Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312435 - 312437 WDMESC: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT 101

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-2,3 Description: Teachers will gain practical knowledge to set up their "Dream Class." What routines do I teach? How? What do I expect my students to do? How do I hold them accountable? How do I engage my students?

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 1, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 278394 - 313569 WDMESC: Open Educational Resources (OERs) for the Classroom

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Attendees will explore (mostly) free Open Educational Resources to incorporate into the classroom and will leave with a list of sites and resources to use in their own lessons. This is a hands-on exploration of resources and activities.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 1, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 296820 - 312442 WDMESC: Word Study: Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction for Grades 2-3 Subject(s): Language Arts Audience(s): 2,3 Description: Designed specifically for Grades 2-3 educators, this module focuses on systematic, engaging approaches aimed at exploring the sound, pattern, and meaning relationships among words. Students are guided towards making discoveries about how words work and generalizing their understandings in order to read, spell, and write more efficiently.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 5, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312398 - 312399 WDMESC: Data: How It Tells the Story of Your Library Program

Subject(s): Educational Technology,Other Audience(s): K-12 Description: You know that your school library program impacts student learning , but how do you prove it? How do you show administrators, teachers and parents that the school library program is an important component of a well-rounded education? This workshop will look at ways to collect data and to interpret data. We will also talk about strategies for sharing. Digital tools for collecting and sharing data will be explored. Participants will leave with a plan of action for implementing data collection into the school library program. Participants are asked to bring their laptop or other device. TESS Domains: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1e, 2c, 3a, 3d, 3e, 4b, 4c, 4e

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Cassandra Barnett

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 75 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 5, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 1 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313783 - 313810 WDMESC: 4-5 Word Study: Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary Instruction (2 Days) Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 4,5 Description: Designed specifically for Grades 4-5 educators, this module focuses on a systematic, engaging approach aimed at exploring the sound, pattern, and meaning relationships among words. At this stage, many of the words are related and derive from the same Greek or Latin root. Students are guided towards making discoveries about how words work and generalizing their understandings in order to read, spell, and write more efficiently. RECOMMENDED TEXT: WORD JOURNEYS BY KATHY GANSKE, 2ND EDITION

Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jun 5, 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 274380 - 313990 WDMESC: Financial Literacy, Economics and Technology for the Classroom

Subject(s): Career and Technical Education,Economics Audience(s): K-12 Description: Use free online resources/courses to deepen your students’ understanding of personal finance , economics, history, and other social studies disciplines by incorporating technology into your economics courses. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Economics Arkansas provide free materials, resources, and professional development opportunities to teachers all over the country. Integrate economics into your social studies classroom using technology, printed materials, and one of the most comprehensive sources of economic data in the world.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): SANDRA ROE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 5, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313611 - 313616 WDMESC: Embedding the K-5 Computer Science Standards Across Content Areas Subject(s): Computer Science Audience(s): K-5 Description: This training is for team leaders, content leaders, or teachers interested in additional knowledge and application of ways to embed computer science within their current curriculum. During this one day training we will focus on grade level cross curricular examples and activities with take home resources. *Laptop highly recommended.

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Arkansas CS Specialist

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 5, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314289 - 314369 WDMESC: CGI Leadership Institute 2017

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-2,3 Description: On-going support for Arkansas Endorsed CGI trainers. Focus will be on CGI Year 3

Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Bill Nielsen, Dr. Linda Levi, Pamela Allen

Location: Lake Point Conference Center, Russellville Limit: 0 Credit: 24.00 Date(s): Jun 5, 6, 7, 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 2 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312129 - 312130 WDMESC: WDMESC and Harding STEM: Math Design Collaborative (MDC)

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 5,6-12 Description: The Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) provides schools with instructional tools needed to help teachers understand and implement the Arkansas Standards for grades 6-8 and high school Algebra 1 and Geometry effectively, while allowing teachers the flexibility to select topics and adapt assignments to their specific instructional plans. MDC helps teachers embed the new standards into instruction and engage students in assignments that address math understanding. MDC uses formative assessment lessons (FALs) to engage students in a productive struggle that builds fluency with their procedural skills, and deepens mathematical reasoning and understanding. Students participate in both individual and group learning as teachers use FALs and questions to check for students’ math understanding and correct common misunderstandings.

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 0 Credit: 18.00 Date(s): Jun 6, 7, 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313571 - 313573 WDMESC: Google HyperDocs and HyperMaps

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: This interactive, hands-on workshop takes the Google Doc and Google Map to the next level. Attendees will learn how to create interactive, multi-media experiences for students using Google Docs and Google Maps and will create their own HyperDoc and HyperMap in this session.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 313571 - 313574 WDMESC: Google HyperDocs and HyperMaps

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 6, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313607 - 313608 WDMESC: Embedding the 5-8 Computer Science Standards Across Content Areas Subject(s): Computer Science Audience(s): 5-8 Description: This training is for each grade level, content leaders, or teachers interested in additional knowledge and application of ways to embed computer science within their current curriculum. During this one day training we will focus on grade level cross curricular examples and activities with take home resources. *Laptop highly recommended.

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Arkansas CS Specialist

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 3 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 314376 - 314377 WDMESC: CGI Leadership Colloquium

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-2,3 Description: ADE SPONSORED TRAINING OF TRAINERS: On-going local support and training for ADE endorsed trainers of Cognitively Guided Instruction. Register for this workshop through Pam Allen: [email protected]. Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Bill Nielsen, Nancy Via, Pamela Allen

Location: Lake Point Conference Center, Russellville Limit: 0 Credit: 18.00 Date(s): Jun 6, 7, 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 276680 - 312439 WDMESC: Phonemic Awareness and Phonics in the K-1 Classroom

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-1 Description: Designed specifically for K-1 educators, this module focuses on instructional approaches aimed at exploring the sound, pattern, and meaning relationships among words in order to develop children's phonological awareness, decoding, spelling, and vocabulary. Students are guided toward making discoveries about how words work, and generalizing their understanding in order to read, spell, and write more efficiently.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 7, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312820 - 312833 WDMESC: Comprehensive Literacy: Vocabulary

Subject(s): Language Arts Audience(s): 6-12,Instructional Leaders Description: This session focuses on a systematic, engaging approach aimed at developing learners' understandings of how words work and developing vocabulary knowledge through speaking, reading, and writing. Students are guided towards making discoveries about word relationships and generalizing their understandings in order to read, spell, and write more efficiently.

Optional Text: Vocabulary Their Way, Second Edition by Templeton, et al. This is a two-day workshop. Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): GREG MOORE

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center, John Deere Rm Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jun 7, 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310370 - 310372 WDMESC: Making Sense of Personalized Learning, Competency Based Education, and Blended Learning…How are they related and what do they mean? Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: This session provides an overview of three approaches to teaching and learning that are making headlines for innovative practices. These three approaches place the student at the center of teaching and learning. Participants will have an opportunity to learn common vocabulary and understanding to apply in their classroom, building, or district. Participants will be able to: • Define and differentiate between personalized learning, competency based education, and blended learning. • Describe what each approach may look like at the classroom and school levels. • Reflect on how a shift towards each approach could impact a child’s education AND your professional role ...and more

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Sherry Kennedy

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 7, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 4 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312583 - 312586 WDMESC: FUNctional Fitness: Developing Thinking Skills Through Intentional Movement Subject(s): Physical Education Audience(s): K-6 Description: Engage your classroom in a unique intentional approach to fundamental sport development while meeting your structured physical activity needs. SO YAP will provide Materials for k-2 sport development and advanced play 3rd-6th. Participants will gain new perspectives, effective best practices and exciting ideas for the upcoming school year . Training will be a piece of our Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools program that aligns with the following important education initiatives: * Service-learning * Anti-bullying * Character Education * Health & Wellness; Anti-Obesity * Changing School Climate * Inclusive Collaboration * Student Engagement & Dropout Prevention * Universal Design

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Camie Powell

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 7, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 311369 - 311371 WDMESC: Special Education 101

Subject(s): Special Education Audience(s): K-12 Description: The ADE Special Education Unit will guide participants through the special education process from child find and referral , to IEP development and reevaluation considerations. Participants will learn about required procedures and considerations around disciplining students with IEPs and the steps involved in the State’s System for Dispute Resolution including Mediation, IEP Facilitation, State Complaints, and Due Process Hearings. This session will be conducted through a combination of the presenter sharing information, small group work and online learning.

Facilitator: Garrie Massengale Presenter(s): Lisa Haley

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2/3, Beebe Limit: 75 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 291648 - 313575 WDMESC: Google Add-Ons & Extensions

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Attendees will learn about add-ons and extensions for Google Apps and Google Chrome that will expand the already robust features of Google.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 313576 - 313577 WDMESC: Virtual Field Trips and Tours

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Attendees will explore online field trips and tours that allow you and your students to take a virtual field trip without leaving the classroom.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 8, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 5 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 311284 - 311285 WDMESC: Engaging Music Students Through Technology

Subject(s): Music Audience(s): K-12 Description: In using technology, music teachers can reach every child while adjusting to their needs. We will be exploring Google Classroom, and a variety of resources to differentiate instruction and do mass formative assessments .

Facilitator: Angela Price Presenter(s): STEPHANIE WILLIAMS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313381 - 313393 WDMESC: FBA-Functional Behavior Assessment

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12,Administrators,Counselors,ParaProfessionals,Special Ed Description: Participants will learn the process of utilizing Functional Behavioral Assessments to guide Behavioral Intervention.

Facilitator: sarra petray Presenter(s): Sandy Crawley, SARRA PETRAY

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 9, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312904 - 312905 WDMESC: Middle School Science Conference: Grasping Phenomenal Science for Grades 5-8: Navigating from Standards to Instruction (FULFILLS PRE-AP CERTIFICATION) Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 5-8 Description: Come experience the vision for middle-school science! During this three-day opportunity, educators will explore science phenomena, reflect on instructional strategies, and make connections to the new Arkansas K-12 Science Standards. Student-focused learning through the application of science, math and literacy skills will be highlighted. An introduction to the optional Accelerated Science Course Pathway will be included.

NOTE: Participation in all three days of this session meets the ADE requirement for Pre -Advanced Placement Science (Pre-AP) teacher certification or re-certification. This session DOES NOT fulfill the ADE licensure requirements to teach high school Physical Science-Integrated for high school credit at the 8th Grade level. Two follow-up PD days will be offered later along with opportunities for classroom-level support. Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, Keith Harris, NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2/3, Beebe Limit: 90 Credit: 18.00 Date(s): Jun 12, 13, 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 276761 - 313819 WDMESC: Reading Instruction for Grades 4-5

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 4,5 Description: Designed specifically for Grades 4-5 educators, this module focuses on the research-based reading instruction for whole group and small group to move students to independence. At this grade level, students must engage in close, analytic reading. Therefore, an emphasis in this PD has been placed on implementing close reading instruction. This includes strategies needed for comprehending and responding to complex texts across multiple genres, and of sufficient complexity in both whole group and small group instruction. These strategies will continue to lead students along the path to becoming college and career ready.

Recommended text: Closer Reading by Nancy Boyles This is a two-day Workshop. Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jun 13, 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 6 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 309496 - 309497 WDMESC: Low Relief Plaster Compound Design

Subject(s): Fine Arts Audience(s): 1,2,3-5,6-12 Description: Participants will be given a 16x20 hard board. Participants will apply a wet plaster to the hardboard and create a design in wet plaster with "found objects" brought from home. Participants will Gesso dried plaster and, after Gesso has dried, will apply 2-3 different Acrylic colors, allowing paint to dry between each color. Varnish the 16x20 low relief after paint has dried. Participants MUST bring hair dryer, "found objects" example: spoons, chains, jewelry, etc. Facilitator: Janelle Selvidge Presenter(s): Janelle Selvidge

Location: ASU-Beebe England Center, Room 116 Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 13, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 277072 - 312838 WDMESC: Reading and Writing Informational Text

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 6-8 Description: This module contains reading and writing strategies to assist ELA teachers with helping students to access informational texts and develop informative writing. Participants will use the inquiry method to make connections between the texts they are reading and purposes for writing. This two-day session will provide teachers with a model lesson to use with students.

