Instructional | KEDC Special Education Cooperative

In this Reading Strategies Learning Series from KEDC, teachers will use the Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo to learn hands-on real world strategies for immediate use in the classroom to develop skilled readers. This series will go throughout the school year and will address 2-3 strategies from the book each session.  Just choose which goals most interest you or that are most needed in your classroom.

Workshop Dates 2017-2018

Goals 1&2         September 6

Goals 3&4          September 27

Goals 5&6          November 8

Goals 7&8          January 9

Goals 9&10        February 14

Goals 11,12,13   March 21

Goal 1 ~ Supporting Pre-Emergent and Emergent

Goal 2 ~ Teaching Reading Engagement: Focus, Stamina, & Building a Reading Life

Goal 3 ~ Supporting Print Work: Increasing Accuracy & Integrating Sources of Information

Goal 4~ Reading with Phrasing, Intonation, and Automaticity

Goal 5 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Fiction: Understanding Plot and Setting

Goal 6 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Thinking About Characters 

Goal 7 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Understanding Themes & Ideas 

Goal 8 ~ Supporting Comp. of Nonfiction: Determining Main Topic(s) & Idea(s)   

Goal 9 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Nonfiction: Determining Key Details 

Goal 10 ~ Supporting Comp in Nonfiction:  Getting the Most from Text Features   

Goal 11 ~ Improving Comp in Fiction and Non-Fic: Understanding Vocab   & Fig Lang

Goal 12 ~ Supporting Students’ Conversat: Speaking, Listening, & Deepening Comp.

Goal 13 ~ Improving Writing about Reading

Trauma-Informed Care

• Trauma-informed care is an approach to engaging people that recognizes the potential presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledges the role that trauma may play in an individual’s life.
• When a human service agency becomes trauma-informed, every part of its organization, management and service delivery system is assessed and potentially modified to include a basic understanding of how trauma affects the lives of individuals.
• The National Center for Trauma-Informed Care states that it changes the “paradigm from one that asks, 'What's wrong with you?' to one that asks, 'What has happened to you?'”
• Responding to the behavioral health care needs of all individuals in a trauma-informed manner is crucial to overall health and recovery, and therefore must be a priority and incorporated within an integrated health care system. Trauma is a pervasive issue that impacts all levels of health care and requires specialized knowledge and training, and collaboration among policymakers, providers and consumers/family members. Trauma-informed principles must be incorporated into all practices, with the ultimate goal to create trauma-free environments.
• Health care professionals need to understand the effects of traumatic events on individuals in order to maximize the efficacy of behavioral and physical health care interventions. This understanding will ensure that all supports and services are provided in a manner that reflects trauma-informed principles and practices and that facilitates recovery in a person-centered manner.

In this Writing Strategies Learning Series from KEDC, teachers will use the Writing Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo to learn hands-on real world strategies for immediate use in the classroom to develop skilled writers. This series will go throughout the school year and will address 2-3 strategies from the book each session.  Just choose which goals most interest you or that are most needed in your classroom.

Workshop Dates 2017-2018

Goals 1&2          September 13

Goals 3&4          October 18

Goals 5              November 29

Goals 6              January 24

Goals 7&8         March 7

Goals 9&10      April 11

Goal 1 ~ Composing with Pictures

Goal 2 ~ Engagement: Independence, Increasing Volume, & Developing a Writing Identity

Goal 3 ~ Generating and Collecting Ideas

Goal 4 ~ Focus/Meaning

 Goal 5 ~ Organization and Structure

 Goal 6 ~ Elaboration 

 Goal 7 ~ Word Choice

 Goal 8 ~ Conventions: Spelling and Letter Formation

 Goal 9 ~ Conventions: Grammar and Punctuation

 Goal 10 ~ Collaborating with Writing Partners and Clubs

Appendix ~ Publishing and Celebrating Writing

This session will provide the updated step-by-step guide of the process for developing an Individual Education Program using the IEP Guidance Document produced by the Kentucky Department of Education. Teachers will be provided the knowledge and skills to design meaningful, individualized programming for students in special education. This session will emphasize the role of determining current baseline using student performance data, developing measurable, observable goals, determining evidence based SDI & SAS and using appropriate tools for monitoring progress on successful student outcomes.

