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Registration Deadline:
July 9, 2010 |
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Date: July 16, 2010 |
Time:
9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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Many educators are passionate about
poetry and its ability to transform the
lives of young writers. This session
will help participants understand why.
Through this unique workshop, you will
explore different types of poetry
in new and creative ways, learn how to
improve student writing in all areas and
get kids excited about writing and
performing poetry. You will also
see how poetry can help you build
community and celebrate cultural
diversity. Keena Proctor, a
local educator, will lead this session.
Come ready to let your inner poet come
alive!
Contact Carol Bennett at 828.418.0011,
ext. 17 or cbennett@wresa.org if you
have any questions. Participants will
receive a certificate for 5 contact
hours.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
July 9
Online
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Registration Deadline:
July 12, 2010 |
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Date: July 19, 2010 |
Time: 9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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This one-day session focuses on
teachers/administartors who have
taught 0 – 20 years and want
assistance with critical
retirement information and decision
making early in their career.
This session will review the actuarial
implications and repercussions of
early-mid career decisions, laws,
policies and processes, benefit options
and investment plans. The training will
be conducted Robert Ayers, WRESA
Retirement Consultant. The session will
be facilitated by Bob Byrd, School
Improvement Specialist, and April
Spencer, Secondary Education
Consultant. Session limited to 25
participants. If you have questions,
contact Bob Byrd, ext. 23, bbyrd@wresa.org
or April Spencer, ext. 20, aspencer@wresa.org.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
July 12, 2010
Online
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Registration Deadline:
July 12, 2010 |
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Date: Juy 20, 2010 |
Time:
9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $60
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Using Ruby Payne’s Framework for
Understanding Poverty, this
workshop will cover the basics about the
culture of poverty. We will discuss
hidden rules and behaviors that impact
our classrooms. This workshop will be
the foundation for Day 2 (Children of
Poverty: Now What?) as we delve deeper
into how best to help these students.
Each participant will receive a copy of
Framework for Understanding Poverty.
Presenter will be April Spencer,
Secondary Education Coordinator and Ruby
Payne Certified Trainer. Class limited
to 25 participants. A certificate of
credit will be issued. If you have
questions, contact April Spencer at
aspencer@wresa.org or
828.418.0011, ext. 20.
Registration Fee: $60 Registration Deadline:
July 12
Online
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Registration Deadline:
July 12, 2010 |
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Date: July 20, 2010 |
Time: 9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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How would you like
having free technology brought to your
classroom when you requested it? How
would you like having your students
engaged and excited about their science
and math lessons? How would you like
free resources and labs to use in your
classroom? All this can be yours and
more with a day of training courtesy of
The Science House of NC State
University. We will use laptop
computers, LabPros, LabQuests and
various probes to explore science and
math concepts. After the day's training
session, you will be certified to
partner with The Science House! This
means a class set of the equipment can
be brought to your school for a week at
a time for your students to use.
Michelle Beningo of Science House will
be conducting this workshop. If you have
questions, please contact April Spencer
at 828.418.0011 ext. 20 or
aspencer@wresa.org. Limited
to 25 participants.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
July 12, 2010
Online
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Registration Deadline:
July 12, 2010 |
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Date: July 22, 2010 |
Time:
9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $50
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The North Carolina Standard Course of
Study states: “Our goal continues to be,
more than ever, to provide for students
an education in the arts reinforced
through the recognition that the arts do
not exist alone, but are an integral
part of life.” For students, the arts
provide a vehicle for making meaning
visible, allowing them to “see” the
story as it unfolds. The “language arts”
develop in concert:
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drawing
supports writing and
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writing
supports reading.
This session will provide lots of
strategies and ideas for engaging
students in exciting literacy
activities. All make-it and take-it
materials will be provided. Presenters
will be Carol Bennett, WRESA Elementary
Education Coordinator, Autumn Hayball,
art graduate, and Amy Hendrix,
entrepreneur: SimplyStunning4U. (Limited
to the first 20 paid registrants.)
Contact Carol Bennett at 828.418.0011,
ext. 17 or
cbennett@wresa.org if you have
questions. Participants will receive a
certificate for 5 contact hours.
Registration Fee: $50 Registration Deadline:
July 12
Online
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Registration Deadline:
August 23, 2010 |
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Date: August 31, 2010 |
Time: 9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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This training is based on professional
development that was offered to regional
leaders back in the spring. This session
will provide an opportunity for
K-2 teachers to engage in discussion of
best practices in using formative
assessment to guide their teaching, as
well as actually make the tools needed
to implement a framework to better teach
children to read. Presenter will
be Carol Bennett, WRESA Elementary
Education Coordinator. If you have
questions, contact Carol at
828.418.0011, ext. 17, or
cbennett@wresa.org. Participants
will receive a certificate for 5 contact
hours.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
August 23, 2010
Online
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Registration Deadline:
September 16, 2010 |
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Date: September 23, 30, 2010 |
Time:
9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $50
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This
new mentor training follows the
revised mentor standards and
includes all new material and
activities aligned with 21st
beginning teacher needs. All
mentors will need to participate
in this training by August 2012.
