proven resource on successful teaching practices for both classroom management and student success. The course will feature many great, practical ideas to implement resulting in positive outcomes which will also include virtual teaching. Students' educational experiences will be so much better after having applied the book along with completing the other high-powered activities in the class. The text for this class The First Days of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher (5th edition, 2018) by Harry Wong & Rosemary Wong ISBN-13: 978-0976423386 must be obtained prior to the start of the session. For questions, please contact Dr. William Yerger at william.yerger@eastern.edu or call 610-248-4737. This course may be taken for 3 CPE credits OR 3 Southern New Hampshire University graduate credits. When enrolling, please choose the option that best meets your needs.

14. 8-3-23 - Para Series - Strategies to Support Students in Reading & Math

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/3/2023

Discover the science of learning and the learning stages. Gain strategies to help support the students you work with to engage in math and reading.

15. Heartsaver CPR/AED Training - Aug 2023 - AM Session

Program: CPR and AED Training

Dates: 8/3/2023

The Heartsaver® CPR AED Course is designed to prepare you to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely, and effective manner. During the Heartsaver® CPR AED Course you will:

• Learn how to recognize when someone needs CPR

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for an adult

• Learn how to give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for a child

• Learn how to provide AED Heartsaver® CPR AED Course with First Aid is available upon request. Additional cost of $5.00 for educators, $17.00 for non-educators for card

16. 8-3-23 - Para Series - Feeding & Swallowing: Safely Supporting Students During Meal Time

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/3/2023

Let's learn about Feeding and Swallowing in the educational setting. You will be provided information about how to recognize difficulties, strategies to support areas of need as well as recommendations for safety and independence during mealtimes in the school setting.

17. Heartsaver CPR/AED Training - Aug 2023 - PM Session

Program: CPR and AED Training

Dates: 8/3/2023

The Heartsaver® CPR AED Course is designed to prepare you to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely, and effective manner. During the Heartsaver® CPR AED Course you will:
• Learn how to recognize when someone needs CPR
• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Learn how to give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Learn how to provide AED Heartsaver® CPR AED Course with First Aid is available upon request. Additional cost of $5.00 for educators, $17.00 for non-educators for card

18. 8-7-23 - Para Series - Understanding Measurable Annual Goals and the IEP

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/7/2023

In this session you will discuss measurable annual goals, component of the IEP, data collection and how it connects to the IEP.

19. 8-7-23 - Para Series - Trauma Informed Approach

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/7/2023

Learn about the impact trauma can have on a student, classroom, educators and school systems. In addition, participants will learn strategies to implement and become trauma informed.

20. 8-8-23 - Para Series - Classroom Management for Paraprofessionals

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/8/2023

This informative workshop will discuss behaviors encountered in the classroom . We want you to discover your role in preventing challenging behaviors from occurring, and explore effective strategies to use when challenging behaviors do occur.

21. 8-8-23 - Safety Care Recertification

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 8/8/2023

This Safety-Care™ recertification course is a one-day training that provides a complete overview of the initial Safety-Care™ training curriculum. Participants must demonstrate competency in all areas of the Safety-Care™ curriculum and will be tested for proficiency through the demonstrated competencies and a written test. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will maintain their certification for one full year. The one-day recertification course is required annually. Prerequisite: Two-day initial training must be completed prior to this course.

22. 8-8-23 - Para Series - How to Communicate with Students Having Unique Needs

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/8/2023

Learn about the different forms of communication and examine communication hurdles you may encounter while working with children having special needs. You will be given opportunities to reflect on your own communication styles as well as develop and improve skills as a communication partner.

23. 8-10-23 - Para Series - An Overview of Mental Health

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/10/2023

Want to learn about common mental health diagnoses that are prevalent in the school setting? Take time to explore the this topic as well strategies to support students in the classroom who are experiencing the symptoms of these various conditions.

24. 8-10-23 - Para Series - Classroom-Based Strategies for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Paraeducator's

Dates: 8/10/2023

Let's learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as classroom and behavior-based strategies to support student learning including visual, sensory, environmental, language, and social supports.

25. Special Education Secretary Training

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Special Education Secretaries

Dates: 8/16/2023

Under the Supervision of the Director of Special Education, secretaries keep legal special education records, maintain accurate data, compile various reports and documents and assist in many other areas. We will review compliance requirements, best practices for documentation as well as special education terminology.

26. STEELS Standards Immersive Experience: Breaking Glass

Program: Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment

Audience: Elementary Science teachers, Middle Science teachers, STEM educators, Special educators, Administrators

Dates: 8/18/2023

Learn by doing: experience the shift in pedagogy necessary to meet the 3 Dimensional STEELS standards. Participants will experience an elementary lesson as both learners and educators. This PD serves as the introduction to 3 Dimensional teaching and learning and can be followed by Ambitious Science Teaching series

27. 8-24&25-2023 - Safety Care Initial Training

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 8/24/2023 to 8/25/2023

Safety-Care® Behavioral Safety Training program is a two-day training that provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Safety-Care provides the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals. Using up-to-date and effective technologies from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), the Safety-Care program will provide your staff with strategies for preventing and managing behavioral challenges, and teaching replacement behaviors. Safety-Care promotes a positive reinforcement-based approach, and the development of new skills, resulting in fewer restraints. Trainees who successfully pass the course will receive a Safety-Care™ training certificate. Recertification is required annually through a one-day recertification course.

