Full Catalog of Upcoming Events

 

Format:  CODE

Audience: Substitute Teachers desiring to improve their skills

Area:  

Grade Span: PreK-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Master Teacher Videos

Contact hours:   Varies by participant          

This is NOT the required Substitute Teacher Training.  This additional training is for those substitutes who wish to improve their skills and knowledge.

Substitute Teacher Online Training is a flexible collection of 25 self-paced courses that can be completed in as little as 40 to 60 minutes each. The training focuses on the fundamental topics substitute teachers must be proficient in to be successful.

Topics include:

  • Classroom management
  • Discipline and instruction
  • Confidentiality
  • First aid/emergency
  • Reading, writing, and math

Includes posttests at the end of each course that are automatically graded as well as transcripts and course certificates that teachers can access to document their training. 

Event Date 08-26-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  Online Live

Audience: School Personnel in Public School Employee Retirement Service

Area: Retirement

Grade Span: 

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA, PSERS

Presenter: Jamie Ianson

Contact hours:     1        

 This is a recording of this meeting.

 A Public School Employee Retirement System representative will present a program on retirement for school employees under this retirement system.  Following the 45 minutes session, the floor will be opened for questions and answers.  Anyone interested may want to see this one minute video overview:  https://youtu.be/PJ2dA_cuq3g.

Have you thought about how you’ll be spending your days in retirement?
Invest 45 minutes in your future self and learn more about:
• Pension Plan:
Public School Employees Retirement System
• Identifying your needs and expenses in retirement
Will you be ready?

 

 

Event Date 08-31-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  School Climate

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online with book

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: 

Contact hours:       4.5      

You will be given a copy of the text to accompany the class.  

Every evening on the news, there are multiple stories about violence and anger erupting. Workplace and school violence are increasingly a reality. Using a brain-based approach, this session looks at the underlying causes of anger, anxiety, and violence; how they develop; and the tools that can be used to change those responses. Emotions are processed 200 to 5,000 times faster than thought. To change behavior, the motivation for the behavior must be changed. This session will provide understandings on how that can be used with family, relationships, institutions, and oneself.

 

The workshop:

  • Provides understandings of origins of anger, anxiety, and avoidance
  • Gives a language to talk about brain regulation, integration, and emotional competence
  • Provides tools for educators to address and reduce anger, anxiety, and avoidance
  • Helps educators manage the “classroom dance” that occurs between the educator and the students
  • Provides the tools to motivate good behavior
  • Identifies the differences in male and female emotional processing

There is a $50 out of Heart of GA RESA area fee.

Event Date 09-02-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  School Climate

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online and book

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Connie Howell

Contact hours:            6

You will be given a copy of the book after you register for the class.

n this workshop, you will learn and practice many techniques/exercises that will help students/parents build emotional resources in school and at home.

Workshop Objectives

  1. Provide educators tools to read the emotional body language of students.
  2. Provide strategies for regulation of behavior from the prefrontal cortex.
  3. Identify key issues in the brain development of adolescents.
  4. Understand the hippocampus and its creation of stories that guide behavior and identity.
  5. Learn strategies to reduce adult stress and compassion fatigue.
  6. Use a brain-based approach to the emotional realities of parents and parenting.

Has teaching ever felt more stressful?

External pressures, environmental factors, previous experiences, fear, anger—all these and more create stress and tension in the classroom. Emotional distress interrupts and can harm—even destroy—effective teaching, learning, and emotional wellness in teachers and students.

But how do these emotions develop in you and your students? The fact is many of us suffer from some form of emotional poverty. Think of it as an absence of emotional resilience or resources. Written for educators, not psychologists, Emotional Poverty, Volume 2 helps you understand and overcome emotional poverty so you can build more effective classrooms and safer schools.

You’ll get:

  • Practical strategies for creating a more emotionally healthy classroom
  • Deeper understandings of adolescent brain development
  • Cues to recognize emotional stress in yourself and students
  • Techniques to develop a student’s prefrontal cortex and build emotional resilience
  • Tools to overcome your stress, compassion fatigue, or secondary traumatic stress
  • Solutions for dealing with angry, emotional parents and other adults
Event Date 09-02-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  School Climate

Grade Span: 

Location:  Online and book

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: 

Contact hours:       5.5      

You will be given a copy of the book upon completing the form in your registration confirmation email.

This workshop is a comprehensive approach to understanding poverty. Bridges Out of Poverty uses the lens of economic class and provides concrete tools and strategies for a community to alleviate poverty.

