PowerTeacher Workshop
August 2 or 3, 2010
ESU 10 – Kearney, NE

Register: https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

If you have teachers who are new to PowerSchool’s PowerTeacher (gradebook) or for those needing a refresher, a workshop will be offered Monday August 2 from 12:15 – 2:30 PM and repeated again on Tuesday from 9:45 AM – 12:00 PM. Computers will be provided. Peg Coover, Grand Island Northwest Public Schools, will cover the basics as well as what’s new in PowerTeacher. 

PowerTeacher Workshop Cost: $30 (lunch included)

Register at https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

This workshop is held at the same time but is separate from the PowerSchool Users Conference on Aug 2-3.

 

 

PowerSchool Users Conference

August 2-3, 2010

ESU 10 – Kearney, NE

Register: https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

This two-day PowerSchool Users Conference will focus on the general needs of PowerSchool users. Sessions will be geared for secretaries, counselors, and PS administrators.  Sessions will include such topics as Student Reports, Kindergarten and Standard-Based Reports Cards, Community Service Hours and General Customizations, ReportWorks, DDE/DDA, Incident Management, NSSRS, Backups & Test Servers, Attendance, and many more.

 

A Pearson rep and trainer will also be here showcasing new products as well as doing specific trainings.

 

General Conference Cost: $100 for both days (lunch included)

EXTRA: For teachers new to PowerTeacher (gradebook) or for those needing a refresher, a 2-hour workshop will be offered Monday PM and repeated Tuesday AM. Computers will be provided.

PowerTeacher Workshop Cost: $30 (lunch included)

Register at https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

View the tentative agenda at PSUC 2010 Agenda.pdf 

If you have general questions, please contact Graci Gillming at ggillmin@esu10.org or 308-865-5664 x-229.


For session info, contact Wayne Wiens at wweins@esu9.org or 402-463-5611.  


For registration assistance, contact Connie Einspahr at ceinspahr@esu10.org or 308-865-5664, x-253.

 

 

Principal & Guidance Counselor Meeting

March 30, 2010

8:30 a.m. – 2:15 p.m.

ESU 10 – Kearney

Conference Rooms E & F (South Wing)

Register: https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

Working Agenda: http://sn.im/esu10-pgc-03-30-10

Theme: ISTE NETS-A Digital Citizenship

• Educational Administrators model and facilitate understanding of social, ethical and legal issues and responsibilities related to an evolving digital culture. See http://tr.im/netsadmin for Admin

Topics in AM:

• ·         Para Professional

o   staff development

o   code of ethics

o   handbook

o   evaluations

• ·         Acuity – a new formative testing measure by McGraw Hill

• ·         Atomic Learning professional development (http://atomiclearning.com) opportunity

• ·         Digital Citizenship

o   Sexting, texting, cyberbullying, social networking (social, ethical, and legal issues and responsibilities of schools)

• ·         Educational blogging (modeling communication in the digital culture)

Topic in PM

• ·      Distance Learning Scheduling

•     Note:  Immediately following the DL scheduling, a rep will be at ESU 10 to demo    Odysseyware, an online-based curriculum and e-learning solution    http://www.odysseyware.com/

Register for the day at https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

If you have any questions, contact Melisa Dobish mdobish@esu10.org, Julie Everett Julie@esu10.org or Graci ggillmin@esu10.org .  Note – Julie and Graci will both be out of the office March 15-19.

We look forward to seeing you on March 30!!

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. As guidance counselors, you will be receiving or have already received a mailing including posters created to increase awareness about the causes and consequences of brain injury. The posters are also intended to increase awareness about the support that is available through the Central Region Brain Injury School Support Team (BIRSST).

You are asked to post the information, and possibly also share the information with your school nurse or special education staff. If there is any reason to contact the school support team, feel free to do so.

Thank you.

Patrice Feller, ESU 10

Please note the March 8, 2010 deadline. This is 4 days earlier than what was announced in the Connector.

For more information and contest rubrics as well as the 2009 winners, visit

http://nis.esu10.org/ggillmin/InternetSafety

Contact Graci Gillming for questions - ggillmin@esu10.org or 308-865-5664 x-229.

I just ran across this Distance Learning opportunity and thought some of you might be interested in see what it is all about. Contact John Stritt (jstritt@esu10.org) for connection questions.

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Title:  Counselors Corner: Advice For Students To Get Into The Right University:
Status: Open
URL: http://projects.twice.cc/?l=collaboration&id=646
Connections:
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Subjects: Business, Career Education, Fine Arts, Mathematics, Performing Arts, Physical Education, Social Studies/History, Special Education, World Language
Dates: March 12 7:30-9:30 CST
Description: Confused over college. Don't know what you want to do or how to get help? Please attend this conference. We have counselors from several schools and countries here to help you.

Sir Ken Robinson video - Education and Creativity
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga2CYYCrtNE

Please respond to the following questions by clicking on the Post Your Comment link below:

• What was your biggest take-away from the 01/21/2010 Principal & Guidance Counselor Meeting that you will you use at school? 

• What 21st Century Skill would you like to know more about?

Focus: Excellence in Professional Practice (Professional Development)

Topics include:

• professional development for teachers (Roger Nyffeler)
• break out
  •     teacher evaluation tools (principals) (Lance Bristol - Ansley)
  •     scholarships, college/career prep (guidance counselors) (Dustin Favinger - Cozad)
• classroom observation tools (Tony Little - Shelton)
• para and substitute teacher staff development
  •     para handbook (Paul Anderson - Ravenna, Todd Beck - Greeley/Wolbach, Jason Alexander - Ord)
• IEP - what's your role?
• focused continuous staff dev (Nick Hodge - Loup City)
• teacher mentoring (Darrin Max - Anselmo Merna, Sam Stecher - Kearney Public)
• administrative professional development

Special Guest:  Roger Nyffeler, former KPS Central Elementary principal and current UNK Network of Partner Schools director, will be with us the whole day and will share his wisdom with us as well as seek your input on matters related to his current role in UNK's college of education.


Remember our start time is 8:30 a.m.

Please bring:

• your current teacher evaluation tool
• ISTE Administrator Standards Handbook (given to you at an earlier meeting)
• para handbook
• laptop if you have one (laptops available at ESU 10)

Register at https://odie.esu10.org/workshops

In this series we are featuring nine webinars on Marzano's instructional strategies. Each webinar will focus on the how to use specific instructional strategies in your classroom as well as technology tips and tricks to integrate along the way!

Each webinar is a one-hour session from 4-5PM.  A day or so before the webinar, you will receive an email with instructions and the website for the webinar.

There is no driving or weather worries, all you need is a computer! Choose just one webinar to attend or choose them all! These are great refreshers if you attended Classroom Instruction That Works this last summer! Even if you don't know anything about these instructional strategies, please join us and find out all the easy ways of engaging and reaching your students.

Summarizing and Note Taking - January 19, 2010
Reinforcing Effort/Receiving Feedback - February 2, 2010
Homework and Practice - February 16, 2010
Non-Linguistic Representation - March 2, 2010
Cooperative Learning - March 23, 2010
Setting Objectives/Providing Feedback - April 6, 2010
Generating and Testing Hypothesis - April 20, 2010
Ques, Questions, and Advanced Organizers - May 4, 2010

Register on ODIE at https://odie.esu10.org/