Workshops
* indicates that the workshop lasts multiple days
Oct 10
Best Practices for Teaching HS Biology
personGina Barrier, NC School for Math and Science
location_onCaldwell County Schools Boardroom
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
Join us to analyze various methods of teaching chemistry and gather some quick and easy activities for your classroom. What works and what doesn't? What are the limitations and the benefits of various models? High tech and low tech options will be utilized. A wide variety of resources will be provided as well.
Time:
9:00-3:00
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.5 Content CEU
Target Audience:
Teachers and administrators
All Fields Required
Nov 02
Literacy in the AI Age: Workshop Edition (1-day face to...
personStacy Lovdahl, NCDPI Innovative Learning Catalyst
location_onWilkes County Schools Administrative Offices - Boardroom
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
ChatGPT created a buzz about essay writing, but AI has a much deeper influence on the way we inform, communicate, and learn in today’s world. Together, let’s examine how AI is already infused in our daily lives and how we can reframe literacy to meet this moment. In this active-learning session, expect to employ your information literacy skills, engage in conversation & reflection, and share tools and ideas that adapt the activities and lessons you already use to strengthen essential literacy skills for our learners and colleagues!
Following the face-2-face workshop, reconnect with your colleagues in a virtual classroom session to learn about new developments in AI tools and to share how implementation of your AI inspired lessons has been progressing.
In this multi-session, multi-format workshop you will grow in your understanding of AI tools for both teacher workflow and student learning and use a framework for creating AI-resistant lessons to carry you forward into the AI-rich era.
Time:
9:00-3:00
Virtual 2 hour (Date TBD)
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.5 Digital Teaching CEU
Target Audience:
K-12 Classroom Teachers, Digital leaders, ITFs, Media coordinators, and Curriculum Specialists
All Fields Required
Nov 09
School Law Basics for Busy Admins Part 1
personChris Campbell, Attorney from Campbell Shatley Attorneys at Law
location_onVirtual Session through Zoom
Description:
Do you need an interpreter? Virtual session through Zoom
The Law of Search & Seizure; Student Free Speech in the Technology Age; and Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination.
Time:
9:00-11:30 am
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.25 Admin
Target Audience:
Administrators
All Fields Required
Nov 09
Best Practices for Teaching HS Chemistry
personGina Barrier, NC School for Math and Science
location_onFriedman Center Staff Development Room - Lenoir, NC
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
Join us to analyze various methods of teaching chemistry and gather some quick and easy activities for your classroom. What works and what doesn't? What are the limitations and the benefits of various models? High tech and low tech options will be utilized. A wide variety of resources will be provided as well.
Time:
9:00-3:00
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.5 Content CEU
Target Audience:
Teachers and administrators
All Fields Required
Nov 15*
Central Office Leadership Academy (2 day training)
personTBD
location_onWilkes County School Administrative Offices- Stone Center
Additional Dates: 03/19/24
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
The Central Office Leadership Academy is designed for central office personnel new or fairly new to their role.
Day 1 topics include key to communication, building a team, building trust, systems thinking, district budgeting and learning about your leadership style.
Day 2 will include NC PEAK Education presenting on giving and receiving feedback, Portrait of a Graduate: A District Leaders Role, Superintendent Mark Byrd will share lessons learned from district leadership, and we will have a panel of district leaders to discuss the challenges of district leaderships and ways they have found to overcome.
Each participant will also select an education leadership book and participate in a book study.
Time:
9:00-3:30
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.5 Admin CEU per day
Target Audience:
New central office personnel
All Fields Required
Nov 30*
Making it Real Through PBL (2 day training)
personCarol Moore, CEO and President STEM West
location_onCatawba Valley Community College
Additional Dates: 12/12/23
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
Participants (K-12) will attend 2 days of training to learn about the elements of PBL and how to integrate this engaging strategy into their classrooms. They will need to bring a device to access their standards to be able to start drafting their own units on day 2. Creating this experience for the classroom is best achieved when working with a grade, subject, or team partner(s)--collaboration is key for unit development and implementation.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Digital Teaching and Learning and 0.6 General CEU
Target Audience:
Counselors, teachers, administrators
All Fields Required
Jan 18
Co-Teaching for Administrators
personTeri Queen
location_onWilkes County Schools Administrative Offices - Stone Center
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
This training will set the administrator that is considering co-teaching in their school for the 24-25 school year up for success. Follow-up for co-teaching teams in June, 2024.
Time:
9:00-3:00
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.5 Admin CEU
Target Audience:
Teachers and administrators
All Fields Required
Jan 30
Science Content Training for 3-5 Teachers
personCarol Moore, CEO and President STEM West
location_onTBD
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
Participants will engage in deconstruction of the new standards with a focus on vertical alignment, content, and applicable classroom activities/resources. This training will assist in building self-efficacy about the science standards they are to teach in grades 2-3.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Content Credit
Target Audience:
Grades 3-5 Science Teachers
All Fields Required
Feb 21
Science Content Training for K-2 Teachers
personCarol Moore, CEO and President STEM West
location_onTBD
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
Participants will engage in deconstruction of the new standards with a focus on vertical alignment, content, and applicable classroom activities/resources. This training will assist in building self-efficacy about the science standards they are to teach in grades 2-3.
Time:
9:00-4:00
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.6 Content Credit
Target Audience:
Grades K-2 Science Teachers
All Fields Required
Mar 06
School Law Basics for Busy Admins Part 2
personChris Campbell, Attorney from Campbell Shatley Attorneys at Law
location_onVirtual Session through Zoom
Description:
Do you need an interpreter? Virtual session through Zoom
The Law of Custody Disputes, Subpoenas, Testifying in Court, FERPA rights, Administrator Ethics Laws, and Leadership Nuggets.
Time:
9:00am 11:30am
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.25 Admin
Target Audience:
Administrators
All Fields Required
Mar 14
Writing in Grades K-5
personGin Hodge, NCCAT Senior Early Grades Literacy Specialist
location_onBurke County Schools Boardroom
Description:
Please bring a laptop, tablet, or similar device charged and ready for use. Do you need an interpreter?
What is needed to learn to write? Our students must receive adequate practice and instruction in writing because writing does not develop naturally. A basic goal for North Carolina elementary teachers is to teach our pupils to write effectively and flexibly. This session will include evidence-based best practices for teaching writing to our kindergarten through fifth graders.
Time:
9:00-3:00
Cost:
$50 without membership
$0 with membership
Renewal Credit:
0.5 Content CEU
Target Audience:
K-5 Teachers
All Fields Required