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Classroom Management/Student Engagement |
| Description: |
This workshop focuses on the importance of teachers setting routines, procedures, and expectations for their students for maximum academic success. Teachers are introduced to strategies to enhance and maximize student engagement within the classroom. The importance building relationships with students and families is also a primary focus of this session.
This session is flexible and can be designed to be an hour session up to a half-day session based on school needs. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Co-Teaching Training |
| Description: |
This workshop offers strategies for classroom content teachers and special education teachers and paraprofessionals who are working collaboratively in the same classroom with the same group of students. The six models of co-teaching are reviewed to introduce teachers to the variety of methods which can be utilized to deliver content in this type of environment. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Teacher Mentoring |
| Description: |
The teacher mentoring session is designed for those teachers who are serving as mentors to new teachers at their school or within their district. The learning targets for this workshop are the following: learning how to build and support effective relationships; providing objective guidance and feedback based on personal experiences and observations; facilitating reflective thinking; and taking ownership for teachers’ personal growth and learning while creating the capacity for mentee to do the same. Strategies for how to coach teachers in a non-evaluative manner are also discussed. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training |
| Description: |
The units in this course cover topics such as prevention and deceleration strategies, decision making, and an introduction to CPI’s disengagement skills for managing behavioral risk as well as teaching restrictive and nonrestrictive interventions when that level of risk is present.
Nonviolent Crisis Training without restraint can be completed in 1 day. Nonviolent Crisis Training with restraint requires 2 days of training. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Youth Mental Health First Aid |
| Description: |
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Others;
All School Staff
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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SEE-KS Social Emotional Engagement, Knowledge and Skills |
| Description: |
• Professional learning approach to bring a positive school climate into the classroom and lesson planning.
• Focuses on increasing student engagement by fostering initiation, independence, and investment within instruction.
• Disseminating current social neuroscience related to how students learn and the importance of relationships in the classroom setting.
• Supporting student engagement by getting the emotional “hook”, providing multiple modes of instruction, and encouraging students to “show what they know”.
• Building the capacity of each school system served to sustain practices through teacher-to-teacher mentorship strategies that align with adult learning best practices.
This session can be formatted for schools dependent of need.
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| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Ruby Payne’s Emotional Poverty |
| Description: |
• What is emotional poverty? It is when the brain is unintegrated and unregulated, when the bonding and attachment is not secure, and the inner self is under-developed. Why is this important? Increasingly schools are dealing with more students who are angry, anxious and tending to violence (particularly at PK and K). This is taking significant time away from learning. The typical discipline strategies are only working with about half of the students because many of the behavior issues have very deep emotional roots. This 2-day workshop will provide strategies, understandings of the causes and sources, and vocabulary. In addition, the workshop will help educators identify early the most probable sources of violence so that interventions can begin much earlier. The "emotional dance" in the classroom will also be named and discussed. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Georgia School Social Worker Evaluation Program (GSSWEP) |
| Description: |
The Georgia School Social Worker Evaluation Program (GSSWEP) training includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing the GSSWEP. Upon successful completion of a culminating assessment, participants will gain a proficiency certificate. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Georgia School Psychologist Evaluation Program (GSPEP) |
| Description: |
The Georgia School Psychologist Evaluation Program (GSPEP) training includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing the GSPEP. Upon successful completion of a culminating assessment, participants will gain a proficiency certificate. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers Online |
| Description: |
CSRA RESA will offer the online Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers beginning August 30, 2021. The 10-hour online course meets the requirement needed for AP/IB certified teachers to count gifted students in AP (grades 9-12) and IB (grades 11 and 12) at gifted FTE weight. The training will not award the gifted endorsement but will meet the requirements needed for FTE funding. The course provides teachers with background information on the special populations of gifted students and supplies practical, research-based strategies for differentiating the AP and IB curriculum to help teachers better serve these students. All participants must have previously completed AP/IB certification training. |
| Audience: |
(8 - 12)
Teachers;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Georgia Media Specialist Evaluation Program (GMSEP) |
| Description: |
The Georgia Media Specialist Evaluation Program (GMSEP) training includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing the GMSEP. Upon successful completion of a culminating assessment, participants will gain a proficiency certificate. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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School Librarian Evaluation Instrument (SLEI) |
| Description: |
The School Librarian Evaluation Instrument (SLEI) training includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing SLEI. Participants will complete a culminating assessment. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Georgia School Counselor Evaluation Program (GSCEP) |
| Description: |
The Georgia School Counselor Evaluation Program (GSCEP) training includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing the GSCEP. Upon successful completion of a culminating assessment, participants will gain a proficiency certificate. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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2021-22 Legal Updates for School and District Administrators |
| Description: |
Join us as Dr. Debbie Alexander, CSRA RESA Executive Director, provides a Legal Update for member districts. This virtual session will provide District and School Administrators with an overview of educational laws that administrators must be familiar with throughout the year. This is highly recommended for new administrators, and those who have not attended recent legal update trainings. This update will include a checklist of important legal issues that should be reviewed by all educators on an annual basis and recent rulings around student and staff free speech and social media, updates for Georgia Educator Code of Ethics, as well as the most recent updates to Title IX. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Paraprofessionals: Implementing Reading Strategies to Support Instruction |
| Description: |
Paraprofessionals will learn phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency multisensory strategies to support reading instruction. |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Paraprofessionals;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Lesson Planning: An Engaging and High-Interest Approach |
| Description: |
Plan, plan, plan. Do you ever feel as if that is all you do? Do you find yourself falling back on contrived and less than engaging lessons? In this session, we will share with you an efficient and effective way to plan those engaging lessons that meet the rigor and mastery of the GSE for ELA. Also, we will discuss ways to locate and incorporate additional resources into the lesson, so students will be exposed to different types of text related to the theme or central idea of the primary text. Join us for an interactive session where participants will walk away with a lesson of their own.
Participants are asked to bring a fully charged laptop or tablet to the session. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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TAPP Mentor and Coaching Training |
| Description: |
TAPP Mentor/Coaching training is mandatory for anyone who is mentoring TAPP candidates. Mentors who have been previously trained are only required to attend the first day of training. All new mentors will need to attend the entire 3-day workshop. There is no cost to mentors assigned to TAPP candidates. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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The Reading and Writing Connection |
| Description: |
This full day-session will focus on the reading and writing connection. We will share strategies and resources to enhance instruction for your readers and writers. We invite K-5 teachers to join us for this fun, make-and-take session. |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Building Emergent Literacy for Preschool Students |
| Description: |
CSRAProfessional Learning Community: Emergent Literacy was developed by REL Southeast to support preschool teachers through collaborative learning experiences in a professional learning community (PLC). CSRA RESA will provide this training using materials developed in collaboration with the REL Southeast School Readiness Partnership. Preschool teachers who participate in this PLC will learn evidence-based instructional practices that can enhance their emergent literacy instruction and benefit children in their classrooms.
