OPI Special Education Trainings

Presenter - Shawna Heiser    Miles City Sleep Inn, March 10th & 11th Functions of Behaviors, Accommodations for students with Behavior Needs, SEL, and Teacher Self-Care and more.  REGISTER HERE MARCH 10  ABC Data, Data Management, Progress Monitoring, Supporting Para Educators and more.  REGISTER HERE MARCH 11 Learning Objectives: After attending this session, participants will Identify why difficult behaviors are occurring, and what to do to change the inappropriate behaviors. Gain knowledge about neurodiversity in students and trauma responses to every day school demands. Gain knowledge about regular education or 504 accommodations in the classroom and how to properly implement them for our students. Get information on what positive behavioral interventions can be most effectively utilized with students with trauma or differing disabilities.

Presenter - Joe Moria rt y Friday, February 11th 8:30am-3:30pm @ Richland County Ext en sion Office REGISTER HERE Check-In/Check-Out Behavior Intervention & PBIS PBIS initiatives help to improve school culture and climate by teaching and reinforcing positive behaviors. The majority of students in any given school will not need supports beyond Tier 1. However, for the roughly 15% of students who need behavior intervention support beyond the supports of Tier 1 PBIS implementation, there is Tier 2. The Check-In/Check-Out behavior intervention is a commonly used option for behavior supports within Tier 2.Tier 2 interventions provide additional support for students who need more support to meet their goals socially, emotionally, and/or academically. The objective of Tier 2 is to provide students with the tools to self-govern, allowing them to move back into to Tier 1. There are a number of interventions at this level to assist in that goal. Because Tier 2 interventions apply to a...

Presenter - Joe Moriarty Thursday, February 10th 4:15pm-7:15pm @ Richland County Extension Office REGISTER HERE This course explores the 8 effective classroom practices from the National Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) technical assistance center. Participants will identify three priority practices for their own classrooms, explore all eight practices, and create an action plan for immediate implementation.

  Registration Link November 5, 8:30-3:30 Sleep Inn Miles City, MT Audience- Prek K-5, title, paraeducators, SpEd teachers, Instructional coaches Number Sense am includes basic skills that children need to work fluently with numbers, Good number sense allows students to compare and order numbers, understand symbols that represent numbers, differentiate between more and less, and understand quantities. When students do not have good number sense, the struggle begins. Spend the morning playing games that will build better number sense and understand how these skills build to ore complex skills in later years. Outcomes: Participants will understand key skills for subitizing, counting, and carnality. Learn and play games to improve students' number sense in these three skill areas. Fraction Sense pm will teach us basic skills that children need to learn to work fluently with fractions. Good fraction sense allows students to name fractions, compose and decompose fractions (operatio...

  October 27, 4-5:30 ZOOM TRAINING Register for Bridge the Gap For more information about this training https://heggerty.org/curriculum/bridge-the-gap-phonemic-awareness-intervention-curriculum/ Literacy Inc., strongly suggests participants have the necessary manual for their trainings. Book information can be found here. Phonemic awareness, especially when working with older learners, is something that is not often part of classroom instruction or intervention. Yet, it is often the missing piece for students who struggle to decode and encode words. The lessons in Bridge the Gap were written to provide teachers, Reading Specialists, and interventionists with a simplified curriculum for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness with targeted instruction, based on student needs.

  October 21, Thursday - Cottonwood Inn, Glasgow MT 8:30-3:30 Tami BeBee-Schwartz will share on DI in Reading and Writing Direct and Explicit Instruction for Writing and Reading registration link found here We will dig deeply into the instructional strategies that are the cornerstone of direct and explicit instruction. Additionally, we will analyze how those strategies can be incorporated into any curriculum to increase student engagement and success rate. Examples of direct and explicit instruction will be provided for math and writing. Participants are encouraged to bring their teacher presentation books (curriculum) to apply notes and strategies as time will be provided for lesson planning/prepping.

October 12, 4-5:30pm ZOOM CALL REGISTER HERE About Brightways Learning Connection matters at Brightways Learning! Brightways is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization dedicated to student and educator success. Brightways Learning promotes and develops student and educator resilience through their services and personalized support. Their wholistic services give youth and adults the skills, understanding, and caring connections needed to strengthen their Full-Color Webs of Support. Brightways Learning’s positive, proven results include decreased risk behaviors, increased protective factors, enhanced school climate, and improved academic achievement. Description of Presentation: When students and adults understand the Full-Color Webs of Support™ framework, they see themselves - and each other - through a “whole person” lens. Growth happens and lives change. Please join us for an engaging and interactive introduction to the framework to understand how this process becomes authentic...

  Early PreK-K Friday, October 8, 8:30-11:30 AM registration link 1st/2nd and the Primary Extension for grades 3-5 October 8, 12:30-3:30 PM registration link Richland County Extension Office Education Room on North Central Ave This is a Face to Face training. Literacy Resources strongly suggests you have a Phonemic Awareness book available during the training. Teachers are welcome to share books. This training is for Early PreK-Kindergarten teachers. Literacy Resources,LLC, is the link to purchasing a book as needed. Participants are responsible for purchasing their own books. The Primary Extension had a digital platform available in August. Exciting news! The brand new Early Pre-Kindergarten Phonological Awareness curriculum will begin shipping today . In fact, Alisa just emerged from 4 days in the studio recording lesson videos and making final edits. The curriculum is intended for whole group instruction for 3 & 4 year old preschool classrooms, and daily lessons tak...

  Register here Part 1: Data for Inclusion-In IDEA requirements for the IEP focus around the idea that the program that is put in place enables involvement and progress in the general education curriculum. At the same time, the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act states that instruction for all students must be aligned to grade level standards. We will make connections between these ideas and the process of writing IEPs that support involvement and progress in the general education curriculum by exploring how to gather data and answer questions that lead to PLAAFP statements that provide useful data to be able to make data based decisions to improve inclusive practices for special education students. Part 2: High School Topics in Special Education-We will explore the topic of special education students and options for high school graduation and the related special education documents. Part 3: Technical Assistance and Burning Questions-We will reserve...