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Month	Date	Upcoming Event
February	2/15/2010	An Introduction to Igor Spaces Remaining: 19 An Introduction to Igor: Ionia and Montcalm Counties are part of a regional data initiative grant through Kent ISD that supplies a data warehouse tool for all districts. This data warehouse for our counties is called Igor. In this introductory session, educators will be provided a login and password to access their school or district’s data, take a walk through the various components of the program, and have time to explore the data reports that are available.
	2/15/2010	An Introduction to Learnport Spaces Remaining: 18 New legislation for PD mandates that teachers & administrators participate in 5 hrs of online PD beginning Fall of 2010. Join presenter Susan Laninga as she leads participants through Learnport – Michigan’s free option for meeting these hours. Learn how to create an account, investigate all the possible sessions, and learn how to register and complete courses. Additionally, participants will learn how to use netTrekker–an online source for curriculum and other classroom resources.
	2/15/2010 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM	Role Alike Sessions - ART Spaces Remaining: 29 Teachers in Art are encouraged to gather for facilitated discussions in their content areas. Due to limited space at ICISD, these sessions will be held at MAISD. They will run from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. with lunch on your own! There is no cost to attend.
	2/15/2010 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM	Role Alike Sessions - Music Spaces Remaining: 28 Teachers in Music - instrumental/band and vocal are encouraged to gather for facilitated discussions in their content areas. Due to limited space at ICISD, these sessions will be held at MAISD. They will run from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. with lunch on your own! There is no cost to attend.
	2/15/2010 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM	Role Alike Sessions - Physical Education & Health Spaces Remaining: 28 Teachers in Physical Eduation and Health are encouraged to gather for facilitated discussions in their content areas. Due to limited space at ICISD, these sessions will be held at MAISD. They will run from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. with lunch on your own! There is no cost to attend.
	2/15/2010 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM	The Problem with Behavior Problems Spaces Remaining: 13 Paula Kluth, author and former special educator, presents this to K-12 teachers, ASD Case Managers, support staff, and parents. Come explore fresh ways to think about 'behavior problems' in inclusive schools. We will examine where problems come from, who 'owns' them, and how our language and approaches can both create behavior struggles and minimize them. CEU's available
	2/17/2010	Service-Learning REFLECTIONS Spaces Remaining: 20 As you seek to implement service-learning in your classroom, do you sometimes wonder...'Are they making the connections? Are they really getting it? Are they truly learning?' If so, join us for a workshop where you learn and apply the important practice of REFLECTION to your service-learning and become confident your students are making connections and learning.
	2/19/2010	NEO 2 Essentials Training Including Co-Writer Spaces Remaining: 18 A full day of training with the AlphaSmart NEO 2 Keyboard includes: Writing and keyboarding with the NEO 2, using the AlphaSmart Manager, quizzing with Accelerated Reader, using Co-Writer, informative Assessment, and access to Renaissance instructional and technical support. Lunch will be provided.
	2/22/2010	Behavior Training Spaces Remaining: 22 The goals of this training is to provide new members of existing IC Teams the fundamentals of the writing Instructional assessment.
	2/25/2010	Service-Learning Feedback, Ideas & Resources Spaces Remaining: 22 Do you have a service-learning project that you want to do or are doing but you need some feedback? Bring your project or ideas and meet with service-learning peers. Receive feedback, share resources, and get new project ideas.
March	3/4/2010	Cross-Cultural Collaboration Spaces Remaining: 21 Inspire your students to become active global citizens! Discover activities, tools, and strategies to help you incorporate cross-cultural collaboration and experiential learning into your classroom. Many resources witll be shared that you can use to help your students gain the knowledge, understanding, skills and values that they need to create a just and sustainable world for all, with time given to explore them.
	3/5/2010 7:45 AM - 2:45 PM	Assistive Technology Spaces Remaining: 20 FOR GREENVILLE STAFF ONLY AT GREENVILLE CENTRAL OFFICE The day will begin with 3 assistive technology podcasts that will define assistive technology and implementation with the IEP. Review of SETT framework for assessing student needs. Premier Literacy trainer will explain uses of Premier to Go and Literacy Productivity Pack. Participants will receive question booklet, assessment, considerations quick wheel and flash drive. Training made available by USDE federal special education funding.
