The Career Technical Education (CTE) Connect and Communication Network is a year-long professional learning activity for CTE administrator and educator teams to collaborate with teams from other career tech centers, experience coaching designed to support increased partnerships among districts, and provide opportunities to update or create required documents such as policies and procedures manuals and student success plans.
Session 1: September 29, 2020
Virtual Zoom Session – Zoom log-in information will be sent out to registered participants prior to the date of the event.
Special Education – Participants will explore the history of IDEA and learn about how educator mindset impacts student performance.
Session 2: November 17, 2020
Virtual Zoom Session – Zoom log-in information will be sent out to registered participants prior to the date of the event.
Teams will explore how academic, CTE and Special Education can partner and support each other in increasing student achievement. Participants will practice examining barriers to student learning and brainstorming ways to remove those barriers.
Session 3: January 26, 2021
Participants will learn about Graduation Plans and why Career Tech Education should be part of the discussion as students first create their plan in 9th grade. Team members will brainstorm how to be included in graduation planning and how to include parents in that planning.
Session 4: March 2, 2021
This session will be celebration day, a time for you to showcase a positive outcome connected to your 8-step action plan, special populations, partnerships, or student achievement. It will also be a time to learn from other about their successes and lessons learned through their action research.
The 2020-2021 series will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on September 29, November 17, January 26, and March 2. The first two sessions will be held virtually. The last two sessions are scheduled to be held at the Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West in Toledo. Lunch is not provided. Contact hours [20] are available to participants for complete series attendance.
Team Composition
All teams should include at least one administrator (e.g., CTE superintendent, director, special education leader) and CTE teachers, VOSE or special education intervention specialists, academic teachers, guidance counselors, curriculum specialists, admissions office supervisors, and 504 coordinators. Teams are encouraged to attend all four sessions of this series.
Registration
To register your team for this series, contact State Support Team Region 1 via email Jill Barnhisel or call 800-346-8495 or 419-720-8999, extension 152.
Questions
Questions regarding this series should be emailed to Lisa Hite.
These virtual, interactive sessions are designed for administrators, curriculum directors, special education directors, and superintendents.
Understanding the importance of literacy as the foundation for learning is the focus these interactive virtual sessions, sponsored by the State Support Team Region 1. Participants will investigate the complex nature of building and advancing literacy skills across all disciplines. This network will explore the practices that address the six essential domains of adolescent literacy instruction. Those which include:
- Disciplinary literacy
- Vocabulary
- Discussion
- Digital literacy
- Multiple texts
- Writing to learn
Administrators will learn instructional strategies that can be implemented the following day as well as develop understanding for guiding principles that will assist in the professional growth of participants. This network will build a solid theoretical framework of adolescent literacy, disciplinary literacy and provide a set of resources for developing and implementing literacy plans.
Contact Ginna Fall, M.Ed. with questions.
Event Flyer
Download the event flyer for full details.
Event Dates & Registration
(Prior registration is required)
Participants must individually register for each session. Click the date of the session you wish to attend below to be taken to the registration form. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email with the login information for that specific meeting. For registration questions contact Lisa Jenkins.
| October 15, 2020 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Closed |
| November 11, 2020 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Closed |
| January 19, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Closed |
| March 17, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Register for this session |
| May 19, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Register for this session |
Hosted by: State Support Team Region 1
Presenter: Debbie Nagel, M.A., SSTR1 Consultant
Get ready to take your virtual teaching skills to the next level! This one-hour, session is designed for those who participated in the Literacy/Reading interventions in the Virtual Environment session held October 13. Participants will dive into a deeper and more robust discussion regarding putting the shared tools, ideas, and strategies into practice. You’ll gather a toolbox full of resources and learn how to use evidence-based strategies that align to the science of reading while providing reading interventions virtually.
Please Note
- This learning opportunity is designed for classroom teachers, intervention specialists, and Title 1 teachers with a focus on grades K-3.
- Recommended prerequisite course: Reading Interventions in the Digital Environment [Beginner]
- October 13, 2020 | 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
- This one-hour, beginner-level session will center around tools and ideas designed to support educators who provide reading interventions to students in a virtual environment.
Contact Debbie Nagel, M.A., with questions.
Registration
Zoom registration has closed.
