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1. ACT 48 Workshop: Supporting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: K-8 Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionists & Coaches, Reading Specialists, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 9/26/2023

In this year-long series, participants will learn about the evidence-based practices in mathematics through the Universal Design for Learning framework in order to provide equitable access for all students. Within this process, we will engage in data analysis to determine the needs of all students, some students, and a few students. In addition, participants will work on structuring their math instructional minutes in alignment with the learning hierarchy. Participants are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to attend all sessions in series. Partial Act 48 offered. Flyer Link: Workshop Flier

2. ACT 48 Workshop: Supporting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: K-8 Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionists & Coaches, Reading Specialists, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 11/28/2023

In this year-long series, participants will learn about the evidence-based practices in mathematics through the Universal Design for Learning framework in order to provide equitable access for all students. Within this process, we will engage in data analysis to determine the needs of all students, some students, and a few students. In addition, participants will work on structuring their math instructional minutes in alignment with the learning hierarchy. Participants are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to attend all sessions in series. Partial Act 48 offered. Flyer Link: Workshop Flier

3. ACT 48 Workshop: Understanding and Addressing Student Behavior - eLuma Zoom Training

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: REGION 4 HOMELESS LIAISONS

Dates: 7/29/2024

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Participants will learn that behavior is a form of communication and that lagging skills in behavior, like those in academics, require instruction. Participants will learn strategies for identifying specific lagging behavioral skills and best practices for implementing targeted instruction to address these needs.

4. ESL 3 Course: Language Acquisition and Development

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Certified K-12 teachers seeking ESL specialist certification, ESL teachers

Dates: 8/5/2024 to 12/9/2024

Meeting Times: Live classes via Zoom: August 5 - 8, 2024 from 8:00 am - 11:30 am; and Monday, 12/9/2024 from 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Online coursework is due: 12/2/2024 at 11:59 p.m. Attendance is mandatory for all live Zoom classes.

Registration closes for this course on 7/31/2024

Required Text: participants must obtain the following text in order to successfully complete this course. This text can be ordered online in new or used condition; it may also be available for download to Kindle or other mobile text readers. Please wait to order the course text until 3-5 days prior to the course start date, after you receive a confirmation email that your course tuition payment has been processed. Waiting until AIU processes tuition payments for a course will ensure that you won't need to return a text for a canceled course.

How Languages are Learned (5th ed). Authors: Lightbrown, Patsy and Spada, Nina. Oxford Press - ISBN 9780-194406291.

This course is designed to give the participants an understanding of the theories of how language is acquired. We will be discussing various language acquisition theories, the stages of language acquisition, and strategies of how to help your students acquire language in the four language domains: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. We will also discuss accommodations and modifications along with these teaching strategies that can be used during small group ESL instruction and by general education teachers.

5. ACT 48 Workshop: Fostering High Expectations for All Students - eLuma Zoom Training

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: REGION 4 HOMELESS LIAISONS

Dates: 8/8/2024

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Participants will learn the importance of high expectations and culturally relevant teaching. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their current practices and will be provided with actionable steps to motivate students and model embracing failure.

6. ONLINE Act 48 PD Series: Text-Dependent Analysis Part 2

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA teachers in grades 4-8

Dates: 9/15/2024 to 3/1/2025

This three-module series is open to participants who attended "TDA: Effective Instructional Practices” during a previous school year. In this series, participants will deepen their understanding of the reading, thinking, and writing processes necessary for TDA success, examine student work, and use the TDA Learning Progressions to make instructional decisions. Cost: $450 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first module opens. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

7. ONLINE Act 48 PD Series: Text-Dependent Analysis: Effective Instructional Practices

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA teachers in grades 4-8

Dates: 9/15/2024 to 1/2/2025

This fully online four-module series focuses on effective teaching practices for helping students overcome some of the biggest struggles with the text dependent analysis (TDA) portion of the PSSA. Sessions will focus on teaching students how to understand the prompt, read and write for analysis, determine the best evidence, and craft the essay. Participants will engage in modeled research-based and classroom-tested activities to strengthen their own instruction. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first module opens. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to attend this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

8. ACT 48 Workshop: CMCI Educational Benefit Review PD & Workshop

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admin

Dates: 9/16/2024

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The Educational Benefit Review (EBR) training is provided to teams who are to ensure that students with IEPs are receiving educational benefit. Teams will be provided with the legal background on EBR and participate in a four-step process to analyze and compare three years of IEPs to determine if a student has received educational benefit. While working alongside their EBR Facilitator, EBR teams will compare 2-3 years of a student's IEP to determine educational benefit, identify/target specific areas related to their school-age grade bands, and assist to identify technical support or professional development needs to support their knowledge and expertise of educationally beneficial IEP composition. The intention of this training will not only to fulfill requirements for cyclical monitoring, but for districts to consider integrating EBR as a best practice when composing IEPs annually. For this training, the EBR Facilitator (Special Education Administrator, Principal, LEA representative, or designee) will be asked to attend with their team. It is highly recommended that schools attend as a team. EBR Teams must be comprised of at least 1 Special Educator, at least 1 general educator, and at least 1 Related Service Provider, and the EBR Facilitator. TOOLS & MATERIALS NEEDED: Teams will be required to bring laptops and three years of a selected student's IEPs *Please be advised, if your district has been selected for 2024-2025 cyclical monitoring (CMCI), you may utilize this training date to work with your EBR teams to complete the 10 EBR students' cases selected by your BSE advisor. Additionally, support can be provided by AIU TaC to facilitate this requirement. If additional time and dates are needed, that can be arranged to provide optimum support and time to complete this requirement.

9. ACT 48 Workshop: Compassionate Classrooms: Creating Positive Classroom Environments for Students with Emotional Disturbance - Training Day 1

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers

Dates: 9/17/2024

Training Day 1 - Join us for a series of professional learning that centers on the development of teachers of students with emotional disturbance. Teachers will begin with two days of training where they will establish beginning of the year rules and routines with a trauma-informed lens. Teachers will also learn how to use the Pennsylvania Career Ready Skills Continuum to center social emotional skill development in their daily teaching. Additionally, teachers will have the opportunity to participate in ongoing networking sessions throughout the year, which will focus on topics targeted at the core components of being an emotional support teacher.

10. ACT 48 Workshop: Getting Started: Setting Up for Success for New Teachers

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers

Dates: 9/18/2024

This training will explore planning and design choices that special education teachers serving students with complex needs in specialized autistic support or life skills classroom should consider during classroom setup. Topics will include space planning, classroom layout, and use of visual supports for both schedule management and student independence with routines. Participants will be asked to consider their student's social emotional needs and sensory preferences in their design. In addition, we will discuss different ways to build relationships with students, support staff and families to ensure collaboration and maximize resources to ensure student success.

