About Wayne RESA Enhancing Education in Wayne County.

Explores the vital intersection of Trauma-Informed Care and the PBIS framework. Participants will discover how to create 'safe, predictable, and consistent' environments that are essential for students impacted by adverse childhood experiences.

Transform your geography instruction with engaging, interactive strategies that bring the world to life for students.This full-day professional development workshop led by the Michigan Geographic Alliance will explore innovative ways to enhance geographic thinking through hands-on and digital tools.. Participants will discover the power of giant maps to create immersive learning experiences, develop inquiry-based approaches that foster critical thinking, and integrate digital mapping technologies to make spatial analysis accessible and meaningful.The session will also emphasize the geographic perspective, helping educators guide students in understanding connections between people, places, and environments. Through collaborative activities, model lessons, and practical applications, attendees will leave with ready-to-use strategies and resources to deepen student engagement and geographic literacy.Whether you teach elementary, middle or high school, this workshop will equip you with tools to make geography dynamic, relevant, and alive in your classroom.

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.

A monthly gathering of Career Technical Education (CTE) Directors from across Wayne County, where we convene to collaborate, share insights, and strategize on enhancing our CTE programs.This meeting serves as vital platform for directors to discuss new initiatives, best practices, and the ever-evolving landscape of vocational education. The monthly agenda focuses on program improvement, topics include:updates on CTE legislation, curriculum development, continuous improvement, administrative responsibilities, program compliance, networking opportunities, roundtable discussions, and guest speakers.This meeting represents an invaluable opportunity to ensure our CTE programs are aligned with industry demands and effectively equip our students with the skills they need to succeed.Participation is crucial as we work together to drive excellence in career education throughout our community.

These network meetings provide opportunities for current administrators/leaders to collaborate and develop their knowledge and understanding of current educational topics and shifts founded in the 5 pillars of leadership (Instructional Leadership, Talent Management, Culture and Climate, Systems, and Change Management)

These network meetings provide opportunities for current administrators/leaders who serve the unique needs of a public school academy to collaborate and develop their knowledge and understanding of current educational topics and shifts.Leadership discussions will focus on the 5 pillars of leadership (Instructional Leadership, Culture and Climate, Talent Management, Change Management, and Systems Thinking) and focus on topics related to PSAs.

Our Wayne County (WC) schools and districts have much to share—and much to celebrate. In many ways, our leadership extends beyond state borders. Yet, we still have untapped potential and vast opportunities for growth. Unlocking this potential requires elevating collaboration to foster greater synergy, ultimately providing our students with more opportunities to thrive and shine.The Wayne County Multilingual Collaborative (WCMC) biannual meeting offers an excellent opportunity for WC education leaders and their representatives to come together, celebrate our schools' and districts' successes, and explore new avenues for collaboration and partnership. It also provides a valuable occasion to meet in person with the MDE representative, facilitating open discussions on key upcoming initiatives, funding changes, policies, and programs related to multilingual education.We look forward to your participation and to celebrating your contributions to advancing multilingual education in your schools and classrooms.

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.

Learn about how and when allocation change requests can be made and what to expect for GSRP fiscal for FYE27

Teacher Studio is a hybrid learning community for educators interested in hands-on, maker-based learning. Each month, participants will make something together and share ideas for supporting maker-based learning experiences with their learners. Participants can join online via zoom or in person at Wayne RESA. The Teacher Studio is made up of school-based and out-of-school-based educators from a variety of content areas, grade levels, and experience levels with making. The Teacher Studio is a partnership between UW-Madison PLACE, Building For Kids Children's Museum, Madison Public Library, the Fermilab Office of Education and Public Engagement, and Wayne RESA.

In this course participants will learn about the developmental trajectory of speech in young children and how to support students who may be entering school from a low language environment. Topics include the use of literacy essentials to create a language rich environment, strategies for extending and supporting verbal conversations, and ways to supplement the classroom environment to maximize participation by all children.

Please join us for an intensive eight-day training of Cognitive Coaching Seminars® facilitated by a Thinking Collaborative facilitator. Participants of the foundations seminar 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; and use data to mediate thinking. Agendas for Days 1–4 include the Planning Conversation Map and the Reflecting Conversation Map as well as the tools of Cognitive Coaching SM. Days 5–8 provide for skill refinement and understanding of the Problem-Resolving Map.