This training series is comprised of 4 modules: 1) Print Knowledge; 2) Phonological Awareness; 3) Vocabulary; and 4) Oral Language.
These modules will be delivered in 12 sessions virtually via ZOOM. Participants will attend all sessions. Participants will receive materials and training link before each session.
Training Dates:
- Oct. 7 and 28, 2021 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Dec. 9 and 16, 2021 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Jan. 13, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Feb. 10 and 17, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- March 3, 17 and 24, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- April 14, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- May 5, from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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| Audience: |
(PK)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
Others;
Early Learning Center Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Innovative Vocabulary Strategies that Work |
| Description: |
Vocabulary knowledge and comprehension are like glue in that together they hold the meaning of a text together. Research indicates that a reader must know “90 to 95 percent” of the words in a text to fully comprehend its meaning (Hirsch, 2003 as quoted by Sedita, 2005). Further, lacking a well-developed bank of vocabulary will be detrimental to secondary students as they are asked to read and comprehend challenging texts. So, as secondary teachers, how can we provide students with the skills needed to tackle the vocabulary found in nonfiction and fiction texts? What are best practices to implement as we assist students in building a rich vocabulary that will increase their reading comprehension? Join us as we delve in a variety of new strategies to answer these questions. This deep dive will offer several different but highly effective and engaging approaches to the study of vocabulary.
Participants are asked to bring a fully charged laptop or tablet to the session. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Harnessing the Power of the Purposeful Task for K-3 Grade Teachers with Graham Fletcher |
| Description: |
In this session, we’ll explore the power of problem-based lessons and how they can be used as a formative assessment tool. In specific, we’ll look at the structure of 3-Act Math Tasks and how they can be used to support conceptual understanding and application of mathematical ideas. By working through multiple tasks, we’ll identify some purposeful moves that can take place throughout a lesson and how you can implement these tasks in your classroom. |
| Audience: |
(K - 3)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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The Power of Progressions: Untangling the Knotty Areas of Teaching and Learning Fractions for 3-6 Grade Teachers |
| Description: |
As more teachers look to add high-yield tasks to their repertoire, the struggle to make it all work becomes real. Let's examine how problem-based lessons can be used throughout the scope of a unit and how we can harness their power to move student thinking forward. We'll identify strategies and explore some tasks that help us find a healthy balance between application, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency. |
| Audience: |
(3 - 6)
Teachers;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Teacher Support Specialist to Teacher Support and Coaching Bridge Course |
| Description: |
CSRA RESA now offers the TSC Bridge course for those holding the old TSS Endorsement who would like to upgrade to the current Teacher Support and Coaching (TSC) endorsement. The Bridge course is designed to merge the TSS standards with new concepts and standards included with the new endorsement. The 30-hour online course is asynchronous and runs through our Canvas platform. Dr. Debbie Alexander, CSRA RESA Executive Director, will provide support to candidates as they self-pace through the course.
The course will open October 4, 2022, and close on May 12, 2023. Please Note: The TSS endorsement must be listed on teaching certificate to be eligible to enroll.
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Others;
Educators holding the TSS Endorsement
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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The Two Ps: Phonological Awareness and Phonics |
| Description: |
This full-day session will include phonological awareness and phonics research, assessment(s), strategies, and hands-on activities. We will share explicit, systematic strategies to enhance instruction regardless of what program your school/county is using. We invite K-3 teachers to join us for this fun, make-and-take session. |
| Audience: |
(K - 3)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Paraprofessionals: Techniques to Enhance Learning in K-5 Classrooms |
| Description: |
Paraprofessionals will learn a variety of techniques to use in both small and whole group settings. |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Paraprofessionals;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Exploring the Profile of a CTAE Graduate to Enhance Business/ Community Partnerships in the CTAE Classroom |
| Description: |
Are your students solving problems creatively as they prepare to graduate? Can your students demonstrate technical and academic skills after they graduate?
During this session we will explore the Profile of a CTAE Graduate that will help us answer the questions above and relate it to community partnerships. Partners are essential to CTAE programs, providing resources and volunteers, aiding with curriculum, and planning for events. Come learn how different kinds of partners can help with your work in the classroom. Partner ideas, workforce development needs, leadership, commitment to supporting the career preparation pipeline locally, and many more opportunities are available to support CTAE Graduates and local school system CTAE programs.
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Instructional Coaches;
Others;
CTAE Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Building Fluency and Syllabication Knowledge |
| Description: |
This full-day session will include an overview of all 7 syllable types and fluency strategies. We will share research, assessment(s), strategies, and hands-on activities. We invite K-5 teachers to join us for this fun, make-and-take session. |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Girls Who Code |
| Description: |
Join this webinar to learn more about Girls Who Code's FREE coding curricula, resources, training, and support! Girls Who Code Community Partnerships & Outreach Manager, Kibret Yebetit will be joining us during this session.
TEACH A GIRL TO CODE AND SHE’LL CHANGE THE WORLD!!
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| Audience: |
(3 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Second Nature: Writing Implementation in the Classroom |
| Description: |
As we continue to move into an everchanging and fast-paced world, the ability to express our ideas, argue a point, or create an imaginary place through the written (or typed) word has become a measuring stick for success. Consider this – does writing take place in your classroom naturally or is it a task that many students dread because they are uncomfortable with written expression? Creating a sense of comfort and safety with written expression for many students is needful. How do we as secondary teachers establish that safe space for writing? How can we as secondary teachers encourage writing, so it becomes a natural, easy, and expected part of class? Join us in this session as we provide secondary teachers with approaches to writing that ease the concerns of those students who struggle to write due to a fear of failure or lack of interest. As we all know, writing should become second nature in our classrooms.
Participants are asked to bring a fully charged laptop or tablet to the session. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers |
| Description: |
CSRA RESA will offer the online Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers beginning February 16, 2022. The 10-hour online course takes place via our Canvas platform and meets the requirement needed for AP/IB certified teachers to count gifted students in AP (grades 9-12) and IB (grades 11 and 12) at gifted FTE weight. The training will not award the gifted endorsement but will meet the requirements needed for FTE funding. The course provides teachers with background information on the special populations of gifted students and supplies practical, research-based strategies for differentiating the AP and IB curriculum to help teachers better serve these students. All participants must have previously completed AP/IB certification training.
Participants will receive a Canvas invitation and course instructions via email on Feb. 16th.
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Others;
AB/IB Certified Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Differentiated Instruction: Maximizing the Learning of all Students in the CTAE Classroom |
| Description: |
After attending this workshop teachers will be able to:
• Understand the pedagogical philosophy and purpose of differentiated instruction.
• Identify and experience the various tools through which teachers can implement differentiated instruction.
• Create lessons using the tools for DI and share them with others.
