The need for family and community engagement and partnership has increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual network series is designed for administrators and district leaders to explore evidence based practices around family and community engagement.
Each 2-hour session will focus on a particular topic, including:
• An overview of family and community engagement practices, then and now
• Evidence-based strategies and family and community engagement frameworks
• Alignment of family and community engagement with school improvement efforts
• Tools for evaluating family and community engagement
After attending these sessions, participants will be able to:
• Describe evidence based practices to improve family and community engagement in schools
• Create action steps to infuse family and community engagement into their school improvement goals
• Choose and use at least one tool for evaluating family and community engagement in their districts and buildings
• Describe evidence based frameworks for family and community engagement
• Create an action plan for the 2021-2022 school year to align family engagement practices with school improvement plans.
Would you like to build your family and community engagement toolkit? Books, supplies and other resources will be given to participants who attend each meeting.
Questions? Please contact Tamie Cruz, SST 1 Consultant.
Registration
Each session has a unique registration link. You must register individually for the dates you wish to attend. You will receive a confirmation email upon successful registration. Please contact Jill Barnhisel if you have questions about registration.
| February 4, 2021 | Closed |
| March 4, 2021 | Closed |
| April 22, 2021 | Register via Zoom |
| May 13, 2021 | Register via Zoom |
Download the flyer for the Virtual Family and Community Engagement Professional Learning Opportunity
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: Unlike elementary schools, the structures of secondary schools have traditionally not been designed for universal literacy instruction. This two-hour workshop will explore the use of common instructional frameworks and routines as a means of advancing the evidence-based practices of adolescent literacy.
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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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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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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The need for family and community engagement and partnership has increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual network series is designed for administrators and district leaders to explore evidence based practices around family and community engagement.
Each 2-hour session will focus on a particular topic, including:
• An overview of family and community engagement practices, then and now
• Evidence-based strategies and family and community engagement frameworks
• Alignment of family and community engagement with school improvement efforts
• Tools for evaluating family and community engagement
After attending these sessions, participants will be able to:
• Describe evidence based practices to improve family and community engagement in schools
• Create action steps to infuse family and community engagement into their school improvement goals
• Choose and use at least one tool for evaluating family and community engagement in their districts and buildings
• Describe evidence based frameworks for family and community engagement
• Create an action plan for the 2021-2022 school year to align family engagement practices with school improvement plans.
Would you like to build your family and community engagement toolkit? Books, supplies and other resources will be given to participants who attend each meeting.
Questions? Please contact Tamie Cruz, SST 1 Consultant.
Registration
Each session has a unique registration link. You must register individually for the dates you wish to attend. You will receive a confirmation email upon successful registration. Please contact Jill Barnhisel if you have questions about registration.
| February 4, 2021 | Closed |
| March 4, 2021 | Closed |
| April 22, 2021 | Register via Zoom |
| May 13, 2021 | Register via Zoom |
Download the flyer for the Virtual Family and Community Engagement Professional Learning Opportunity
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.
[su_button url="https://www.sstr1.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AL-Spring-2021-Sessions-Announcement.pdf" target="blank" style="flat" background="#7a7a7a" wide="no" radius="0" icon_color="#d63347"]View the full course list[/su_button]
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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.
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 >>