11. ACT 48 Workshop - PD Series: K-3 Reading Apprenticeship

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA Teachers in Grades K-3

Dates: 9/18/2024 to 5/22/2025

The K-3 Reading Apprenticeship Model is a unique professional development model that supports primary reading teachers with the knowledge, skills, best practices and on-site support in teaching all students to be skilled readers and writers. This professional development opportunity consists of initial intensive, comprehensive training in reading history, pedagogy, theory, research and proven instructional practice and monthly follow-up trainings to build breadth and depth of professional knowledge in the English Language Arts. Teachers meet for 12 sessions at the AIU and additional technical support takes place at each site. Cost: $3,800 per participant (with onsite coaching and technical support) or $2,800 (no coaching and technical support). Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

12. Act 48 Workshop - PD Series: Text-Dependent Analysis: Effective Instructional Practices

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA Teachers in Grades 4-8

Dates: 9/19/2024 to 1/29/2025

This four-day series focuses on effective teaching practices for helping students overcome some of the biggest struggles with the text dependent analysis (TDA) portion of the PSSA. Sessions will focus on teaching students how to understand the prompt, read and write for analysis, determine the best evidence, and craft the essay. Participants will engage in modeled research-based and classroom-tested activities to strengthen their own instruction. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to attend this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

13. ACT 48 Workshop: 2024-2025 Transition Council of Allegheny County (TCCAC) Meeting Series

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admin, Agency Personal, Students, Parents and Families

Dates: 9/24/2024

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Pennsylvania's transition community has a rich history of helping youth and young adults successfully transition from school to adult life. Since 1990 PA's Local Transition Coordinating Councils (LTCCs) have played an instrumental role in this process. With cross-stakeholder representation, the TCCAC will host 4 meetings during the 2024-2025 school year. The meeting series will be conducted as a full day, in-person experience to afford attendees time for professional development, networking, coordination, and resource development. Each session is designed to educate transition coordinators, educational professionals, parents, and agency providers to better coordinate, collaborate, problem solve, and support transition age youth with disabilities successfully navigate their pathway toward graduation. Please consider attending each council meeting to expand your professional network, enhance your knowledge and expertise, gather meaningful tools and resources and learn about upcoming events to assist you in your profession or community network.

14. Act 48 Workshop - PD Series: Text-Dependent Analysis: Effective Instructional Practices PART 2

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA Teachers in Grades 4-8

Dates: 9/24/2024 to 3/11/2025

This three-session series is open to participants who attended "TDA: Effective Instructional Practices” during a previous school year. In this series, participants will deepen their understanding of the reading, thinking, and writing processes necessary for TDA success, examine student work, and use the TDA Learning Progressions to make instructional decisions. Cost: $450 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to attend this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

15. ACT 48 Workshop: Compassionate Classrooms: Creating Positive Classroom Environments for Students with Emotional Disturbance - Training Day 2

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers

Dates: 9/25/2024

Training Day 2 - Join us for a series of professional learning that centers on the development of teachers of students with emotional disturbance. Teachers will begin with two days of training where they will establish beginning of the year rules and routines with a trauma-informed lens. Teachers will also learn how to use the Pennsylvania Career Ready Skills Continuum to center social emotional skill development in their daily teaching. Additionally, teachers will have the opportunity to participate in ongoing networking sessions throughout the year, which will focus on topics targeted at the core components of being an emotional support teacher.

16. Structured Literacy Training: ESL Teachers

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Teachers of English learners

Dates: 9/25/2024

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This session is tailored to teachers of English learners.

17. ACT 48 Workshop: IES Practice Guide: Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionists and Coaches, School Pyschologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 9/26/2024

This practice guide provides evidence-based practices that can help teachers tailor their instructional approaches and/or their mathematics intervention programs to meet the needs of their students.

18. Act 48 Network Series: Reading Specialists' Network 2024-25

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: READING SPECIALISTS IN GRADES K-12

Dates: 9/27/2024 to 4/4/2025

Join the RAC Reading Specialists' Network for an opportunity to connect with other reading specialists in Allegheny County. Each session will feature research-based best practices and strategies that specialists need in order to be effective in their role as they work with students, teachers, and parents in all three tiers of literacy. Sessions will be held in a hybrid format, giving participants the option to join in person at the AIU or via Zoom. There is no charge for this network series.

19. ONLINE Act 48 PD Series: Adolescent Literacy Institute

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Middle and high school reading and English teachers

Dates: 10/1/2024 to 1/2/2025

The Adolescent Literacy Institute is a series of online modules for middle and high school teachers focused on research-based literacy practices that support students as they become college and career ready. Specifically aligned with brain research on how adolescents learn, this workshop series engages participants in the research behind and modeling of effective reading and writing instruction for the secondary grades. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first module opens. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

20. ONLINE Act 48 PD Series: Keys to Comprehension

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Reading and ELA teachers in grades 3-8

Dates: 10/1/2024 to 1/2/2025

This professional development series consists of four online modules that focus exclusively on the literacy domain of reading comprehension. Targeted for teachers in grades 3 to 8, the content is directly aligned with the PA Core standards and state test expectations. Participants learn instructional techniques to unlock reading comprehension, applicable to both literature and informational text. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first module opens. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

21. ONLINE Act 48 PD Series: Thinking Through the Pencil

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Reading and ELA teachers in grades 3-8

Dates: 10/1/2024 to 1/2/2025

This professional development series consists of four online modules designed to build students' critical thinking skills through writing. Designed for practical application in grades 4-8 ELA classrooms, participants engage in instructional practices based on current research on what makes a difference in student writing. Topics include teaching academic form, increasing the frequency of writing opportunities, providing effective and timely feedback, incorporating writing into reading, incorporating grammar instruction into reading and writing, conducting document reviews of student work, and teaching mode-specific writing to meet the writing requirements of the PA Core Standards. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first module opens. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

22. Structured Literacy Training: PreK and Primary K-2 Teachers

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: PreK and Primary (grades K-2) teachers

Dates: 10/1/2024

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This session is tailored to PreK and primary (grades K-2) teachers.

23. ACT 48 Workshop: Assessment & Instructional Programming to Build Language for Early Learners: Using the VBMAPP

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, Speech, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/2/2024 to 11/21/2024

The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program VB-Mapp) is one option to consider for assessment and program guidance when supporting students with autism and other individuals who demonstrate language delays. The VB-MAPP is a criterion-referenced assessment, curriculum guide and skills tracking system. It combines principles of ABA and Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior to provide a behaviorally based language assessment program for all children with language delays. In this three-day training, participants will learn about the components of language, how to administer the assessment, interpret results, and design instructional programming for students. Additionally, staff will receive instruction on identifying learner motivation and how to teach students to make requests (mand) for a variety of items, activities, and information. Follow up support in district, is available to teams to ensure effective practices are in place and address individual student programming needs.

