MADE, formerly Macomb 2020, is a 2 year Cohort model that will expand your understanding of blended learning. Macomb ISD consultants and instructors will be on hand to deliver expertise in Instructional Technology as well as content areas of Math, Social Studies, Science, and ELA. There will be 10 virtual training workshops with 3 optional face-to-face sessions.

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MADE, formerly Macomb 2020, is a 2 year Cohort model that will expand your understanding of blended learning. Macomb ISD consultants and instructors will be on hand to deliver expertise in Instructional Technology as well as content areas of Math, Social Studies, Science, and ELA. There will be 10 virtual training workshops with 3 optional face-to-face sessions.

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**Only staff with approval from their Special Education Director can sign up for this series.** The Assistive Technology Leader 4-day Training will focus on teaching NEW leaders the process for determining appropriate assistive technology strategies, tools and services for students. Training will include an in-depth look at the MISD Assistive Technology process and guidebook and an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its relationship to Assistive Technology. AT leaders will become familiar with the materials available in the MISD collection and the process for accessing them for your district. Training will focus on tools and strategies for using assistive technology to support all areas of the curriculum including literacy, math, communication and computer access.

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Target Audience: Secondary Teachers of Nonfiction Writing Dates: December 7th and December 14th from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Join MISD ELA Consultant Liz Lietz for a two-session virtual book study. We will read the text together before our sessions (Sections 1-3 for session 1, Sections 3-6 for session 2), and use our time together to examine what we have learned.

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Join us for a discussion on the Destiny Library Manager. Instructions for setting up Destiny Library Manager's Discover homepage will be provided. Learn how to create Library "collections" to share with students and staff. We will provide information on how to access and set up student holds/reserves within Destiny. A review of Destiny Apps and various ebook publishers will be provided.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) enrolled in the New Teacher Academy In this session we will take an in-depth look into one of the 8 effective mathematical teaching practices from NCTM's publications Principles to Actions, "Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse." We will look at how instruction that focuses on discourse can engage students in making sense of and reasoning about mathematical ideas.

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Target Audience: First Grade Teachers, Literacy Coaches/Interventionists, Title I Teachers, Special Ed. Teachers, and ELL Teachers The Literacy Learning Modules are designed to ensure that teachers have a clear understanding of a comprehensive approach to high-quality literacy instruction. It is not a prescribed curriculum, set of materials, or a program. Macomb's Comprehensive Approach to Literacy is a framework designed to help ALL students learn to read and write effectively! Each cohort consists of 7 full days.

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Do you have questions about online learning? Do you need guidance on tools, resources, or apps? This webinar will be an open forum for Macomb County educators to join the conversation and ask technical and pedagogical questions about online learning. Come ready to ask questions in the chat and engage in open dialogue with other educators.

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Target Audience: Teachers of infants, toddlers or preschool children, child care providers, home visitors, counselors, social workers, clinicians, and others working with children birth to age 8. Join us for an overview of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder that includes basic facts about how alcohol affects a fetus physiologically, some of the physical features associated with this birth defect, and the science behind their behaviors.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: GSRP Community Based Organizations Hosted by: JoAnne Elkin, Early Childhood/Early Literacy Consultant Kelly Adamek, GSRP Coordinator

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Target Audience: Parents/Guardians and young children Sign, Say & Play® Classes are a fun way for caregivers to engage their young children in early communication! This day will focus on mealtime by using songs, games, books, and other interactive activities to engage families in learning sign language concepts that complement the development of young children! All participants receive digital downloads of supportive materials every week for post-class reference as well as a board book.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) enrolled in the New Teacher Academy In this session we will take an in-depth look into one of the 8 effective mathematical teaching practices from NCTM's publications Principles to Actions, "Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse." We will look at how instruction that focuses on discourse can engage students in making sense of and reasoning about mathematical ideas.

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Target Audience: Children 5 and under Come enjoy a nice little holiday walk with your family! Participants will receive a free book, snacks, holiday crafts and other fun activities to be done at home with your family!

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Target Audience: Participants who HAVE NOT completed the following requirements to be considered a highly qualified paraprofessional. Completed two years of study at an institution of higher education or obtained an associate's (or higher) degree or passed a formal state or local academic assessment, demonstrating knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructional reading, writing, and mathematics. The Macomb ISD is a site administrator for the ETS Paraprofessional Assessment Testing. All testing sessions will be held as scheduled. No participation minimum is required.

