Presenters: Ron Dayton, Lynee Tourdot, Valerie Schmitz, and Beth Clarke

Price: Free

Description: Join CESA 2 consultants for a webinar that will review waiver jurisdictions and processes. We will dive into waiver information and make sense of it for your district. The focus will be on both understanding the procedures as well as giving thought to the decision-making and consequences of choosing to seek waivers.

There will also be collaboration time to:

- Share your district’s plan
- Discuss your timeline
- Develop strategies to move this work forward

Presenter: Jane Wray

Price: Free

Description: How has COVID-19 and the adjustment to virtual learning impacted your purchasing procedures and budget? How are your partners supporting you through this unprecedented time?

Partnerships are more important now than ever. Join Jane Wray of CESA Purchasing for a webinar around purchasing best practices and more! Jane will share how over 100 CESA Purchasing partners can support you. We will also explore how to plan for budgeting beyond COVID-19.

Presenters: Nicole Aldworth & Karen Russell

Cost: Free

Description: 

This is a networking opportunity for Early Childhood educators and administrators to discuss how they are navigating interactions with students and families, to share their own individual needs and challenges, and to ask questions of your colleagues. Send specific questions ahead of time to Nicole Aldworth at nicole.aldworth@cesa2.org.

During this time of continued changes, especially in regards to the delivery of special education services, Nicole and Karen will always direct any legal questions you have back to your own administration or encourage you to utilize the resources found through DPI or at the ECTA center.

There will be three networking opportunities:

EC Regular & Special Educators

Wednesday, April 15 1:00-2:30 pm

Related Service Providers (OT, SLP, PT, Social Workers, etc.) who support young learners

Friday, April 17 1:00-2:30 pm

Administrators who support young learners

Monday, April 20 1:00-2:30 pm

About the Presenters:

Karen Russell is the Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She comes to this position with over 20 years of experience as a teacher working with children and families in a variety of settings as an ECSE teacher within school district programming, an Early Interventionist with Birth to Three Programming, and as a 4K and 5K teacher. Karen holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education and special education.

Nicole Aldworth is an Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She joins CESA 2 with almost 20 years of experience working with young children and their families. Nicole spent most of her career working in the Sun Prairie Area School District and Marshall Public Schools teaching Early Childhood Special Education, 4K, and 5K. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education, special education. Providing rich and engaging early literacy opportunities for all children is a passion of hers, along with coaching and support of those working with young children.

Presenters: Robin Rivas, Audrey Lesondak, and Kimberly Romero

Price: Free

Description: In this two-part interactive online series, the CESA 2 Language & Culture team will walk participants through the process of creating a virtual lesson explicitly designed to support students’ language and academic learning. Participants will explore case studies that demonstrate how to scaffold online learning for multilingual learners who are at different language proficiency levels. Exemplars will highlight lesson planning and instruction across language domains at both the elementary and secondary levels. These sessions support classroom content teachers, ESL and bilingual teachers, coaches, and any educators responsible for creating virtual learning opportunities for multilingual learners.

This is the registration page for the 2nd day of this series. You can find the recording of the April 2 session, which focused on a language lesson and co-teaching for online learning, here.

Presenters: Nicole Aldworth & Karen Russell

Cost: Free

Description: 

This is a networking opportunity for Early Childhood educators and administrators to discuss how they are navigating interactions with students and families, to share their own individual needs and challenges, and to ask questions of your colleagues. Send specific questions ahead of time to Nicole Aldworth at nicole.aldworth@cesa2.org.

During this time of continued changes, especially in regards to the delivery of special education services, Nicole and Karen will always direct any legal questions you have back to your own administration or encourage you to utilize the resources found through DPI or at the ECTA center.

There will be three networking opportunities:

EC Regular & Special Educators

Wednesday, April 15 1:00-2:30 pm

Related Service Providers (OT, SLP, PT, Social Workers, etc.) who support young learners

Friday, April 17 1:00-2:30 pm

Administrators who support young learners

Monday, April 20 1:00-2:30 pm

About the Presenters:

Karen Russell is the Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She comes to this position with over 20 years of experience as a teacher working with children and families in a variety of settings as an ECSE teacher within school district programming, an Early Interventionist with Birth to Three Programming, and as a 4K and 5K teacher. Karen holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education and special education.

Nicole Aldworth is an Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She joins CESA 2 with almost 20 years of experience working with young children and their families. Nicole spent most of her career working in the Sun Prairie Area School District and Marshall Public Schools teaching Early Childhood Special Education, 4K, and 5K. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education, special education. Providing rich and engaging early literacy opportunities for all children is a passion of hers, along with coaching and support of those working with young children.

Presenters: Nicole Aldworth & Karen Russell

Cost: Free

Description: 

This is a networking opportunity for Early Childhood educators and administrators to discuss how they are navigating interactions with students and families, to share their own individual needs and challenges, and to ask questions of your colleagues. Send specific questions ahead of time to Nicole Aldworth at nicole.aldworth@cesa2.org.

During this time of continued changes, especially in regards to the delivery of special education services, Nicole and Karen will always direct any legal questions you have back to your own administration or encourage you to utilize the resources found through DPI or at the ECTA center.

