Target Audience: Measurable Results: Practical Steps To Improve Student Achievement

In schools, the pressure to perform on measurable assessments (KSA, ACT, and others) sometimes seems unbearable. Schools often resort to gimmicks and motivational techniques that, even when effective, are short-term solutions. These efforts are exhausting – for the students and the staff. In this series, you will discover substantive systems and structures that can be put into place, leading to lasting, sustainable improvement in academic performance.

9 Hours Total EILA Credit

Contact david.young@ckec.org with questions.

Target Audience: Instructional Coaches, Instructional Leaders, Teacher Leaders who facilitate PLCs

Effective PLCs don’t happen by accident—they happen on purpose. Join us for a powerful professional learning series designed to transform your PLC process from theory to action. In this hybrid experience, participants will engage in three one-hour virtual book study sessions exploring Make It Happen: Coaching With the 4 Critical Questions of PLCs at Work by Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic. Together, we’ll unpack key ideas, reflect on current practices, and prepare to take our PLCs to the next level.

The series will culminate in a full-day, in-person session where participants will collaborate with other PLC instructional leaders to plan, revise, and refine their PLC structures. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to deepen your impact, this series will give you the tools and time to truly make it happen.

9/18/25	10/16/25	11/20/25	12/4/25
4:00-5:00 p.m. Virtual	4:00-5:00 p.m. Virtual	4:00-5:00 p.m. Virtual	8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. In-Person

1 Hour PD/EILA for each virtual session attended. 6 Hours PD/EILA for in-person Session attended.

$75 Fee for Member Districts and $125 Fee for Non-Member Districts

Contact holly.lawrence@ckec.org with questions.

Target Audience: Teachers, School Leaders, Deeper Learning Teacher Leaders, Instructional Coaches, Library Media Specialists, Educators with limited experience with AI

Don’t be spooked by artificial intelligence! This full-day, in-person workshop will help educators unmask the mysteries of AI and how it works. We will explore the powers, limitations, and ethics of using AI-powered tools in the classroom. Participants will discover a variety of AI-powered tools and gather practical strategies and resources to bring AI to life in their teaching!

Free for Member Districts and $125.00 for Non-Member Districts

6 Hours of PD/EILA Credit. Contact holly.lawrence@ckec.org with questions.

Target Audience: General Education and Special Education Math Teachers grades 6-12; Instructional Coaches; Administrators

Are you looking for ideas to transform your middle or high school math class into a place where students want to learn and are engaged mathematicians?  Vibrant learning encourages students to take ownership of their learning–to make it matter to them.  In this workshop, you will unlock the power of rich tasks that challenge students to reason, problem-solve, and collaborate. Participants will learn how to foster a classroom culture where students explore big ideas, ask questions, and take intellectual risks.  You will be equipped with ready-to-use strategies that bring energy and purpose to every math lesson.

Participants will be asked to bring in at least one lesson that they can rework during the workshop.

Free for District Members and $125.00 Fee for Non-Members

6 Hours of EILA will be available. Contact mark.helton@ckec.org with questions.

Target Audience: Elementary Writing Teachers, Instructional Coaches

In-Person Session

Participants will learn essential strategies for building and maintaining a strong writing community in the elementary classroom. Discover what students should know and be able to do as writers, along with key instructional practices that support growth and foster independence. We will explore how to use assessment to benefit students, tailoring feedback and instruction to develop writers. Participants will also learn how to shift agency from teacher to student, creating a classroom environment where writers feel empowered and responsible for their own work. The first 15 participants to register will receive a copy of the book Answers to Your Biggest Questions About Teaching Elementary Writing to support the application of these practices in their classrooms.

6 hours of PD/EILA credit will be provided.

Free for Member Districts, $125.00 Fee for Non-Member Districts

Contact lindsey.ellis@ckec.org with questions.

Target Audience: Math Teachers grades K-12, Co-teachers, Special Education Teachers, Instructional Coaches

Transform your mathematics classroom into an active thinking environment where every student is engaged and challenged! This full-day, in-person workshop, based on Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, will explore the 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathematics learning to occur. During this interactive workshop, participants will explore research-based practices that create the optimal conditions for learner-centered, student owned deep mathematical thinking and learning.

6 Hours of PD/EILA Credit

$125.00 Fee for Non-Member Districts. Contact holly.lawrence@ckec.org with questions.

Target Audience:  Math Teachers grades 6-12, Co-teachers, Special Education Teachers, Instructional Coaches

This full-day, in-person workshop is designed to provide strategies to foster productive struggle in math classrooms. We will explore misconceptions and move towards building communities of mathematical thinkers in our classrooms. A focus will be on the Math Teaching Practices of implementing tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving, facilitating meaningful mathematical discourse, posing purposeful questions, and supporting productive struggle in learning mathematics.

During this session, participants will also receive an overview of the free tools of the Desmos Classroom Activity Builder. Participants will explore an activity from the student and teacher perspectives. Participants will learn how to create engaging activities that promote critical thinking and problem solving and begin developing an activity of their own.

6 Hours of PD/EILA Credit

$125.00 fee for Non-Member Districts.  Contact holly.lawrence@ckec.org with questions.

Teacher Audience: Multilingual Learner Teachers and Administrators, All Teachers, Support Staff, School and District Level Administrators

The CKEC Multilingual Learner Teacher Network will be a time to work with other EL/ML teachers, specialists, admin, and other educators in the region. Through participant input, training and workshop opportunities will be developed based on the needs, trends, and ongoing issues that face schools and districts across our region and the state. The network will provide open chair time for members to share success stories.  There will also be time to vet specific issues in a supportive and constructive manner.

There will be two in-person sessions: September  8, 2025 and March 2, 2026

There will be one virtual session on October 20, 2025 from 4:00-5:00 pm ET

EILA credit will be awarded each day.

Contact mark.helton@ckec.org with questions.

Target Audience: General and Special Education Teachers, Grades 7-12; Co-Teaching Teams; Interventionists

Are you looking for tools to help you gauge where your students are and how they are progressing with respect to essential skills in the Algebra classroom?  If so, then this training is for you!  Project AAIMS (Algebra Assessment and Instruction: Meeting Standards) is a project funded by the US Department of Education with the purpose of developing algebra assessment tools that can be used for monitoring the progress of students with and without disabilities as they learn algebra.  Outcomes of this training include:

• Develop an understanding of progress monitoring
• Know how to administer, score, and use data from three (3) different measures
• Understand the relative merits and weaknesses of each of the measures
• Consider issues related to implementing algebra progress monitoring.

These measures are designed to be administered in person, not in a virtual setting.

To ensure fidelity, participants of this training may use the probes with their classes ONLY.  They may NOT share the probes with others or train other teachers to use them.  Participants will be asked to sign a User Agreement prior to the training.

At the completion of the training, participants will be given a link to a Google Folder containing the measures.

$125 fee for Non-Member Districts

Contact mark.helton@ckec.org with questions.

 

NOTE: This training requires a PO Number when you register.

Target Audience: Any School or District Crisis Response Team Member

This 2-day workshop develops the knowledge and skills required to provide immediate mental health crisis interventions to the students, staff, and school community members who have been simultaneously exposed to an acute traumatic stressor. The PREPaRE model emphasizes:

• preventing and preparing for crises
• reaffirming physical health and welfare, and perceptions of safety and security
• evaluating psychological trauma risk
• providing interventions
• responding to mental health needs
• examining the effectiveness of crisis preparedness

NOTE: Registration Deadline is Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 12:00 noon ET.

13 Hours of EILA will be available.  Participants must commit to attending both days and allow for some preparation time prior to the training.