Full Catalog of Upcoming Events

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

Area:  Instructional Strategies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: 

Presenter: Brian Buffington

Contact hours: 7

Regardless of how you'll be teaching this year, Face to Face or Virtual, this course will give you important strategies and insight to help you make the most of any situation. This class is made available by Heart of Georgia RESA, for TSI, CSI, and Promise Schools. All other schools are welcome to use.

  1. There are 7 different modules, organized by pages on this website: Student Well-Being, Building Better Relationships, Flexible Assessments, Appropriate Expectations, Live vs. Non-Live Teaching, Interactivity w/ Live Video, Tech Tools

  2. Each module has a video, a note-taking PDF, and a project.

Event Date 11-30-2020
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  On Line Learning, School Climate

Grade Span: K-2

Location:  Online

Sponsor: 

Presenter: Brian Buffington

Contact hours: 

Regardless of how you'll be teaching this year, Face to Face or Virtual, this course will give you important strategies and insight to help you make the most of any situation.  This class is made available by Heart of Georgia RESA, for TSI, CSI, and Promise Schools. All other schools are welcome to use.

  1. There are 7 different modules, organized by pages on this website:

  • Your New Co-Teacher: The Parent/Guardian

  • Live Video Conferencing Tips Part 1: Management

  • Live Video Conferencing Tips Part 2: Engagement

  • Live Video Conferencing Tips Part 3: Participation

  • Creating PreRecorded Content for Littles PART 1: Video Creation

  • Creating PreRecorded Content for Littles PART 2: Creative Assessments

  • FlidGrid for Littles

  1. Each module has a video, a note-taking PDF, and a project.

Event Date 11-30-2020
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Writing, ELA

Grade Span: 3-5

Location:  Online

Sponsor: 

Presenter: Dr. Belita Gordon

Contact hours:

This is a PowerPoint presentation of the updates for the writing assessment for grades 3-5.  Included is also a set of writing samples to be used to accompany the changes.

No one outside the Heart of Georgia RESA service area may access this material.

Event Date 01-09-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Writing, ELA

Grade Span: 6-8

Location:  Online

Sponsor: 

Presenter: Dr. Belita Gordon

Contact hours:

This is a PowerPoint presentation of the updates for the writing assessment for grades 6-8.  Included is also a set of writing samples to be used to accompany the changes.

No one outside the Heart of Georgia RESA service area may access this material.

Event Date 01-09-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Anyone over 18

Area: Mental Health

Grade Span: All

Location:  Online

Sponsor: State Health Benefit Plan

Presenter: State Health

Contact hours:

A new benefit available to Be Well SHBP members

➢ Unwinding Anxiety is an evidence-based program that helps you identify triggers, ride out stressful episodes, and completely change your relationship to stress

➢ This progressive program is a self-paced, 30-day mindfulness plan consisting of individual modules.

➢ Short daily exercises help you learn how your mind works so habits can change

Event Date 01-14-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience:  Any State Health Member

Area:  Health Insurance Programs, Mental Health

Grade Span: 

Location:  Online

Sponsor: SHBP

Presenter: Garry McGiboney and Denise Dym

Contact hours: .75

Gain access to the Sharecare digital health solution that helps employees manage their health in one place and earn rewards; access to personalized articles, resources, videos, recipes and more; access tools to help school employees establish or reinforce healthy habits; access to an easy to use platform with features that provide access to health care resources; and real time tracking of health progress.  This includes the PowerPoint and a video of the online program conducted January 27, 2021.  The registration confirmation includes the links for the materials and for accessing the programs.

Event Date 01-27-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience:  Elementary & middle school classroom and reading teachers & administrators, tutors, SLP’s, psychologists, and parents

Area:  Literacy

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: International Dyslexia Association Georgia Branch

Presenter: Devin M. Kearns, Ph.D.