Audience: ELA teachers, Instructional Facilitators This two-day session is similar to the workshop offered last year. Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): GREG MOORE

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center, John Deere Rm Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jun 13, 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313576 - 313578 WDMESC: Virtual Field Trips and Tours

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 13, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 314174 - 314176 WDMESC: Foundations of Fractions

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 3-5,6 Description: This course uses Extending Children's Mathematics: Fractions and Decimals by Susan B. Empson and Linda Levi. This professional development shows teachers how to make fractions less complicated by focusing on the most important ideas that students need to understand. This is a two-day professional development for grades 3-6. TESS components addressed for this workshop include: 1E, 3B, 3C, & 4A. This is Day 1 of a 2-day professional development. Day 2 will be held June 28. Participants in Day 1 will be automatically enrolled in Day 2. Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Linda Griffith, Pamela Allen

Location: Legion Hall 115 W Illinois St, Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 13, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 7 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312136 - 312138 WDMESC: WDMESC and Harding STEM: Building Understanding of Integer Addition and Subtraction Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 5-8 Description: This course will focus on building conceptual understanding of integers and the operations of Addition and Subtraction . Integers will be viewed from four different perspectives. Participants will examine how students can build rules for integer operations through patterning and number line movements.

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 32 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314179 - 314180 WDMESC: R.I.S.E. Academy

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-2 Description: R.I.S.E. Academy is a year-long blended learning professional development. The training will provide educators with an in-depth knowledge related to the science of reading, evidence-based instructional strategies, and making data-based decisions for ALL students. Participants will attend 6 days of face-to-face training (Summer - 3 days, September - 1 day, October - 1 day, and November - 1 day) and participate in a blended learning community throughout the year with coaching and collaboration.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 25 Credit: 18.00 Date(s): Jun 14, 15, 16, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 311288 - 311289 WDMESC: Real World Activities in the Foreign Language Classroom

Subject(s): Foreign Language Audience(s): 9-12 Description: Teachers will walk away with ideas to incorporate real world activities in the Foreign Language Classroom . Teachers will also be presented with numerous real world activities and projects in Spanish and French. Teachers are asked to bring an example of a real world activity that they use in their classroom.

Facilitator: LORI NIELSEN Presenter(s): LORI NIELSEN

Location: Searcy High School Room 302 Limit: 25 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313384 - 313385 WDMESC: Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, Anger Management, and De-Escalation/Relaxation Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12,ParaProfessionals,Principals,Special Ed Description: Do you find yourself spending too much time putting out discipline fires in the classroom? Problem solving, conflict resolution, anger management, and de-escalation/relaxation strategies are imperative tools needed to create and foster a climate conducive to learning. This workshop will help participants: (1) gain an understanding of problem solving components, (2) recognize the benefits of teaching conflict resolution and application of strategies, (3) identify the levels of anger and four de-escalation strategies to use in the classroom, (4) explore positive outcomes that can result from an anger management program, and (5) practice implementing relaxation techniques. TESS components addressed for this workshop include: 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 3A, 3B, and 3C.

Facilitator: Sarra Petray Presenter(s): Allison Mears

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 17 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 15, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 8 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 311971 - 311973 WDMESC: Makerspace for the Elementary School Part 2!

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-6,Administrators,GT,Instructional Facilitators Description: Every makerspace is an ever changing project! Come and learn about reliable elementary makerspace activities and a lot of new ones as well!

Facilitator: BEN CARRIGAN Presenter(s): SHARON CONE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 15, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312182 - 312184 WDMESC: WDMESC and Harding STEM: Building Understanding of Integer Multiplication and Division Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 5-8 Description: This course will focus on building conceptual understanding of integers using the operation of multiplication and division. How can integers be viewed from different perspectives? Course participants will examine how students build on previous understanding of multiplication and division to construct new understanding of integer operations to the level of procedural fluency. Topics of this course include: * The use of inductive reasoning through patterns * Meaning of division both partitive/ measurement * How can properties be used to arrive at deductive proofs to justify traditional rules?

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 32 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 15, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 274760 - 313996 WDMESC: Itty Bitty Economics

Subject(s): Economics Audience(s): PreK,K-2 Description: We all know habits are formed young in life. That includes economics which is the “science of decision making.” Don’t miss out on this fast paced, engaging offering for teachers of young learners. This session will provide lessons tied to children’s literature introducing students to basic personal finance and economic concepts.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): SANDRA ROE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 15, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312367 - 312372 WDMESC: American Heart Association Heartsaver Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Subject(s): Health Audience(s): K-12 Description: In this professional development the instructor will: 1. Explain how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED. 2. Explain how to use a mask when giving CPR. 3. Explain how to help a choking adult, child, or infant. 4. List the signs of choking. 5. Demonstrate how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED on an adult or on a child.

Participants who complete this course will receive a 2-year certification card for AHA CPR/AED. Training will be held at - Laveda's Catering 208 West Center St Beebe, AR 72012 Facilitator: Shae McGillvray Presenter(s): Shae McGillvray

Location: Laveda's 208 W Center St Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 12 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 15, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 9 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312367 - 312368 WDMESC: American Heart Association Heartsaver Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Subject(s): Health Audience(s): K-12 Description: In this professional development the instructor will: 1. Explain how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED. 2. Explain how to use a mask when giving CPR. 3. Explain how to help a choking adult, child, or infant. 4. List the signs of choking. 5. Demonstrate how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED on an adult or on a child.

Location: Laveda's 208 W Center St Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 12 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 15, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 309480 - 309482 WDMESC: North Little Rock Old Mill Pastel Drawing

Subject(s): Fine Arts Audience(s): 1,2,3-5,6-12 Description: While on location of the Old Mill in T.R. Pugh Memorial Park in North Little Rock, the teacher/student will draw from their choice of view: the Old Mill and/or landscape around the mill. They will complete in pastels showing light direction with the technique of tint, tone, and shading. The composition will be completed in one day. Students will bring Lap Boards and meet at the Old Mill in North Little Rock. Facilitator: Janelle Selvidge Presenter(s): Janelle Selvidge

Location: Old Mill - North Little Rock Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 15, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313390 - 313391 WDMESC: Behavior Tools

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): PreK-12,Staff,Administrators,Asst. Principals,Counselors,GT,ParaProfessionals,Principals,Reading Recovery,Special Ed,Technology Coordinator,Instructional Leaders Description: This workshop is designed to help participants learn the most effective ways of interacting with students on a daily basis . There are two parts to this workshop: Basic Practitioner and Practitioner. Basic Practitioner will be on Course Objectives: Define the ABC's of behavior, Identify coercive interactions and their effects, Demonstrate how to strengthen relationships, Define reinforcement, Demonstrate how to use reinforcement, Identify "junk behavior", Demonstrate how to pivot from junk behavior, State the Behavior Tool in particular situations. Practitioner Training will be on Course Objectives: Redirecting Behavior and what steps to use, Setting Expectations, Behavior Contract and when it is appropriate to use, Writing a Behavior Contract, What Behavior Tool to use in particular situations. TESS components addressed for this workshop include: 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 3A, 3D, 3E, 4A, 4C, 4E, 4F.

Facilitator: Sarra Petray Presenter(s): Dennis Greg McElyea

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 16, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 10 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312895 - 312900 WDMESC: Grasping Phenomenal Science Day One Introduction for K-4: Navigating from Standards to Instruction Subject(s): Science Audience(s): K-4 Description: Come experience the vision for K-4 science! During this one-day opportunity, educators will be exposed to the theory and composition of the New Arkansas Science Standards by exploring science phenomena and reflecting on instructional strategies. Student-focused learning through the application of science, math, and literacy skills will be highlighted.

Connections to TESS: 1a,1d,1e,3a-e,4a,4e Two follow-up PD days will be offered later with opportunities for classroom-level support. Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, Keith Harris, NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 16, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310837 - 310844 WDMESC: RTI: Mathematics Across the Grades

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-12 Description: The opportunity is designed to support district work in the development of an RTI Tiered Process for Mathematics K -12. The workshop will showcase an Arkansas school district's design of a mathematics RTI structure. Structural planning questions, sources of research, sample screening tools, resources, and forms will be provided to guide participants in an opportunity to plan, develop, and strengthen current RTI structures for Mathematics. Administrators, teachers, and others who are involved in the RTI process are encouraged to attend as a collaborative team .

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): JACOB SISSON

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 36 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 19, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 303623 - 312443 WDMESC: Reading Instruction for Grades 2-3

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 2,3 Description: Designed specifically for Grades 2-3 educators, this session focuses on research-based reading instruction.

Texts: Guiding Readers and Writers by Fountas and Pinnell and Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency by Fountas and Pinnell.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 19, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 11 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313871 - 313873 WDMESC: Extending Your Classroom Reach with Extension Services

Subject(s): Health,Family and Consumer Science Audience(s): PreK,K Description: University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service provides research-based education to citizens in all 75 Arkansas counties. Extension Service engages in the research behind the science that keeps Arkansas families healthy in body and mind; as strong and healthy families are the foundation for strong communities. Extension Service brings the research to the people. This workshop will provide information on educational programs available for pre-K-elementary classroom use, as well as available programs provided by professionals to encourage parental involvement. Student programs will have crosswalks to standards provided. Sample lessons will be demonstrated (youth and adult), an overview of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Program will be provided, integration of physical activities into sessions will be conducted through role-play, and food tastings will be offered during the workshop.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Debie Head

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 42 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 19, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 276992 - 314003 WDMESC: Differentiation for the High School Teacher

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): 6-12 Description: Participants will be given the tools and guidance for incorporating differentiation into all content areas . The morning session will equip teachers with the knowledge to successfully implement differentiation in their classroom . The afternoon will be hands-on breakout sessions in which teachers will team up with specialists from their content area and use their own lesson plans to develop an action plan for meeting their students’ academic needs . Participants may wish to bring their own electronic devices.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, GREG MOORE, NANETTE NICHOLS, SANDRA ROE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 80 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 19, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 243503 - 314119 WDMESC: Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) Year 1

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-2,3 Description: CGI professional development is designed to enhance teachers’ ability to teach math for understanding by increasing teachers’ understanding of children’s mathematical thinking. The content focus is Operations and Algebraic Thinking and Number and Operations in Base Ten as described in the Arkansas Mathematics Standards for Kindergarten through Third Grade. Through a focus on children’s thinking, teachers improve their ability to facilitate the Standards for Mathematical Practice. CGI PD develops teachers’ ability to use any curriculum to teach math for understanding . CGI year 1: 7 days consists of 4 days in the summer and 3 days in the school year. TESS Components addressed: 1a, 1e, 1f, 2a, 2b, 3c, 3d, 4a, and 4d. Registration must go through district administration and Pam Allen at WDMESC.

Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Amber Jones, Pamela Allen

Location: Legion Hall 115 W Illinois St, Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 0 Credit: 24.00 Date(s): Jun 19, 20, 21, 22, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 12 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 311559 - 311560 WDMESC: Frescos—A “Fresh Perspective” in the Art Room

Subject(s): Fine Arts Audience(s): K-12 Description: Designed as a hands-on workshop, participants will explore perspective drawing and the art of fresco painting while using a fun technique that is adaptable for all age levels. Participants will primarily focus their research and study for the day around the art of the Renaissance. This workshop is designed to offer multiple opportunities to investigate all four strands of the Arkansas Fine Arts Curriculum Framework—creating, presenting, responding, and connecting.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Melissa Floyd

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 25 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312120 - 312121 WDMESC: Digital You: Train the Trainer

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has made it a priority to educate parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and all adults about how to be smart online. Teaming up with Common Sense Media and AT&T, the AG’s Office is offering regional train-the-trainer opportunities using Digital You, a comprehensive, interactive educational program. The Office will provide tools, tips and other guidance to teach people of all ages and levels of online experience about how to have a safe and secure online experience. Materials will be available to supplement the presentation for classroom use.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Dwayne Yarbrough

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 314121 - 314122 WDMESC: Number Talks for K-3

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-2,3 Description: This resource was created in response to the requests of teachers who want to implement number talks but are unsure of how to begin and those with experience who want more guidance in crafting purposeful problems. This dynamic multimedia resource supports teachers in understanding: * what a classroom number talk is; * how to follow students thinking and pose the right questions to build understanding; * how to prepare for and design purposeful number talks; and * how to develop grade-level-specific strategies for the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. NOTE: If you have the book, please bring it with you.

Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Judy Scroggins, Pamela Allen

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313844 - 313845 WDMESC: DRA and DSA Data Interpretations

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-12,ParaProfessionals Description: We must dig deeper to determine where the intervention(s) will be targeted in reading and spelling. This training will focus on analyzing DRA and DSA and how to align interventions to those results. This session is for K-6 Teachers, K-12 Dyslexia Contacts, Paraprofessionals, Interventionists, and RtI Team Members. Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 13 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313837 - 313838 WDMESC: DRA and DSA Overview

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-12,ParaProfessionals Description: DIBELS Next and AR-RAN Assessment: This training will focus on how to administer and score DRA and DSA. This session is for Elementary Literacy Teachers, K-12 Dyslexia Contacts, Paraprofessionals, Interventionists, and RtI Team Members. Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 312188 - 312189 WDMESC: With Harding STEM: ASPIRE to Be Great! Higher Level Questioning (TESS 3b) in Mathematics Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 3-5,6-8,9-10 Description: The ACT Aspire test uses Webb's DOK to determine the level of questions on the test. Most questions on the assessment are higher level; most questions in many math books are lower level. Come learn about DOK, how ACT Aspire assesses at different depths, writing higher level questions, and questioning in your classroom.

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 32 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315014 - 315015 WDMESC: Transition Planning: Considerations for Students on the Autism Spectrum and Students with Intellectual Disabilities Subject(s): Educational Technology,Special Education Audience(s): 7-12 Description: This training will look at factors that impact students with more significant disabling conditions and the steps that should be considered in the Transition process. Tools and resources will be provided to assist in the Transition plan development , as well as information on options for programs after high school. TESS Areas: 1b, 1d, 1f, 3a, 3c, 3d, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): CARRIE TUTTLE

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 25 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 242349 - 312840 WDMESC: Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions in History/Social Studies for Grades 6-12 Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): 6-8,9-12 Description: This professional development provides strategies that will enable participants to design history/social studies instruction that supports Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions. Participants will also have work time to develop examples of Text-Dependent Questions for use in the Classroom. Two model lessons will be presented. Participants may wish to bring their own electronic devices. Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): GREG MOORE

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center, John Deere Rm Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 14 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313581 - 313582 WDMESC: Online Assessment Tools

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Session attendees will learn about online tools for assessment. During this hands-on session we will explore and create assessment tools to use in the classroom.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 306684 - 306685 WDMESC: Resources for Teaching Arkansas History to Primary Students

Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): K-5 Description: This workshop will introduce physical and digital resources that align with Arkansas History frameworks for K -5 students. Topics will include geography, Native Americans, natural resources, state symbols, famous Arkansans, and state history. All attendees will leave with physical resources that can be used in your classroom.

Facilitator: Allison Reavis, AR Heritage Presenter(s): Allison Reavis, AR Heritage

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 311850 - 311851 WDMESC: Looking Ahead: Preparing for the Foreign Language Frameworks Revision Subject(s): Foreign Language Audience(s): 7-12 Description: The Arkansas Foreign Language Frameworks are scheduled to be revised during the summer of 2018. In this PD session, we will review the current frameworks and discuss their successes and shortcomings. We will explore the theories and research of language acquisition, and we will discuss ideas for ways to improve the frameworks once the committee meets in 2018. Participants should bring a computer or device. Participants may also contact David Nance at [email protected] in advance to suggest additional topics for discussion.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): DAVID NANCE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 21, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313884 - 313887 WDMESC: Providing a Comprehensive School Counseling Program

Subject(s): Other Audience(s): Counselors Description: In this session, school counselors will learn the components of creating a comprehensive school counseling program, including the use of the Arkansas School Counselor Comprehensive Counseling Guide , Arkansas School Counselor Toolkit, and the Recognized ASCA National Program (RAMP). Counselors will learn about the basics of using ACT Profile for college and career exploration. Participants will also discuss personal competency development and how it impacts students in our schools. Greg Adams, AR Children’s Hospital, will present components of “Good Mourning”. Child Maltreatment will be offered from 1:30-3:30

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Greg Adams, Suzanne Knowles

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 85 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 21, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 15 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312592 - 312593 WDMESC: Not the Same Old Physical Education Course; Refresh and Re-engage students with these new ideas on how to create a team environment within P.E. Subject(s): Physical Education Audience(s): 6-12 Description: Re-engage students with this new take on a traditional Physical Education class. Introduce new sports and meet your structured vigorous physical activity needs. This training session offers several resources from 6-12 in sport and health. Participants will gain new perspectives, effective best practices and exciting ideas for the upcoming school year . Training will be pieces of our Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools program that aligns with the following important education initiatives: * Service-learning * Anti-bullying * Character Education * Health & Wellness; Anti-Obesity * Changing School Climate * Inclusive Collaboration * Student Engagement & Dropout Prevention * Universal Design

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Camie Powell

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 21, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 309551 - 309552 WDMESC: Tier I Update and Legislative Updates

Subject(s): Economics Audience(s): Administrators Description: Act 345 of 2015 requires all superintendents, business managers, cooperative directors, and charter school directors to receive an annual financial update of at least two (2) hours. This training on school laws of AR, laws/rules governing the expenditures of public education funds, fiscal accountability and school finance, ethics, and financial accounting and reporting of expenditures is commonly called Tier 1. The ADE also allows for Tier 1 annual training to count for Tier 2 training, at the discretion of the local district. Act 345 of 2015 also changed the requirement for Tier 2 training to a minimum of two (2) hours. Legislative Updates will be provided from 2:30-3:30.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Richard Abernathy

Location: Embassy Suites, Hot Springs Limit: 20 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 21, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312666 - 312667 WDMESC: Music Curriculum Alignment K-12

Subject(s): Music Audience(s): K-12 Description: Designed for teams of music educators to align their general music (K-8) content across the grade levels, as well as with skills necessary for success in beginning band, orchestra, and choir classes. There will also be an opportunity to collaborate with other teams or individual music teachers about best practices and strategies. AM session will focus on the team-building and collaboration process, as well as program goal setting. PM session will focus on providing work time for teams and individuals to work in groups on aligning lessons and content across schools, grade levels, and programs.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Ashley Higginbotham

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 22, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 16 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 314123 - 314124 WDMESC: Number Talks - Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages

Subject(s): Audience(s): 3-5,6 Description: Number Talks is a five- to fifteen-minute classroom conversation around purposefully crafted problems that are solved mentally. This dynamic multimedia resource was created in response to the requests of teachers—those who want to implement number talks but are unsure of how to begin and those with experience who want more guidance in crafting purposeful problems. It supports teachers in understanding: • what a classroom number talk is; • how to follow students’ thinking and pose the right questions to build understanding ; • how to prepare for and design purposeful number talks; and • how to develop fractional reasoning and strategies for operating with fractions, decimals, and percentages. NOTE: If you have the book, please bring it with you.

Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): BEVERLY THOMPSON, Pamela Allen

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 22, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313878 - 313880 WDMESC: DIBELS and AR-RAN Overview

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-12,ParaProfessionals Description: Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS, 6th Edition and DIBELS Next) comprise a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy and reading skills. These measures allow teachers to assess student development of phonological awareness, letter knowledge, decoding, fluency, and comprehension. In addition, the DIBELS/DIBELS Next assessment is used to measure fluency and automaticity of each skill. DIBELS Next and AR-RAN Assessment: This training will focus on how to administer and score DIBELS and AR-RAN. This session is for Elementary Literacy Teachers, K-12 Dyslexia Contacts, Paraprofessionals, Interventionists, and RtI Team Members. Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 22, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 313894 - 313897 WDMESC: DIBELS Next and Interpretations

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-2,ParaProfessionals Description: By looking at students’ success rates on the DIBELS/DIBELS Next measures, teachers can interpret the effectiveness of classroom instruction, identify students who are at risk for difficulties with literacy acquisition , and plan accordingly. Participants will learn how to interpret DIBELS/DIBELS Next scores and plan their next instructional steps toward moving students to proficiency in the foundational skills they must acquire in order to be successful readers. Resource I’ve DIBEL’d, Now What? Next Edition by Susan L.Hall This session is for K-2 Teachers, K-12 Dyslexia Contacts, Paraprofessionals, Interventionists, and RtI Team Members. Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 22, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 17 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 315919 - 315920 WDMESC: Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor Training Camp

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research): Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor Training Camp is a one day interactive training for educators, school wellness committee members and Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisors. By attending this professional development workshop educators will: • Understand how Fuel Up to Play 60 can be a resource to meet school wellness policy goals. • Attendees will be given the information and tools they need to make the case for healthy eating and physical activity in schools. • Understand how to become a Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisory and complete the Six Steps to achieve Touchdown status. • Learn how to build and empower Fuel Up to Play 60 student teams. • Explore funding opportunities for schools through Fuel Up to Play 60. • Learn how to share your success with Fuel Up to Play 60 and documentation in Indistar. Lunch will be provided. If you have access to a laptop, tablet or smart phone you may bring it to the training for additional assistance navigating the website. Trainings will be conducted across the state. Registration will be limited for this training.

Facilitator: Shae McGillvray Presenter(s): Shae McGillvray

Location: ASU-Beebe, Owen Center Gymnasium Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 23, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm Registration Fee: $0 312266 - 312270 WDMESC: and Harding STEM: What's Missing in Your Math Class? Reflecting on (TESS 4a)and Improving (TESS domain 3) Your Teaching Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 5,6-12 Description: There are so many things to think about as a teacher, it is hard to consider them all at once. Good teachers are good learners. The TRU Mathematics Framework is a tool that teachers can use to reflect on their teaching and find ways to continue to grow and improve. The framework provides a way for math teachers.

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 32 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 23, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313060 - 313063 WDMESC: K-4 Renaissance Students - Age of Discovery (GP Science for K-4: Navigating from Standards to Instruction) Subject(s): Science Audience(s): K-4 Description: Come experience the vision for K-4 Science! During this two-day opportunity, educators will explore the Arkansas K-4 Science Standards by engaging in grade-specific investigations. Student-focused learning through the integration of science, math and literacy skills will be highlighted.

