Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative

Over the six-hour hands-on workshop, participants will be taught shopping and cooking techniques to prepare nutritious, low-cost meals; they will discuss ways to modify eating behaviors and attitudes that may otherwise lead to unhealthy eating habits; they will identify means of increasing physical exercise into their daily activities, and they will learn basic principles of sound money management, such as budgeting, saving, reducing/avoiding debts. Additionally, participants will learn a key economic principle that is relevant in many settings, i.e., decision-making and tools to guide them in that process. Effective decision making requires comparing the additional costs of alternatives with the additional benefits. Many choices involve doing a little more or a little less of something; few choices are "all or nothing" decisions. Participants will receive: 6 hours of professional development Snack and Lunch Ready to Use Resources $50 stipend.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Monday, June 5, 2023

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SoR Phonics-Decoding- This session meets one of the requirements for RISE Pathway D. Please refer to the RISE Pathways to Proficiency at www.arkansased.gov. In addition, this session is open to any educator seeking professional development for phonic-decoding. 

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 9:00 AM on Monday, June 5, 2023

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Essential Classroom Management is an interactive training designed to help the general educator promote positive behaviors in the classroom. Participants will learn to define behavior expectations as well as establish rules and routines for the classroom. Specific strategies will address building relationships with students, increasing student engagement, and encouraging other positive behaviors in the classroom through class wide reinforcement systems. Strategies for responding to inappropriate behaviors will also be discussed. Each participant will create a classroom management plan. This training addresses High Leverage Practices (HLP) HLP #7: Establish a Consistent, Organized and Respectful Learning Environment; HLP #8: Provide Positive and Constructive Feedback to Guide Students’ Learning and Behavior; HLP #16: Use Explicit Instruction; and HLP #18: Use Strategies to Promote Active Student Engagement.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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How do Section 504, RTI, and Special Education Work Together? 
In this one-day workshop, we will explore Section 504, RTI, and Special Education and then learn how they work together to ensure student success. The day will provide an opportunity for interaction and participation in a lively discussion of the topics. Teachers, administrators, counselors, and other school personnel will all benefit.
* UPDATED & EXPANDED! Key information about Section 504, RTI, and Special Education
* The key team players to make Section 504, RTI, and Special Education
* These sessions incorporate high leverage practices and the Marzano research on the art and science of teaching.
* How to communicate effectively among colleagues and with parents

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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Back by popular demand - This professional development session will focus on the best practices of science instruction including; modeling instruction, argument-driven inquiry, phenomenon-based instruction, and the science and engineering practices contained in the Arkansas K-12 Science Standards. Special consideration will be given to the cross-cutting concepts as a both a thematic and practical lens to drive scientific inquiry. Participants will engage in scientific inquiry that is guided by authentic assessments and best practices. Come and experience this form of 3-dimensional instruction with Paul Andersen as your guide. Explore the wonders of science as you rediscover the curiosity that guided your childhood. Teachers should come prepared to do science! Paul Andersen is an educational consultant and YouTube creator living in Bozeman, MT.  Paul is an experienced educator having taught science in Montana for 20 years.  Paul was the 2011 Montana Teacher of the Year, and was also one of four finalists for the 2011 National Teacher of the Year.  In addition to teaching Paul has created hundreds of YouTube science tutorials that have been viewed millions of times by students around the world.  Paul has provided training for thousands of students, teachers, and administrators around the world.  Paul enjoys providing meaningful professional development that can be applied immediately in the classroom.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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SoR Phonics-Decoding- This session meets one of the requirements for RISE Pathway D. Please refer to the RISE Pathways to Proficiency at www.arkansased.gov. In addition, this session is open to any educator seeking professional development for phonic-decoding. 