28. Ambitious Science Teacher

Program: Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment

Audience: All Science Educators, STEM teachers, Administrators, and Special educators

Dates: 8/24/2023 to 8/25/2023

Ambitious Science Teaching offers teachers a toolbox of strategies to embed in their classrooms engaged in 3 dimensional learning necessary to meet the STEELS standards. This 2 session best follows either the Everest or Breaking glass immersive experience. Participants will receive a copy of Ambitious Science Teaching

29. Engineering in Elementary and the STEELS Standards

Program: Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment

Audience: Elementary educators, Special educators, Administrators

Dates: 8/30/2023

Start preparing for the changes in the PSSA that will reflect the new STEELS standards. Technology and Engineering will be tested content on the PSSA! Participants will consider how the new Technology and Engineering standards can be met using the Best of Bugs Engineering is Elementary Unit. Participants will have digital access to EiE resources. Note: This a repeat session of the May 15, 2023 workshop

30. STEELS Standards Immersive Experience: The Everest Experience

Program: Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment

Dates: 8/31/2023 to 9/1/2023

Learn by doing: experience the shift in pedagogy necessary to meet the 3 Dimensional STEELS standards. Participants will experience an MS/HS lesson as both learners and educators. This PD serves as the introduction to 3 Dimensional teaching and learning and can be followed by Ambitious Science Teaching series

31. Heartsaver CPR/AED Training - Sept 2023 - AM Session

Program: CPR and AED Training

Dates: 9/7/2023

The Heartsaver® CPR AED Course is designed to prepare you to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely, and effective manner. During the Heartsaver® CPR AED Course you will:
• Learn how to recognize when someone needs CPR
• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Learn how to give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Learn how to provide AED Heartsaver® CPR AED Course with First Aid is available upon request. Additional cost of $5.00 for educators, $17.00 for non-educators for card

32. Heartsaver CPR/AED Training - Sept 2023 - PM Session

Program: CPR and AED Training

Dates: 9/7/2023

The Heartsaver® CPR AED Course is designed to prepare you to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely, and effective manner. During the Heartsaver® CPR AED Course you will:
• Learn how to recognize when someone needs CPR
• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Learn how to give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Learn how to provide AED Heartsaver® CPR AED Course with First Aid is available upon request. Additional cost of $5.00 for educators, $17.00 for non-educators for card

33. 9-7-23 - NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency Assessment

Dates: 9/7/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

34. Art of Interaction

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 9/12/2023 to 10/10/2023

Our responsibility as educators, parents, providers and caretakers is not to change the card a child is dealt. Instead, it is to help him to play his card in the best way possible. This 3 credit online course is designed to provide educators with powerful insights into new ways to help children become happier and more successful. This course will show teachers and parents how to find creative solutions to difficult problems that you encounter while working with children. The book "The Dance of Interaction” by Jeanine Fitzgerald is full of stories and ideas that give hope and help to those who love children. As educators you will gain an understanding and ability to create a bond and develop an awareness that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

35. Building Camaraderie: A Teacher's Guide

Program: Educator Induction

Audience: Educators

Dates: 9/12/2023 to 10/10/2023

Camaraderie building activities serve to embrace diversity, differentiate instruction, address different learning styles, curb discipline issues, foster teamwork, increase productivity, and guide students in reaching common classroom goals. This course examines best practices that support classroom teachers in their quest to build and encourage the cooperative spirit of their students and a positive classroom community. Participants will examine ways to build a constructive learning environment where respect and positive citizenship can be demonstrated by all students. Having a sense of camaraderie builds self-worth, self-confidence, tolerance, and respect which in turn motivates students to thrive academically and personally. Participants will be provided with research, tools, and support to develop instructional models that promote respect and build camaraderie in the diverse 21st-century classroom.

36. The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher

Program: CPE Courses

Dates: 9/12/2023 to 10/10/2023

This online class will be extremely helpful for the first-time teacher just as much as for the seasoned professional! This course will provide an educator's goldmine of pertinent information to make not only the first day of school but every day run smoothly. The book utilized, The First Days of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher (5th edition, 2018) by Harry Wong & Rosemary Wong, is the updated edition of a proven resource on successful teaching practices for both classroom management and student success. The course will feature many great, practical ideas to implement resulting in positive outcomes which will also include virtual teaching. Students' educational experiences will be so much better after having applied the book along with completing the other high-powered activities in the class. The text for this class The First Days of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher (5th edition, 2018) by Harry Wong & Rosemary Wong ISBN-13: 978-0976423386 must be obtained prior to the start of the session. For questions, please contact Dr. William Yerger at william.yerger@eastern.edu or call 610-248-4737.