TESS connections: 1a,1d,1e,3a-e,4a,4e Two follow-up days will be offered later along with opportunities for classroom-level support. Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, Keith Harris, NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2/3, Beebe Limit: 90 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jun 26, 27, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 18 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313350 - 313351 WDMESC: K-12 Administrtators: How do Section 504, RTI, and Special Education Work Together? Subject(s): Special Education Audience(s): K-12,Staff Description: In this one-day workshop, we will explore Section 504, RTI, and Special Education and then learn how they work together to ensure student success. The day will provide an opportunity for interaction and participation in a lively discussion of the topics. Teachers, administrators, counselors, and other school personnel will all benefit. Research by Marzano, Duckworth, Dweck, Tomlinson, Danielson, and others support these initiatives, and, more importantly, find ways to use them systemically rather than in isolation. * The key team players to make Section 504, RTI, and Special Education * How to make policy decisions about programs in your school * Key information about Section 504, RTI, and Special Education * How to communicate effectively among colleagues and with parents * Accommodating Danielson’s Framework for Teaching (TESS Model) into decisions

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Donny Lee

Location: Harding - Thornton Education Center - Rm. 226 Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315999 - 316000 WDMESC: Questioning with Clarity in the 6-12 Mathematics Classroom

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 6-12 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research): Research has shown the importance of questioning to increase the levels of student engagement in learning mathematics. This workshop will focus on posing mathematics questions with clarity encouraging student to share their thinking, which allows teachers to guide the students to the accepted mathematics conceptual knowledge.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310375 - 310376 WDMESC: Building the Foundation for School Models of the Future

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Blended learning is an approach to instruction that combines face-to-face learning at a brick-and-mortar location with online learning where the student has some element of control over time, place, path, and pace. When we begin to envision increasing student access to a flexible and personalized education, we should strategically plan around critical foundational components such as policy, funding, educator roles, infrastructure, home connectivity, content choices, and others. This session will provide an introductory background to blended learning, explore flexible learning models, and engage participants in discussion regarding components necessary to build a solid foundation for innovation using blended learning. Participants will be able to: • Define blended learning and describe its relationship to instructional technology. • Reflect on how various new school models would translate into their own classroom/school/district. • Analyze the critical components of a strong blended learning foundation and devise a mock strategic plan for transitioning to a blended learning classroom/school/district...and more! PD Hours: 6 total: 3 hours face-to-face/3 hours online engagement

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Sherry Kennedy

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 19 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 309488 - 309490 WDMESC: Ebony Drawing-Wild Animals

Subject(s): Fine Arts Audience(s): 1,2,3-5,6-12 Description: While in class, the teacher will draw with a #2 pencil, a composition of a wild animal and will create light direction, use of tint, tone and shade technique with the ebony pencil. The drawing will be completed in class.

Facilitator: Janelle Selvidge Presenter(s): Janelle Selvidge

Location: ASU-Beebe England Center, Room 116 Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 27, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 316004 - 316006 WDMESC: Questioning with Clarity in the 6-12 Mathematics Classroom

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 27, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 188471 - 314216 American Red Cross CPR/First Aid/AED Certification (Adult, Child and Infant)

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: This workshop will be the American Red Cross training for Adult, Infant and Child CPR; First Aid; and AED. Participants will receive certificate.

Facilitator: Shelma Winningham Presenter(s): Shelma Winningham

Location: Beebe H.S. Career & Tech Bldg. Rm 144 Limit: 12 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 27, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313814 - 313815 WDMESC: Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (Concussion)

Subject(s): Health Audience(s): K-12,Special Ed Description: This new presentation that will focus on Concussions (Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries) in schools. It will talk about the role of the school nurse, teachers and others around: • What to do when concussion is suspected (during school or school related sports activity) • What to do when concussion is suspected but not at school • Differences in contact (sports/recreational) and motor vehicle concussions • What should happen when student returns to school • What physical symptoms indicate student needs to return to physician • What educational symptoms may be noticed by teachers and others • What is the healing progression and who should monitor students for academic and physical changes • What are consequences of multiple concussions • When to formulate a 504 plan - accommodations • Modifications – special education

Facilitator: Shae McGillvray Presenter(s): Aleecia Starkey

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 20 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312921 - 312924 WDMESC: K-12 Administrators: Creating a Collaborative Learning Culture and Improving Student Learning through Student Voice Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): Administrators Description: Research suggests that students are seven times more likely to be academically motivated if they feel they have a voice in the learning process. This session will equip school administrators, teachers, and students with a process to engage students as partners in every facet of the school culture, close the achievement gap, and strengthen the learning culture where teachers and students work collaboratively. The facilitators will share research that shows how student voice increases student purpose, engagement, self-worth, and achievement. Students are strongly encouraged to attend with school teams.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Blaine Alexander, Jennifer Medeiros

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 42 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314121 - 314125 WDMESC: Number Talks for K-3

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313775 - 313777 WDMESC: Writing Instruction for Grades 4-5

Subject(s): Audience(s): 4,5 Description: This module is designed specifically for Grades 4-5 educators. Participants will explore the writing process through the components of Writer's Workshop and learn how to provide effective instruction and support through conferencing to meet students' individual needs as they create narrative, informational/ explanatory, and opinion writing pieces. A focus is placed on analyzing an author's craft through mentor texts to assist students in developing their own craft and foundational writing skills. RECOMMENDED TEXT: Explorations in Nonfiction writing Grade 4 or 5 by Tony Steed and Linda Hoyt

Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 40 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 21 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 314933 - 314935 WDMESC: Transition Toolkit Training

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): 7-12 Description: This workshop will review the required components of transition in conjunction with the NEW PILOT FORMS . The first part of the presentation focuses on meeting compliance with Indicator 13 and Arkansas State regulations. The second part of the workshop will focus more on assessments, tools, and resources, and how to use assessment results to develop a meaningful transition plan. Participants will actively learn and walk away with valuable resources. TESS Areas: 1b, 1d, 1f, 3a, 3c, 3d, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): CARRIE TUTTLE

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 25 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314174 - 314178 WDMESC: Foundations of Fractions

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 3-5,6 Description: This course uses Extending Children's Mathematics: Fractions and Decimals by Susan B. Empson and Linda Levi. This professional development shows teachers how to make fractions less complicated by focusing on the most important ideas that students need to understand. This is a two-day professional development for grades 3-6. TESS components addressed for this workshop include: 1E, 3B, 3C, & 4A. This is Day 2 of a 2-day workshop. Day 1 was held June 13. Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Linda Griffith, Pamela Allen

Location: Legion Hall 115 W Illinois St, Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:00 pm Registration Fee: $0 310073 - 310075 WDMESC: Kelly Gallagher: Write Like This! Teaching Real-World Writing Through Modeling Mentor Text Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 5-8,9-12 Description: Kelly Gallagher: Teacher, Speaker, Author, Coach: Prepare to be inspired! Join us for a day of training with nationally renowned educator and author, Kelly Gallagher. Inspired by his classroom, mentors, and professional development experiences, Kelly has written several books for teachers. During this training, participants will learn about the importance of modeling writing, how real-world writing experiences enhance instruction, finding the balance with standardized testing in the classroom, and the challenges of working with adolescents. PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will be held at CABOT FRESHMAN ACADEMY Cafeteria, 18 Spirit Drive (off North Lincoln), Cabot. Participants might want to bring their own drinks, dress in layers, and bring their own FULLY CHARGED device. There will be 90 minutes for on-your-own lunch and this workshop will dismiss at 4:00. Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): Kelly Gallagher

Location: Cabot Freshman Academy 2 Limit: 300 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration Fee: $0 188471 - 314217 American Red Cross CPR/First Aid/AED Certification (Adult, Child and Infant)

Facilitator: Shelma Winningham Presenter(s): Shelma Winningham

Location: Beebe H.S. Career & Tech Bldg. Rm 144 Limit: 12 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 28, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 22 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313688 - 313693 WDMESC: Administrators: Mandated Reporter Training for Child Maltreatment Subject(s): Other Audience(s): Administrators Description: Purpose: To Educate participants to the legal responsibility of reporting Child Maltreatment according to 12-18-101

Performance Objectives: By the conclusion of the class the participants should be able to: • Explain what constitutes Child Maltreatment. • List who is designated as a Mandated Reporter. • Identify what information needs to be gathered prior to making a report of Child Maltreatment.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Gary Glisson

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 2.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 309549 - 309550 WDMESC: Administrators/Bookkeepers: Tier I Update and Legislative Updates Subject(s): Economics Audience(s): Administrators Description: Act 345 of 2015 requires all superintendents, business managers, cooperative directors, and charter school directors to receive an annual financial update of at least two (2) hours. This training on school laws of AR, laws/rules governing the expenditures of public education funds, fiscal accountability and school finance, ethics, and financial accounting and reporting of expenditures is commonly called Tier 1. The ADE also allows for Tier 1 annual training to count for Tier 2 training, at the discretion of the local district. Act 345 of 2015 also changed the requirement for Tier 2 training to a minimum of two (2) hours. Legislative Updates will be provided from 10:30-11:30.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Mike Mertens, Robyn Keene

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2/3, Beebe Limit: 150 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 309493 - 309495 WDMESC: Picasso Cubism and Painting

Subject(s): Fine Arts Audience(s): 1,2,3-5,6-12 Description: While in class, participants will draw a distorted composition of their choice. The teacher will display color mixing and will paint their 16x20 canvas using only primary colors. Picasso style of cubism will be discussed. Characters of cubism will also be discussed. There will be no light direction, no depth in composition, all sides can be seen at one time.

Facilitator: Janelle Selvidge Presenter(s): Janelle Selvidge

Location: ASU-Beebe England Center, Room 116 Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 267444 - 313081 WDMESC: Picture Book (Perfect) Science

Subject(s): Science Audience(s): K-6 Description: Engage students in scientific inquiry through the use of carefully selected picture books! This training will support teachers in their quest to blend science and literacy. It is designed to increase student understanding of science and support the implementation of CCSS. This day will consist of theory and guided practice. Participants will receive an instruction book with lessons and information on how to check out kits to accompany the lessons. TESS components emphasized in this learning include: 2b(Establishing a Culture for Learning); 2c(Managing Classroom Procedures); 3b(Questioning, Prompts, and Discussion Techniques); and 3c(Engaging Students in the Learning).

Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 Page 23 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 310115 - 310117 WDMESC: Answering the Cry for Help: Suicide Prevention & Non-Lethal Self-Injury Subject(s): Other Audience(s): K-12 Description: This session will explore the prevalence and difference of self-destructive behaviors. Discussion will include how to distinguish between suicidal (lethal) and non-suicidal (non-lethal) behaviors and review a discussion/counseling technique for working with a person in suicidal crisis. Suggestions will also be explored for working with the non-lethal self-injurious child/adolescent along with tips for helping the parents of these children. Misconceptions and environmental factors will be included. Source of research includes training from ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Training) research from SAMSA, The American Psychological Assoc., TLC (Child Trauma Specialist)training, years of experience, and more.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Dave Opalewski

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 60 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313584 - 313585 WDMESC: Google Forms

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: During this session, attendees will learn how to create a Google Form, how to use a Google Form as an assessment or a survey as well as other ways educators are using Google Forms.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 313584 - 313587 WDMESC: Google Forms

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312289 - 312292 WDMESC: WDMESC, ADE and Harding STEM: Get to Know the New Math Course - Quantitative Literacy Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 9-12 Description: This course addresses personal and business finance as well as modeling, numerical reasoning, statistics, and probability. Spend time unraveling the standards and discovering how Quantitative Literacy is different from other math courses . Activities and resources will be shared. The prerequisite for Quantitative Literacy is Algebra 1. This is a Smart Core and 4th year math course. Target Audience: 9-12 Math teachers, instructional facilitators.