Participants must attend both
sessions to receive credit.
Presenter will be and Karen
Sumner, Western Region Education
Facilitator. Class limited to 25
participants.
Registration Fee: $50 Registration Deadline:
September 16
Online
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Registration Deadline:
September 7, 2010 |
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Date: September 9, 2010 |
Time: 9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $60
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This interactive workshop provides a
snapshot of the comprehension strategies
while taking the participants on a
journey into their own reading. It is
based on the premise that for adults to
understand and teach the comprehension
strategies outlined in Mosaic of Thought
and 7 Keys to Comprehension, they must
first consciously apply them in their
own reading and discuss them with peers.
An internationally-known speaker and
workshop leader, Susan Zimmermann is
co-author of the educational bestsellers
Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition
(2007) and 7 Keys to Comprehension
(with Chryse Hutchins, 2003). She
co-founded and served as the Executive
Director of the Denver-based Public
Education and Business Coalition, an
organization that has spearheaded
ground-breaking comprehension work.
During her ten years there, she
initiated numerous programs to improve
the quality of public schools, including
the Reading Project, which has been
implemented in more than one hundred
schools and provides the examples in
Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition, and 7
Keys. Currently a full-time speaker and
writer, Susan has given hundreds of
workshops, keynotes, and summer
institutes in over 40 states, throughout
Canada, and in Mexico on ways to deepen
reading and writing experiences for
adults and children. What participants
have said about Susan Zimmermann's
sessions: "Wow! Susan Zimmermann was
incredible. I wish I had sent more
teachers. Please do this again. Very
high quality training. Thanks so much!
Very motivating and informative!" If
you have questions, contact Carol
Bennett at
cbennett@wresa.org or 828.418.0011,
ext. 17.
Registration Fee: $60 Registration Deadline:
September 7, 2010
Online
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Registration Deadline:
September 3, 2010 |
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Date: September 13, 2010 |
Time:
9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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This one day session is designed to help
us understand the many unique issues
facing teenage girls today. It is
geared particularly toward middle and
high school teachers. We will
discuss physical, social and
emotional challenges that exist as well
as new areas of concern in this 21st
century. There will be concrete
ideas and projects presented to better
assist these young women in
transitioning through these challenging
times. April Spencer, Secondary
Education Coordinator, will be the
facilitator and can be reached at
828.418.0011, ext. 20 or aspencer@wresa.org.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
September 3
Online
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Date: September 13, September 14,
October 5, October 6, October 19, 2010 |
Time:
8:15
a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $0
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This 5-day
staff development is designed
to introduce K-5 Teachers and Teachers
of Exceptional Students to the
knowledge, skills and procedures needed
to provide effective instruction for
students with persistent reading
difficulties. The teaching
principles, techniques and strategies
presented in this course are supported
by an extensive body of instructional
research involving students with reading
difficulties. The program will provide
participants with a solid foundation on
which to build an effective reading
instruction program. Please see
the Information Sheet and the Book Order
Form. The presenter will
be Lynn Bailey, DPI Literacy
Consultant. If you have questions,
contact Lynn at
lbailey@dpi.state.nc.us.
(NCSIP II)
FOUNDATION TRAINING INFORMATION
Registration Fee: $0
Online
Registration |
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Registration Deadline:
September 7, 2010 |
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Date: September 14, 2010 |
Time:
9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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Moving To Success
(MTS) is a professional development
program for physical educators.
Presentations are based on best
practices for physical education and
school physical activity programs.
Physical educators will explore
strategies to help students acquire the
skills and knowledge to live a lifetime
of health enhancing physical activity.
The session will include discussion and
activity. It will share with teachers a
comprehensive curriculum material for
locomotion, body management, educational
games and educational dance. The
session will include some or all of the
following topics:
·Present motor task progressions for K-5
grades
·Explore ideas of how to integrate state
and national standards with motor
learning tasks
·Integrate game tactics with the
teaching of game skills
·Identify the importance of knowing the
critical elements of motor skills
·Identify how to present feedback to
improve student performance
·Discuss how rubrics guide teachers to
improve student performance
The presenter will be
Dan Young who has been working in
education since 1971 as a physical
educator and a school administrator.
The following is a list of his
professional experiences and services:
·
Physical education teacher
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District physical education coordinator
·
South Carolina State Department of
Education Associate for Physical
Education
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Middle school and elementary school
assistant principal
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Served as adjunct faculty member
University of South Carolina Department
of Physical Education
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Elementary school principal
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Executive Director for the South
Carolina Association for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
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Private consulting for physical
education
If you have questions, contact Carol
Bennett at
cbennett@wresa.org or 828.418.0011,
ext. 17. Participants will receive a
certificate for 5 contact hours.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
September 7
Online
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Registration Deadline:
September 7, 2010 |
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Date: September 15, 2010 |
Time: 9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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Moving To Success (MTS) is a
professional development program for
physical educators. Presentations are
based on best practices for physical
education and school physical activity
programs. Physical educators will
explore strategies to help students
acquire the skills and knowledge to live
a lifetime of health enhancing physical
activity. The presentation will
explore how to effectively integrate
game tactics with motor skill
progression. The presentation
will focus on tactics of invasion and
net/wall games. Teaching game
tactics well requires making good
decisions about when to integrate
tactics with the motor skill
progression. The participants
will be involved in both physical
activity and discussion.