There will be three networking opportunities:

EC Regular & Special Educators

Wednesday, April 15 1:00-2:30 pm

Related Service Providers (OT, SLP, PT, Social Workers, etc.) who support young learners

Friday, April 17 1:00-2:30 pm

Administrators who support young learners

Monday, April 20 1:00-2:30 pm

About the Presenters:

Karen Russell is the Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She comes to this position with over 20 years of experience as a teacher working with children and families in a variety of settings as an ECSE teacher within school district programming, an Early Interventionist with Birth to Three Programming, and as a 4K and 5K teacher. Karen holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education and special education.

Nicole Aldworth is an Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She joins CESA 2 with almost 20 years of experience working with young children and their families. Nicole spent most of her career working in the Sun Prairie Area School District and Marshall Public Schools teaching Early Childhood Special Education, 4K, and 5K. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education, special education. Providing rich and engaging early literacy opportunities for all children is a passion of hers, along with coaching and support of those working with young children.

Cost: $125

Description: This workshop is provided for all educators, school leaders and support staff who have responsibility for managing and communicating student data results for use by teachers, school leaders, parents, and other interested stakeholders.  The workshop will focus on building participant capacity to use the full range of tools available in WISEdash for Districts (AKA: “WISEdash Secure”).

The session facilitators will provide a review of basic navigation routines, an overview of data sources available and basic data analysis tools.  In addition, participants will receive detailed instruction and coaching for using more advanced tools including growth dashboards; snapshot tools; Dropout Early Warning System (DEWS) and College and Career Readiness Early Warning System (CCREWS); Cohort Manager; and Data Inquiry Journal tools. Time will be provided for guided practice using these tools to analyze your local data. You should consider attending this workshop if you have a basic familiarity with the WISEdash system and tools, but want to build your understanding and capacity for using these tools more effectively to guide school improvement and strategic planning efforts.

Description: The CESA 2 Language and Culture Center presents EL Live Webinars for 2019-20. Join us for one or more of our EL Live Webinars featuring important topics related to effectively educating multi-lingual learners. Register for each webinar individual. 

Oct. 23, 2019: Building Academic Vocabulary for EL Success
Understand why academic vocabulary is difficult for multi-lingual learners and learn how to implement 4 high-yield strategies for building academic vocabulary all from the comfort of your classroom or home. 

Jan 15, 2020: Identifying Potential Giftedness
Understand how to address the issues and difficulties of identifying potential giftedness in multi-lingual learners. 

April 22, 2020: Moving from Assessment to Instruction (using data to guide EL instruction)
As ACCESS scores begin to return to your district, gain a deeper understanding of how the ACCESS Scores are calculated, how to use the scale score to determine appropriate growth, and specific ways to use ACCESS data to plan effective instruction of ELs.

Cost: 

• Free for CESA 2 Title III Consortium
• Free for CESA 2 Immigrant Grant
• $59 per webinar for all other districts

1-3 credits available through Concordia at $149/credit, please contact Tere Masiarchin at tere.masiarchin@cesa2.org

About the Presenters:

Tere Masiarchin provides high quality and relevant professional development, needs assessment, and program support to school districts and teachers with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Tere comes to CESA 2 from CESA 6 where she was the Director of the Language and Culture Center.  Tere had previously spent 11 years in the Clintonville School District as the EL/Bilingual/Title III/21st CCLC Director and has been an adjunct professor at the UW-Green Bay. Tere is a national SIOP trainer and Thinking Maps Trainer.

Robin Rivas has worked as a teacher and administrator for 34 years with culturally and linguistically diverse  populations. Robin has also consulted in the areas of program development and professional learning and taught future educators at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Presenters: Beth Clarke and Jacob Granahan

Price: $300

Description: Are you looking to integrate STEAM activities into your classroom? Are you creating a space for innovative thinking and learning? Do you want students to engage in design and computational thinking experiences? This is the workshop for you! During this 3-day series you will tinker with and learn how to use resources that support STEAM learning (high and low tech), visit schools integrating STEAM principles and activities, and build application activities to get you started in your educational setting. Our success indicator will be your excitement and readiness to deepen and apply your STEAM learning.

This series will include 3 dates: February 19, 2020; April 23, 2020, and a school visit to Bookwood in Genoa City on March 11, 2020.

About the Presenters:

Beth Clarke is an innovative educator with a passion for digital leadership. She loves working with districts and teachers to unleash potential by leveraging digital tools and resources. Beth earned her Undergraduate degree in Art Education and her Graduate degree in Instructional Technology from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, she has procured her Education Administration licenses for Principalship and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Edgewood College. She has a love of learning and applying new strategies to classroom opportunities, professional learning, and presentations.

Jacob Granahan is a teacher and technology integrator from Genoa City Jt. 2 school district.  Jacob started his career in 2006 teaching 4th grade. He transitioned into technology which has been his focus for the last 7 years.  In addition to managing the district's iPads, Jacob currently teaches technology classes to K-8th grade students such as robotics, programming, coding, 3D printing, and video broadcasting.

Presenter: Paula Dabel

Description: TAN NETWORK MEMBERS ONLY.