24. ACT 48 Workshop - PD Series: Keys to Comprehension

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Reading Teachers in Grades 3-8

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

This professional development series consists of four sessions that focus exclusively on the literacy domain of reading comprehension. Targeted for teachers in grades 3 to 8, the content is directly aligned with the PA Core standards and state test expectations. Participants learn instructional techniques to unlock reading comprehension, applicable to both literature and informational text. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

25. ACT 48 Workshop: Beyond Listening: Engaging Students Through Active Participation Techniques

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, Speech, School Counselors, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/3/2024

No matter how well you've crafted your lessons or how top-notch your adopted curriculum might be, educators must engage their students so they can access the content presented. Participants will learn strategies directly from Dr. Anita Archer's book Explicit Instruction and her Active Participation DVD Series, that support ways to engage all students in the classroom.

26. ACT 48 Workshop: Structured Literacy Training for Autistic & Life Skills Support Educators

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, Reading Specialist, Speech

Dates: 10/3/2024 to 1/23/2025

This training series is designed to address the unique needs of learners receiving instruction in autistic and life skills support settings. Sessions will lead participants through an exploration of: - how reading skill develops, - the component skills of reading including phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency - the unconstrained skills of vocabulary, inference-making and content knowledge - effective instructional practices and evidence-based intervention approaches Educators will leave prepared to administer and interpret assessments and implement effective classroom instruction including how to accommodate and modify content for students with complex communication needs. This training series meets PA Act 49 Structured Literacy requirements. 1. Evidence-based intervention practices on structured literacy 2. Explicit and systematic instruction in phonological and phonemic awareness 3. A) Alphabetic principle, decoding and encoding; B) Fluency and vocabulary 4. Reading comprehension and building content knowledge

27. ACT 48 Workshop: The Reevaluation Process: More Than Just Compliance; Best Practices for Meaningful RRs

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers

Dates: 10/3/2024

This training aims to equip school staff with the skills to conduct Reevaluation Reports (RRs) in compliance with state regulations and best practices. Key topics include compliance vs. purpose, essential dates and timelines, assessment utilization and interpretation, determining the need for additional data, making meaningful recommendations to the IEP team, and specific requirements for students with learning disabilities.

28. Leadership Course - Science of Reading for Administrators

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Administrators - elementary

Dates: 10/4/2024 to 3/14/2025

This course is designed to provide administrators with in-depth knowledge and skills to support teachers with effective, evidence based instruction aligned to principles of Science of Reading using a structured literacy approach. Participants will learn the big ideas of reading instruction and how to use tools in classroom observations to discover strengths and gaps in instruction at the classroom and school/district levels. Administrators will also analyze structures in place that support keeping an eye on student growth and achievement, reflect upon effectiveness observed, and problem solve next steps to enhance teaching and learning. Participants earn 40 Act 45 credits: 18 in-class and 22 job-embedded hours.

29. ACT 48 Workshop: Classroom to Control Tower: Boosting Executive Function in K-4 Classrooms though Games & Play

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches

Dates: 10/4/2024 to 5/2/2025

Join us for an exciting training series designed especially for elementary educators teaching grades K-4! Imagine your students' brains as bustling airports, with executive functions acting as skilled air traffic controllers, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Just like an air traffic controller orchestrates the safe landing of planes and manages air traffic, executive functioning skills are the brain's management system, keeping thoughts, actions, and emotions on track. Dive into engaging sessions where you'll learn how to fine-tune your students' ability to plan, focus, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks. From memory-boosting challenges to cooperative problem-solving tasks, each session will include games, hands-on activities, and resources designed to strengthen these vital skills. Learn how to seamlessly integrate executive function skills building into your daily routine and see how they can transform classroom dynamics. By the end of this series, you'll be equipped with a robust set of strategies to help your young learners master the art of executive functioning. Watch as they become more organized, focused, and capable of navigating the complex airspace of their school day.

30. ACT 48 Workshop: PD Series: Thinking Through the Pencil

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA and Writing Teachers in Grades 3-8

Dates: 10/8/2024 to 2/13/2025

Thinking Through the Pencil is a four-session workshop series designed to build students' critical thinking skills through writing. Designed for practical application in grades 4-8 ELA classrooms, participants engage in instructional practices based on current research on what makes a difference in student writing. Topics include teaching academic form, increasing the frequency of writing opportunities, providing effective and timely feedback, incorporating writing into reading, incorporating grammar instruction into reading and writing, conducting document reviews of student work, and teaching mode-specific writing to meet the writing requirements of the PA Core Standards. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

31. ACT 48 Workshop: LETRS Volume 1

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionist and Coaches, Reading Specialist, Speech, School Psychologist, Building Principles, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admins, Parents and Families.

Dates: 10/10/2024 to 3/20/2025

VOLUME 1 COHORT* *Completion of Volume 1 and 2 course meets PA Structured Literacy Chapter 49 requirements Developed by renowned literacy experts Dr. Louisa Moats and Dr. Carol Tolman, LETRS® is a flexible literacy professional development solution for preK-12 educators. LETRS earned the International Dyslexia Association's Accreditation and provides teachers with the skills they need to master the fundamentals of reading instruction-phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and language. LETRS empowers teachers to understand the what, why, and how of scientifically based reading instruction

32. ACT 48 Workshop: Writing Meaningful and Compliant IEPs - Elementary

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/17/2024 to 10/21/2024

As a result of this series, participants will learn how to better engage in authentic assessment and data-driven decision-making to develop meaningful IEPs that also meet the compliant requirements from PDE and the Bureau of Special Education. Importantly, the participant will strengthen his or her ability and skill set to write comprehensive, legally defensible IEPs.

33. ACT 48 Workshop: Beyond Listening: Engaging Students Through Active Participation Techniques

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, Speech, School Counselors, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/21/2024

No matter how well you've crafted your lessons or how top-notch your adopted curriculum might be, educators must engage their students so they can access the content presented. Participants will learn strategies directly from Dr. Anita Archer's book Explicit Instruction and her Active Participation DVD Series, that support ways to engage all students in the classroom.

34. ACT 48 Workshop: Discipline with Dignity: Creating a Proactive and Restorative Discipline Process at the Classroom and Office Level

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, School Counselors, Social Workers, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/22/2024

Do you want to learn new practices to support discipline at both the classroom and office level? This training aims to empower educators with knowledge and practical strategies to create a positive, supportive, and inclusive learning environment through restorative and preventative discipline practices. This series will support teachers and administrators in developing a classroom and office continuum of responses for their context. The sessions will focus on treating all students with dignity, building relationships, responsibility, and problem-solving skills. Participants will leave with actionable insights and tools to foster positive behavior and enhance student success.

