Mercer County
Educational Service Center
540 East Market Street
Celina, OH 45822
(419) 586-6628
Providing high quality cooperative services that positively impact the diverse educational needs of students, staff, and community.
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On Demand Sessions
New Sessions:
*Added as of April 2024*
Title: Asking Better Questions to Promote Productive Struggle
Description: This session will review the 4 types of questions you typically ask in the classroom and the uses and need for all types. You will also learn how to take lower-level questions and make them higher level by using criteria, perspective, and scaffolding. This session is appropriate for all grade levels and will help you learn how to create a productive struggle that leads to real, authentic learning in your classroom and makes confident, curious learners out of your students!
Length: 35 minutes
Targeted Audience: Grades 4-8, Grades 9-12, Intervention Specialist - Gifted or Special Education
**Gifted**
Archived Sessions:
Title: AI 101 for Teachers: Fireside Chat with Sal Khan and Hadi Partovi
Description: Join Sal Khan (Khan Academy) and Hadi Partovi (Code.org) for a fireside chat on embracing artificial intelligence in the classroom. Expect a lively discussion including some of the most controversial topics surrounding AI today.
Length: 30 minutes
Targeted Audience: K-12, all educators and administrators
Title: Active Learning with Google Tools
Description: EduProtocols are instructional templates that are designed to engage students in learning through critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity, in any subject or grade level. In this session you will see how engaging these can be for students by trying out several hands-on activities such as Sketch and Tell, Iron Chef, Tier List, Thin Slides, and more.
Length: 1 hour
Presenters: Eric Curts
Targeted Audience: All educators
Content Areas: All content areas
Title: Arm Tapping: Multisensory Memory Technique
Description: One component of the Orton-Gillingham method of reading instruction. Learn to teach students this multi-sensory, body memory, "arm tapping" technique to help them master sight words, spelling words, or anything that needs to be memorized. (Works for adults, too!)
Presenters: Rebecca Vaughn
Targeted Audience: PreK-8
Content Areas: ELA, Special Education
Length: 30 minutes
Title: Artificial Intelligence/Natural Misuse - Managing AI in Schools
Description: As beneficial as AI is, it also comes with challenges and the potential for misuse. In this session we will explore tools and strategies to help monitor AI use, proper citation for AI generated content, ways to encourage positive use of AI in the classrooms, developing your own class set of AI guidelines for students, alternative assessment options, and more.
Length: 45 minutes
Presenters: Eric Curts
Targeted Audience: All educators, all administrators
Content Areas: All content areas
Title: Assessment Authoring Feature for EOC Tests: Creating Your Own Test
Description: In this video, I will be discussing the assessment authoring feature for our EOC tests. I will explain how I use it with my students to provide them with simulated assessments and evaluate their progress. I will guide you through the process of accessing the assessment authoring section and creating your own tests. Pay attention to the important steps and features I highlight, as they will help you effectively utilize this tool. Get ready to enhance your assessment creation skills!
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Kristen Owens, Tipp City
Targeted Audience: 3-12 Tested Areas
Title: Assessment Authoring Feature with Ohio Readiness
Description: In this video, I provide an overview of the assessment authoring feature provided by Ohio Readiness. I explain the differences between benchmark and checkpoint tests and how the authoring features work for different testing scenarios. I then guide you through the process of using the authoring hub to create a test, focusing on the test generator wizard. I demonstrate how to select standards, choose the domain and strand, and generate the test. Finally, I show you how to review and publish the test. No specific action is requested from the viewers in this video.
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Kristen Owens, Tipp City
Targeted Audience: 3-12 Tested Areas
Title: Autocrat to the Rescue
Description: AutoCrat is an add-on that allows you to merge information from your spreadsheets into other formats, like a Google Doc, PDF, or even a Slideshow. Anyone who uses Google Sheets has access to AutoCrat. It is a free merge tool that is available in the add-ons store. Just about anyone can use it to automate processes. Use this tool to enhance your workflow to free up time for more important tasks.
Presenters: Angie Wourms
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Administration, and Technology
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: The Bard's Tale: Google AI in Education
Description: Google has long been a leader when it comes to creating and using artificial intelligence in practical ways. In this session we will explore a wide range of Google tools that are already incorporating generative AI (and previews of tools coming soon) including Bard and Google's AI integrations in Docs, Slides, Sheets, Gmail, Search and more! See how these tools can be used by teachers and students, and discuss the benefits and challenges of AI in education.
Length: 1 hour
Presenters: Eric Curts
Targeted Audience: All educators
Content Areas: All content areas
Book Study to come!!
Book "Behind the Screens: What Teens Are Facing (And Adults are Missing)"
Title: Behind Their Screens: What Teens are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)
Description: Drawing on a multiyear project surveying more than 3,500 teens, they explain "comparison quicksand," "digital pacifying," and other social media phenomena that prompt concern, if not outright panic, on the part of well-intentioned grown-ups. Dr. James and Dr. Weinstein have also worked closely with Common Sense to inform many of the nonprofit's resources for families and educators. This discussion will provide useful guidance and practical tips.
Length: 1 Hour
Targeted Audience: Middle and High School Educators, but the content is of value to all interested in the impact of technology on children
Title: The Biological Impact of ACEs
Description: This session will explore how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact learning and long-life health in children, adolescents and adults. Presenters review current research on the impact of ACEs on child development, social-emotional health, and illness. Specific interventions to counter ACEs are discussed.
Presenters: Robert Shapiro, MD
Targeted Audience: PreK-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Financial Literacy, Administration, Counselor, Social Emotional
Length: 1 hour
Title: Brave Work
Description: Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with our students is difficult--but necessary-- work. This work is often uncomfortable, and it takes courageous teachers to be willing to focus on more than standards and testing and to truly work towards what is best for students.
This session will provide strategies to help teachers build rapport, respect and relationships with students. As a group, we will build a collective toolbox that will help us lean into the tough topics we face in the classroom. The tools we include will help us better advocate for our most vulnerable learners. As stakeholders in the future of each student, it is our duty to champion all children...and we cannot champion them if we do not know them.
Presenters: Johnna Kattine
Targeted Audience: 4-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Financial Literacy, Social Emotional
Length: 1 hour
Title: Building Math Fluency
Description: 6 part series around how to help students with math fluency broken down into: Fast does not mean fluent - Helping kids learn math facts - Math experiences that build fluency - Students with math fluency - Importance of visuals in math - The root of math fluency. Leave the sessions with ideas and strategies.
Presenters: Christina Tondevold
Targeted Audience: PreK-8
Content Areas: Math
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Title: Building Fact Fluency through Mathematical Storytelling
Description: Graham Fletcher and Tracy Zager emphasize the importance of building fact fluency and provide engaging strategies and methods to help build that fluency among your students.
Length: 1 Hour
Targeted Audience: K-5 Mathematics
Title: Building Fact Fluency with Addition and Subtraction: Kindergarten - Grade 2
Description: Gain insight on building math fluency for younger students to create a foundation for effective mathematics usage.
Length: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Presenters: Barb Weidus and Brooke Lovely
Targeted Audience: K-2
Content Areas: Mathematics
Title: Building Fact Fluency with Multiplication and Division in Grades 3-5
Description: Gain insight on building math fluency for students in grades 3-5 to create a foundation for effective math usage.
Length: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Presenters: Barb Weidus and Brooke Lovely
Targeted Audience: 3-5
Content Areas: Mathematics
Title: Challenging Behavior as it Ties to PBIS in Early Childhood
Description: Challenging Behavior is unlike any other subject. There is no magic formula, no right or wrong way to do things, no one correct answer to any given question, no one solution to any particular problem. Every teacher, every child, and every situation is unique. But each demands a thoughtful and intentional approach.
Presenters: Alexis Kirk
Targeted Audience: PreK-3
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Financial Literacy, Social Emotional
Length: 1 hour
Title: Classroom Management for the "Tough" Students
Description: 49 years of experience mixed with lessons from "360 Thinking", "Zones of Regulation", "Nurturing Heart", "Circle of Courage", "Applied Behavioral Analysis" and more that we have probably forgotten who to give credit to... Strategies include instructional strategies that can be implemented quickly and bring immediate change to work avoidance, student's ability to use time wisely, and completion of work at an acceptable level of expectation. It also includes strategies to help soften hurt and hardened hearts...
Presenters: Shannon Mullins, Emily Jeffers, and Jim White
Targeted Audience: PreK-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education
Length: 1 hour
Click HERE for the Google Slides Presentation
Title: Combining a Reading Series and Phonics Program
Description: Learn how to successfully take your reading series and combine the phonics skills to meet student needs. Participants will learn how two first-grade teachers eliminated a memorized spelling list and implemented applied phonetic skills to spell successfully. They will share what their weekly schedule looks like, how communication is done with parents, and how phonics instruction has changed in their classrooms.
Presenters: Erica Ranly and Hope Rethman
Targeted Audience: PreK-3
Content Areas: ELA
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: Connecting Schools to Community Resources
Description: In this session, we will explore the resource available in Mercer County. We will work through common scenarios you may experience in your classroom/school and connect student needs to available community resources. Agency contact information and referral process will also be discussed.
Presenters: Beth Guggenbiller
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Community Resources
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: Co-Teaching to Make a Difference
Description: In this pre-recorded session we will share our co-teaching experiences and insights. We will explore the six co-teaching models and how to utilize them in the classroom. Participants will be given links for resources to help them successfully implement and/or enhance co-teaching in their day-to-day teaching practices.
Presenters: Jeanna Heitkamp & Brenda Rodeheffer
Targeted Audience: PreK - 8
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, *Gifted*
Length: 45 Minutes (Presentation and Exploration)
Click HERE to access the resources for this session
Title: Creating a Community of Readers by Resuscitating Self-Selected Reading
Description: Resuscitating Self-Selected Reading in the Classroom is a brief synopsis of how two teachers instilled a love for reading in their middle school ELA classroom, which in turn created a district / community wide reading movement. Hear how Kerri Sharpin and Jen Wessel used self-selected reading material to enhance ELA instruction.
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Kerri Sharpin and Jen Wessel
Targeted Audience: K-12 ELA, Intervention Specialists
Title: Curating Content for Student-Centered Learning
Description: Selecting and organizing digital content is important for student growth and achievement. As a state-wide agency, INFOhio carefully curates the quality licensed and purchased content on our website by grade band. This ensures students of all ages engage with content that best supports student learning. In this one-hour webinar, learn how to select and curate quality resources from INFOhio to personalize learning for your students. Identify reasons why educators should curate content and how to select the best platform for your instructional needs.
Length: 1 Hour
Targeted Audience: All educators
Content Areas: All
Title: Developing Curriculum/Assessment Connection
Description: Explore test-taking skill activities created through working with 3rd-grade students who did not originally succeed in making the score needed to pass the 3rd Grade Guarantee. Using state-approved assessments and LLI test prep materials, participants will discover evidence of the importance of making connections.
Presenters: Evelyn Arthur
Targeted Audience: 3-12 (tested areas)
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education
Length: 1 hour
Title: Disciplinary Literacy in Science and Mathematics: Using Literacy to Unlock Content Knowledge
Description: Knowledge is constructed within science and mathematics in particular ways. This interactive session will explore how the content specializations of science and mathematics can be used to do the authentic work found within these disciplines. From research to literacy practices, participants will leave with a deeper understanding of disciplinary literacy and the role it plays in building content knowledge.
Length: 45 minutes
Presenters: Rachel Daniels
Targeted Audience: 6-12
Content Areas: Science, Math, Intervention
Title: Empower Students to Work Creatively Together
Description: Find new inspiration in the classroom by empowering teachers and students to work creatively together with the engaging collection of resources in INFOhio's Create, Lead, Empower Ohio (CLEO) toolkit. The CLEO toolkit is a curated collection of supplemental instructional materials, digital content, websites, lesson plans, and instructional units for educators. In CLEO, teachers will discover challenging content designed to develop leadership skills, creative problem solving, self-directed learning, career exploration, technology skills, and employability skills.
Length: 1 Hour
Targeted Audience: Middle and High School Educators
Title: English Language Learners 101
Description: English Language Learners 101 discusses how students are identified as English Language Learners, the frequently asked questions about the assessments they are given, how to locate and use the English Language Learner State Standards, and the English Language Learner exit criteria.
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Kelli Albers, St. Henry
Targeted Audience: Administration, K-12 teachers, Intervention Specialists
Title: Enjoying the Journey
Description: Every person has the privilege of helping others get from where they are to where they want to be in life. Those that learn to identify and accept these opportunities to help others will find greater satisfaction in their career and will create positive change in their community.
Presenters: James Schroeder
Targeted Audience: PreK-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Financial Literacy, Administration, Counselor, Social Emotional
Length: 30 minutes
Title: Fall Into Gale Resources: Financial Literacy eBooks
Description: Fall into the Financial Literacy eBook collection purchased from Gale featuring more than 50 unlimited, simultaneous use titles. Need to help your high school students learn about saving money? There is an eBook for that! Want to prepare students for life after school? There are ebooks for that! Explore engaging topics with accessibility features such as read aloud, translation of more than 40 language choices, and multiple font types and sizes. Learn how to search, browse, and download content from Gale eBooks. Join INFOhio and Gale for this 30-minute webinar to harvest quality eBooks to engage students.
Length: 30 minutes
Targeted Audience: Middle and High School Financial Literacy Educators
Title: Flipping for your Students
Description: This session will discuss the ins and outs of "flipping" your classroom instruction. We will explore the benefits of using technology to save classroom instruction time as well as how videos and online resources allow you to teach your class when they aren't even in the room. This is great for anyone who wants to create a more individualized classroom. This session will also show how "flipped" instruction allows for individualized differentiation and higher student success.
Presenters: Kayla Sullivan
Targeted Audience: PreK-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Financial Literacy, Social Emotional, *Gifted*
Length: 30 minutes
The Grid Method is a student-centered, competency-based framework, created at the classroom level and designed to fit any teacher’s style, within any curriculum, in any classroom. Most importantly, it was built to reach all students…not just some.
*Gifted*
Length: 1 hour
Title: Guided Phonics
Description: This PD will be an overview of phonological and phonemic awareness that follows the Science of Reading approach. The focus will be based on practical strategies, multi-sensory practice, and assessment tools utilizing the programs Heggerty and How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction written by Sharon Walpole. (K-2)
Presenters: Adam Buening, Courtney Imwalle, Kristy Wourms
Targeted Audience: PreK-3
Content Areas: ELA
Length: 45 minutes
Click HERE to access the Phonemic Awareness-Interventions.
Click HERE to access Phonics - Extra Interventions
Title: How to Access Your Readiness Assessments Data in the CRS
Description: Learn how to access benchmark, checkpoint, and state testing data in the Centralized Reporting system. You will find performance on tests, teacher, school, district, and student portfolio reports. You will also learn how to print and export data within the CRS.
Length: 45 minutes
Presenters: Cambium Assessment
Targeted Audience: Teachers that give a state test
Content Areas: State Tested Areas
Title: INFOhio Resources and Tools
Description: Let's take a look at some of the resources and tools for K-3 offered through INFOhio.
Presenters: Mary Sonner
Targeted Audience: PreK-3
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education
Length: 30 minutes
Title: Intervening with Older Students
Description: Teaching vocabulary is important for developing background knowledge and improving comprehension. In this session, participants will understand the components of effective vocabulary instruction. Additionally, participants will be able to describe the steps for designing and teaching a high-quality vocabulary lesson that can be easily used during teacher read alouds and instruction for all subjects. Practice opportunities will be embedded into the session so participants can see how effective vocabulary instruction can be incorporated into their daily lessons.
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Presenters: Dr. Anita Archer
Targeted Audience: 6-12
Content Areas: Reading, ELA
Title: Introduction to Artsonia
Description: Artsonia is the perfect tool for showcasing student art, managing your art room, connecting with parents, and raising funds for your art program. This video will explore key points you need to know about Artsonia as well as tips and tricks for using it in your art room.
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Kerry Prenger, St. Marys
Targeted Audience: K-12 art teachers
Title: Introduction to Desmos
Description: A summary of how Desmos can be used in your classroom. Desmos provides opportunities for students to explore deeper into their understanding of mathematics. This process allows students to communicate their thought processes through sketches, text responses, card sorts, and more. The activities are designed by teachers and can be easily modified. If you work in a math classroom - this resource is highly recommended.
Presenters: Michelle Kessen
Targeted Audience: 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Math
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: Leading Beyond the Classroom: The Ohio Teacher Leader Liaison Network
Description: The Ohio Teacher Leader Liaison Network was launched in 2019 and is now in its fifth year of professional learning. This innovative and prestigious network of volunteer teachers from across the state engages with the Ohio Department of Education on topics related to education initiatives. Two local teachers currently serve on the network: Paula Hemmelgarn of Marion Local (Cohort 2) and Emily Hemmelgarn of Minster (Cohort 3). OTLLs make a two-year commitment to volunteer as liaisons, participate in professional learning, and engage in two-way communications and feedback with the ODE. This session will explain the benefits of joining Ohio's teacher leadership network to enhance Mercer County's voice at the state level.
Length: 45 minutes
Presenters: Paula Hemmelgarn
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Teacher Leadership
View slides here
Title: Literacy Across All Contents
Description: Increasing your ability to incorporate literacy-based activities in your classroom is a great way to improve student understanding, increase the level of rigor in your class, and develop important skills students need in any academic subject or career field. Come learn about some strategies and tools for incorporating more literacy-based activities in your classroom tomorrow!
Presenter: Tony Stahl and Mindy Luthman
Targeted Audience: 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Financial Literacy, Administration
Length: 1 hour
Click HERE to access the slides.
Title: Making Math Different
Description: A collection of new ideas to help make math class more engaging and interactive. We will be focusing on problem solving and how to get students to focus more on their thinking of mathematics rather than simply finding answers.
Presenters: Scott Cropper
Targeted Audience: 3-12
Content Areas: Math, *Gifted*
Length: 1 hour
Title: Mercer County QUEST
Description: Mercer County QUEST is a group of community partners/agencies focused on transition-age youth on an IEP, their families, and those who support them. Our goal is to educate the community on programs/services/supports available in our county and how to access them. We will also introduce mercercountyquest.com, a new website dedicated to providing access to this valuable local information online.
Presenters: Karen Leugers
Targeted Audience: Family Engagement
Content Areas: Special Education, Counselors
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: A Multisensory Approach to Phonics
Description: Multisensory activities provide needed scaffolding to beginning and struggling readers by including visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile activities that enhance learning and memory. In this session, you will learn more about this approach and how to incorporate multisensory strategies into your phonics instruction.
*Note - For those who attended the MSLE professional development on August 4th at the Mercer County Educational Service Center, this session is a refresher.
Presenters: Kristin Hange
Targeted Audience: PreK-3
Content Areas: Literacy
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: The Paraprofessional Overview
Description: In this session, participants will be provided with updates and best practices for paraprofessionals.
Presenters: Amy Bihn
Targeted Audience: PreK-12
Content Areas: Paraprofessional
Length: 45 minutes
Title: PBIS Learning Series (Multiple Videos)
Description: Our virtual PBIS is free for district PBIS Leadership Teams to provide to their student personnel. This PBIS series covers the required six topics to provide staff an understanding of the PBIS framework, best practices, and the benefits in supporting the learning and growth for all students.
Presenters: Mercer County ESC
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: All
*Multiple recorded videos*
**CEU Information is included within the video**
Title: Pear Deck for Google Slides: Accelerated
Description: Everything you need to know about Pear Deck at a faster pace than the Basic Introduction session. Very much like the former Pear Deck 101 webinar, this webinar will teach you how to create slides, present lessons in Instructor and Student Paced modes, give formative assessments, evaluate responses, embed websites and videos, publish responses, and more. This comprehensive session is for those who already have some familiarity with Pear Deck, and/or are comfortable with digital learning tools. We’ll also save time for your Q&A!
Length: 1 Hour 5 minutes
Targeted Audience: Teachers using Pear Deck or have completed the introduction Pear Deck session
Content Areas: All
Title: How to Personalize Student Learning with INFOhio
Description: Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the differences between personalized, individualized, and differentiated instruction. Additionally, participants will explore how to use the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines, in conjunction, with INFOhio, when creating expert student learners using personalized learning.
Presenter: Aimee Mendelsohn
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, Career Tech, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Administration, Social Emotional
Length: 45 minutes
Title: Personalized Learning LMS Modules
Description: In the brief video above, Missy McClurg explains what Personalized Learning is and how it can impact your instruction. She then walks you through how to utilize the Personalized Learning modules in ODE's Learning Management System. If you need additional support, check out this resource for further instructions.
*CEU certificates will come from the Learning Management System.
Length: Dependent upon individual modules
Presenter: Missy McClurg
Targeted Audience: K-12 Educators, Administrators, Intervention Specialists, *Gifted*
Title: Phonological & Phonemic Awareness: The Critical Components for Reading
Description: Phonological and Phonemic awareness are critical for reading development. According to research, Phonemic Awareness is the most common reason students struggle with word reading. In this session, you will learn the difference between phonological and phonemic awareness and be given instructional strategies/methods for teaching both. Also included within this session are fun, multisensory strategies for developing alphabet knowledge among younger learners.
*Note - For those who attended the MSLE professional development on August 4th at the Mercer County Educational Service Center, this session is a refresher.
Presenters: Kristin Hange
Targeted Audience: Literacy
Content Areas: PreK-3
Length: 45 minutes
Title: The Power of Language: Nourishing Development of the Whole Child
Description: This session will discuss the interwoven nature of early development, placing language at the center. We will explore linkages between language, emotional, social and cognitive development and the role of language in laying the groundwork for long-term literacy competence. It will discuss the emergence of language and emphasize the manner in which interactions that foster development of the whole child. Videos will illustrate key points and there will be structured audience participation
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Presenters: David K. Dickinson
Targeted Audience: Prek-3
Content Areas: Reading, ELA, Intervention
Title: Practicing Mindfulness Skills for Self-Care
Description: Self-care has never been more important than in these unprecedented times. Educators often feel isolated. This webinar will introduce, discuss, and practice various self-care strategies; strategies that may look different today than they did a few months ago.
Presenters: Nancy Eigel-Miller
Targeted Audience: PreK-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, World Language, Career Tech, Vo-Ag, Music, Art, Physical/Health Education, Technology, Financial Literacy, Counselors, Administrators
Length: 30 minutes
Title: Reading Fluency: What it is and How to Develop it
Description: Are you struggling to help your students build their overall fluency? When foundational reading accuracy and fluency develop within the K-3 years, the year-by-year widening gap between students with dyslexia and average readers can be short circuited. In this session, you will learn more about fluency and targeted strategies for developing this skill in your readers.
*Note - For those who attended the MSLE professional development on August 4th at the Mercer County Educational Service Center, this session is a refresher.
Presenters: Kristin Hange
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8
Content Areas: Literacy
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: Real Life Research for the Gen-Z Student
Description: In this webinar we will examine how to inspire students to dig deeply and care about research and "knowing more." The key is finding connections--direct connections and indirect. We will model both and give curriculum connected examples. Teachers and librarians can incubate a greater level of student ownership if we embrace a few easy design principals. Join us as we examine how to embrace current curriculum and student changes.
Length: 1 hour
Presenters: Paige Jaeger
Targeted Audience: Librarians, secondary educators
Content Areas: ELA
Title: The Revolutionary Role of AI in K12
Description: Wendy Hanasky from the East Central Ohio ESC talks the ever-changing landscape of artificial intelligence and how it impacts our students and our practices as educators.
Length: 1 hour
Presenter: Wendy Hanasky
Targeted Audience: K-12, all educators
Title: Skills-Based Health Education
Description: This session will present an overview of skills-based health education in Ohio describing state policy, requirements, course offerings, standards, and curriculum. The presentation will share the OAHPERD Health Education Model Curriculum, a tool to develop a local curriculum aligned with the National Health Education Standards and focused on developing the skills to make healthy choices.
Presenters: Kevin Lorson
Targeted Audience: PreK-12
Content Areas: Physical/Health Education
Length: 45 minutes
The Science of Reading (SOR): A Series
Title: The "Big Five" Components and the Science of Reading: A Fresh Look
Description: In this webinar series, we deconstruct an important model in the science of reading—Scarborough’s Reading Rope—to explore how to effectively and joyfully teach the “big five” components of reading. What you will learn:
Practical tips for translating the science of reading research into K–3 classroom practice
A deeper understanding of effective instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
Teaching techniques for each component of reading
Resources: Activities to Build Phonemic Awareness, Activities to Build Phonics, Activities to Build Fluency, Activities to Build Vocabulary
Length: 1 Hour for each part
Targeted Audience: K-3 (or anyone who wants to better understand how students learn to read)
Content Areas: Reading
Title: Speaking up for Science and Social Studies
Description: YouTube presentation by Nell Duke, University of Michigan, about the importance of teaching Social Studies and Science in the elementary grades.
Length: 30 Minutes
Presenters: Nell Duke
Targeted Audience: K-6
Content Areas: Science and Social Studies
Title: Spelling: Sequence to Phonics
Description: Learning to spell is more difficult than learning to read and requires explicit instruction. Successful spelling instruction is intentional and sequential, not arbitrary. In this session, you will learn more about how to explicitly teach and reinforce spelling patterns utilizing a multisensory (VAKT) approach.
*Note - For those who attended the MSLE professional development on August 4th at the Mercer County Educational Service Center, this session is a refresher.
Presenters: Kristin Hange
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8
Content Areas: Literacy
Length: 45 minutes
This on-demand professional development session is free for district staff members. Earn .10 CEU for watching and participating in a short quiz/feedback survey. StartSOLE is a classroom strategy that works for educators K-12 in any subject area. Participants will learn what the StartSOLE strategy is, how to use it in their classroom, and get access to free resources such as standards-aligned lesson plans, Big Questions aligned to state standards, and resources such as rubrics, graphic organizers, and web resources that students can use when they do StartSOLE in their class.
*CEU embedded into the video*
Length: 1 hour
Title: Stop Arguing with Me! Developing Argument Writing in Adolescent Learners
Description: Students who wish to succeed and advance in school must both understand and write argument (and opinion) text. Standards, as well as instructors at all grade levels, address argument writing with their students. Van Cleave first examines the cognitive demands placed on student writers and then develops a research-based framework into which participants can place student writers and their needs. He looks at standards-based writing developmentally, scaffolding the skills students need most to achieve success in argument writing. He focuses attention on the components of the opinion/argument genre with emphasis placed on rationale for its inclusion in instruction. Participants also explore several overarching strategies for instruction, including gradual release, process writing, isolated skill development and writing in front of students
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Presenters: Dr. William Van Cleave
Targeted Audience: 3-12
Content Areas: Reading, ELA
Title: Strategies to Use When Working with Families
Description: In this session, we will talk about barriers schools may face when working with families. You will be given 5 strategies to use to build a relationship of trust with families. We will work through 3 real life scenarios and how the school can approach meetings with families.
Presenters: Beth Guggenbiller
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Family Engagement
Length: 45 Minutes
Kathy Lament from Waysnesfield-Goshen Local Schools shares how she provides students an opportunity to use data to create meaningful goals. Students use data to create short and long-term goals that allow them to take ownership of their learning.
*CEU information embedded into video*
Length: 30 minutes
Title: Management of Student Health Conditions Presentation
Description: Management of Student Health Concerns in the Classroom will cover general illness and injury guidelines (including head lice). Learning about managing chronic health concerns such as asthma, diabetes, seizure disorders, and serious allergies will be the main focus of this session.
Presenters: Jodi Weigel
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: All Educators, Student Health
Length: 45 Minutes
Title: Super Tutor: AI to Support All Learners
Description: Artificial intelligence tools are a powerful way to provide support, accessibility, and accommodations for all learners for all of their needs. In this session we will explore ways AI can assist with personalized explanations, reading comprehension, summarization, writing supports, custom feedback, problem solving, review, text-to-speech and speech-to-text, and much more.
Length: 1 hour
Presenters: Eric Curts
Targeted Audience: All educators
Content Areas: All content areas
Title: Tiered Interventions in the Early Grades
Description: In this session, we will discuss how we identify, intervene, and track student progress on our first-grade team. We will discuss documents used for tracking student progress, time needed to set up tiered interventions, how to collaborate within the group to determine student needs, interventions and online programs (most are free) used for intervention and enrichment, and progress monitoring of students for individual success.
Presenters: Kim Reuss, Emily Rhoads, Sarah Rutan
Targeted Audience: PreK-4
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education
Length: 60 minutes
Title: Trauma Training Learning Series (Multiple Videos)
Description: Melissa 'Missy' McClain is the presenter for this 4 part online learning series. The virtual series is free and designed to help educators better understand how students experience traumatic events and how to help them through this challenging time.
Presenters: Melissa 'Missy' McClain
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: All
*Multiple recorded videos*
**CEU Information is included within the video**
Title: Universal Design to Learning (UDL) and Technology: Creating an Equity-Based Framework for Supporting ELA and Mathematics Achievement
Description: Participants in this session will come away with an understanding of how to integrate technology into an Equity-based UDL framework. Personalized learning as well as collaborative tools will be discussed. Additionally, participants will explore how the UDL framework and guidelines can help students become more purposeful and motivated when exploring new ELA and math content.
Presenter: Aimee Mendelsohn
Targeted Audience: PreK-3, 4-8, 9-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Administration
Length: 35 minutes
Title: UFLI Kindergarten Lesson - St. Marys
Description: Madison Vogel is a kindergarten teacher at St. Marys Primary. She administers a condensed UFLI kindergarten lesson. UFLI is an ongoing effort by University of Florida faculty, students, and staff to improve literacy outcomes for children learning to read. The work of UFLI focuses on two main areas: teacher development and reader development. The place where those two overlap … that is where the work of UFLI lives. Our programs and resources are designed to help teachers become more confident and more successful in their capacity to help kids learn to read.
*NOTE: This lesson would have been administered over the course of 2 days. Also, this is a spring kindergarten lesson, so Madison is administering this to current 1st grade students.
Resources: Slide Deck and Links
For more information on UFLI, click here
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Madison Vogel, St. Marys
Targeted Audience: K-1 teachers, Title I teachers, Intervention Specialists
Title: UFLI Intervention Lesson - St. Marys
Description: Michelle Dicke is the Title I Reading Teacher and Kylie Rammel is an Intervention Specialist at St. Marys Intermediate school. They administered a condensed UFLI lesson. UFLI is an ongoing effort by University of Florida faculty, students, and staff to improve literacy outcomes for children learning to read. The work of UFLI focuses on two main areas: teacher development and reader development. The place where those two overlap … that is where the work of UFLI lives. Our programs and resources are designed to help teachers become more confident and more successful in their capacity to help kids learn to read.
*NOTE: This lesson would have been administered over the course of 2 days.
Resources: Slide Deck and Links
For more information on UFLI, click here
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Kylie Rammel and Michelle Dicke, St. Marys
Targeted Audience: K-5 teachers, Title I teachers, Intervention Specialists
Title: Using EdPuzzle in the Classroom Recording
Description: In this session, you will learn about EdPuzzle.com which is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson. It allows the students to replay the video as many times as needed to understand the material. Once students submit their answers to the questions embedded in the lesson, teachers are able to review answers to check for any misconceptions or to determine if students are ready to move on. This website can be used to teach, reteach, review or supplement classroom lessons.
