NCOESC Registration

The NCOESC is partnering with Educational Impact to offer on-demand, self-paced courses. These courses are focused on increasing student achievement by improving teacher practice and building leadership capacity. The course content is presented by nationally-recognized experts including Michael Fullan, Doug Reeves, Alan November, Charlotte Danielson, and others. The cost per course is $55.00. Graduate credit is available for an additional fee. Participants may combine courses to complete the requirements for 1 to 2 semester hours of graduate credit. Certificates of completion are provided at the completion of each course. These certificates must be submitted to NCOESC for approval toward graduate credit requirements. If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Mohr - kmohr@ncoesc.org or 419-447-2927 x172. Click Here to pay for online professional development courses.
	Using positive behavioral supports has proven to be an effective approach to reduce discipline problems and modify inappropriate student behavior. Terrance Scott provides you with a step-by-step approach that explains why positive behavior supports work and how to successfully implement them in your classroom. Dr. Scott then examines the forces that influence student behavior, while laying out a roadmap that will help you turn student hopelessness into learning success. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (4 hours of video; 5.5 credit hours)
	Academic honesty is the bedrock of education. This program addresses cheating in general and plagiarism in particular. Learn to foster an atmosphere of trust and respect while maintaining academic honesty. Understand the Internet’s impact on cheating and how you can use it to verify student’s work. You will learn techniques to assist with assessing the risks of cheating, raising the costs of cheating, protecting the honest students, cheating prevention strategies, and honesty policies. Also discussed are “Paper Mills”, teacher vulnerability and defining, deterring, detecting, tracing and preventing plagiarism. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (2 hours of video; 2.5 credit hours)
	Increasing Student Achievement through Differentiated Instruction: Teachers know instinctively that all kids are different and the best ways to reach each individual student will also be diverse. With NCLB, they are required to reach not just the majority of students, but everyone. This online course will give you the skills that will enable you to assess the learning styles, intelligences, ability and interest of all learners. Through a review of several differentiated instruction texts and videotaped workshop presentations developed by Colorado Centennial BOCES, participants will learn information on: multiple intelligences, needs of students, higher-level thinking skills, instruction strategies, tiered assignments, concept mapping, graphic organizers and assessing learning in both formative and summative formats. Additionally, you will be given tools to help you plan your differentiated lessons such as the use of graphic organizers, menuing, cubing, or a combination of other strategies. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (12 hours of video; 16.5 credit hours)
	ADD/HD are a real and debilitating disorder that affects millions of children. This program will help you understand how to identify ADD/HD children and what you can do to effectively teach students who suffer from this disorder. Hear how common sense approaches have helped ADD/HD students become better organized and better able to interact with other students. A thorough review of the pros and cons of medication versus behavioral modification are discussed. Disciplining and setting rules for ADD/HD children can be challenging. Learn how to change undesired behavior by responding appropriately when incidents occur. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (2.5 hours of video; 3.5 credit hours)
	The Leadership Academy features some of the nation’s most well known experts like Phillip Schlechty and Alan November. In addition, exemplary practitioners provide a first hand perspective on the daily leadership challenges they face. The Leadership Academy keeps educational leaders on the top of their profession. School law, high stakes testing and curriculum planning are just a few of the many topics that are covered in this comprehensive program. Additionally, the program offers the audio journal of education’s monthly interviews with leaders from both the education and business worlds. Target Audience: administrators (18 hours of video; 25 credit hours)
	Web of Support - The Administrator's Primer: This program was developed to “grow” educational leaders. Designed to inspire and educate aspiring and new educational leaders, this program provides the new principal or administrator with an overview of “the basics” to help them understand the roles and responsibilities of their new position. The program begins with an intensive eight-hour discussion on critical school law issues such as special education, family law, student discipline, student records, dress codes, uniforms, religious issues, drug searches and documentation. The later sections of the program help the new administrator deal with new job challenges like interviewing teacher candidates, campus and activity fund accounting, and many others. This program provides a solid foundation for the new administrator and is an excellent resource for all school administrators to have as they face the daily challenges of their day-to-day jobs. Target Audience: administrators (13.5 hours of video; 18.5 credit hours)
	Web of Support - The Entrepreneurial Principal: This program offers a comprehensive case study of how several schools in two districts located in different states, have achieved enormous success in dealing with a high number of economically disadvantaged students. This program provides a step-by-step strategy of how “Entrepreneurial Principals” in these school systems have provided the leadership and stamina to bring their schools from the low performing list to the high performing list. Learn how the Principal has been the constant component that has provided the vision and leadership to raise the achievement level of the most challenged students. Meeting the challenge of “Leave No Child Behind” is not only the expectation; it is the reality in these high-performing schools. Target Audience: K-12 administrators (11 hours of video; 15 credit hours)
