Professional Development Opportunities
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Events Calendar
Sessions At-a-Glance
May 2022
May 31st
9:00am - 11:00am
VIRTUAL
MTSS 101 Training
Time: 9AM - 11AM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 2022
July 7, 2022
8:30am - 3:30pm
In-Person
WKEC Conference
Center
Building Emotional Intelligence: Teaching Students to Understand, Use, and Manage Emotions Using a School-Wide, Systematic Approach
Description:
Emotional Intelligence is a quality that can benefit all students and staff and is most effective if incorporated throughout the school in a systematic approach using research proven strategies and evidence-based approaches. Identifying and categorizing feelings, gaining tools and strategies to manage feelings, and understanding social situations are life-long strategies needed to meet the demands of the situation around us and be successful socially. This training will give you all the basics needed to meet those goals and to give a common language to understanding and working through different situations.
Audience: School teams preferred- suggestion of team members include: counselor, administrator, general education teacher, special education teacher, physical therapists, occupational therapists
Time: 8:30AM - 3:30PM
FREE to WKEC Districts
Contact: carla.mangels@wkec.org or kayla.jones@wkec.org
July 11, 2022
9:00am - 3:00pm
WKEC Conference Center
Math Is Figureoutable Kick-Off Event
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July 13-14, 2022
8:30am - 3:00pm
In-Person & Virtual Event
The Bruce Center
Hopkinsville, KY
WKEC Summer Institute: EdFest
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July 18, 2022
8:30am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
The KY Academic Standards for Science: An Overview
Description:
Breaking Down a Science Standard and Gap Identification/Grade to Grade Coherence
Summary: To have a coherent K-12 science program, teachers need to understand how core ideas, practices, and concepts progress through the grade bands. In this session, teachers in PLCs work together to analyze the three dimensions of the performance expectations of the KAS for science.
Audience: All WKEC Science Teachers
Time: 8:30AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 18, 2022
9:00am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
Exploring KY Math Standards: What Am I Supposed To Teach?
Description:
This professional development is designed to answer the question, “What am I supposed to teach?” We will spend the morning exploring math standards at all grade levels. Participants will break down the different components of the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) document and what each explains about teacher instruction. In the afternoon, participants will use an alignment tool to determine if different instructional resources align to the KAS or not. Anyone who is unfamiliar with the KAS or who would like a review is welcome to attend.
Audience: Math Teachers K-12
Time: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 19, 2022
9:00am - 12:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
School Safety & Resiliency Act Update/Risk Assessment Training
Presented by: The Office of the State School Security Marshal
Description:
The training will consist of:
• Explanation and discussion of the School Safety and Resiliency Act and Senate Bill 8 of 2020.
• Presentation of the updated Marshal’s office risk assessment for the 2022-2023 school year.
• Discussion of issues that have been recorded in previous OSSSM assessments. The training will be three hours in length and be led by State School Security Marshal Staff to include the State Marshal, compliance supervisors and regional compliance officers. The OSSSM recommends principals, assistant principals, school safety coordinators, school resource officers, superintendents and any administrator or staff member that has an interest in the subject attend the training.
Audience: The training would be for any school employee or first responder that works with safety and security. Principals, assistant principals, school safety coordinators, school resource officers, superintendents and any administrator or staff member that has an interest in the subject.
Time: 9:00AM - 12:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 21, 2022
8:30am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
Selecting Phenomena for 3-D Instruction
Description:
Includes: The role of anchoring phenomena in 3D instruction and design challenges in science teaching
Summary: This professional learning session leads a science PLC through understanding anchoring phenomena and how to identify one that could anchor a unit of study, a bundle of performance expectations, or a series of lessons. Participants will examine the differences between disciplinary core ideas, phenomena, and design challenges.