The presenter will be
Dan Young who has been working in
education since 1971 as a physical
educator and a school administrator.
The following is a list of his
professional experiences and services:
·
Physical education teacher
·
District physical education coordinator
·
South Carolina State Department of
Education Associate for Physical
Education
·
Middle school and elementary school
assistant principal
·
Served as adjunct faculty member
University of South Carolina Department
of Physical Education
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Elementary school principal
·
Executive Director for the South
Carolina Association for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
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Private consulting for physical
education
If you have questions, contact Carol
Bennett at
cbennett@wresa.org or 828.418.0011,
ext. 17. Participants will receive a
certificate for 5 contact hours.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
September 7, 2010
Online
Registration |
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Registration Deadline:
September 10, 2010 |
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Date: September 16, 2010 |
Time:
9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $35
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This session is based on recent
professional development provided by
NCDPI and Professor Gary Hatch. This
session will be especially
beneficial to those who need increased
assistance with supporting students’
critical reading and writing skills.
Instructional strategies in writing will
be guided by research which identifies
that more effective instruction in
writing occurs when grammar is
integrated into writing instruction and
practice. Participants will explore some
of the instructional content and
teaching and learning strategies that
are necessary for improving students’
reading and writing skills in language
and literature courses and on
standardized examinations. Presenters
will be Karen Sumner, Western Region
Education Facilitator and Carol Bennett, WRESA Elementary Education Coordinator.
If you have questions, contact Carol
Bennett, 828.418.0011, ext. 17 or
cbennett@wresa.org. Participants
will receive a certificate for 5 contact
hours.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
September 10
Online
Registration
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Registration Deadline:
September 15, 2010 |
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Date: September 21 & 22, 2010 |
Time: 9:00
a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
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Registration Fee: $20
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Karen Sumner, Western Region Education
Facilitator, will present a
train-the-trainer session on the New
Teacher Evaluation Instrument.
Participants will receive information on
the teaching standards, the evaluation
process, and the observation process.
This two-day workshop will provide the
newest updates on the evaluation
instrument. If you have questions,
contact Karen Sumner at
ksumner@wresa.org or
828.418.0011, ext. 26.
Registration Fee: $20 Registration Deadline:
September 15, 2010
Online
Registration |
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ONLINE
SESSION
Registration Deadline: May 28, 2010
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Dates: June - August,
2010 |
Time: Flexible |
Registration Fee:
$35 |
This online book study is a
great way to earn 1 CEU while enjoying your summer vacation.
Participants will read the book (at their leisure) and then respond (at
their convenience) to the online collaborative discussions. This book
study will focus on Michael Opitz and Michael Ford’s book: Do-Able
Differentiation: Varying Groups, Texts, and Supports to Reach Readers,
2008, Heinemann. The goal is to show participants strategies to take
much of what is known about differentiation and help them be able to
apply it in manageable and practical ways with their classrooms. Upon
receipt of your paid registration, Carol Bennett will contact you with
directions for beginning the online class. Participants must obtain
their own copy of the book ($12.78 at http://www.amazon.com/Do-able-Differentiation-Varying-Supports-Readers/dp/0325012830/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270670629&sr=8-1).
If you have questions, contact Carol
Bennett, 828.418.0011, ext. 17 or cbennett@wresa.org. Participants will receive
a certificate for 10 contact hours at completion of requirements.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
May 28, 2010
Online
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ONLINE
SESSION
Registration Deadline: June 11, 2010
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Dates: June 15 - August 15,
2010 |
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Registration Fee:
$35 |
This online class will involve
participants in book study discussions that focus on implementing
professional learning communities in your schools. Authors in On
Common Ground, such as Rick DuFour, Robert Eaker, Michael Fullan,
Douglas Reeves, Mike Schmoker, and many more, are nationally known for
their work in school improvement. On Common Ground provides
multiple means (shared by the various authors) for getting to that
important goal of raising student achievement through PLCs. This book
study provides teachers and administrators strategies for improving
student learning under the umbrella of PLC’s. Participants must purchase
their own book prior to the class. Participants will receive a
certificate for 10 contact hours upon completion of all book study
discussion assignments. If you have questions, please contact April
Spencer at
aspencer@wresa.org or Karen Sumner at
ksumner@wresa.org or 828.418.0011.
Registration Fee: $35 Registration Deadline:
June 11,
2010
Online
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