Description: In this exciting, stimulating, and intensive one-day workshop at the University of Georgia, teachers, administrators, counselors, and teacher educators will:
• Learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students
• Develop research-based teaching practices sensitive to working-class and poor children and families
• Reflect on formative assessment of working-class and poor students across the curriculum
• Take away powerful classroom ideas for incorporating social class-related content
• Get ideas for establishing positive relationships with working-class and poor families

Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education

Cost: $125 (includes sessions and workshop materials)

Location: Country Inn & Suites, 2809 Nottingham Way, Albany, Georgia

Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Stay an extra day and attend the Reading Turn-Around Workshop scheduled for March 22, 2013!

Workshop Flyer!

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“Using Free and Low-Cost Resources to Prevent and Respond to Bullying”

Description:  This one-day conference is designed to help participants locate and effectively use free and low-cost resources for preventing and responding to bullying.  Researchers and practitioners from the fields of education, counseling, law, and public health will provide information on using a wealth of resources, including websites, videos, books, and surveys.  Presentations will be interactive, with hands-on demonstrations of how to use each resource.  Participants will receive a compendium of the highlighted resources to assist in their own bullying prevention and intervention efforts.

Invited Speaker Announced:  Emily Bazelon is a senior editor at Slate, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, and the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School. Before joining Slate, she worked as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  Each conference participant will receive a copy of her book, Sticks and Stones, Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.

Other Speakers to Include:

Andy Horne, Dean Emeritus, College of Education
Pamela Orpinas, Professor, Department of Health Promotion & Behavior, College of Public Health
Corey Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Counseling & Human Development, College of Education
Anneliese Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling & Human Development, College of Education
John Dayton, Professor, Lifelong Education, Administration & Policy, College of Education
Kat Raczynski, Director, Safe and Welcoming Schools Project, College of Education

Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Cost:  $149 (includes conference materials, lunch, two refreshment breaks and a copy of Emily Bazelon’s book: Sticks and Stones, Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy)

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Interested in on-site trainings on topics related to preventing bullying and promoting positive school climate?  Visit http://www.coe.uga.edu/sws/services/  for information about additional services offered through the Safe and Welcoming Schools project.

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Description: In this exciting, stimulating, and intensive one-day workshop at the University of Georgia, teachers, administrators, counselors, and teacher educators will:
• Learn about the five principles for change to better meet the needs of working-class and poor students
• Develop research-based teaching practices sensitive to working-class and poor children and families
• Reflect on formative assessment of working-class and poor students across the curriculum
• Take away powerful classroom ideas for incorporating social class-related content
• Get ideas for establishing positive relationships with working-class and poor families

Instructors:
Dr. Mark Vagle, University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development
Dr. Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor, Elementary and Social Studies Education

Cost: $125 (includes workshop materials refreshment breaks and parking pass)

Location: UGA Hotel and Conference Center, Athens, Georgia

Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Workshop Flyer

Stay an extra day and attend the Reading Turn-Around Workshop scheduled for February 22, 2013!

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“Follow Us: Advocacy & Competency in a Social Age”

Description:

Join us at the 8th Annual UGA/Counseling Diversity Conference as we explore issues diversity in counseling and student affairs along the P-12 and higher education spectrum in an era of unprecedented sociological and technological changes. This conference will inform counseling professionals about current issues and nuanced approaches for ways to integrate social justice, social media, and social collaboration ideals in everyday practice.

Cost: $49 (includes conference materials, continental breakfast, lunch and a refreshment break)

Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Information Flyer

Registration is limited to the first 100 participants!

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Description:  This two-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic Instruction Model® (SIM®) and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire strategies for writing and editing sentences for effective written communication. The Sentence Writing Strategy series, a two-part program that includes the Fundamentals and Proficiency levels, is targeted towards students in grades 4 through 12 who struggle with written expression. In addition to a writing strategy, students can be taught 14 sentence patterns with four types of sentences: • simple • compound • complex • compound-complex

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Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Location: UGA Gwinnett Campus

Cost: $275 (includes refreshment breaks, 2 instructor’s manuals, 2 student lessons books, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and power points sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction)

Successful completion of this workshop will provide 1 PLU for eligible participants.

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Description: Are you interested in learning more about the potential benefits of strong school-university partnerships? Or are you interested in forming or strengthening a Professional Development School (PDS) partnership between your school district and your local college or university? The University of Georgia, College of Education and the Clarke County School District formed a partnership in 2009, which has grown to include seven active Professional Development School sites. College of Education courses are taught on-site at the schools and university faculty work with school-based teachers and administrators on a variety of initiatives. In this 2-day workshop, faculty and administrative representatives from the University of Georgia College of Education and Clarke County School District will lead participant teams through Professional Development School (PDS) school visits (preK through 12th grade) and working sessions on how to build sustainable partnerships, create a model that serves both institutions, and maximize the benefits of PDSs for all stakeholders. Participant teams are encouraged to include both school district members (principals, teachers, administrators) and university pre-service teacher faculty and administrators.

