Ohio’s Adolescent Literacy Specialists and Literacy Leads are offering a variety of virtual professional learning opportunities throughout the spring.
Building and district administrators, educators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and consultants are encouraged to review the offerings and attend the sessions most applicable to their work.
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Training Summary: Classroom discussion and discourse are vital components of every secondary classroom. Join this session to learn more about why discourse matters for adolescent learners, the power of implementing discussion protocols and evidence-based practices related to discussion of text.
Target Audience: Building and district administrators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, educational service center/state support team consultants.
Registration Deadline: April 23
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The Office of Federal Programs is hosting trainings to prepare education organizations to use the updated CCIP One Plan tool.
Registration is available in STARS V2.0 through your OH|ID Account >>
- Log in
- Click on Training and Registration (STARS)
- Search Event Name: One Plan Training, Keywords Federal Programs or One Plan
Ohio’s Adolescent Literacy Specialists and Literacy Leads are offering a variety of virtual professional learning opportunities throughout the spring.
Building and district administrators, educators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and consultants are encouraged to review the offerings and attend the sessions most applicable to their work.
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Training Summary: At the root of the grades 6-12 literacy standards and adolescent evidence-based practices is a focus on
complex text. Text sets can serve as a means for scaffolding complex text for all learners while also
building background knowledge, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation for literacy tasks. This two-hour workshop will review frameworks for creating text sets, and also explore examples of existing text sets.
Target Audience: Building and district administrators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, educational service center/state support team consultants.
Registration Deadline: May 3
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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 | Registration Closed |
| March 16, 2021 | Registration Closed |
| 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.
Ohio’s Adolescent Literacy Specialists and Literacy Leads are offering a variety of virtual professional learning opportunities throughout the spring.
Building and district administrators, educators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and consultants are encouraged to review the offerings and attend the sessions most applicable to their work.
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Training Summary: This session will unpack what teaching using scientific based reading practices could look like at the middle and high school levels. Participants will explore the Simple View of Reading and the development of skilled reading, the effects of poor reading and strategies to help all readers at the secondary level
Target Audience: Teachers, building coaches, teacher leaders, building and district administration
Registration Deadline: May 7
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Ohio’s Adolescent Literacy Specialists and Literacy Leads are offering a variety of virtual professional learning opportunities throughout the spring.
Building and district administrators, educators, instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and consultants are encouraged to review the offerings and attend the sessions most applicable to their work.
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Training Summary: Motivating and Engaging Adolescents in Literacy Learning is not only one of the Big Ideas of Secondary Reading, it is a recommended evidence-based practice for classroom instruction (I.E.S. Practice Guide, 2008). Participants in this three-hour workshop will examine the research and recommended practices for enhancing intrinsic student motivation and engagement in literacy tasks.
Target Audience: : Teachers, building coaches, teacher leaders, building and district administration, educational service center/state support team consultants
Registration Deadline: May 10
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The 8th Annual Trauma-Informed Care Summit is presented by the Ohio Children’s Alliance. The 2-day professional learning opportunity will be held virtually.
The purpose of the Summit is to move systems beyond trauma informed to trauma competent with specific focus on Trauma-Informed Care in a Pandemic. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, we are in the midst of uncertainty and upheaval. Where the focus may often be on recognizing COVID-19 symptoms during this time, it is also important to recognize that this time of crisis and trauma may lead to many physical, emotional, social, relational and spiritual challenges for many.
Registration is $39, but scholarships are available.
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. | Registration closed |
| November 11, 2020 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Registration closed |
| January 19, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Registration closed |
| March 17, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Registration closed |
| May 19, 2021 | 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Register for this session |
Heading to Kindergarten is part national initiative focused on building partnerships between Head Start and public schools.
The Heading to Kindergarten Summit provides an opportunity for communities and preschool to kindergarten transition teams to learn more about successful transitions to kindergarten.
Heading to Kindergarten Summit Goals:
- Showcase examples of effective kindergarten readiness practices, including strategies to support smooth transitions to kindergarten.
- Provide tools, supports and information to strengthen kindergarten readiness practices and collaboration between early childhood programs and school districts.
More information is available on the Ohio Department of Education website >>
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 | Registration Closed |
| March 16, 2021 | Registration Closed |
| 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.