	3/5/2010 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM	Paraprofessional Training - ASD Sensory Tools and Classroom Strategies Event is Full This training will provide an overview of the sensory systems. Techniques will be given as well as opportunities to practice using successful strategies for supporting the sensory system. In addition, various accommodations, modifications, and teaching strategies will be discussed that when used in a classroom results in success for many students. Event is held at Montcalm Area ISD in Stanton from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Lunch is included.
	3/9/2010	Effective Feedback and Student Motivation Spaces Remaining: 40 Investigate with assessment trainer, Michelle Goodwin, the positive power of descriptive feedback. This workshop will examine the research on feedback including the type of feedback that should be given for maximum student achievement growth and motivation as well as its frequency. Using effective feedback is a small change that can lead to large gains.
	3/10/2010	Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment in Service-Learning Spaces Remaining: 21 Follow up only for teachers that participated in the 2009 K-12 summer curriculum development project. Please come prepared to discuss the implementation of your unit. Bring questions, artifacts, etc to share in the morning. Work time will be provided in the afternoon for planning, creating, and developing either your existing project or a new project. Substitute costs will be covered.
	3/11/2010	Service-Learning REMIX Spaces Remaining: 25 This youth-led workshop introduces the participant to service-learning REMIX style. Participants will dig deep to figure out their talent and passions. They will learn how to implement the service-learning standards with the arts such as spoken-word, hip-hop, visual arts, and dancing to bring about change in their communities. Definitions of service-learning are re-vamped and updated to reflect the next generation. This is a great workshop for bringing a student or two with you.
	3/15/2010	Para-Professional Series 2009-2010-Montcalm Only Spaces Remaining: 18 This is a series of classes that address autism spectrum disorders, positive behavior support and meeting mechanics, universal supports and peer 2 peer supports, communication and visual support and sensory tools and classroom strategies.
	3/15/2010 7:45 AM - 2:45 PM	Assistive Technology Spaces Remaining: 17 FOR MAISD SCHOOLS ONLY AT MAISD IN STANTON - MAC USERS Three assistive technology podcasts that will define assistive technology and implementation with the IEP. Review of SETT framework for assessing student needs. Premier Literacy trainer will explain uses of Premier to Go and Literacy Productivity Pack. Participants receive question booklet, assessment, considerations quick wheel and flash drive. Training made available by USDE federal special education funding.
	3/16/2010 7:45 AM - 2:45 PM	Assistive Technology Spaces Remaining: 11 FOR MAISD SCHOOLS ONLY AT MAISD IN STANTON - PC USERS Three assistive technology podcasts that will define assistive technology and implementation with the IEP. Review of SETT framework for assessing student needs. Premier Literacy trainer will explain uses of Premier to Go and Literacy Productivity Pack. Participants receive question booklet, assessment, considerations quick wheel and flash drive. Training made available by USDE federal special education funding.
	3/16/2010 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM	CMAC - Peer to Peer Supports for Students with ASD Spaces Remaining: 88 Participants will learn the specific steps to develop a peer to peer support program for students with ASD educated in a center program and those placed on resource and cross-categorical caseloads. This training will give educators another tool to improve the support throughout the school day. Peer to peer increases the opportunities for improved social and communication skill development for students with ASD. EVENT LOCATION: Ionia ISD
	3/17/2010	Expanding Expression: A Multi-Sensory Approach for Improved Oral and Written Language Spaces Remaining: 34 Competence in language skills is essential for academic success. The Expanding Expression Toolkit provides students with a hands-on approach to help students access language skills and provides a structure for struggling readers and writers to organize information. It can be used by students of any age and helps build skills and oral and written expression, vocabulary comprehension, and finding similarities and differences.
	3/18/2010 7:45 AM - 2:45 PM	Assistive Technology Spaces Remaining: 12 FOR MAISD SCHOOLS ONLY AT MAISD IN STANTON - PC USERS Three assistive technology podcasts that will define assistive technology and implementation with the IEP. Review of SETT framework for assessing student needs. Premier Literacy trainer will explain uses of Premier to Go and Literacy Productivity Pack. Participants receive question booklet, assessment, considerations quick wheel and flash drive. Training made available by USDE federal special education funding.
