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Upcoming SAREC Workshops
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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: January 14-16, 2019 | 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: January 14-16, 2019 | 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: January 17, 2019 | 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: January 17, 2019 | 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: 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.)
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:
Course Dates: Fridays & Saturdays --January 11 and 12, February 22 and 23 and March 30, 2019
Location: Rothery Education Center Conference Room; Sierra Vista USD; 3305 E. Fry Blvd. Sierra Vista 85635
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.)
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: Fridays & Saturdays --January 11 and 12, February 22 and 23 and March 30, 2019
Location: Rothery Education Center Conference Room; Sierra Vista USD; 3305 E. Fry Blvd. Sierra Vista 85635
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.)
Supervising Practitioners Colloquium
This course fulfills the state requirement that each cooperating teacher receives training by the professional preparation institution. Participants will be certified to serve as cooperating teachers for students at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Components integral to becoming a successful mentor such as relationships, learning environments, coaching, instruction, and professionalism will be explored from a personal perspective.
When: Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 4:30 - 7:30 pm
Audience: All grade level general and special education teachers
Location: Flowing Wells Professional Development Center; 1556 W. Prince Road (east of Administration Building)
Cost: Free
This course fulfills the state requirement that each cooperating teacher receives training by the professional preparation institution. Participants will be certified to serve as cooperating teachers for students at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Components integral to becoming a successful mentor such as relationships, learning environments, coaching, instruction, and professionalism will be explored from a personal perspective.
When: Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 4:30 - 7:30 pm
Audience: All grade level general and special education teachers
Location: Flowing Wells Professional Development Center; 1556 W. Prince Road (east of Administration Building)
Cost: Free
Supervising Practitioners Colloquium
This course fulfills the state requirement that each cooperating teacher receives training by the professional preparation institution. Participants will be certified to serve as cooperating teachers for students at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Components integral to becoming a successful mentor such as relationships, learning environments, coaching, instruction, and professionalism will be explored from a personal perspective.
When: Saturday, December 8, 2018, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Audience: All grade level general and special education teachers
Location: Pima County School Superintendent's Office | 200 N. Stone, Tucson
Cost: Free
This course fulfills the state requirement that each cooperating teacher receives training by the professional preparation institution. Participants will be certified to serve as cooperating teachers for students at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Components integral to becoming a successful mentor such as relationships, learning environments, coaching, instruction, and professionalism will be explored from a personal perspective.
When: Saturday, December 8, 2018, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Audience: All grade level general and special education teachers
Location: Pima County School Superintendent's Office | 200 N. Stone, Tucson
Cost: Free
Supervising Practitioners Colloquium
This course fulfills the state requirement that each cooperating teacher receives training by the professional preparation institution. Participants will be certified to serve as cooperating teachers for students at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Components integral to becoming a successful mentor such as relationships, learning environments, coaching, instruction, and professionalism will be explored from a personal perspective.
When: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:30-7:30 pm
Audience: All grade level general and special education teachers
Location: Flowing Wells Professional Development Center; 1556 W. Prince Road (east of Administration Building)
Cost: Free
This course fulfills the state requirement that each cooperating teacher receives training by the professional preparation institution. Participants will be certified to serve as cooperating teachers for students at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. Components integral to becoming a successful mentor such as relationships, learning environments, coaching, instruction, and professionalism will be explored from a personal perspective.
When: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 4:30-7:30 pm
Audience: All grade level general and special education teachers
Location: Flowing Wells Professional Development Center; 1556 W. Prince Road (east of Administration Building)
Cost: Free
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, January 11th and May 3rd, 4:30-8:30 pm | Saturdays, January 26th, February 16th, March 2nd, and April 27th,2019 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.
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.
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, January 11th, 4:30 - 8:30 pm: Introduction to Gifted Education
- Saturday, January 26th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Students
- Saturday, February 16th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Differentiated Instruction and Flexible Grouping
- Saturday, March 2nd, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Critical / Creative Thinking and Questioning
- Saturday, April 27th, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Inquiry, Project Based Learning and STEM
- Friday, May 3rd, 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, January 11th and May 3rd, 4:30-8:30 pm | Saturdays, January 26th, February 16th, March 2nd, and April 27th,2019 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.
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.
Teaching Reading Effectively -- Trainer of Trainers
The content of Teaching Reading Effectively includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary to develop a student’s oral language, decoding and encoding skills, academic vocabulary, and reading comprehension. The TRE is designed to empower teachers to develop proficient readers, competent writers, and critical thinkers.
Once a teacher has completed the five-day TRE and have passed the post-test with a minimal score of 80%, he/she can take the Teaching Reading Effectively – Trainer of Trainers course. This course is designed to deepen each participant’s understanding of early literacy so that he/she is qualified to deliver the TRE training locally at a school or district. These teachers can take the knowledge of early literacy that they have acquired and can use it to empower all of the teachers at their school or district to strengthen their literacy instruction for all students.
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers who have successfully completed a 5-day TRE workshop.
Course Dates:: January 14- 16, January 28-29, 2019
Location:: Pima County School Superintendent's Office | 200 N. Stone Ave., Tucson
Course Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $100 for all 5-days (Materials and parking included. Lunch NOT included.)