Want to know more? 
Contact: Paula Dabel | paula.dabel@cesa2.org

About the Presenter:

Paula Dabel is the Transition Coordinator, Educational Consultant and CPI Trainer for CESA 2. Previously, Paula was a special education teacher in Wisconsin Rapids and Milton School Districts. Paula received her Bachelor and her Master's Degrees from UW- Whitewater. 

Cost: Free

Description: The CESA 2 Title I Coordinators gather annually to learn of any updates from DPI connected to the Federal ESSA/ESEA fund requirements. This is a great opportunity to network with other coordinators and learn how districts are using federal funds to increase equity and have a positive impact on student achievement.

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenters: Hector Portillo, Nicholas Mittnacht, Audrey Lesondak

Description: As a result of this training, participants can expect:

• Increased knowledge of legal responsibilities and requirements related to translation and interpretation of special education, including specialized terms or concepts in special education and confidentiality
• Increased skills to handle common ethical considerations
• Increased knowledge of tools and resources for interpreters
• Increased awareness of laws, regulations and policies related to the educational rights of students who are English Learners (ELs).

Participants will receive a certificate of completion that may be used to meet, in part, federal special education requirements related to “qualified” translators and interpreters.

Cost: $15, includes lunch

Cost: 

• $675 for non-CESA 2 Consortium Members
• Free for CESA 2 Consortium Members
• Up to 3 Grad Credits are available from Concordia College at an additional cost, $149 per credit. Please contact Tere Masiarchin for more details on Grad Credits, tere.masiarchin@cesa2.org.

Registration includes lunch and copy of featured book - Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher's Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success

Description: The CESA 2 ELL Network provides high-quality professional development and program support to school districts and teachers with culturally and linguistically diverse students. We facilitate the sharing of ideas, resources, and expertise within our member districts.

The ELL Network is Free for Title III Consortium members. Non-members may join and access valuable resources and networking opportunities, including:

• 4 full-day meetings with materials, lunch, and snack or Monthly Online Option Network Meetings
• Online resources for topics of network meetings
• Online office hours/coaching once a month
• ELevate Tips, Newsletters, and Videos

About the Presenters:

Tere Masiarchin provides high quality and relevant professional development, needs assessment, and program support to school districts and teachers with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Tere comes to CESA 2 from CESA 6 where she was the Director of the Language and Culture Center.  Tere had previously spent 11 years in the Clintonville School District as the EL/Bilingual/Title III/21st CCLC Director and has been an adjunct professor at the UW-Green Bay. Tere is a national SIOP trainer and Thinking Maps Trainer.

Robin Rivas has worked as a teacher and administrator for 34 years with culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Robin has also consulted in the areas of program development and professional learning and taught future educators at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Presenter: Molly Vierck

Cost: $220, includes lunch

Description: Educators will gain a deeper understanding of who qualifies as a student with a Most Significant Cognitive Disability while hearing what current research says in regards to:

• Best practices in designing programs for students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities
• Lesson design: connecting the state standard to the essential elements
• Utilizing the Instructional Tools Interface to inform and drive instruction

This session will also provide participants with resources that are available to support the learning of this population of students.

Presenter: Andrea Bertone and Iris Jacobson

Cost: $50
Free for participants from the Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin School for the Blind, and Wisconsin School for the Deaf.

Workshop Learning Objectives

• Participants will learn to use strategies around collaboration between related service providers and case managers and other IEP team members when developing IEPs.  
• Participants will increase understanding of options for supports for students with disability related needs affecting reading to increase reading outcomes.
• Participants will gain experience applying Steps 1-5 of the Five Step Process to support teams in developing IEPs designed to improve access, engagement, and progress for students.

Preparation for the Workshop

Participants are encouraged to review each of the Five Step Process Webinars or other resources (e.g. at a glance documents) available on the WI DPI CCR IEP Learning Resources web page. 

In addition, participants are strongly encouraged to attend in groups of at least two from the same district. Each participant must bring a copy of a student’s IEP* to use as reference or have access to an IEP online to use during the training. 

*Workshop participants are reminded of FERPA protections and are highly encouraged to redact personally identifiable information from IEPs they may happen to share with participants from other districts during workshop activities.

ISTE Certification is a competency-based, vendor-neutral teacher certification based on the ISTE Standards for Educators. It recognizes educators who use edtech for learning in meaningful and transformative ways.

Focused on pedagogy. Based on the ISTE Standards.

ISTE is focused on pedagogy, not tools. It’s not about edtech per se, it’s about what you do with the tech to transform learning and improve student outcomes.

Through the ISTE Certification process, teachers will participate in professional learning based on the ISTE Standards and transformative pedagogy. After completing the training, participants have six months to apply their learning and compile artifacts and reflections into a competency-based portfolio to earn ISTE Certification.

This is a 2-day face-to-face workshop, 10-week online modules, portfolio submissions with artifacts that exemplify your knowledge of the ISTE standards.

About the Presenter:

Beth Clarke is an innovative educator with a passion for digital leadership. She loves working with districts and teachers to unleash potential by leveraging digital tools and resources. Beth earned her Undergraduate degree in Art Education and her Graduate degree in Instructional Technology from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, she has procured her Education Administration licenses for Principalship and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Edgewood College. She has a love of learning and applying new strategies to classroom opportunities, professional learning, and presentations.

