11/5/2025 and 11/6/2025-PREPaRE Workshop 2

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

$250 for Member Districts and $300 for Non-Member Districts

You MUST include a PO Number when you register in order to be considered “registered” for this training.

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.

9/22/2025- PREPaRE Workshop 1

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

Target Audience: School/District Crisis Team Members, School Mental Health Professionals, Administrators, Teachers, Pupil Services Personnel, SROs, Front Office Staff, Transportation Directors, Communication Directors, Operations Personnel, and Before and After School Activities Coordinators

In this 1-day workshop, participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans, and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, response, and recovery.  PREPaRE Workshop 1 provides a broad overview of the school crisis team’s roles and responsibilities, with a special emphasis on crisis prevention and preparedness.

NOTE: Registration Deadline is Friday, September 5, 2025, at 12:00 noon ET.

$150 fee for Member Districts and $200 for Non-Member Districts

You MUST include a PO Number when you register in order to be considered “registered” for this training.

6.5 hours of EILA credit will be available. Participants must allow time for some preparation prior to the training. Contact mark.helton@ckec.org with questions.

9/9/2025 and 9/23/2025-Student Numeracy Assessment Progressions (SNAP)

Target Audience: Grades Pre-K-2.  Special Education and General Education Teachers of students with disabilities, Instructional Coaches, & Paraprofessionals (must attend with collaborating teacher)

Student Numeracy Assessment Progressions (SNAP) is a two-day course that provides professional development in administering and analyzing concise, diagnostic, individual assessment in early numeracy. Topics include number words and numeral identification, structuring, and addition and subtraction strategies. This formative assessment system provides a way to track individual and group performance and enables teachers to differentiate instruction based on the results. SNAP is most appropriate for pre-kindergarten through first-grade classrooms and special education teachers.

Participants MUST attend both days and use the assessment interview with students between sessions. $250 fee for Member and Non-Member districts.

Contact mark.helton@ckec.org with questions.

6/2/2025-Manifestation Determination Training

Target Audience: Special Education Administrators, School Psychologists, Principals, ARC Chairs

Do you understand what data you consider when conducting an MDR? What does “relationship to the disabling condition” mean? Do you review evaluation data? How much consideration do you give to data outside the school setting that is provided by the parents? Get answers to these questions and more. Hear the analyses provided by court decisions. Ask questions to an attorney who is highly experienced in special education matters.

7/21/2025-Integrating Primitive Reflexes in a School-Based Setting with Kim Wiggins, OTR/L

Target Audience: School-Based Occupational Therapists, Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants

Occupational therapists, this session is for you! Primitive reflexes emerge in utero and should be integrated no later than 2 years of age. Unfortunately, studies show that approximately 75% of school-aged children with learning disabilities have retained primitive reflexes, which are becoming more common and strongly impact how students function. This 5-hour session provides occupational therapists with a screening process to identify each of these retained primitive reflexes: MORO, Tonic Labyrinthine Neck Reflex, Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex, Spinal Galant, and Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex. Kim also provides compensation techniques and treatment strategies to help integrate each reflex covered. This course is packed with videos, examples, interactive activities, and strategies to help school-aged children reach their full potential. Five hours of EILA or PD credit will be awarded for participation in this virtual session, and Kim is AOTA Approved Provider!

For questions, contact claire.johnson@ckec.org.

 

6/17/2025-Regulate and Respond: Supporting Students’ Emotional Regulation and De-escalation

Target Audience: Special Education Teachers, Behavior Interventionists, Educational Diagnostics, General Education Teachers

Equip yourself with the knowledge and the tools to create an emotionally regulated and supportive classroom environment! This full-day, in-person training is designed to help educators understand the critical connection between emotional regulation and de-escalation strategies. Participants will explore practical, evidence-based techniques to proactively support students in managing their emotions while effectively responding to challenging behaviors. For more information, please contact maggie.hartlage@ckec.org.

6 Hours EILA/PD Credit

 

7/31, 8/1, 9/4, 9/5, 9/29, 9/30, 10/27, 10/28/2025-Cognitive CoachingSM Foundations Seminar

Target Audience: Teachers, Facilitators, ARC Chairs, PLC Leaders, School/District Administrators, Instructional Coaches, Interventionists

July 31st-August 1st, September 4th-September 5th, September 19th-September 30th, October 27th-October 28th

Cognitive Coaching is a form of mediation that can be applied to professional interactions in a variety of settings and situations with the intention of enhancing self-directed learning. It is a composite of skills, strategies, maps, and tools as well as mental models and beliefs. It is also a model for classroom mediation to enhance students’ self-directed learning. Research on Cognitive Coaching has linked its implementation to increased student achievement, greater teacher efficacy and satisfaction, higher levels of teacher cognition, and professional, collaborative cultures. 

This is the 8-day Foundational Training and is presented only in a face-to-face format. Participants will develop an understanding of three structured conversations focusing on planning, reflecting, and problem resolving.  In addition, they will develop knowledge and skills for expanding teacher thinking. EILA will be applied for each day.

$1,000 Fee for Member and Non-Member Districts

Contact mark.helton@ckec.org with questions.

11/13/2025- Adaptive Schools Foundations Seminar

Target Audience: teachers, facilitators, ARC chairs, PLC leaders, school/district administrators, instructional coaches

11/13/2025, 11/14/2025, 12/8/2025, 12/9/2025

The goal of the Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar is to develop the collective identity and capacity of organization members as collaborators and inquirers. School-wide improvements in student learning accrue in schools whose work cultures are collaborative. In such cultures, professionals learn to talk about the hard-to-talk-about details of learning, teaching, assessment, and the cumulative effects of their work with students. The Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar presents a productive, practical set of ideas and tools for developing collaborative groups to become effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around student learning. The work of the Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar is to develop the resources and capacities of the organization and of individuals to cohesively respond to the changing needs of students and society.  EILA will be applied for each day.

$500 Fee for Member and Non-Member Districts

Contact mark.helton@ckec.org with questions.

7/22/2025- Specially Designed Instruction and Co-Teaching

Target Audience: Special Education Teachers, General Education Teachers who Co-Teach

Specially Designed Instruction is a key element of providing special education services. SDI and Co-teaching together will assist in closing achievement gaps and support your students with disabilities on their path to success.  This session will highlight the why and how of SDI and Co-Teaching, while providing you with actionable tools to integrate these practices effectively within your school environment.  Co-teaching teams are recommended but not required.

Contact cari.sherrets@ckec.org with questions.

 

6 EILA Hours will be provided. 

7/16/2025-Deepening Understanding of the KY Academic Standards for Mathematics

Target Audience: All teachers of mathematics, mathematics co-teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, curriculum coordinators

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 mathematics teachers at all levels (and those who support them) as it will provide clarity around the Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics. Participants will learn how to break down mathematics 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.  Throughout the day, participants will learn how to move from standards to develop deep mathematical understanding 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

Contact holly.lawrence@ckec.org with questions.