Current Workshop Offerings

Blended Learning: Strategies & Technology Tools with Catlin Tucker

In this 3 part workshop, teachers will learn how to create a safe space online to engage students in dynamic, high-quality academic asynchronous discussions to complement and enhance face-to-face work.  They will experience a Station Rotation lesson then create a lesson they can use with students tomorrow.  The workshop will end with the flipped classroom and emphasize the importance of flipping and engaging students online.  Finally, teachers will see how the flipped classroom can be combined with the Station Rotation Model with the in-class flip!  Teachers will leave with concrete strategies and tools they can use now!

COST:
$140/person without a book
$170/person with a book

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
If you wish to pay with a PO contact Amy Kistler at amy.kistler@warrencountyesc.com

Just as CPR helps even those without medical training assist an individual having a heart attack, Youth Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to interact with a young person experiencing a mental health crisis.  Youth Mental Health First Aiders learn a five-step action plan that guides them through the process of reaching out and offering appropriate support. YMHFA training is designed for adults who regularly interact with young people ages 12-18; including teachers, parents, coaches, clergy, school bus drivers, paraprofessionals, juvenile and human services workers, etc.  Offered in 23 countries and all 50 states, as of 2016 more than 1 Million people have trained in Mental Health First Aid in the United States.

Participants receive a 200 page reference manual containing extensive information on various mental health disorders and lists of resources.

7.5 contact hours are granted.

If you have any questions, or are interested in arranging for a training for your staff, please contact Pat Clark, Youth Mental Health First Aid Training Coordinator, at 513.673.2410.

Minimum enrollment: 15   Maximum enrollment: 30

This is an excellent Tier 1 intervention for your school's  PBIS  (Positive Behavioral Intervention Support) plan.

COST:  FREE (A $170.00 value) -- This workshop is brought to you through a grant from Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education)

ESL:  Supporting English Learners' Language & Literacy
With Dr. Lindsey Moses

This workshop draws on years of experience in classrooms to provide answers to teachers' most common questions about supporting English learners' language and literacy development in English speaking classrooms.  During this workshop, attendees will be offered practical ideas, research-based tips, and classroom examples for supporting English learners during whole group, small group and independent work time.  the workshop will begin with instructional modifications to maximize learning for Enflish learners in grade-level contexts.  The characteristics of English learners' development and stages of proficiency will be presented with instructional ideas for differentiation.  Practical strategies for scaffolding vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking and listening across will be presented with classroom examples.  Assessment possibilities and consideration for identifying the differences between language proficiency, literacy proficiency, and developmental progress will be addressed.  Drawing on the formal and informal assessments, ideas for effective instruction in reading, writing, listening, and speaking will be presented with model lessons, student examples, and classroom videos.

COST:
$140/person without a book
$160/person with a book

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
If you wish to pay with a PO contact Amy Kistler at amy.kistler@warrencountyesc.com

Trauma can affect many aspects of a child's life.  Oftentimes we fail to understand the effects of trauma, possibly not understanding a child's behavior as a result of the trauma.  It can be easy to see a child's behavior as defiant, or disruptive, when the behavior is really a result of the child's response to trauma.  This workshop, with curriculum from Akron's Children Hospital, can help educators, and others who deal with children, understand the impact trauma can have on a child's life.

  What you will learn:

• The impact of trauma on a child's brain
• How to manage trauma in the classroom
• Strengthening resiliency through developmental assets
• Recognizing & handling secondary traumatic stress

This is a Level 1 training for participants who have had little or no training on trauma.

If you are having trouble registering, please call Pat Clark at  513.695.2900 ext. 1653, or email at PatriciaClark@warrencountyesc.com

COST: FREE, through Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education)

Minimum participants: 15

If you didn't grow up in poverty, you may be unaware of the "hidden rules" that govern many aspects of life for the poor.  Those experiencing daily instability are often focused on survival, and support systems which are taken for granted by the middle class and wealthy and experienced differently.  Sometimes family support is nonexistent.  If you work with those from poverty, a deeper understanding of their strengths and challenges helps you create opportunities for greater success and satisfaction for those you serve, and for you.

Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and pwerful model which raises our awareness about some key issues that people face daily when they have few resources.  Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth-shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with people in poverty.  Attending this workshop helps you and your organization become even more aware of the impact of generational and situational poverty on those experiencing daily instability and on those who serve them.  During this 4-hour workshop, you will learn serious information in a fun and interesting way.  This workshop:

• Provides an overview of the Bidges Out of Poverty Model;
• Uses the mental models of poverty, middle class and wealth to develop the Bridges concepts;
• Engages participants in developing a greater understanding of the hidden rules of class and how 11 specific resources can build capacity for those in poverty;
• Introduces the Bridges concepts of learning about and developing solutions using the triple lens approach.

Just as CPR helps even those without medical training assist an individual having a heart attack, Youth Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to interact with a young person experiencing a mental health crisis.  Youth Mental Health First Aiders learn a five-step action plan that guides them through the process of reaching out and offering appropriate support. YMHFA training is designed for adults who regularly interact with young people ages 12-18; including teachers, parents, coaches, clergy, school bus drivers, paraprofessionals, juvenile and human services workers, etc.  Offered in 23 countries and all 50 states, as of 2016 more than 1 Million people have trained in Mental Health First Aid in the United States.

Participants receive a 200 page reference manual containing extensive information on various mental health disorders and lists of resources.

7.5 contact hours are granted.

If you have any questions, or are interested in arranging for a training for your staff, please contact Pat Clark, Youth Mental Health First Aid Training Coordinator, at 513.673.2410.

Minimum enrollment: 15   Maximum enrollment: 30

This is an excellent Tier 1 intervention for your school's  PBIS  (Positive Behavioral Intervention Support) plan.

COST:  FREE (A $170.00 value) -- This workshop is brought to you through a grant from Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education)