	Web of Support - Building Leadership Capacity: This program addresses some of the more complex issues faced by today’s educational leaders. Why there is a shortage of good school leaders and what can be done to develop and train tomorrow’s leaders. The programs provide insights into establishing school values and ethics and how a school Principal can lead by example. Case studies of exemplary school leaders offer their insights on school culture, diversity, developing school improvement plans, community partnerships and establishing a school mission that fosters increasing student achievement. This comprehensive look at successful school leaders can have an impact on new and existing educational leaders. Refresh yourself with this wide array of topics! Target Audience: K-12 administrators (12 hours of video; 17 credit hours)
	Principal Mentorship: This program is designed to provide established principals with instruction on how to effectively become an eduring influence on new educational leaders. Research has been showed that an effective mentor is the most important positive influence on a new principal's job performance. Target Audience: K-12 Administrators (3 hours of viewing content)
	Standards-Aligned Instructional Leadership - Parts 1 and 2: This program allows school administrators to experience real life situations through the use of video simulations. The short online video simulations recreate situations faced by school administrators every day. The user is asked to choose a certain course of action based on how he or she would handle the situation portrayed in the video. The program provides feedback on the possible consequences of the user’s decision. Included with each simulator is a school leadership panel discussion where other principals share their insights into the possible choices presented in the simulation. SAIL 2 is a comprehensive program for working principals aimed at developing instructional leadership skills. Program two includes skills such as data-driven decision making, responsive and continuous instructional improvements. Target Audience: K-12 Administrators (8 hours of video; 11 credit hours)
	Academic Integrity is a fundamental cornerstone of any academic community. In the American educational system, the concept of original work is an essential tenet of scholarship. This program will provide you with guidance on how to give credit where it is due and acknowledging the contributions of others to one's own intellectual efforts. You will learn the standards to determine the acceptable levels of collaboration allowed with another person on an assignment offered for academic credit. Having a clear understanding of all of the fundamentals of Academic Integrity will assist you in understanding your own obligations and affirm the shared values that make colleges and universities true “communities of learners." Target Audience: K-12 Educators and University Students (2 hours of video; 2.5 credit hours)
	Adolescent Literacy - The Middle School Years: This program was developed specifically for educators of adolescent students. Observe actual literacy lessons where teachers employ effective differentiation strategies. Learn how to create powerful assessments, utilizing innovative word study techniques. This program provides you with pointers on how to effectively teach adolescent readers to “read to learn” through exposure to lessons that utilize reading strategies in the content area. Well respected adolescent literacy expert, Jeff Williams, presents two workshops that provide insight into using guided reading in the content area and managing reading groups. Visit “literacy rich” fourth through ninth grade classrooms to see first hand the tools and teaching techniques utilized in highly successful classrooms. A panel group of classroom teachers and university researchers discuss methods for supporting the struggling adolescent reader and how to implement comprehension strategies. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (7 hours of video; 9.5 credit hours)
	Brain Based Instruction: This program will provide educators with a detailed look at how the brain works. Understanding whether a student is a visual learner, an auditory learner or a kinesthetic learner can be the key to maximizing their potential. The founders of BrainSmart, Dr. Marcus Conyers and Dr. Donna Wilson, offer insights into how to get confirmation that students are hearing and comprehending, how to excite learners about their own potential, and how to “chunk” classroom instruction for maximum results. Hear how the results of brain based instruction generated an increase in student comprehension, performance and higher student self-esteem. Learn how to create brain based lesson plans and use modeling to increase memory. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (4 hours of video; 5.5 credit hours)
	Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution written by NASSP and the Carnegie Foundation, is one of the most acclaimed documents of its time. Written in the late 90’s this document provided a comprehensive roadmap for middle and high school improvement initiatives. Educational Impact’s new online program, Breaking Ranks: Revisited, reviews all of the recommendations set forth in the original document to determine what strategies have proven to be successful and which have not. The program uses all 12 chapters from the original document and features an educational expert and school practitioner who address each recommendation in detail. The lineup of educational experts featured in this program is a literal “Whose Who” in Education today. This systemic approach to school reform provides a wealth of information for educational leaders and teachers who want to employ research based strategies to pave the way to successful school improvement. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (24 hours of video; 33.5 credit hours)
	Community of Caring: This research-based K-12 character education program, founded by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, has the results to prove its effectiveness. Based on the five core values of Caring, Trust, Respect, Responsibility and Family, this program tells you how to implement a character education program at your school. Visit Community of Caring schools and the faculties that have successfully implemented the program. Learn how character education can change the culture of an entire school system. Understand the coordinating structures on which the program is founded and how you can incorporate these values into your existing curriculum. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (17 hours of video; 23.5 credit hours)
