Regional Professional Development (CES Members)
Upcoming Summer Academy Workshops For Members and Non-Members
Read about some of our upcoming Summer Academy workshops, open to those from member and non-member districts alike. These workshops are offered through the CES Summer Academy, and a complete course catalog and registration form can be found on this page. Please reserve your place early! Space is limisted and workshops may fill quickly. For more information, please contact Jill Robinson, CES Professional Development, at 413-586-4900 x183 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Responsive Classroom® Essentials for Special Area Teachers
Monday, July 23, 2012
8:30am-3:30pm
Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
Certificate of Attendance, 6 hours
Cost: $160 Members/ $184 Non-Members
Audience: Special area teachers including Art, Music, Physical Education, and Foreign Language
This workshop will introduce special area teachers to some key Responsive Classroom® practices, including Morning Meeting, Interactive Modeling, positive teacher language, and the Responsive Classroom® approach to discipline.
The Responsive Classroom® approach is a widely used, research-backed approach to elementary education that increases academic achievement, decreases problem behaviors, improves social skills, and leads to more high-quality instruction.
Sarah Fillion (Workshop Leader) is a Responsive Classroom® Consultant, and has taught urban and rural third and fifth graders in inclusive Massachusetts and New Hampshire classrooms.
Jenny Bender Reading Workshop (Grades 3-8)
Monday, July 30 - Friday, August 3, 2012
8:30-2:30pm (Monday through Friday)
Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
27.5 PDPs
Cost: $400 Members / $460 Non-Members
Audience: Educators of grades 3-8
Review of essential components of a reading workshop, including:
- structuring the day
- teaching whole class lessons
- differentiating instruction
- organizing libraries and classrooms
- assessing readers
- holding readers accountable when most are reading different books at the same time
Jenny Bender, Ed.D. (Workshop Leader) has worked for several tears as a staff developer with Lucy Calkins at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She has also taught at the elementary and middle school levels, and currently works as the District Literacy Coach for the Northampton Public Schools.
Leadership and Learning Center Common Formative Assessments Seminar
Tuesday, August 14 - Wednesday, August 15, 2012
8:30am-3:30pm
Collaborative for Educational Services, Northampton, MA
13 PDPs
Cost: $300 Members / $345 Non-Members
Audience: District curriculum leaders, K-12 teachers
Educators must ensure they are teaching students what they need to learn. Common Formative Assessments are the most effective way to learn those needs in order to inform instruction. In this two-day seminar, teachers and administrators will learn to collaboratively develop, test, and refine common formative assessments in order to gain reliable and timely feedback on student progress in order to adjust instructional practices appropriately.
Barb Pitchford (Workshop Leader) works with Dr. Douglas Reeves at the Leadership and Learning Center, where she is a Senior Professional Development Associate. Barb has been active in school reform for more than thirty-five years and is a veteran principal of all three levels (elementary, middle, and high school). She has become a passionate coach and consultant to principals, understanding the multiple demands, guiding the change process, and sharing the belief that in the field of education, leaders must be the lead learners.
Franklin – Hampshire County Summer Academy 2012
2012 Summer Academy Registration Materials
- Course Catalog and Registration Form (Updated March 15, 2012) (24-pg PDF)
- Registration Form (Updated March 15, 2012) (2-pg PDF)
The deadline for early registration has been extended to April 30, 2012. We strongly encourage you to register early!
IMPORTANT: Please note these recent Summer Academy catalog updates. Latest changes (dated April 19, 2012) are listed in italics:
- Due to changes in state-level policy, Category Trainings will not be offered.
- Early registration ends 3/30/12.
- Registration deadlines for the Reading Workshop (July 30-August 3) and Common Formative Assessments Seminar (August 14-15) have been extended to 3/30/12.
- K-8 Robotics has been rescheduled to August 2-3 (originally scheduled for July 26-27)
- Bringing the Standards for Math Practice to Life (July 31) will take place at Greenfield Community College main campus, not at CES in Northampton.
New Workshops include:
- Reading with TLC: Lively Letters and Sight Words You Can See (August 1-2; Materials cost for a TLC Training Package is included in the program cost)
- Creating a Collaborative Mural (Agust 6-7)
- Non-violent Crisis Prevention and Intervention (Refresher Workshop, August 8; Full Workshop, August 9)
The catalog and registration form posted here (dated March 15, 2012) reflect these changes. Please make sure you use these most current materials to ensure that your course selections are accurate.
About the Summer Academy
The Franklin-Hampshire County Professional Development Team is in the process of planning for the 2012 Franklin – Hampshire County Summer Academy.
Our dates are the last week of July and the first two weeks of August; July 23-August 10.
Our goal is to provide high quality, cost-effective professional development, accessible to Franklin and Hampshire County educators.
As in the past, Franklin and Hampshire County educators and community members are invited to serve as facilitators and presenters. Our county is rich in professional expertise. Summer Academy is a terrific opportunity to share what works, learn together, and form professional learning communities that will extend into school year success.
Topics typically include skills and information of strong interest to teachers, administrators, and specialists working in a standards-based environment. Our schools share a common interest in working with local resources and organizations to increase student engagement and career and college readiness; we invite presentations that will build and sustain these partnerships.
Presentations that build our teaching toolkits and our technology skills are extremely helpful. Audience is preK-12. Participants’ roles range from classroom teacher or building administrator to specialist, nurse, speech pathologist, and music, art, and physical education teacher. Program length varies from a half-day overview to multiple day programs. PDPs are awarded for programs ten or more hours in length, for which a demonstration of learning is an expectation; facilitators of PDP-bearing programs are expected to assess student learning via a pre/post test sequence or review of a product.
Information
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