Professional Development

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373307 - CTE Curriculum Planning for Teachers
June 30, 2025 8:00 AM - June 30, 2025 4:00 PM

"CTE teachers may schedule up to one full day (8 hours) during the summer to plan curriculum for the upcoming school year. After registering on OmniTrack, teachers should contact Jacob Lusk at jlusk@ptisd.org to schedule a specific day and time to complete their planning on campus. Planning sessions will take place primarily Monday through Thursday, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the PTHS Counseling Center. This opportunity may count as one exchange day, provided the teacher has not already completed a curriculum planning day for another subject area. To receive credit and a certificate of completion, teachers must submit evidence of curriculum work completed during their session to Mr. Lusk."

377832 - HS Spanish Teacher's Collaboration
June 30, 2025 8:00 AM - June 30, 2025 2:00 PM

During this collaborative day with Spanish teachers, they will review the scope and sequence, resources, and pacing calendars.

366311 - MS 6th RLA Curriculum Writing
June 30, 2025 8:30 AM - June 30, 2025 3:30 PM

During this workshop, participants will review data to determine changes in the scope and sequence for 2025-2026. Also, participants will update the pacing guides for instructional information.

366475 - Parkway 4th Grade Math Curriculum Writing
June 30, 2025 8:30 AM - June 30, 2025 3:30 PM

During this workshop, participants will analyze data to determine changes in the scope and sequence for 2025-2026. Also, participants will update their pacing guides for instructional information.

369363 - Birch 1st Grade RLA & Math Planning
June 30, 2025 8:30 AM - June 30, 2025 3:30 PM

1st grade educators will be collaborating to design reading and math lesson plans for the upcoming school year.

364948 - Leadership Retreat - Day 1
July 07, 2025 12:00 PM - July 07, 2025 4:30 PM

During the Leadership Retreat, participants will gain a greater understanding of leadership skills as well as the vision of Pine Tree for 2025-2026. Day 1

364949 - Leadership Retreat - Day 2
July 08, 2025 9:00 AM - July 08, 2025 4:00 PM

During the Leadership Retreat, participants will gain a greater understanding of leadership skills as well as the vision of Pine Tree for 2025-2026. Day 2

364950 - Leadership Retreat
July 09, 2025 12:00 PM - July 09, 2025 4:00 PM

During the Leadership Retreat, participants will gain a greater understanding of leadership skills as well as the vision of Pine Tree for 2025-2026. Day 1

353882 - Handle With Care Training (Replaces CPI)
July 10, 2025 9:00 AM - July 10, 2025 3:00 PM

Handle With Care is specialized training that teaches the safest and most powerful verbal and physical intervention methods. The training consists of practical easy-to-learn techniques and methods that have been tested and proven to work with the most challenging children and adults, including those with cognitive, emotional and/or physical needs, including autism, congenital deformities, brain injury, cardiac and respiratory issues. Handle With Care creates a Calm Mind Faster. Tentative touch overstimulates, excites and further agitates. HWC's holding methods are engineered to be definitive, comfortable and secure. When staff is confident and well trained in HWC's verbal de-escalation and physical holding methods, there should be a significant reduction in the overall number of restraints, a reduction in physical holding times and a reduction in injuries to all concerned. The holding methods for children and adults communicate calmness, and produce a more rapid return to a calm mind state, emotional homostatis and equilibrium.

364951 - Leadership Retreat - Day 2
July 10, 2025 9:00 AM - July 10, 2025 4:00 PM

During the Leadership Retreat, participants will gain a greater understanding of leadership skills as well as the vision of Pine Tree for 2025-2026. Day 2

372440 - High School UIL Planning Meeting
July 11, 2025 9:00 AM - July 11, 2025 3:00 PM

Participants will plan competition dates and social events, solidify student engagement events, volunteer opportunities, and delegate team assignments.

369364 - Birch 2nd Grade Math Planning
July 21, 2025 8:30 AM - July 21, 2025 3:30 PM

2nd Grade math educators will be collaborating to design lesson plans for the upcoming school year.

369366 - Birch 2nd Grade Reading Planning
July 21, 2025 8:30 AM - July 21, 2025 3:30 PM

2nd Grade ELAR educators will be collaborating to design lesson plans for the upcoming school year.

367880 - Birch Library Inventory
July 23, 2025 8:00 AM - July 23, 2025 3:00 PM

Collection maintenance

366014 - Designing for Depth: Meaningful and Manageable Ideas for Meeting the Needs of Gifted and Advanced Learners
July 23, 2025 8:30 AM - July 24, 2025 3:30 PM

Transform your approach to differentiation in this engaging, hands-on learning experience designed for educators who want to challenge and engage gifted and advanced learners. Over two interactive days, you'll collaborate, plan, and create alongside fellow educators, ensuring you leave with ready-to-implement strategies that make learning more meaningful. Walk away with differentiation strategies that work in real classrooms, techniques to foster challenge and productive struggle, a plan for integrating passion-based learning, and ready-to-use learning experiences and resources. Gifted and advanced learning deserve more than just more work-they deserve meaningful challenge and engagement and designing for depth is the best way to make that happen!

370937 - Coaches CPR/First Aid
July 23, 2025 11:00 AM - July 23, 2025 5:00 PM

CPR/First Aid training for coaches

367881 - Birch Library Inventory
July 24, 2025 8:00 AM - July 24, 2025 3:00 PM

Collection maintenance

370938 - Coaches Policies/Procedures/Vertical Alignment
July 24, 2025 8:00 AM - July 24, 2025 3:30 PM

Will review athletic procedures, and provide time to vertically align programs 7-12

366014 - Designing for Depth: Meaningful and Manageable Ideas for Meeting the Needs of Gifted and Advanced Learners
July 23, 2025 8:30 AM - July 24, 2025 3:30 PM

366477 - Parkway CEER 2nd Grade Curriculum Writing
July 25, 2025 8:30 AM - July 25, 2025 3:30 PM

During this workshop, participants will utilize the scope and sequence and plan PBL for the 2025-2026 school year aligned to the TEKS.

