THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE ON 7/14, 7/16, and 7/21 COURSE #: 2020-27 PARTICIPANTS:  Teachers, Administrators, Guidance Counselors, Therapists DESCRIPTION:   This workshop is designed to assist participants in meeting the requirements for renewing a professional license with particular focus on the requirements for instruction and participation of students with special needs. This workshop provides an overview of federal and state special education laws and regulations. Other topics include; the general educator’s and related service providers roles and responsibilities with special education, District Curriculum Accommodation Plan, portions of the Individualized Education Program, specially designed instruction, inclusion, and collaboration. WORKSHOP LEARNING OUTCOMES: Participants will [...]

THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE ON 3/2 and 3/5 COURSE #: 2019-54 PARTICIPANTS:  Teachers, Administrators, Guidance Counselors, Therapists DESCRIPTION:   Topics This workshop provides an overview of federal and state laws and regulations regarding special education. Participants will engage in discussions, small and large group activities and an optional extension activity to demonstrate knowledge of laws and regulations. Participants will understand how to access various elements of the regulations to support the provision of special education services to students with special needs. In addition, strategies that may be applicable to inclusion practice will be introduced, presented and discussed. WORKSHOP LEARNING OUTCOMES Participants will: [...]

THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE ON 2/25, 3/3, AND 3/17 COURSE #: 2020-6 PARTICIPANTS: Teachers, Administrators, Guidance Counselors DESCRIPTION:   With the increase in English Language Learners entering public schools the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has outlined a plan for professional development for teachers, specialists, and administrators in order to accommodate the educational and social adjustment of the new learners within their new school. This fifteen hour professional development course will provide participants an exposure to the current framework and educational theory that will engage all learners in a classroom and specialized teaching. This course provides valuable information and 15 [...]

THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE ON 3/2, 3/9, 3/30, 4/6, AND 5/4 - ATTENDANCE AT ALL SESSIONS IS MANDATORY COURSE #: 2020-10 PARTICIPANTS:  Teachers, Para Professionals, Assistant Teachers, Guidance DESCRIPTION:   SEI Course The purpose of this course is to prepare Massachusetts school administrators with the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective reviewers and instructional leaders of educators who teach English language learners so that our growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs) can access curriculum, achieve academic success, and contribute their multilingual and multicultural resources as participants and future leaders in the 21st century global economy. This course is aligned with [...]

COURSE #: 2019-52 PARTICIPANTS: PreK-6 Educators teaching math to regular and special needs students DESCRIPTION:   This workshop will provide strategies and activities using color and manipulatives as well as gross/fine motor skills to enhance the students’ math abilities. Each session will include exposure to children’s literature books that are directly related to the skill at hand followed by activities using techniques that the presenter used successfully in her own classroom. The morning session will include techniques for not only understanding place value but patterns that will help imprint its nature using sound, color, and manipulatives (i.e. dice, Shut the Box, unifix [...]

COURSE #:  2019-31 PARTICIPANTS:  Teachers, Para Professionals, Assistant Teachers, Guidance DESCRIPTION:   This full-day workshop will present suggestions, ideas and strategies for writingeffective IEPs. Included in the workshop: Difference between PLEP A and B, Impact ofthe disability statement, accommodations/modification/specially designed instruction,determining goal focus areas, writing effective current performance levels observableand measurable goals and objectives/benchmarks.Models and templates will be used to guide participants with concepts they mightuse in their own IEP writing practice. Anticipated changes to the IEP process andformat will also be presented yet given that these have not been determined by theDepartment of Elementary and Secondary Education these will remain theoretical innature [...]