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EDUC 900 S10 - "Pursuing Positive Performance in Your Classroom"

Pacific Lutheran Credits: 3 or 4 Semester units option ( 3 semester units = 4.5 quarter units, 4 semester units = 6 quarter units)
Three unit class is a forty-five hour week. Four units option requires working lunch assignments and an additional five hours of independent work.
(Professional growth units only, not for PLU degree - Check with your school district and local union for salary advancement)

Clock hours: 50 clock hours through North Central ESD. Clock hour participants need to register with Summer Institutes' and pay workshop fee only. NCESD $2 per clock hour fee is paid on-line, through NCESD's website, AFTER the class is completed.  After the last day of class, the SI site coordinators will go into the NCESD system and document total clock hours attended. Once marked, attended participants will get an automatic email from the NCESD system. After the NCESD notification, participants will have seven days to fill out the evaluation and purchase their clock hours on-line. After seven days, NCESD might not award clock hours. Please check with NCESD for further information. On-line registration @ www.ncesd.org

* Early Bird Registration and/or Group rates: SAVE YOU MORE MONEY! Register by May 15, 2010 and save $150. See rate chart at the bottom of page.

*Staff rates (3 or more from same school) SAVE YOU MORE MONEY!  

SPECIAL FEATURES: Everything you’ve grown to expect from SI and more
 

• Relevant Washington Standards Based Presentations
• Interesting PLC Collaboration Component
• Exciting Field-based Learning opportunities
• Important Wellness Activities
• Innovative Technology  

Total wellness includes financial security! AIG-Valic teacher retirement seminars will be available for free financial consulting at all sites.  

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS BY EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELDS

Gill Chappa Challenge Masters, Keynote Speaker   PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Adventure Education is true hands-on learning! In our session, we will play, problem solve, establish rules to maintain a safe learning environment for everyone. We will evaluate our learning and identify behaviors that contribute to our success and those that impede it. The activities we do in this session will be directly applicable to the students you reach within the school learning environment. Empower your students and to develop skills they need to succeed in life.   PLC ,

Professional Learning Community (PLC)

Professional Learning Community   How often do you get to share and absorb successful teaching practices, in specific subjects, with your peers through Professional Learning Communities (PLC)?...Now you can! SI has facilitated popular PLC's since 1987! PLC Peer group horizontal and vertical sessions will be included in the weekly schedule.

Ernie Chapin Staff Effectively Dealing WITH DISRUPTIVE STUDENTS: Practical, Classroom-Proven Techniques   Outstanding Seminar Leader and Educator Designed for educators serving grades K-12: General Education Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Program Specialists, Title I Staff Members, Parents, School Psychologists, and Administrators Multiple ideas for working successfully with angry, defiant, unmotivated, and difficult students Powerful, classroom-proven techniques for successfully dealing with disruptive students Dynamic strategies for teaching defiant students and techniques for dealing with disruptions while maintaining your dignity and classroom authority Highly effective methods for improving students’ attitudes PRACTICAL STRATEGIES It is no secret that today’s classrooms can be a challenging environment for learning. Many students are coming to school and exhibit challenging behaviors that range from defiance to outright hostility. How can a teacher successfully deal with these behaviors? How can educators work successfully with even the most challenging students and help them find more success in school and life? This outstanding seminar is designed to offer K-12 teachers powerful tools and techniques for dealing with the most challenging students. Ernie Chapin, an exceptional educator and presenter, will share classroom-proven ideas, techniques and strategies he has successfully used with his own students over his extensive teaching career. His down-to-earth manner and warm humor will excite and motivate you to take a new look at how to successfully teach today’s most defiant and challenging students. You will receive an extensive resource handbook filled with dozens of new, practical ideas to incorporate in your own school environment.   Glenn Eklund, Keynote Speaker   www.focusedfitness.org FITness Made FABulous With the FAB Five You’ll be actively engaged in the learning process: How can we as teachers empower our students to take charge of their health & fitness? It takes all 5 components of fitness to keep kids fit & healthy. You’ll use parts of Focused Fitness’ curriculum to create FABulous ways to make fitness fun and content-oriented for your elementary students. Wellness Activities,

Break Out Speaker

Why Wellness Options are Relevant: National Health Epidemic NEA Magazine claims the leading health issue for women teachers is heart disease – stress Teachers operate at top performance levels when they are healthy & content Teachers modeling wellness for our next generation School Districts save money with healthy teachers