Teachers and educators will be able to take the content from this class and immediately implement in their classrooms to support student learning and higher thinking applications. Creating positive learning relationships and relevance to the curriculum will enhance the rigor of state approved CTAE course standards.
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
Others;
CTAE Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Teacher Clarity Playbook |
| Description: |
CSRA RESA is excited to announce a new opportunity for our teachers! Corwin’s Teacher Clarity Playbook focuses on building clarity around standards and learning through teacher collaboration. All participants will receive a copy of The Teacher Clarity Playbook, A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction. The one-day session will be offered twice to accommodate teacher and school schedules. Registration is now open; we hope to see you soon!
Please visit the Corwin's Teacher Clarity site for more information about Teacher Clarity.
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Media Specialists Collaborative Aligning Picture Books and Trade Books |
| Description: |
Mrs. Jennifer Newton (Thomson High School) will be coordinating this meeting for the group. Our focus for this meeting is exciting! Our overarching goal will be to align picture books and trade books to 6-12th grade content area standards and determine their literary devices, themes, and other important identifying information in order to build our own libraries and help the teachers in our building access quality titles for their content. Each participant will need to bring a list of excellent picture books/trade books that your library currently owns. Together, this group will align the books to appropriate grade levels, Georgia Standards of Excellence, and literary devices. While we would like to primarily focus on 6-12th grades because it is an area of need, this does not mean we cannot also align these titles to K-5th grade standards as well. We will need elementary school media specialists to help recommend titles and determine the important identifying information for each text and middle and high school media specialists to work on the alignment. This work will not only benefit each of our districts but could be a resource for all schools in Georgia! |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Media Specialists;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Utilizing Community and Business Partnerships in the Classroom |
| Description: |
During this session you will get to engage in a discussion around the importance of utilizing community and business partnerships in the classroom. Participants will leave with strategies that can be used when incorporating community and business partners into daily lessons/units. Teachers will be able to take best practices, strategies, instructional tasks back to their schools and classrooms to implement immediately. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Reading: DEAR to my Heart? |
| Description: |
Do we need to drop everything and read? Oh, DEAR. We certainly hope not – the dropping of everything – that is. The text whether nonfiction or fiction – no matter the form or genre – is the foundation for our lessons. Everything we do in our classrooms connects to the text. So, yes, reading is dear to our hearts; however, you cannot just “drop everything.” What about vocabulary? What about writing? What about comprehension? What about discussion? What about the many skills that must be addressed when reading a text? Reading of the text is simply the starting point, the foundation, the door. During this session, we engage in creative reading strategies that will lead students to comprehension of the text without having to drop everything to read. We would dearly love to have you join us!
Participants are asked to bring a fully charged laptop or tablet to the session. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Implementing Project-Based Learning in the CTAE Classroom |
| Description: |
How can we design effective and engaging Project-Based experiences for students? Learn the fundamentals of project-based learning development and implementation in this workshop for CTAE teachers and instructional leaders. We will also discuss how to utilize community and business partners to provide authentic PBL experiences. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
Others;
CTAE Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Be a Word Detective and Digging Deeper |
| Description: |
Be a Word Detective and Digging Deeper: Comprehension Foundational Reading PLs have been combined! Both sessions will now be conducted on March 24, 2022 from 8:30-3:30 at CSRA RESA.
The morning session will include vocabulary and word study research, assessment(s), strategies, and hands-on activities. Participants will learn explicit systematic techniques to enhance their instruction. The afternoon session will include comprehension research, assessment(s), strategies, and activities. Participants will learn about the 4 levels of comprehension: literal, inferential, evaluative, and applied. We invite K-5 teachers to join us for this fun, make-and-take PL session!
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| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Introduction to the Exceptional Child (HB 671) |
| Description: |
The Exceptional Child Course is a 50-hour, virtual, self-paced asynchronous course. The course is designed to facilitate the identification, curriculum modification, and instruction of exceptional children and includes the history, philosophy, and psychology of teaching disabled children as well as gifted children. It is a basic overview/survey of all areas and categories of special education and giftedness. It covers all aspects of requirements of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and satisfies the state requirement for a course in the Identification and Education of Exceptional Children by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and satisfies Georgia House Bill 671. The Exceptional Child course is required for issuance of a certificate in any of the following: 1. Teaching fields; 2. Leadership fields; 3. Service fields of Media Specialist and School Counseling. Textbook included in the cost of the course.
• Textbook included in the cost of the course
• Participants will receive a Canvas invite to begin the training the morning the course opens
• Course transcript will be submitted to GaPSC upon successful completion |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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CSRA's Summer Instructional Coach Camp |
| Description: |
CSRA's Instructional Coach Camp is a two-day workshop designed for instructional coaches and teacher leaders who desire new or additional knowledge on the many aspects of instructional coaching and on working with adult learners. During the camp, participants will dive into critical coaching approaches to learn the different characteristics of each coaching role. Additionally, an emphasis will be placed upon building relationships and working effectively with adult learners. Further, participants will have many opportunities to engage in role play and group activities to build a working knowledge of how to fulfill the instructional coaching role. Come “camp out” with us this summer to learn and practice research-based coaching techniques to support the teachers in your school!
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Instructional Coaches;
Others;
Teacher Leaders
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Hearing Officer/Tribunal Member Training |
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GAEL will offer its annual Hearing Officer and Tribunal Member training virtually for CSRA RESA districts. The training is required for all persons who will participate in a tribunal hearing either as a tribunal member or hearing officer.
The training will be conducted by Dr. Jimmy Stokes and is provided at no cost. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Others;
Hearing Officers and Tribunal Members
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Paraprofessional Modules GAPSC Code of Ethics for Georgia Educators |
| Description: |
This 10-hour self-paced asynchronous Canvas course has been designed by Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GAPSC) and RESAs for Georgia's Paraprofessionals. This course will take paraprofessionals through the 10 standards of Georgia's Code of Ethics for Educators. Each module will give paraprofessionals a brief overview of each standard and provide specific examples of violations and how these relate to the paraprofessional's role in education.