37. 9-12-23 - NWEA MAPS Growth PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Growth Assessment

Dates: 9/12/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

38. 9-12-23 - Safety Care Recertification

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 9/12/2023

This Safety-Care™ recertification course is a one-day training that provides a complete overview of the initial Safety-Care™ training curriculum. Participants must demonstrate competency in all areas of the Safety-Care™ curriculum and will be tested for proficiency through the demonstrated competencies and a written test. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will maintain their certification for one full year. The one-day recertification course is required annually. Prerequisite: Two-day initial training must be completed prior to this course.

39. Advanced Phonemic Awareness Daily Instruction Using Heggerty

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Regular and Special Education Teachers K-2

Dates: 9/12/2023

This three-hour workshop will provide an overview of phonological and phonemic awareness, distinguish the differences between phonological awareness and phonics, and how to use the Heggerty curriculum to provide daily, multisensory lessons in phonological and phonemic awareness.

40. 9-15-23 School Psychologist PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: District School Psychologists

Dates: 9/15/2023

This network is for School Psychologists who are interested in connecting with other district school psychologists to discuss issues, share ideas, support colleagues, and grow professionally as it relates to current topics in the field of school psychology.

41. Social Emotional Learning

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 9/19/2023 to 10/17/2023

Schools primarily focus on teaching academics. However, with the rate of suicide, cyberbullying, and school violence on the rise, it is time that changes. Schools need to start educating the whole student. In addition to academics, schools, and teachers need to begin developing social-emotional learning skills. Some of the benefits of teaching social-emotional learning include improved attitudes, relationships, student social and emotional skills, academic performance, and better attendance. In this three-credit online course, participants will learn how to create a positive classroom climate where students feel safe. Students who feel safe in their classrooms are more likely to solidify and retain concepts long-term, which in turn will impact student achievement. By the end of the course, participants will be able to identify the five key competencies of social-emotional learning and design lessons that utilize digital tools to develop students' social-emotional learning skills. This course may be taken for 3 CPE credits OR 3 Southern New Hampshire University graduate credits. When enrolling, please choose the option that best meets your needs.

42. 9-19-23 - NWEA MAPS Growth PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Growth Assessment

Dates: 9/19/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

43. 9-19&20-2023 - Safety Care Initial Training

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 9/19/2023 to 9/20/2023

Safety-Care® Behavioral Safety Training program is a two-day training that provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Safety-Care provides the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals. Using up-to-date and effective technologies from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), the Safety-Care program will provide your staff with strategies for preventing and managing behavioral challenges, and teaching replacement behaviors. Safety-Care promotes a positive reinforcement-based approach, and the development of new skills, resulting in fewer restraints. Trainees who successfully pass the course will receive a Safety-Care™ training certificate. Recertification is required annually through a one-day recertification course.

44. 9-21-23 - Act 126/31 - Recognizing & Reporting Child Abuse

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: All education staff

Dates: 9/21/2023

Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting Training is a requirement in Pennsylvania for all school employees who have direct contact with children. In this Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance 3 hour training session we will review the elements of child abuse, including the legal definitions and categories, and indicators of abuse. The training provides an overview of mandated reporting obligations, including how to make a report, protections for those who report, and liabilities for failing to report. This training is approved by the PA Department of Education, PA Department of Human Services, and State Acts 126 & 31.

45. ABA PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: ABA Classroom Teachers

Dates: 9/21/2023 to 4/18/2024

Join a learning community that will consist of a four-part series that is designed to bring teams of professionals together to explore the world of autism. The series will help to facilitate and build a foundation of understanding and history of autism. Topics that will be discussed will consist of Applied Behavior Analysis, Communication, Teaching Procedures, and more. Because this is designed as a professional learning community, it is expected that this is viewed as a cohort of collaborative professionals. The primary audience is ABA classroom teachers that are part of the PATTAN Autism Initiative.

46. A New Look at Working with Students with Autism

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 9/26/2023 to 10/24/2023

ONLINE COURSE: With more and more students being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum disorders, it is important for educators to explore their perceptions and expand their knowledge base of this disability category in order to meet these students' needs. This course takes an inside look into what it is like to live with Autism. We will see and hear firsthand accounts from people living with the disorder. Their inspirational and informative stories have motivated participants in the past to examine and reexamine how they work with students on the spectrum of autism. We will explore methods of motivation and classroom management in settings with learners with Autism. Given the information provided throughout the course, participants will also have the opportunity to more completely understand the many services that students with autism can benefit from and how educators can apply this learned information in their area of focus and provide effective instruction to students with mild to severe Autism.

47. 9-26-23 - NWEA MAPS Growth PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Growth Assessment

Dates: 9/26/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

48. Writing IEPs and the Educational Benefit Review Process

Program: Training and Consultation

Dates: 9/26/2023

The Individualized Education Program (IEP) is the cornerstone of a quality education for each child with a disability. It creates the opportunity for staff, parents, related service providers, community members, and students to work together to improve educational results. We will give updated information on state requirements for IEP development. Participants will analyze their own IEP's, check for alignment, complete hands on activities, and work with groups to generate ideas for completing a compliant IEP. The IEP will be linked to the EBR process. The purpose of the Educational Benefit Review (EBR) is to determine if a student's IEP is reasonably calculated for the student to receive educational benefit.