35. ACT 48 Workshop: Schema-based Instruction for Solving Word Problems

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/22/2024

Solving mathematical word problems is an ongoing problem for students with both reading and math learning disabilities, as well as students who do not have an identified learning disability. Schema-based instruction is a problem-solving strategy that emphasizes identifying the underlying structure or schema to create a visual representation of the important information in order to be able to solve the problem. Through this session, participants will learn each of the underlying structures in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems to solve single-step and multi-step word problems.

36. ACT 48 Workshop: Discipline with Dignity: Creating a Proactive and Restorative Discipline Process at the Classroom and Office Level

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, School Counselors, Social Workers, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/23/2024

Do you want to learn new practices to support discipline at both the classroom and office level? This training aims to empower educators with knowledge and practical strategies to create a positive, supportive, and inclusive learning environment through restorative and preventative discipline practices. This series will support teachers and administrators in developing a classroom and office continuum of responses for their context. The sessions will focus on treating all students with dignity, building relationships, responsibility, and problem-solving skills. Participants will leave with actionable insights and tools to foster positive behavior and enhance student success.

37. ESL 4 Course: Observing, Planning, Implementing, and Managing Instruction

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Certified K-12 teachers seeking ESL specialist certification; ESL teachers

Dates: 10/28/2024 to 1/20/2025

Meeting Times: Live classes via Zoom: Monday, October 28, 2024; 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm and Saturdays: 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 2024; 8:00 am to 11:30 am, and Monday, 1/27/2025; 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Online coursework is due: January 20, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Attendance is mandato

Registration for this course closes on 10/23/2024

Required Text: participants must obtain the following text in order to successfully complete this course. This text can be ordered online in new or used condition; it may also be available for download to Kindle or other mobile text readers. Please wait to order the course text until 3-5 days prior to the course start date, after you receive a confirmation email that your course tuition payment has been processed. Waiting until AIU processes tuition payments for a course will ensure that you won't need to return a text for a canceled course.

Classroom Instruction That Works with English Learners (2nd ed). Authors: Hill & Miller. ISBN: 978-14166-1630-6

Teachers will examine the theories, principles, and practices that assist English language learners in achieving academic proficiency in the content areas. Planning standards-based instruction and adapting instruction in the content areas is emphasized. To promote the academic success of English language learners, teachers will involve the family and community, and analyze the learner to establish learning goals and assessment measures that are appropriate for the individual student. ESL teachers will be able to demonstrate knowledge of their ELLs and the role of individual characteristics in the process and outcome of language learning. Drawing upon this knowledge, they will demonstrate an ability to observe and plan standards-based ESL and content instruction for students from K-12. They will use the PA Academic Content Standards, as well as, the PA English Language Proficiency Standards when planning lessons. They will use performance-based measures to assess ELLs discrete and integrated ability to use grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, and writing to communicate.

38. ACT 48 Workshop: Writing Meaningful and Compliant IEPs - Secondary

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/28/2024 to 11/18/2024

As a result of this series, participants will learn how to better engage in authentic assessment and data-driven decision-making to develop meaningful IEPs that also meet the compliant requirements from PDE and the Bureau of Special Education. Importantly, the participant will strengthen his or her ability and skill set to write comprehensive, legally defensible IEPs.

39. ACT 48 Workshops: Structuring Small Groups to Support Social Emotional Behavioral Growth

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teacher, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/29/2024

Do you want to systemtize your Tier 2 small group instruction or lunch bunches? This session will help participants to identify key features of an effective social academic instruction group including data, systems, and practices to ensure strong outcomes for group participants. Discussions will include how to select students and topics for groups, structure instruction, and use data to evaluate the effectiveness of groups. Information on selecting and installing SEL programs at Tier 2 will be shared.

40. ACT 48 Workshop: LETRS Volume 2

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionist and Coaches, Reading Specialist, Speech, School Psychologist, Building Principles, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admins, Parents and Families.

Dates: 10/29/2024 to 3/27/2025

LETRS® is a flexible literacy professional development solution for preK-12 educators. LETRS earned the International Dyslexia Association's Accreditation and provides teachers with the skills they need to master the fundamentals of reading instruction-phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and language. Completion of Volume 1 and 2 course meets PA Structured Literacy Chapter 49 requirement

41. Structured Literacy Training: Non-ELA Certificate Holders

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Upper elementary and middle school non-ELA teachers; those holding certificates that require structured literacy training but are not currently using that certificate.

Dates: 10/29/2024

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This session is tailored to certificate holders who are required to take structured literacy training but not teaching ELA (for example, middle school non-ELA certificate holders) or those holding a certificate but not using it (for example, a high school teacher who is special education certified but not teaching special education classes).

42. ACT 48 Workshop - PD Series: Adolescent Literacy Institute

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA Teachers in Middle and High School

Dates: 10/30/2024 to 2/25/2025

The Adolescent Literacy Institute is a series of workshops for middle and high school teachers focused on research-based literacy practices that support students as they become college and career ready. Specifically aligned with brain research on how adolescents learn, this workshop series engages participants in the research behind and modeling of effective reading and writing instruction for the secondary grades. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

43. ONLINE Act 48 PD Series: Word Wizards

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA teachers in grades 3-12

Dates: 11/1/2024 to 1/2/2025

Build your students into word wizards! This three-module online professional development series presents teachers in grades 3-12 with research and practical strategies to strengthen students word knowledge, through both indirect vocabulary exposure and direct vocabulary instruction. Cost: $450 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first module opens. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

44. ACT 48 Workshop: IES Practice Guide: Intervention for Grades 4-9 Reading

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 11/4/2024

This session will review the research and practical application of the new practice guide for students in grades 4-9. This practice guide provides four evidence-based recommendations that teachers can use to deliver reading interventions to meet the needs of their students. Teachers will leave with practical activities that can be used to support all students. To preview the practice guide, visit https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide/29.

45. ACT 48 Workshop: Peer-Mediated Interventions to Support Advanced Tier Interventions

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin

Dates: 11/7/2024

Implementing behavior supports for students requries matching interventions to the function of a student's behavior. In many cases, students are motivated by connection to their peers more than connection to adults. Join us for a session that focuses on how peers can be involved in interventions that lead to positive behavioral outcomes. This session is perfect for those who have behavior interventions at the tier 2 and 3 level in place but want to consider adding a peer component to those interventions.