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Legion Hall 115 W Illinois St, Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 32 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jun 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 24 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313630 - 313634 WDMESC: ESOL Coordinator 101

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): Curriculum Coordinators Description: This training will equip new ESOL Coordinators, or those needing a refresher, with the basic steps necessary to run an ESOL program in a school district. Participants should bring a laptop with them, any ESOL plan they are aware of at their district, and watch the ESOL Program Guidance Webinar Series available on ADE’s English Learner’s Webpage (http://www.arkansased.gov/divisions/learning-services/english-learners) prior to the training. Ms. Kerr will work with ESOL Coordinators on creating/revising their district ESOL plans on this day by working with each one to answer the guiding questions found in the ESOL Program Guidance document also found on the ADE English Learner’s page . *Participants will need a laptop or other mobile device.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): Tricia Kerr

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 42 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 277054 - 312856 WDMESC: Disciplinary Literacy in History: "What's the story, and who or what is responsible?" Subject(s): Literacy,Social Sciences Audience(s): 5,6-12 Description: Historical thinking skills drive this session! Designed for social studies/history teachers, this professional learning opportunity offers a model and practice for teaching historical thinking skills and developing inquiry -based lessons. Inquiries based on the revised ADE curriculum framework and C3 Framework will be examined as participants analyze primary and secondary sources. Participants will need online access as they interact with the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) which is aligned to the "U.S. History Since 1890" course. Historical thinking skills, analysis of primary and secondary sources, and IDM are applicable to all grades. Additional IDMs for Grades 5-12 will also be available. This session is similar to the session offered last year. Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): GREG MOORE

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center, John Deere Rm Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 266922 - 313643 WDMESC: Google Drive for Beginners

Subject(s): Other Audience(s): K-12 Description: This is an introductory session to Google Drive. Attendees will learn how to store, upload and create files and folders in Google Drive, as well as how to access Google Drive from any device.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 266922 - 313647 WDMESC: Google Drive for Beginners

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 6, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 25 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 314187 - 314188 WDMESC: Small Group Reading K-1

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-1 Description: Designed specifically for K-1 educators, this module focuses on teacher instruction that will use knowledge of the reading process and developmental level of learners to guide instructional decisions, plan small group literacy lessons that match the needs of students based on the analysis of multiple assessments. Classroom management routines and procedures will also be addressed. Educators will be guided through the process of planning explicit instruction that will meet the needs of students meeting in small groups.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Admin. Bldg., Room 2 Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313070 - 313076 WDMESC: Lesson Planning Support for New AR Science Standards

Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 5-8 Description: This session is designed as time for creating lessons based on the new Arkansas Science Standards for 5-8 teachers. Teachers attending this session should have background knowledge of how to read the new standards . Teachers should bring resources needed to develop their own lessons. The Science Specialist will act as facilitator and provide support for teachers during this session. It is a work session rather than a presentation. (TESS components addressed: 1a. Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy, 1c. Setting Instructional Outcomes, 1e. Designing Coherent Instruction, and 4e. Growing and Developing Professionally.)

Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 6, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 316001 - 316003 WDMESC:Library Media Specialist/English Teachers: Have you heard of Reading Fairs (not book fairs)? How to have one in your school Subject(s): Language Arts,Library Media Specialist Audience(s): K-12 Description: What is a Reading Fair? A Reading Fair provides the opportunity to share a favorite fiction or nonfiction book through a project board display while raising the awareness of the importance of literacy. The goal of the fair is to develop a love of reading that will last a lifetime and fostered creativity at the same time. The goal of this workshop is to cover the specific information and design criteria format that is presented to the students and English teachers for the Reading Fair and outline the specific details that the judges will be looking at. The second part of the day will be designing and creating your own Reading Fair board to use as a model display for students to see and discuss. Come prepared with ideas for books that you would like to use!

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Amanda Smith, Shauna Gilbraith

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 42 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 26 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 310113 - 310114 WDMESC: The SLP’s Role in Supporting K-1 Teachers’ Phonological Awareness and Literacy Instruction Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-1 Description: This training is designed to guide SLPs as they support and supplement phonological awareness and literacy instruction in K-1. Participants will leave prepared to model instruction and support teachers in understanding assessments and using data, and then be able to continue support for these teachers as they implement this instruction in their classrooms. In addition, this training is also designed to demonstrate ideas for incorporating literacy into language–based therapy activities in the classroom or small group settings.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): JAMIE HOLLEY

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314137 - 314138 WDMESC: K-5 Researching to Build and Present Knowledge

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-5 Description: The Common Core State Standards emphasize students' engagement in both short and extended research to gain deeper understanding about the topics they are investigating. Students will synthesize information from multiple sources and present the information in a variety formats. This professional learning opportunity focuses on instructional practices that build students’ proficiency in conducting research: developing and refining inquiry questions; finding, assessing, analyzing, and synthesizing sources to answer those questions; and organizing and using evidence from those sources to explain understanding in ways that avoid plagiarism. These sessions support the work of ELA/Literacy instructors, as well as social studies and science teachers, as they prepare students to meet the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.

Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312299 - 312301 WDMESC: WDMESC and Harding STEM: Building Connections from Algebra to Calculus Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 9-12 Description: There are big ideas in the study of mathematics that occur in Algebra II and beyond . These big ideas are the concepts that connect Alg 1 through Calculus. The focus will be on making meaning of content with students in mind. In this session, we will present FALS, tasks, and problems that have been created especially for use in Algebra 2 and above. Topics addressed include, but not limited to: * Arithmetic and geometric sequences and how they relate to linear and exponential functions. * Exponential, logarithmic, and logistic relationships. * Conic Sections. * Rational Functions. All Topics will be addressed from a conceptual point of view and vertical alignment will be a major emphasis .

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 32 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 11, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 27 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 315948 - 315952 WDMESC: Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in Kindergarten Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Carlisle, Hazen, Lonoke, Riverview and White County Central are collaborating to provide their Kindergarten teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality Kindergarten mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314026 - 314027 WDMESC: Gifted and Talented Document Revisions and Monitoring Preparation 2017 Subject(s): G/T Audience(s): GT Description: On July 10, Gifted and Talented coordinators will spend ½ of their day participating in discussions around the Technical Assistance Visits that occurred this year. The afternoon will be a curriculum exchange. The following day, June 11, Krystal Nail from the Arkansas Department of Education will join us to answer questions , review documents and procedures in preparation for district visits and program approval applications.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): KRYSTAL NAIL, SANDRA ROE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Admin. Bldg., Room 2 Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 11, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 275711 - 313163 WDMESC: Science and Literacy - CER(Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) and Notebooking for Science Teachers Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 5,6-8 Description: The new science standards require that students think more deeply about phenomena, investigations, and data. Structures to support students in this process include CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) and the use of student notebooks in which to record student thinking. This session will engage teachers in how to use these structures and lapbooks to support student learning and reflection. (TESS Components: 1c:Setting Instructional Outcomes, 1d:Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources, 2b:Establishing a Culture for Learning, 3a:Communicating with Students, 3b:Using Questions and Discussion Techniques, 3c:Engaging Students in the Learning, 3d:Using Assessment in Instruction, 4e:Growing and Developing Professionally)

Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 311290 - 311291 WDMESC: Hands On Activities to practice Vocabulary, Grammar and Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom Subject(s): Foreign Language Audience(s): 9-12 Description: Teachers will be presented with numerous hands on activities to help practice vocabulary , grammar and culture in their Foreign Language Classroom. Examples will be given in French and Spanish. Participants are asked to bring examples of hands on activities that they use in their classroom.

Facilitator: LORI NIELSEN Presenter(s): LORI NIELSEN

Location: Searcy High School Room 302 Limit: 25 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 10, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 28 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 311561 - 311562 WDMESC: W.O.W.—Wonders of Wire

Subject(s): Fine Arts Audience(s): K-12 Description: In this hands-on workshop, participants will experiment with various wires to construct multiple sculptures--both relief and in-the-round. Participants will primarily focus their research and study for the day around the works of artists Alexander Calder and Elizabeth Berrien. This workshop is designed to offer multiple opportunities to investigate all four strands of the Arkansas Fine Arts Curriculum Framework—creating, presenting, responding, and connecting.

Facilitator: Angela Price Presenter(s): Melissa Floyd

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 25 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 2017 Time: 8:15 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314191 - 314192 WDMESC: Comprehensive Literacy Cohort 1: 2-3 Phonics/ Word Study

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 2,3 Description: Designed specifically for Grades 2-3 educators, this module focuses on a systematic, engaging approach aimed at exploring the sound, pattern, and meaning relationships among words. Students are guided towards making discoveries about how words work and generalizing their understandings in order to read, spell, and write more efficiently.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310540 - 310541 WDMESC: East Asian Literature and Pop Culture for the Classroom

Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): 6-12 Description: In this session, we will introduce the historical contexts of and suggest ways to use a wide variety of East Asian cultural products, from classic texts like the Analects and the Daodejing, to contemporary examples like Pokémon and K-pop.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Dr. Jeff Kyong-McClain

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315959 - 315962 WDMESC: Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in First Grade Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 1 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Carlisle, Hazen, Lonoke, Riverview and White County Central are collaborating to provide their first grade teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality first grade mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Cafeteria Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:15 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 29 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313719 - 313720 WDMESC: Reading and Writing Argumentative Texts

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 6-8 Description: Designed specifically for Grades 6-8 ELA educators, this module contains reading and writing strategies that will enable students to critically analyze a literary text, write strong arguments, and evaluate the arguments of others. The two-day module will assist ELA teachers as they develop a model lesson to use with students .

Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): GREG MOORE

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center, John Deere Rm Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 12, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 266823 - 313650 WDMESC: Google Classroom for Beginners

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: Attendees will learn THE BASICS of Google Classroom and how to use it for blended instruction , and will create their own Google Classroom.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 278405 - 313664 WDMESC: Doing More with Google Classroom

Subject(s): Educational Technology,All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: Attendees will learn and explore how other teachers are using Google Classroom. We will look at resources and websites that integrate with Google Classroom and create activities to take Google Classroom to the next level.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 243541 - 314108 WDMESC: Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) Year 3

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-2,3 Description: CGI professional development is designed to enhance teachers' ability to teach math for understanding by increasing teachers' understanding of children's mathematical thinking. The content focus is " Operations and Algebraic Thinking" and "Number and Operations in Base Ten," both as described in the Arkansas Mathematics Standards for Kindergarten through Third Grade. Through a focus on children's thinking, teachers improve their ability to facilitate the Standards for Mathematical Practice. CGI PD develops teachers' abilities to use any curriculum to teach math for understanding. CGI Year 3: 7 days consists of 3 days in the summer and 4 days in the school year. TESS Components addressed: 1a,1e,1f,2a,2b,3c,3d,4a,and 4d. Registration must go through district administration and Pam Allen at WDMESC.

Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Debbie Gates, Pamela Allen

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 0 Credit: 18.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 12, 13, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 30 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 243516 - 314115 WDMESC: Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) Year 2

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): K-2,3 Description: CGI professional development is designed to enhance teachers' abilities to teach math for understanding by increasing teachers' understanding of children's mathematical thinking. The content focus is " Operations and Algebraic Thinking" and "Number and Operations in Base Ten," both as described in Arkansas Mathematical Standards for Kindergarten through Third Grade. Through a focus on children's thinking, teachers improve their ability to facilitate the Standards for Mathematical Practice. CGI PD develops teachers' abilities to use any curriculum to teach math for understanding. CGI Year 2: 6 days consists of 4 days in the summer and 2 days in the school year. TESS Components addressed: 1a,1e,1f,2a,2b,3c,3d,4a,and 4d. Registration must go through district administration and Pam Allen at WDMESC.

Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Pamela Allen, Sonya Russell

Location: Legion Hall 115 W Illinois St, Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 0 Credit: 24.00 Date(s): Jul 11, 12, 13, 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 311135 - 311136 WDMESC: K-6 Administrators: RTI at Work

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): Administrators Description: Principals know that achievement in reading and math is critical to the future success of students. Response to intervention (RTI) is a comprehensive early detection, prevention, and support system approach to help students before they fall behind. Implementation of an RTI framework that incorporates universal screening , progress monitoring and differentiation, and systematic skill instruction ensures that all students develop the skills needed for academic success. This workshop will provide an overview of how RTI looks in a real elementary school. Participants will learn the process of developing, implementing, gaining teacher buy-in, and the administrator’s role in sustaining an effective RTI program in their school .