	Data Utilization in the Classroom: With an increasing amount of student data available to teachers and administrators, understanding how to use this information to increase student achievement is more important than ever. This program provides teachers and administrators with a broad understanding of how to analyze student data, and particularly, how to use the data to target specific student needs. A variety of very practical approaches and classroom case studies are used to illustrate how data has changed instructional practice and improved student achievement results. You will hear from some of the country’s leading experts such as Dr. Mike Schmoker discussing how to develop a culture of “data awareness” and Dr. Victoria Bernhardt providing teachers with a step by step approach to creating a school portfolio. Dr. Giselle Martin-Kneip and Dr. Ted Repa discuss suggested data tools to continuously measure the effect your targeted instruction is having. Data mining and data warehousing are also discussed in this program. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (11 hours of video; 15 credit hours)
	Managing the Defiant Child: This K-12 program, originally developed for parents, has found an avid audience in educators. Dr. Anthony Scannella, a former principal, teacher and certified medical psychotherapist, provides you with practical strategies on how to manage a defiant child. Understanding a child’s needs, both basic and psychological, and how expectations can affect that child’s behavior, can often be the key to unlocking the communication barrier. Dr. Scannella offers insights into why children misbehave, the building blocks of a parent/teacher-child relationship, establishing rapport, saying “No”, and why discipline often fails. Unlike other programs that focus largely on behavioral theory, this program is very “hands on” offering a full menu of practical strategies that work with defiant children. Target Audience: K-12 teachers, administrators and parents (2.5 hours of video; 3.5 credit hours)
	Differentiated Instruction for Successful Inclusion: This program presents how to deliver differentiated instruction for the special needs student through assessments, standards and various strategies so that all students can achieve at high levels. Learn how to plan standards-based curriculum, design differentiated lessons, assess for maximum results, use high impact strategies for struggling learners, co-plan and co-teach lessons, and get the most from an intervention assistance team through a series of classroom demonstrations and expert research-based theory. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (17 hours of video; 23.5 credit hours)
	Teaching the E.S.L. Learner: The current increase in the immigrant population has resulted in a greater number of students whose first language is not English. In most situations it may no longer be feasible for these students to be the exclusive responsibility of ESL teachers. All teachers must now understand how to work with ESL students. This program starts by simulating what it is like for the ESL learner to sit in your classroom. Feel for yourself how confusing the classroom can be for these students. See first hand how to modify your classroom so that specific ESL instructional strategies can be successfully implemented. Spend several hours observing how highly successful ESL teachers connect with every student in the classroom. This program makes extensive use of classroom observation video to show you the most effective ways to teach all ESL learners – regardless of their native language. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (5 hours of video; 7 credit hours)
	Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Understanding technology applications is one thing, utilizing and integrating these applications into your classroom instruction is surely another. This program provides you with a way to assess your current classroom practices to determine where technology can enhance student learning. Insights and suggestions are provided by some of the leading educational experts including, Michael Fullan, Alan November, and Ian Jukes. Teacher groups discuss how they used specific technology applications in their own classrooms. The experts also provide you with their vision of how technology will evolve in the coming years and what the typical classroom will look like 20 years from now. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (4 hours of video; 5.5 Credit Hours)
	Technology and the School Leader: This program begins with Dr. Alan November’s overview of technology trends and how they might impact your school system. Increasing the technology competencies of your teachers and staff will be examined, including the implementation of a staff development model to support the use of technology in the classroom. Participants will examine the role of technology in the learning process via curriculum design, assessment, and instructional strategies. Key insights are provided to help you understand district and building level cultures and support systems. The key to the successful use of technology often depends on how an educational leader observes, evaluates, and encourages the use of technology among the faculty. This program will provide valuable insights into these topics and will allow school administrators to gain an understanding and appreciation for a variety of different technology tools. Target Audience: K-12 administrators and teachers (3.5 hours of video; 4.5 credit hours)
	Leading Learning Communities: This online program is based on the landmark publication Leading Learning Communities: Standards for What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do published by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. The program’s primary focus is on the role of the school administrator as an instructional leader. The program modules are based on the six standards identified by NAESP as the key indicators of school quality. Each standard is discussed by a national educational expert including well known names such as Roland Barth and Richard Elmore from the Harvard Principals Center. The program also features a pertinent case study for each standard where well- known educators share their first hand experience as they have implemented each one of these standards in their school system. Target Audience: mainly administrators and teachers (12 hours of video; 16.5 credit Hours)