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The New Counselor Academy is open to K-12 counselors who have been in the profession three years or less or are new to their current position seeking a safe and inviting space to learn about "tricks of the trade," connect with other new counselors from Macomb County and share best practices. This session will focus on creating 504 plans, writing personal curriculums and student advocacy.

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All CTE Teachers must annually complete their CIP Self Review via the CTE Portal. In this full day virtual session teachers will learn what the requirements are for each session as well as tips for maintenance. Work time will be built into this session. Please be sure to gain access to the CTE Portal before you attend. Contact your CTE Administrator if you need assistance with access.

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Target Audience: Building Administrators, Counselors, Test Coordinators This free, 1.5 hour virtual workshop will provide updates and changes to the Michigan SAT, PSAT 10 and PSAT 8/9 for grades 8, 9, 10 and 11 administrations in the spring of 2022. The workshop is critical for new building administrators, counselors, and test coordinators and is a good review for returning administrators and test coordinators. Learn about new changes preparing for and administering the College Board exams; spring implementation timelines

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Discuss and explore assistive technology service and tools to support writing.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Spotlight on the Health Science industry as a viable career option for students in Macomb County after graduation. Counselors and Career Development staff will learn about the various opportunities and how to access them so that they can properly advise students regarding employment in theses pathways. Presentation will include updated labor market information, post-secondary training options, and a presentation from a professional within the industry who will also be available to field questions.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) This workshop will focus on using non-art images, written word, video, and sound for VTS discussions. Participants are asked to bring one example of source material that could be used in their classroom to the workshop.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: Macomb County GSRP staff and early childhood educators who currently use GOLD in the classroom AND HAVE A GOLD LOGIN. My Teaching Strategies GOLD is a seamless system for assessing children birth through kindergarten. Participants will learn/review the basic skills of the assessment system: Entering notes Assigning levels Printing reports Utilizing strategy information Authentic ongoing observational assessment is critical to planning appropriate learning expectations and helping children thrive!

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Target Audience: High School Juniors preparing for the spring SAT exam This 1-day workshop is offered on multiple dates, please choose one date that best fits your schedule. This virtual workshop will: Show you the exact format of the test and types of questions to expect on each section of the test. Teach you specific SAT and testing strategies Give you practice with pacing Provide practice tests and answer keys that you can use at home

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Target Audience: K-12 Teachers The Michigan Model for Health K-12 is now a hybrid (combined online and face to face) training that requires the completion of the online training module prior to attending the face-to-face portion at the Macomb Intermediate School District. The online portion of the training may take anywhere from 2-3 hours and is a mandatory part of the training. This training will focus on the following content: Social emotional health, nutrition and physical activity, safety, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and safety and personal wellness.

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Spotlight on Business Professions as viable career options for students in Macomb County after graduation. Counselors and Career Development staff will learn about the various opportunities and how to access them so that they can properly advise students regarding employment in theses pathways. Presentation will include updated labor market information, post-secondary training options, and a presentation from a professional within the industry who will also be available to field questions.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Come learn about high-impact instructional practices that increase student literacy in the secondary classroom. Understand the difference between surface, deep and transfer learning, identify ways to make learning visible, learn how to use technology for formative assessment, and match practical assessment tasks with learning targets. This session will adopt a literacy learning lens, but all 6-12 teachers could adapt content to use in their classroom.

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Target Audience: Adults who work with youth, ages 6 years - 18 years Youth Mental Health First Aid is a course that provides people with the knowledge and skills to help individuals who are developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health crisis. The training helps the public better identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance abuse challenges.

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Come on a guided tour of the new resources in the Online Learning 2020 series for 21things4teachers. During this session we will explore assessment features in online learning, including formative and summative tools and applications of the T3PD Model.

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Join Gina Kling in three evening virtual sessions where we develop an understanding of fluency, investigate numerous games for assessing and developing fluency, analyze videos illustrating interactions with students and explore assessment tools. Audience: Elementary teachers, Middle School math interventionists, Middle School math teachers, mathematics leaders, special education teachers

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: K-12 Literacy Leaders Join your literacy leader colleagues for collaboration and conversation meetings.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Account of Children, experts and iconic leaders to help clear up the misconceptions about dyslexia and give hope to those who have it. Participants will view the film and then hear from Katie Wilamowski, MISD ELA consultant, on dyslexia and connect it with ELA instruction in the classroom.

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Target Audience: Reproductive Health Supervisors These meetings are for the district Reproductive Supervisors only. The Reproductive Supervisors are the designated person in a school district who oversees the program of instruction. The designated person must be approved by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE).

