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On Demand PD
Online Courses and Webinars
Plans for A Hope and A Future: College and Career Readiness Plans
Join in this session with Terryl Swejk (SST9) and Beth Gaubatz (Tri-County ESC) for a deep dive into multi-tiered college and career readiness plans. Discussion and information will include graduation plans, student success plans, and secondary transition plans.
Participants will receive 3 contact hours.
Register for the course here: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/DP6EAC
Questions? Contact Beth Gaubatz: tesc_bgaubatz@tccsa.net
Comprehension for ALL 4th-12th Grade Teachers
The Key Comprehension Routine book is organized into chapters that reflect the topics covered in professional development for the routine. The book includes an introduction to comprehension instruction, details about each instructional practice, classroom examples, and professional learning activities. There are also reproducible templates. The course includes video segments presented by Joan Sedita for each section.
(Books are available for Striving Reader Grant Districts) for more information please contact Jennifer Marrah at tesc_jmarrah@tccsa.net
To purchase a book please click here
Vocabulary Instruction for 4th -12th grade
The Key Vocabulary Routine book is organized into chapters that reflect the topics covered in professional development for the routine. The book includes an introduction to vocabulary instruction, details about each instructional practice, classroom examples, and professional learning activities. There are also reproducible templates. The course includes video segments presented by Joan Sedita for each section.
(Books are available for Striving Reader Grant Districts) for more information please contact Jennifer Marrah at tesc_jmarrah@tccsa.net
To purchase a book please click here
Dr. Steven Dykstra – Trauma, Growth, and Resilience: The Place for Language and Learning
This online webinar recording features Dr. Steven Dykstra as he walks viewers through understanding trauma and how language, and specifically the ability to read, can make all the difference in the world. This session provides 3 contact hours of professional development.
This professional development is designed to provide all educators with a basic understanding of the Ohio Plan for Literacy . Ohio’s Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement serves as a guide to evidence-based language and literacy teaching and learning for all learners from birth through grade 12. Acquiring language and literacy skills affects learners’ access to, and interest in, content materials and instruction at all grade levels and all aspects of their lives
Time: ongoing, self-paced
Earn 3 contact hours
To register please use this link https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/NCM9TR
Instructor: Jennifer Marrah, tesc_jmarrah@tccsa.net
Online-Equipped For Reading Success
by David Kilpatrick Ph.D.
Targeted audience K-5, Title Reading and IS Teachers K-12
A comprehensive, step by step program for developing Phonemic Awareness and Fluent Word Recognition. Concepts are covered carefully and thoroughly.
Time: ongoing, self-paced
Earn up to 15 contact hours
Participants are expected to purchase the book at this site:https://equippedforreadingsuccess.com/
To register please use this link:
https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/EBBNWK
Instructor: Jennifer Marrah, tesc_jmarrah@tccsa.net
Online-Content Literacy Tiered Vocabulary Instruction for 6th -12th grade Teachers
Isabel Beck’s Tiered Vocabulary will provide a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development for use in middle school through high school. Explicit instruction of vocabulary will be emphasized.
Time: Ongoing, self-paced
Earn up to 6 contact hours
Instructor: Jennifer Marrah, tesc_jmarrah@tccsa.net
To register please use this link: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/3JGRKF.
Online – Disciplinary Literacy (Social Studies and/or Science)
This quick course is designed to give intermediate and secondary teachers an introduction to disciplinary literacy within the content area classroom.
Time: Ongoing, Self-Paced
Contact Hours: 1
Location: Online
Instructor: Andrew Johnson
For more information and to register:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ThAfhP4OTRQwiKSFw3x0PX-p7GKzFeEWez1VZrZrHkk/edit?usp=sharing
Online – Historical Thinking – Disciplinary Literacy
This short course is intended to provide social studies and history teachers with access to professional development centered on conceptualizing historical thinking as a framework for teaching the content and disciplinary literacy of social studies.
Time: Ongoing, Self-Paced
Contact Hours: 2
Location: Online
Instructor: Andrew Johnson
For more information and to register:https://docs.google.com/document/d/13QtJos5Lpgp__1MCnfYQpobi9OipEhOSzGFXYLfX3AY/edit?usp=sharing
Working With Picture Books, by Will Hillenbrand
This online pre-recorded webinar is a one hour session led by Will Hillenbrand, children’s author and illustrator. This pre-recorded webinar is worth one contact hour.
For More information about Will, click this link.
To view and complete the professional development, click here.