Presenters: Jeremy Riley & Kathy Bergman
Targeted Audience: PreK - 8
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, *Gifted*
Length: 45 Minutes (Video and exploration)
Title: Using ISN in the Classroom
Description: Using the ISN (Interactive Student Notebook) in the classroom: This session will include ideas to use composition notebooks in the classroom to act as a DIY textbook. The ISN gives students a quick reference for classroom information. It is also helpful for parents. Parents often comment that there is no textbook to look at examples when helping with homework. The ISN is very helpful to parents as well.
Presenters: Jody Wilson
Targeted Audience: 4-12
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education
Length: 30 minutes
Title: Leveling Up World Language Proficiency: Using Learner Data for OTES 2.0 and Informing Instruction
Description: This session will focus on how to gather high-quality student data (HQSD) to inform your classroom instruction, as well as be used for OTES 2.0. We will talk about how to assess for proficiency; use proficiency rubrics to evaluate and analyze student writing samples; discuss ways to use this data to inform instruction and build learner proficiency; and consider methods of submitting this data as evidence for OTES 2.0.
Presenter: Kathleen Shelton
Targeted Audience: 9-12
Content Areas: World Language
Length: 55 minutes
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Title: How to use the Online Library Catalog and get a Class Set of Books
Description: Learn how to use the Library Catalog and get a class set of books. **Information valid for Celina, Marion, Mendon, St Henry, St Marys, Rockford, and Ft Recovery Libraries and is similar to other libraries not listed.
Length: 15 minutes
Presenter: Eric Lochtefeld
Targeted Audience: K-12, all educators and administrators
Title: Ohio Digital Libray/Libby
Description: Learn how to use the Ohio Digital Library/Libby App to make sure your students always have a book to read.
Length: 15 minutes
Presenter: Eric Lochtefeld
Targeted Audience: K-12, all educators and administrators
Title: Using STAR and AR to Inform Instruction
Description: I've given the STAR test, now what? Learn how to use information from STAR Reading and Early Literacy, as well as Accelerated Reader to inform instruction and monitor students' progress. Learn how to interpret the data, where to access the most helpful reports, how reports can be used with parents and students of all ages, grouping students, planning instruction/intervention ...and more!
Presenters: Rebecca Vaughn
Targeted Audience: PreK-8
Content Areas: Math, ELA, Social Studies, Science, Special Education
Length: 60 minutes
Title: Why Do Materials Matter?
Description: Did you know that improving the quality of curriculum is 40x more cost-effective than reducing class sizes? Are you adopting a new textbook/ curriculum guide series and not sure where to start or what precisely to look for within a new series? This presentation will discuss statistics and information on the importance of utilizing high-quality materials with students as well as provide resources and guides developed by the Ohio Department of Education and EdReports. These will assist and support textbook/curriculum guide adoption within your district to assist in improving the quality of the curriculum.
Length: 30 minutes
Presenter: Emily Hemmelgarn, Minster Local Schools
Targeted Audience: K-12, all educators and administrators
Title: What is a 'BAC' and How Our ESC BAC Can Help Your Students with Career Tools
Description: Join us for a conversation about our new Mercer County ESC Business Advisory Council and how the 2023-24 Plan is built with strategies to support you as you guide your students through work-based learning options like Pre-Apprenticeships and Internships, Career Exploration activities held by the BAC, and connecting to Job Shadows through Hometown Opportunity.
Length: 50 minutes
Presenters: Sandi Holdheide & Jared Ebbing
Targeted Audience: 7-12 Career Content Teachers and Counselors
Title: Zearn: Accelerating Math Learning for Ohio Students
Description: The Ohio Department of Education, in partnership with Zearn, is providing an online differentiated learning opportunity to accelerate math learning for Ohio students in grades 6-8. To support Ohio educators with providing differentiated middle school math support, the Department is offering free access to Zearn Math, a top-rated math learning platform to reinforce and deepen grade-level learning. Zearn Math provides high-quality instructional materials, including digital math lessons with built-in differentiated support right when students need it. All Ohio districts and schools serving students in grades 6-8 may begin onboarding in the fall, with access to resources beginning in the winter and continuing through June 30, 2025.
NOTE: To opt-in to Zearn, click here
Length: 30 minutes
Targeted Audience: Grades 6-8 Mathematics, Administrators