Join us for a three-hour virtual training session where we delve into the art of effective classroom management techniques. Designed for educators seeking practical strategies for fostering a positive and productive learning environment, this session will focus on the development and implementation of clear and impactful classroom expectations. Through interactive discussions, real-life examples, and collaborative activities, participants will gain valuable insights and tools to craft expectations that promote engagement, accountability, and mutual respect among students. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your classroom management toolkit and elevate your teaching experience.
maggie.hartlage@ckec.org
Target Audience: Special education teachers, ARC chairpersons, school psychologists
Supporting students affected by both adverse experiences and a disability can be overwhelming. This session will provide an overview of how adverse experiences can affect students in our classroom. Participants will learn about tools and strategies for crafting IEPs that celebrate resilience, promote growth, and pave the way for meaningful progress in academic, social, and emotional domains that can be implemented immediately. The link to this virtual session will be sent out no later than the end of the day on June 4, 2024. Contact christina.krantz@ckec.org with any questions.
Target Audience: Classroom Teachers, Instructional Coaches, School Leaders
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn directly from one of today’s top experts on deeper learning – Dr. Catlin R. Tucker is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, international trainer, and professor in the Masters in the Arts of Teaching Program at Pepperdine University.
Teachers must partner with their students to create learning environments that maximize the available technology and encourage students to take a lead role in monitoring, assessing, and reflecting on their learning. Too many teachers are exhausted and disillusioned with this profession because they are doing the lion’s share of the work in classrooms. It’s time to rethink our workflow, embrace new teaching and learning models that leverage technology, and shift ownership of learning over to students.
This workshop will explore a partnership model and dive into strategies teachers can use to encourage metacognitive skill-building, provide more meaningful feedback, and reimagine grading and assessment.
The spots for this workshop are limited, so be sure to register early!
All participants will receive a FREE copy of Balance with Blended Learning.
6 Hours of EILA/PD credit
Target Audience: English Language Teachers, all Teachers, Support Staff, and Admin
The CKEC EL Cadre will be time to network with other EL teachers, specialists, admin, and other educators in the region. Through Cadre input, training and workshop opportunities will be developed based on the needs, trends, and on-going issues that face schools and districts across our region and the state. The Cadre 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.
Target Audience: general education teachers, special education teachers, instructional coaches, math interventionists
This three hour face-to-face make-and-take training is intended for educators desiring to learn more about the specially designed instruction strategy where students work with math manipulatives in the concrete, move to the semi-concrete, and then to the abstract. Teachers learn how to embed the use of the CSA strategy in math lessons and will create manipulatives to take back to the classroom. Please contact jane.goatley@ckec.org with any questions.
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.