	3/18/2010 12:00 PM - 3:45 PM	ASD Case Mgr Inservice - Using the Toolkit to Address Socialization & Independence Spaces Remaining: 43 Participants will review and interact with tools and universal supports to help students with ASD improve socialization and independence skills. Attendees will receive a copy of the 'ASD Toolkit', a compilation of effective strategies used to support students visually throughout the day. Lunch will be provided.
	3/19/2010 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM	Co-Teaching: Roles, Responsibilities & Relationships Spaces Remaining: 27 HELD AT SEITER EDUCATION CENTER IN GREENVILLE - Designed for building teams using or considering a co-teaching model. Facilitated by Sheryl Davis, former teacher, speech pathologist and current special education director who has presented at state and national conferences on the topic of co-teaching. There is no cost to attend. Lunch is included. Sub costs for MAISD and local districts paid by ARRA special grant funds.
	3/25/2010 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM	Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Self Questioning Strategy & LINCs Vocabulary Spaces Remaining: 13 The Strategic Instruction Model focuses on strategies for at-risk students and students with learning disabilities. The mission of SIM is to dramatically improve the performance of at-risk adolescents and young adults in grades 4-12 through research-based interventions. Cost: $35.00 per participant with lunch and materials included. Class will be held at MAISD. Presented by Miranda Holmberg, mholmberg@maisd.com.
	3/30/2010	Engaging Young Children in Service-Learning Spaces Remaining: 25 Participants will work together in small groups to write quality service-learning projects using literature and GLCE’s that will be grade level appropriate. The atmosphere will be fun and engaging. Come and learn with people who believe that little hands CAN do big things! Bring your grade level GLCE's or curriculum goals for your program in order to write your own framework for your project; bring any age-appropriate literature that you would like to use.
April	4/14/2010	Promote Active Citizenship in Your Classroom Spaces Remaining: 24 Promote civic education and an understanding of the democratic process by using service-learning in your classroom to encourage young people to be community resources and problem solvers. Strategies included in this workshop will assist in: developing student skills required to investigate and evaluate the needs of their community; identifying areas for action; establishing partnerships; designing and implementing service-learning projects.
	4/21/2010	Building Effective Partnerships Spaces Remaining: 24 With today's increasing demands, and decreasing funding, schools must rely on community support to accomplish educational goals in and out of the classroom. But what are the schools prepared to give in return? This workshop will address what makes a good partnership, how to identify potential partners, how to build on-going and mutually beneficial relationships. Plus, meet one area school that received national recognition for its highly successful partnership program.
	4/22/2010 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM	The Sky's The Limit Spaces Remaining: 100 Teachers of Special Education and General Education especially P.E., Adapted P.E. Elementary Classroom, Health, Science, Art (middle and high school), this workshop is for you. Do you have equipment you want? Do you have an activity you wish to do? Come and learn how to provide great programing without being dependent on your class budget. Unique grants, units, and resources will be shared. Learn how to make it all happen!
	4/29/2010 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM	Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) Fundamentals of Paraphrasing & Summarizing Strategy & Paraphrasing Strategy Spaces Remaining: 5 The Strategic Instruction Model focuses on strategies for at-risk students and students with learning disabilities. The mission of SIM is to dramatically improve the performance of at-risk adolescents and young adults in grades 4-12 through research-based interventions. Cost: $55.00, cost includes proce of manual(S), materials and lunch. Class will be held at MAISD. Presented by Miranda Holmberg, mholmberg@maisd.com.
May	5/11/2010	Service-Learning Demonstration & Celebration Spaces Remaining: 23 Come demonstrate and celebrate service-learning. Bring students to share their service-learning projects in 20 minute sessions or do a poster session. Hear about new project ideas. Nominate a student, teacher, administrator, or community partner for a service-learning award. Download application from www.ioniaisd.org. Ionia County ISD will cover the cost of your substitute and for a bus to bring students.
August	8/17/2010 - 8/18/2010	Law Firm of Clark Hill Institute for School Administrators Spaces Remaining: 50 The Institute is a two-day series of presentation modules addressing the most common legal issues central office and building administrators confront on a day-to-day basis. The modules are presented, in person, by senior Clark Hill attorneys who are recognized as subject matter experts in the various facets of education law.