National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) is a National Celebration that offers leaders in business, labor, education, and other critical partners a chance to express their support for Apprenticeship.
NAW also gives apprenticeship sponsors the opportunity to showcase their programs, facilities and apprentices in their community. The weekly events highlight the benefits of Apprenticeship in preparing a highly-skilled workforce to meet the talent needs of employers across diverse industries.
Learn more:
U.S. Department of Labor to Mark Sixth Annual Apprenticeship Week
The Literacy Leaders Network will take a deep dive into all components of the Literacy Improvement Pathway.
Designed for district leaders, superintendents, curriculum directors, special education directors, principals, and literacy coaches, participants will learn the processes needed to create, update, or improve their district’s literacy plan based solidly in the Science of Reading. Vital tools such as the R-TFI, District Implementation Team/District Leadership Team guidance, decision rules, MTSS, curriculum review and adoption, assessment, and more will be covered.
Virtual Meetup Dates and Registration Links
All sessions will be held from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
| November 10, 2020 | Registration Closed | |
| December 8, 2020 | Registration Closed | |
| January 12, 2021 | Registration Closed | |
| February 9, 2021 | Zoom Registration | Based on the Literacy Leaders Network feedback, our February Literacy Leader’s Network Session on “time” will take place in the form of a recording. Video content will be sent to you directly.
To keep the true intent of this team a network, there is a participation requirement. We will open our March session with this discussion. We intend to honor your time, so the recording and your participation will not exceed 1.5 hours total time. |
| March 16, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| April 20, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| May 11, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| June 8, 2021 | Zoom Registration |
Download the event flyer for more information >>
Note: This Professional Learning opportunity is by invitation only.
For registration questions email Lisa Jenkins or call 419.720.8999, ext. 151.
For questions on the content of the network, please contact Debbie Nagel.
These virtual, interactive sessions are designed for administrators, curriculum directors, special education directors, and superintendents.
Understanding the importance of literacy as the foundation for learning is the focus these interactive virtual sessions, sponsored by the State Support Team Region 1. Participants will investigate the complex nature of building and advancing literacy skills across all disciplines. This network will explore the practices that address the six essential domains of adolescent literacy instruction. Those which include:
- Disciplinary literacy
- Vocabulary
- Discussion
- Digital literacy
- Multiple texts
- Writing to learn
Administrators will learn instructional strategies that can be implemented the following day as well as develop understanding for guiding principles that will assist in the professional growth of participants. This network will build a solid theoretical framework of adolescent literacy, disciplinary literacy and provide a set of resources for developing and implementing literacy plans.
Contact Ginna Fall, M.Ed. with questions.
Event Flyer
Download the event flyer for full details.
Event Dates & Registration
(Prior registration is required)
Participants must individually register for each session. Click the date of the session you wish to attend below to be taken to the registration form. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email with the login information for that specific meeting. For registration questions contact Lisa Jenkins.
| October 15, 2020 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Closed |
| November 11, 2020 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Closed |
| January 19, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Closed |
| March 17, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Register for this session |
| May 19, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Register for this session |
The Career Technical Education (CTE) Connect and Communication Network is a year-long professional learning activity for CTE administrator and educator teams to collaborate with teams from other career tech centers, experience coaching designed to support increased partnerships among districts, and provide opportunities to update or create required documents such as policies and procedures manuals and student success plans.
Session 1: September 29, 2020
Virtual Zoom Session – Zoom log-in information will be sent out to registered participants prior to the date of the event.
Special Education – Participants will explore the history of IDEA and learn about how educator mindset impacts student performance.
Session 2: November 17, 2020
Virtual Zoom Session – Zoom log-in information will be sent out to registered participants prior to the date of the event.
Teams will explore how academic, CTE and Special Education can partner and support each other in increasing student achievement. Participants will practice examining barriers to student learning and brainstorming ways to remove those barriers.
Session 3: January 26, 2021
Participants will learn about Graduation Plans and why Career Tech Education should be part of the discussion as students first create their plan in 9th grade. Team members will brainstorm how to be included in graduation planning and how to include parents in that planning.
Session 4: March 2, 2021
This session will be celebration day, a time for you to showcase a positive outcome connected to your 8-step action plan, special populations, partnerships, or student achievement. It will also be a time to learn from other about their successes and lessons learned through their action research.