Participants will review poverty research, examine a theory of change, and analyze poverty through the prism of the hidden rules of class, resources, family structure, and language.

Throughout the workshop, participants will receive specific strategies for improving outcomes, but the focus of the workshop is to provide a broad overview of concepts.

 

Event Date 09-02-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  School Climate

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online with book

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: 

Contact hours:    3.5        

You will be given a free copy of the book upon completion of the form that will be in your registration confirmation email.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty: 10 Actions to Educate Students

This training fulfills the prerequisite for the A Framework for Understanding Poverty Trainer Certification.

This web-based training gives you in-depth information to help you understand class differences and 10 actions you can implement the next day in the classroom to achieve impact. This workshop is based on the book A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.

After participating in this workshop, you will:

  • Use concrete strategies that impact the achievement of students from poverty
  • Better understand how economic class affects behaviors and mindsets
  • Develop stronger relationships with their students to impact behavior and achievement
  • Identify key instructional strategies that meet the needs of the under-resourced learner
  • Understand the hidden rules of economic classes and how they apply to their classrooms
  • Reduce their discipline referrals

10 Actions to Educate students include:

  • Resources
  • Relationships
  • Hidden rules
  • Mental models
  • Family structure
  • Updated case studies
  • Family dynamics
  • Your personal experience with class
  • The role of language registers
  • Discourse patterns and story structure
  • The importance of relationships
Event Date 09-02-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience:  Students, Parents, Teachers

Area:  School Climate, General, Academic Recovery

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: GDOE

Contact hours:            

What is ENGAGE Georgia?

Georgia’s Department of Education has partnered with Graduation Alliance to provide an extra layer of support for K-12 students and their families to boost school engagement and academic success during the school year. Students who choose to participate in the program will be assigned an Academic Success Coach who will answer questions, connect them with resources, and develop a plan to help the student stay on track and engaged with their schooling.

How does it work?

Coaches reach out to students by phone, email, text message, and more to provide support such as:

• Guidance on technical and teacher access

• Encouragement and motivation to help students stay on track with their studies

• Organization and study tips

• Educational resources and exercises to help strengthen reading and math skills

• Referrals to local nonprofit organizations that can provide social-emotional support

What does it cost?

ENGAGE Georgia is state-funded and completely free to students.

How do I sign up?

Go to ParentsGA.GraduationAlliance.com, call 404.618.1106, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to get started.

When you register for this CODE class, you will receive in the email confirmation more information on the program.

Event Date 09-02-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 6th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the argumentative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 6th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the narrative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 7th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the argumentative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 7th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the narrative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 8th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the argumentative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 8th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the informative-explanatory genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 9th-10th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the argumentative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 9th-10th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the narrative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 11th-12th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the argumentative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  ELA, Writing

Grade Span: 11th-12th

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Kevin Raczynski

Contact hours:            

These materials use the writing standard for this grade and walk a teacher through the steps of looking at the writing standards, pre-assessment, the vocabulary necessary to understand the expectations, short writing exercises, longer writing exercises, and post-assessment.  A step-by-step process is followed with brief videos that may be used by the teacher or with a class. Rubrics are provided for assessing.  All materials center on the narrative genre.

Event Date 09-16-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  School Climate, Leadership

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Master Teacher

Contact hours:            

Teachers receive 36 micro-lessons in print, online, or both.   The content is specific to one of 5 areas:  professional responsibilities, learners and learning, learning environment, instructional effectiveness, and leadership.  Each lesson contains tips about key  topics like relationships, managing behavior, and teaching techniques.  Click here to view a sample lesson.

Event Date 10-03-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Support Staff

Area: School Climate

Grade Span: PreK-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Master Teacher

Contact hours:            

When students, parents, and community members enter a district or school, they want to feel welcome, appreciated, and assured that their needs will be met. This positive culture begins at the front desk and extends to every member of the staff.

39 self-paced courses can be completed in as little as 10 to 20 minutes each. The training will help non-classroom professionals:
  • Learn the best way to handle student and parent complaints.
  • Provide exceptional service to meet the needs of parents, students, and community members.
  • Communicate more effectively with parents and colleagues.
Encourage staff members to partner together to accomplish the work of the school or district with this program.
Includes posttests at the end of each course that are automatically graded as well as transcripts and course certificates that teachers can access to document their training.