46. ACT 48 Workshop: Untangling the Reading Rope: Enhancing Reading Comprehension & Vocabulary Skills for Autistic Learners

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, Special Education Liasions

Dates: 11/7/2024 to 11/20/2024

In this engaging two-day training, educators will delve into the complexities of language comprehension, exploring the Reading Rope's strands-background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge-and their unique implications for autistic learners. Participants will master the art of interpreting formative assessments to uncover specific reading comprehension and vocabulary challenges, allowing for targeted, data-driven instructional strategies. They will also translate these insights into practical classroom applications, learning to craft effective, individualized interventions and create dynamic, vocabulary-rich learning environments that bolster each student's literacy skills.

47. ACT 48 Workshop - PD Series: Word Wizards

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA, Reading, and English Teachers in Grades 3-12

Dates: 11/7/2024 to 1/28/2025

Build your students into word wizards! This three-session professional development series presents teachers in grades 3-12 with research and practical strategies to strengthen students word knowledge, through both indirect vocabulary exposure and direct vocabulary instruction. Cost: $450 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

48. ACT 48 Workshop: Navigating 504s: A Comprehensive Guide for School Teams

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists and Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 11/7/2024

Join us for a focused professional development session to craft a streamlined Chapter 504 process. Tailored for school district teams including: 504 administrators, coordinators, and stakeholders, this session covers legal history, eligibility, service agreements, LEA responsibilities, and current trends. Together, we'll design an efficient process for conducting, evaluating, implementing, and progress monitoring 504s.

49. ACT 48 Workshop: 2024-2025 Transition Council of Allegheny County (TCCAC) Meeting Series

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admin, Agency Personal, Students, Parents and Families

Dates: 11/12/2024

New

Pennsylvania's transition community has a rich history of helping youth and young adults successfully transition from school to adult life. Since 1990 PA's Local Transition Coordinating Councils (LTCCs) have played an instrumental role in this process. With cross-stakeholder representation, the TCCAC will host 4 meetings during the 2024-2025 school year. The meeting series will be conducted as a full day, in-person experience to afford attendees time for professional development, networking, coordination, and resource development. Each session is designed to educate transition coordinators, educational professionals, parents, and agency providers to better coordinate, collaborate, problem solve, and support transition age youth with disabilities successfully navigate their pathway toward graduation. Please consider attending each council meeting to expand your professional network, enhance your knowledge and expertise, gather meaningful tools and resources and learn about upcoming events to assist you in your profession or community network.

50. ACT 48 Workshop: Assisting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Psychologists

Dates: 11/18/2024

New

Join us for a comprehensive year-long professional development series designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to support elementary students struggling with mathematics. Based on the evidence-based recommendations from the "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades" practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse, this series will provide practical strategies, hands-on activities, and collaborative learning opportunities to enhance mathematical instruction and intervention.

51. ACT 48 Workshop: From Meh to Marvelous: Engage & Instruct Like a Boss in the Special Education Setting

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teacher, Interventionalists and Coaches, Building Principals, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 11/18/2024

Get ready to transform your teaching approach with this exciting session designed for educators working with students who have cognitive disabilities and autistic learners with higher support needs. Packed with innovative ideas, practical strategies, and interactive activities you leave with the know-how and skills to boost student engagement, implement effective group contingencies, develop and implement high-quality morning meetings and other group activities, create independent work systems, and seamlessly integrate skills across various domains.

52. Structured Literacy Training: Special Educators and Reading Specialists

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special educators and reading specialists

Dates: 11/20/2024 to 11/21/2024

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This two-day session is tailored to special educators and reading specialists.

53. ACT 48 Reporting: Supporting Student Attendance: A Multi-Tiered Approach

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists & Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Transition Coordinators, Building Principles, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons, Agency Personnel

Dates: 11/21/2024

Reducing chronic absenteeism is a growing challenge for schools. This session will give an overview of some of the root causes of absenteeism and how to address those causes through a multi-tiered approach. Topics in this session will include the following: how to analyze attendance data, identifying barriers to regular attendance, evidence-based interventions, and supporting students who are chronically absent. By the end of the session, participants will have some strategies that can be implemented schoolwide, with small groups, and with individual students.

54. ACT 48 Workshop: Supporting Student Attendance: A Multi-Tiered Approach

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists & Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Transition Coordinators, Building Principles, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons, Agency Personnel

Dates: 11/21/2024

Reducing chronic absenteeism is a growing challenge for schools. This session will give an overview of some of the root causes of absenteeism and how to address those causes through a multi-tiered approach. Topics in this session will include the following: how to analyze attendance data, identifying barriers to regular attendance, evidence-based interventions, and supporting students who are chronically absent. By the end of the session, participants will have some strategies that can be implemented schoolwide, with small groups, and with individual students.

55. ACT 48 Workshop: Utilizing Trauma Responsive Practices in the Classroom Setting

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducator, School Counselors, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin

Dates: 12/3/2024 to 12/5/2024

This training series is designed for classroom practitioners to gain a deeper understanding on the prevalence and impact of trauma in the classroom as well as the greater school community. The session will focus on specific trauma responsive classroom practices that can be embedded within daily classroom routines.

56. ACT 48 Workshop: Dyslexia: Interventions and Accommodations

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education, Special Education, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 12/5/2024

Participants will examine instructional practices to support learners with dyslexia including a multisensory, structured literacy approach. Time will be devoted to exploring accommodations that provide access to grade-level content for reading and writing.

57. ACT 48 Workshop: Dyslexia: Interventions and Accommodations

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education, Special Education, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 12/5/2024

Participants will examine instructional practices to support learners with dyslexia including a multisensory, structured literacy approach. Time will be devoted to exploring accommodations that provide access to grade-level content for reading and writing.

58. ACT 48 Workshops: ELA Symposium: Key Qualities of Writing Instruction (Grades 3-5)

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA Teachers in Grades 3-5, Administrators

Dates: 12/5/2024

The ELA Symposium is the Reading Achievement Center's annual workshop addressing a critical need for strengthening teacher practice that improves student achievement. This session, for ELA teachers in grades 3-5, will focus on key qualities of writing instruction at the paragraph level and up.

59. ACT 48 Workshop: Assisting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Psychologists

Dates: 12/16/2024

New

Join us for a comprehensive year-long professional development series designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to support elementary students struggling with mathematics. Based on the evidence-based recommendations from the "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades" practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse, this series will provide practical strategies, hands-on activities, and collaborative learning opportunities to enhance mathematical instruction and intervention.

60. ESL 5 Course: Assessment and Support for English Language Learners

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Current ESL educators or educators who are seeking ESL specialist certification.