Presenter: Robin Rivas

Description: How do you meet the linguistic and cultural needs of English Learners within your multi-tiered system of support?

Participants will explore the WI framework of E-MLSS to identify local priority/need through a continuous improvement process, engage in conversations around systemic thinking, beliefs, and systematic practices, and identify potential approaches, solutions, or strategies (long term, medium term, short term).

Topics will include: Understanding ELs' and Their Needs, Introducing and applying WI Framework of E-MLSS, and Identifying Potential Giftedness of ELs.

Participants will examine their own systems of support to identify places for increased support of EL considerations. The focus will be on Tier 1, Tier 2, and potential giftedness.

Included is the book, Differentiation for Gifted Learners by Cash & Heacox, at no additional cost.

Cost:

• $180 for Non-members
• $60 for Immigrant Grant Members
• $60 for Title III Consortium Members

About the Presenter:

Robin Rivas has worked as a teacher and administrator for 34 years with culturally and linguistically diverse  populations. Robin has also consulted in the areas of program development and professional learning and taught future educators at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Robin Rivas is a member of the WI DPI Javits Grant team and has worked with districts on supporting their E-MLSS. Robin recently completed her case study on RtI and ELs as part of her doctoral program at Walden University.

ISTE Certification is a competency-based, vendor-neutral teacher certification based on the ISTE Standards for Educators. It recognizes educators who use edtech for learning in meaningful and transformative ways.

Focused on pedagogy. Based on the ISTE Standards.

ISTE is focused on pedagogy, not tools. It’s not about edtech per se, it’s about what you do with the tech to transform learning and improve student outcomes.

Through the ISTE Certification process, teachers will participate in professional learning based on the ISTE Standards and transformative pedagogy. After completing the training, participants have six months to apply their learning and compile artifacts and reflections into a competency-based portfolio to earn ISTE Certification.

This is a 2-day face-to-face workshop, 10-week online modules, portfolio submissions with artifacts that exemplify your knowledge of the ISTE standards.

About the Presenter:

Beth Clarke is an innovative educator with a passion for digital leadership. She loves working with districts and teachers to unleash potential by leveraging digital tools and resources. Beth earned her Undergraduate degree in Art Education and her Graduate degree in Instructional Technology from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, she has procured her Education Administration licenses for Principalship and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Edgewood College. She has a love of learning and applying new strategies to classroom opportunities, professional learning, and presentations.

Presenter: Audrey Lesondak, CESA 2 Consultant and Lead Designer of Wisconsin's MIP

Description: Wisconsin schools are required to use a uniform process for both identifying and exiting students from required English language support services. Since ACCESS English language proficiency assessment scores aren’t always enough for making eligibility determinations, schools are required at times to use the Multiple Indicator Protocol (MIP) as part of the EL decision-making process. The MIP allows for an in-depth look at students’ use of English within academic context.

The CESA 2 Language and Cultural Center (LCC)’s two-part workshop provides participants comprehensive training on when and how to use the MIP. Through case studies and hands-on examples, participants will:

1) Explore potential criteria, evidence, and artifacts that can be used for classroom observation and portfolio MIPs in the domains of reading, writing, speaking, and listening
2) Build a system for implementing and communicating the MIP within their local context
3) Acquire foundational knowledge for recognizing varying levels of academic language -- knowledge that is useful for MIP implementation, lesson planning, and instruction.

The May session will focus on using the MIP for reclassification and the August session will emphasize how to use the MIP for EL identification.

Cost: 

• $40 for CESA 2 Title III Consortium Members
• $180 for all others

Presenters: Dr. Valerie Schmitz

Cost: No Cost

Description:

Join us for a virtual networking session for new principals. We will share resources and practices specific to our work in Educator Effectiveness and work as new leaders in schools. The meetings are offered at no charge and will be held via zoom. A camera and microphone is suggested.

The URL to join is https://zoom.us/my/valerieschmitz

About the Presenter:

Dr. Valerie Schmitz is the Educator Data and Practice Specialist for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.

8:30am- Networking/check-in

9:00am - Meeting

2019-20 PAC Meeting Agendas TBD

Presenter: Valerie Schmitz, PhD

Cost: $0

Description: DPI UMS Meeting for Educator Effectiveness (EE Model)

About the Presenter:

Valerie Schmitz, PhD is the Senior Director of the Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.

Presenters: Kirstin McDaniel, Social Studies Consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction & Dr. Valerie Schmitz, Senior Director, Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2

Cost: $450 for entire 3 day series or $175 per day

Description: The Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies (2018) have been adopted by the Wisconsin State Superintendent. The new standards provide a foundation that identifies what students should know and be able to do in social studies classes. During this workshop you will work on implementing these standards.

Presenters: Kirstin McDaniel, Social Studies Consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction & Dr. Valerie Schmitz, Senior Director, Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2

Cost: $175 per day or $450 for entire 3 day series

Description: The Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies (2018) have been adopted by the Wisconsin State Superintendent. The new standards provide a foundation that identifies what students should know and be able to do in social studies classes. During this workshop you will work on implementing these standards.

Presenter: Beth Clarke, CESA 2's Senior Director of Digital Leadership & Learning

Description: Technology Leadership Network provides facilitation to support dialogue pertaining to district technology. Participants will learn, share, and problem-solve new ways of integrating technology in educational systems. This is a great network to connect and support each other collaboratively.

