MODULE 6-2 Crisis and Special Circumstances The professional development summary description: • Memorials and commemorative activities as a school community response • How is more important than what • Children with life – limiting conditions in the classroom • When students have questions and concerns focus on the present and near. • When a teacher or other staff member is ill. • Seek support for yourself.

6th. Six Weeks PD

6th. Six Weeks PD

MODULE 3 Practical Considerations / The professional development summary description: • Educators can aspire to achieve to achieve a general sensitivity to the unique needs of children and families coping with loss. • Advice on funeral attendance. • Helping families how to best prepare and support children. • Understanding secondary loss such as relationships, schools, family finances, and life style. • Cumulative losses such as experiencing the death of multiple peers and family members.

6th. Six Weeks PD- 4th. Grade

6th. Six Weeks PD- 5th. Grade

6th. Six Weeks PD- 2nd. Grade

Middle school Math teachers learn and apply research based strategies to prepare students for state assessments.

Teachers learn and apply research based instructional strategies to prepare students for state assessments.

6th. Six Weeks PD- 3rd. Grade

MODULE 4 REACTIONS AND TRIGGERS/ The professional development summary description: • School professionals will understand why these reactions occur can take steps to create a safe environment for children. • How children, adolescents and adults engage in their own form of magical thinking. • Some children appear to have little or no reaction at all after the death of someone important in their lives. • Better understanding of grief triggers. School professionals can prepare students with information about grief triggers and proactively establish a safety plan with grieving students

MODULE 4 REACTIONS AND TRIGGERS / The professional development summary description: • School professionals will understand why these reactions occur can take steps to create a safe environment for children. • How children, adolescents and adults engage in their own form of magical thinking. • Some children appear to have little or no reaction at all after the death of someone important in their lives. • Better understanding of grief triggers. School professionals can prepare students with information about grief triggers and proactively establish a safety plan with grieving students.

MODULE 5 Professional Preparation and Self Care / The professional development summary description: • Bereavement has a profound impact on learning, development, and the adjustment of children. • Children have a wide range of challenges after experiencing a significant loss. • Understanding how to support grieving children when they isolated, confused, or distressed. • Supporting grieving children can trigger a range of reactions in adults. • School professionals may feel uncomfortable with the role of providing support for grieving children.

PK-4 Teachers

Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows. Please note you much register in order to receive the Zoom link to participate in the workshop.

MODULE 5 - Professional Preparation and Self Care/ The professional development summary description: • Bereavement has a profound impact on learning, development, and the adjustment of children. • Children have a wide range of challenges after experiencing a significant loss. • Understanding how to support grieving children when they isolated, confused, or distressed. • Supporting grieving children can trigger a range of reactions in adults. • School professionals may feel uncomfortable with the role of providing support for grieving children.

MODULE 6 Crisis and Special Circumstances / The professional development summary description: • Better understand variables that can determine the responses of individual students. • Informing staff and students about a death. • Concerns that discussions of suicide with students may prompt others to consider harming themselves. • Effective and appropriate communication about a death by suicide is important in order to reduce the risk of other students or members of the community engaging in self-harm or attending suicide. • Memorials and commemorative activities as a school community response • How is more important than what • Children with life – limiting conditions in the classroom • When students have questions and concerns focus on the present and near. • When a teacher or other staff member is ill. • Seek support for yourself.

Explore weird and wild machines! Please note you must register in order to receive the Zoom link to participate in this workshop.

Kinder- 3rd. Grade Reading Academies

Addressing 2021 New ELAR TEKS

Addressing 2021 New ELAR TEKS

MODULE 6 - Crisis and Special Circumstances / The professional development summary description: • Better understand variables that can determine the responses of individual students. • Informing staff and students about a death. • Concerns that discussions of suicide with students may prompt others to consider harming themselves. • Effective and appropriate communication about a death by suicide is important in order to reduce the risk of other students or members of the community engaging in self-harm or attending suicide. • Memorials and commemorative activities as a school community response • How is more important than what • Children with life – limiting conditions in the classroom • When students have questions and concerns focus on the present and near. • When a teacher or other staff member is ill. • Seek support for yourself.

Reading Academies Day 5

Participants will receive mandatory training in test security, and testing procedures for the 2021 school year.

6th grade Math teachers will use data to close the gap.

Teachers reflect and start preparing for the upcoming school year.

Teachers reflect and start planning for the upcoming school year.

Session #6- New Teacher Institute Sheltered Instruction

Teachers reflect on current year's challenges and accomplishments.

Reading Academies

This course teaches individuals who work with students on a daily basis about the how, when, and why of using time-outs. You must be aware of this information and comfortable with it, long before you ever need to put it into play.

This course teaches individuals who work with students on a daily basis about the how, when, and what of restraints. You must be aware of this information and comfortable with it, long before you ever need to put it into play.

This course is designed to education professionals on the Texas Educator Code of Ethics. Information on conduct towards colleagues and students, practices, and performance will be shared.