The 2020-2021 series will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on September 29, November 17, January 26, and March 2. The first two sessions will be held virtually. The last two sessions are scheduled to be held at the Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West in Toledo. Lunch is not provided. Contact hours [20] are available to participants for complete series attendance.
Team Composition
All teams should include at least one administrator (e.g., CTE superintendent, director, special education leader) and CTE teachers, VOSE or special education intervention specialists, academic teachers, guidance counselors, curriculum specialists, admissions office supervisors, and 504 coordinators. Teams are encouraged to attend all four sessions of this series.
Registration
To register your team for this series, contact State Support Team Region 1 via email Jill Barnhisel or call 800-346-8495 or 419-720-8999, extension 152.
Questions
Questions regarding this series should be emailed to Lisa Hite.
The journey to becoming a skillful reader beings with phonemic awareness, or the ability to understand that spoken words are made up of individual sounds.
The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum focuses on eight phonemic awareness skills, along with two additional activities to develop letter and sound recognition and language awareness. Best of all, it’s engaging, quick, fun, and effective!
Join us for this Professional Learning session for an introduction to the Heggerty Curriculum, learn how to put it into practice, and begin using it with fidelity.
Questions about this session may be directed to Debbie Nagel, M.Ed., SST 1 Consultant.
RESCHEDULED: The February 16 session was postponed due to inclement weather. Please join us March 9.
Meeting Registration – Zoom >>
Registration
This professional learning opportunity is by invitation only. Please call 419.720.8999, ext. 151 or email Lisa Jenkins with questions.
The Literacy Leaders Network will take a deep dive into all components of the Literacy Improvement Pathway.
Designed for district leaders, superintendents, curriculum directors, special education directors, principals, and literacy coaches, participants will learn the processes needed to create, update, or improve their district’s literacy plan based solidly in the Science of Reading. Vital tools such as the R-TFI, District Implementation Team/District Leadership Team guidance, decision rules, MTSS, curriculum review and adoption, assessment, and more will be covered.
Virtual Meetup Dates and Registration Links
All sessions will be held from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
| November 10, 2020 | Registration Closed | |
| December 8, 2020 | Registration Closed | |
| January 12, 2021 | Registration Closed | |
| February 9, 2021 | Zoom Registration | Based on the Literacy Leaders Network feedback, our February Literacy Leader’s Network Session on “time” will take place in the form of a recording. Video content will be sent to you directly.
To keep the true intent of this team a network, there is a participation requirement. We will open our March session with this discussion. We intend to honor your time, so the recording and your participation will not exceed 1.5 hours total time. |
| March 16, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| April 20, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| May 11, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| June 8, 2021 | Zoom Registration |
Download the event flyer for more information >>
Note: This Professional Learning opportunity is by invitation only.
For registration questions email Lisa Jenkins or call 419.720.8999, ext. 151.
For questions on the content of the network, please contact Debbie Nagel.
The Literacy Leaders Network will take a deep dive into all components of the Literacy Improvement Pathway.
Designed for district leaders, superintendents, curriculum directors, special education directors, principals, and literacy coaches, participants will learn the processes needed to create, update, or improve their district’s literacy plan based solidly in the Science of Reading. Vital tools such as the R-TFI, District Implementation Team/District Leadership Team guidance, decision rules, MTSS, curriculum review and adoption, assessment, and more will be covered.
Virtual Meetup Dates and Registration Links
All sessions will be held from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
| November 10, 2020 | Registration Closed | |
| December 8, 2020 | Registration Closed | |
| January 12, 2021 | Registration Closed | |
| February 9, 2021 | Zoom Registration | Based on the Literacy Leaders Network feedback, our February Literacy Leader’s Network Session on “time” will take place in the form of a recording. Video content will be sent to you directly.
To keep the true intent of this team a network, there is a participation requirement. We will open our March session with this discussion. We intend to honor your time, so the recording and your participation will not exceed 1.5 hours total time. |
| March 16, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| April 20, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| May 11, 2021 | Zoom Registration | |
| June 8, 2021 | Zoom Registration |
Download the event flyer for more information >>
Note: This Professional Learning opportunity is by invitation only.
For registration questions email Lisa Jenkins or call 419.720.8999, ext. 151.
For questions on the content of the network, please contact Debbie Nagel.