The training will be offered multiple times to accommodate schedules. Participants will receive an invitation from Canvas/Instructure the morning the course opens. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Paraprofessionals;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Georgia Media Specialist Evaluation Program: GMSEP |
| Description: |
The Georgia Media Specialist Evaluation Program (GMSEP) training includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing the GMSEP. Upon successful completion of a culminating assessment, participants will gain a proficiency certificate. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Georgia School Counselor Evaluation Program: GSCEP |
| Description: |
The Georgia School Counselor Evaluation Program (GSCEP) training includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing the GSCEP. Upon successful completion of a culminating assessment, participants will gain a proficiency certificate. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers |
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CSRA RESA will offer the online Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers beginning Sept. 6, 2022. The 10-hour online course meets the requirement needed for AP/IB certified teachers to count gifted students in AP (grades 9-12) and IB (grades 11 and 12) at gifted FTE weight. The training will not award the gifted endorsement but will meet the requirements needed for FTE funding. The course provides teachers with background information on the special populations of gifted students and supplies practical, research-based strategies for differentiating the AP and IB curriculum to help teachers better serve these students. All participants must have previously completed AP/IB certification training. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Literacy for Leaders |
| Description: |
Literacy for Leaders is intended for K-5 principals, assistant principals, or instructional coaches who wish to strengthen their knowledge of elementary reading instruction. The goal of this series is to provide information regarding the fundamentals necessary to provide a comprehensive approach to learning in the literacy classroom. The two-day workshop will include topics such as the structure of a literacy class, reading comprehension, read aloud, small group instruction, independent reading and conferring, as well as using data to inform instruction for students. Attention will be given to the alignment of the TKES standards to workshop content with an emphasis on differentiation. |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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K-2 Writing Done Right Making Brief Writing Mini-lessons Work for Teachers and Students: Narrative |
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These workshops will provide time for educators to closely review K-2 narrative, informational, and opinion writing standards, explore and participate in lessons found on CSRA RESA’s Writing Center, and create plans/activities to successfully employ impactful writing strategies with all students. K-2 writing rubrics, resources, and research will also be reviewed and shared. Participants may attend one session or choose to attend all three!
September 16, 2022 - Narrative
November 7, 2022 - Informational
January 30, 2023 - Opinion |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Two P's: Phonological Awareness and Phonics |
| Description: |
This full-day session will include phonological awareness and phonics research, assessment(s), strategies, and hands-on activities. We will share explicit, systematic strategies to enhance instruction regardless of what program your school/county is using. We invite PK-2 teachers to join us for this fun, make-and-take session. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 2)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Counselor Keys Effectiveness System (CKES) |
| Description: |
This training is intended for leadership personnel who will be using the instrument to evaluate school counselors, and the session includes the procedures, purposes, and resources for implementing CKES. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Teacher Support Specialist to Teacher Support and Coaching Bridge Course |
| Description: |
Please Note: The TSS endorsement must be listed on your teaching certificate to be eligible to enroll.
CSRA RESA now offers the TSC Bridge course for those holding the old TSS Endorsement who would like to upgrade to the current Teacher Support and Coaching (TSC) endorsement. The Bridge course is designed to merge the TSS standards with new concepts and standards included with the new endorsement. The 30-hour online course is asynchronous and runs through our Canvas platform. Dr. Debbie Alexander, CSRA RESA Executive Director, will provide support to candidates as they self-pace through the course.
The course will open October 4, 2022, and close on May 12, 2023. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Others;
Educators who hold the TSS Endorsement
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Paraprofessional Modules: GAPSC Code of Ethics Online Training |
| Description: |
This 10-hour self-paced asynchronous Canvas course has been designed by Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GAPSC) and RESAs for Georgia's Paraprofessionals. This course will take paraprofessionals through the 10 standards of Georgia's Code of Ethics for Educators. Each module will give paraprofessionals a brief overview of each standard and provide specific examples of violations and how these relate to the paraprofessional's role in education.
Participants may register at any time. You will receive an invitation from Canvas/Instructure the morning the course opens or within 24 hours if the course has begun. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Paraprofessionals;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Morphology Plus (Orton Gillingham Training) |
| Description: |
CSRA RESA is excited to announce the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education (IMSE) is coming in October 2022 to provide Morphology Plus, a comprehensive training based fundamentally on the Orton Gillingham program! The IMSE Morphology Plus 30-hour course is a hands-on, interactive, and personalized training that provides a complete understanding of morphology, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension and how to apply it in the classroom. After participating in this accredited Structured Literacy course, teachers will have an understanding of the structure and foundation of the English language. Teachers will also have an understanding of where to begin instruction with students with dyslexia as well as students in all three tiers of RTI. Teachers will be able to evaluate and teach students in morphology, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension as well as have access to the asynchronous IMSE Writing and Grammar course to help assess and teach writing and grammar to students.
While Morphology Plus targets teachers in grades 3-5, it is appropriate for teachers in upper grades whose students can read and spell but continue to struggle with language comprehension. This course can also be taken by any educator who wants to learn more about instruction in morphology, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
The 4-day training will be offered twice to accommodate teacher and school schedules. Participants are asked to bring a cell phone or electronic device to access resources. Registration for member districts is being taken on a first come, first serve basis, and all needed details can be found below. (Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are outside of our service area to see if space is available.) We hope to see you soon!
PARTICIPANTS WILL:
- Gain knowledge about the Science of Reading and the History of the English language.
- Gain knowledge about students with reading difficulties including dyslexia.
- Understand how EL students can cognate to help learn English.
- Administer various types of assessments.
- Implement and create structured literacy lessons on morphology, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
MATERIALS/RESOURCES PARTICIPANTS WILL RECEIVE:
- Morphology Plus Training Manual by IMSE
- Morphology Teacher’s Guides (3) by IMSE
- Morphology Plus Student Passages (3 PDFs) by IMSE
- The Comprehension Blueprint by Nancy Hennessey
- Vocabulary Handbook by Linda Diamond and Linda Gutlohn
- IMSE Morpheme Card Pack
- Morphology Plus Practice Packet
- Procedural Routine Flip Chart
- IMSE’s Writing and Grammar Manual, practice packet, and webinar
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| Audience: |
(3 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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CSRA RESA Assistant Principal Collaborative |
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This collaborative is designed to support all CSRA Assistant Principals with opportunities to collaborate with other Assistant Principals throughout the region, build leadership capacity, and reflect on leadership practice.
FY23 Meeting Dates and Format for Collaborative
- October 18, 2022 - Virtual (a link will be sent prior to session)
- December 13, 2022 - Meeting Format TBD
- February 14, 2023 - Meeting Format TBD
- May 30, 2023 - Meeting Format TBD
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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CSRA RESA Principal's Network |
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This Network is designed to support all CSRA Principals with opportunities to network with their colleagues; reflect on lessons learned; and build capacity to artfully lead with relationships.
FY23 Meeting Dates and Format for Network
- October 26, 2022 - Virtual (a link will be sent prior to session)
- November 30, 2022 - Meeting Format TBD
- February 1, 2023 - Meeting Format TBD
- May 3, 2023 - Meeting Format TBD
- June 7, 2023 - End of the Year Celebration (Details TBD)
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Deep Dive into Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standard |
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Come and join us as we dive into the new Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards with the GaDOE Math Team. This workshop is designed to (1) provide a deep understanding of the new standards at your grade level; (2) share effective mathematics instruction; and (3) allow you to walk away with steps towards implementation. There will be a general session as well as breakout sessions. Breakout sessions will focus on a discussion of the standards by grade bands as well as a leader session, and ways to support ESOL students and learner variability. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Literacy for Leaders |
| Description: |
Literacy for Leaders is intended for K-5 principals, assistant principals, or instructional coaches who wish to strengthen their knowledge of elementary reading instruction. The goal of this series is to provide information regarding the fundamentals necessary to provide a comprehensive approach to learning in the literacy classroom. The two-day workshop will include topics such as the structure of a literacy class, reading comprehension, read aloud, small group instruction, independent reading and conferring, as well as using data to inform instruction for students. Attention will be given to the alignment of the TKES standards to workshop content with an emphasis on differentiation.
