Full Catalog of Upcoming Events

Each Student Wellness & Success Course included in the Vector Training, K-12 Student Edition includes an accompanying Lesson Plan designed to help educators in utilizing these courses with their students.

Facilitator Guides are organized by Library and grade level and include an overview of the program, a sample parent/guardian letter, information about utilizing course surveys, and a lesson plan for each module.

Each lesson plan features:

• Learning objectives
• Discussion questions
• Activity ideas
• Alignment to CASEL Social and Emotional Learning Framework
• Alignment to National Health Education Standards

 Access the grade-level appropriate lesson plans for each course

• Grades 9-12 Student Course Lesson Plans
• Grades 6-8 Student Course Lesson Plans

Mental Health & Well-Being

• Alcohol Misuse: Awareness and Prevention
• Bystander Intervention: Alcohol and Substance Misuse (9-12 only)
• Depression Awareness
• Eating Disorder: Awareness and Prevention
• Self-Harm Awareness and Prevention
• Stress and Anxiety
• Stress Management
• Substance Use and Misuse Prevention
• Time Management
• Vaping: Understanding and Prevention
• Youth Suicide Risk

Personal Resilience & Safety

• Active Assailant Prevention and Preparedness
• Good Decision Making
• Hazing Awareness and Prevention
• Human Trafficking Awareness
• Impact of Absenteeism
• Sexual Abuse Awareness
• Study Skills for Student Success
• Trauma Awareness

Healthy Relationships

• Bullying and Cyberbullying
• Communication Styles and Skills
• Dating Violence Awareness
• Digital Citizenship
• Healthy Relationships
• Impact of Social Media and Cell Phone Usage
• Resolving Disagreements
• Sexual Harassment

Career Readiness & Life Skills

• AI Fundamentals – Prompt Writing (9-12 only)
• Career Exploration
• Financial Literacy (9-12 only)
• Goal Setting for Success
• Introduction to AI
• Interview Skills (9-12 only)
• Leadership and Career Readiness (9-12 only)
• Multiple Intelligences (9-12 only)
• Resume Writing (9-12 only)
  
  Maximizing Your Education Microlearning Series (9-12 only)
• Building Relationships with Professionals
• Building Your Personal Brand
• Choosing Classes That Matter
• Developing Your Personal and Professional Portfolio
• Discovering Your Purpose
• Getting Ready for College: Start Now, Shape Your Story
• How to Get More Out of Any Class
• How to Talk About Yourself with Confidence
• Internships and Experiential Learning: Turning Experience Into Opportunity
• The Power of Extracurricular Participation
• Unlocking Microcredentials
• Using School Counseling Services Like a Pro

There are many short videos included on strategies for connecting writing, reading, and science. The top page has elementary resources. The middle page has middle grade resources. The last page has K-12 resources.

Avanti videos are created by teachers for teachers.  Brief videos (2-10 minutes) can be viewed individually or in a playlist on a topic.  Each shows a teacher talking from her experience and showing her class in action. Topics include the following:

Engagement

Learning Goals

Assessments

Direct Instruction

Building Relationships

Reading

Emotional Wellness for Educators

Science

Practicing and Deepening

Avanti Explorer:  Navigating Your Learning Journey

Navigator's Edge:  Building Teacher Expertise

Physical Wellness for Educators

Mathematics

Mental Wellness for Educators

High Expectations

Knowledge Applications

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Wellness for Educators

Rules and Procedures

The You Can Handle Them All! Behavior App describes 136 student behaviors and:

• Identifies the primary causes of each behavior.
• Explains how each behavior affects teachers, other students, and the learning environment.
• Offers up to 34 techniques for managing each student behavior.
• Cross-references related student behaviors.

Micro-lessons are included within the app to help you understand the underlying causes of each misbehavior in order to correct it. 

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

One of the leading causes of people quitting their jobs is workplace stress and the impact it has on the mental health of employees. For individuals, the experience of starting and quitting jobs is in itself stress-producing. For employers and HR managers, the difficulties with employee retention contribute to increased costs and decreased productivity.

Navigating Emotional Realities with Adults is an on-demand workshop that explores the emotional functioning of adults in a workplace setting. Accessing current neuroscience information and applying it in the context of the high-paced, stress-filled world in which we are all living and working will assist individuals in better understanding their own emotional experiences in the workplace. It will also help staff understand the emotional and relational dynamics they encounter at work and supply individuals, staff, and HR/personnel managers with strategies and tools to assist in developing a workplace that supports the mental health of all employees—a key factor in retention and productivity.