Who can register for the training:

• New Teachers
• Service Providers
• Administrators who need a detailed step-by-step training of how to develop IEP for students with disabilities. 

Rob Pennington and Ginevra Courtade, both from U of L, will be presenting on Writing and Reading Instructional Practices for ASD, respectively.

Members of the SLP cadre will be joined by Adina Soclof, MS, CCC-SLP for a webinar on Growth Mindset: Implications for SLPs. 

For more information please contact Lacey Lane at lacey.lane@kedc.org

Mental Health Workshop: Interconnecting Systems Framework (ISF): School-based Mental Health within a PBIS Framework

WHY DO WE WANT TO DO THIS?  “It is no secret that for many members of the education community being the de facto mental health system for children is not universally appealing. The task of bringing America’s children up to an academic level that will be competitive globally is daunting. Meeting children’s mental health needs is often viewed as off task behavior and the mission of some other agency. In the mental health community, professionals do not always accept the criticism that their interventions for children must be more related to the core mission of school, which is learning. The development and implementation of ISF has the potential of changing the attitudes and behavior of the professionals in these two systems by linking them into a complementary process that is broad in scope and utilizes the combined strengths of each.” ADVANCING EDUCATION EFFECTIVENESS: INTERCONNECTING SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH AND SCHOOL-WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT EDITORS: SUSAN BARRETT, LUCILLE EBER & MARK WEIST

“Core features of the ISF align with concepts of Implementation Science, and PBIS as a Response to Intervention (RtI) application including a strong emphasis on: (1) effective teams that include community mental health providers, (2) data based decision making, (3) formal processes for the selection and implementation of evidence based practices (EBP), (4) early access through use of comprehensive screening, (5) rigorous progress-monitoring for both fidelity and effectiveness, and (6) ongoing coaching at both the systems and practices level.” ADVANCING EDUCATION EFFECTIVENESS: INTERCONNECTING SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH AND SCHOOL-WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT EDITORS: SUSAN BARRETT, LUCILLE EBER & MARK WEIST

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? District/School Leadership Teams: (Principal, Assistant Principal, Counselor, Family Resource Center personnel, General Education Teacher, Special Education Teacher, Mental Health Provider, RtI Interventionist, etc.)  These participants are not required… each team will be different. *If your school is participating in the Trauma Informed Care Learning Collaborative, please send your team to this workshop.

WHAT WILL WE DO AT THE WORKSHOP? Exploration Stage:  Resource Mapping  will be conducted to identify existing resources and how best to utilize them. Participants will review a copy of the draft guide for ISF model from KDE.

Participants are encouraged to attend all three modules but it isn't required. Participants may instead choose the sessions that would be most beneficial to their job assignment. The fraction module would be helpful to both elementary and middle school teachers.

Objectives of the Series are:

• To build a teacher’s knowledge base around the building blocks of numeracy
• To provide strategies for teaching content and differentiating instruction
• To develop a deep conceptual understanding of the core components of numbers and operations
• To enhance professional growth within the school through coaching

The Conceptual Building Blocks of Mathematics Series includes:

• Addition/Subtraction:  September 20-21
• Multiplication/Division:  October 18-19
• Fractions:  November 16-17

In this Reading Strategies Learning Series from KEDC, teachers will use the Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo to learn hands-on real world strategies for immediate use in the classroom to develop skilled readers. This series will go throughout the school year and will address 2-3 strategies from the book each session.  Just choose which goals most interest you or that are most needed in your classroom.

