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About Wayne RESA Enhancing Education in Wayne County.

Wayne RESA is a regional educational service agency that offers a wide range of services and support to the 33 school districts and 97 public school academies in Wayne County.



We provide personalized support that is essential to improving student achievement and advancing educational outcomes throughout Wayne County. Our comprehensive range of services includes professional development for educators, purchasing services, administrative support for school districts, and much more.

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Read our latest Wayne County RESA Services Report to learn about our impact in Wayne County and greater Michigan.

By the Numbers

12.77% Individualized Education Plans
14.25% Multilingual Students
259,642 County-wide School Enrollment
33 Local Education Agency (LEAs)
551 School Buildings
67.97% Economically Disadvantaged Students
88.20% Average Student Attendance Rate
97 Public School Academies (PSAs)

Wayne RESA Upcoming Events

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2/13/2025
7027 B - What Every Administrator Needs to Know About ASD
12:30 AM
Wayne RESA Burger Baylor/Woodson Ctr 91&92 29115 Carlysle Inkster
7027 B - What Every Administrator Needs to Know About ASD
Date: Feb 13
Time: 12:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: Wayne RESA Burger Baylor/Woodson Ctr 91&92 29115 Carlysle Inkster
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
In this workshop, principals and district leaders will become empowered to guide their staff in supporting students with Autism. Leaders will learn about characteristics of Autism, laws governing all special education students, and best practices that support, not only ASD students, but all students.
7042 B - LGBTQ+: Creating Welcoming Schools for All Students
9:00 AM
ONLINE
7042 B - LGBTQ+: Creating Welcoming Schools for All Students
Date: Feb 13
Time: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
This workshop is designed to help participants examine ways for schools to welcome all students including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ+) youth. Workshop participants will review terminology related to LGBTQ+ population and explore societies’ traditional gender roles for males and females. The relationship between biological sex gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation is reviewed for a better understanding of gender non-conforming youth. Participants will discuss ways to increase awareness and decrease intolerance while identifying strategies to make school welcoming to all students.
7456 ABCs of Decodables: Academics, Belonging, and Criticality
4:30 PM
ONLINE
7456 ABCs of Decodables: Academics, Belonging, and Criticality
Date: Feb 13
Time: 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
When young children engage with culturally relevant texts, they can advance their Academic success in literacy, experience a sense of Belonging in classrooms, and engage in Criticality as a classroom community that embraces diversity and inclusion while simultaneously engaging in social justice work. Considering traditional foundational literacy instruction does not build with Black and Brown children’s racial and ethnic identities, home languages, and lived experiences as strengths in the classroom, Lawson’s emerging scholarship and teaching pedagogy support educators with incorporating culturally relevant texts throughout foundational literacy instruction in K-2. Lawson incorporates children’s identities, lived experiences, home languages, and targeted phonics features by designing student-generated decodable readers co-authored by children to advance their decoding skills. By using culturally relevant texts to cultivate these ABCs in early childhood classrooms, children can experience culturally responsive education that affirms their identities and lived experiences, supports their understanding of their peers’ identities and cultures, deepens their understanding of societal injustices, and advances their literacy development in meaningful, inclusive, and equitable ways.The target audience for this workshop is K-2 teachers and instructional specialists. Please contact Dr. Rosalyn Shahid (ShahidR@resa.net) for details.
2/14/2025
6573 B - Early Childhood CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Trainin
9:00 AM
Wayne RESA Burger Baylor/Woodson Ctr 91 29115 Carlysle Inkster, M
6573 B - Early Childhood CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Trainin
Date: Feb 14
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Wayne RESA Burger Baylor/Woodson Ctr 91 29115 Carlysle Inkster, M
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
Part 2 will provide an early childhood focus with a deeper look at Nonviolent Crisis Intervention methods for GSRP staff.Therapeutic Physical Intervention: When all nonverbal and verbal techniques have been exhausted and when the individual presents a danger to self or others the use of physical restraint may be necessary as a last resort.Part 2 requires the completion of Part 1. No exceptions will be made.Part 2 is for staff in the organization that would be responsible for performing restraint if necessary as a last resort in a GSRP classroom.
7225 Emotional Poverty and the Realities of Adults
9:00 AM
Warren Woods Education Center
7225 Emotional Poverty and the Realities of Adults
Date: Feb 14
Time: 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM
Location: Warren Woods Education Center
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
This workshop will provide overview of current research and strategies to increase safe behaviors for the classroom.Educators will learn about the underlying emotional causes of unsafe and disruptive behaviors in order to create safer learning environments.Topics include: teaching students how to calm themselves, validation as a tool to build strong inner selves, identification of emotionally unbonded students and self awareness of our own emotional realities.Workshop participants will engage in self reflective activities throughout the workshop.There will also be opportunity to put learning into practice between sessions with discussion and feedback.This workshop series is intended for those who are new to this research.Emotional Poverty 102 will be offered in the Spring for those who have attended previously and want to extend their knowledge.
2/18/2025
6962 B - Are My Programs Effective: Program Evaluation for School L
1:00 PM
ONLINE
6962 B - Are My Programs Effective: Program Evaluation for School L
Date: Feb 18