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Target Audience: Reproductive Health Supervisors These meetings are for the district Reproductive Supervisors only. The Reproductive Supervisors are the designated person in a school district who oversees the program of instruction. The designated person must be approved by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE).

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Discuss and explore assistive technology service and tools to support communication.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Teachers will get strategies to help differentiate instruction for students, based on students' English language skills and levels, using SIOP components and WIDA Standards.

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Discuss and explore assistive technology service and tools to support Math.

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Target Audience: MV Homeless Liaisons These meetings are for the district Homeless Liaisons only. The Homeless Liaisons are the designated person in a school district that assist in identifying and providing supports to homeless youth in the school district.

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Do you have questions about online learning? Do you need guidance on tools, resources, or apps? This webinar will be an open forum for Macomb County educators to join the conversation and ask technical and pedagogical questions about online learning. Come ready to ask questions in the chat and engage in open dialogue with other educators.

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Come on a guided tour of the Discovery Education Experience - from streaming to Studio to student assignments. Learn how easy it is to create a login and begin assigning content to your students with the amazing updates. It’s not the United Streaming you remember - come experience the new Discovery Education!

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Target Audience: 4th & 5th Grade Girls and an important adult in their life A maturation program to help answer questions that girls might have about their growing and changing bodies and emotions during puberty and menstruation. This will be a virtual, zoom meeting.

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Target Audience: All NEW GSRP Staff, GSRP Staff who have not been previously trained, and Early Childhood Educators “Letter-a-week” may be a ubiquitous approach to teaching alphabet knowledge, but that doesn’t mean it’s an effective one. In No More Teaching a Letter a Week, early literacy researcher Dr. William Teale helps us understand that alphabet knowledge is more than letter recognition, and identifies research-based principles of effective alphabet instruction, which constitutes the foundation for phonics teaching and learning. Literacy coach Rebecca McKay shows us how to bring those principles to life through purposeful practices that invite children to create an identity through print.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: Social Workers and School Counselors The Student Assistance Program Network (SAP) provides school social workers and counselors with information and resources on how to work with at-risk youth. Provides an opportunity for school personnel to develop an integrated system of care, including prevention, early intervention and support services.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Participants will develop a common understanding of structures, collaborative tools, and behavior to promote and sustain an atmosphere of cooperative learning and student engagement in their classroom. Have FUN learning how to make your students have FUN learning!

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Come on a guided tour of the new resources in the Online Learning 2020 series for 21things4teachers. During this session we will explore Pathways for Technology Integration including the SAMR, TPACK, TIM, and Triple E Models.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) We will examine Essential Instructional Practice 4, Activities that build phonological awareness and the research behind it. Participants will receive resources and materials to implement research based activities in phonological awareness in the classroom. The Literacy Essentials provide research-proven, effective approaches to markedly improve literacy skills among Michigan’s K-3 students. Using the Literacy Essentials with every child, in every classroom, every day will help improve literacy among our youngest learners.

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Come on a guided tour of the new resources in the Online Learning 2020 series for 21things4teachers. During this session we will explore personalized learning in the classroom, including providing options to empower student agency. Expand your toolbox with resources for giving students choices in platforms, process, and products to demonstrate competency.

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Target Audience: Administrators and/or school teams encouraged instead of individuals (i.e.-School SEL Team/Student Support Teams) *This workshop is a foundational course, and will be a pre-requisite for other trauma courses Course Dates: 2/2/21 and 2/3/21 from 8:30am-11:30am This course teaches school professionals how to create trauma-informed schools and classrooms. The training focuses on resilience, exploring the core values and beliefs of educators and placing an emphasis on understanding how trauma impacts children and their school experience. Learn proactive strategies such as fostering connections, prioritizing social and emotional skills and establishing safety while promoting play. Note: This course covers steps 1-6 to create a Trauma-Informed Resilient School

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Target Audience: K-5 Classroom teachers, Special Education teachers, interventionists, coaches, administrators This program provides teachers with efficient and effective assessment tools to recognize their students' current understandings of number concepts, and to support data-driven instruction. Forming collegial teams is encouraged during the course to provide for ongoing study.