(*While this session is a two-part training, those who were unable to attend the first day are invited to join us for Day 2. Day 2 is intended for district leaders, principals, assistant principals, and/or instructional coaches who wish to strengthen their knowledge of K-5 elementary reading instruction. The goal of this session is to provide insight into Structured Literacy practices, research-based assessments, and ideas for creating a ?culture of readers? in schools. Attention will be given to the alignment of the TKES standards to workshop content. Leaders will be able to take the information learned during this session to help support and enrich reading instruction in their schools.) |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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K-2 Writing Done Right Making Brief Writing Mini-lessons Work for Teachers and Students: Informational |
| Description: |
These workshops will provide time for educators to closely review K-2 narrative, informational, and opinion writing standards, explore and participate in lessons found on CSRA RESA’s Writing Center, and create plans/activities to successfully employ impactful writing strategies with all students. K-2 writing rubrics, resources, and research will also be reviewed and shared. Participants may attend one session or choose to attend all three!
September 16, 2022 - Narrative
November 7, 2022 - Informational
January 30, 2023 - Opinion |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Paraprofessionals: Techniques to Enhance Learning in K-5 Classrooms |
| Description: |
In this session Paraprofessionals will learn a variety of techniques to use in both small and whole group settings as well as strategies to support reading instruction. |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Paraprofessionals;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Exploring the Profile of a CTAE Graduate to Enhance Business/ Community Partnerships in the CTAE Classroom |
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Are your students solving problems creatively as they prepare to graduate? Can your students demonstrate technical and academic skills after they graduate?
During this session we will explore the Profile of a CTAE Graduate that will help us answer the questions above and relate it to community partnerships. Partners are essential to CTAE programs, providing resources and volunteers, aiding with curriculum, and planning for events. Come learn how different kinds of partners can help with your work in the classroom. Partner ideas, workforce development needs, leadership, commitment to supporting the career preparation pipeline locally, and many more opportunities are available to support CTAE Graduates and local school system CTAE programs. We will also be joined by the Workforce Development Team from Georgia Power.
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Instructional Coaches;
Others;
Grade 6-12 CTAE Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Know Thy Rules: Syllabication |
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This full-day session will include an overview of all 8 syllable types. Participants will learn strategies to help students decode multi and polysyllabic words. We will share research, assessment(s), strategies, and hands-on activities. We invite K-5 teachers to join us for this fun, make-and-take session. |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Introduction to The Basics |
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The priority of The Basics is to help ensure that all families with children aged birth to five have the information and supports they need to launch their infants, toddlers, and preschoolers toward life success. The Basics initiative began because cognitive skill gaps between children of different races, ethnicities, and parental education levels are starkly apparent in nationally representative data by the age of two. Come learn about the 5 Basics Principles, and how to implement them with your child, and in your PreK classrooms today!
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| Audience: |
(PK)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Paraprofessionals;
Others;
Parents
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Paraprofessional Modules: GAPSC Code of Ethics Online Training |
| Description: |
This 10-hour self-paced asynchronous Canvas course has been designed by Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GAPSC) and RESAs for Georgia's Paraprofessionals. This course will take paraprofessionals through the 10 standards of Georgia's Code of Ethics for Educators. Each module will give paraprofessionals a brief overview of each standard and provide specific examples of violations and how these relate to the paraprofessional's role in education.
Participants may register at any time. You will receive an invitation from Canvas/Instructure the morning the course opens or within 24 hours if the course has begun. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Paraprofessionals;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Teaching Reading 101 |
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We are taking it back to the basics! Join us for a day of fun and learning as we take a deep dive into the pillars of reading. This make and take session will be an opportunity for novice/nontraditional K-2 teachers (including certified teachers with less than 3 years of experience, TAPP, MAT, etc.) to learn more about the art and science of teaching reading. The session is sure to enhance your understanding of reading instruction no matter what resources your county/school is using! |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Others;
Novice/Nontraditional Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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K-2 Writing Done Right Making Brief Writing Mini-lessons Work for Teachers and Students: Opinion |
| Description: |
These workshops will provide time for educators to closely review K-2 narrative, informational, and opinion writing standards, explore and participate in lessons found on CSRA RESA’s Writing Center, and create plans/activities to successfully employ impactful writing strategies with all students. K-2 writing rubrics, resources, and research will also be reviewed and shared. Participants may attend one session or choose to attend all three!
September 16, 2022 - Narrative
November 7, 2022 - Informational
January 30, 2023 - Opinion |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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The Media Specialist’s Guide to GPB Galaxy |
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As media specialists creatively engage, support, and inspire our teachers and students in the classroom and online, choose the awesome GPB Digital Resources to help you collaborate. GPB Education is here to help with thousands of open, no-cost, standards-aligned resources from PBS LearningMedia. These resources can assist you with becoming an instructional partner with your teachers, promote a culture of reading, and provide tools that will help you increase the use of technology in the classroom.
Learning about GPB digital resources will allow you to support teachers and enhance student learning. You will be able to share these resources with teachers through instructional collaboration and by providing professional learning on how they can use them in their classrooms to support instruction. Join GPB and explore the many resources that you can choose from to collaborate with your teachers.
Please bring a charged device to the training.
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| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Media Specialists;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers - Online |
| Description: |
CSRA RESA will offer a session of the online Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers beginning February 6, 2023. The 10-hour online course meets the requirement needed for AP/IB certified teachers to count gifted students in AP (grades 9-12) and IB (grades 11 and 12) at gifted FTE weight. The training will not award the gifted endorsement but will meet the requirements needed for FTE funding. The course provides teachers with background information on the special populations of gifted students and supplies practical, research-based strategies for differentiating the AP and IB curriculum to help teachers better serve these students. All participants must have previously completed AP/IB certification training. |
| Audience: |
(8 - 12)
Others;
Teachers holding AP/IB certification
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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The Teaching of Reading |
| Description: |
The Teaching of Reading course is designed to deepen all teachers’ understanding of how the complex and invisible work of learning to read is accomplished. We believe all teachers are reading teachers!
Candidates will acquire an understanding of the pillars of reading and a base knowledge on how to implement the pillars in the classroom setting. Candidates in this course are currently enrolled in the Teacher Alternative Preparation Program (TAPP) and are preparing to become Georgia educators. This course meets the reading course certification for TAPP. Certified teachers may also register for this course to bolster their reading knowledge. For a candidate to receive credit, the CSRA RESA candidate must complete successfully and be proficient in all aspects of this course.