Cost: $150

About the Presenter:

Beth Clarke is an innovative educator with a passion for digital leadership. She loves working with districts and teachers to unleash potential by leveraging digital tools and resources. Beth earned her Undergraduate degree in Art Education and her Graduate degree in Instructional Technology from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, she has procured her Education Administration licenses for Principalship and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Edgewood College. She has a love of learning and applying new strategies to classroom opportunities, professional learning, and presentations.

Presenter: Beth Clarke

Description: Library Media Specialists will come together to work on Future Ready Library plans and collaborate on topics and current issues that support libraries and the systems around them. We will collect resources and materials to create and support programming goals. Finally, we will dedicate time for sharing and discussing ideas and methodology that is applicable in the field.

Cost: $25

Network Dates:

• October 18, 2019
• January 24, 2020
• March 18, 2020
• May 15, 2020

About the Presenter:

Beth Clarke is an innovative educator with a passion for digital leadership. She loves working with districts and teachers to unleash potential by leveraging digital tools and resources. Beth earned her Undergraduate degree in Art Education and her Graduate degree in Instructional Technology from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, she has procured her Education Administration licenses for Principalship and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Edgewood College. She has a love of learning and applying new strategies to classroom opportunities, professional learning, and presentations.

Description: Under ESSA and WI DPI requirements, every district must have an EL Plan identifying your Language Instruction Educational Program (LIEP) and describe how your LIEP will be implemented to meet the needs of your English Learners. If your district needs to create or update your District EL Plan, this workshop is for you. Join Robin and Tere for a guided 2-day workshop series in which participants will complete their district EL Plan. Robin and Tere have over 50 years of combined EL leadership experience in both rural and urban educational settings. Understanding both the legal requirements and best practices for educating ELs, Robin and Tere will lead you in creating the best EL plan for your individual district. 

District teams are strongly encouraged to attend.

Companion workshop you may be interested in: EL 101: What Admin Need to Know

Cost:

• Free for CESA 2 Consortium Members
• Free for Immigrant Grant Members
• $350 for all other districts

About the Presenters:

Tere Masiarchin provides high quality and relevant professional development, needs assessment, and program support to school districts and teachers with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Tere comes to CESA 2 from CESA 6 where she was the Director of the Language and Culture Center.  Tere had previously spent 11 years in the Clintonville School District as the EL/Bilingual/Title III/21st CCLC Director and has been an adjunct professor at the UW-Green Bay. Tere is a national SIOP trainer and Thinking Maps Trainer.

Robin Rivas has worked as a teacher and administrator for 34 years with culturally and linguistically diverse  populations. Robin has also consulted in the areas of program development and professional learning and taught future educators at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Facilitator: Julie Preman

Cost: Free

Description: The Regional Special Education Network (RSN) is an alliance of CESA #2 Special Education Directors who work in cooperation with the Department of Public Instruction. The overarching purpose of the RSN is to advance growth in academic achievement and career and community-based opportunities for students with disabilities by developing LEA capacity, fostering collaboration, and providing technical assistance to districts in a coordinated effort with other IDEA discretionary grants.

Learn and use continuous improvement strategies to address inequitable student outcomes.

Presenters: Deidra Gorman, Julie Preman, Ed O'Connor, Valerie Schmitz & Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: Free, includes lunch

Description: The CESA 2 Continuous Improvement Network is a grant funded series intended to support districts and schools in learning to address inequitable student outcomes by refining their equitable multilevel systems of support. Districts and schools identified as in need of improvement (by ESSA and IDEA) get early access to registration, but all districts are encouraged to join in the learning.

6:30 pm - hors d'oeuvre and registration

7:00 pm - Delegate Convention begins

Presenters: Blair Perzentka and Danielle Bendt (from Grading Day in Wis. Dells)

Cost: $300, includes lunch

Description: Develop resources and tools as you experience learning processes that work to support change!

Bring a team to CESA 2 and continue the collaborative work of developing standards-aligned grading in your district! Work with experienced high school teachers who have been implementing and learning for a number of years. Develop parent and student communication tools, consider instructional shifts, clarify success criteria, and design common assessments that inform instruction and promote a growth mindset in our students and schools' culture.

Day one will support rubric development and communication. Day two will dive deeply into the instructional practices that support a culture of growth and learning. If possible, please attend in grade-level or content-area teams.

ISTE Certification is a competency-based, vendor-neutral teacher certification based on the ISTE Standards for Educators. It recognizes educators who use edtech for learning in meaningful and transformative ways.

Focused on pedagogy. Based on the ISTE Standards.

ISTE is focused on pedagogy, not tools. It’s not about edtech per se, it’s about what you do with the tech to transform learning and improve student outcomes.

Through the ISTE Certification process, teachers will participate in professional learning based on the ISTE Standards and transformative pedagogy. After completing the training, participants have six months to apply their learning and compile artifacts and reflections into a competency-based portfolio to earn ISTE Certification.

This is a 2-day face-to-face workshop, 10-week online modules, portfolio submissions with artifacts that exemplify your knowledge of the ISTE standards.