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Target Audience: CRN Members, Macomb County Great Start Readiness Program staff, Macomb County Agency Representation Everyone must register through the Macomb ISD online system for each meeting you plan to attend

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Do you have questions about online learning? Do you need guidance on tools, resources, or apps? This webinar will be an open forum for Macomb County educators to join the conversation and ask technical and pedagogical questions about online learning. Come ready to ask questions in the chat and engage in open dialogue with other educators.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: Macomb County GSRP staff Observing and reflecting on your students learning is an important part of the assessment cycle. Through ongoing practice, you can build your observation skills and develop different ways to document and interpret your observations. In this session participants will learn how to properly take an anecdotal note and walk away with tips and strategies to help streamline the process.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Author Jerry Evanski will share his extensively-researched new methods for performing critical teaching tasks: gaining and keeping students’ attention, engaging students and teaching the content, encouraging students’ participation, giving directions, communicating and stopping, starting and transitioning.

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Target Audience: Participants who HAVE NOT completed the following requirements to be considered a highly qualified paraprofessional. Completed two years of study at an institution of higher education or obtained an associate's (or higher) degree or passed a formal state or local academic assessment, demonstrating knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructional reading, writing, and mathematics. The Macomb ISD is a site administrator for the ETS Paraprofessional Assessment Testing. All testing sessions will be held as scheduled. No participation minimum is required.

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Presented by: Dr. Michael Murphy - This two-day event is a part of the MACOMB LEADERS Advancing Collective Responsibility to Impact Teaching and Learning Workshop Series. Learn how to build responsive, brain-based classrooms that form a community of respect and learning.

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Target Audience: Secondary Teachers of Analytical Writing Join MISD ELA Consultant Liz Lietz for a two-session virtual book study. We will read the text together before our sessions (Sections 1-2 for session 1, Section 3 for session 2), and use our time together to examine what we have learned. This two date training will be held virtually on: 02/08/2022 from 3:30pm-5:30pm 02/15/2022 from 3:30pm-5:30pm

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Participants will be provided with an overview of the procedural supports for device acquisition and AAC implementation, resources for programming AAC devices. Participants will then choose to learn more about AT procedural supports or select between Read&Write implementation or MISD AT credentials or MISD IT Department Accessibility Webinars.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: GSRP Community Based Organizations Hosted by: JoAnne Elkin, Early Childhood/Early Literacy Consultant Kelly Adamek, GSRP Coordinator

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Target Audience: 4th & 5th Grade Girls and an important adult in their life A maturation program to help answer questions that girls might have about their growing and changing bodies and emotions during puberty and menstruation. This will be a virtual, zoom meeting.

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Target Audience: GSRP Teaching Teams and all Early Childhood Educators Print awareness refers to a child’s understanding about print, such as the fact that print represents words and conveys meaning. Reading print from the world around us is one of the beginning stages of literacy development. Environmental print is the print of everyday life. It is a natural starting point to teach young children to read and write. In this workshop you will walk away with practical, meaningful, and engaging print awareness activities that you can implement in your classroom. During this professional session you will learn a wealth of exciting activities to encourage pre reading and early literacy skills.

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Target Audience: Early Childhood Educators Participants will: · Develop an understanding of integrating math concepts playfully throughout the day and in transitions · Become familiar with GELN’s Essential Instructional Practices in Early Mathematics: Prekindergarten to Grade 3 · Practice using open-ended materials and questions to bring math concepts into the classroom · Share information from Exploring Mathematics Through Play in the Early Childhood Classroom by Amy Noelle Parks · Learn ways to incorporate math during read-alouds

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Spotlight on professions in the Energy industry as viable career options for students in Macomb County after graduation. Counselors and Career Development staff will learn about the various opportunities and how to access them so that they can properly advise students regarding employment in theses pathways. Presentation will include updated labor market information, post-secondary training options, and a presentation from a professional within the industry who will also be available to field questions.

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If you are a new CTE Administrator this is a must attend! This is a follow-up training to the one held in September. We will discuss end of year reporting and everything you need to know to finish your year strong.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) This session will focus on building the framework of accountability, collaboration and trust as a new educator to operate successfully in a new school. Additional, a breath and bodywork practice consisting of yoga and meditation will follow. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a yoga mat. Participants will explore opportunities for cultivating self-management strategies to help mitigate reactions brought on by the stress of educating. We will increase participant’s ability to communicate with compassion and how to be a positive contributing member of their school communities, help unleash participant’s capacity for innovation and creativity, and promote greater engagement in the here and now by enhancing and developing greater self-awareness.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Come on a guided tour of the new resources in the Online Learning 2020 series for 21things4teachers. During this session we will explore resources to teach Design Thinking and Computational Thinking. From coding to a Maker Space - get started with the DT/CT pedagogy and some top rated resources to support teaching and learning.

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Discuss and explore assistive technology service and tools to support studying and organization.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Participants will grow their knowledge about modeling on and providing access to more complex communication systems. Learn about and explore robust AAC technologies that give users access to large vocabularies of keyboards, words and/or phrases to express messages via speech-generation. Vocabularies and user settings are customizable. See what is available in the MISD AT Lending Library!

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) We will examine Essential Instructional Practice 5, Explicit Instruction in letter-sound relationships. Participants will receive resources and materials to effectively implement research based activities in letter-sound relationships in the classroom. The Literacy Essentials provide research-proven, effective approaches to markedly improve literacy skills among Michigan’s K-3 students. Using the Literacy Essentials with every child, in every classroom, every day will help improve literacy among our youngest learners.

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Target Audience: CRN Members, Macomb County Great Start Readiness Program staff, Macomb County Agency Representation Everyone must register through the Macomb ISD online system for each meeting you plan to attend

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Target Audience: K-5 Classroom teachers, Special Education teachers, interventionists, coaches, administrators This program provides teachers with efficient and effective assessment tools to recognize their students' current understandings of number concepts, and to support data-driven instruction. Forming collegial teams is encouraged during the course to provide for ongoing study.

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Come on a guided tour of the new resources in the Online Learning 2020 series for 21things4teachers. During this session we will explore collaboration tools for asynchronous and synchronous learning. Learn about opportunities, tools, and resources to connect across classrooms or continents.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) This workshop will focus on the impact of VTS on student writing and explore multiple ways VTS can be used as a writing prompt including chorepoems/exquisite corpse, point of view, ekphrastic writing, haiku, and more. Also covered will be different perspectives including whose point of view is being shared and whose voice is not heard at all.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: Participants who HAVE NOT completed the following requirements to be considered a highly qualified paraprofessional. Completed two years of study at an institution of higher education or obtained an associate's (or higher) degree or passed a formal state or local academic assessment, demonstrating knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructional reading, writing, and mathematics. The Macomb ISD is a site administrator for the ETS Paraprofessional Assessment Testing. All testing sessions will be held as scheduled. No participation minimum is required.

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Target Audience: Secondary Teachers of Writing Join MISD ELA Consultant Liz Lietz for a two-session virtual book study. We will read the text together before our sessions (Ch. 1-4 for session 1, Ch. 5-7 for session 2), and use our time together to examine what we have learned. The two days of this virtual program are March 8th, 2022 and March 15th, 2022, from 3:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Homelessness or chronic health conditions can affect attendance and academic performance. This session will discuss common chronic health conditions as well as federal requirements for identifying homeless students. Finally, participants will be provided strategies for best supporting these groups of vulnerable students.

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Target Audience: Administrators and/or school teams encouraged instead of individuals (i.e.-School SEL Team/Student Support Teams) *This workshop is a foundational course, and will be a pre-requisite for other trauma courses Course Dates: 3/9/21 and 3/10/21 from 8:30am-11:30am This course teaches school professionals how to create trauma-informed schools and classrooms. The training focuses on resilience, exploring the core values and beliefs of educators and placing an emphasis on understanding how trauma impacts children and their school experience. Learn proactive strategies such as fostering connections, prioritizing social and emotional skills and establishing safety while promoting play. Note: This course covers steps 1-6 to create a Trauma-Informed Resilient School

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What are the steps to plan, teach, and evaluate effective collaboration in a blended course? What strategies and tools support effective collaboration with Schoology? What does collaboration with colleagues look like in Schoology? In this webinar, participants will learn the basics of collaborating in Schoology.

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Target Audience: Teachers, grades 4-12 This training is open to teachers responsible for teaching HIV and reproductive health education. This training will focus on understanding the standards of best practice teaching in HIV and reproductive health education, understanding current trends in youth behaviors and how HIV and reproductive health education can impact those trends, understanding Michigan School Code requirements, expectations in your Reproductive Health program, and reviewing and understanding the laws in Michigan related to HIV and Reproductive Health education in schools. HIV Certification is required every 3 years.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: 6-12 Math and/or Special Education Teachers Experience opportunities for ensuring effective mathematics teaching through the eight high-leverage instructional teaching practices (NCTM) and classroom routines.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Was creating a quality classroom assessment part of your learning during your undergraduate/graduate work? When you design a unit do you start with the end in mind and build your assessment before you start your instruction? Do you ensure your classroom assessments are balanced between standards, depth of knowledge, and time you spend teaching the students the standards? This workshop will address assessment quality, design, and structure throughout the evening.