Participants will have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in utilizing techniques of reading instruction to teach other content areas, to build skills in thinking and reading, to plan for effective management of instruction in the classroom to meet individual needs of learners, and to gain experience with new technology supporting reading instruction. Participants will demonstrate and apply understandings of all pillars of reading.
Required Live-Zoom sessions:
- Session 1: February 16th 6:00-8:00 PM
- Session 2: March 16th 6:00-8:00 PM
- Session 3: April 20th 6:00-8:00 PM
- Session 4: May 18th 6:00-8:00 PM
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| Audience: |
(K - 8)
Teachers;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Dyslexia Awareness Modules |
| Description: |
The CSRA RESA Dyslexia Awareness Modules are designed to give you information regarding the “nuts and bolts” of dyslexia. As you review the modules, you will discover practical research-based information and ideas. You may complete all the modules or select certain modules you believe will enhance your knowledge of dyslexia. The series of modules will be opened from February until June 2023. You will advance at your own rate.
All the information in the modules is connected to the GaDOE Dyslexia Information Handbook, as well as to all current dyslexia research. A CSRA RESA instructor will be available if you have questions or concerns. That instructor is there to lend a helping hand, to read your reflections, and to issue your satisfactory completion status.
Participants will receive an invite from Canvas on Feb. 22nd.
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Social Studies Mini-Conference: 3rd - 8th Grade |
| Description: |
This full-day mini-conference is a unique opportunity for social studies, ELA, and art teachers and will feature professional development from some of the most recognizable names in social studies in the state of Georgia!
All participants will engage in a hands-on, minds-on workshop on visual literacy from the Booth Western Art Museum professionals using primary sources straight from their collection!
For the breakout sessions:
3rd-5th grade teachers will enjoy a collaborative workshop given by the Booth Museum and Georgia Council on Economic Education specialists that incorporates economics, social studies literacy, map skills, and art! This workshop will provide teachers with a variety of resources and strategies to teach the 3rd-5th grade social studies standards and increase engagement and content retention.
6th-8th grade teachers will enjoy a collaborative workshop given by Lisa Landers of the Georgia Historical Society and Crystal Parten of CSRA RESA. This session will focus on map skills, primary source analysis, and social studies literacy. This workshop will help teachers improve their students' historical thinking and map skills while also heightening engagement in their social studies classes.
All teachers will leave with lessons and resources that are aligned with the GSE!
Teachers are encouraged to bring a device (laptop, tablet, chromebook). |
| Audience: |
(3 - 8)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Differentiated Instruction and Implementing Project Based Learning in the CTAE Classroom |
| Description: |
Part 1- Differentiated Instruction: Maximizing the Learning of all Students in the CTAE Classroom
After attending this workshop teachers will be able to:
• Understand the pedagogical philosophy and purpose of differentiated instruction.
• Identify and experience the various tools through which teachers can implement differentiated instruction.
• Create lessons using the tools for DI and share them with others.
Teachers and educators will be able to take the content from this class and immediately implement in their classrooms to support student learning and higher thinking applications. Creating positive learning relationships and relevance to the curriculum will enhance the rigor of state approved CTAE course standards.
Part 2- Implementing Project-Based Learning in the CTAE Classroom
How can we design effective and engaging Project-Based experiences for students? Learn the fundamentals of project-based learning development and implementation in this workshop for CTAE teachers and instructional leaders. We will also discuss how to utilize community and business partners to provide authentic PBL experiences.
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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A Game Plan for CCRPI Success with CCRPI expert Dr. Bobby Smith |
| Description: |
Strategically plan to improve your CCRPI score and learn to lead your leadership teams in this important work. This session is designed for school and district leaders and will include hands-on activities as participants use test data to calculate performance for CCRPI components and indicators. The components and indicators of the CCRPI will be explained in detail in this session. Participants will be shown how to use their Milestones data to project some of their next CCRPI score. An emphasis will be placed on identifying "low hanging fruit" to make the largest gains possible. The CS, Promise, and TS Accountability Lists, as well as entrance and exit requirements, will be explained in detail. Participants will be provided a power point and additional files that can be used to review the training in later collaborative sessions. This event will be held at the HUB for Community Innovation in Augusta located at 631 Chafee Ave, Augusta, GA instead of CSRA RESA.
School and District Leaders are encouraged to bring a partner to work together collaboratively during this session. All participants should bring a fully charged laptop or notebook computer.
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| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Others;
Assistant Principals, Principals, District Leaders
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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A Deep Dive into Georgia’s Mathematics Standards for Grades K-5 |
| Description: |
In this professional learning session, participants will dive deeper into the new mathematics standards by exploring the learning progressions; investigating the key competencies, learning objectives and evidence of student learning; discussing the changes and improvements within the new mathematics standards; and consider the importance of mathematical reasoning that is interwoven into the new standards. Further, participants will plunge into the ideas of Mathematical Modeling and The Framework for Statistical Reasoning to discern the impact these have on student learning, as well as, explore GADOE resources that support effective implementation of the new mathematics standards. |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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A Deep Dive into Georgia’s Mathematics Standards for Grades 6 - HS |
| Description: |
In this professional learning session, participants will dive deeper into the new mathematics standards by exploring the learning progressions; investigating the key competencies, learning objectives and evidence of student learning; discussing the changes and improvements within the new mathematics standards; and consider the importance of mathematical reasoning that is interwoven into the new standards. Further, participants will plunge into the ideas of Mathematical Modeling and The Framework for Statistical Reasoning to discern the impact these have on student learning, as well as explore GADOE resources that support effective implementation of the new mathematics standards. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Bringing Authentic Learning into the Classroom STEM/STEAM Pedagogy |
| Description: |
During this session you will get to engage in a discussion around the importance of utilizing community and business partnerships in the classroom and discuss the implementation of STEM/STEAM pedagogy. Participants will leave with strategies that can be used when incorporating community and business partners into daily lessons/units. Teachers will be able to take STEM/STEAM best practices, strategies, and instructional tasks back to their schools and classrooms to implement immediately.
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
Others;
K-12 STEM/STEAM and CTAE Teachers
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Introduction to the Exceptional Child (HB 671) |
| Description: |
The Exceptional Child Course is a 50-hour, virtual, self-paced asynchronous course. The course is designed to facilitate the identification, curriculum modification, and instruction of exceptional children and includes the history, philosophy, and psychology of teaching disabled children as well as gifted children. It is a basic overview/survey of all areas and categories of special education and giftedness. It covers all aspects of requirements of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and satisfies the state requirement for a course in the Identification and Education of Exceptional Children by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and satisfies Georgia House Bill 671. The Exceptional Child course is required for issuance of a certificate in any of the following: 1. Teaching fields; 2. Leadership fields; 3. Service fields of Media Specialist and School Counseling. Textbook included in the cost of the course.