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Dena Rooks

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 12, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 314196 - 314199 WDMESC: Comprehensive Literacy K-1 cohort: Day 1 - Phonemic Awareness and Phonics in the K-1 Classroom Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-1 Description: Designed specifically for K-1 educators, this module focuses on instructional approaches aimed at exploring the sound, pattern, and meaning relationships among words in order to develop children's phonological awareness, decoding, spelling, and vocabulary. Students are guided towards making discoveries about how words work and generalizing their understandings in order to read, spell, and write more efficiently.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 12, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315497 - 315499 WDMESC: Intro to EV3 Lego Robotics

Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 4,5,6-12 Description: This training will give teachers the opportunity to explore the Lego EV3 MindStorm Robot. Teachers will build and modify a robot to complete a specific task. Ideas for classroom instruction and managing materials with students will be discussed. This training is designed for teachers with little to no experience with these robots. Teachers attending will be able to check out these materials from the STEM Center with completion of this training.

Facilitator: BEN CARRIGAN Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 24 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 12, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 31 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 315982 - 315983 WDMESC: Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in Fourth Grade Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 4 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Beebe, Carlisle, Hazen, Lonoke, Riverview and White County Central are collaborating to provide their fourth grade teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 12, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313601 - 313602 WDMESC: Proper Instruction of the Coding Block for Grades 7 and 8

Subject(s): Computer Science Audience(s): 7-8 Description: Intended for the teacher who will provide instruction in the 7-8 Coding block. Participants will thoroughly explore the Arkansas Coding Block standards through a series of activities that can be used in classroom instruction. Instructional strategies and extension activities for those offering more than the 4 week requirement will be included. We will use a free coding environment; the computer science concepts to be covered can be applied to the programming language or environment of your district’s choice. Participants need a computer/laptop that is not a tablet.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Arkansas CS Specialist

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 13, 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315502 - 315505 WDMESC: Robot-ify Your Classroom

Subject(s): Science Audience(s): K-6 Description: Come and join the staff at the Harding University STEM Center for a fabulous elementary robotics buffet . You will feast upon BeeBots, Robot Mice, Spheros, Lego WeDo’s, and more. We will learn how to use each of robots and how it can be a fun way to teach the K-8 integrated computer science standards. Upon completion of the training, teachers will be able to checkout these materials to use in their classroom.

Facilitator: BEN CARRIGAN Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 24 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 13, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315984 - 315985 WDMESC:Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in Fifth Grade Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Beebe, Carlisle, Hazen, Lonoke, Riverview and White County Central are collaborating to provide their fifth grade teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 13, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 32 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 315996 - 315997 WDMESC: Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in Seventh and Eighth Grade Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 7-8 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Hazen, Lonoke, and White County Central are collaborating to provide their seventh and eighth grade teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 14, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313680 - 313682 WDMESC: Overviews of Charlie May Simon and Arkansas Diamond Books for the 2017-2018 School Year Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-6 Description: Overviews of Charlie May Simon and Arkansas Diamond Books for the 2017-2018 School Year: We will have open discussions on all titles, with primarily Library Media Specialists attendees participating. Handouts will be provided to each person attending. Teachers and Principals are welcome to attend. The Arkansas Diamond books are K-3, and the Charlie May Simon titles are selected for 4-6th students.

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Cora Ellsworth, Loyd Harris

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 17, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 242981 - 314010 WDMESC: Teaching Gifted and Talented in the Secondary Content Classroom Subject(s): G/T,Language Audience(s): 7-12 Arts,Mathematics,Science,Social Sciences Description: This workshop will equip teachers of secondary core content areas with the tools needed to create a differentiated curriculum in their content area. All teachers of mathematics, science, social studies, and/ or English that are not AP or Pre-AP trained, must attend this workshop in its entirety in order to obtain a certificate of training. In addition, teachers must submit a completed lesson plan demonstrating differentiation before a certificate will be issued . We will address the following TESS components: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 2c, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e. NOTE: This workshop does NOT certify teachers in Pre-AP.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): SANDRA ROE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 17, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315717 - 315718 WDMESC: Sensory Processing

Subject(s): Other Audience(s): K-12 Description: Describe and explain Sensory Processing Diagnostic Categories and Intervention Strategies

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Katrina Bomar

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 4.00 Date(s): Jul 17, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 33 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 315963 - 315964 WDMESC: Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in Second Grade Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 2 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Carlisle, Hazen, Lonoke, Riverview and White County Central are collaborating to provide their second grade teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 17, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310367 - 310368 WDMESC: Is your Classroom Ready for a Remix? Get With The Blend!

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Are you ready to transform your classroom into the optimum blended learning powerhouse of teaching and learning? This will be the beginning foundation for your classroom’s ReMix. A ReMixed classroom is a new or different version of a classroom that is designed by changing or adding to the original model. This session will set the stage by defining blended learning, exploring implementation models, and researching tools and trends. BL Basics will lay the foundation for classrooms to transition into a classroom where teachers base teaching and learning directly on the lives, needs, interests, and goals of each student to help personalize learning for them. This type of learning environment moves the teacher from instructor to facilitator of learning. Come join us and see what all of the buzz is about. Learn to better serve each child while making your mission easier to accomplish on a daily basis. TESS Domains: 1b, 1e, 2a, 2e, 3a, 3c, 4d PD Hours: 6 total: 3 hours face-to-face/3 hours online engagement

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Sherry Kennedy

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 17, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313048 - 313049 WDMESC: Grasping Phenomenal Science (GPS) for Grades 9-12 (Physical Science and Chemistry): Navigating from Standards to Instruction Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 9-12 Description: Come experience a new vision for the high school science experience! During this two-day opportunity, educators will engage in phenomenon-based investigations aligned to the new Physical Science-Integrated and Chemistry-Integrated courses. Student-focused learning through the application of science, math and literacy skills will be highlighted. Connection to TESS: 1a,1d,1e,3a-e,4a,4e Two follow-up days will be offered later along with opportunities for classroom-level support. Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, NANETTE NICHOLS, TAMMY WINSLOW

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 17, 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 34 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 314168 - 314169 WDMESC: Young Children's Mathematics

Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): PreK,K-1 Description: This professional development is driven by the same guiding principles of teaching and learning mathematics as is in Cognitively Guided Instruction with a focus on Pre-K through 1st grade. Participants will learn about the development of children’s mathematical thinking and attend to the details of children’s counting and problem -solving strategies in order to support and build from children’s intuitive understandings of mathematics . They will learn how to use children’s thinking to make decisions that will allow them to purposefully design or adapt instructional tasks and to intervene in the moment in ways that are responsive to the needs and understandings of each child.

Facilitator: Pamela Allen Presenter(s): Pamela Allen

Location: Legion Hall 115 W Illinois St, Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 17, 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313639 - 313640 WDMESC: Arkansas English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards’ Introduction Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): Staff,Administrators,Curriculum Coordinators Description: Participants will be introduced to the ELP Standards to develop a deeper understanding of the standards and how they inform instruction to create greater access to language and content for English learners. Participants will be able to explain the organization and structure of the English language proficiency standards, to analyze and interpret classroom tasks to determine which ELP Standards apply, and apply the proficiency level descriptors to formatively assess what a student knows and is able to do with language. *Participants will need a laptop or other mobile device.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): Tricia Kerr

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 306686 - 306687 WDMESC: Arkansas and World War I

Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): 6-12 Description: This workshop will commemorate the centennial of the United States’ involvement in World War I by focusing on Arkansas’s contributions and the effect the war had on the state . The presentation will include lesson plans, a database of primary resources, and hands-on activities to take back to your classroom.

Facilitator: Allison Reavis, AR Heritage Presenter(s): Allison Reavis, AR Heritage

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 306688 - 306690 WDMESC: Arkansas and World War I

Facilitator: Allison Reavis, AR Heritage Presenter(s): Allison Reavis, AR Heritage

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 35 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 314211 - 314214 WDMESC: ICLF 5: Read Aloud K-1

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-1 Description: Designed specifically for K-1 educators, this module focuses on teacher instruction that will model the behavior of good readers and provide a model of fluent and expressive reading that will teach students how to employ a range of strategies, as well as model how to construct meaning while reading. The module will also focus on how to promote vocabulary growth and concept development through direct instruction. Participants are encouraged to bring one or two read aloud texts that will be used in the future during read-aloud instruction. One of the texts will be utilized for creating an instructional plan that the teacher will use with his/her class. Bring an electronic device. Suggest Text: Bringing Words to Life by Beck, McKeown, Kucan, 2nd edition.

Facilitator: AMBER BASS Presenter(s): AMBER BASS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313904 - 313907 WDMESC: Word Attack Strategies

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 3-5,6 Description: This professional development is designed to provide instruction that addresses what students need in order to read grade level texts. Many students who can read single-syllable words have difficulty reading multi-syllabic words. Explicit instruction in recognizing syllables and morphemes can provide students with strategies for reading longer words. Learn how to teach six syllable types, syllable division principles, root words, and affixes so your students will attack the big words.

Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310409 - 310462 WDMESC: Efficient and Effective Lesson Plans for Choirs

Subject(s): Music Audience(s): 6-12 Description: This workshop will develop rehearsal planning skills that will easily translate into effective rehearsals for junior high and high school choirs. Topics covered will include marking music, priming, and covering different important areas of choral singing each day. Ways to structure rehearsals with enough unity that helps students stay in positive routines , and variety that helps students be challenged. Research includes “Three Steps Toward Stellar Rehearsals,” by Cheryl Dupont, Choral Journal, 56: 8, 2017 and Clifton Ware’s Basics of Vocal Pedagogy, Mcgraw-Hill, 1998.

Facilitator: Teresa Lee Presenter(s): Kelly Neill

Location: Harding - Reynolds Center Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312379 - 312387 WDMESC: WDMESC and Harding STEM: My Students Won't Think!: A Look at Engaging (TESS 3c) Students in Higher Level Questioning (TESS 3b) in Math, Grades 7-12 Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 7-12 Description: Have you ever posed a great question or problem and the students just sit there? In this session we will look at the difference between complicated and complex questions, practice writing higher level questions or tasks (ACT Aspire test emphasizes DOK3), and experience strategies to promote student engagement in questions or tasks involving deeper student thinking. PREREQUISITE - Prior experience with Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK). If you would like professional development on DOK, consider the "Aspire to be Great!" PD scheduled June 20, 2017. Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 32 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 36 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 315967 - 315968 WDMESC: Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in Third Grade Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Audience(s): 3 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Carlisle, Hazen, Lonoke, Riverview and White County Central are collaborating to provide their third grade teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 266823 - 313665 WDMESC: Google Classroom for Beginners

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 278405 - 313667 WDMESC: Doing More with Google Classroom

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 18, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312918 - 312919 WDMESC: Grasping Phenomenal Science (GPS) for Grades 9-12 (Biology): Navigating from Standards to Instruction Subject(s): Science Audience(s): 9-12 Description: Come experience a new vision for the high school science experience! During this two-day opportunity, educators will engage in phenomenon-based investigations aligned to the new Biology-Integrated course. Student-focused learning through the application of science, math and literacy skills will be highlighted. Connections to TESS: 1a,1d,1e,3a-e,4a,4e Two follow-up days will be offered later along with opportunities for classroom-level support. Facilitator: NANETTE NICHOLS Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, Keith Harris, NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 19, 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 37 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313699 - 313703 WDMESC: Building Bridges for Kids: Trauma Informed Schools and Reducing the Effects of Poverty Subject(s): Other Audience(s): PreK-12,Staff,Administrators,Federal Coordinators,School Nurse Description: Dr. Kim Fielding will present on the following topics: Trauma Informed Care 101, Trauma: It’s a Brain Thing, Ages and Developmental Tasks: The Effects of Trauma on Children, Intentionality: Caregivers and Their Organizations. Dr. Ruby Payne will present regarding the effects of poverty on children, especially on young males.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Dr. Kim Fielding, Dr. Ruby Payne

Location: Searcy High School Auditorium Limit: 1,500 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 19, 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313673 - 313675 WDMESC: Hour of Code

Subject(s): Educational Technology,All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: During this session attendees will learn about the Hour of Code and how to begin the Hour of Code in the classroom. We will look at different resources available for implementation of the Hour of Code .

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 20, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 313209 - 313210 WDMESC: Finding the Excellence in ALL Your Students in the Music Classroom Subject(s): Music Audience(s): K-12,Staff Description: Participants in this workshop will review Federal and State regulations governing the education of students identified under IDEA and the legal implications thereof. Additionally, participants will be asked to entertain the idea that all students have some “special need” in education and labels of identified students should be avoided. Participants will review their philosophy that all students are capable of learning through appropriate differentiation and will explore avenues for modification and accommodations of curriculum in the music classroom. Research based on newly published books, documents, and research journals by experts in the fields of education for special needs students in music education.

Facilitator: MICKEY COX Presenter(s): Janet Knighten

Location: Beebe Junior High, Fine Arts Rm. 509 Limit: 75 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 21, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313713 - 313714 WDMESC: Addressing SLP Issues

Subject(s): Speech-Language Pathologists Audience(s): PreK-12 Description: Shelly will address current issues with Speech Language Cases.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Shelly Wier

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 45 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 24, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 38 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 310387 - 310388 WDMESC: Medicaid In The Schools: Show Me The Money

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): Staff,Administrators,School Nurse,Curriculum Coordinators Description: In this session, audience members will gain knowledge on how districts can ensure they are maximizing all areas of Medicaid reimbursements, the rules and regulations around billing Medicaid in schools, recent updates/changes, guidelines around the use of funds, and how to use reimbursements to implement and sustain health programs.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Tracy Starks

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 80 Credit: 2.00 Date(s): Jul 24, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310389 - 310390 WDMESC: Best Practices in School Based Mental Health Services

Subject(s): Health,All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: The Arkansas Department of Education has fostered the development of approved best practice school-based mental health programs within Arkansas public school districts . These programs are grounded in and based on the following principles: • An emphasis on early identification • Full integration with the community and its resources • Placing students and their families at the center of service decisions • Providing services that are culturally competent • A focus on promoting school attendance and academic success • Services and supports validated by research and evidence-based practices • The use of technology, including telecommunications (Courtesy of School Based Mental Health Manual)

Facilitator: Shae McGillvray Presenter(s): BETSY KINDALL

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 24, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 313641 - 313644 WDMESC: Developing Successful Students and Ensembles with a Complete Instrumental Curriculum, Preparing Your Ensemble for Expressive Performance, To Music and Beyond, Fix it Now, and The Small-School Band Subject(s): Music Audience(s): Staff Description: Five sessions will be offered throughout the course of the day: Developing Successful Students and Ensembles with a Complete Instrumental Curriculum, Preparing Your Ensemble for Expressive Performance, To Music and Beyond, Fix it Now, and The Small-School Band.

Facilitator: MICKEY COX Presenter(s): Robert Sheldon

Location: Beebe Junior High, Fine Arts Rm. 509 Limit: 100 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 24, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 39 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 314132 - 314133 WDMESC: Text Dependent Questions for Grades 3-5

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 3-5 Description: The Common Core State Standards emphasize students' ability to ask and answer text-dependent questions. Incorporating high-quality text-dependent questions into instruction is a critical step for educators and their students in the shift toward reading, writing, listening and speaking that is grounded in textual evidence. This professional learning opportunity focuses on developing questions that guide students back to the text to gain deeper understanding of what the text says and how the text conveys its message.

Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 24, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314028 - 314029 WDMESC: Engineering is Elementary

Subject(s): Science Audience(s): K-5 Description: Engineering is Elementary modules are a product of the Boston Museum of Science and are excellent supplements to every school’s science program. The hands-on modules are easy to follow, easy to put together, and provide teachers the engineering component needed for our new Arkansas K-12 Science Standards. The training in this session will include the module A Work in Progress: Improving Play Dough Process. Each module contains a multitude of reading and writing tasks, mathematics integration, and application of scientific concepts. All modules revolve around a problem, diversity, and incorporates multiple types of engineering. On completion of the training teachers will have access to checkout any of the 20 curriculum guides and several material kits to use in their classroom.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): BEN CARRIGAN, NANETTE NICHOLS, SANDRA ROE

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 24, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 274425 - 313999 WDMESC: It’s Time to Get in the Game: The Stock Market Game

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): 9-12,4-8 Description: Use this engaging project-based simulation in your class as you teach math, language arts, technology, social studies, critical thinking, and current events.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): Marsha Masters, SANDRA ROE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 24, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 309265 - 309266 WDMESC: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom to Make History Come Alive Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): 6-12 Description: The workshop will discuss the importance of primary sources to strengthening students’ literacy skills and their understanding of history. The workshop will reveal strategies and techniques for introducing students to primary sources and how they can be used to make history “come alive”.

Facilitator: Brian Irby Presenter(s): Brian Irby

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0

Page 40 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 309267 - 309268 WDMESC: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom to Make History Come Alive Subject(s): Social Sciences Audience(s): 6-12 Description: The workshop will discuss the importance of primary sources to strengthening students’ literacy skills and their understanding of history. The workshop will reveal strategies and techniques for introducing students to primary sources and how they can be used to make history “come alive”.

Facilitator: Brian Irby Presenter(s): Brian Irby

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313595 - 313597 WDMESC: Administrators Supporting Computer Science Education in Their Schools Subject(s): Computer Science Audience(s): Administrators,Counselors Description: This is a half day training designed to help counselors, building administrators, and district curriculum instructors understand what is required by the state for their schools to meet state computer science standards. We will focus on the new computer science embedded standards, 7-12 courses and new codes, and teacher licensure. We will also look at how to enhance current or existing programs, student flex credits and options.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Arkansas CS Specialist

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 80 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313708 - 313709 WDMESC: Administrators: How to Assess, Interpret, and Use ACT Aspire Scores Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12,Administrators Description: Administrators are the educational leaders of any building. The Office of Student Assessment will walk administrators through how to access, interpret and use ACT Aspire scores.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): Hope Allen

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 100 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 315987 - 315990 WDMESC: Implementing Engage New York Instructional Materials in Sixth Grade Using Best Instructional Practices: CGI, Number Talks, etc. Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 6 Description: Workshop Description (include source of research: Carlisle, Hazen, Lonoke, Riverview and White County Central are collaborating to provide their third grade teachers an opportunity to discuss and plan how to use the Engage New York instructional materials along with best instructional practices to assure a high quality mathematics experience for all students. CGI, Number Talks, Formative Assessment, and other best practices will be incorporated within the Engage New York instructional materials.

Facilitator: Linda Griffith Presenter(s): Linda Griffith

Location: ASU-Beebe Student Center-Walmart/Regions Rm Limit: 0 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 41 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 311951 - 311956 WDMESC: EASEL-Ensuring Academic Success of English Learners

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-12 Description: Are you effectively reaching the English Learners in your content area classroom ? Do you know how to identify, develop, and support the academic language specific to your content area that is crucial for English Learners to have equitable access to content area instruction in your classroom? Would you like customizable strategies and lessons to use in your own classroom? Come join your fellow content area teachers as they learn how to seamlessly integrate the English Language Proficiency Standards (ELP Standards) into existing daily instruction to better reach the English Learners who struggle with vocabulary and other barriers to making content comprehensible in your classroom. Participants will leave this training with practical tools to provide linguistic scaffolds in content area classrooms . This training consists of three face-to-face days in the summer with two follow-up days during the school year. The follow-up days may be accessed in either of two formats, face-to-face or virtual meetings. The training will be led by expert practitioners who are currently applying the tools in their content-area classrooms.

Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): Jaime Miller, Sarah Beers

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Computer Lab Limit: 35 Credit: 24.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 26, 27, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313762 - 313763 WDMESC: Literacy Design Collaborative 2017

Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): 7-12 Description: of LDC Design Thinking. Teachers and Instructional Coaches will develop and refine the ability to design content -specific instruction for learning in every classroom. The LDC Design System: • Strengthens teacher competencies (TESS Domains) iterate to improving student outcomes • Identifies and responds to Problems of Practice (Rigor, Instruction, and Alignment) • Fosters the development of quality assignments and instructional plans • Equips teachers in refining reflective practices

Yearly agenda includes 2 face-to-face days during the summer of 2017, 1 day in the fall of 2017, 2 face-to-face days in the spring of 2018 with virtual coaching, online study, and onsite support from LDC certified specialists throughout the year.

Note: Schools must sign a MOU with ADE.

Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): GREG MOORE

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op Admin. Bldg., Room 2 Limit: 20 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 311475 - 311476 WDMESC: Curriculum and Collaboration: How to take your program to the next level with multi-step instructions, fine and gross motor skills, and time to share your games/ideas. Subject(s): Physical Education Audience(s): K-12 Description: Tips and tricks to add depth to your program. Also, bring your favorite games/ideas because we learn best from each other.

Facilitator: Cathryn Bass Presenter(s): Cathryn Bass

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 42 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 276921 - 313691 WDMESC: Ed Tech Boot Camp

Subject(s): Educational Technology Audience(s): K-12 Description: Participants will take part in educational technology training that will enhance the use of technology in the everyday classroom. There will be a full day of break-out sessions available for teachers who are just beginning to incorporate technology into the classroom, and for those more advanced with technology, who are looking to further their EdTech knowledge. Teachers are welcome to bring their own device or devices will be available . Participants must sign in at each “mini-session.”

*Up to 6 hours of credit are available.*

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Brook Singletary, PATTI KITTS

Location: Searcy/Southwest Middle School Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 312367 - 312375 WDMESC: American Heart Association Heartsaver Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Subject(s): Health Audience(s): K-12 Description: In this professional development the instructor will: 1. Explain how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED. 2. Explain how to use a mask when giving CPR. 3. Explain how to help a choking adult, child, or infant. 4. List the signs of choking. 5. Demonstrate how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED on an adult or on a child.

Location: Laveda's 208 W Center St Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 12 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 312367 - 312377 WDMESC: American Heart Association Heartsaver Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator Subject(s): Health Audience(s): K-12 Description: In this professional development the instructor will: 1. Explain how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED. 2. Explain how to use a mask when giving CPR. 3. Explain how to help a choking adult, child, or infant. 4. List the signs of choking. 5. Demonstrate how to give CPR to an adult, child, or infant and how to use an AED on an adult or on a child.

Location: Laveda's 208 W Center St Beebe, AR 72012 Limit: 12 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 25, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 43 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 312134 - 312135 WDMESC: Foundations of Alternative Education

Subject(s): Special Education Audience(s): K-12,Staff,Administrators,Counselors Description: This training is for districts beginning a new ALE program or redesigning their current nontraditional opportunities . Rules, regulations, procedures, forms, law, and program support will be offered during this in depth training .

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): C.W. Gardenhire

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 309546 - 309548 WDMESC: Special Education Updates

Subject(s): Special Education Audience(s): K-12 Description: The ADE Special Education Unit will provide updates including information regarding statewide assessment accommodations, classroom accommodations, new special education paperwork, and effective classroom practices. Additional topics will be discussed. This session will benefit both special education teachers and special education supervisors. Training resources will be available at tinyurl.com/SpEdUpdates. Questions regarding this session may be emailed to Robin Stripling at [email protected]. Note: if fewer than 8 people register for the session, the session will be canceled.