WEP Goal Writing – Online
WEP goals are the driving force behind a student’s written education plan. It is vital for gifted service providers to be well versed in goal writing to ensure appropriate goals are identified for each student. In this session, service providers will review the goal writing process, practice, and even have an opportunity to craft specific goals for their teaching situation.
Time: Ongoing, Self-Paced
Contact Hours: 3
To register and complete the course: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/6RGLA6
Cornell Note-Taking – Online
This online professional development is focused on helping teachers design two-column notes to fit their grade-level and instructional style.
Time: Ongoing, Self-Paced
Contact Hours: 2
To register and complete the course: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/M8GBM9
OLAC Gifted Professional Development Online Course – Year One
Gifted professional development course designed by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council and provided by Tri-County ESC. Focus of year one is social emotional wellbeing and culturally responsive teaching practices.
Contact Hours: 15
Location: Online
For register and complete the course: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/BTH7G3
OLAC Gifted Professional Development Online Course – Year Two
Gifted professional development course designed by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council and provided by Tri-County ESC. Focus of year two is differentiating instruction for advanced learners.
Contact Hours: 15
Location: Online
To register and complete the course: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/E6WFDK
OLAC Gifted Professional Development Online Course – Year Three
Gifted professional development course designed by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council and provided by Tri-County ESC. Focus of year three is monitoring growth and Written Education Plans
Contact Hours: 15
Location: Online
To register and complete the course: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/9R8PRT
OLAC Gifted Professional Development Online Course – Year Four
Gifted professional development course designed by the Ohio Leadership Advisory Council and provided by Tri-County ESC. Focus of year four is Acceleration.
Contact Hours: 15
Location: Online
To register and complete the course: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/39WK4Y
Supporting the Wounded Educator
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Explore a practitioner-based path forward in the personal health, wellness, and success of those working with wounded students.
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Examine core strategies and challenge points for implementing effective self-care as well as discover their role in creating a thriving culture
Better Than Carrots Or Sticks
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Establish procedures and expectations for student behavior that encourage the development of positive interpersonal skills;
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Develop a non confrontational rapport with even the most challenging students; and
Engaged: Building Intentional Partnerships with Families
This book will help you take your family engagement from parent involvement to authentic parent partnership.
The objectives of this course are:
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Participants will identify the 10 values that are instrumental in shaping the foundation of effective family engagement
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Participants will identify gaps that exist in their current family engagement plan
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Participants will be prepared to guide, or participate in, conversations within their organizations regarding ways to strengthen family engagement practices
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Participants will be able to maintain a strengths-based approach to family engagement work
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours. Book may be provided
Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
As an educator, you face the impact of trauma in the classroom every day. Let this book be your guide to seeking solutions rather than dwelling on problems, to building relationships that allow students to grow, thrive, and–most assuredly–learn at high levels.
Grounded in research and the authors’ experience working with trauma-affected students and their teachers, Fostering Resilient Learners will help you cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings. The authors–a mental health therapist and a veteran principal–provide proven, reliable strategies to help you
Participants will:
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Understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom.
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Build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels.
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Adopt a strengths-based approach that leads you to recalibrate how you view destructive student behaviors and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles.
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Head off frustration and burnout with essential self-care techniques that will help you and your students flourish.
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours.
A book may be provided. Each district in Wayne and Holmes County received one or more copies of this book as part of the Resilience Library Project completed by the Wayne Holmes Mental Health and Recovery Board in 2022. Some school counselors or mental health professionals also received extra copies of this book at the School Counselor/Mental Health Professionals network meeting in February 2024.
Register by following this link.
Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership: Building a Learning Environment to Support Healing and Success
Many Educators have heard that implementing “trauma-sensitive” practices can help students heal and succeed. But what does this look like on a day-to-day basis? What does it require of teachers and of those who lead them?
In Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership, Bill Ziegler, Dave Ramage, Andrea Parson, and Justin Foster provide a framework to guide this work. With reference to research and their own experience as teachers, counselors, and school leaders, the authors explain how to do this work.
Accepting students for who they are and responding compassionately to their needs leads them to greater success in academics and life. With 50 recommended strategies and authentic examples of trauma-informed healing practices, Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership can help you transform your school to better serve your students.
Participants will:
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Develop empathetic and supportive relationships with and among students and staff.
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Identify biases and barriers that may hinder educators’ ability to support learners affected by trauma.
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Design all-school events and daily lesson plans to minimize the likelihood of retraumatizing vulnerable students.