Dates: 1/6/2025 to 3/17/2025

Meeting Times: Live classes via Zoom: Monday, January 6, 2025 from 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Saturdays: 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2025 from 8:00 am - 11:30 am; and Monday, 3/17/2025 from 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Online coursework is due: March 10, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Attendance is manda

Registration for this course closes on 1/1/2025

Required Text: participants must obtain the following text in order to successfully complete this course. This text can be ordered online in new or used condition; it may also be available for download to Kindle or other mobile text readers. Please wait to order the course text until 3-5 days prior to the course start date, after you receive a confirmation email that your course tuition payment has been processed. Waiting until AIU processes tuition payments for a course will ensure that you won't need to return a text for a canceled course.

Title: Assessing Multilingual Learners: Bridges to Empowerment, (3rd Edition). Author: Gottlieb, Margo. Corwin Press, ISBN: 978-10-71897270

Assessing and supporting English Language Learners can be challenging for teachers and students. As English language learners in grades K-12 acquire English, there needs to be appropriate and valid measures in place when assessing their progress. Assessment tools need to be based upon individual proficiency levels of students. In this course, student teachers will gain exposure to the tools necessary to assess English Language Learners. The course will offer knowledge on benchmarks for each English proficiency level.

ESL teachers demonstrate and share knowledge and techniques of appropriate assessments with a range of stakeholders. This includes the ability to administer required testing as well as to make accommodations to such testing when appropriate; the expertise to help colleagues and families understand how assessment can be designed and interpreted to best demonstrate what ELLs know and are able to do; the use of data generated by multiple measures to ensure that ELLs have access to a quality language instructional program; Revised 12/18/2017 and to make progress toward benchmarks and display academic growth while receiving services within an ESL program.

61. ACT 48 Workshop: Assisting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Psychologists

Dates: 1/6/2025

New

Join us for a comprehensive year-long professional development series designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to support elementary students struggling with mathematics. Based on the evidence-based recommendations from the "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades" practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse, this series will provide practical strategies, hands-on activities, and collaborative learning opportunities to enhance mathematical instruction and intervention.

62. ACT 48 Workshop: ELA Symposium: Key Qualities of Writing Instruction (Grades 6-8)

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: ELA Teachers in Grades 6-8, Administrators

Dates: 1/15/2025

The ELA Symposium is the Reading Achievement Center's annual workshop addressing a critical need for strengthening teacher practice that improves student achievement. This session, for ELA teachers in grades 6-8, will focus on key qualities of writing instruction at the paragraph level and up.

63. ACT 48 Reporting: Fostering Social Emotional Learning in Schools and Classrooms

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionist and Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 1/21/2025

In this training session, participants will learn how to cultivate a supportive learning environment through Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Participants will explore strategies to empower students with the tools they need to develop agency, foster a sense of belonging, forge meaningful connections, and promote equity within educational settings. Participants will gain practical insights and resources to effectively integrate SEL practices into daily classroom routines, enhancing both academic achievement and overall well-being.

64. ACT 48 Workshop: Functional Behavior Assessment to Positive Behavior Support Plans: Assessing Behavior & Designing Effective Interventions

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists and Coaches, School counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Transition coordinators, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 1/22/2025 to 3/4/2025

This series is designed to build internal capacity within schools for staff to conduct Functional Behavior Assessments (FBAs) and develop positive behavior support plans (PBSPs). Across three full days all steps of the FBA & PBSP process will be explored. Time will be allotted to discuss function-based interventions, crisis planning, and implementation fidelity. Participants will be expected to attend all in -person sessions as content connects and builds from one topic to the next.

65. Check In / Check Out

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists and Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin

Dates: 1/23/2025

Check-In/Check-Out (CICO) is a Tier II, evidence-based, behavioral intervention designed to support students by providing more frequent instruction regarding expected behavior, increasing structured contact between students and adults in school, providing a formal mechanism for students to receive feedback on their behavior and increasing opportunities for reinforcement contingent on expected behavior. This session will provide SWPBIS teams the necessary knowledge and skills to implement CICO within their buildings.

66. ACT 48 Workshop: 2024-2025 Transition Council of Allegheny County (TCCAC) Meeting Series

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admin, Agency Personal, Students, Parents and Families

Dates: 1/28/2025

New

Pennsylvania's transition community has a rich history of helping youth and young adults successfully transition from school to adult life. Since 1990 PA's Local Transition Coordinating Councils (LTCCs) have played an instrumental role in this process. With cross-stakeholder representation, the TCCAC will host 4 meetings during the 2024-2025 school year. The meeting series will be conducted as a full day, in-person experience to afford attendees time for professional development, networking, coordination, and resource development. Each session is designed to educate transition coordinators, educational professionals, parents, and agency providers to better coordinate, collaborate, problem solve, and support transition age youth with disabilities successfully navigate their pathway toward graduation. Please consider attending each council meeting to expand your professional network, enhance your knowledge and expertise, gather meaningful tools and resources and learn about upcoming events to assist you in your profession or community network.

67. ACT 48 Workshop: Comprehension, Close Reading, & Complex Text: Laying the Foundation K-2

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Primary Teachers of Reading (Grades K-2)

Dates: 1/28/2025 to 4/29/2025

Transitioning students to the demands of the PA Core Standards is not a job just for teachers in the tested grades! This four-session series will support teachers in the primary grades in aligning their instructional practices to the PA Core. Participants will engage with teaching informational text, text dependent questions, close reading, scaffolding instruction using complex text, annotating text, designing rigorous tasks, and incorporating academic vocabulary into students' vocabularies, specifically focusing on how to implement these concepts into everyday practice. Cost: $600 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first session. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

68. Structured Literacy Training: Upper Elementary & Middle School ELA Teachers

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Upper elementary and middle school ELA teachers

Dates: 1/30/2025

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This session is tailored to upper elementary and middle school ELA teachers.

69. ONLINE Act 48 PD Series: Comprehension, Close Reading, and Complex Text: Laying the Foundation K-2

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Reading and ELA teachers in grades K-2

Dates: 2/1/2025 to 5/1/2025

Transitioning students to the demands of the PA Core Standards is not a job just for teachers in the tested grades! This four-module series will support teachers in the primary grades in aligning their instructional practices to the PA Core. Participants will engage with teaching informational text, text dependent questions, close reading, scaffolding instruction using complex text, annotating text, designing rigorous tasks, and incorporating academic vocabulary into students' vocabularies, specifically focusing on how to implement these concepts into everyday practice. Cost: $450 per participant. Districts will be invoiced after the first module opens. When registering, please select "Purchase Order” as your payment method if the district is to be invoiced for the cost of the workshop. By registering, you certify that you have obtained supervisor permission to participate in this workshop, and your supervisor is aware of the professional development fee.

70. ACT 48 Workshop: Classroom Management: Improve Your Learning Environment - Session 1

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers

Dates: 2/3/2025

This professional development session offers comprehensive training on effective classroom management, focusing on evidence-based practices to reduce supervision issues. Participants will explore the six Evidenced-Based Practices of Classroom Management and learn practical strategies, tips, and procedures to design and implement an effective classroom management plan, fostering positive behavior modifications in students.

71. ACT 48 Workshop: Assisting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Psychologists

Dates: 2/4/2025

New

Join us for a comprehensive year-long professional development series designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to support elementary students struggling with mathematics. Based on the evidence-based recommendations from the "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades" practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse, this series will provide practical strategies, hands-on activities, and collaborative learning opportunities to enhance mathematical instruction and intervention.

72. ACT 48 Workshop: CMCI Educational Benefit Review PD & Workshop

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admin

Dates: 2/4/2025

New

The Educational Benefit Review (EBR) training is provided to teams who are to ensure that students with IEPs are receiving educational benefit. Teams will be provided with the legal background on EBR and participate in a four-step process to analyze and compare three years of IEPs to determine if a student has received educational benefit. While working alongside their EBR Facilitator, EBR teams will compare 2-3 years of a student's IEP to determine educational benefit, identify/target specific areas related to their school-age grade bands, and assist to identify technical support or professional development needs to support their knowledge and expertise of educationally beneficial IEP composition. The intention of this training will not only to fulfill requirements for cyclical monitoring, but for districts to consider integrating EBR as a best practice when composing IEPs annually. For this training, the EBR Facilitator (Special Education Administrator, Principal, LEA representative, or designee) will be asked to attend with their team. It is highly recommended that schools attend as a team. EBR Teams must be comprised of at least 1 Special Educator, at least 1 general educator, and at least 1 Related Service Provider, and the EBR Facilitator. TOOLS & MATERIALS NEEDED: Teams will be required to bring laptops and three years of a selected student's IEPs *Please be advised, if your district has been selected for 2024-2025 cyclical monitoring (CMCI), you may utilize this training date to work with your EBR teams to complete the 10 EBR students' cases selected by your BSE advisor. Additionally, support can be provided by AIU TaC to facilitate this requirement. If additional time and dates are needed, that can be arranged to provide optimum support and time to complete this requirement.

73. ESL 6 Course: English Language Learners, Families, Community and Professionalism

Program: CPE Courses

Audience: Certified K-12 educators seeking ESL specialist certification; ESL teachers

Dates: 2/17/2025 to 4/14/2025

Meeting Times: Live classes via Zoom: Monday, February 17, 2025 from 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm; Saturdays: 2/22, 3/1, and 3/8, 2025 from 8:00 am - 11:30 am; and Monday April 14, 2025 from 5:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Online coursework is due: April 7, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. Attendance i

Registration for this course closes on 2/12/2025

Required Text: participants must obtain the following text in order to successfully complete this course. This text can be ordered online in new or used condition; it may also be available for download to Kindle or other mobile text readers. Please wait to order the course text until 3-5 days prior to the course start date, after you receive a confirmation email that your course tuition payment has been processed. Waiting until AIU processes tuition payments for a course will ensure that you won't need to return a text for a canceled course.

Schoolwide Approaches to Educating ELLs [2011], Author: Soltero, Sonia W. ISBN: 978-0325029221

Most English language learners are from another country. They come in with anxieties and go through phases of cultural adjustments. Without the necessary support, it might be hard for them to transition smoothly and thus be able to learn English well and fast.

This course is geared toward equipping ESL teachers with the necessary tools to give ESL students the support they need while they undergo the challenges of transition. Issues that may arise concerning the support of students in the classroom, school and the community will be addressed.

74. ACT 48 Reporting: Fostering Social Emotional Learning in Schools and Classrooms

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionist and Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 2/19/2025

In this training session, participants will learn how to cultivate a supportive learning environment through Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Participants will explore strategies to empower students with the tools they need to develop agency, foster a sense of belonging, forge meaningful connections, and promote equity within educational settings. Participants will gain practical insights and resources to effectively integrate SEL practices into daily classroom routines, enhancing both academic achievement and overall well-being.

75. ACT 48 Workshop: Navigating 504s: A Comprehensive Guide for School Teams

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionalists and Coaches, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 2/19/2025

Join us for a focused professional development session to craft a streamlined Chapter 504 process. Tailored for school district teams including: 504 administrators, coordinators, and stakeholders, this session covers legal history, eligibility, service agreements, LEA responsibilities, and current trends. Together, we'll design an efficient process for conducting, evaluating, implementing, and progress monitoring 504s.

76. ACT 48 Workshop: Let's Play: Strategies for Child Centered Learning

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, Speech, Special Education Liaison

Dates: 2/20/2025

Play is self-chosen and self-directed; intrinsically motivated; guided by mental rules; imaginative; and conducted in an active, alert, but relatively non-stressed frame of mind. How neurodivergent students play may be different from their neurotypical peers, but it's not wrong and does not need to be fixed. This session will focus on how to find and nurture the strengths and interests of neurodivergent early learners, accept their play as valid by joining in, and use strategies such as modeling and social play chains to promote authentic connections and growth. We will explore Parten's 6 stages of play and learn new ways to promote interaction and language across each stage. Participants will gain a better understanding of what it means to "follow the child's lead" to ensure more positive and meaningful interactions. This training is specifically for teachers working with early learners with higher support needs in the areas of communication, play, and social reciprocity. This training might benefit you if you have learners that: are non-speakers with emerging language or early communicators working to develop functional language, non-traditional, repetitive or stereotypical play, and/or do not respond or initiate social bids for attention. This training would not be beneficial for teachers that support learners that are in late stages of play including those working on game play, navigating social interactions with peers, and/or more complex use of materials for leisure activities.

77. ACT 48 Workshop: Classroom Management: Improve Your Learning Environment - Session 2

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers

Dates: 2/24/2025

This professional development session offers comprehensive training on effective classroom management, focusing on evidence-based practices to reduce supervision issues. Participants will explore the six Evidenced-Based Practices of Classroom Management and learn practical strategies, tips, and procedures to design and implement an effective classroom management plan, fostering positive behavior modifications in students.

78. ACT 48 Workshop: Writing Meaningful and Compliant IEPs - Follow-Up

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers and Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 2/25/2025

As a result of this series, participants will learn how to better engage in authentic assessment and data-driven decision-making to develop meaningful IEPs that also meet the compliant requirements from PDE and the Bureau of Special Education. Importantly, the participant will strengthen his or her ability and skill set to write comprehensive, legally defensible IEPs.

79. ACT 48 Workshop: Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, Speech, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 2/27/2025

IES Practice Guide: Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade

80. Structured Literacy Training: Administrators

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Administrators who hold certificates that require structured literacy training

Dates: 2/27/2025

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This two-day session is tailored to administrators who cold certificates that require structured literacy training and will focus on how administrators can support the components of structured literacy in their teachers' classrooms.

81. ACT 48 Workshop: Assisting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Psychologists

Dates: 3/4/2025

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Join us for a comprehensive year-long professional development series designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to support elementary students struggling with mathematics. Based on the evidence-based recommendations from the "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades" practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse, this series will provide practical strategies, hands-on activities, and collaborative learning opportunities to enhance mathematical instruction and intervention.

82. Structured Literacy Training: Special Educators and Reading Specialists

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special educators and reading specialists

Dates: 3/5/2025 to 3/6/2025

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This two-day session is tailored to special educators and reading specialists.

83. ACT 48 Workshop: IES Practice Guide: Effective Literacy and EL Instruction for EL Learners in the Elem Grades

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 3/6/2025

The target audience for this guide is a broad spectrum of school practitioners such as administrators, curriculum specialists, coaches, staff development specialists and teachers who face the challenge of providing effective literacy instruction for English language learners in the elementary grades. The guide also aims to reach district-level administrators who develop practice and policy options for their schools.

84. ACT 48 Workshop: Classroom Management: Improve Your Learning Environment - Session 3

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers

Dates: 3/10/2025

This professional development session offers comprehensive training on effective classroom management, focusing on evidence-based practices to reduce supervision issues. Participants will explore the six Evidenced-Based Practices of Classroom Management and learn practical strategies, tips, and procedures to design and implement an effective classroom management plan, fostering positive behavior modifications in students.

85. ACT 48 Workshop: SWPBIS - Face to Face End of Year Celebration

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: PBIS Coaches & PBIS Team Leaders

Dates: 3/18/2025

The PBIS Coaches Networking & Professional Learning Community (PLC) provides a platform for PBIS coaches, team members, and school leaders to collaborate, share expertise, and foster a culture of cooperation across our county's PBIS implementations. Through regular virtual meetings, participants will enhance their understanding of PBIS systems, data, and practices, exchanging strategies to overcome challenges and achieve successful outcomes. Facilitated by PBIS experts, each 1-hour session combines content delivery, updates on IU and PAPBS Network initiatives, and interactive discussions among districts. Additionally, school teams will showcase local implementation ideas, enriching the collective learning experience. Act 48 Hours: 1 (One) per virtual session, for a total of 12 (Twelve) Act 48 credits will be awarded after the training series 5.5 (Five and a half) Act 48 credits will be awarded after the Face to Face training. Participants are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to attend all sessions in the series. Partial Act 48 offered. Cost: There is no cost to attend this training series. Registration Priority: Educators who work for LEAs in the AIU3 region will have priority registration.

86. ACT 48 Workshop: Supporting Struggling Students: Classroom Behavioral Interventions

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventoinalists and Coaches, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin

Dates: 3/24/2025

Join us for a comprehensive professional development series designed to equip school personnel with effective strategies to support students who struggle in the classroom environment. This series, "Building a Better Classroom: Interventions to Support Struggling Students," offers a blend of asynchronous and in-person learning to provide you with a thorough understanding of behavioral interventions. Prerequisite: To maximize the benefits of this training, it is recommended that participants attend a classroom management session prior to this series. A solid foundation in classroom management will enable you to effectively implement the advanced strategies discussed in this session.

87. ACT 48 Workshop: 2024-2025 Transition Council of Allegheny County (TCCAC) Meeting Series

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Special Education Teachers, Occupational & Physical Therapists, Speech, School Counselors, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Transition Coordinators, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons, Other District Level Admin, Agency Personal, Students, Parents and Families

Dates: 3/26/2025

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Pennsylvania's transition community has a rich history of helping youth and young adults successfully transition from school to adult life. Since 1990 PA's Local Transition Coordinating Councils (LTCCs) have played an instrumental role in this process. With cross-stakeholder representation, the TCCAC will host 4 meetings during the 2024-2025 school year. The meeting series will be conducted as a full day, in-person experience to afford attendees time for professional development, networking, coordination, and resource development. Each session is designed to educate transition coordinators, educational professionals, parents, and agency providers to better coordinate, collaborate, problem solve, and support transition age youth with disabilities successfully navigate their pathway toward graduation. Please consider attending each council meeting to expand your professional network, enhance your knowledge and expertise, gather meaningful tools and resources and learn about upcoming events to assist you in your profession or community network.

88. Structured Literacy Training: Upper Elementary & Middle School ELA Teachers

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: Upper elementary and middle school ELA teachers

Dates: 3/27/2025

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This session is tailored to upper elementary and middle school ELA teachers.

89. ACT 48 Workshop: IES Practice Guide: Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Paraeducators, Interventionalists and Coaches, Reading Specialists, School Psychologists, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Curriculum Directors, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 4/3/2025

This practice guide presents three evidence-based recommendations for helping students in grades 6-12 develop effective writing skills. Each recommendation includes specific, actionable guidance for educators on implementing practices in their classrooms. The guide also summarizes and rates the evidence supporting each recommendation, describes examples to use in class, and offers the panel's advice on how to overcome potential implementation obstacles. This guide is geared towards administrators and teachers in all disciplines who want to help improve their students' writing.

90. Structured Literacy Training: PreK and Primary K-2 Teachers

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: PreK and Primary (grades K-2) teachers

Dates: 4/10/2025

Allegheny Intermediate Unit's Reading Achievement Center presents relevant professional development that meets Chapter 49 structured literacy requirements and is tailored to meet the literacy needs of different certificate holders' classrooms. This session is tailored to PreK and primary (grades K-2) teachers.

91. ACT 48 Workshop: Assisting Students Struggling in Mathematics

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Interventionists and Coaches, School Psychologists

Dates: 5/8/2025

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Join us for a comprehensive year-long professional development series designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills to support elementary students struggling with mathematics. Based on the evidence-based recommendations from the "Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades" practice guide by the What Works Clearinghouse, this series will provide practical strategies, hands-on activities, and collaborative learning opportunities to enhance mathematical instruction and intervention.

92. ACT 48 Workshop: Self-Monitoring: A Tier II Intervention

Program: ACT 48 Workshops

Audience: General Education Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Interventionalists and Coaches, School Counselor, School Psychologists, Social Workers, Building Principals, Other Building Level Admin, Special Education Liaisons

Dates: 10/15/2025

Self-monitoring is a highly effective Tier 2 strategy for behavior change, designed to help students self-assess and record their behavior. By monitoring their actions, students naturally increase their focus to achieve desired outcomes. This virtual training will guide participants through structuring a self-monitoring intervention. Attendees will receive numerous resources and be introduced to I-Connect, a free technology-based self-monitoring system.

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