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 9:00 AM on Monday, June 5, 2023

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This training is an introduction to Antecedent Based Interventions (ABIs).  ABIs are interventions that increase the likelihood of appropriate behaviors and/or decrease the likelihood of problem behaviors by changing events that occur before a behavior. Throughout this course, you will learn about several different ABIs including Visual Supports, Priming, Highly Preferred Materials, Offering Choices, Premack Principle, High Probability Requests and Noncontingent Reinforcement.  Participants will be introduced to each ABI and learn how to implement each one with fidelity. 

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, June 7, 2023

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Fossils of Arkansas Field Trip and Lab Instruction will have a major emphasis on geologic time and environment of deposition. The first day we will collect Mississippian age fossils from a black shale near Bethesda, Arkansas. We will search for nautiloid and ammonoid fossils that were ancestors of modern day squid and octopus. We will also tour McBride Stone Company, a locally owned company that uses stone from the surrounding area to create beautiful building and decorative stone. The second day is spent studying about Arkansas fossils and activities for students in the classroom. Teachers will receive a guidebook and activities.  

The first day we will collect Mississippian age fossils from a black shale near Bethesda Arkansas.  We will search for nautiloid and ammonoid fossils that were the ancestors of modern day squid and octopus.  We will also tour McBride Stone Company, a locally owned company that uses stone from the surrounding area to create beautiful building and decorative stone.   Second day in the lab with same description for second day as last year.  Use the same time and meeting place.  Bring a lunch.  Other stuff is the same, bug spray, good shoes, etc.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, June 7, 2023

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Visual supports and classroom routines are scaffolds used to increase student independence, reduce off task behavior, and provide support for processing information. Participants will learn how to maximize the use of visual supports and classroom routines in their classroom and how implementation can facilitate student achievement. In partnership with Arkansas R.I.S.E. experts, Easter seals has created the first in a series of trainings to support special educators of students with complex learning needs as they work toward proficiency in implementing the Science of Reading. This first session focuses on explicit instruction to support Oral Language skills. Participants will gain a variety of strategies on the use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication and visual supports to engage all students in oral language routines. Intended Audience: Special educators working with students K-5 in any setting, special educators supporting students complex learning needs K-12, Speech-Language Pathologists, paraprofessionals, special education administrators, building administrators who support special education programs.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, June 7, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=497914

In this session, participants will explore the nature of proficiency and learn how teachers can simultaneously support, develop, and evaluate a student's proficiency. The session will focus on the significance of proficiency-based learning targets in the assessment process and provide examples of proficiency-focused assessments and instruction. Participants will reflect on how teachers can use this lens to develop student agency, competence, and efficacy. By the end of the session, participants will better understand their essential role in supporting student proficiency.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, June 7, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=499209

Participants will learn about the Stanford History Education Group’s Reading Like a Historian lessons. This session will provide an overview of Reading Like a Historian design principles and historical thinking skills (sourcing, contextualization, and corroboration). It will also address strategies for modeling historical thinking. The workshop will include opportunities to engage with Stanford History Education Group materials. Participants will learn strategies for implementing these resources in their classrooms.

The content for this session will be a World History Focus. This is a different session than last year.

Please notice that 4 hours of Professional Development Credit will be provided. The times for this session will be 9:00-11:00; one hour lunch; 12:00-2:00.

Audience: Social Studies teachers grades 5-12.
ZOOM links will be sent to the email attached to your ESC Works Account. 

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, June 7, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=493823

Learn technology tools from the comfort of your own home and at your own pace.
You choose the tech tools that you want to learn about including EdPuzzle, Canva, Mote and many more. After completing each training, you'll submit the evidence to me for credit. We will meet via Zoom for 30 minutes (or longer if you need to) to get started. After you register, you'll receive a Zoom link for the day of  the training.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 9:00 AM on Wednesday, June 7, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=498981

Addressing the Challenges of Teaching Math to Students with Characteristics of Dyscalculia. Dyscalculia, a math learning disability, occurs about as often as dyslexia does - approximately 1 in 20. Participants will examine the efforts of dyscalculia on students learning math. Common characteristics of dyscalculia, various screening strategies for dyscalculia, and math intervention strategies will be explored. resources will be shared. There is no prerequisite for this training. TESS components addressed include: 3B, 3C, 3D