49. Special Education LEA Meeting 9-29-2023

Program: Special Education

Audience: School District LEA, MIU IV Supervisor, MIU IV TaC

Dates: 9/29/2023

Special Education updates from PDE, PaTTAN and MIU IV for compliance and processes.

50. Multi-Sensory Teaching and Learning

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/3/2023 to 10/31/2023

This course is designed to provide educators with an awareness of the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic teaching styles. It is important to encourage inclusion of all students and address different learning styles for every student. The participant will be able to determine students learning styles, explore successful strategies and instruction which consist of multi-sensory activities to be used in the daily classroom to accommodate every student. Multi-sensory instruction allows teachers to reach all of the students and it allows diversity among students. In return this fosters social relations and self worth, while meeting social, emotional and academic needs. Participants will look at ways of recognizing each type of learner and explore methods of teaching to ensure the inclusion of all pupils, according to their preferred learning style.

51. 10-3-23 - NWEA MAPS Growth PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Growth Assessment

Dates: 10/3/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

52. Early Pre-K Phonological Awareness Using Heggerty Daily Instruction

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Teachers in Early-Pre K Settings

Dates: 10/3/2023

This three-hour workshop will provide an overview of phonological and phonemic awareness, distinguish the differences between phonological awareness and phonics, and how to use the Heggerty curriculum to provide daily, multisensory lessons in phonological and phonemic awareness.

53. Heartsaver CPR/AED Training - Oct 2023

Program: CPR and AED Training

Dates: 10/3/2023

The Heartsaver® CPR AED Course is designed to prepare you to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely, and effective manner. During the Heartsaver® CPR AED Course you will:

• Learn how to recognize when someone needs CPR

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for an adult

• Learn how to give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for a child

• Learn how to provide AED Heartsaver® CPR AED Course with First Aid is available upon request. Additional cost of $5.00 for educators, $17.00 for non-educators for card

54. Behavior PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: ES teachers, paras

Dates: 10/4/2023 to 4/9/2024

"Join us for a learning community that will consist of a three-part series that is designed to bring a community of professionals together to explore supports for students with emotional support needs. Topics that will be discussed will consist of: behavioral interventions teaching procedures social-emotional learning transition, trauma-informed care topics designed to meet teacher needs Since this is designed as a professional learning community, it is suggested that this is viewed as a cohort of collaborative professionals."

55. Speech PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Speech Lanaguage Pathologist

Dates: 10/4/2023 to 4/15/2024

The Speech Therapist Professional Learning Community is an interactive and collaborative learning series. It is designed to support Speech Language Pathologists. Participants will be given opportunities to network and share therapy resources. The format for 2023-24 will be alternating weekdays and full day in order to accommodate Speech Therapists' caseload demands. Please bring your therapy ideas, case studies and questions to the group!

56. 10-5-23 - School Social Worker PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Dates: 10/5/2023

This professional learning community is for School Social Workers who are interested in connecting with MIU IV and district social workers to discuss issues related to advocating for students and social work within the school settings.

57. 10-5-23 - NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency Assessment

Dates: 10/5/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

58. Transition Assessments

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: HS Special education teachers, HS speech therapist and transition coordinators

Dates: 10/6/2023

Transition assessments are an important component of the transition planning process. Transition assessments assist the student in exploring their preferences, interests, needs and strengths to aide in writing their postsecondary transition plan. This training will provide information regarding transition assessment compliance, definition, examples, and resources.

59. Reading Interventionist PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Reading Specialist, Reading Coaches, Reading Interventionists

Dates: 10/9/2023 to 4/8/2024

Looking for support, interventions, and new ideas to utilize in your position? This Professional Learning Community (PLC) will meet each month to dive into a topic related to reading. Time will be given to connect with other professionals in the field to share expertise to help us all continue to improve student outcomes in reading.

60. Developing a Growth Mindset in Education

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/10/2023 to 11/7/2023

ONLINE COURSE: A growth mindset is a belief that intelligence can be developed with effort. Students with a growth mindset understand they can get "smarter" through hard work, the use of effective strategies, and getting help from others when needed. A fixed mindset is a belief that intelligence is a fixed trait handed out at birth. Course participants will review the research about the brain and how the brain, like a muscle, changes and grows in response to challenge. Throughout the course, we will explore how we, as educators, can praise students for effort and process rather than praising them for being "smart." Participants will take with them practical strategies to implement whether they are teachers, counselors, speech therapists, nurses, parents, or simply anyone who wants to learn more about fostering a growth mindset in themselves or others.

61. Positive Personality Profiles

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/10/2023 to 11/7/2023

This 3-credit on the course is designed to provide participants and educators with an overview of personality profiles to understand themselves and others in all facets of life. Participants will develop an understanding of the 4 models of human behavior, the strengths and weaknesses, basic needs, and strategies to be used in the classroom setting. Motivation techniques and translating and interpreting a child's unique profile will be clearly defined through personal scenarios and illustrations. Participants will gain insights necessary for understanding and perceiving human behavior.