Workshop Dates 2017-2018

Goals 1&2          September 6

Goals 3&4          September 27

Goals 5&6          November 8

Goals 7&8          January 9

Goals 9&10        February 14

Goals 11,12,13   March 21

Goal 1 ~ Supporting Pre-Emergent and Emergent

Goal 2 ~ Teaching Reading Engagement: Focus, Stamina, & Building a Reading Life

Goal 3 ~ Supporting Print Work: Increasing Accuracy & Integrating Sources of Information

Goal 4~ Reading with Phrasing, Intonation, and Automaticity

Goal 5 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Fiction: Understanding Plot and Setting

Goal 6 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Thinking About Characters 

Goal 7 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Understanding Themes & Ideas 

Goal 8 ~ Supporting Comp. of Nonfiction: Determining Main Topic(s) & Idea(s)   

Goal 9 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Nonfiction: Determining Key Details 

Goal 10 ~ Supporting Comp in Nonfiction:  Getting the Most from Text Features   

Goal 11 ~ Improving Comp in Fiction and Non-Fic: Understanding Vocab   & Fig Lang

Goal 12 ~ Supporting Students’ Conversat: Speaking, Listening, & Deepening Comp.

Goal 13 ~ Improving Writing about Reading

In this Reading Strategies Learning Series from KEDC, teachers will use the Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo to learn hands-on real world strategies for immediate use in the classroom to develop skilled readers. This series will go throughout the school year and will address 2-3 strategies from the book each session.  Just choose which goals most interest you or that are most needed in your classroom.

Workshop Dates 2017-2018

Goals 1&2          September 6

Goals 3&4          September 27

Goals 5&6          November 8

Goals 7&8          January 9

Goals 9&10        February 14

Goals 11,12,13   March 21

Goal 1 ~ Supporting Pre-Emergent and Emergent

Goal 2 ~ Teaching Reading Engagement: Focus, Stamina, & Building a Reading Life

Goal 3 ~ Supporting Print Work: Increasing Accuracy & Integrating Sources of Information

Goal 4~ Reading with Phrasing, Intonation, and Automaticity

Goal 5 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Fiction: Understanding Plot and Setting

Goal 6 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Thinking About Characters 

Goal 7 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Understanding Themes & Ideas 

Goal 8 ~ Supporting Comp. of Nonfiction: Determining Main Topic(s) & Idea(s)   

Goal 9 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Nonfiction: Determining Key Details 

Goal 10 ~ Supporting Comp in Nonfiction:  Getting the Most from Text Features   

Goal 11 ~ Improving Comp in Fiction and Non-Fic: Understanding Vocab   & Fig Lang

Goal 12 ~ Supporting Students’ Conversat: Speaking, Listening, & Deepening Comp.

Goal 13 ~ Improving Writing about Reading

​The focus of this session will be secondary transition.

In this Reading Strategies Learning Series from KEDC, teachers will use the Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo to learn hands-on real world strategies for immediate use in the classroom to develop skilled readers. This series will go throughout the school year and will address 2-3 strategies from the book each session.  Just choose which goals most interest you or that are most needed in your classroom.

Workshop Dates 2017-2018

Goals 1&2          September 6

Goals 3&4          September 27

Goals 5&6          November 8

Goals 7&8          January 9

Goals 9&10        February 14

Goals 11,12,13   March 21

Goal 1 ~ Supporting Pre-Emergent and Emergent

Goal 2 ~ Teaching Reading Engagement: Focus, Stamina, & Building a Reading Life

Goal 3 ~ Supporting Print Work: Increasing Accuracy & Integrating Sources of Information

Goal 4~ Reading with Phrasing, Intonation, and Automaticity

Goal 5 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Fiction: Understanding Plot and Setting

Goal 6 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Thinking About Characters 

Goal 7 ~ Supporting Comprehension in Fiction: Understanding Themes & Ideas 

Goal 8 ~ Supporting Comp. of Nonfiction: Determining Main Topic(s) & Idea(s)   

Goal 9 ~ Supporting Comprehension of Nonfiction: Determining Key Details 

Goal 10 ~ Supporting Comp in Nonfiction:  Getting the Most from Text Features   

Goal 11 ~ Improving Comp in Fiction and Non-Fic: Understanding Vocab   & Fig Lang

Goal 12 ~ Supporting Students’ Conversat: Speaking, Listening, & Deepening Comp.

Goal 13 ~ Improving Writing about Reading