About Wayne RESA Enhancing Education in Wayne County.

Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is an early intervention evidence-based program that teaches participants how to recognize the signs and symptoms that suggest a potential mental health challenge, how to listen non-judgmentally, and how to give reassurance to youths who may be experiencing a mental health challenge and refer them to the appropriate professional support and services. The course is designed to teach you how to approach, assess, and assist youths who may be in the early stages of developing a mental health challenge or in a mental health crisis. Participants have two weeks before the start of class to complete the course pre-work, along with 5.5 hours of interactive live virtual curriculum training, a quiz, and an evaluation. During the course's live virtual session, participants must have their cameras on and ensure their audio is functioning properly.Please note: Youth Mental Health First Aid certification is valid for three years; we recommend completing this training at least once every three years to maintain certification status and receive updated content and materials.

These quarterly meetings provide essential information, best practices, and legal guidelines for supporting students in foster care across Wayne County. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the educational rights and needs of foster youth while exploring strategies to enhance their academic success and well-being. These sessions also offer a valuable networking opportunity, connecting Foster Care Liaisons, MDHHS and community agencies.

These quarterly meetings provide essential information, best practices, and legal guidelines for supporting students in foster care across Wayne County. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the educational rights and needs of foster youth while exploring strategies to enhance their academic success and well-being. These sessions also offer a valuable networking opportunity, connecting Foster Care Liaisons, MDHHS and community agencies.

Alternative School Leadership Network meetings provide opportunities for current administrators & building leaders of alternative, non-traditional, and virtual school settings to collaborate and develop their knowledge and understanding of current educational topics and shifts. After each session, leaders will leave with essential information from the Michigan Department of Education, relevant updates from RESA consultants, ideas for staff meetings and building school culture, and membership in a Wayne County supportive professional learning community. Some sessions also include the leaders from our Alternative School Leadership Cross-County Collaborative.Meetings are at no-cost and invitations to the meetings will be sent prior to each session. If you are a leader of an alternative, non-traditional, or virtual school and do not receive these invitations, please contact Linda Kell, Leadership Development Consultant, at KellL@resa.net.

This course will delve into pupil accounting information specific to Spring Count. We will cover what Spring Count entails, how to gather and submit the necessary information, and the correct procedures for submitting paperwork to your auditor. Additionally, this course provides a valuable opportunity to network with fellow pupil accountants from Wayne County.

We invite math teachers, leaders, coaches, and curriculum leads to join our network, focused on supporting equitable, evidence-based practices in math classrooms. Our goal is to help inform district work on curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Each year we focus on the Essential Instructional Practices in Mathematics, aligning with state efforts toimplement them in K-5 classrooms. Meetings will emphasize using curricular resources, engaging students, growing teacher capacity, and effective instructional routines.While our overarching vision for learning is similar each year, we engage in variations on how we address that learning each year - bringing in new articles, videos, and specifics of content to build math leadership capacity over a series of years. We encourage you to join us for multiple years as we grow and learn together.

Explore Michigan's evidence-based Michigan Model for Health (MMH) curriculum! This training emphasizes comprehensive school health education within the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) framework. Participants will learn to facilitate student skill development aligned with National Health Education Standards and understand how these skills translate into meaningful behavioral changes, both in and out of the classroom. Curriculum units cover Social Emotional Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity, Personal Health and Wellness, Safety, and Alcohol/Tobacco/Other Drugs. HIV/STI prevention curricula for middle school and high school are separate and require separate training. Each participant will receive discounted two-year access to the digital curriculum for their selected grade level, as well as ongoing technical assistance

Active Learning in the HighScope classroom emphasizes the HighScope approach to active participatory learning and integrating STEAM/STEM into daily activities. This session highlights fostering exploration, using observation and documentation to guide instruction, and supporting collaboration and problem-solving among children.Topics:* Core Components of Active Participatory Learning: Child choice, adult scaffolding, and materials.* Integrating STEAM/STEM: Designing inquiry-based activities for exploration and discovery.* Observation and Documentation: Using anecdotal notes to inform planning.* Promoting Collaboration: Strategies for fostering teamwork and problem-solving skills.* Addressing Challenges: Adapting to the needs of diverse learners.* Reference Math and Literacy Essentials and expectations

In this series participants will learn about the foundational elements of Early Childhood Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (EC PBIS). These essential practices make up the bottom layer of the Pyramid Model and support the social and emotional development of all children ages birth through five. The two key components of the model that will be discussed are the development of nurturing and responsive relationships and the creation of high quality supportive classrooms.

Participants will learn about the essential practices in early childhood social emotional learning that support the development of preschool aged children. Topics covered include explicit teaching of friendship skills, modeling problem solving, and identifying emotions.

This training explores how storytelling integrated with movement and yoga can strengthen young children's early literacy development. Participants will learn and practice creative storytelling strategies that support vocabulary development, oral language, comprehension, sequencing, and narrative structure in playful and purposeful ways. Participants are invited to wear comfortable clothing to participate in movement activities.

Counselors will learn about the various branches of the military.Each session will cover one specific military branch as outlined below, address enlistment, education and training, career opportunities and benefits, and conclude with a discussion and Q and A. These virtual professional learning sessions fulfill the five military SCECHs required for school counselors.This professional learning session will be virtual and each attendee will receive 1.0 military SCECHs for each session attended.Each session will highlight a different branch of the Armed Forces.