• Textbook included in the cost of the course
• Participants will receive a Canvas invite to begin the training the morning the course opens
• Course transcript will be submitted to GaPSC upon successful completion |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Others;
Educators in need of meeting the state certification requirement
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning for Georgia`s K-12 Mathematics Standards |
| Description: |
The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Mathematics Team is partnering with CSRA RESA to provide professional learning on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning for Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards, which will be implemented in the classroom with students during the 2023-2024 school year. Participants will explore creating tasks that incorporate the expectations of both Mathematical Modeling and Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning.
Please note: Grade band sessions will be conducted concurrently. Please register for the grade band you plan to attend. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Paraprofessional Modules: GAPSC Code of Ethics Online Training |
| Description: |
This course is recommended by the GAPSC for districts paraprofessional
annual assurances. The 10-hour self-paced asynchronous Canvas course has been designed by Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GAPSC) and RESAs for Georgia's Paraprofessionals. This course will take paraprofessionals through the 10 standards of Georgia's Code of Ethics for Educators. Each module will give paraprofessionals a brief overview of each standard and provide specific examples of violations and how these relate to the paraprofessional's role in education.
The Para Ethics training now has its own registration platform. Users will follow the prompts to create a new account before registering. Participants may register any time from July 17, 2023 - March 11, 2024. Registrants will receive an invitation from Canvas/Instructure to begin the training. All coursework must be complete by March 15, 2024. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Paraprofessionals;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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CSRA RESA Online Dyslexia Awareness Modules |
| Description: |
CSRA RESA will offer two cohorts of the online Dyslexia Awareness Modules in 2023-24. While the modules are self-paced, Lindsey Heritage, CSRA RESA Literacy Specialist, will be available for support as teachers advance through the modules. Registration is now open and limited to 20 participants per cohort. Additional information can be found below:
Cohort 1 Opens: September 8, 2023 ∙ Course Ends: December 8, 2023 or
Cohort 2 Opens: February 2, 2024 ∙ Course Ends: May 3, 2024
The CSRA RESA Dyslexia Awareness Modules are designed to give you information regarding the “nuts and bolts” of dyslexia. As you review the modules, you will discover practical research-based information and ideas. You may complete all the modules or select certain modules you believe will enhance your knowledge of dyslexia. The series of modules will be opened from February until June 2023. You will advance at your own rate. All the information in the modules is connected to the GaDOE Dyslexia Information Handbook, as well as to all current dyslexia research. A CSRA RESA instructor will be available if you have questions or concerns, and is there to lend a helping hand, and to read your reflections. and to issue your satisfactory completion status. Participants who satisfactorily complete all of the modules will receive 40 hours of training credit.
Participants will receive an invite from Canvas the morning cohorts open.
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| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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SESSION 1 - Two for One: Reading and Writing Series for Grades 3-5 |
| Description: |
AM Session: Phonological Awareness/Phonics: It's Not Just for K-2 Anymore!
A, B, C, D, E, F, G…..When you think of learning letter names, you think of Kindergarten, right? Did you know that there is a whole step before that? Phonological Awareness is something that can be done in the dark. Come join us as we discuss what Phonological Awareness is, and how to use it as a precursor to Phonics when you have kids that struggle with reading. Have kids that can’t read in 3rd-5th grade? Fluency will never be attained without first teaching these skills. We’ll show you how, even with the older kids!
PM Session: GMAS Narratives (3-5): Maximizing Student Performance
Have you ever wondered why some of your students may not perform up to your expectations on the GMAS narrative? Would you like to maximize their success so that they can show off their abilities while taking the GMAS? Come and learn some strategies at RESA. We will focus on comprehending the written sources/prompts, adapting to the various needs of your students, incorporating those critical narrative elements, improving punctuation, and providing the most valuable of all - feedback. Last but not least, resources will be shared so students can practice the format of the GMAS. Help your students feel confident in their skills and shine on the GMAS!
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| Audience: |
(3 - 5)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades K-5: Reflect and Review Units (Units 1 & 2) |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 1: Reflect and Review Units (Units 1 & 2) |
| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Content Literacy: Read It; Question It; Write It |
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In a world where text is presented in a variety of formats, readers often struggle with accessing the text, thinking critically about the text, and communicating their thoughts on what they have read through verbal and/or written responses. Close reading, questioning, and writing about a text are critical skills to support students in their effort to comprehend or make meaning of what they have read. Join us as we take a journey through critical reading, high-level questioning, and purposeful writing using research-based instructional practices. To dive deeply into this work, breakout sessions will be included. The breakout sessions will provide an opportunity to collaborate with
grade-level/content-alike colleagues. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
Media Specialists;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades 6-12: Reflect and Review Units (Units 1 & 2) |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 1: Reflect and Review Units (Units 1 & 2)
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Dyslexia Tips and Tricks |
| Description: |
Having a hard time getting into our Dyslexia Endorsement? Don't have time to commit to our Dyslexia Cohort? Come to our Dyslexia Regional! In this session, you will learn signs to look for, definitions and characteristics of Dyslexia, laws behind this SLD, as well as ways to assess and deliver Dyslexia Specific Interventions. Join Mrs. Lindsey Heritage, certified Orton Gillingham Dyslexia Specialist, as we discuss ways to make sure that these kids don't fall through the cracks. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
Media Specialists;
Technology Personnel;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades K-5:Reflect and Review Units (Units 3 & 4) |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 2: Reflect and Review Units (Units 3 & 4)
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| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Controlled Text (Decodables), Authentic Text, and Structured Literacy (K-2) |
| Description: |
Kinder, first, and second grade teachers and instructional coaches will learn about the components of structured literacy as referred to in HB 538. Participants will learn about each component of structured literacy and be able to construct systematic and explicit lesson plans using both controlled (decodable) and authentic texts for all readers. |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades 6-12: Reflect and Review Units (Units 3 & 4) |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 2: Reflect and Review Units (Units 3 & 4)
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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The Science of Reading: 6th - 12th Grades Vocabulary's Role in Comprehension and Writing |
| Description: |
Words, Words, and more Words! Vocabulary serves as the basis of comprehension and attributes to the stylistic nuances of writing, but it is so much more than that. How do we help students identify their word gaps? What are the best practices when it comes to teaching vocabulary acquisition? Where do Latin and Greek word parts come into play? How does vocabulary strengthen a student's reading comprehension and writing?
Join us as we use the research of the Science of Reading to answer these questions and engage in a "POE-pourri" of vocabulary's importance. You'll have a frightfully good time!
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades K-5: Mathematical Modeling and Interdisciplinary Instruction |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 3: Mathematical Modeling and Interdisciplinary Instruction
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| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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SESSION 2 - Two for One: Reading and Writing Series for Grades 3-5 |
| Description: |
AM Session: Fluency and Vocabulary Strategies for Grades 3-5
Did you know that “hi” is the only word in the English language that ends with i? If you’re thinking of other words, they’re probably not American. Teachers, come learn some fun fluency and vocabulary strategies to encourage your students to love learning new words! We will share ideas with each other, play morphology games together, and practice some word work activities to encourage engagement. Come join us!
