About Wayne RESA Enhancing Education in Wayne County.

Participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans; and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, and response.

“Putting instructional reforms into practice is a process that requires a vision, support for change, leadership and collaboration among teachers [as they use resources to design learning experiences]” (Short & Hirsch, 2023) Join us as we embark on a new model for secondary math leadership in which we invite teachers, department leads, or coaches to bring their secondary math curricular resources as we engage in mathematical reasoning together, plan for your upcoming units, and practice our teaching moves collectively.As we collaborate, we will learn about motivation, engagement, scaffolds, differentiation, formative assessment, and feedback.Take away resources to replicate the learning and planning with teams of teachers in your school or district.

This workshop meets the Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) requirement for implicit bias training for health professionals. This training will provide K-12 professionals training regarding the issue of implicit bias and how it relates to their areas of practice. In response to racism being named a public health crisis, the Michigan legislature has required all healthcare professionals to receive training on the topic of implicit bias. Specific areas to be covered by this training include how implicit bias is defined, how it exists and functions within systems and institutions, and how practitioners can notice, reflect on, and begin to redress their own implicit biases.Participants will learn about historical trauma and power structures, how they both manifest and perpetuate a culture of bias, and how doing internal work can begin to reverse the harm implicit bias causes in our school communities.CE Credits available for nurses and social workers.

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.

This session will dive into the various components and aspects that make-up the federal accountability index system. The session will help schools and districts understand their own data and how to apply it to school improvement.

Wayne RESA’s Special Education New Teacher Academy will provide quality professional development experiences to enhance your professional growth and knowledge base with special education practices, issues, procedures, and forms.At the same time, it will help you meet the state-required hours of professional development you need to attain in your first three years of teaching.Participants must be first- and second-year teachers currently working in a Wayne County LEA/PSA special education classroom.

This Special Education Discipline in Focus Series comprehensively overviews student discipline procedures.Day 1: Establishes foundational knowledge, including student rights, relevant laws, and available resources.Day 2: This session focuses on identifying removals that may trigger special education protections and ensuring proper recognition and application of these protections.Day 3: Explores Manifestation Determination Reviews (MDRs), emphasizing the importance of team collaboration, parental involvement, and effective problem-solving strategies.Day 4: Addresses the crucial aspect of providing appropriate special education services to students during and after removals.Day 5: This session delves into Wayne RESA's specific forms and procedures, emphasizing the importance of accurate and timely documentation to ensure compliance and protect students and districts.

If you are looking to start a Peer-to-Peer program, this session is for you! Participants will learn the foundation of Peer to Peer, the difference between a helping and participation model, curriculum and resources to utilize when starting a program. The morning will include guest speakers on topics such as: how to get started, tips and lessons learned, curriculum, mediums of exchange, fundraising, and Unified Champion Schools.We will split up into breakout groups for the afternoon, where you will dive deeper into the topics above, be able to ask questions, and collaborate with teams from across the county.

Educators and administrators are expected to measure and evaluate a wide-range of educational initiatives including school climate, student satisfaction, school safety, socio-emotional issues, as well as access to technology, to name a few.Surveys have been demonstrated to be an efficient and cost-effective method by which to obtain stakeholder feedback in a timely manner.Some districts purchase commercial survey software while others use Google forms.Regardless of approach, most educators and administrators have not received adequate training designing local surveys that lead to valid and reliable results.This professional development addresses this need by teaching participants the basic and essential skills needed to create a user-friendly K-12 survey in order to obtain quality results.

Join us for an informational session designed for individuals and organizations interested in becoming Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) providers. This session will offer an overview of the program, outline key expectations, and provide general information about the application process and upcoming opportunities. Participants will also have a chance to ask questions and learn more about available supports and next steps.

All curriculum leaders are invited to join us for these monthly, virtual sessions designed to keep you up to date on pertinent local and state matters. We will spend time exploring legislative updates and delving into 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.

A program for impactful teacher leaders who are interested in pursuing administrative opportunities.This is a multi-session, cohort-based leadership development program for aspiring administrators focusing on the skills and responsibilities necessary to be effective building-level leaders.In-depth collaborative learning sessions will be centered on 5 Leadership Pillars (Instructional Leadership, Culture and Climate, Talent Management, Change Management, and Systems Thinking).Entry to this cohort is by application only.Registrants must complete an electronic application and leadership essay and include two completed recommendation forms submitted on the applicants behalf.