Mandatory Face-to-Face - Feb. 1  from 4:15 - 6:00

Online through 3/9

1 UW credit ($60) or 1 CCSD credit

Cathy McGeowan

Google Workspace for Education  is a free suite of tools that enables users to create, edit, share, and collaborate, anytime, anywhere. This online course will introduce you to the Google apps with a focus on helping teachers and students share and learn together in innovative ways.

This class will provide a classroom focus for GWE. Apps to be covered include: Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and Google Add-ons, along with Schoology Integration. 

This course will have a mandatory 2 hour course introduction on Tuesday, November 2nd  at 4:15. The remainder of our class time will be entirely online with weekly requirements/deadlines throughout. You will work at your own pace, but classwork must be completed by the weekly due date.

Mandatory Face-to-Face - Nov. 2nd  from 4:15 - 6:00

Online through 12/16

1 UW credit ($60) or 1 CCSD credit

Cathy McGeowan and Stacey Dickson

Google Workspace for Education is a free suite of tools that enables users to create, edit, share, and collaborate, anytime, anywhere.  This online course will introduce non-teachers to the Google apps with a focus on helping staff members share and produce products together.

Apps to be covered include: Google Mail, Drive (Docs and Sheets), along with an introduction to add-ons.

This course will have a mandatory 2 hour course introduction on Tuesday, Nov. 2nd at 4:15. The remainder of our class time will be entirely online with weekly requirements/deadlines throughout. You will work at your own pace, but classwork must be completed by the weekly due date.

  **THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE.  WORK AT YOUR OWN PACE,  HOWEVER, CLASSWORK MUST BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF EACH WEEK.**

Beginners to intermediate users

Advanced Step Up To Writing is for all students in grades 6-12, encompassing a wide range of abilities and learning styles.  Step Up To Writing provides foundational strategies as well as advanced strategies.  These differentiated strategies can be used to develop students’ knowledge and abilities no matter what their levels of writing proficiency.  This advanced course of Step Up To Writing will briefly review the foundational strategies learned in the introductory course and teach strategies for:  informative/explanatory writing, argument writing, narrative writing, research reports, speaking and listening, and writing for assessments.  *You should already be familiar with foundational Step Up To Writing strategies before taking this class (through prior experience or the first Step Up To Writing class).    

In this course, you will learn strategies to help you teach students how to read the content you teach.  Drawing on strategies from Stephanie Harvey and Step Up to Writing, you will learn classroom-proven strategies and activities that you can implement immediately.  This class will offer literacy strategies that a teacher of any secondary content area can use.  Additionally, this course is open to any teacher, regardless of content area.  Time will be spent outside of class developing lesson plans and implementing strategies learned in this class.

Beginner: You will learn the alphabet, calendar and colors along with the first portion of the SEE beginning curriculum.

Intermediate: Must have taken Signing Exact English: Beginner within the last 2 years.

**You may only take each level ONCE.**

This course will guide participants through an intensive study of Jan Richardson’s Next Steps in Word Study and Phonics. Online collaboration tools and digital peer observations will be key components for participants to authentically apply learning into their classroom and impact student learning. Participants will learn, apply, and reflect on their word study and phonics practices throughout this course while building their own knowledge. This is a self-paced course with options for participants to tailor their learning to the needs of their level of learners.

Learn how to be a better language partner to students with complex communication needs.  Many students in the district use a variety of methods to supplement or in place of verbal language.  Discover how to program and implement a variety of Speech Generating Devices, how to model using the programs to promote your student’s language development, and how to better connect to classroom activities.

Participants will become familiar with gifted traits which in turn will help them to better reach that population.  Participants will learn about common myths associated with giftedness as well as common truths.  Participants will become more informed when it comes to the identification process within our district’s gifted program.

This action lab will dive into the importance of phonemic awareness and how it connects to literacy instruction.  Participants will learn about overall components of reading, phonology (what is that?!), phonological awareness, and phonemic awareness.  This course will be engaging and have hands-on activities, resources, and strategies that teachers can immediately bring back to use in their classroom.

Do you work with primary readers and want more strategies for helping them achieve? This action lab is for you. Join us to learn a multitude of strategies to support young readers and writers.

Decodable Text -- What is its purpose? When should I use it? Where do I find decodable text? If you have any of these questions or more about decodable text and the role it plays in developing literacy, this is the action lab for you! Join us to learn about the instructional use of decodable text.

