Description Last Updated: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Fiscal
Data Processing - Fiscal
A Death in Your School (View any scheduled events) This training is an internal look on how a school building and district can effectively respond when there is a student or staff death. This training will also explore appropriate ways to respond to a completed suicide which impacts the school. There are important and key roles for principals, counselors, teachers, and support staff to play when a death occurs. These roles are explored in detail as a means of appropriate response. This training format is a combination of lecture, discussion and responding to scenarios. Topic areas include:
Exploring the types of crises, including special considerations in case of suicide
How to handle critical information
Media response
Coordinating the crisis response
Measuring the level of crisis impact
Mobilizing the crisis team and other critical resources
Coordination of counseling and other responsive services
Explore duties of principals and other staff during a crisis
Memorials on campus
Long term support after the initial crisis
Description Last Updated: Friday, November 2, 2007
Co-Sponsored and hosted by the Yakama Nation Alcoholism Program and Yakima County Meth Action Team. Friday, May 8th will be a special day for adults and professionals - for anyone and everyone who is impacted by meth usage - to attend. The adult/professional day speaker is Dr. Dennis Embry, Ph.D., CEO of PAXIS Institute and world-renowned author and speaker.
Description Last Updated: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Co-Sponsored and hosted by the Yakama Nation Alcoholism Program and Yakima County Meth Action Team. Thursday, May 7th will be a special day for youth to attend. The youth day presenter is Todd Denny, M.S.W., creator of Gear Up with Music. Gear Up with Music is a program that teaches youth how to use music to send a message. In this forum, youth teams will develop their own song which expresses their beliefs about healthy choices and prevention education. The groups will perform their song to other forum participants and leave with the challenge of presenting their songs to classrooms, at school assemblies, and in their communities as peer educators. Youth are immersed in leadership, healthy choices, and prevention education through music production.
This training is to assist school personnel to recognize and provide eligible students with 504 accommodations.The 504 plan is designed to meet the individual needs of students with disabilities to the same extent as the needs of students without disabilities.An appropriate education for a student with a disability under the Section 504 regulations could consist of education in regular classrooms, education in regular classes with supplementary services, and/or education and related services.
At the end of the training the participants will be able to:
Define what a disability is
Define who is eligible for a 504 plan
Describe how the 504 team interfaces with one another
This training opportunity will include a brief overview of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including common characteristics, sensory processing differences, and behaviors of children with ASD. Participants will be exposed to strategies that can be utilized in the general education classroom to help students on the autism spectrum be more successful. These strategies include adaptive supports for reading, math, writing, spelling and test taking. Utilizing visual supports in creating successful transitions and visual cues that prompt better learning and social engagement will also be covered. This workshop will be especially beneficial for general education teachers and specialists.
Description Last Updated: Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Autism Behavior
Special Education
Accommodations in the General Classroom (View any scheduled events) This workshop will include a brief overview of Asperger's Syndrome and Autism, common characteristics and behaviors of children with Asperger's and will then discuss strategies that can be utilized in the general education classroom to help students on the autism spectrum be more successful. This workshop will be especially beneficial for general education teachers and specialists. (Repeat of last year)
Description Last Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007
Accommodations Autism Behavior Para Professional
Special Education
Accommodations Training (View any scheduled events) The Accommodations Leadership Team will meet with building staffs to design an on-going training for general and special education teachers. The training will focus on learning and practicing accommodations strategies that will help all students be more successful in the general education classroom
Description Last Updated: Friday, January 16, 2004
Accommodations
Special Education
Accounting System Training - 101 (View any scheduled events) ESD 105 Internal Staff only! We will review the accounting system and Chart of Accounts used by ESD 105, and analyze financial accounting reports as they apply to departments and divisions.
Description Last Updated: Friday, January 16, 2004
Description Last Updated: Friday, January 16, 2004
Data Processing - Fiscal
Activities That Teach Life Skills (View any scheduled events) Active Learning is an innovative teaching strategy that can increase a student's ability to assimilate and retain information. Tom Jackson has published over 140 activities which address a full range of life skills such as communication, goal setting, self-esteem, problem solving, decision making, substance abuse, values, stress management, anger management, violence prevention, working together and more. He will share the theory of active learning, the actual activities themselves, and how to process the activity after it has been conducted.
This workshop will cover the most advanced features in Excel. It will cover pivot tables and charts, inter-worksheet formulas, conditional formating, print controls and other features. Significant Excel experience or participation in Excel for Educators/Excel for Office Staff required.
Description Last Updated: Thursday, October 1, 2009
Using PowerPoint effectively and completely as an educational tool requires many skills and techniques that are not typically shared with teachers. Here is your chance to start using advanced techniques in PowerPoint to create improved instructional materials. This class is designed to provide teachers with skills and experience in:
Effective Animation in Teaching PowerPoints
Modifying Slide Designs
Automated Animation for sharing concepts, stories and understandings
Using Sound, Music and Video
Interactive Animation and Triggers for Questioning and other activities
Participants will receive operational example files that can be put to immediate use in the classroom. Participants are expected to be comfortable with typical, basic use of PowerPoint.
Description Last Updated: Thursday, October 23, 2008
Interested in advanced WWW Publishing techniques and Cascading Style Sheets to your WWW site? This class is intended to take WWW publishers to the "next level" to add advanced features to their website(s) easily through the use of CSS. Stylesheets allow Web designers to adjust text quickly and easily throughout an entire Website by editing one document. CSS also provides many additional features not previously available on Webpages. Prior WWW Publishing experience required
Description Last Updated: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Examine key issues in adolescent literacy including the skills needed as students move from "learning to read" to "reading to learn", writing in all content areas, motivation, and the new literacies of the 21st Century. Participants will plan to implement strategies in their classroom setting. "For adolescents, school-based literacy shifts as students engage with disciplinary content and a wide variety of difficult texts and writing tasks." (NCTE Policy Brief)
Description Last Updated: Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Maltreatment is now known to affect at least five brain development processes.
Cognitive, behavioral, social and mental health consequences are associated with the known brain effects of early trauma.
Nearly two dozen health outcomes, including depression, addiction and heart disease are linked to adverse childhood experience.
Child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences create the climate for brain development. Learn about what, how, and why child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences affect short and long-term emotional and physical health? This workshop will present emerging brain research integrating brain and epidemiology studies clearly connecting adverse childhood experiences to cognitive, social, physical, and mental health problems.
Maltreatment is now known to affect at least five brain development processes.
Cognitive, behavioral, social and mental health consequences are associated with the known brain effects of early trauma.
Nearly two dozen health outcomes, including depression, addiction and heart disease are linked to adverse childhood experience.
Child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences create the climate for brain development. Learn about what, how, and why child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences affect short and long-term emotional and physical health? This workshop will present emerging brain research integrating brain and epidemiology studies clearly connecting adverse childhood experiences to cognitive, social, physical, and mental health problems.