Dottie Coven CIM Tech Solutions, www.cimtechsolutions.com, Keynote Speaker Tying Together Curriculum and Technology   Being engaged in the classroom is one of the keys to deep learning. Come spend some time to focus on how and why we use technology to enhance delivery and assessment of curriculum. The session will discuss the paradigm shift teachers and districts are making when choosing technology tools to assist in the delivery of content and will also explore how Mobi's and eInstruction Classroom Response Systems can be used to help with classroom management and delivery of curriculum. See examples of how using these tools can help teachers to actively engage all students in classrooms with ever increasing numbers, check student understanding throughout a lesson, provide on-going real-time feedback during lessons, differentiate instruction based on student understanding, and efficiently assess and record student knowledge. See examples of how teachers can use these tools to make learning visible and take learning to a deeper level using quality questioning strategies during instruction. Dottie Coven - Dottie has a Masters in Teaching and taught elementary school for 13 years. Dottie has worked as a consultant and technology trainer since 1992 and joined CIM Technology Solutions Group as they expanded into the Western Region in 2007. David Creech, Keynote Speaker “Investing in Turbulent Markets” District Manager, VALIC     As District Manager for the Sierra Pacific District, David supervises operations for VALIC in the Bay Area, Central Valley and Central Sierra Mountains . David focuses on providing comprehensive retirement planning solutions to clients and assist and develop new group and individual clients who have pension and financial planning needs. VALIC has more than half a century of experience helping Americans plan for and enjoy a secure retirement. VALIC provides real solutions for real lives by consistently offering products and services that are innovative, simple to understand and easy to use. VALIC takes a personal approach to retire Note: Speakers and topics subject to change without notice.

 CPR/FIRST AID TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION       

 EUCATIONAL FIELD TRIP: Location TBA

Subject Specific Breakout Sessions

• Writing
• Reading
• Technology
• Science
• Math

Same Great Site!

Tumwater High School - close to walking and jogging parks, State Capital Buildings and the beautiful grounds,  restaurants and shopping malls.

Self guided activities available:

• Weight Training
• Spa
• Golf
• Racquetball
• Volleyball
• Tennis

NEW! FOUR SEMESTER UNITS OPTION REQUIREMENTS:

• Working Lunch Assignments
• Required: Digital video or Power point

Earn Multiple Credits! Other Summer Institutes in your area:

• Montesan/Elma, WA,
• Port Townsend, WA
• Each venue offers unique geographic opportunities: Check website for more info…Check with your school district and local union for salary advancement.Note: Staff development funds may be used for these classes (check with your school district). Also, Treasury Regulation Schedule I-162 permits income tax deduction. Be sure to save your receipt. There will be a $100 non refundable deposit and no refunds after June 1. Class sizes are limited-based on facility capacity.

Each venue offers unique geographic opportunities: Check website for more info…

What to Bring:
Washington casual attire, comfortable walking shoes AND a good attitude for learning, improving your wellness and building relationships! We’ll provide everything else!

New!   Four or Three semester credits are available through Pacific Lutheran University 

SAVE $150 by registering prior to May 15, 2010!!

*Staff rates (3 or more from same school) SAVE YOU MONEY! 

Note: Staff development funds may be used for these classes (check with your school district). Also, Treasury Regulation Schedule I-162 permits income tax deduction. Be sure to save your receipt. There will be a $100 non refundable deposit and no refunds after June 1.

 Class sizes are limited-based on facility capacity.  

 2008 Testimonials

 Thanks for a fun week!  I enjoyed meeting new people, hearing the excellent speakers, and being trusted and treated as a professional.  Thanks to the wellness component, this has been one of the few workshops when I haven't felt exhausted at the end of the day.- Melinda Mulcahy, Black Hills H.S. 

Great Workshop!  I feel healthier than the beginning of the week.  Thank you for the wellness options.  The speakers were excellent, and the buzz sessions are great for collaborating with teachers in our grade level. 

 2009 Testimonials

"This institute is a great place to learn new technigues for my classroom." - Toni Stray, Rochester (Grand Mound Elem.)

"Thank you for the opportunity to spend one week of intensive learning in exchange for a good number of clock hours. I didn't have give up my whole summer!"

"Thank you! This was my third Summer Institute and each time I have gone away with ideas that I could implement in my classroom." - Kimberly Seay, Woodland High School

"Buzz sessions were awesome! Very informative and full of relevant info from other teachers." - Dave Hopf, Toledo Middle School

"SI was a fun & kickback way to learn the latest in the education field. We'll be back next year, and the year after...and so on!"

Class Rates Group Rate 3 credits Before May 16 $360.00 Group Rate 3 credits May 16 and prior to June 2 $460.00 Group Rate 3 credits June 2 and prior to July 10 $510.00 Group Rate 4 credits Before May 16 $460.00 Group Rate 4 credits May 16 and prior to June 2 $560.00 Group Rate 4 credits June 2 and prior to July 10 $610.00 Individual Rate 3 credits Before May 16 $380.00 Individual Rate 3 credits May 16 and prior to June 2 $480.00 Individual Rate 3 credits June 2 and prior to July 10 $530.00 Individual Rate 4 credits Before May 16 $500.00 Individual Rate 4 credits May 16 and prior to June 2 $600.00 Individual Rate 4 credits June 2 and prior to July 10 $650.00 Workshop Fee Before May 16 $270.00 Workshop Fee May 16 and prior to June 2 $370.00 Workshop Fee June 2 and prior to July 10 $420.00 Click Here to Sign Up

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