	Visual Tools for Literacy: This program features national educational expert David Hyerle presenting his award winning research on “Thinking Maps and Visual Tools”. Learn how to implement the eight visual tools that utilize student’s fundamental cognitive skills such as comparing and contrasting, sequencing, classifying and cause-effect reasoning. Learn how to use graphic organizers to help students improve their basic reading and writing skills, improve their ability to problem solve and to develop higher order thinking skills. In this program, Hyerle illustrates how graphic organizers can be used in a wide variety of applications including their use with special needs students. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (5 hours of video; 7 credit hours)
	Charting a Course to Literacy Excellence: Developed in cooperation with the Ohio Principals Literacy Network, this 10 hour program focuses on how to develop a literacy curriculum in your school. Observe actual classroom lessons utilizing shared reading, reading aloud, and guided reading strategies for both the primary and intermediate grades. Hear how the lessons were developed, implemented, and most importantly, the results. Visit “literacy rich” classrooms to see first hand the tools and teaching methods used in these highly successful classrooms. View a workshop presented by nationally recognized expert Marcia Freeman who provides insight into creating an effective school wide writing program. Hear from esteemed educational author, Doug Reeves on how the standards based movement has affected literacy instruction. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (10 hours of video; 14 credit hours)
	Middle Level: Designed by middle level principals and teachers, this program focuses specifically on how history has shaped the middle school of today. Experts discuss current trends and their vision for what middle level education will be in the future. For the first time ever, all of the experts from the National Forum have come together to debate what the latest research means and how you can model your middle school and classroom to maximize student achievement. In-depth virtual visits with the “Four Schools to Watch” provide you with valuable insights into how these middle schools became high achieving. You will hear from teachers in all disciplines and gain valuable insight into how these schools used an interdisciplinary approach in their lesson planning. See how these schools have utilized a three-pronged vision of academic achievement, social equity and developmental responsiveness as a guide for school improvement. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (13 hours of video; 18 credit hours)
	Strategies for NCLB Compliance: This program begins with the theory behind the “No Child Left Behind” legislation. Dr Tom Jandris, part of the legislative team that drafted NCLB, shares his first hand experience. The NCLB legislation was drafted to provide "at risk" schools with numerous remediation options. Learn how your school can make “adequate yearly progress” and address specific shortfalls. The key to compliance often depends on interpreting your school’s student data and taking the appropriate action. Dr Don Washburn shows you how schools from the state of Ohio have interpreted their school data and the steps they took to meet the compliance challenges of NCLB. Target Audience K-12 Educators (5 hours of video; 7 credit hours)
	National Institute for Homeland Security and Anti-Terrorism Preparedness: This program is designed to assist schools and communities in preparing and responding to homeland security threats including terrorism and chemical, biological and radiological weapons. Target Audience: Educators, First Responders, Health Professionals
	Safe Schools 1: This program provides you with a comprehensive look at school safety. Module one focuses on prevention and intervention. Module two features experienced school administrators teach you how to create your school system’s safety manual. Law enforcement officials and an FBI hostage negotiator provide valuable advice critical to survival should a perpetrator take hostages in your school. Lastly, in the unfortunate event that you experience a crisis, you will need to know how to deal with the aftermath. Cherie Lovre is a national expert in school crisis aftermath as she was engaged to work in the aftermath of the Columbine and in N.Y. City schools affected by 9-11. The final section features five case studies where schools that have suffered a crisis share their first hand experience. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (14 hours of video; 19.5 credit hours)
	Safe Schools 2: This program starts with a presentation by educational expert Dewy Cornell who provides a historical perspective on school violence. Experts on bomb threats and building security issues discuss ways you can design your school to be sure you are providing a welcome, yet secure, environment. A physical security checklist that can be used to determine whether your school has accounted for all potential security threats is also included. The later sections of the program focus on ways to foster effective communication among students, staff, parents and community members so that school officials can intervene before a crisis takes place. A major emphasis is on bullying and the effect it can have on students who become the victims. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (7 hours of video; 9.5 credit hours)
	Block Scheduling: How does a change of schedule impact teaching and learning? How do you choose a schedule that best fits your school? Which teaching strategies work best when you are teaching in a longer block of time? All these questions and more are addressed in this program. Hear from educational expert Robert Lyn Canady who has been following block scheduling since it became widely used throughout the US. Listen to principals and teachers who have been on the “block” for over a decade. Visit with schools in a 4x4 block, rotating A/B schedules, trimesters, hybrids, middle level hybrids and elementary models. Sample schedules are available for you to use as you develop your own schedule. If your school is thinking of moving to the “block”, this program is for you. If you are already on the “block”, your teachers will gain key insights into new ways to increase student outcomes. Target Audience: K-12 teachers and administrators (11 hours of video; 15 credit hours)