Upcoming Events

Celebrating 10 Years! What IS the Great Plains Summit? The Great Plains Summit is a 2 day conference focused on the use of Google Workspace for Education in K-12 environments as well as other tech topics such as AR/VR, tech leadership and engaging learners of all ages. This year’s summit will happen July 14–15, 2022. Learn more at: http://gpsummit.org/

Celebrating 10 Years! What IS the Great Plains Summit? The Great Plains Summit is a 2 day conference focused on the use of Google Workspace for Education in K-12 environments as well as other tech topics such as AR/VR, tech leadership and engaging learners of all ages. This year’s summit will happen July 14–15, 2022. Learn more at: http://gpsummit.org/

MAP Reading Fluency overview

Formerly known as DIBELS Next By the end of this training\, participants will have an in-depth understanding of the conceptual foundations of Acadience Learning and linkage to key basic early literacy skills, comprehensive training and practice in administration and scoring of all Acadience Learning measures and an explanation of how to use data for educational decision making within an Outcomes-Driven Model.  In order to implement this assessment measure with fidelity and ensure reliability and validity, anyone who will be administering…

Serving up Effective Instruction: Open to 1st and 2nd year teachers, as well as those returning to the profession! Feed Your Brain: *Join a Google Community and Team *Understand the importance of building relationships - "Students don't care what you know until they know that you care.” *Learn about the art and science of teaching in terms of teaching techniques and instructional strategies. *Use Technology - Google applications in the classroom *Become familiar with best practices in special education (SPED)…

Serving up Effective Instruction: Open to 1st and 2nd year teachers, as well as those returning to the profession! Feed Your Brain: *Join a Google Community and Team *Understand the importance of building relationships - "Students don't care what you know until they know that you care.” *Learn about the art and science of teaching in terms of teaching techniques and instructional strategies. *Use Technology - Google applications in the classroom *Become familiar with best practices in special education (SPED)…

Topics covered during this training for K-12 paraprofessionals * Confidentiality * Difficult behavior strategies * Working with difficult students- tools for your toolbox * Google basics including gmail, docs and drive * Other items based on survey

This two day training is for persons who wish to become Mandt Certified. The Mandt System is a comprehensive, integrated approach to preventing, de-escalating, and if necessary, intervening when the behavior of an individual poses a threat of harm to themselves and/or others. The focus of The Mandt System is on building healthy relationships between all the stakeholders in human service settings in order to facilitate the development of an organizational culture that provides the emotional, psychological, and physical safety…