No more searching for easier texts!  All students need to learn how to read grade-level or higher complex texts but the task can seem daunting with struggling readers.  Come learn the top scaffolding strategies that will provide access to complex texts for all your students.

In this action lab, you will learn the ins and outs of the Language Usage section of the ACT test.  You will learn tips and strategies to help you teach your students how to achieve their personal best score.

In this action lab, you will learn the ins and outs of the Reading portion of the ACT test.  You will learn tips and strategies to help you teach your students how to achieve their personal best score.

Lucidpress.  Great tools to support resource students’ access to digital graphic organizers, as well as other helpful methods of displaying learned knowledge.  

Please note:  This software is currently available to support resource students and can be implemented by regular and resource educators.

OrbitNote: the power of Kami with more bells and whistles, and it is free for ALL district students and staff!  Plus: a refresher on Read and Write for Google Chrome, a fantastic tool for student differentiation and access.  Two great tools for supporting student success in the academic setting.

In Soaring with Schoology, you will be able to work at your own pace to complete the offering in the areas that you have interest in learning more about.  These are micro-badges and will be worth 1.5 hours worth of time.  (2 micro-badges = 1 action lab credit)

Classes will begin to open:  February 1

Classwork due by:  April 29

Online (self-paced)

One micro-badge (1.5 hours)

Sam Burr, Stacey Dickson, Darcy Gillaspy, & Cathy McGeowan

**Classes will be created and added throughout the first couple weeks, so please sign-up for what you are interested in.**

Learn how Google Docs provides users with the ability to create, edit, and collaborate with others live on the web. Write reports, create joint project proposals, keep track of meeting notes, and more.  Additionally, the Google Docs badge will require the creation of an artifact demonstrating competency and implementation of the Docs app.

Learn about Google Drawings basic digital design functions such as editing and cropping images.  Create visuals on the ultimate blank canvas.  You will learn about the most commonly used tools and uses for Google Drawings.  Additionally, the Google Drawings badge will require the creation of an artifact demonstrating competency and implementation of the Drawings app.

Learn how Google Sheets allows you to organize, edit, and analyze different types of information using spreadsheets.  Additionally, the Google Sheets badge will require the creation of an artifact demonstrating competency and implementation of the Sheets app.

Learn Google Slides basics such as creating, importing, editing, sharing, and collaborating on presentations.  Additionally, the Google Slides badge will require the creation of an artifact demonstrating competency and implementation of the Slides app.

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer -- 3 simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Course content also includes CCSD suicide prevention policy and recommendations for educators. 

This course meets the requirements for suicide prevention training required under the Jason Flatt Act. 

**The Jason Flatt Act requires eight-hours every four years.  Therefore, you can use this course to meet some of those required hours even if you have already completed the QPR course in the past.

Face-to-Face

Date:  see options below:

• January 27: 4:15-7:15 (3 Hours)
• February 24: 4:15-5:15 (1 Hour)
• March 31: 4:15-7:15 (3 Hours)
• April 21: 4:15-7:15 (3 Hours)
• May 5: 4:15-5:15 (1 Hour)

Jessica Diaz

"Please do not schedule yourself for every QPR class, you will need to obtain Jason Flatt Act hours through other training" or something similar. 

*Please note Certified Staff will not receive Action Lab credit until they complete their 8 hours, then they will receive 3 Action Lab Credits*

Campbell County School District will be offering Custodial Training for all custodians employed by the school district. The courses being offered are, Basic Custodial Training and Advanced Custodial Training. This is not mandatory training however, CCSD is offering monetary incentives for custodians to take the courses. One incentive is for completion of the Basic Custodial Training and the other incentive is for completing both the Basic Custodial Training and Advanced Custodial Training. Each Course is approximately 2 weeks. 

Basic Custodial Training will be held Mon, Wed, and Fri. Each class will be 1.5 hour long. Classes will be offered from 1:30-3:30 pm and will be held at the Maintenance shop. Each class will have a maximum of 15 custodians. We wish for everyone to succeed and have the tools they need to complete the course; so a separate class will be held for those that will need a translator. Rani; the trainer of the course is not bilingual, so a translator will be requested for the class. That class size will be limited to 10 custodians.

Once custodians sign up they must complete and pass the course fully to get the credit needed for the monetary incentive. Custodians must sign up one week prior to the course starting. No one will be able to sign up after the first day of the course.