PM Session: GMAS Informational Essays (3-5): Maximizing Student Performance
Have you ever wondered why some of your students may not perform up to your expectations on the GMAS informational essay? Would you like to maximize their success so that they can show off their abilities while taking the GMAS? Come and learn some strategies at RESA. We will focus on comprehending the written sources/prompts, choosing a main idea wisely, taking notes that support one’s main idea, making easy graphic organizers, adapting to the various needs of students, incorporating clear organizational structures, elaborating for depth of ideas, and using an appropriate tone. How to provide meaningful feedback during busy school days will also be critical for success. Lastly, the students MUST understand the format of Day 1 of the GMAS - “Essay Day.” Strategies will be provided so that students can practice this format and shine on test day.
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| Audience: |
(3 - 5)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades 6-12: Mathematical Modeling and Interdisciplinary Instruction |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 3: Mathematical Modeling and Interdisciplinary Instruction
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Youth Mental Health First Aid |
| Description: |
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
Media Specialists;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Know thy Rules: Syllables (K-3) |
| Description: |
Kinder, first, second, and third grade teachers, instructional coaches, and paras will learn how to apply the syllable rules so that they can support their readers with decoding both one syllable and multisyllabic words. Participants will have hand -on/multisensory practice demonstrating their understanding of each syllable rule. Participants will learn to connect reading fluency to the proficiency in syllabication rules. It also supports that syllabication is one of the foundational skills as referred to in HB 538. |
| Audience: |
(K - 3)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Emotional Poverty |
| Description: |
Using a brain-based approach, Emotional Poverty helps educators and others address anger, anxiety, and violence with strategies and best practices that work. This award-winning book equips educators with calming and healing techniques to create an emotionally balanced classroom. This one-day session provides an in-depth study of Ruby Payne's book and applications for educators. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Narrative Writing (K-2) |
| Description: |
Kinder, first, and second grade teachers and instructional coaches will learn about the simple view of writing, the importance of handwriting fluency, how to model questions to help guide narrative writing, the importance of sentence expansion, and how to assess narrative writing. The resources and strategies will align with the new ELA standards. |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Youth Mental Health First Aid |
| Description: |
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD), and eating disorders. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades K-5: Reflect and Review Units (Units 5 & 6) |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 4: Reflect and Review Units (Units 5 & 6)
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| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades 6-12: Reflect and Review Units (Units 5 & 6) |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 4: Reflect and Review Units (Units 5 & 6)
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| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Virtual Language as a Missing Link: Introduction to a Toolkit to Enhance Engagement Language and Literacy with Emily Rubin |
| Description: |
Language development dramatically and positively impacts life outcomes. Conversely, the failure to develop a capacity for effective communication jeopardizes emotional and mental well-being as well as literacy and academic success. Research demonstrates that one of the most powerful predictors of literacy outcomes is a child's language development in the early years AND the early grades. By the end of elementary school, 61 percent of students with typical language development achieve the expected standard in literacy compared to only 15 percent of those without. Language is also vital to the use of one’s inner dialogue, required to reason effectively, regulate emotions, cope with everyday challenges, and have a demonstrated protective effect on child and adolescent mental health. If we invest proactively, language development becomes an opportunity to enhance emotional well-being and quality of life. This workshop will introduce a freely accessible toolkit designed for individuals, practitioners, and policymakers to employ practices that apply language as a well-being indicator to improve educational, mental health, and well-being outcomes. |
| Audience: |
(PK - 3)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
Media Specialists;
Others;
SLPS
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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The Science of Reading: A Love Story |
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What is it all about? What was the point? What does it mean? What’s love got to do with it? Making sense of what is read is a critical challenge that students face as they encounter any text. Comprehension is our next destination as we continue to journey through the research of the Science of Reading.
What has the Science of Reading research shown us about the complexity of reading comprehension? How do we help students enter varied texts and exit with understanding? What is the best evidence-based instructional tools to help students develop strategies and skills for comprehending texts? Come join us as we answer these questions and develop a better relationship with reading comprehension. |
| Audience: |
(6 - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
Media Specialists;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Opinion Writing (K-2) |
| Description: |
Kinder, first, and second grade teachers and instructional coaches will learn how to use a variety of strategies to use as springboards for opinion writing, use evidence to support opinions, and how to assess opinion writing. The resources and strategies will align with new ELA standards. |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Math Series Grades K-5: Reflect and Review Units (Units 7 & 8/Capstone) |
| Description: |
Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards are HERE and your CSRA RESA Specialists are ready to support YOU! Teachers will be grouped by grade bands and are welcome to choose which sessions they attend, or they may attend them all!
Session 5: Reflect and Review Units (Units 7 & 8/Capstone)
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| Audience: |
(K - 5)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Connecting Morphology, Semantics, and Syntax to Comprehension (K-2) |
| Description: |
Kinder, first, and second grade teachers and instructional coaches will learn how the components and appropriate strategies for teaching morphology as a foundational skill as referred to in HB 538. They will also practice using strategies which support comprehension by planning deliberate, explicit, systematic instruction and practice in the areas of both semantics and syntax. |
| Audience: |
(K - 2)
Teachers;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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CSRA RESA Media Specialists Professional Learning |
| Description: |
Topics to Discuss: Weeding, Collection Development, Value of Reading to Students, GLMA Resources, GLMA Summer Institute, Passive Programming, and A.I. Lunch will be provided. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Media Specialists;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Non-Violent Crisis Prevention Training |
| Description: |
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® (NCI™) provides school staff with the skills to safely recognize and respond to everyday crisis situations that may involve more challenging behaviors. NCI™ training is designed to help achieve compliance with current legislative initiatives and best practices and to improve staff/student interaction to prevent crisis situations.
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| Audience: |
(PK - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
Paraprofessionals;
Instructional Coaches;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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Behavior Interventions that Work: Keys to Having a Successful Classroom with Amie Dean |
| Description: |
Behavior Queen, Amie Dean returns to CSRA RESA to provide Behavior Interventions that Work: Keys to Having a Successful Classroom! Through teaching and coaching in classrooms with many behavioral challenges for almost 30 years, Amie knows what works to help students succeed. Her goals have always included helping students build confidence, explore social emotional literacy, and develop positive habits that will help them be successful adults. The strategies shared in this course are practical, simple, and proven.
Participants will receive a copy of Amie Dean's book at the training session.
Registration closes August 30, 2024. |
| Audience: |
(K - 12)
Teachers;
Leadership Personnel;
School Counselors;
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| Registration: | This session is not currently open for registration. Member Districts: Please contact Faith Hopkins if you are interested in CSRA RESA providing this training for your school or system. |
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