62. 10-10-23 - NWEA MAPS Growth PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Growth Assessment

Dates: 10/10/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

63. SWPBIS Primary Coaches Day

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: SWPBIS Coaches

Dates: 10/10/2023 to 2/15/2024

"Coaches Day is an event sponsored by MIU IV to support building coaches and teams in the implementation of PBIS. Research has shown that coaching is a cornerstone of implementation fidelity. This event is an opportunity for coaches and teams to engage with role-alike peers in professional learning and resource sharing."

64. LETRS, Volume 1 (2023-2024)

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: K-6 General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers and Reading Specialists

Dates: 10/11/2023 to 2/7/2024

LETRS is an acronym for Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling. LETRS is an empowering professional development course of study for instructors of reading, spelling, and related language skills. LETRS is not a literacy curriculum. Instead, it provides knowledge and tools that teachers can use with any good reading program. It is designed to bring deeper insight and knowledge to reading instruction, provide answers that instructional materials cannot, and allow teachers to reach, through explicit, scientifically-based methods, students who might otherwise fail. These in-person workshops will be held at the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV. Unit 1 The Challenge of Learning to Read Unit 2 The Speech Sounds of English Unit 3 Teaching Beginning Phonics, Word Recognition, and Spelling Unit 4 Advanced Decoding, Spelling, and Word Recognition Participants must attend the Unit 1 Workshop as the prerequisite for any of the other Unit Workshops. The cost of $369.00 is for the Volume 1 LETRS participant book and that includes a one-year online license for the LETRS professional development course.

65. A.C.E. the NWEA MAPS Experience

Program: Training and Consultation

Dates: 10/12/2023

NWEA MAPS & MAPS Reading Fluency Training: A: Assisgn and administer testing sessions C: Compiling and communicating the data efficiently E: Effective Instruction based on student needs

66. SWPBIS Secondary Regional Coaches Day

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: SWPBIS Coaches

Dates: 10/12/2023 to 2/22/2024

"Coaches Day is an event sponsored by MIU IV to support building coaches and teams in the implementation of PBIS. Research has shown that coaching is a cornerstone of implementation fidelity. This event is an opportunity for coaches and teams to engage with role-alike peers in professional learning and resource sharing."

67. Early Childhood LETRS

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Teachers of Pre-K and Kindergarten

Dates: 10/16/2023 to 1/16/2024

LETRS for Early Childhood Educators is a professional learning experience for Pre-K and Kindergarten teachers that provides deep knowledge of early literacy instruction. Teachers gain new skills to help young learners build a literacy foundation before they even learn to read or write. This professional learning experience: Helps teachers understand the development of oral language, print knowledge, alphabet learning, and writing skills. Provides the "why” and "how” of early literacy instruction across all domains: language, literacy, cognitive, motor, social, and emotional. It also empowers teachers to apply best practice strategies to guide children's learning. The cost of $250 is for the following the LETRS Online Learning Platform (year-long subscription) and for the LETRS for Early Childhood Print Manual.

68. Making Makers 1.0

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Teachers, Therapists, Parents who have not attended a Making Makers session

Dates: 10/16/2023

During this beginner-level session participants will learn the basics of soldering and reverse engineering in order to build switches and adapt various toys/devices. All necessary supplies will be provided. Participants are also welcome to bring their own toys or devices they would like to learn to adapt.

69. Media Literacy for a 21st Century Classroom

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/17/2023 to 11/14/2023

ONLINE COURSE: Students are exposed to a variety of media throughout the day. Media is an influential force in the lives of students. Television, radio, computers, internet, social media, streaming, video games and smartphones are just a few examples of the media that students interact with daily. However, when it comes to being able to recognize real news versus a fake news article that might appear on their feed, the majority of students cannot tell the difference. Educators have a responsibility to teach students how to critically engage with mass media. In order to be an informed citizen, students must know how to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of media. It is imperative that students possess these skills so that they can make informed decisions as adults. During this three-credit online course, participants will come to understand what media literacy skills are, their importance in the classroom, how to integrate media literacy skills, and design lessons and activities that will help students to become media literate.

70. Teaching Strategies That Improve Student Achievement

Program: Educator Induction

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/17/2023 to 11/14/2023

ONLINE COURSE: This course is designed for the new teacher or the in-service teacher who has 5 or fewer years in the classroom. During the course, we will explore three phases of teaching. First, preparing for the learning to include strategies that allow students to come to the learning place with some information in hand. Secondly, direct instruction utilizes strategies that help the learner to make sense of the information and allows them to manipulate the ideas in individual ways to gain understanding and finally, strategies that help the learner to process the information and apply it outside of the classroom and in other contents. The teachers will come away with a better understanding of the nuances of developing instruction that provides for student learning.

71. 10-17-23 - NWEA MAPS Growth PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Growth Assessment

Dates: 10/17/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

72. 10-17-23 - RENEW

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: General education teachers, special education teachers, administration, and school counselors.

Dates: 10/17/2023

RENEW is a structured career-to-work transition planning and individualized process for youth with emotional and behavioral challenges. RENEW has increased high school completion, employment and post-secondary education participation rates for students. During this overview participants will learn how to implement these strategies with transition-aged students. We will look at the maps used with students. These graphics help the student to understand who they are, set goals, and determine what they need to be successful. Outcomes
• Improved educational outcomes (increased graduation rates, post-secondary education participation)
• Increased employment rates
• Improved functioning in the school and the community
• Reductions in behavior problems in school and in the community
• High youth satisfaction rates
• Increased youth self-determination and self-efficacy skills (Studies from various cohorts support these outcomes.)

