Professional Development Workshops
This course will equip teachers and school counselors to better understand and address perfectionism in their students. Participants will learn how to recognize signs and consequences of unhealthy perfectionism and implement strategies to support these students. By the end, teachers will be able to differentiate instruction for perfectionistic learners, teach coping strategies, create supportive classroom environments, and guide students in shifting unhealthy mindsets. The course emphasizes fostering a growth mindset, embracing mistakes as learning opportunities, and using approaches like mindfulness and bibliotherapy to promote student well-being and resilience.
This course includes independent applications of learned material in classroom situations. Upon successful completion of this class, participants will receive 4 hours of recertification credit.
Date: October 14, 2024 - November 18, 2024
Location: Virtual: Asynchronous and self-paced
Cost: $40
Facilitator: Paige Riffle
Paige Riffle is the Librarian at Tanque Verde High School. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona and is a certified teacher with an endorsement in gifted education. As the librarian, she collaborates with teachers to personalize student learning, help students develop critical thinking skills, and connect students with good books for research and personal enjoyment. As a gifted learner herself, she is passionate about helping her high school students understand the nuances of giftedness and equipping them to thrive in school and beyond. Paige is a member of the Southern Arizona Gifted Network.
This FREE workshop is designed to engage Prek-5th grade educators in the dynamics of the desert and its watersheds.
This workshop incorporates hands-on activities, scientific experiments and a desert walk. Participants will receive two books: Hidden Life of the Desert, and Cactus Hotel, Desert Dwellers kit, posters, and materials and supplies for three STEM lessons.
A collaboration between Pima County Superintendent’s Office-The STEMAZing Project, Pima County Environmental Quality, and Pima County Conservation Lands & Resources.
Date: Saturday, November 16, 2024
Time: 8:00 am- 11:00 am
Place: Desert Discovery Center
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Cognitive giftedness is one type of neurodivergence. Twice exceptionality refers to cognitive giftedness layered with another type of neurodivergence, such as ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, or Dysgraphia. Participants will learn about the four key ingredients needed to create a neurodiversity affirming classroom and school as described by Emily Kircher-Morris, gifted educator and counselor. Participants will walk away with the skills they need to meet the needs of every gifted learner.
This course includes independent applications of learned material in classroom situations. Upon successful completion of this class, participants will receive 6 hours of recertification credit.
Date: January 20, 2025 - February 24, 2025
Cost: $45
Facilitator: Vanessa Hill
Vanessa has been an educator for over twenty years. She is a gifted specialist who taught in Title 1 schools for a decade before becoming Amphitheater Public Schools Gifted Education Coordinator. Vanessa has two twice exceptional children of her own, so understands the unique needs of this population on a very personal level. She has presented at the AAGT Annual Conference, the NAGC Annual Convention, and the ADE Teacher's Institute and Leading Change Conference. Vanessa facilitates professional learning experiences for gifted and general classroom educators. Vanessa is the 2019 AAGT Gifted Educator of the Year, Raytheon Leaders in Education Award Finalist 2021, and the 2024 NAGC National Gifted Coordinator Award Recipient.
Teachers who facilitate meetings with their peers encounter unique challenges. Often, they struggle to balance the demands of managing time, energy and processes while simultaneously navigating the challenges of being a colleague and maintaining one’s own professional integrity.
This is the workshop for teacher-leaders who:
The goal of this two-day workshop is to increase the quality of collaboration that produces benefits for students. You will gain an enhanced understanding of the importance of facilitation. Through a variety of learning formats, you will experience the effects of the Five Mindsets and recognize them in facilitation. You will increase your efficacy and repertoire of tools and processes to operationalize each Mindset.
Based on the Teachers As Facilitators handbook and Teachers As Facilitators workshop design of Bob Garmston and Carolyn McKanders, presenter Mary Bouley provides practical strategies and tools organized by Five Mindsets with a focus on individual contexts and applications.
More about Teachers as Facilitators: https://teachersasfacilitators.com/
Seminar Materials included in the cost: -It’s Your Turn: Teachers as Facilitators A Handbook, Garmston and McKanders -It's Your Turn: Teachers as Facilitators Participant Guide
Intended Audience: Classroom Teachers and any Educational Professionals who facilitate or plan to facilitate groups of teachers through PLC’s, Department collaborations and other school and district leadership opportunities.
Dates: February 10 & 11, 2025
Time: 8:30a.m. - 4:00 p.m. with breakfast provided at 8:00 a.m.
Fee: Early Bird: $275 on or before January 17
$300 after January 17
Registration deadline is January 31.
Presenter: Mary Bouley, M.Ed
Mary Bouley is a trainer, facilitator and consultant who strives to impact systems through professional development and coaching. In addition to her work as a Teachers as Facilitator presenter, Mary is a Training Associate for Thinking Collaborative, providing professional development in Cognitive Coaching℠. Her commitment to building self-directedness, supporting thinking and facilitating learning allows her to impact individuals, groups and systems as they build relationships and adapt to change and challenge.
This course will equip educators to better understand and develop creative thinking across all content areas. Participants will learn how to help their students overcome common barriers to creative thinking and ways to encourage students to think divergently, embrace risks, and explore innovative solutions to problems. Emphasis is placed on the FFOE framework for understanding, measuring, and developing creative thinking skills. Participants will walk away with concrete strategies and resources that can be implemented immediately in the classroom.
This course includes independent applications of learned material in classroom situations. Upon successful completion of this class, participants will receive 5 hours of recertification credit.
Date: February 24 - March 31, 2024
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