Target Audience: General Education Teachers working with students with IEP’s, Co-Teachers, Interventionist, Instructional Coaches, Resource Teachers, SLPs, OTs
CKEC and the Kentucky Autism Training Center will be working together during the 2023-2024 school year providing training, strategies, information, and more for our upcoming Autism Cadre. The Autism Cadre will meet in-person for 3 sessions. The training dates will be Sept. 28, Dec. 7, & March 5. During these dates, we begin to understand autism and evidenced based practices on day 1. On day 2, we will cover behavior and needed support. On day 3, we will work on communication needs for our students with autism. (The specific activities for each day are subject to change.) If you have any questions, contact erica.price@ckec.org.
Target Audience: Special Education Teachers, Occupational Therapists, Speech/Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists
This in-person session is designed to offer instruction in the area of assistive technology. It is recommended that district send a team to participate. Participants will work through the understanding of different models, low to high-tech examples, SETT Framework, writing/completing an AT evaluation, and more. Cadre dates are scheduled for: Aug. 30, 2023; Nov 28, 2023; and Feb. 20, 2024. Each event will begin at 8:30 am and end at 3:30 pm.
Participants will receive 6 hours of PD/EILA credit for each session attended. Registering for this cadre registers participants to attend all three sessions. For any questions, please contact erica.price@ckec.org.
Target Audience: General Education Teachers working with students with IEP’s, Co-Teachers, Interventionist, Instructional Coaches, Resource Teachers
Have you heard of the University of Florida Literacy Institute? Want to learn more about it? This session is for you! On July 26th we will have an in-person session to work together and dig into UFLI Foundations. During this session, our goals would be to enhance our background knowledge for teaching foundational reading , setting up the lessons, creating a blending board, and more! Participants that attend will receive a copy of UFLI Foundations and the materials to create a blending board. Participants will receive 6 PD hours for attending. If you have any questions, contact erica.price@ckec.org
Target Audience: General Education Teachers working with students with IEP’s, Co-Teachers, Interventionist, Instructional Coaches, Resource Teachers
The Paraphrasing Strategy is a University of Kansas Strategic Instruction Model designed to help students determine the most important information within a passage and improve information recall of main ideas and facts. The strategy is implemented through passage instruction supporting students reading, determining main ideas and details, and then rephrasing information in their own words.
Research has shown that students who master the strategy have an average gains of 35 percentage points in reading comprehension of grade-level material.
Target Audience: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Deeper Learning Teacher Leaders, Administrators
With deeper learning initiatives becoming increasingly more important in Kentucky classrooms, teachers must consider how to assess the deeper learning competencies of learning dispositions, collaboration, communication, and higher order thinking skills. This in-person session will focus on formative and summative assessments for the deeper learning competencies, student feedback protocols, developing performance tasks and developing 21st century skills rubrics. Time will be devoted during the session for participants to workshop and plan a performance task for their classrooms.
6 hours of PD/EILA credit will be provided.
Target Audience: All teachers of reading/writing, instructional coaches, administrators, curriculum coordinators, Deeper Learning teachers
Effective instruction and learning experiences for students are deeply rooted in knowledge of content standards. It is especially important for teachers to deeply know their standards in order to address gaps in learning. This in-person session is ideal for English Language Arts teachers at all levels (and those who support them) as it will provide clarity around the Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading & Writing. Participants will learn how to break down Reading & Writing standards and determine what mastery of a standard looks like. We will utilize a protocol to review assignments and determine congruence to the standards, as well as examine how to construct authentic assessments connected to a standard. Participants will also learn how to move from standards to develop Deeper Learning competencies through best instructional practices.
In addition to these tools and strategies, participants will leave with a folder of resources to help implement this work.
6 hours of EILA credit will be provided.
Target Audience: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Deeper Learning Leads
Thinking Maps is a set of 8 visual patterns that correlate to specific cognitive processes. They benefit students by providing a consistent thinking process, vocabulary, and visual language through interactive engaging student activities allowing them to interact with content in literacy and math using any curriculum or supplemental materials. Furthermore, Thinking Maps assists students in organizing their ideas on paper or by computer, and—as a result—teaches them to read, write, problem-solve and think better.
Participants will gain:
- Overview of Theory, Research Basis
- Introduction to the Defining Characteristics of Thinking Maps
- Learning the Thinking Maps: 8 Visual Patterns for Critical Thinking— Asking Questions
- Strategies for Developing Independent Learners: Teaching the Maps to Students
This event is capped at 36 teacher participants- those 36 teacher participants will receive a FREE, physical copy of Thinking Maps: A Language for Learning, 2nd Ed. Teacher’s Guide.
For more information, contact Erin McIver (erin.mciver@ckec.org)
Target Audience: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Deeper Learning Leads
Thinking Maps is a set of 8 visual patterns that correlate to specific cognitive processes. They benefit students by providing a consistent thinking process, vocabulary, and visual language through interactive engaging student activities allowing them to interact with content in literacy and math using any curriculum or supplemental materials. Furthermore, Thinking Maps assists students in organizing their ideas on paper or by computer, and—as a result—teaches them to read, write, problem-solve and think better.
Participants will gain:
● Overview of Theory, Research Basis
● Introduction to the Defining Characteristics of Thinking Maps
● Learning the Thinking Maps: 8 Visual Patterns for Critical Thinking— Asking Questions
● Strategies for Developing Independent Learners: Teaching the Maps to Students
This event is capped at 36 teacher participants- those 36 teacher participants will receive a FREE, physical copy of Thinking Maps: A Language for Learning, 2nd Ed. Teacher’s Guide.
For more information, contact Erin McIver (erin.mciver@ckec.org)
Target Audience: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, Deeper Learning Leads
Thinking Maps is a set of 8 visual patterns that correlate to specific cognitive processes. They benefit students by providing a consistent thinking process, vocabulary, and visual language through interactive engaging student activities allowing them to interact with content in literacy and math using any curriculum or supplemental materials. Furthermore, Thinking Maps assists students in organizing their ideas on paper or by computer, and—as a result—teaches them to read, write, problem-solve and think better.
Participants will gain:
- Overview of Theory, Research Basis
- Introduction to the Defining Characteristics of Thinking Maps
- Learning the Thinking Maps: 8 Visual Patterns for Critical Thinking— Asking Questions
- Strategies for Developing Independent Learners: Teaching the Maps to Students
This event is capped at 30 teacher participants- those 30 teacher participants will receive a FREE, physical copy of Thinking Maps: A Language for Learning, 2nd Ed. Teacher’s Guide.
For more information, contact Erin McIver (erin.mciver@ckec.org)
This training is for new Admission and Release Committee (ARC) chairpersons. During this full day workshop participants will become familiar with: roles and responsibilities of the ARC chairperson, steps in conducting an ARC meeting, different types of ARC meetings, disability categories of special education, and state/federal regulations impacting chairing an ARC meeting. Opportunities will be provided to discuss, role-play, and network with other administrators concerning the role of ARC Chairperson.
Session outcomes are
- Identifying the roles and responsibilities of members of an ARC
- Identifying the components of the four types of ARC meetings
· Compiling a professional toolkit of skills required to effectively facilitate an ARC meeting