73. UDL Overview for Teachers

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: General and Special Education Teachers

Dates: 10/18/2023

UDL is an inclusive framework that utilizes strategies and tools for engaging every student in learning and providing every student an equal opportunity to learn. The ultimate goal of UDL is to help all students become expert learners who are purposeful and motivated, resourceful and knowledgeable, and strategic and goal-directed.

74. 10-18-23 - SWPBIS/TIPS/SWIS Refresher Day

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: PBIS Team Members

Dates: 10/18/2023

This training is designed to continue to improve your internal capacity to support the systems and practices that have been established at Tier 1. During this training, we will be reviewing rationales behind the key foundational components to an effective PBIS program. Attendees should be new administrators or core team members who were not a part of the initial training process. The training will focus on the "why” behind many of the existing practices your PBIS programs are utilizing. In addition, new trauma informed practices will be reviewed. The goal of this training is to provide a strong foundational understanding behind PBIS and your role in supporting your team.

75. 10-19-23 - Safety Care Recertification

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 10/19/2023

This Safety-Care™ recertification course is a one-day training that provides a complete overview of the initial Safety-Care™ training curriculum. Participants must demonstrate competency in all areas of the Safety-Care™ curriculum and will be tested for proficiency through the demonstrated competencies and a written test. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will maintain their certification for one full year. The one-day recertification course is required annually. Prerequisite: Two-day initial training must be completed prior to this course.

76. Building Bridges: Working With (Difficult) Parents & Families

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/24/2023 to 11/21/2023

Parent management skills are just as important as classroom management skills. Parents can reinforce concepts and expectations, and provide both academic and behavioral support which directly affects student success. Parents can also hinder and cause strain on the academic success of students. This course provides strategies and techniques to handle difficult parents, strengthen parent communication, and bridge the gap between home and school. This course also supports the teacher's role in effectively facilitating parent conferences. A teacher's ability to engage not only students but parents as well is crucial to the overall academic and personal achievements of our youth. This course may be taken for 3 CPE credits OR 3 Southern New Hampshire University graduate credits. When enrolling, please choose the option that best meets your needs.

77. Differentiating in Mixed Abilities Classroom

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/24/2023 to 11/21/2023

ONLINE COURSE: This three-credit course is for educators working in inclusive classes with students possessing varying levels of academic ability. Inclusionary classroom models are now the norm in most schools due to the Least Restrictive Environment component of IDEA. In order to serve all of our students, it is imperative that educators have the skills to meet the needs of students in inclusionary classes. This course addresses the needs of, not only, learning-disabled students, but as well as physical, emotional, and gifted requirements as well. This course will impact student learning by providing educators with differentiation tools directly applicable to their specific mixed-ability classroom settings. Differentiating in Mixed Abilities Classrooms prepares educators to implement best practices for maximizing student achievement by implementing methods that best meet the needs of diverse learners.

78. Sound Walls: How to Implement and Use Sound Walls in Your Classroom

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Regular Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers and Reading Specialists

Dates: 10/24/2023

A sound wall is a tool to organize the 44 phonemes of the English language in a way that makes sense to early learners. Students use the sound wall as a reference when reading and spelling. Participants will learn how to organize both the consonant sound wall and vowel valley, how to introduce new sounds, and how to use sound walls in their daily instruction.

79. LETRS, Volume 2 (2023-2024)

Program: Training and Consultation

Dates: 10/25/2023 to 2/20/2024

LETRS is an empowering professional development course of study for instructors of reading, spelling, and related language skills. LETRS is not a literacy curriculum. Instead, it provides knowledge and tools that teachers can use with any good reading program. It is designed to bring deeper insight and knowledge to reading instruction, provide answers that instructional materials cannot, and allow teachers to reach, through explicit, scientifically-based methods, students who might otherwise fail. These in-person workshops will be held at the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV. Unit 5 The Mighty Word Unit 6 Digging for Meaning Unit 7 Text-Driven Comprehension Unit 8 The Reading-Writing Connection *Participants must attend the Unit 1 Workshop, The Challenge of Learning to Read, as the prerequisite for any of the other Unit Workshops. The cost of $369.00 is for the Volume 2 LETRS participant book and a one-year online license for the LETRS professional development course.

80. 10-26&27, 2023 - Safety Care Initial Training

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 10/26/2023 to 10/27/2023

Safety-Care® Behavioral Safety Training program is a two-day training that provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Safety-Care provides the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals. Using up-to-date and effective technologies from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), the Safety-Care program will provide your staff with strategies for preventing and managing behavioral challenges, and teaching replacement behaviors. Safety-Care promotes a positive reinforcement-based approach, and the development of new skills, resulting in fewer restraints. Trainees who successfully pass the course will receive a Safety-Care™ training certificate. Recertification is required annually through a one-day recertification course.