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Retool discipline practices and physical spaces to foster a more trauma-sensitive culture and climate.
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Establish supports to help teachers and other staff deal with secondary trauma.
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours. Book may be provided.
Register by following this link.
Reaching the Wounded Student
This inspirational book offers strategies and ideas to educators who work with wounded students – students who are beyond the point of “at-risk” and who suffer from hopelessness. It shows teachers and principals how to understand, teach, discipline, and motivate these students. This book will also empower and encourage educators to give hope to all students and direct them on a path to academic and life success.
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Develop a new level of understanding that helps them deal with students’ issues and how they affect learning and achievement on an academic level
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Be able to identify and understand a wounded student
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Understand the role of teachers in the lives of wounded students
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Manage the behavior issues of wounded students in a variety of ways
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 15 hours. Book may be provided.
Register by following this link.
7 Ways to Transform the Lives of Wounded Students
This book provides a wealth of strategies and ideas for teachers and principals who work with wounded students-those who are beyond the point of “at risk” and have experienced trauma in their lives. Sharing stories and examples from real schools and students, this inspirational book examines the seven key strategies necessary for changing school culture to transform the lives of individual students. Recognizing the power of effective leadership and empathy in creating a sense of community and safety for wounded students. Hendershott offers a valuable resource to help educators redesign their school environment to meet the needs of children and empower educators to direct students on a path to academic and life success.
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Understand trauma and the effects it can have on all parts of the learning process
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Understand how to consider the whole brain in learning and interactions
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Understand the need for empathy and emotional literacy
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Understand the need for community in helping transform wounded children
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Give the reader some takeaway strategies for professional and personal development
This is a self-paced book study with discussion questions along the way. At the completion of this course, you will receive a certificate documenting credit for 10 hours. Book may be provided.
Permission to Feel
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive, by Marc Brackett Ph.D.
Marc Brackett is a professor at Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years as an emotion scientist, he has developed a remarkably effective plan to improve the lives of children and adults – a blueprint for understanding our emotions and using them wisely so that they help, rather than hinder, our success and well-being. RULER is the name of Marc Brackett’s Center’s approach to teaching emotional intelligence, and it’s also an acronym for the five key skills: Recognizing emotions in oneself and others, Understanding the causes and consequences of emotion, Labeling emotions with precise words, Expressing emotions, taking context and culture into consideration, Regulating emotions effectively to achieve goals and wellbeing.
Participants are responsible for purchasing the book: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
This book study is self-paced, on-demand. Participants will receive 15 contact hours for completion of the course.
Registration and class are through Canvas.
Contact Beth Gaubatz (tesc_bgaubatz@tccsa.net) with any questions.
Registration: https://tricountyesc.instructure.com/enroll/DTMWMK
Melissa McClain – Introduction to Trauma and Managing Trauma in the Classroom
This session covers the basics of trauma, what types of trauma students may face, and how trauma can affect a student’s physical, emotional, and cognitive abilities. It also includes a conversation on trauma focused staff mindset, school and classroom techniques to prevent a trauma based reaction in the classroom and what to do if a child is acting out in your classroom. This session provides 3 contact hours of professional development.
Melissa McClain – Ten Ways to Connect With Kids
This workshop introduces the Search Institutes framework for Developmental Relationships. This hands-on session will detail practical tools for connecting with children and give participants the opportunity to practice the tools themselves. This session provides 3 contact hours of professional development.
Increasing Student Motivation to Write, by David Lee Morgan
This online pre-recorded webinar is a one hour session led by David Lee Morgan, local author and educator. David Lee Morgan Jr. is an American sportswriter, author, teacher and motivational speaker. Morgan has worked at several newspapers, including the Warren Tribune-Chronicle, the Raleigh News & Observer, the Youngstown Vindicator, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, and the Akron Beacon Journal.
Morgan is the author of: Lebron James, Rise of a Star and Massillon Tigers, 15 for 15
To view and complete the professional development, click here.
Progress Monitoring of Individual Education Programs
Progress Monitoring is the method of formative assessment used to measure a student’s progress toward meeting a goal. Progress Monitoring procedures guide how data will be collected in order to make instructional decisions about the progress of the student and establish a decision making plan for examining the data collected. Intervention Specialists will learn about tools and resources for evaluating and reporting progress on IEP goals.
Coming Soon!
Online, Self-Paced Training for Progress Monitoring
For More information contact: Beth Gaubatz (tesc_bgaubatz@tccsa.net)