About the Presenter:

Beth Clarke is an innovative educator with a passion for digital leadership. She loves working with districts and teachers to unleash potential by leveraging digital tools and resources. Beth earned her Undergraduate degree in Art Education and her Graduate degree in Instructional Technology from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, she has procured her Education Administration licenses for Principalship and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Edgewood College. She has a love of learning and applying new strategies to classroom opportunities, professional learning, and presentations.

ISTE Certification is a competency-based, vendor-neutral teacher certification based on the ISTE Standards for Educators. It recognizes educators who use edtech for learning in meaningful and transformative ways.

Focused on pedagogy. Based on the ISTE Standards.

ISTE is focused on pedagogy, not tools. It’s not about edtech per se, it’s about what you do with the tech to transform learning and improve student outcomes.

Through the ISTE Certification process, teachers will participate in professional learning based on the ISTE Standards and transformative pedagogy. After completing the training, participants have six months to apply their learning and compile artifacts and reflections into a competency-based portfolio to earn ISTE Certification.

This is a 2-day face-to-face workshop, 10-week online modules, portfolio submissions with artifacts that exemplify your knowledge of the ISTE standards.

About the Presenter:

Beth Clarke is an innovative educator with a passion for digital leadership. She loves working with districts and teachers to unleash potential by leveraging digital tools and resources. Beth earned her Undergraduate degree in Art Education and her Graduate degree in Instructional Technology from UW-Whitewater. Additionally, she has procured her Education Administration licenses for Principalship and Director of Curriculum and Instruction from Edgewood College. She has a love of learning and applying new strategies to classroom opportunities, professional learning, and presentations.

Presenter: Valerie Schmitz, PhD

Cost: $0

Description: This is the registration page for the Educator Effectiveness EE (DPI Model) User Meetings.

About the Presenter:

Valerie Schmitz, PhD is the Senior Director of the Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.

Presenter: Valerie Schmitz, PhD

Cost: $0

Description: This is the registration page for the Educator Effectiveness CESA 6 Model - EPIC Meeting.

About the Presenter:

Valerie Schmitz, PhD is the Senior Director of the Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.

Presenters: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: No cost, includes lunch

Description: The Title I Network supports individuals responsible for grant management in districts across CESA 2. This will be a facilitated opportunity to meet and network with other grant coordinators, get updates from DPI related to ESEA/ESSA, and learn or review the basic requirements of the grant. There will be facilitated grant application support during the last hour of the meeting.

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenters: Blair Perzentka and Danielle Bendt (from Grading Day in Wis. Dells)

Cost: $300, includes lunch

Description: Develop resources and tools as you experience learning processes that work to support change!

Bring a team to CESA 2 and continue the collaborative work of developing standards-aligned grading in your district! Work with experienced high school teachers who have been implementing and learning for a number of years. Develop parent and student communication tools, consider instructional shifts, clarify success criteria, and design common assessments that inform instruction and promote a growth mindset in our students and schools' culture.

Day one will support rubric development and communication. Day two will dive deeply into the instructional practices that support a culture of growth and learning. If possible, please attend in grade-level or content-area teams.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $375 for entire series, lunch included

Description: 

This three-day series is meant to guide educators in planning effective instruction in any content area using a workshop structure. The focus will be on clear instruction, equity, and engagement. There will be time embedded for collaborative planning, so come as a teaching team!

Day one will be an overview of the structure and research to support it. In addition, we will zoom in on how to deliver instruction with clarity, intention, and purpose.

Day two will focus on equity. What does it mean? How do we do it? What do we need to consider? We will examine beginning of the year formative data to determine next steps and intentional instructional moves that support success for each and every learner.

Day three is all about engagement. What does it take to engage learners? Through self-assessment and use of student voice, we will design our instruction to reach-out and hook our learners into falling in love with learning.

This is the registration page for the entire series. Register for individual days below:

Day 1: August 19

Day 2: October 21

Day 3: December 16

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $150 for single day, lunch included

Description: 

This three-day series is meant to guide educators in planning effective instruction in any content area using a workshop structure. The focus will be on clear instruction, equity, and engagement. There will be time embedded for collaborative planning, so come as a teaching team!

Day one will be an overview of the structure and research to support it. In addition, we will zoom in on how to deliver instruction with clarity, intention, and purpose.

Day two will focus on equity. What does it mean? How do we do it? What do we need to consider? We will examine beginning of the year formative data to determine next steps and intentional instructional moves that support success for each and every learner.

Day three is all about engagement. What does it take to engage learners? Through self-assessment and use of student voice, we will design our instruction to reach-out and hook our learners into falling in love with learning.

This is the registration page for DAY 1 ONLY. Register for individual days or for the entire series below:

Entire Series

Day 1: August 19

Day 2: October 21

Day 3: December 16

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $375 for entire series, lunch included

Description: Newly released and updated State of Wisconsin English Language Arts Standard will help school teams review their universal ELA curriculum and alignment. This three-day opportunity will guide district teams as they review updates and consider implications to build equity and access to effective English Language Arts instruction across K-12 classrooms.

