Introduction to Educating Exceptional Children and Youth. This is an online course that fulfills the state requirement for teachers in Georgia.

This online course will focus on the five areas of reading and how to implement reading and writing strategies across the curriculum.

Target Audience:  K-5th

Led by: Amanda Buice, Science Program Manager, GaDOE

This workshop aims to help participants effectively adapt existing materials and instruction to better align to GSE.  The workshop also aims to help participants identify assessment components that focus on individual practices, core ideas, or crosscutting concepts, and understand how, taken together, the components can support educators as they make inferences about students’ three-dimensional science learning.

Target Audience:  6th-12th Grade

Led by: Amanda Buice, Science Program Manager, GaDOE

This workshop aims to help participants effectively adapt existing materials and instruction to better align to GSE.  The workshop also aims to help participants identify assessment components that focus on individual practices, core ideas, or crosscutting concepts, and understand how, taken together, the components can support educators as they make inferences about students’ three-dimensional science learning.

Featuring:

EdCamp Collaboration (Ge-Anne Bolhuis)
World Read-Aloud Day (Linda Martin)
GPB Overview and Update (Mary Anne Lane)
GLMA News and Update (Mary Perdue)
Collaboration and Sharing with Our Peers

$10 fee includes lunch

Led by Bobby Smith

Led by Bobby Smith

Fall Technology Directors' Consortium

Our guest speaker will be Cory Kirby who is an attorney with Harben, Hartley & Hawkins.

Leading an interesting and engaging school.

Led by Dr. Mark Wilson

Leading an interesting and engaging school.

Led by Dr. Mark Wilson

On October 3, 2018 North Georgia RESA will be offering Mental Health First Aid training in Local Area. This groundbreaking eight-hour training course gives people the tools to identify when someone might be struggling with a mental health or substance use problem and to connect them with appropriate support and resources when necessary. This is an 8 hour course.

Our goal with NGRESA’s Coaches Academy this year is to provide the tools necessary to make our school level academic coaches confident and prepared to meet any academic needs in their buildings.

Led by Dr. Paul Baker

The PersonBrain Model is a positive, brain-based behavior support training for all educators and mental health professionals. The training is implemented in schools across the USA and in in eleven countries around the world.

Join Solution Tree’s RTI sought after expert, Will Remmert, for two days of intensive training. You’ll receive hands-on support and leave with a customized plan for success. But don’t wait too long to register-space is limited.

Each participant will receive a catered lunch, a resource binder, and the book Taking Action: A Handbook for RTI at Work.

We recommend each school plan to send a team of teachers and an administrator.

PLEASE REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 21st. 

Forest and Trees: Teaching Next Level Writing Grades 6-8

Led by Courtney Stevens

We’re talking about teaching writing in a single sentence, paragraph, and page, conquering personal fears related to writing, and critiquing at a higher level. You’ll write. You’ll learn. And you’ll walk away with classroom exercises and resources to teach writing in a brand-new way.

In area fee: $75 includes signed copy of Courtney Steven's latest book and lunch

Out of area fee: $150 includes signed copy of Courtney Steven's latest book and lunch

Forest and Trees: Teaching Next Level Writing Grades 9-12

Led by Courtney Stevens

We’re talking about teaching writing in a single sentence, paragraph, and page, conquering personal fears related to writing, and critiquing at a higher level. You’ll write. You’ll learn. And you’ll walk away with classroom exercises and resources to teach writing in a brand-new way.

In area fee: $75 includes signed copy of Courtney Steven's latest book and lunch

Out of area fee: $150 includes signed copy of Courtney Steven's latest book and lunch

Led by Janet Cumbee, Collaborative Classroom

Experience structures for teaching writing that build independence, support inquiry and collaboration, and help students meet the demands of the standards and the writing performance tasks.  In this session participants will experience lessons and methods grounded in best practices, ensuring that students become engaged and proficient writers within the context of a collaborative classroom.

In this interactive session, work with Joy Hatcher, GaDOE Social Studies Program Manager, to meet your daily required dose of inquiry and keep students on their mental toes. Ideas and resources for infusing inquiry and banishing apathy in grades 6-12 will be shared; bring your own and take home some new ones.

Instructional Technology Consortium Fall '18

Our guest speaker will be Chris Thompson from CEISMC with a hands on drone lab.

Led by Dr. Paul Baker

Conflict in the Classroom provides targeted training for educators to be successful in providing immediate support to students who are disruptive, aggressive and non-compliant. Research has shown that 80% of classroom problems are caused by 10% of students who challenge and undermine teacher authority. This unique training program offers specific skills to manage and de-escalate conflict within the school setting.

An introduction to Google Level 1 certification.

In this session, attendees receive an in-depth overview of all three SLDS dashboards (District, School and Teacher dashboards), the student profile page, and the Teacher Resource Link (TRL).

Instructor: Tammy Silvers