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Target Audience: GSRP Teaching Teams and all Early Childhood Educators Print awareness refers to a child’s understanding about print, such as the fact that print represents words and conveys meaning. Reading print from the world around us is one of the beginning stages of literacy development. Environmental print is the print of everyday life. It is a natural starting point to teach young children to read and write. In this workshop you will walk away with practical, meaningful, and engaging print awareness activities that you can implement in your classroom. During this professional session you will learn a wealth of exciting activities to encourage pre reading and early literacy skills.

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Target Audience: GSRP Staff and all other Early Childhood Educators Studies are an in-depth investigation that allow children the opportunity to investigate a topic and engage them in meaningful learning. This workshop is designed for teachers that are ready to begin implementing studies into their day.

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Target Audience: Reproductive Health Supervisors These meetings are for the district Reproductive Supervisors only. The Reproductive Supervisors are the designated person in a school district who oversees the program of instruction. The designated person must be approved by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE).

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Target Audience: Grade K-12 Teachers Join us for one of our full-day courses which will introduce teachers and math coaches to the theory, structure and focus of Number Talks appropriate for their grade span. Participants will interact throughout the day in this high energy, hands on course with opportunities to reflect on their current practices and target essential understandings called for in the Michigan Math Standards.

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The New Counselor Academy is open to K-12 counselors who have been in the profession three years or less or are new to their current position seeking a safe and inviting space to learn about "tricks of the trade," connect with other new counselors from Macomb County and share best practices. This session will focus on creating Education Development Plans, Career Development best practices, and post-secondary planning.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Independent reading allows student choice in what, when and how they read. But how does a teacher coordinate and monitor student progress? In this session, we will explore the research around the benefits and challenges of incorporating independent reading into the secondary classroom through student book clubs, literature circles and sustained silent reading (SSR). Topics will include how to build and maintain a classroom library, how to get students engaged in reading on their own, and how to work with students to set and meet reading goals. By the end of the session, participants will have some concrete ideas about how and why to incorporate independent reading into their curriculum.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: K-12 Literacy Leaders Join your literacy leader colleagues for collaboration and conversation meetings.

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Target Audience: 4th & 5th Grade Girls and an important adult in their life A maturation program to help answer questions that girls might have about their growing and changing bodies and emotions during puberty and menstruation. This will be a virtual, zoom meeting.

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Target Audience: Individuals responsible for GSRP enrollment and those who are interested in learning about the recruitment, enrollment, and eligibility process. The Great Start Readiness Program is a very regulated program and the state spells out clearly what funded recipients need to do in terms of RECRUITMENT and ENROLLMENT procedures. Come join us as we dig deeper into the following sections of the GSRP implementation manual: RECRUITMENT ENROLLMENT ELIGIBILITY

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) These days’ educators are required to do more with less, and need to find creative, new solutions to novel problems. In this workshop, participants will learn cutting edge techniques to solve any problem creativity and to live a creative life. This workshop is not what you think!

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Spotlight on professions in Construction Trades as viable career options for students in Macomb County after graduation. Counselors and Career Development staff will learn about the various opportunities and how to access them so that they can properly advise students regarding employment in theses pathways. Presentation will include updated labor market information, post-secondary training options, and a presentation from a professional within the industry who will also be available to field questions.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) This documentary shares lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary. It follows the determination of a charismatic north Minneapolis elementary school principal & the true measure of student success. You will see the importance of building relationships in order to have academic success. This film will ignite your passion & purpose for educating youth.

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Participants will learn about various tools and device settings that students with physical impairments can use to overcome barriers to accessing many of the technologies found in the school setting. Check out the adaptive equipment available in the MISD AT Lending Library.

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Target Audience: MV Homeless Liaisons These meetings are for the district Homeless Liaisons only. The Homeless Liaisons are the designated person in a school district that assist in identifying and providing supports to homeless youth in the school district.

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Do you have questions about online learning? Do you need guidance on tools, resources, or apps? This webinar will be an open forum for Macomb County educators to join the conversation and ask technical and pedagogical questions about online learning. Come ready to ask questions in the chat and engage in open dialogue with other educators.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) This workshop will present the foundation, basics, and advanced VTS protocols in addition to using VTS for writing. Participants will practice the process and receive supportive coaching from DIA Staff. Perfect for teachers new to the process, for those looking to refresh or fine-tune their skills, for those who would like to be coached, and for those looking to learn a little bit more.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: Participants who HAVE NOT completed the following requirements to be considered a highly qualified paraprofessional. Completed two years of study at an institution of higher education or obtained an associate's (or higher) degree or passed a formal state or local academic assessment, demonstrating knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructional reading, writing, and mathematics. The Macomb ISD is a site administrator for the ETS Paraprofessional Assessment Testing. All testing sessions will be held as scheduled. No participation minimum is required.