This is the registration page for the entire series. Register for individual days below:
 

Day 1: August 20 - Initial Roll-out New ELA Standards

Day 2: October 13

Day 3: December 10

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $150 for one day only, lunch included

Description: Newly released and updated State of Wisconsin English Language Arts Standard will help school teams review their universal ELA curriculum and alignment. This three-day opportunity will guide district teams as they review updates and consider implications to build equity and access to effective English Language Arts instruction across K-12 classrooms.

This is the registration page for DAY 1 ONLY. Register for individual days or the entire series below:

Entire Series

Day 1: August 20 - Initial Roll-out New ELA Standards

Day 2: October 13

Day 3: December 10

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Audrey Lesondak, CESA 2 Consultant and Lead Designer of Wisconsin's MIP

Description: Wisconsin schools are required to use a uniform process for both identifying and exiting students from required English language support services. Since ACCESS English language proficiency assessment scores aren’t always enough for making eligibility determinations, schools are required at times to use the Multiple Indicator Protocol (MIP) as part of the EL decision-making process. The MIP allows for an in-depth look at students’ use of English within academic context.

The CESA 2 Language and Cultural Center (LCC)’s two-part workshop provides participants comprehensive training on when and how to use the MIP. Through case studies and hands-on examples, participants will:

1) Explore potential criteria, evidence, and artifacts that can be used for classroom observation and portfolio MIPs in the domains of reading, writing, speaking, and listening
2) Build a system for implementing and communicating the MIP within their local context
3) Acquire foundational knowledge for recognizing varying levels of academic language -- knowledge that is useful for MIP implementation, lesson planning, and instruction.

The May session will focus on using the MIP for reclassification and the August session will emphasize how to use the MIP for EL identification.

Cost: 

• $40 for CESA 2 Title III Consortium Members
• $180 for all others

Presenter: Valerie Schmitz, PhD

Cost: $0

Description: This is the registration page for the Educator Effectiveness CESA 6 Model - EPIC Meeting.

About the Presenter:

Valerie Schmitz, PhD is the Senior Director of the Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.

Presenter: Valerie Schmitz, PhD

Cost: $0

Description: This is the registration page for the Educator Effectiveness EE (DPI Model) User Meetings.

About the Presenter:

Valerie Schmitz, PhD is the Senior Director of the Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.

Presenters: Nicole Aldworth & Karen Russell

Cost: $15

Description: 

This training will give you an understanding and the State Targets of Indicators 6, 7, and 12, as well as cover the topics below:

• Indicator 6—Preschool Environments - Accurate Coding and Use of the Decision Tree - WISEdata Reporting - State Targets
• Indicator 7—Child Outcomes - Three Outcome Areas - How to Access, Collect Evidence, and Determine Ratings - Indicator 7 Child Outcomes Application
• Indicator 12—Birth to 3 Program Transition - Transition Planning Conferences and Interagency Agreements - Accurate and Timely Reporting - Program Participation System (PPS) Application

Please bring a printed copy of an Indicator 7 entry and exit record that you have completed in the WAMS application. If you have not completed one yet, bring one from your district that someone else has completed.

About the Presenters:

Karen Russell is the Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She comes to this position with over 20 years of experience as a teacher working with children and families in a variety of settings as an ECSE teacher within school district programming, an Early Interventionist with Birth to Three Programming, and as a 4K and 5K teacher. Karen holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education and special education.

Nicole Aldworth is an Early Childhood Program Support Teacher at CESA 2. She joins CESA 2 with almost 20 years of experience working with young children and their families. Nicole spent most of her career working in the Sun Prairie Area School District and Marshall Public Schools teaching Early Childhood Special Education, 4K, and 5K. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of early childhood education, special education. Providing rich and engaging early literacy opportunities for all children is a passion of hers, along with coaching and support of those working with young children.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $375 for entire series, lunch included

Description: Newly released and updated State of Wisconsin English Language Arts Standard will help school teams review their universal ELA curriculum and alignment. This three-day opportunity will guide district teams as they review updates and consider implications to build equity and access to effective English Language Arts instruction across K-12 classrooms.

This is the registration page for the entire series. Register for individual days below:
 

Day 1: August 20 - Initial Roll-out New ELA Standards

Day 2: October 13

Day 3: December 10

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $150 for one day only, lunch included

Description: Newly released and updated State of Wisconsin English Language Arts Standard will help school teams review their universal ELA curriculum and alignment. This three-day opportunity will guide district teams as they review updates and consider implications to build equity and access to effective English Language Arts instruction across K-12 classrooms.

This is the registration page for DAY 2 ONLY. Register for individual days or the entire series below:

Entire Series

Day 1: August 20 - Initial Roll-out New ELA Standards

Day 2: October 13

Day 3: December 10

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $375 for entire series, lunch included

Description: 

This three-day series is meant to guide educators in planning effective instruction in any content area using a workshop structure. The focus will be on clear instruction, equity, and engagement. There will be time embedded for collaborative planning, so come as a teaching team!

Day one will be an overview of the structure and research to support it. In addition, we will zoom in on how to deliver instruction with clarity, intention, and purpose.

Day two will focus on equity. What does it mean? How do we do it? What do we need to consider? We will examine beginning of the year formative data to determine next steps and intentional instructional moves that support success for each and every learner.

Day three is all about engagement. What does it take to engage learners? Through self-assessment and use of student voice, we will design our instruction to reach-out and hook our learners into falling in love with learning.

