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Workshops and Meetings
Schedule At A Glance
Summer 2008
by Anne Shadwick | Thursday, April 10, 2008
Graduate credit in Curriculum and Instruction
(CURIN) is indicated by a single asterisk*; Special Services and
Leadership Studies (SSLS) is indicated by a double asterisk**;
Psychology (PSY) is indicated by a triple
asterisk***.
To see
descriptions for each workshop, click on the workshop
title.
To
register for a . . .
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Enough Already!
How much is too much?
Sue Utter was back by popular demand. This workshop told
that a life lesson we must all learn is that we just can't always
get/have our way, and the public school setting is often the first
place a student comes face-to-face with . . .
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Herding Cats
The Challenge of Classroom Management
Dr. Robert McDermid, Psychology Professor at MSSU and a licensed
psychologist in private practice, shared 12 guidelines with
teachers for classroom behavior management. Teachers learned
strategies to provide a better learning . . .
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The Word Detective Reading Program
Judy Dare presented a "fast-paced" phonics program that can be
incorporated into any reading program. The Word Detective
program uses visual images to help students quickly learn consonant
and vowel sounds needed to decode words. . . .
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Advance Your Literature Choices in the Classroom
Title:
Advance Your Literature Choices in the Classroom
Topic Codes: Reading; Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 2/12/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Grades 4-9 Educators
Facilitator: Jane Hamm
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Advanced Safety Coordinator Meeting
Title: Advanced Safety Coordinator
Meeting
Date: 1/24/2008
Time: 8:30 am—4:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: School Safety Coordinators; Administrators
Facilitator: Missouri Center for Safe Schools
Member Fee: $30
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An Acceleration Needs-Assessment and Questioning Techniques
Rising Above the Invisible Ceiling
Title: An
Acceleration Needs-Assessment and Questioning Techniques--Rising
Above the Invisible Ceiling
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction; Differentiation
Date: July 14
Time: 8:30a.m.-4:15p.m
Location:
Southwest Center
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Are You on Fire or Just Plain Burned Out?
Title: Are
You on Fire or Just Plain Burned Out?
Topic Codes: Motivational
Date: 2/4/2008
Time: 8:30 am--12:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: All Educators
Facilitator: Dr. Chuck Jackson
Member Fee: $50
Non-Member . . .
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Coaching Your Teachers
ORSI/CARVER/SIMS
Title:
Coaching Your Teachers (ORSI/CARVER/SIMS)
Topic Codes: Math/Science Reform
Classroom Management
Date: 01/23/2008
Time: 8:30 am---4:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Administrators for K-12
Facilitator: Jan . . .
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Cultivating Courage & Character Through Native American Culture
Title:
Cultivating Courage & Character Through Native American
Culture
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction; Motivational; Fine Arts
Date: 3/13/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Elementary . . .
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Double Dose of Mathematics for Title I
ORSI/CARVER/SIMS
Title: Double
Dose of Mathematics for Title I (ORSI/CARVER/SIMS)
Topic Codes: Mathematics; Title I Curricula
Date: 2/1/2008
Time: 9:00 am--1:30 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Title I teachers, classroom teachers and
. . .
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Enough Already! How Much is Too Much?
Title: Enough
Already! How Much is Too Much?
Topic Codes: Special Services
Date: 2/25/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 teachers, teacher aides, counselors and
administrators
. . .
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Formative Assessment to Guide Instruction
ORSI/CARVER/SIMS and Others
Title: Formative Assessment to Guide
Instruction (ORSI/CARVER/SIMS and Others)
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction; Assessment
Date: 5/21/2008
Time: 8:30 am--4:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Grades 1-8 Teachers & . . .
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Get Your Students Inspired With InspireData
Title: Get Your Students Inspired With
InspireData
Topic Codes: Technology; Curriculum
Date: 4/10/2008
Time: 4:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 Educators
Facilitator: Melody Paige
Member Fee: $30
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Googling the Earth
Title:
Googling the Earth
Topic Codes: Technology; Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 4/22/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: All Educators
Facilitator: Dan Swadley
Member Fee: $30
Non-Member Fee: . . .
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How to Develop, Analyze, and Score Common Assessments
Title: How to
Develop, Analyze, and Score Common Assessments
Topic Codes: Assessment
Date: 5/23/2008
Time: 8:30 pm-4:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: All Educators
Facilitator: Renee Goostree/Webb City Teachers
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Internet Resources for Teaching American History
Title:
Internet Resources for Teaching American History
Topic Codes: Technology; Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 2/19/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: All Educators
Facilitator: Dan Swadley
Member . . .
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Learning to Write Powerful Summative Assessments
Title:
Learning to Write Powerful Summative Assessments
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction; Assessment
Date: 5/22/2008
Time: 8:30 am--4:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: All Educators
Facilitator: Anne Shadwick
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Literacy in the 21st Century with Web 2.0: Classroom Blogs
Title:
Literacy in the 21st Century with Web 2.0: Classroom Blogs
Topic Codes: Technology; Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 2/21/2008
Time: 4:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 teachers
Facilitator: James . . .
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Literacy in the 21st Century with Web 2.0: Digital Citizenship
Title:
Literacy in the 21st Century with Web 2.0: Digital Citizenship
Topic Codes: Technology; Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 3/25/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: All educators
Facilitator: James . . .
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Looking For A Few Tricks Up Your Sleeve? Ways to Engage Learners, Parts 1 & 2
Title:
Looking For A Few Tricks Up Your Sleeve? Ways to Engage
Learners, Parts 1 & 2
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 4/8/2008; 4/15/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Elementary . . .