Facilitator: Garrie Massengale Presenter(s): ROBIN STRIPLING

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2, Beebe Limit: 80 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313923 - 313927 WDMESC: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness with a Multi-sensory Approach Subject(s): Literacy Audience(s): K-2,Special Ed Description: This session focuses on instructional approaches aimed at exploring the sound, pattern, and meaning relationships among words in order to develop children’s phonological and phonemic awareness . During this session, classroom teachers will have the opportunity to look at interventions to use with students after they have administered assessments. Participants will be provided examples of multisensory interventions to implement in their classrooms. This session is for K-2 Teachers, Dyslexia Contacts, K-12 Special Ed Teachers, Interventionists, and RtI Team Members. Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 26, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313913 - 313917 WDMESC: Dyslexia Overview and Characteristics

Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12,Special Ed Description: This professional development provides an overview of dyslexia, along with historical information, myths regarding dyslexia, and characteristics of dyslexia. This session is for K-12 Teachers, Dyslexia Contacts, K-12 Special Education Teachers, Interventionists, and RtI Team Members. Facilitator: April Rose Presenter(s): April Rose

Location: Beebe S.D. Prof. Dev. Center - Room 117 Limit: 40 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0

Page 44 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 313473 - 312812 WDMESC: WDMESC and Harding STEM: My Students Won't Think! A look at Engaging Students in Higher Level Questioning in Math, Grades 3-6 Subject(s): Mathematics Audience(s): 3-5,6 Description: Have you ever posed a great question or problem and the students just sit there? In this session we will look at the difference between complicated and complex questions, practice writing higher level questions or tasks (ACT Aspire test emphasizes DOK3), and experience strategies to promote student engagement in questions or tasks involving deeper student thinking. Addresses TESS 3b, 3c.

PREREQUISITE: Prior experience with Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK). If you would like professional development on DOK, consider the "ASPIRE to Be Great!" PD scheduled June 20, 2017

Facilitator: Tim Brister Presenter(s): Tim Brister

Location: Harding - Thornton Ed. Center - Rm. 326 Limit: 32 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 311431 - 311432 WDMESC: Come learn some ideas to keep your kids, parents, and community involved in P.E. This includes new fun games,community involvement ideas, and grant writing. Subject(s): Physical Education Audience(s): K-6 Description: It is always nice to get some fresh game ideas to keep you and the students interested in class. Community support and grant writing can help you in more ways than you ever imagined.

Facilitator: Cathryn Bass Presenter(s): Cathryn Bass

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 26, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310055 - 310059 WDMESC: Administrators’ Day with David Cottrell “How Leaders Achieve Magical Results” Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): Administrators Description: David Cottrell, author of "Monday Morning Mentoring” “Tuesday Morning Coaching”, “The Magic Question” and other inspiring books will present on the topic “How Leaders Achieve Magical Results” . This professional development opportunity is designed for leaders who desire to improve and support a positive culture in our schools. Lunch will be provided.

Facilitator: Leasha Hayes Presenter(s): David Cottrell

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2/3, Beebe Limit: 150 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Jul 27, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 310092 - 310095 WDMESC: Classroom Management, Effective Instruction, and Student Motivation: The Keys to Raising Student Achievement Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: Join your colleagues for this interactive workshop. This workshop is NOT a sit and get. Mark will share hands-on ways to build relationships with your students, develop ways to build and maintain mutually productive and effective classroom culture, and keep your students engaged.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): MARK MCLEOD

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2/3, Beebe Limit: 150 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Jul 31, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 45 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 310099 - 310100 WDMESC: Classroom Management, Effective Instruction, and Student Motivation: The Keys to Raising Student Achievement Subject(s): All Subject Areas Audience(s): K-12 Description: Join your colleagues for this interactive workshop. This workshop is NOT a sit and get. Mark will share hands-on ways to build relationships with your students, develop ways to build and maintain mutually productive and effective classroom culture, and keep your students engaged. This is a repeat of the workshop offered on July 31. Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): MARK MCLEOD

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Rooms 1/2/3, Beebe Limit: 150 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Aug 1, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 314123 - 314128 WDMESC: Number Talks - Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 50 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Aug 1, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 242931 - 314016 WDMESC: Pre-AP Strategies in Mathematics - Helping Students Learn Mathematics Through Problem Solving Subject(s): G/T,Mathematics Audience(s): 5-8,9-12 Description: This College Board two-day workshop provides strategies for designing and using meaningful investigations, writing dynamic problems, and enhancing current classroom activities, so that students will develop a deeper understanding and produce more thoughtful responses. Teachers will gain an understanding of how successful students learn and how to develop those skills in others, as well as how to build relevant, informative assessments that will allow them to monitor and foster mathematical thinking without interrupting instruction. You must attend both days in their entirety to receive a College Board Pre-AP certificate. Districts will be billed $250. per participant. IMPORTANT: We must have at least 10 participants for this training to take place. NO CANCELLATIONS will be accepted after July 7, 2017. You may transfer the registration to another teacher in your district. IF YOU REGISTER AND DO NOT ATTEND, YOU WILL BE BILLED FOR THE REGISTRATION FEE. Breakfast and lunch provided. Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): SANDRA ROE, TBA TBA

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Aug 2, 3, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

Page 46 of 49 Wilbur D. Mills Education Service Cooperative 242925 - 314020 WDMESC: Pre AP Interdisciplinary Strategies in English and the Social Sciences Subject(s): G/T,All Subject Areas Audience(s): 5-8,9-12 Description: This interactive two-day College Board workshop provides teachers with research-based strategies to build and strengthen students' skills within the English and social science disciplines. An emphasis is placed on interdisciplinary reading, analyzing text strategies and teaching writing on demand. Participants will learn strategies for strengthening students' reading comprehension and writing skills in Pre-AP course work -- and the implication these strategies will have on students' fluency as readers and writers at the college level. You must attend both days in their entirety to receive a College Board Pre-AP certificate.Districts will be charged $250. per participant.

Important Session Information: We must have at least 10 participants for this training to take place. No cancellation will be accepted after June 23, 2016. You may transfer the registration to another teacher in your district in the same content area . If you register and do not attend, you will still be billed for the $250 registration fee. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Important Session Information: We must have at least 10 participants for this training to take place. No cancellation will be accepted after July 7, 2017. You may transfer the registration to another teacher in your district in the same content area. If you register and do not attend, you will still be billed for the registration fees. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Facilitator: SANDRA ROE Presenter(s): SANDRA ROE, TBA TBA

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 12.00 Date(s): Aug 2, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 304811 - 312883 WDMESC: SIM (Strategic Instruction Model): Overview and the Framing Routine Subject(s): Educational Technology,Language Audience(s): 4,5,6-12,Principals,Instructional Arts,Science,Social Sciences,Special Education Leaders,Instructional Facilitators Description: SIM (Strategic Instruction Model) Content Enhancement Routines are designed for any subject-area in grades 4-12. Throughout the course of this school year, participants will receive 3 routines followed by on-site support. These routines will support teacher planning, and will help students learn the content. These routines also support reading and writing in any classroom.

Facilitator: GREG MOORE Presenter(s): GREG MOORE, NANETTE NICHOLS

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op CTE Conference Rm., Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Aug 3, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

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Subject(s): Educational Audience(s): 6-8,9,GT Technology,G/T,Mathematics,Science Description: This session is designed to introduce Learning Blade to school coordinators and teachers who will be utilizing this free program. Learning Blade was developed to engage students so they learn about STEM and Careers. Students who have participated in the pilot expressed their “enjoyment” of the missions. The Learning Blade system is organized into “missions” that focus on societal issues, enabling students to participate in engaging lessons that explore problems such protecting web sites and social media from attacks, predicting a flu outbreak by using data and social media, or building an environmentally-sound orphanage after a major earthquake. Learning Blade also provides teachers with valuable feedback on student skills, while demonstrating the relevance of academics in real-life contexts for students. Our goal is in 2-3 hours to have the teacher feel 100% confident in their ability to instantaneously start using Learning Blade in the classroom. Introduce and explain basics of Learning Blade: Become familiar with the Learning Blade system and the layout of the Learning Blade curriculum. Learn how to set up student accounts and use the student tracking system for managing student accounts and assignments. Learn how to set up classes in the student management system and the reporting functions. Determine how to set up and use the system based on the audience’s specific needs . Explore the Learning Blade curriculum to determine the most effective implementation for the students . Explore the value and use of the standard-linking of activities in Learning Blade.

Facilitator: Brook Singletary Presenter(s): Ray Henson

Location: WDMESC Admin. Bldg. Rm 1 (Computer Lab) Limit: 30 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Aug 4, 2017 Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration Fee: $0 313794 - 313797 WDMESC: Paraprofessional Training: Foundations of Special Education

Subject(s): Special Education Audience(s): K-12 Description: This training explains, discusses, and defines the roles and responsibilities of the teacher and paraprofessionals as a member of the student's IEP team. Strategies for instructional techniques will be provided.

Facilitator: Jimmy Dunn Presenter(s): Jimmy Dunn

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Aug 7, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 315648 - 315650 WDMESC: Scoliosis Screening Certification for School Nurses

Subject(s): Health Audience(s): K-12 Description: The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to increase their understanding of scoliosis screening procedures and have the training necessary to complete mandated scoliosis screenings. This is a required training for new school nurses and those who have not had scoliosis training in the last five years. OBJECTIVES: * Assess knowledge of the law and responsibilities related to scoliosis screenings. * Explain why scoliosis screening is necessary. * Identify the nine steps of the scoliosis screening process. * Demonstrate the two stages of scoliosis screening. * Differentiate between a normal spine and scoliosis and the recommendation for referral . * Describe the documentation standards for the Scoliosis program. * Explore different diagnostic and treatment options available along with resources for referrals .

Facilitator: Shae McGillvray Presenter(s): Shae McGillvray

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 20 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Aug 7, 2017 Time: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

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Subject(s): Health Audience(s): K-12 Description: This course, "Obesity Prevention and Education for School Nurses" is designed to increase school nurses' knowledge on issues related to childhood obesity. Objectives: Define obesity and relate current trends in Arkansas and in the United States. Discuss risk factors for childhood obesity. Explain health consequences of obesity. Review history and pertinent legislation related to Body Mass Index in Arkansas. Demonstrate the process for appropriate height and weight measurement for children. List resources available for schools and school nurses to combat childhood obesity.

Facilitator: Shae McGillvray Presenter(s): Shae McGillvray

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 3, Beebe Limit: 20 Credit: 3.00 Date(s): Aug 7, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 11:30 am Registration Fee: $0 313808 - 313811 WDMESC: Paraprofessional Training for Students with Special Health Care Needs Subject(s): Health,Special Education Audience(s): K-12 Description: This workshop will provide information about IDEA, Section 504, and Nurse Practice Act and how they impact the care provided to students with special health care needs by paraprofessionals in schools. We will review the Delegated Nursing Skills Training Manual for Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and discuss the roles and responsibilities of the School Nurse/Paraprofessional partnership.

Facilitator: Shae McGillvray Presenter(s): Shae McGillvray

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 40 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Aug 8, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 313800 - 313804 WDMESC: Paraprofessional Training: Behavior Module

Subject(s): Special Education Audience(s): K-12 Description: The Behavior Module presents research based information dealing with the issues of behavior and students in the classroom.

Facilitator: Sarra Petray Presenter(s): Sarra Petray

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 1, Beebe Limit: 20 Credit: 6.00 Date(s): Aug 9, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Registration Fee: $0 310542 - 310543 WDMESC: Improving Wellness in Your School & Comprehensive School Physical Activity Subject(s): Health Audience(s): Staff,Principals Description: This workshop will provide training to personnel involved in school or district level wellness committees in regards to the responsibilities of school wellness committees outlined by Act 1220 of 2003 and USDA’s Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act. The utilization of the School Health Index to assist in planning and developing of goals for the health and wellness improvement priority will be discussed. This workshop will provide training to personnel involved in school or district level wellness committees in planning and implementing a comprehensive school physical activity program. Comprehensive school physical activity includes quality physical education, physical activity before/after school, physical activity during the school day (active recess and activity in the classroom), staff wellness, and family and community involvement.

Facilitator: Dorothy Hatfield Presenter(s): Anna Haver

Location: Wilbur Mills Co-op PD Center Room 2, Beebe Limit: 30 Credit: 5.00 Date(s): Sep 11, 2017 Time: 8:30 am - 2:30 pm Registration Fee: $0

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