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Target Audience: 4th & 5th Grade Girls and an important adult in their life A maturation program to help answer questions that girls might have about their growing and changing bodies and emotions during puberty and menstruation. This will be a virtual, zoom meeting.

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Target Audience: Teachers of Health Education for Grades 7-12. Participants will be trained on the Mi Model for Health Curriculum for Reproductive Health (Growing Up and Staying Healthy, grades 7 & 8; and Healthy and Responsible Relationships, Grades 9-12). PLEASE NOTE: This is not the certification training. Check School Health trainings in our course offerings for the next scheduled “HIV Certification” training if you are interested in certification.

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Do you have questions about online learning? Do you need guidance on tools, resources, or apps? This webinar will be an open forum for Macomb County educators to join the conversation and ask technical and pedagogical questions about online learning. Come ready to ask questions in the chat and engage in open dialogue with other educators.

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) This session will focus on stripping away all that is unnecessary to focus on what is really important as an educator. Additionally, a breath and bodywork practice consisting of yoga and meditation will follow. Participants will explore opportunities for cultivating self-management strategies to help mitigate reactions brought on by the stress of educating. We will increase participant’s ability to communicate with compassion and how to be a positive contributing member of their school communities, help unleash participant’s capacity for innovation and creativity, and promote greater engagement in the here and now by enhancing and developing greater self-awareness.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: CRN Members, Macomb County Great Start Readiness Program staff, Macomb County Agency Representation Everyone must register through the Macomb ISD online system for each meeting you plan to attend

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Learn about and compare two tools that educators can use to create, edit, and share instructional materials to support learners.

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MISD continuous improvement team focus areas include the Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process, (MICIP), professional learning communities (PLCs), State Accountability Designated Schools for Action, and State-wide System of Support, Blueprint.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: CRN Members, Macomb County Great Start Readiness Program staff, Macomb County Agency Representation Everyone must register through the Macomb ISD online system for each meeting you plan to attend

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Join us for a fun learning experience at the DIA. We will meet at the MISD at 4:00pm for a boxed lunch and then board a bus to travel to the DIA by 4:30pm where docents will take us on a guided tour in the late afternoon/evening. This workshop is designed to inspire educators to use artistic methods for school and educational improvement. The educational experience will be new this year so those who joined us previously will be able to take this class for the 21-22 season

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Target Audience: New Teachers (1-3 years) Are you interested in holding more effective classroom discussions? This session will examine what speaking and listening skills students need to build and develop during their secondary education. Explore ways to set clear expectations, assess student performance, and provide opportunities for feedback and reflection.

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Target Audience: Macomb Districts Only: All early childhood educators who use Creative Curriculum in the preschool classroom Day 1, April 28, 2022 - Virtual Zoom Day 2, April 29, 2022- In person at the Macomb ISD Participants must bring the five comprehensive volumes to the training The Creative Curriculum for Preschool defines and incorporates 38 objectives for development and learning that are predictors of school success and tied to early learning standards. Teachers will learn how to design an effective learning environment, develop a daily schedule that reflects programmatic and curricular objectives, and incorporate intentional teaching throughout the day to support each child's development and learning in all areas.

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MISD continuous improvement team focus areas include the Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process, (MICIP), professional learning communities (PLCs), State Accountability Designated Schools for Action, and State-wide System of Support, Blueprint.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: GSRP Community Based Organizations Hosted by: JoAnne Elkin, Early Childhood/Early Literacy Consultant Kelly Adamek, GSRP Coordinator

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MISD continuous improvement team focus areas include the Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process, (MICIP), professional learning communities (PLCs), State Accountability Designated Schools for Action, and State-wide System of Support, Blueprint.

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Come on a guided tour of the new resources in the Online Learning 2020 series for 21things4teachers. During this session we will explore game based learning, where computer and video games are used to meet learning outcomes.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Rethink how you use assessments and how they contribute to teaching and learning frameworks. In this webinar, participants will learn how to create formative assessments with opportunities to engage students in self-assessment, reflection, and more. Participants will also learn how to create interactive worksheets with enhanced question types and multimedia.