Among the concepts included in the workshop are:

• The neuroscience of emotional development and relational functioning
• Ways to be aware of and promote a safe work environment
• Understanding adult stages of development and how they impact the workplace
• Recognizing generational patterns in relationships with co-workers
• Conflict resolution tools
• Strategies for building and sustaining a workplace environment that encourages retention and productivity

Description

Do you arrest the same people over and over again?

How much of your time is spent interacting with people who are homeless?

Are you a first responder looking to expand your skills?

Look no further! Our Tactical Communication workshop offers you a game-changing set of tools that will not only help you take control of any situation but will also ensure your safety while helping you earn the respect and cooperation of individuals from a variety of economic backgrounds.

What will you gain from this training?

• Better information gathering
• Community control
• Improved communication

This on-demand workshop is based on the book Tactical Communication, which explores the hidden rules of social class. By attending this workshop, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the nuances of each class, which will empower you to make a positive impact on every call while minimizing complaints.

Join us on the journey toward safer communities and more successful first responder calls!

Duration: 3 hours and 21 minutes

Host: Rob Frazier

Creating conditions that lead to retention, productivity, and engagement in entry-level workers

Overview

It’s undeniable that greater worker stability has a direct impact on productivity, retention, and overall morale within your organization. The question is, why should employers prioritize the personal and professional stability of their workforce, and how can they effectively achieve it?

The level of stability among your employees is also an indicator of differences within your workforce. Personal instability among low-wage workers can result in absenteeism, health issues, and breaches of workplace norms, ultimately diminishing morale, focus on tasks, and job performance.

In this on-demand Workplace Stability workshop, you will:

• Understand the multifaceted factors contributing to employee instability
• Uncover the interconnectedness of instability, employee performance, and profitability
• Identify powerful, low-cost techniques and strategies for fostering workplace stability
• Elevate your organization’s stability, and watch productivity and profitability soar
• Learn how to manage employees who were formerly incarcerated, employees who are noncitizens, employees who are moving from one economic class to another, and employees who are part of multiple generations

25 books are available to use this video series as a book study.  For access, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your request.

This 10-part professional development video series looks at what homelessness, instability, and disengagement do to learning and the strategies and understandings that are necessary to address those issues. The workshop covers a social cognitive framework that includes the role of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in learning and how safety and belonging impact the prefrontal cortex. Multiple strategies will be given.

Workshop topics include:

• How homelessness, instability, and disengagement reduce learning
• The role of the autonomic nervous system in learning, behavior, and well-being
• How the instability of resources, the demands of time, and the demands of the environment impact the ANS
• Tools to negotiate the abstract realities of school—planning, language, digital realities, Internet access, formal register, voices
• Strategies for calming students
• Strategies for school success
• How to build a wider community level of support

Duration: 2 hours 16 minutes

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Free for HGRESA teachers.  

"Secret Stories® are the “secret” reasons WHY letters get together and make the many different sounds that they do. They offer logical explanations for letter sound behavior that learners’ brains crave! Rooted in the science of reading and cognitive neuroscience research, Secret Stories® targets backdoor learning channels to accelerate phonics skill mastery for reading and writing. Secret Stories® works seamlessly with any reading curriculum or phonics program to fast-track the critical “code-based” phonics skills needed to read and write—while fitting perfectly into existing instruction."

This class is restricted to only participants from the Heart of Georgia RESA service area.

This is limited to Heart of Georgia RESA School Systems' Staff.

INTENSIVE INTERVENTION | TIER 3

Three Consecutive Days

Wilson Reading System (WRS) is the flagship program of Wilson Language Training® and the foundation of all other Wilson® programs. The Tier 3 Structured Literacy program is based on phonological-coding research and Orton-Gillingham principles.

By providing intensive WRS instruction with a highly skilled teacher in small groups or individually, reading and spelling success is achievable.

Based on more than three decades of data, WRS is designed for students in Grades 2–12 and adults with word-level deficits who are not making sufficient progress through their current intervention, have been unable to learn with other teaching strategies, or who require more intensive Structured Literacy instruction due to a language-based learning disability, such as dyslexia.

WRS supports college- and career-readiness standards by providing students who have a language-based learning disability with the foundational and language skills that are necessary to access grade-level text. This comprehensive program can follow students from grade to grade, as needed.

Audience: All Curriculum Directors, Program Specialists, and Content Specialists

Who: The RESA Network and the Georgia Department of Education

What: Bimonthly virtual calls for updates, networking, and specialized training for curriculum and professional learning leaders through a partnership between the GaDOE Office of Teaching and Learning and your statewide RESA network

When: Beginning July 22, 9:00-10:00 followed by calls every other Wednesday 

Where: Zoom

Participants will learn a process for creating a effective School Improvment Plan. Cycles for improvement using the School Improvment plan effectivley in the implementation and mointoring of the plan will be explored.

This is a repeat of the morning session.