To see the complete list of 39 courses as well as course objectives, click here.
The Fundamentals of Exceptional Service
101 The Five C’s of Exceptional Service
104 Responding to Parents’ High Expectations
106 Responding to Difficult Parents
116 Exceptional Service Begins with Attitude
123 How to “Wow” Parents and Community Members
130 What Exceptional Service Looks Like
131 Vital Tips for Managing Parent Complaints
Contributing to Your School or District’s Mission
102 Understanding the Mission of Your School or District
105 Delivering Benefits Instead of Services
107 Developing a Whole-Organization Mentality
125 Increasing Demand for Your School’s Services
Doing Your Best Work
108 Your Work is More Important Than Your Title
109 The Importance of Being Reliable
110 Ways to Avoid Making Judgments
111 Why You Should Always Show Kindness to Others
112 Practicing Patience at Work
113 The Practical Need for Positivity
114 The Value of Developing Tolerance
115 The Power of a Positive Attitude
117 Being Dedicated to Your Work
118 Finding Fulfillment in Your Work
119 Achieving Your Personal Best
120 Responding Positively to Criticism
121 Five Ways to Make Yourself Indispensable
122 A Three-Step Prescription for Success
124 Four Criteria for Making Good Decisions at Work
128 Making the Best Possible Impression
129 Giving Yourself a Million-Dollar Image
132 Tackling Negative Situations Professionally




 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Event Date 10-03-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Dr. Robert Marzano

Contact hours:            

STRATEGIES TO AWAKEN THE LEARNER (DR. ROBERT MARZANO)
This digital workshop is based on the idea that we all have four systems: knowledge, cognitive, metacognitive, and self; working in our minds at any given moment. While K–12 education has traditionally done a solid job of focusing on the knowledge and cognitive systems, the metacognitive and self-systems have often been neglected. This video will help teachers understand, appreciate, and address these other two systems, particularly the self-system, in order to reach the whole child and awaken each and every learner in the classroom.  Included is a handout to accompany the video.

Event Date 10-03-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format: CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  School Climate

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter:  John Hattie, Jon Jon Saphier, et al

Contact hours:            

This video is from the Visible Learning PD held on September 22, 2021. Materials are also available.   How do teachers know if learning is visible in their classrooms? This is a professional development that will examine how to develop students' capacity to manage classroom talk and implement Jon Saphier's principles for a safe talk to environment in the classroom. 

Event Date 10-03-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Reading

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor:  HGRESA

Presenter: Ohio SST Region 12

Contact hours:            

This is a recording of the webinar held on October 13, 2021. Participants engaged in developing an understanding in the fundamental elements of the Science of Reading, dispelled any myths surrounding it, and reviewed the theoretical models critical for developing the roots in the Science of Reading.

Event Date 10-03-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  School Climate

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Ohio SST Region 12

Contact hours:            

This series is designed to offer a video that allows you to ascend the pyramid of learning accompanied by an activity that allows  you to descend into content for each session. There are 6 chapters.

Chapter 1:  What is PBIS?

Chapter 2:  Getting Started

 

Chapter 3: Teaching Expectations

 

Chapter 4:  Reinforcing Expectations

 

Chapter 5:  Making Data Informed Decisions

 

Chapter 6:  Creating a Positive Culture

 

Event Date 10-03-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, Leaders

Area:  School Climate

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: Ohio SST Region 12

Contact hours:         9.5    

The module provides a brief overview of Evidence Based Practices and a guide to becoming empowered by evidence. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act defines evidence based as an activity, strategy, or intervention that:
  1. Demonstrates a statistically significant effect on improving student outcomes.
  2. Demonstrates high-quality research finds or positive evaluation that such activity, strategy, or intervention is likely to improve student outcomes or other relevant outcomes: and 
  3. Includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of the activity 
Event Date 10-03-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Gifted

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: HGRESA

Presenter: 

Contact hours:            4

You will be provided a copy of the paperback book.  Be certain to complete the form in the registration confirmation email.

The third edition of Removing the Mask is a change agent for teachers and administrators of gifted and talented programs.

  • Provides an overview of the resources children from poverty may or may not have, which impacts their behavior and performance in the classroom.
  • Details a complete process for finding gifted students from poverty.
  • Highlights strategies to retain students and foster success in gifted programs.
  • Recommends effective behavioral interventions for gifted children.
  • Shares program and curriculum models that address the cognitive, social, and emotional needs of gifted students from poverty.
  • Targets K–12.

Removing the Mask: Identifying and Serving Gifted Students from Poverty On-Demand Workshop (Excerpt) 

There is a $50 out of the Heart of Georgia RESA area charge.

Event Date 10-05-2022
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free