Audience: All WKEC Science Teachers
Time: 8:30AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 25, 2022
8:30am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
Three-Dimensional Science Tasks
Description:
Includes: Understanding of the multiple dimensions of a task and developing 3D tasks
Summary: In three-dimensional science assessment, there is a shift from questions to tasks. What is the difference? In this session, to help meet the intent of the KAS for science, participants will learn more about multi-dimensionality by using tools to analyze tasks and develop their own tasks for instruction and assessment for classroom-embedded use.
Audience: All WKEC Science Teachers
Time: 8:30AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 25, 2022
9:00am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
In-Depth Desmos Training
Description:
This is a full day, in person event where teachers will dive deeply into using Desmos as an instructional and assessment tool. We will look at the following topics:
1. How to create teacher and student accounts
2. How to link Desmos to Google Classroom
3. Explore lessons available for all grade levels
4. Design lessons and assessments using the available tools
5. Collaborate with others to learn and work in grade level groups
This session will take you from beginner to intermediate as you begin to use Desmos with your students to:
1. Increase conceptual understanding of math concepts through interactive investigation
2. Increase student engagement during distance learning days (and better feedback from teachers)
3. Increase comfort level of students with the platform that hosts the KSA
4. Provide good formative assessment data for teachers
Audience: All WKEC Teachers
Time: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 26, 2022
9:00am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
New Teacher Cohort - Kick Off Event
Description:
Brand new? Pretty new? or just need some affirmation? Join us for a time to talk about all the things that college didn't quite prepare you for. It could be anything from kids not being potty trained to vaping. We know there is a lot out there and we want to help. Let's get together to not just discuss the "things" but to look at how to make it better and get you networking with people that are feeling it too.
Audience: Teachers who have been in education 0-3 years.
Time: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 26, 2022
8:30am - 2:30pm
In-Person
Location TBD
Overview of Comprehensive Emerging Literacy Instruction- Featuring Dr. Caroline Musselwhite, AT Specialist
Description:
This session will share important factors in comprehensive literacy instruction, and differentiate between emergent and early conventional instruction. Focus of this presentation will be an overview of components for both emergent literacy and early conventional literacy. Assessment strategies and tools will be included. The afternoon will include a hands on make and take session with materials needed to hit the ground running when school starts. Building literacy skills in our students with complex communication needs is the only way to ensure that they will have access to functional and robust communication.
Audience: SPEd teachers, Interventionists, Consultants, SLPs
Time: 8:30AM - 2:30PM
Contact: sherida.gentry@wkec.org
Dr. Caroline Musselwhite
July 26, 2022
8:30am - 3:30pm
In-Person
WKEC Conference
Center
Building Emotional Intelligence: Teaching Students to Understand, Use, and Manage Emotions Using a School-Wide, Systematic Approach
Description:
Emotional Intelligence is a quality that can benefit all students and staff and is most effective if incorporated throughout the school in a systematic approach using research proven strategies and evidence-based approaches. Identifying and categorizing feelings, gaining tools and strategies to manage feelings, and understanding social situations are life-long strategies needed to meet the demands of the situation around us and be successful socially. This training will give you all the basics needed to meet those goals and to give a common language to understanding and working through different situations.
Audience: School teams preferred- suggestion of team members include: counselor, administrator, general education teacher, special education teacher, physical therapists, occupational therapists
Time: 8:30AM - 3:30PM
FREE to WKEC Districts
Contact: carla.mangels@wkec.org or kayla.jones@wkec.org
July 27, 2022
8:30am - 3:30pm
In-Person
Location TBD
SLP Summer Learning
Description:
This will be a day all about SLP's and their learning needs. Participants will have the pleasure of participating in a hands-on, active day of learning on a variety of speech related topics. Topics included are Gestalt Language Processing, SLP Ethics, AAC, and Speech Sound therapy techniques.
This will be a great day where participants will earn 6 CEU and PD hours all while having fun and networking with SLP's from around the WKEC region!