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
How do you know if a program that you implemented is effective? Schools and districts can expect to implement a wide-range of educational services, supports, and interventions, over the course of the academic school year but have no means by which to assess or evaluate the impact. This professional development course is designed to answer just these types of questions. This course will explore the logic model as a structure to design, implement, and evaluate programs and/or initiatives. Through intentional development, logic models, evaluation frameworks, and data collection tools can help schools and districts support student and adult learning, while monitoring intended outcomes. These sessions are intended to help participants develop a deep understanding of a logic model for a current or new program, develop evaluation questions with connected data collection tools, and design a plan for monitoring and evaluating the impact of the program on student, staff, and/or school/district performance.
6980 Cultivating the Genius of Black Boys
4:30 PM
ONLINE
6980 Cultivating the Genius of Black Boys
Date: Feb 18
Time: 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
In this four session virtual series, participants will:1. Examine the current educational status of African- American males in this country(academic achievement, graduation rates, suspensions/expulsions, tracking, etc.)2. Identify factors that contribute to the achievement gap between African-Americanmales and other students.3. Engage in reflective discourse with peers about their own attitudes, beliefs, andperceptions related to educating African-American males and other students.4. Explore strategies to motivate and engage African-American males in the learningprocess for the purpose of raising their academic achievement.5. Understand how to meet the literacy needs of Black males.
7596 Bridging Computational Thinking and Literacy: Cultivating Crea
6:00 PM
ONLINE
7596 Bridging Computational Thinking and Literacy: Cultivating Crea
Date: Feb 18
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
Discover how integrating computational thinking and literacy can foster creativity, problem-solving abilities, and critical thinking. Engage in hands-on activities to explore the connection between computational thinking, literacy, and creativity, and learn techniques to nurture students' creativity and logical reasoning through interdisciplinary approaches. This session will equip you with innovative strategies to embrace and implement these concepts, empowering students with the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly digital and interconnected world.
2/19/2025
6718 B - The Ins and Outs of Special Education
9:00 AM
Wayne RESA ANNEX Room 2 & 3 - 33500 Van Born Rd, Wayne MI 48184
6718 B - The Ins and Outs of Special Education
Date: Feb 19
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Location: Wayne RESA ANNEX Room 2 & 3 - 33500 Van Born Rd, Wayne MI 48184
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
This Special Education PD is intended for special education staff (i.e., coordinators, teacher consultants, ancillary staff, special education teachers) who are responsible for the compliant development and delivery of special education programming and services per IDEA and MARSE. There is a lot to know in the field of special education! If you have ever wondered where to start or need clarity on the ins and outs of special education, we are here to help!Topics will include:• Policies, procedures and general guidance,• The components and development of an IEP,• Planning, delivery of specially designed instruction, organizational methods and time management, and progress monitoring, and• Documenting the delivery of special education programming/services and supplementary services.
6591 WC Curriculum Leaders Update
1:00 PM
ONLINE
6591 WC Curriculum Leaders Update
Date: Feb 19
Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
All curriculum leaders are invited to join us for this monthly, virtual session designed to keep you up to date on pertinent local and state matters. We will spend time exploring legislative updates and exploring assessment and state accountability information. Information regarding Wayne County initiatives and opportunities will also be shared. This is a great opportunity for curriculum leaders to receive current information, ask questions, and find out what’s happening around the state and within our county.
7511 AI Book Study featuring Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
4:00 PM
ONLINE
7511 AI Book Study featuring Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Date: Feb 19
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
Join us for a collaborative book study to read and discuss Co-Intelligence by professor and AI expert Ethan Mollick. We will meet virtually for three sessions (December 4, January 8, and February 19) to reflect and discuss insights into the evolving landscape of education in our AI-driven world. Let's come together to explore the future of human learning in this exciting age of technological marvels.
2/20/2025
7307 Careers in Business and Entrepreneurship
12:00 PM
ONLINE
7307 Careers in Business and Entrepreneurship
Date: Feb 20
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Location: ONLINE
Calendar: Learning Stream PD Calendar
This session will highlight careers in Business, Entrepreneurship, and Real Estate.Career Technical Education resources are highlights.National Entrepreneurship Week activities are shared.Attendees will learn about stackable credentials for careers in the field.Various postsecondary options will be shared, including certificate and associate degree programs.Guest speakers will share information regarding their journey and education/training opportunities.This professional learning session will award Career Scechs to K-12 school counselors.

Wayne County School Districts

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What is an ISD? Intermediate School District

ISDs — which sometimes go by the name Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA) or Educational Service Agency (ESA) — work with local school districts, the Michigan Department of Education, business and industry and community groups.



Each ISD works with its local school districts to develop the mix of products and programs to maximize benefits for that area. ISDs increase cost savings for schools, expand educational opportunities, provide professional learning for teachers, and much more.

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