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Target Audience: 4th & 5th Grade Girls and an important adult in their life A maturation program to help answer questions that girls might have about their growing and changing bodies and emotions during puberty and menstruation. This will be a virtual, zoom meeting.

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Target Audience: Reproductive Health Supervisors These meetings are for the district Reproductive Supervisors only. The Reproductive Supervisors are the designated person in a school district who oversees the program of instruction. The designated person must be approved by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE).

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MISD continuous improvement team focus areas include the Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process, (MICIP), professional learning communities (PLCs), State Accountability Designated Schools for Action, and State-wide System of Support, Blueprint.

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Target Audience: Participants who HAVE NOT completed the following requirements to be considered a highly qualified paraprofessional. Completed two years of study at an institution of higher education or obtained an associate's (or higher) degree or passed a formal state or local academic assessment, demonstrating knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructional reading, writing, and mathematics. The Macomb ISD is a site administrator for the ETS Paraprofessional Assessment Testing. All testing sessions will be held as scheduled. No participation minimum is required.

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MISD continuous improvement team focus areas include the Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process, (MICIP), professional learning communities (PLCs), State Accountability Designated Schools for Action, and State-wide System of Support, Blueprint.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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The New Counselor Academy is open to K-12 counselors who have been in the profession three years or less or are new to their current position seeking a safe and inviting space to learn about "tricks of the trade," connect with other new counselors from Macomb County and share best practices. This session will focus on evaluating professional goals for the year and end-of-year wrap-up.

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MISD continuous improvement team focus areas include the Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process, (MICIP), professional learning communities (PLCs), State Accountability Designated Schools for Action, and State-wide System of Support, Blueprint.

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Do you have questions about online learning? Do you need guidance on tools, resources, or apps? This webinar will be an open forum for Macomb County educators to join the conversation and ask technical and pedagogical questions about online learning. Come ready to ask questions in the chat and engage in open dialogue with other educators.

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Target Audience: MV Homeless Liaisons These meetings are for the district Homeless Liaisons only. The Homeless Liaisons are the designated person in a school district that assist in identifying and providing supports to homeless youth in the school district.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: K-12 Literacy Leaders Join your literacy leader colleagues for collaboration and conversation meetings.

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Counselors and Career Development staff will learn the value of promoting short term and stackable certificates as the gateway to building a meaningful career.

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: District homeless liaisons, School administrators, teachers, enrollment staff, secretaries, support staff This informal hour is geared toward McKinney-Vento homeless liaisons but is open to anyone with questions regarding homeless education. This house is designated for technical assistance or brainstorming solutions, or resource gathering. Participants can join for 5 minutes or stay for the entire hour. Whatever meets the need!

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Target Audience: Building Administrators, Kindergarten Teachers, Literacy Coaches/Interventionists, Title I Teachers, Special Ed. Teachers, and ELL Teachers The Literacy Learning Modules are designed to ensure that teachers have a clear understanding of a comprehensive approach to high-quality literacy instruction. The modules will provide participants with the research, depth of knowledge, and careful demonstration of skills to make a positive impact in the literacy development of every student. Each module gets to the heart of what effective reading, writing, and language instruction is all about. Macomb's Comprehensive Approach to Literacy is a framework designed to help ALL students grow as readers and writers!

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Target Audience: Building Administrators, Kindergarten Teachers, Literacy Coaches/Interventionists, Title I Teachers, Special Ed. Teachers, and ELL Teachers The Literacy Learning Modules are designed to ensure that teachers have a clear understanding of a comprehensive approach to high-quality literacy instruction. The modules will provide participants with the research, depth of knowledge, and careful demonstration of skills to make a positive impact in the literacy development of every student. Each module gets to the heart of what effective reading, writing, and language instruction is all about. Macomb's Comprehensive Approach to Literacy is a framework designed to help ALL students grow as readers and writers!

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Target Audience: Building Administrators, Kindergarten Teachers, Literacy Coaches/Interventionists, Title I Teachers, Special Ed. Teachers, and ELL Teachers The Literacy Learning Modules are designed to ensure that teachers have a clear understanding of a comprehensive approach to high-quality literacy instruction. The modules will provide participants with the research, depth of knowledge, and careful demonstration of skills to make a positive impact in the literacy development of every student. Each module gets to the heart of what effective reading, writing, and language instruction is all about. Macomb's Comprehensive Approach to Literacy is a framework designed to help ALL students grow as readers and writers!

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