This is a 1 hour self-paced introductory course to Using Google Sites to Create an Escape Room. After completing this online workshop, you will Learn the benefits of gaming in the classroom, understand how to integrate an “escape room” game as part of your class,and learn how to use Google Sites to create an “escape room” game.

Teens who experience intimate partner, or dating, violence are at risk for a host of negative outcomes. This online course will include information and resources for House Bill 121, district policy, procedure expectations, statistics, recognizing signs, intervention with the victim and the perpetrator as well as options for parents. Teen dating violence is an ongoing problem for our young people and it is very important that we as educators help them recognize healthy relationships and what to do if they feel they are in an unhealthy relationship

This course provides a detailed overview of youth suicide prevention. Participants will learn ways to recognize at-risk/high-risk students and early warning signs as well as ideas on how to intervene and protect students from a possible threat of suicide.

This training goes over the subject of substance abuse. You will learn about substance abuse, addiction, how it affects the student's brain, as well as commonly abused drugs, how they are used, and where they might be hidden.

The goal of this course is to provide school personnel with information on: dangers of abusing steroids possible signs of steroid abuse ways to prevent steroid abuse.

The purpose of the FERPA Online Course is to examine the Federal Educational Rights and Private Act, also known as the Buckley Amendment. You will learn about restrictions on sharing student information, as well as the rights of parents when examining student records and instructional materials. Upon successfully completing the course, participants will earn 1 CPE Hour Credit.

Are you prepared for diabetes in the classroom? As an educator you have broader responsibilities than just teaching. Since diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in the United States today, you must be prepared to meet the needs of the diabetic child.

Sheltered Instruction Overview Online Course. This is a self-paced course.

¿Estás preparado para la diabetes en el aula? Como educador tiene responsabilidades más amplias que solo enseñar. Dado que la diabetes es la afección crónica de más rápido crecimiento en los Estados Unidos hoy en día, debe estar preparado para satisfacer las necesidades del niño diabético.

This training discusses copyright law and “FAIR USE” guidelines in using copyrighted printed material, music, videos and software.

In partnership with the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center, this course teaches individuals who work with children on a daily basis about the signs and symptoms of child abuse. Professionals will learn facts about child abuse, including the factors that indicate a child is at-risk, how to recognize physical and behavioral signs of the varying forms of child abuse, as well as many other important details for reporting. References to the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center may be noted as "DCAC" in this course.

This is online professional development training focuses on the benefits of virtual field trips, the types of virtual field trips that teachers could implement on their classroom, field trip resources, and the technology needed to experience field trips. This is a self-pace and on-demand online course.

Bullying is one of the most underrated yet enduring problems in schools today and is a reality in the lives of all children whether they are bullies, victims or witnesses. School administrators, teachers, and staff will quickly grasp what bullying is, how to respond to bullying, and how to prevent bullying from happening in their schools.

This interactive online course presents an overview of Project Based Learning (PBL) as an introductory course to the full package of PBL offered by the Region One ESC STEM department.

This module focuses on Google Forms and offers an overview of its basic features and functionality. This is an ongoing and self-paced online course. At the end of the course, participants will be assessed on its content. By receiving an 80% or above grade on the final assessment, the participant will receive a certificate of completion. Participant could retake the course and retest as needed

El propósito de este módulo es educar a los profesionales del personal sobre los agentes patógenos transmitidos por la sangre y los planes de control de exposición para prevenir la propagación de estas enfermedades.

This module focuses on Google Drive and offers an overview of this cloud-based service GSuite application. This is an ongoing course. This a self-paced online course. At the end of the course, the participant will be assessed on its content. By receiving an 80% or above grade on the final assessment, the participant will receive a certificate of completion. Participant could retake the course and retest as needed.

This training defines types of sexual harassment and gives examples of each. The training includes examples of court cases and legal precedents related to sexual harassment

This module focuses on Google Chrome and offers an overview of the Google browser, which is the recommended browser when using GSuite applications. This is an ongoing course. This a self-paced online course. At the end of the course, the participant will be assessed on its content. By receiving an 80% or above grade on the final assessment, the participant will receive a certificate of completion. Participant could retake the course and retest as needed.

Google Classroom Stream Tab - Google Meet. This is a self-paced online course.

This online course describes step-by-step on how to share YouTube video in Google Classroom and Microsoft Team and goes thru the process on creating instructional videos in PowerPoint.This is a self-pace and on-demand online course.

This training outlines the requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Guidelines are given for determining the eligibility of students with disabilities that may hamper a major life activity. The purpose and duties of the Section 504 committee are outlined. Teachers learn about their role in enforcing the 504 plan in the classroom.

This course is designed to give the appropriate school personnel a thorough understanding of concussion-related matters.

Math teachers will in Cohort II will attend a Math Links PD session to familiarize themselves with content relevant to their course.

This course covers the basic information about COVID 19 along with guidelines shared by the Texas Education Agency.

New teachers with 2 or less years of experience and teachers new to the content and/or grade level will learn best practice instructional strategies.