About Wayne RESA Enhancing Education
 in Wayne County.

Participants will develop the knowledge and skill required to provide immediate mental health crisis interventions to the students, staff, and school community members who have been simultaneously exposed to an acute traumatic stressor. The knowledge and skill developed within this session also help to build a bridge to the psychotherapeutic and trauma-informed mental health response sometime required to address challenges associated with trauma exposure.

This session is designed for directors and administrators of the Great Start Readiness Program. Participants will engage in conversations/discussions regarding several topics, including but not limited to:- Learning environment- Curriculum Implementation,- Challenging Behaviors,- Social Emotional- Home Visits- Adult Child Interaction- Assessment-Program- Family Engagement

The Michigan DEI Facilitators network is an offering for leaders in DEI throughout Michigan schools. Leaders will come together to build relationships, share in learning to grow their capacity for equity work, and gain and share resources. Strategies for supporting school administration, staff, students, and communities in their efforts toward diversity, equity, and inclusion will be discussed and developed.

This session is designed for “new” directors and administrators of the Great Start Readiness Program. Participants will engage in conversations/discussions regarding several topics, including but not limited to:- Learning environment- Curriculum Implementation,- Contract language- Implementation Manual- Home Visits- Adult Child Interaction- Assessment-Program- Family Engagement

We teach children a host of strategies to implement as they read. Students learn phonics rules to read words on the page. They learn about characters and people and name their traits, identify main ideas, and analyze themes. These strategies and more help students to acquire skills that strengthen their reading. While this work along with building background knowledge is important, what can be missing in the conversation around teaching children how to read is the teaching that helps students deeply understand their purpose for reading. This interactive session begins by disrupting achievement gap narratives to better understand the urgent need for culturally relevant and antiracist teaching. Educators will gain nuanced understandings around the scholarship of culturally relevant pedagogy as well as specific characteristics of antiracist teaching. They will apply six critical lenses toward reading instruction and utilize a toolkit for teaching that supports the work of cultivating identity-inspiring classroom spaces where students identify and dismantle dominant ideologies in order to imagine and work toward an antiracist future. Join Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul, author of Antiracist Reading Revolution, as she facilitates this series and ground us in our “why” as teachers of reading so that students can show up fully as themselves and recognize reading as a tool for liberation.For more information please contact Dr. Rosalyn Shahid ShahidR@RESA.net

Teaching is the mother of all professions. From planning lessons to building relationships, the responsibilities of an educator are complex. The New Teacher Academy supports K-12 general education teachers who are within their first three years of teaching in a seven-session series held throughout the year. Time is provided to connect and collaborate with peers on issues that are relevant to teachers’ roles, reflect upon current practices, and further develop their professional philosophy. Topics focus on creating cultures that promote high-quality instruction, developing the practice of professional reflection, and attaining strategies to achieve student success. The SCECHs provided in this professional development series may be applied to the additional hours required of new teachers within their first three years.

This workshop is a result of the Instructional Coaching Group’s partnership with Growth Coaching International, the leading provider of coaching professional development in Australia and New Zealandfor more than two decades.The quality of the conversations in an organization can critically influence the organization’s effectiveness. This session explores how a coaching orientation, together with a strong coaching process and key coaching skills, can make a significant and immediate difference in the conversations in which school leaders engage every day. It provides leaders with the tools they need to take a coaching approach to all conversations with their teams.

The Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) Advisory Council in Wayne County provides a forum for Consortium members to meet, provide feedback and design activities to strengthen the experience for enrolled children and families. Membership includes administrators, owners, Early Childhood Specialists, parents/guardians of enrolled children, community, social service agencies, and the Great Start Collaborative-Wayne.The advisory council reviews program components and when needed, makes recommendations to promote high quality learning environments. This team sets goals for continuous quality improvement of the Great Start Readiness Program.Wayne RESA Early Childhood staff report out to the advisory council on seasonal topics: recruitment, full enrollment, budget, funding application, curriculum, MDE guidance and requirements, transportation, food service etc.

This session cover the input and navigation of Special Ed. forms in the Program Forms application and making the transition from the SEEFS (legacy) application.

Are you looking for tools to support your struggling readers? During this training you will learn how tens of thousands of schools use Bookshare to support students with learning differences. Bookshare is a FREE reading tool funded by the U.S. Department of Education that empowers studetns to read in ways that work for them with specialized eBooks in audio, audio+highlighted text, various fonts and background colors, braille, and large print.You will learn:- What types of books, including textbooks and educational materials, are available in Bookshare’s library of over 1 million titles- You can access Bookshare on laptops/computers, tablets, smartphones, and other devices using our powerful new web-reader and Bookshare Reader app- How to set up FREE access to Bookshare through organizational and individual student accounts- Which students qualify for Bookshare- How to identify Bookshare accommodations for the IEP- How to integrate Bookshare use in the classroom

You are invited to attend the Wayne County Social Studies Leaders meetings. Open to all social studies educators in Wayne County and beyond, these meetings allow teachers and leaders to find out what is happening in Wayne County Social Studies, learn about new resources and opportunities, and network and collaborate with other social studies leaders. In the past these events were held at Wayne RESA, for 2024-2025, we will hold the meetings at cultural institutions around the county, providing leaders an opportunity to think about partnerships with those cultural institutions.

Cognitive Coaching Seminars® are an eight-day training generally conducted over an 18–24 month period of time. It can be delivered in flexible formats depending on the needs of the agency. Agendas for Days 1–4 include the Planning Conversation Map and the Reflecting Conversation Map as well as the tools of Cognitive CoachingSM. Days 5–8 provide for skill refinement and understanding of the Problem-Resolving Map. In the eight-day Seminars, participants learn how to: develop trust and rapport develop an identity as a mediator of thinking utilize conversation structures for planning, reflecting and problem resolving develop teachers’ autonomy and sense of community develop higher levels of efficacy, consciousness, craftsmanship, flexibility and interdependence apply four support functions: coaching, evaluating, consulting, collaborating utilize the coaching tools of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions distinguish among the five forms of feedback use data to mediate thinking.