81. Special Education LEA Meeting 10-27-2023

Program: Special Education

Audience: School District LEA, MIU IV Supervisor, MIU IV TaC

Dates: 10/27/2023

Crystal McFeely

Special Education updates from PDE, PaTTAN and MIU IV for compliance and processes.

82. Addressing Learning Disabilities in Education

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/31/2023 to 11/28/2023

ONLINE COURSE: With approximately 7 to 8% of students being diagnosed with learning disabilities, it is important for educators to examine their perceptions and expand their knowledge base of learning disabilities in order to meet these students' needs. Given the information provided throughout the course, participants will have the opportunity to more completely understand what learning disabilities are, how they are identified, and how they are managed in the educational setting. It is with this knowledge through viewing videos, examination of research, discussions amongst colleagues, review of legal cases, assessment of student case studies and development of sample lesson plans, IEP goals, accommodations, and modifications, that participants will have tools to implement strategies within their classroom to promote student achievement for all students with learning disabilities.

83. Teachers Building Resilience and Creating Compassionate Classrooms

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/31/2023 to 11/28/2023

ONLINE COURSE: This course is designed to examine the concept of resilience and how building teacher resilience can lead to more compassionate classrooms for both teachers and students. Specifically, the focus areas of developing mindful awareness, communicating effectively, building community, discovering personal strengths, and cultivating compassion will be explored throughout the course.

84. Writing Alive: Strategies, Techniques and Materials

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 10/31/2023 to 11/28/2023

ONLINE COURSE: This course is designed for teachers K- 12 in any subject area. Teachers will learn and utilize writing craft techniques that will be taught to students. This is what's included in the class: A packet of writing ideas, opportunities to enrich your own writing, videos from the experts in writing including Lucy Calkins, the reading and critiquing articles on writing, the gaining of new thinking about teaching elements of writing craft, opportunities to learn new strategies that simplify writing for students along with creating and sharing lessons based on the text: Craft Lessons. Three proven techniques to enhance writing ability will also be addressed: the AREA Approach, Readers' Theatre, and RAFT. Please plan on purchasing the text ahead of class: Craft Lessons, Second Edition, Authors: Ralph Fletcher and Joanne Portalupi. ISBN-13: 978-1571107060

85. 11-2-23 - NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency Assessment

Dates: 11/2/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

86. Holiday Adapt-A-Thon

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Teachers, Therapists, Parents who have attended at least 1 previous Making Makers session

Dates: 11/3/2023

During this workshop-style training, the AT Maker Kits and AT consultants will be made available for participants to utilize in order to adapt individual items or items provided for distribution to students during the upcoming Christmas holiday. If adapting individual items, participants will send pictures or ideas of items being modified to AT consultants by 10/3/23.

87. Heartsaver CPR/AED Training - Nov 2023

Program: CPR and AED Training

Dates: 11/6/2023

The Heartsaver® CPR AED Course is designed to prepare you to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely, and effective manner. During the Heartsaver® CPR AED Course you will:

• Learn how to recognize when someone needs CPR

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for an adult

• Learn how to give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for a child

• Learn how to provide AED Heartsaver® CPR AED Course with First Aid is available upon request. Additional cost of $5.00 for educators, $17.00 for non-educators for card

88. Project-Based Learning for the Classroom

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 11/7/2023 to 12/5/2023

ONLINE COURSE: In order to keep pace with the changing world, teachers need to infuse 21st-century skills into their classrooms. The students of today need to be prepared to enter a world that requires them to be able to think critically, create, communicate, and collaborate to solve meaningful problems. Problem-Based Learning and Challenge-Based Learning are two instructional strategies, that when used can accomplish these goals. In this three-credit online course, through a series of lessons, videos, and various other activities, participants will learn the basic pedagogy, benefits, and framework of Project-Based Learning and Challenged-Based Learning.

89. Achieving Excellence - 14 Things that Matter Most

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Educators

Dates: 11/14/2023 to 12/12/2023

This 3 credit ONLINE COURSE is designed to describe the beliefs, attitudes, and interactions that form an atmosphere conducive to learning in our best classrooms and schools. It focuses primarily on "specific things that great teachers, legendary teachers” do. The book "What Great Teachers Do - 17 Things That Matter Most” is filled with strategies and ideas to motivate students. There are many meaningful websites to stimulate your students and simple suggestions that you can integrate into your current routine. These skills will be presented by the participants through discussions following each forum topic. The participant will be able to understand the specific factors which enable a teacher to perform their very best. Participants will share ideas and strategies with one another by replying to at least 2 to 3 participants per panel. The activities presented reflect graduate-level work by encouraging the use of prior knowledge in the classroom and past experiences, examining and restructuring teaching techniques in order to be successful and confident as an educator. All participants will need to purchase the book "What Great Teachers Do -17 Things That Matter Most” by Todd Whitaker. This book can be purchased at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. All participants will work online for this course. The instructor will send you a written email with the directions for enrolling and participating in this course a few days prior to the start of the course. If you are a first-time online participant the instructor will be able to assist you with any questions or concerns. This course will require participants to post discussion entries for each topic and reply to at least two other participants for each panel. This course is designed for all K-12 teachers in all subject areas.