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Mean Girls
Title: Mean
Girls
Topic Codes: Special Services; Motivational
Date: 2/27/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Middle school, junior high and high school teachers,
administrators and counselors
. . .
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MO Law and Federal Law Related to TESOL and No Child Left Behind
Title: MO Law
and Federal Law Related to TESOL and No Child Left
Behind
Topic Codes: Legal/Ethical Issues for Teachers; Instruction
Date: 2/11/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 Teachers; . . .
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P.O.W.--Power of Writing
Title:
P.O.W.--Power of Writing
Topic Codes: Writing; Instruction
Date: 4/24/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-8 Educators
Facilitator: Kathy Wistrom
Member Fee: $30
Non-Member Fee: $80
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Preparing Teachers Working with ELL's Using Podcasts & Students from Mexico
Estudiantes de Mexico
Title:
Preparing Teachers Working with ELL's Using Podcasts & Students
from Mexico...Estudiantes de Mexico
Topic Codes: Technology; Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 4/7/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
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Professional Development Task Force Meeting
Title:
Professional Development Task Force Meeting
Topic Codes: Professional Development
Date: 2/20/2008
Time: 9:00 am--4:30 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: PD Chairs & Administrators
Facilitator: RPDC staff
Member . . .
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Providing Teachers the Tools for Safe Classrooms
Title:
Providing Teachers the Tools for Safe Classrooms
Topic Codes: School Safety
Date: 1/28/2008
Time: 4:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 Educators
Facilitator: Dennis Lewis/Judy Brunner
Member Fee: . . .
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Quality Interpretation: A Key to Effective Services
Title:
Quality Interpretation: A Key to Effective Services
Topic Codes: English as A Second Language
Date: 3/11/2008
Time: 4:30 pm -- 8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 Educators
Facilitator: Jennifer . . .
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Reading with Meaning:
A Book Study, Parts 1 and 2
Title:
Reading with Meaning: A Book Study, Parts 1 and 2
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction; Reading
Date: 2/28/2008; 3/6/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Primary Educators
Facilitator: Amy . . .
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RETIREMENT
The Pot of Gold at the End of Your Career in Education
Title: RETIREMENT
- The Pot of Gold at the End of Your Career in Education
Topic Codes: Support Services, Informational Only
Date: 3/31/2008
Time: 4:00 pm --5:15 pm; 5:30 pm—6:45 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Any . . .
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Student Threat Assessments:
Responding to a Growing Problem
Title:
Student Threat Assessments: Responding to a Growing Problem
Topic Codes: Support Services; School Safety
Date: 1/28/2008
Time: 1:00 pm--4:00 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, . . .
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Take the Mystery Out of Writing, Parts 1, 2, 3
Title: Take
the Mystery Out of Writing, Parts 1, 2, 3
Topic Codes: Writing; Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 1/31/2008; 2/7/2008; 3/04/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-6 teachers
Facilitator: Terry . . .
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The Word Detective Reading Program Parts 1 & 2
Title: The Word Detective Reading Program
Parts 1 & 2
Topic Codes: Reading; Curriculum
Date: 3/27/2008; 4/01/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Reading teachers, Elementary, Special Ed., Title I,
. . .
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Traffic Cop or Orchestra Conductor?
How do you Manage your Classroom?
Title:
Traffic Cop or Orchestra Conductor?--How do you Manage your
Classroom?
Topic Codes: Classroom Management; Motivational
Date: 2/5/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 Educators
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Transformations: Integrating Fine Arts into the Middle School English Curriculum
Title: Transformations: Integrating
Fine Arts into the Middle School English Curriculum
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction; Fine Arts
Date: 4/13/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Middle School . . .
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We the People....And other Tales of Democracy
Title: We the
People....And other Tales of Democracy
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 2/26/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: K-12 Educators, especially Elementary
Facilitator: Jane Hamm . . .
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Welcome to the Other Side of the Desk: Professional Relationships
Title:
Welcome to the Other Side of the Desk: Professional
Relationships
Topic Codes: Legal/Ethical Issues for Teachers
Date: 1/24/2008
Time: 4:30 pm-8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: First and Second Year . . .
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What are the Odds?
Title: What are the Odds?
Topic Codes: Mathematics
Date: 1/29/2008, Part 1 4/21/2008, Part 2
Presenters: Charlotte Nichols, Nichol Hamilton
Time: 4:30 pm-8:15pm
Member Fee: $75
Non-member Fee: . . .
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Experimental Design (ORSI)
Title:
Experimental Design (ORSI)
Date: 1/22/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Grades 3-12
Facilitator: Richard Enslow
Member Fee: $30
Non-Member . . .
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How Do You Know It When You See It?
Achieving Focus (ORSI/CARVER/SIMS)
Title: How Do You Know It When You See It?
--Achieving Focus (ORSI/CARVER/SIMS)
Topic Codes: Inquiry Instruction; Classroom Evaluation
Date: 1/11/2008
Time: 9:00 am--3:00 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: Principals K-12 and . . .
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Welcome to the Other Side of the Desk
Differentiating Secondary Instruction
Title:
Welcome to the Other Side of the Desk: Differentiating Secondary
Instruction
Topic Codes: Curriculum; Instruction
Date: 1/22/2008
Time: 4:30 pm--8:15 pm
Location: Southwest Center
Audience: First and Second Year Secondary . . .
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