PRESENTERS:
Dr. Nikki Gaylord, Dr. Stephanie Schaaf, Alexandria Zachos, Laura Miller
Audience: SLPs
Time: 8:30AM - 3:30PM
Contact: laura.miller@wkec.org
July 28, 2022
9:00am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
Alt Certified 101 PLC - Kick Off Event
Description:
Welcome to teaching! We want to be your continued support in a new career path. Join us to talk about the essentials of teaching such as classroom management, the importance of routines, structuring a lesson, teaching resources, and much more that you need to know to be successful.
Audience: Anyone who is teaching with an alternate teaching certificate
Time: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
July 29, 2022
8:30am - 3:00pm
In-Person
ONLY
WKEC Conference
Center
The Lone Science Teacher - Summer Edition
Description:
Breaking Down a Science Standard and Gap Identification/Grade to Grade Coherence
Summary: To have a coherent K-12 science program, teachers need to understand how core ideas, practices, and concepts progress through the grade bands. In this session, teachers in PLCs work together to analyze the three dimensions of the performance expectations of the KAS for science.
Audience: GEARUP DISTRICTS ONLY
Time: 8:30AM - 3:00PM
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
August 2022
Aug 1, 2022
9:00am - 11:30am
WKEC Conference
Center
KCSS Gatekeeper Conversation
Description:
As we shift from understanding the School Safety and Resiliency Act (SB 1-2019 and SB 8-2020) to full compliance, the responsibility for keeping a school full of kids and staff safe falls first on those who face the schoolhouse doors from the inside. This is especially difficult, even for seasoned veterans, because of the long period of time we have just endured with an entirely different and unprecedented focus.
This conversation will allow us to revisit the major points of the School Safety and Resiliency Act and its impact on office personnel and others who are charged with performing their jobs as the first line of defense against those who, for many reasons, might threaten safety and security in a school. We’ll talk not only about what the law requires, but why it is required. Following the guidelines and helping each other to do so requires “commitment over compliance”, a key concept in school safety and security for everyone.
Time: 9:00am - 11:30am
FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
Aug 2, 2022
11:30am - 12:30pm
VIRTUAL
Classified Teacher Lunch + Learn
Description:
Let's get together for a bite to eat and a bit of information to digest! Together we can talk about the things that are going on in your schools, ask questions, or just relax and breathe with the people that know how it's going! We will provide some helpful professional learning to assist you in your unique role in the school. Can't wait to see you, hear you and give you the time you need!
Audience: All classified staff
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Join Zoom Meeting
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FREE to WKEC Districts | $25 Non WKEC Districts
August 29, 2022
8:30am - 3:30pm
WKEC Conference Center
Novice ARC Chairperson Training
Description:
This training will address the who, what, why, when and where and how those components apply to the ARC process.
Audience: 1st-3rd Year Chairperson
FREE TO WKEC DISTRICTS
Contact: tammy.williams@wkec.org
August 30, 2022
8:30am - 3:30pm
In-Person
WKEC Conference
Center
Building Emotional Intelligence: Teaching Students to Understand, Use, and Manage Emotions Using a School-Wide, Systematic Approach
Description:
Emotional Intelligence is a quality that can benefit all students and staff and is most effective if incorporated throughout the school in a systematic approach using research proven strategies and evidence-based approaches. Identifying and categorizing feelings, gaining tools and strategies to manage feelings, and understanding social situations are life-long strategies needed to meet the demands of the situation around us and be successful socially. This training will give you all the basics needed to meet those goals and to give a common language to understanding and working through different situations.
Audience: School teams preferred- suggestion of team members include: counselor, administrator, general education teacher, special education teacher, physical therapists, occupational therapists
Time: 8:30AM - 3:30PM
FREE to WKEC Districts
Contact: carla.mangels@wkec.org or kayla.jones@wkec.org
September 2022
Sept 29-30, 2022
8:00am - 3:00pm
In-Person Event
WKEC Conference Center
See The Sound Visual Phonics 2-DayTraining
Sept 22, 2022
Sept 23, 2022
Nov 3, 2022
8:30am - 3:30pm
In-Person Event
WKEC Conference Center
The Strategic Instructional Method (SIM) Series
