Educational Leadership Seminars and Workshops from the Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, Ohio

The Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, OH offers a variety of school leader and teacher leader workshops aimed at increasing student achievement and educator productivity. All trainings are conducted in cooperation with Curriculum Management Systems, Inc. (CMSi), with licensed trainers. • The Three Minute Classroom Walk-Through Training is an exclusive approach to supervision for

any educational leader responsible for mentoring and supervising teachers who desires to move supervision to a collaborative level, which can have a powerful impact on student achievement. This two-day training includes visitations to actual classrooms.

• The Three Minute Walk-Through Follow-up is designed for districts that have had administrators trained in the Downey (3 Minute) Walk-Through Training. The follow-up can be customized to meet the administrators’ needs.

• Advanced Classroom Walk-Through Training is designed for those who have completed the initial level walk-through and have some experience using walk-throughs in their school. This advanced training provides supervised practice in the basic walk-through protocol and the reflective process. This is a two-day training.

• SchoolView: Gathering Trend Data on Curricular and Instructional Classroom Practices (School Visitation Protocol) is a diagnostic data-gathering tool that principals and other school leaders can use to gather trend data regarding curricular and instructional practices in the classroom. This observational data can be used for needs assessment and changes in classroom practices as a result of staff development initiatives. One day training.

• Raising Student Test Scores: A Baker’s Dozen Ways presents to teachers, school-based administrators, and other instructional leaders 13 powerful strategies to raise student test scores. This one-day seminar focuses on working with low-performing students with effective approaches to improve student achievement and also works with high performance schools who seek continued student growth.

• Examining Student Work for Standards Alignment and Real-World/Test-Item Formats is designed for school-based administrators and teacher participants to examine classroom artifacts of student work and calibrate those artifacts with state standards and tested objectives. The calibration process provides educators with feedback regarding the grade level and cognition type of student work.

• Deep Curriculum Alignment is an intensive two-day seminar that implements proven strategies to improve student achievement via curriculum alignment. The seminar provides individuals with the knowledge and theoretical base as well as the practical steps to construct teacher-friendly curriculum guides that increase the congruence between the written, taught, and tested curricula in classrooms, schools, and school districts and that will lead to substantial gains in student achievement on high-stakes tests currently in use.

Here Are the Best Ways to Receive The Trainings… • Attend One of Our Local Training Sessions here in west central Ohio. For a complete list of

upcoming sessions go to our website at www.mercercountyesc.org and click on “Professional Development.” Sessions are reasonably priced and include all materials. Workshops are held in school buildings in the Celina or Wapakoneta area and are easily accessible off of I-75.

• Bring the Training to Your District. Our licensed trainers travel around the state. This gives you maximum flexibility in selecting training dates, locations and saves money for larger groups. For details, availability, and costs email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org, or call 419-586-6628. For on-site trainings in your district, one price includes the seminar, travel expenses and workshop materials.

• Arrange for a Training at a Regional Site like an Educational Service Center or State Support Team location near you.

Contact Information: • Email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org • Phone at 419-586-6628 • On-line at www.mercercountyesc.org, then click on “Professional Development”

Workshops from The Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, OH For details call 419-586-6628 or email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org

The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through Learn a classroom visitation protocol that inspires reflective discussion between you and your teachers! This two-day training includes theory, hands-on practice, and visitations to actual classrooms. Based on the Carolyn Downey book of the same name, by the end of the workshop you will be trained to go back to your school and conduct classroom walk throughs and engage teachers in reflective conversations.

The skills and information you will learn in this two-day training include:

How the walk through observation structure is implemented How the walk through and its accompanying reflective conversations work with the appraisal

process How the underlying premises of the approach, which is informal and non-judgmental in

nature, focus on the development of staff through reflective choice How the reflective conversation and questions complement the classroom walk throughs How reflective questions are phrased How dynamic, new “reflective conversation dialogues” are conducted How frequent classroom visitations and the walk through process are supported by a strong

research base

The ultimate goals of this training are to create:

Reflective, self-directed, self-analytical, interdependent teachers who examine their own practices (even those who initially are at the dependent level)

Teachers who are continually willing to improve their teaching Teachers who are committed to teaching the district curriculum and working for ever-higher

student achievement

Raising Student Test Scores: A Baker’s Dozen Strategies for the Classroom

Learn the thirteen strategies that the best schools use to improve student test performance!! All participants receive a copy of the great book 50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap. Need to raise student test scores on high-stakes tests? This one-day seminar presents to teachers, school-based administrators and other instructional leaders thirteen powerful strategies to raise student test scores. This Baker’s Dozen focuses on working with low-performing students with effective approaches that are equally successful with all students and are meant to provide educators with the initial and on-going steps to improving student achievement. Based on the renowned book, 50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap, by Carolyn Downey, this seminar is great for a team of teachers or the entire staff. An entire district, one school, or even an individual teacher can implement the strategies learned in this seminar. Not only are the thirteen powerful strategies introduced and explained in detail, but also they are prioritized in order of their greatest effect!

Workshops from The Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, OH For details call 419-586-6628 or email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org

Coping with High Stakes Testing: Deep Curriculum Alignment

A workshop for curriculum designers, curriculum directors, and others whose daily

work focuses on the development of a tightly aligned curriculum

Deep curriculum alignment is adjusting what is taught to align with what is measured on the high-stakes test. It increases the fit between what children learn and how they are assessed. Achievement is assured and gains are evident almost immediately. It is a complex process involving intensive effort and skill in curriculum design, delivery, and monitoring. Based on the work of Fenwick English, Betty Steffy, Carolyn Downey and others, you will be trained to focus on what it truly important in the school improvement process. The ultimate goal of this training is to provide educators with the ability to create a curriculum document which will guide teaching that will promote higher student achievement as it is measured on high-stakes tests.

The topics covered during this two-day session include:

Principles of alignment between the written, taught, and tested curriculum

Rationale for curriculum alignment

Foundational concepts of deep alignment

Specialized terminology used in the deep alignment process

Sociological perspective of cultural capital and how it relates to students and tests

You will also learn how to:

Backload publicly-released test items into the curriculum

Deconstruct test items Determine the context, content, and cognitive level for

alignment Develop parallel test items Check for text/test alignment Design curriculum guides from state standards Develop a multi-year plan for curriculum review Design a curriculum guide format and its critical

components Evaluate curriculum documents