The content of Teaching Reading Effectively includes current research and evidence based practices that are necessary to develop a student’s oral language, decoding and encoding skills, academic vocabulary, and reading comprehension. The TRE is designed to empower teachers to develop proficient readers, competent writers, and critical thinkers.
Once a teacher has completed the five-day TRE and have passed the post-test with a minimal score of 80%, he/she can take the Teaching Reading Effectively – Trainer of Trainers course. This course is designed to deepen each participant’s understanding of early literacy so that he/she is qualified to deliver the TRE training locally at a school or district. These teachers can take the knowledge of early literacy that they have acquired and can use it to empower all of the teachers at their school or district to strengthen their literacy instruction for all students.
Audience: K-3rd grade teachers, K-5 ELL teachers, K-8 special education teachers who have successfully completed a 5-day TRE workshop.
Course Dates:: January 14- 16, January 28-29, 2019
Location:: Pima County School Superintendent's Office | 200 N. Stone Ave., Tucson
Course Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Cost: $100 for all 5-days (Materials and parking included. Lunch NOT included.)
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:
Facilitator: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive CoachingSM Training Associate and Adaptive SchoolsSM Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center.
Dates: January 17th, 18th and March 28th and March 29th, 2019
Cost: Early Bird Special: $ 400 (4 days) if registered before December 14, 2018. $450 after December 14th.
Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking.
Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together.
Location:Pima County School Superintendent’s Office | 200 N. Stone Avenue | Tucson, Arizona 85701
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
Facilitator: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive CoachingSM Training Associate and Adaptive SchoolsSM Agency Trainer for the Arizona K12 Center.
Dates: January 17th, 18th and March 28th and March 29th, 2019
Cost: Early Bird Special: $ 400 (4 days) if registered before December 14, 2018. $450 after December 14th.
Registration fee includes materials, continental breakfast and parking.
Audience: Administrators, Instructional Leaders, PLC moderators and coaches. Site teams encouraged to attend together.
Location:Pima County School Superintendent’s Office | 200 N. Stone Avenue | Tucson, Arizona 85701
Contact: Mary Bouley, marybouley@cox.net
Cognitive Coaching
The Pima County School Superintendents' Offices are offering Cognitive Coaching℠ Foundations Seminar in collaboration with the AZK12 Center. This seminar is designed for principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and others who strive to support and guide a higher level of practice with their colleagues. In this seminar, participants learn ways to expand and refine knowledge and skills to promote more effective teaching and learning. The focus is on strategies that enhance teachers’ intellectual growth and strengthen instructional decision-making. During the workshop the maps and tools of Cognitive Coaching℠ are demonstrated and practiced. Specifically, participants learn to: establish rapport, create trust, and conduct planning, reflecting, and problem-resolving conversations. These maps and tools develop teacher self-efficacy and cognitive autonomy, while also developing a sense of community and professional culture within a school.
Facilitator: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive CoachingSM Training Associate and specializes in one-on-one coaching as well as group facilitation. Through AZK12, Mary has been providing Cognitive CoachingSM Foundation training for the past 7 years.
Training each day (8:30-4:30) will cover the following topics:
Early Bird Rate: $600
Regular Rate: $650 after January 7, 2019
The Pima County School Superintendents' Offices are offering Cognitive Coaching℠ Foundations Seminar in collaboration with the AZK12 Center. This seminar is designed for principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and others who strive to support and guide a higher level of practice with their colleagues. In this seminar, participants learn ways to expand and refine knowledge and skills to promote more effective teaching and learning. The focus is on strategies that enhance teachers’ intellectual growth and strengthen instructional decision-making. During the workshop the maps and tools of Cognitive Coaching℠ are demonstrated and practiced. Specifically, participants learn to: establish rapport, create trust, and conduct planning, reflecting, and problem-resolving conversations. These maps and tools develop teacher self-efficacy and cognitive autonomy, while also developing a sense of community and professional culture within a school.
Facilitator: Mary Bouley is an experienced educator and consultant with expertise in coaching, mentoring, project management, and professional development. She is a Cognitive CoachingSM Training Associate and specializes in one-on-one coaching as well as group facilitation. Through AZK12, Mary has been providing Cognitive CoachingSM Foundation training for the past 7 years.
Training each day (8:30-4:30) will cover the following topics:
- January 24, 2019: Trust and Rapport and Four Support Functions
- January 25, 2019: Planning Conversation Map, Cognitive Coaching℠ Capabilities, Response Behaviors and the Planning Conversation
- March 7, 2019: Review & Integration, Meditational Questions and the Reflecting Conversation
- March 8, 2019: Five Categories of Feedback, Navigating Support Functions, The Role of Data in Mediating Thinking and Reflecting Conversations with a Meta Coach
- April 4, 2019: Review and Reflection, Filters of Perception: Representational Systems, Cognitive Style, Educational Belief Systems
- April 5, 2019: Cognitive Shift and The Problem-Resolving Conversation
- May 9, 2019: The Pace, Going for the Goal, Listening for States of Mind
- May 10, 2019: States of Mind, The Lead, Pacing and Leading
Early Bird Rate: $600
Regular Rate: $650 after January 7, 2019
- Registration fee includes materials, parking and continental breakfast.
- 56 hours of professional development credit.
- No refunds on registration after January 18, 2018.
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.
- 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
Location:: Nogales USD | 310 Plum Street | Nogales, AZ 85621
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
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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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