90. 11-14-23 - NWEA MAPS Growth PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Growth Assessment

Dates: 11/14/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

91. 11-14-23 - Act 71 More Than Sad/QPR - Suicide Prevention

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: All education

Dates: 11/14/2023

"MIU IV is pleased to offer professional development in Act 71 - Youth Suicide Prevention for Educators. During this 4 hour session, participants will be trained in both More Than Sad and Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR). The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's program called More Than Sad teaches educators to recognize signs of mental health distress in students. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer. These are the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Training in QPR includes learning how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.

92. 11-14-23 - Safety Care Recertification

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 11/14/2023

This Safety-Care™ recertification course is a one-day training that provides a complete overview of the initial Safety-Care™ training curriculum. Participants must demonstrate competency in all areas of the Safety-Care™ curriculum and will be tested for proficiency through the demonstrated competencies and a written test. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will maintain their certification for one full year. The one-day recertification course is required annually. Prerequisite: Two-day initial training must be completed prior to this course.

93. 11-16&17-2023 - Safety Care Initial Training

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 11/16/2023 to 11/17/2023

Safety-Care® Behavioral Safety Training program is a two-day training that provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Safety-Care provides the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals. Using up-to-date and effective technologies from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), the Safety-Care program will provide your staff with strategies for preventing and managing behavioral challenges, and teaching replacement behaviors. Safety-Care promotes a positive reinforcement-based approach, and the development of new skills, resulting in fewer restraints. Trainees who successfully pass the course will receive a Safety-Care™ training certificate. Recertification is required annually through a one-day recertification course.

94. Transition Mapping

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: HS Special education teachers, HS speech therapist and transition coordinators

Dates: 11/21/2023

Transition planning is a process to help students with an IEP decide what they want to do after high school, and to help them figure out how to get there. Mapping is a process to develop a list of activities that support the students goals in the areas of post secondary education, employment, and independent living.

95. PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention & Intervention Training Curriculum Workshop: Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: This workshop is an excellent course for all professionals in your district who have been identified as providers of mental health crisis intervention. This may include School Psychologists, Social Workers, School Counselors, Nurses, administrators, and Mental Health Crisis Team Members.

Dates: 11/29/2023 to 11/30/2023

New

This 2-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals and other school crisis intervention team members with the knowledge necessary to meet the mental health needs of students and staff following school-associated crisis events. This workshop teaches participants how to prevent and prepare for psychological trauma, helps to reaffirm both the physical health of members of the school community and students' perceptions that they are safe and secure, evaluate conduct psychological triage, responds to the psychological needs of the school community utilizing a multitiered approach, and examine the effectiveness of school crisis intervention and recovery efforts.

96. 12/5/23 - School Social Worker PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Dates: 12/5/2023

This professional learning community is for School Social Workers who are interested in connecting with MIU IV and district social workers to discuss issues related to advocating for students and social work within the school settings.

97. Heartsaver CPR/AED Training - Dec 2023

Program: CPR and AED Training

Dates: 12/6/2023

The Heartsaver® CPR AED Course is designed to prepare you to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use in a safe, timely, and effective manner. During the Heartsaver® CPR AED Course you will:

• Learn how to recognize when someone needs CPR

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for an adult

• Learn how to give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups

• Learn how to perform high-quality CPR for a child

• Learn how to provide AED Heartsaver® CPR AED Course with First Aid is available upon request. Additional cost of $5.00 for educators, $17.00 for non-educators for card

98. 12-6-23 - Tri-County Transition Council

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: transition coordinators, agency representatives

Dates: 12/6/2023

Our transition council is a network of parents, educators, and community service providers working together to help students with special needs in their transition from school to adult life. We discuss activities, resources, and other topics to promote effective transition planning.

99. 12-7-23 - NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency PLC

Program: Training and Consultation

Audience: Educators who's district has purchased and are administering the NWEA MAPS Reading Fluency Assessment

Dates: 12/7/2023

Create a testing session, tips and tricks when administering the test, dive into reviewing the data and plan effective instruction based on student need.

100. Special Education LEA Meeting 12-8-2023

Program: Special Education

Audience: School District LEA, MIU IV Supervisor, MIU IV TaC

Dates: 12/8/2023

Crystal McFeely

Special Education updates from PDE, PaTTAN and MIU IV for compliance and processes.

101. 12-11&12-2023 - Safety Care Initial Training

Program: Safety Care

Dates: 12/11/2023 to 12/12/2023

Safety-Care® Behavioral Safety Training program is a two-day training that provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges with dignity, safety, and the possibility of change. Safety-Care provides the tools you need to be safe when working with behaviorally challenging individuals. Using up-to-date and effective technologies from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS), the Safety-Care program will provide your staff with strategies for preventing and managing behavioral challenges, and teaching replacement behaviors. Safety-Care promotes a positive reinforcement-based approach, and the development of new skills, resulting in fewer restraints. Trainees who successfully pass the course will receive a Safety-Care™ training certificate. Recertification is required annually through a one-day recertification course.

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Catalog: Midwestern Intermediate Unit 4 (WebReg)

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