This is the registration page for the entire series. Register for individual days below:

Day 1: August 19

Day 2: October 21

Day 3: December 16

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $150 for single day, lunch included

Description: 

This three-day series is meant to guide educators in planning effective instruction in any content area using a workshop structure. The focus will be on clear instruction, equity, and engagement. There will be time embedded for collaborative planning, so come as a teaching team!

Day one will be an overview of the structure and research to support it. In addition, we will zoom in on how to deliver instruction with clarity, intention, and purpose.

Day two will focus on equity. What does it mean? How do we do it? What do we need to consider? We will examine beginning of the year formative data to determine next steps and intentional instructional moves that support success for each and every learner.

Day three is all about engagement. What does it take to engage learners? Through self-assessment and use of student voice, we will design our instruction to reach-out and hook our learners into falling in love with learning.

This is the registration page for DAY 2 ONLY. Register for individual days or the entire series below:
Entire Series

Day 1: August 19

Day 2: October 21

Day 3: December 16

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $375 for entire series, lunch included

Description: Newly released and updated State of Wisconsin English Language Arts Standard will help school teams review their universal ELA curriculum and alignment. This three-day opportunity will guide district teams as they review updates and consider implications to build equity and access to effective English Language Arts instruction across K-12 classrooms.

This is the registration page for the entire series. Register for individual days below:
 

Day 1: August 20 - Initial Roll-out New ELA Standards

Day 2: October 13

Day 3: December 10

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $150 for one day only, lunch included

Description: Newly released and updated State of Wisconsin English Language Arts Standard will help school teams review their universal ELA curriculum and alignment. This three-day opportunity will guide district teams as they review updates and consider implications to build equity and access to effective English Language Arts instruction across K-12 classrooms.

This is the registration page for DAY 3 ONLY. Register for individual days or the entire series below:

Entire Series

Day 1: August 20 - Initial Roll-out New ELA Standards

Day 2: October 13

Day 3: December 10

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $375 for entire series, lunch included

Description: 

This three-day series is meant to guide educators in planning effective instruction in any content area using a workshop structure. The focus will be on clear instruction, equity, and engagement. There will be time embedded for collaborative planning, so come as a teaching team!

Day one will be an overview of the structure and research to support it. In addition, we will zoom in on how to deliver instruction with clarity, intention, and purpose.

Day two will focus on equity. What does it mean? How do we do it? What do we need to consider? We will examine beginning of the year formative data to determine next steps and intentional instructional moves that support success for each and every learner.

Day three is all about engagement. What does it take to engage learners? Through self-assessment and use of student voice, we will design our instruction to reach-out and hook our learners into falling in love with learning.

This is the registration page for the entire series. Register for individual days below:

Day 1: August 19

Day 2: October 21

Day 3: December 16

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Mary Jo Ziegler

Cost: $150 for single day, lunch included

Description: 

This three-day series is meant to guide educators in planning effective instruction in any content area using a workshop structure. The focus will be on clear instruction, equity, and engagement. There will be time embedded for collaborative planning, so come as a teaching team!

Day one will be an overview of the structure and research to support it. In addition, we will zoom in on how to deliver instruction with clarity, intention, and purpose.

Day two will focus on equity. What does it mean? How do we do it? What do we need to consider? We will examine beginning of the year formative data to determine next steps and intentional instructional moves that support success for each and every learner.

Day three is all about engagement. What does it take to engage learners? Through self-assessment and use of student voice, we will design our instruction to reach-out and hook our learners into falling in love with learning.

This is the registration page for DAY 3 ONLY. Register for individual days or the entire series below:

Entire Series

Day 1: August 19

Day 2: October 21

Day 3: December 16

About the Presenter:

Mary Jo Ziegler has worked in diverse educational settings for over 30 years. The first 15 years of her career were spent in classrooms teaching grades 2-8. After earning an M.S. in Reading, she moved into an instructional coaching and intervention role at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. A second Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership led to roles as district instructional resource teacher, a literacy coordinator, PK-12 director of instruction, and DPI consultant. Across the years, MJ has worked to support educators as they design engaging and effective learning opportunities that motivate achievement by building routines and scaffolds to guide students through successful learning experiences.

Presenter: Valerie Schmitz, PhD

Cost: $0

Description: This is the registration page for the Educator Effectiveness EE (DPI Model) User Meetings.

About the Presenter:

Valerie Schmitz, PhD is the Senior Director of the Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.

Presenter: Valerie Schmitz, PhD

Cost: $0

Description: This is the registration page for the Educator Effectiveness CESA 6 Model - EPIC Meeting.

About the Presenter:

Valerie Schmitz, PhD is the Senior Director of the Continuous Improvement and Implementation Center of Excellence for CESA 2. In this position, Valerie leads the regional work for educator development and district implementation of the Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, as well as data analysis and school improvement. Valerie has deep expertise in this work, serving as the Educator Effectiveness Coordinator at CESA 6 for the past four years. She has assisted districts with implementation of both Educator Effectiveness and the Effectiveness Project. She also has deep expertise in data analysis, systems analysis, and school improvement. Valerie has earned a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning as well as an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She also holds a M.Ed. in Technology Education as well as an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership.