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Upcoming SAREC Workshops
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Early Education Summer Summit (SAREC -- Santa Cruz County)
The Early Education Summer Summit will include the following presenters and trainers throughout the day:
- Mr. Gorin will provide practical, comprehensive strategies that promote optimal healthy behaviors through purposeful play. Participants will learn new activities and games conducive to active development and enhanced social skills in the classroom.
- Ms. Harmelink will cover social emotional development and how we can support young children.
- Ms. Schnurr will focus on classroom management strategies with young children.
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: July 30, 2018 | 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Cost: materials and lunch are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools and the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.
Audience: pre-school teachers and assistants, K-1 teachers and assistants and others working directly in early childhood
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex- Courtroom A | 2150 N Congress Dr, Nogales, AZ 85621
Gifted Endorsement Course
Completion of this training (45 contact hours, additional 45 hours completed independently) will qualify participant for AZ gifted provisional endorsement. Individual districts must approve professional development hours per gifted endorsements regulations. This training will focus on best practices in gifted instruction including navigating national gifted standards, social and emotional growth, differentiated instruction, critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving.
Interactive workshops will provide participants with a knowledge base in gifted education and highly effective, research based strategies for instructing gifted students.
Audience: Certified Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Administrators interested in obtaining a provisional gifted endorsement.
Date: Fridays, August 17th and November 30th, 4:30-8:30 pm | Saturdays, September 8th, September 29th, October 20th, November 30th, 2018 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: $ 240 Registration fee includes materials and dinner | lunch for six sessions
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Facilitators:
Marianne Landrith is a gifted endorsed certified teacher and Co-Chair for the Gifted Education Program in the Sunnyside Unified School District, and Coordinator of the Javits Grant for Sunnyside and Pima County Schools. Marianne has taught for 34 years in regular and gifted education. She has worked as a Teacher Trainer Mentor, Peer Coach Trainer, Program Facilitator and Career Ladder Peer Evaluator. She holds a B.A. in Elementary Education and an M.A. in Language, Reading and Culture.
Louise Till is a coordinator in the gifted education program in Tucson Unified School District. Louise has worked as a classroom teacher, librarian, mentor, coach and professional development facilitator. She is a gifted endorsed certified teacher who has taught kindergarten through college. She has her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Creative Writing and is currently a board member of the Arizona Association of Gifted and Talented (AAGT).
Completion of this training (45 contact hours, additional 45 hours completed independently) will qualify participant for AZ gifted provisional endorsement. Individual districts must approve professional development hours per gifted endorsements regulations. This training will focus on best practices in gifted instruction including navigating national gifted standards, social and emotional growth, differentiated instruction, critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving.
Interactive workshops will provide participants with a knowledge base in gifted education and highly effective, research based strategies for instructing gifted students.
- Friday, August 17th, 4:30 - 8:30 pm: Introduction to Gifted Education
- Saturday, September 8th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Students
- Saturday, September 29th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Differentiated Instruction and Flexible Grouping
- Saturday, October 20th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Critical / Creative Thinking and Questioning
- Saturday, November 3rd, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Inquiry, Project Based Learning and STEM
- Friday, November 30th, 4:30 - 8:30 pm: Best Practices in Gifted Instruction
Audience: Certified Teachers, Instructional Coaches and Administrators interested in obtaining a provisional gifted endorsement.
Date: Fridays, August 17th and November 30th, 4:30-8:30 pm | Saturdays, September 8th, September 29th, October 20th, November 30th, 2018 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: $ 240 Registration fee includes materials and dinner | lunch for six sessions
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Facilitators:
Marianne Landrith is a gifted endorsed certified teacher and Co-Chair for the Gifted Education Program in the Sunnyside Unified School District, and Coordinator of the Javits Grant for Sunnyside and Pima County Schools. Marianne has taught for 34 years in regular and gifted education. She has worked as a Teacher Trainer Mentor, Peer Coach Trainer, Program Facilitator and Career Ladder Peer Evaluator. She holds a B.A. in Elementary Education and an M.A. in Language, Reading and Culture.
Louise Till is a coordinator in the gifted education program in Tucson Unified School District. Louise has worked as a classroom teacher, librarian, mentor, coach and professional development facilitator. She is a gifted endorsed certified teacher who has taught kindergarten through college. She has her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Creative Writing and is currently a board member of the Arizona Association of Gifted and Talented (AAGT).
Teaching Reading Effectively (SAREC -- Santa Cruz County)
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: August 27, 28, September 10, 11 and 17, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost: FREE -- materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own.
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
- Foundations of Reading
- Learning to Read and Spell: A National Problem and Recommended Solutions
- Basic Principals of Reading Assessment
- The Structure of Language
- Graphophonemic Awareness
- Teaching Word Identification and Spelling Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension to summarizing
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: August 27, 28, September 10, 11 and 17, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost: FREE -- materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own.
Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child (SAREC -- Santa Cruz County)
Participants will learn strategies for recognizing and responding to students that may struggle with anxiety, experience grief or struggle to control their anger. They will also learn how invisible stressors can affect learning and what they can do to help their students learn appropriate coping skills for dealing with uncomfortable emotions.
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: September 4, 2018 | 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Cost: materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own
Audience: K-5 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex- Courtroom A | 2150 N Congress Dr, Nogales, AZ 85621
Participants will learn strategies for recognizing and responding to students that may struggle with anxiety, experience grief or struggle to control their anger. They will also learn how invisible stressors can affect learning and what they can do to help their students learn appropriate coping skills for dealing with uncomfortable emotions.
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: September 4, 2018 | 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Cost: materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own
Audience: K-5 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex- Courtroom A | 2150 N Congress Dr, Nogales, AZ 85621
Adaptive Schools Seminar
The Adaptive Schools Foundation and Advanced Seminars present a productive, practical set of ideas and tools for developing collaborative groups in becoming effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. The work of the Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to the changing needs of students and society. The training not only explores what makes teams effective, but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. It takes participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participates will develop:
Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together.
Date: September 10 and 11; October 22 and 23, 2018 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $ 400 Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking.
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Presenter: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive Coaching Training Associate and Adaptive Schools Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center. Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
The Adaptive Schools Foundation and Advanced Seminars present a productive, practical set of ideas and tools for developing collaborative groups in becoming effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. The work of the Adaptive Schools Seminars is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to the changing needs of students and society. The training not only explores what makes teams effective, but how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. It takes participants beyond the idea of professional learning communities to the actual implementation, describing specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement. Adaptive Schools is the “how” of professional learning communities: how to behave in groups, how to lead them, and how to facilitate them for improved leading, teaching, and learning.
In the four-day Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar, participates will develop:
- An increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups
- New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development
- An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools
- Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, the limitations, forms and values of each
- Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus
- Ways to value and use dissension, argument and conflict
- Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful
Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together.
Date: September 10 and 11; October 22 and 23, 2018 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Cost: $ 400 Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking.
Location: Pima County School Superintendent’s Office; 200 N. Stone Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85701
Presenter: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive Coaching Training Associate and Adaptive Schools Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center. Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
Teaching Reading Effectively (Nogales USD)
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
Course Dates: September 18 and 19 and October 24-26, 2018
Location: Nogales USD Board Room; 310 W. Plum Street | Nogales, AZ
Course Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $50 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Lunch NOT included.)
Facilitators: Gloria Carrington and Bette Lovelace
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
- Foundations of Reading
- Learning to Read and Spell: A National Problem and Recommended Solutions
- Basic Principals of Reading Assessment
- The Structure of Language
- Graphophonemic Awareness
- Teaching Word Identification and Spelling Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension to summarizing
Course Dates: September 18 and 19 and October 24-26, 2018
Location: Nogales USD Board Room; 310 W. Plum Street | Nogales, AZ
Course Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $50 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Lunch NOT included.)
Facilitators: Gloria Carrington and Bette Lovelace
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading & Spelling (LETRS)
LETRS is an ideal follow-up professional learning to Teaching Reading Effectively!
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) is an opportunity for intensive professional development that increases teacher knowledge of literacy. Participants are provided with comprehensive and practical knowledge of how children learn to read, write, and spell. Teachers and administrators can use this knowledge to improve instruction and implement evidence-based literacy interventions.
Audience: School teams are encouraged to attend and may be composed 3 - 6 team members, including the following: • K-2 Teacher • 3-5 Teacher • Special Education Teacher/Leader • English Learner Teacher • Reading Coach • District-Level Member
Cost: $325 for 4-days (Cost includes manuals for LETRS Modules 1-3 and parking)
Schools may use their Move On When Reading funds for registration. Coaching extension options available upon request after professional development.
Facilitators: Gloria Carrington and Bette Lovelace
LETRS is an ideal follow-up professional learning to Teaching Reading Effectively!
Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) is an opportunity for intensive professional development that increases teacher knowledge of literacy. Participants are provided with comprehensive and practical knowledge of how children learn to read, write, and spell. Teachers and administrators can use this knowledge to improve instruction and implement evidence-based literacy interventions.
- Module 1 - The Challenge of Learning to Read: Explores the reasons why many students have reading difficulties and explains how children learn to read.
- Module 2 - The Speech Sounds of English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Phoneme Awareness: Introduces phonemes (speech sounds) and discusses the importance of phonological awareness in reading and spelling instruction.
- Module 3 - Spellography for Teachers: How English Spelling Works: Explores the structure and history of English spelling from several angles: phoneme-grapheme correspondence, letter patterns within words, syllables, meaningful word parts (morphemes), and historical layers in the orthography
Audience: School teams are encouraged to attend and may be composed 3 - 6 team members, including the following: • K-2 Teacher • 3-5 Teacher • Special Education Teacher/Leader • English Learner Teacher • Reading Coach • District-Level Member
Cost: $325 for 4-days (Cost includes manuals for LETRS Modules 1-3 and parking)
Schools may use their Move On When Reading funds for registration. Coaching extension options available upon request after professional development.
Facilitators: Gloria Carrington and Bette Lovelace
Designing Active Learning Lessons (SAREC -- Santa Cruz County)
Participants will focus on specific student engagement strategies, where they are most appropriate during a lesson, and lesson design. Planning opportunities will allow teachers to incorporate the best practices helping students meet learning targets, achieve more, stay motivated, collaborate and develop a sense of accomplishment.
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: September 25, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost: materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex- Courtroom A | 2150 N Congress Dr, Nogales, AZ 85621
Participants will focus on specific student engagement strategies, where they are most appropriate during a lesson, and lesson design. Planning opportunities will allow teachers to incorporate the best practices helping students meet learning targets, achieve more, stay motivated, collaborate and develop a sense of accomplishment.
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: September 25, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost: materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex- Courtroom A | 2150 N Congress Dr, Nogales, AZ 85621
Masonic Model Student Assistance Program (SAREC -- Santa Cruz County)
Masonic Model Student Assistance Program (MMSAP) is an intensive three-day training workshop for “educators” whereby they learn to: identify, intervene with, and create appropriate intervention plans for students that may be at risk. This workshop trains a core team of four to eight educators from a school building in how to intervene early and effectively with students that display patterns of behaviors that threaten their success at school and in life. MMSAP involves practical practice sessions designed to simulate real events
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Dates: October 1-3, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost for materials and lunch are covered by the Arizona Masonic Foundation
Masonic Model Student Assistance Program (MMSAP) is an intensive three-day training workshop for “educators” whereby they learn to: identify, intervene with, and create appropriate intervention plans for students that may be at risk. This workshop trains a core team of four to eight educators from a school building in how to intervene early and effectively with students that display patterns of behaviors that threaten their success at school and in life. MMSAP involves practical practice sessions designed to simulate real events
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Dates: October 1-3, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost for materials and lunch are covered by the Arizona Masonic Foundation
Masonic Model Booster Class (SAREC -- Santa Cruz County)
This Booster class is designed as a follow-up session for participants who have already taken the 3-day MMSAP training. Participants revisit, reflect, and analyze their use of the MMSAP strategies in order to re-strengthen and enhance their existing programs. In the Masonic Model Student Assistance Program (MMSAP) “educators” learned to: identify, intervene with, and create appropriate intervention plans for students that may be at risk.
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Dates: October 4, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost for materials and lunch are covered by the Arizona Masonic Foundation.
This Booster class is designed as a follow-up session for participants who have already taken the 3-day MMSAP training. Participants revisit, reflect, and analyze their use of the MMSAP strategies in order to re-strengthen and enhance their existing programs. In the Masonic Model Student Assistance Program (MMSAP) “educators” learned to: identify, intervene with, and create appropriate intervention plans for students that may be at risk.
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Dates: October 4, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost for materials and lunch are covered by the Arizona Masonic Foundation.
Teaching Reading Effectively
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
When: October 29th, October 30th, November 13, 14th, and 15th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
- Foundations of Reading
- Learning to Read and Spell: A National Problem and Recommended Solutions
- Basic Principals of Reading Assessment
- The Structure of Language
- Graphophonemic Awareness
- Teaching Word Identification and Spelling Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension to summarizing
When: October 29th, October 30th, November 13, 14th, and 15th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
Integrating the 8 Mathematical Practices (SAREC -- Santa Cruz County)
This session explores the teaching and learning of math content through the lens of the Standards for Mathematical Practice for students K-12. It will deepen teachers’ understanding of what the mathematical practices are through classroom lessons, and why they are important to bring to their students as they transition into and through the Arizona’s Academic State Standards in Mathematics.
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: November 13, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost: materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex- Courtroom A | 2150 N Congress Dr, Nogales, AZ 85621
This session explores the teaching and learning of math content through the lens of the Standards for Mathematical Practice for students K-12. It will deepen teachers’ understanding of what the mathematical practices are through classroom lessons, and why they are important to bring to their students as they transition into and through the Arizona’s Academic State Standards in Mathematics.
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex, Courtroom A, Nogales, AZ
Course Date: November 13, 2018 | 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost: materials are covered by Office of the Santa Cruz County Superintendent of Schools; lunch is on your own
Audience: K-12 Educators
Location: Santa Cruz County Complex- Courtroom A | 2150 N Congress Dr, Nogales, AZ 85621
Teaching Reading Effectively
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
When: November 29th, November 30th, December 12th-14th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
The course content includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary for the development of the technical skills of reading along with academic vocabulary and deep comprehension. Important components of an effective comprehensive reading program designed to develop proficient readers, competent writers and critical thinkers are included in this material.
Units to include:
- Foundations of Reading
- Learning to Read and Spell: A National Problem and Recommended Solutions
- Basic Principals of Reading Assessment
- The Structure of Language
- Graphophonemic Awareness
- Teaching Word Identification and Spelling Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension to summarizing
When: November 29th, November 30th, December 12th-14th, 2018 8:30-3:30
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers
Location: Office of the Pima County School Superintendent | 200 N. Stone, | Tucson, AZ 85710
Cost: $75 for all 5-days (Assessment book and fundamentals of reading book included. Parking included; lunch NOT included.)
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You must register for workshops online. Submitting a purchase order without registering online will not hold a spot in any of the workshops.
You must register for workshops online. Submitting a purchase order without registering online will not hold a spot in any of the workshops.
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