Contact hours: 1.5

Dyslexia is a serious reading disorder affecting 5 to 10% of individuals in the United States. However, its causes and the best treatments for it are not well-understood. Dr. Devin Kearns will begin with an explanation of the skills students require for reading success and then address the nature of dyslexia and how it causes reading problems. Finally, Dr. Kearns will provide guidance about the elements of instruction that are essential for the success of students with dyslexia and how to address dyslexia within an MTSS/RTI process. The goal of the presentation is for attendees to leave with a strong understanding of the types of problems involved in dyslexia and knowledge about the critical elements of instruction.

 

Event Date 02-24-2021 7:00 pm
Event End Date 02-24-2026 8:30 pm
Cut off date 02-24-2026 12:00 pm
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers, administrators, staff developers

Area:  Classroom Management

Grade Span: P-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: 

Presenter: Harry and Rosemary Wong

Contact hours: 25

Harry and Rosemary Wong will teach you more about Classroom Management than all of your college courses combined.  In this interactive course, you will learn how to organize and structure a classroom where students all know what to do leaving you time to teach.  At the end of the course, you will have created a binder filled with procedures that will make your classroom hum with learning.

 

THE Classroom Management Course

Welcome:  Helping You Reach Your Teaching Potential

Lesson 1:  What Is Classroom Management?

Lesson 2:  How Do You Create a Classroom Management Plan?

Lesson 3:  How Do You Teach Procedures so They Become Routines?

Lesson 4:  How Do You Organize Your Classroom with Procedures?

Lesson 5:  What Are the Essential Procedures for Every Classroom?

Lesson 6:  What Are the Benefits of a Schoolwide Plan?

Conclusion:  It’s Time to Execute

 No one outside the Heart of Georgia RESA service area will be allowed to take this course.

Each registration provides single-user access for 60 days to complete the estimated 25 hours of course work.

 

Materials Needed to Complete Course:  Both eBooks will be sent to the registrant.

THE Classroom Management Book (eBook)

THE First Days of School (eBook)

 

Event Date 03-09-2021
Event End Date 12-31-2024
Cut off date 12-31-2024
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

What are the gaps teachers should consider in their teaching? • Gaps that students enter the year or course or unit with • Gaps that result from distance learning limitations • Gaps that are within the standards themselves. Join us as we explore these gaps and how to fill them with strategic and powerful learning. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.  This was first presented 7-31-2020.
Event Date 03-20-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: 6-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

This lively, literacy saturated session with the GaDOE Social Studies Team, will revitalize your use of read alouds and expand your list of great titles aligned to the Social Studies GSE. Be ready to share your own favorites as we dive into great children's literature. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.
Please note this was published in August 2020; therefore, some of the links may not be active.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Social Studies Inquiry Basics with GaDOE: Are you new to inquiry in social studies or do you need a refresh? Join us as we explore inquiry tools and strategies. We will talk about why, how, and with what to make this shift to inquiry powerful and painless. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.

Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:   CODE

Audience:  Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span:  K-12

Location: Online

Sponsor:  GaDOE

Presenter:  Joy Hatcher

Contact hours: 

 

 Teach What We Assess and Assess What We Teach with GaDOE Social Studies Join us for this hands-on workshop that peels back formative and summative assessment in social studies. Bring a sample of each from your classroom and polish your assessment skills to maximize learning for your students. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: 6-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

This lively, literacy saturated session with the GaDOE Social Studies Team, will revitalize your use of read alouds and expand your list of great titles aligned to the Social Studies GSE. Be ready to share your own favorites as we dive into great children's literature. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE, Links to Podcasts 

Audience: District/School Leaders, Curriculum Directors, PLC Leaders

Area:  Reading, Google, Various topics

Grade Span: Various

Location:  Online

Sponsor: 

Presenter: 

Contact hours:

By registering, participants will receive a list of free, short podcasts that possibly might be used during PLC times or for independent learning. There are a variety of topics to explore by recognized authors.  Registrations will help us identify that these types of resources are needed in the HGRESA area. Information Source:  https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/online-professional-development-with-certificates/  As always, preview carefully for content, etc.

Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: 3-5

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

This lively, literacy saturated session with the GaDOE Social Studies Team, will revitalize your use of read alouds and expand your list of great titles aligned to the Social Studies GSE. Be ready to share your own favorites as we dive into great children's literature. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-2

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

This lively, literacy saturated session with the GaDOE Social Studies Team, will revitalize your use of read alouds and expand your list of great titles aligned to the Social Studies GSE. Be ready to share your own favorites as we dive into great children's literature. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Disciplinary Thinking: Tip Your Hat to 4-Hat Thinking Focus your energies on teaching students to think like historians, geographers, economists, and political scientists in every social studies course and grade level. In this workshop we share fresh ideas for promoting disciplinary thinking to make social studies something we DO, rather than something we passively read. This is a K-12 workshop with customized breakouts for different grade bands.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: 6-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Are you looking for something different to spice up your social studies lessons? Are you looking for ways for students to connect social studies content with every day life? Join us as we explore connections between the GSE, Inquiry and movies, television, games, and comics. We will share strategies and resources for using science fiction to engage and excite. May the odds be ever in your favor in this workshop for grades 6-12.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Join us for this hands-on workshop that provides methods for adapting instruction that will make learning attainable for all learners. We will share resources and model inquiry-based strategies that are differentiated for all learners. This is a K-12 workshop with customized examples for different grade bands.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Let's Get Visual! Inquiry Based Instructional Activities that SWIRL Part 1 Introducing your Visual Journal Explicitly teaching Visual Literacy in social studies increases engagement and allows students to make connections between their lives and history. This workshop will teach you how to: build visual literacy with visual journals, enhance your inquiry lessons, and incorporate the art standards with your existing lessons to create personal meaning for students. You do not have to be “good” at art to attend this workshop!
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

From a Distance: Social Studies Best Practices for Working with Students Both Plugged and Unplugged How do you keep students engaged and active even when they are not right in front of you? Is it possible to teach with inquiry even in remote learning situations? What are some of the challenges and benefits of distance learning? How do we plan instruction accessible to all? How do we provide feedback, assess, and grade student work? Let’s find out.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Fractured, Stealthy, or Healthy: Integrating Social Studies Inquiry and ELA What comes to mind when you consider content integration? In this session, we will explore different forms of integration and model strategies for powerful, authentic integration that builds student understanding and skills. Be able to examine your own practices and grow your resources for successful integration that builds both social studies concepts and ELA skills.
Event Date 03-30-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Let's Get Visual! Inquiry Based Instructional Activities that SWIRL Part 2 Learning about Art Integration Explicitly teaching Visual Literacy in social studies increases engagement and allows students to make connections between their lives and history. This workshop will teach you how to: build visual literacy with visual journals, enhance your inquiry lessons, and incorporate the art standards with your existing lessons to create personal meaning for students. You do not have to be “good” at art to attend this workshop!
Event Date 04-01-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-12

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

“A Small Group of Thoughtful People Could Change the World”: Fostering Civic Identity and Action What does taking informed action look like in classrooms? How can we link to the “real world” with civic engagement initiatives that young people can participate in, K-12? Active citizenship doesn’t require a high school diploma; we can begin the process of civic engagement throughout the curriculum with all ages and grades.
Event Date 04-01-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free

Format:  CODE

Audience: Teachers

Area:  Social Studies

Grade Span: K-5

Location:  Online

Sponsor: GDOE

Presenter: Joy Hatcher

Contact hours:

Does every day in social studies seem the same? Are you falling back on the same old, same old tired sources and overused analysis strategies time after time? Come out of the shadows and into the light as we find fresh sources and exciting new ways to explore them. Recommended for grades K-5.
Event Date 04-01-2021
Event End Date 06-30-2026
Cut off date 06-30-2026
Individual Price Free