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Thursday, June 8, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=497441

Fossils of Arkansas Field Trip and Lab Instruction will have a major emphasis on geologic time and environment of deposition. The first day we will collect Mississippian age fossils from a black shale near Bethesda, Arkansas. We will search for nautiloid and ammonoid fossils that were ancestors of modern day squid and octopus. We will also tour McBride Stone Company, a locally owned company that uses stone from the surrounding area to create beautiful building and decorative stone. The second day is spent studying about Arkansas fossils and activities for students in the classroom. Teachers will receive a guidebook and activities.  

The first day we will collect Mississippian age fossils from a black shale near Bethesda Arkansas.  We will search for nautiloid and ammonoid fossils that were the ancestors of modern day squid and octopus.  We will also tour McBride Stone Company, a locally owned company that uses stone from the surrounding area to create beautiful building and decorative stone.   Second day in the lab with same description for second day as last year.  Use the same time and meeting place.  Bring a lunch.  Other stuff is the same, bug spray, good shoes, etc.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, June 7, 2023

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All teachers know that vocabulary is a huge piece of the content that is taught; however, it feels that every year teachers are teaching the same vocabulary words. Is there a better way to teach the meaning of words? YES! By teaching students the meaning of each part of a word through a problem-solving approach, students are better equipped for reading fluency, comprehension, spelling, and sentence development based on learning morphology. This professional development is not based on ELA literacy standards, but on the content standards for each content area. 

Audience includes: Content-area teachers grades 7-12
Note: This is a repeated session from last year.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Thursday, June 8, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=494555

This training is an introduction to Targeted Behavior Interventions.  In this training, you will be
introduced to the Student Intervention Matching (SIM) Form. The SIM Form is used for students identified as “at risk” and helps match the behaviors exhibited by the student to possible Tier II interventions. The interventions include School Home Note, Check-In Check-Out, Class Pass, Positive Peer Reporting, Behavior Contract, Self-Monitoring and Small Group Social Emotional Learning. Participants will learn how to complete and score the SIM Form, match the student needs to interventions and implement each of the interventions with fidelity. 

In order for the training to be held, there must be at least ten (10) participants registered.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Thursday, June 8, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=505031

GT Coordinators collaborate and discuss current issues, policies, and programs.  Documentation for Technical Assistance Visits will also be reviewed as well as GT Program Approval Standards.  In addition, topics influencing K-12 gifted education will be addressed

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Friday, June 9, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=497776

Library Media Specialists, bring your ideas, questions, lesson plans and tech tools to this planning/work session. We will also begin planning for the Battle of the Books competitions for the 2023-2024 school year. The agenda will be shared with all Library Media Specialists prior to the meeting to add your own ideas/topics.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Friday, June 9, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=498957

This professional development will help teachers to experience the joys and rewards of regularly using Math Routines in their classrooms.  The focus of the routines will be Choral Counting, Counting Collections, and Number Talks as it paints a vision for how deeply and creatively children can engage with ideas of number and operations and mathematical sense-making through counting. You will learn how to use open-ended counting activities to deepen children’s number sense,  how counting activities can produce both social and academic benefits, how teachers can engage with families to build on students' mathematical thinking and how to facilitate collaborative activities with multiple entry points and multiple ways to be successful. 

Research based on Choral Counting & Counting Collections: Transforming the PreK-5 Math Classroom by Megan Franke, Elham Kazemi, and Angela Chan Turrou and Number Talks by Sherri Parrish.

NOTE:  If you have the books, please have them with you.

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Friday, June 9, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=500113

GT Coordinators collaborate and discuss current issues, policies, and programs.  Documentation for Technical Assistance Visits will also be reviewed as well as GT Program Approval Standards.  In addition, topics influencing K-12 gifted education will be addressed

Important Session Information:
Registration ends at 8:30 AM on Monday, June 12, 2023

https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=499398