370906 - JH Algebra Prep
July 25, 2025 8:30 AM - July 25, 2025 3:30 PM

Preparation of materials, pacing/yag, data analysis to make adjustments for upcoming year

364958 - CTE New Teacher Bootcamp - Day 1
July 28, 2025 8:30 AM - July 28, 2025 4:30 PM

2-Day workshop to support new CTE teachers or returning CTE teachers with no formal teacher certification. Day 1: Foundations of Teaching (understanding today's students, classroom management strategies, planning lessons for student engagement) Day 2: Teaching with Confidence (Engaging students in hands-on learning, differentiation and supporting all learners, Tech Tools for teachers)

364927 - Primary Staff Retreat
July 29, 2025 8:30 AM - July 29, 2025 3:30 PM

All Primary staff will meet to team build and plan for the 25-26 school year

364959 - CTE New Teacher Bootcamp - Day 2
July 29, 2025 8:30 AM - July 29, 2025 4:30 PM

372439 - UIL Writing and Speaking Events Clinic
July 29, 2025 9:00 AM - July 29, 2025 3:00 PM

Participants will cover alignment of UIL writing and speaking events from 2nd grade - 12th grade and strategies to address the subjective descriptors of event rubrics. Student engagement will also be covered.

366038 - New Teacher Orientation Day 1
July 30, 2025 8:30 AM - July 30, 2025 3:30 PM

During this session, participants will gain an understanding of the mission, vision, and goals of Pine Tree ISD. Participants will also travel on a school bus to tour various parts of the district to understand the students we serve.

366382 - Required Training for 2025-2026 for new staff to PTISD
July 30, 2025 8:30 AM - July 30, 2025 3:30 PM

During this training, all new staff will be provide information on ethics and confidentiality, bullying and dating violence, blood born pathogens, seizure disorders, diabetes, and food allergies. This training is required of all staff every three years.

366471 - Parkway 2nd Grade Math Curriculum Writing
July 30, 2025 8:30 AM - July 30, 2025 3:30 PM

During this workshop, participants will analyze data to determine changes in the scope and sequence for 2025-2026. Also, participants will update their pacing guides for instructional information.

373308 - CTE Curriculum Planning for Teachers
July 31, 2025 8:00 AM - July 31, 2025 4:00 PM

366019 - Youth Mental Health Training
July 31, 2025 8:30 AM - July 31, 2025 3:30 PM

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, caregivers, teachers, & school staff how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. This course teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis & non-crisis situations. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders, & eating disorders.

366020 - Youth Mental Health Training
July 31, 2025 8:30 AM - July 31, 2025 3:30 PM

366039 - New Teacher Orientation Day 2
July 31, 2025 8:30 AM - July 31, 2025 3:30 PM

363981 - SPED ASSESSMENT STAFF RETREAT
August 01, 2025 8:30 AM - August 01, 2025 3:30 PM

Beginning of school planning and collaboration for Special Education Assessment Staff.

366040 - New Teacher Orientation Day 3
August 01, 2025 8:30 AM - August 01, 2025 3:30 PM

During this workshop, new teachers will work on their campus to prepare for the first day of school.

366041 - T-TESS for New Teachers
August 01, 2025 8:30 AM - August 01, 2025 12:00 PM

During this session participants will become familiar with Texas new appraisal system, T-TESS. This new appraisal system provides teachers actionable, timely feedback, allowing teachers to make efficient and contextual professional development choices that will lead to an improvement in their teaching.

364005 - Legal Update Training with Jennifer Carrol -- Walsh, Anderson, Gallegos, Green, and Trevino P.C.
August 04, 2025 8:30 AM - August 04, 2025 11:30 AM

Legal Training with school attorney. Latest information regarding school/SPED law.

364923 - Guided Reading 101
August 04, 2025 8:30 AM - August 04, 2025 3:30 PM

Guided Reading 101/ Overview of GR, how to plan groups and lessons and go through classroom resources

366061 - English 1 and English 2 Curriculum Planning
August 04, 2025 8:30 AM - August 04, 2025 3:30 PM

English I and II teachers will meet to analyze EOC data, identify gaps, and plan for the year. We will introduce teachers to resources and new ways to combine them for student success.

372682 - CPR Heart Saver for UIL and Fine Arts
August 05, 2025 12:00 PM - August 05, 2025 3:00 PM

CPR Heart Saver training

368039 - CPR Heart Saver for SPED Staff
August 06, 2025 8:00 AM - August 06, 2025 12:00 PM

CPR Heart Saver training

374714 - PACE/ABU RETREAT
August 06, 2025 8:30 AM - August 06, 2025 3:30 PM

PACE Administration and team leaders will collaborate to detail the systems and processes for the new academic year for the DAEP/ABU Programs. This training will include the following training: 90 minute session (2 sessions) -- "Let's Talk About It: Restorative Discipline Practices". This engaging and interactive session will provide an overview of Restorative Discipline Practices in alignment with the culture of PTISD. Participants will have the opportunity to particpate in a talking circle expierence to support the use of RDP in the clasroom with students for various purposes (classroom management, individual student discipline, learning processes, team building, etc.) Real experiences will be shared to enhance the presentatio of research based information, including TEA resources.

Due to liability issues, we respectfully request that workshop participants refrain from bringing children, regardless of age, to Region One Education Service Center while attending professional development sessions.

It is the policy of Region One Education Service Center not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or disability in its vocational programs, services, or activities required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.