Presented by:  University of Georgia College of Education Office of School Engagement and Clarke County School District (CCSD)

Location: UGA Hotel and Conference Center, Athens, GA

Cost:  $200 on or before December 15, 2012.  After December 15, 2012: $225

Workshop Flyer

 For more information about the workshop: contact Erica Gilbertson, Project Manager, University of Georgia College of Education Office of School Engagement, ericag@uga.edu or Dr. Janna Dresden, Director, University of Georgia College of Education Office of School Engagement, jdresden@uga.edu

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Description:  The Fundamentals of Paraphrasing andSummarizingStrategy Workshop is designed to systematically teach the fundamental skills students need to be able to identify and paraphrase main ideas and details.  Fundamentals contains lessons on paraphrasing words, phrases, and sentences, as well as lessons on identifying main ideas and details in paragraphs and short essays. Specific instruction includes paraphrasing passages where main ideas are not clear, as well as generalizing to Standardized tests.

This one-day workshop will introduce teachers to the foundations of the Strategic instruction Model® (SIM®) and will prepare them to implement research-based interventions to help students acquire skills for effectively comprehending reading passages.

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Cost: $125 (includes parking pass, refreshment breaks, instructor’s manuals, packets of training materials, as well as supplemental handouts and PowerPoint presentations sent electronically following the workshop to augment instruction.)

Instructor: Kathy Boyle-Gast, Communication Sciences & Special Education, SIM® Professional Developer

Location: River’s Crossing, 850 College Station Road, Athens, Georgia 30605

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Description: Have you wanted to improve your Spanish abilities but find yourself stuck in the same limited range of vocabulary? Work with Dr. Misha Cahnmann-Taylor on reading and writing in Spanish using authentic, inspiring children’s literature. Participants will learn to use L2 reading and writing strategies to enhance Spanish language acquisition and how to access and use high interest Spanish language literacy materials.  From nursery rhymes to illustrated books for young children, participants in this course will learn how to use children’s materials to enhance their own Spanish language and support K-12 ESOL students’ emerging (bi) literacy. This workshop assumes participants have some novice-intermediate Spanish knowledge and/or have taken Part I.

Participants will:

• Experience creative practices for Spanish language acquisition (e.g. songs, movement, group work, reading circles, creative writing and dramatic play)
• Apply knowledge about second language learning to classroom instruction with ESOL students
• Learn how to find and use compelling children’s literature in Spanish for adult Spanish language learning
• Become role models for ALL students by continuing a lifelong, literacy-rich, language learning journey

 All students will receive a certificate of completion.

Instructor:  Dr. Melisa “Misha” Cahnmann-Taylor, Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia;  Featured Speaker at the 2012 Georgia TESOL Conference.

Cost: $100 (includes workshop materials, parking pass and refreshment break)

New Location: Aderhold Hall, Room 308, 110 Carlton Street, Athens GA 30602

Time: 1:00 - 4:00 PM

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Description: This one-day workshop is designed to enhance a teacher’s ability to understand and to work effectively with Spanish-speaking students and their families. No prior knowledge of Spanish is necessary. Workshop topics may include: writing letters to the Hispanic students’ parents; family customs and how they can relate to welcoming school and classroom environments; Mexican celebrations and holidays, and working with translation. Participants will:

• Take away key Spanish language and cultural knowledge for use in the classroom
• Apply knowledge about second language learning to classroom instruction
• Acquire strategic Spanish language abilities to nurture meaningful relationships with Latino students and their families
• Visit an authentic local Latino setting & use Spanish for authentic purposes
• Learn how to find and use materials in Spanish for use in the English language classroom
• Become role models for ALL students by starting a lifelong language learning journey

All students will receive a certificate of completion.

Instructor:  Dr. Melisa “Misha” Cahnmann-Taylor, Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education, University of Georgia; Featured Speaker at the 2012 Georgia TESOL Conference.

Cost:
$250 on or before November 1, 2012
After November 1, 2012: $275
Send 10 or more from your school and receive a discounted registration fee of $225 per person.
Bring $10 cash for lunch for the Spanish Emersion luncheon to be held at an authentic restaurant.

Time: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

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Description: Research studies suggest that opportunity and achievement gaps exist between students of color and White students. Additionally, research studies contend that opportunity and achievement gaps persist between students born into impoverished families and those who are born of privilege. While these gaps exist before students enter school, teachers play a pivotal role in students’ academic trajectories. Thus, the purpose of this full-day professional development session is to provide teachers with an opportunity to think about how their unobserved classroom practices influence the ways in which they interact with students. The first part of the day includes a session in which teachers begin to recognize and think about the inherent biases and stereotypes they might hold. The second half of the day includes developing strategies to overcome inherent biases and stereotypes, thus developing strategies to better engage and educate students. It is believed that once teachers are able to reach students, then they are able to teach students effectively. This, in turn, leads to improved academic achievement, regardless of students’ ethnicity, race, or socio-economic status.

Instructor: Sheneka Williams, Assistant Professor, Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, University of Georgia

Cost: $150 (includes a copy of the book Start Where you are but Don’t Stay There by Richard Milner, workshop materials and refreshment breaks)

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