TheAugust 2012

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August 2012

06 NeSA Science Vocabulary

07 DIBELS Next Essential Workshop

08 PowerTeacher Workshop-AM

08 PowerTeacher Workshop-PM

09 DIBELS Next Transition

09 PowerTeacher Workshop-AM

09 PowerTeacher Workshop-PM

14 SRS New User Training

14 SRS Update Training

29 Team Blue for Teachers

31 Introduction to High Functioning Autsim

September 2012

04 Adolescent Literacy Project for Administrators Only

10 Introduction to High Functioning Autsim

11 Windows System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (2 days)

Upcoming WorkshopsA Message from Dr. Bell

Writing this article is my last designated duty prior to heading to Idaho for the annual Association of Educational Service Agencies CEO Conference. I hope I will not be called on to fight forest fires during the off hours. The themes this year center on Common Core/Technology/Personalization of Learning/Teacher & Principal Effectiveness. I’m sure there will be a plethora of information to share with staff and school districts upon my return.

Until then we are just trying to prepare staff and budgets for the upcoming school year. Most staff has been hired and will be highlighted in future

Connector articles. We are always sorry to lose well-trained, valued staff, but are once again pleased with the quality of replacement personnel.

The entire ESU 10 staff meets in August to push forward on our Continuous Improvement Process. Efforts will be made to identify specific goals to pursue during the coming year in our four Priority Area Committees. This effort should help us provide better service as we “partner with our customers to meet chang-ing needs through professional expertise, training, and support”.

One thing that has been noticed this summer is the abundance of challenges to be addressed and solved. As we work though various issues I was amused to read a quote by Olin Miller, “What a pity human beings can’t exchange prob-lems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s”. This type of exchange could prove to be interesting, but I don’t think it will make its way into the official ESU 10 Program of Services.

Here’s hoping everyone is having a refreshing hiatus from the rigors of peda-gogy and that you are recharging your batteries for another exciting school year. Please let staff at ESU 10 know what we can do to help make your job easier, enjoyable, and more productive.

With that, I’m headed off to a new adventure. Here’s hoping your summer was filled with wonderful adventures and new knowledge in a wide variety of areas.

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Technology Tips for Teachers by Jamey Boelhower, Remote Learning Speciialist

The start of the school year is just around the corner, and this is a good time to re-view classroom expectations. With many schools implementing new 1-to-1 iPad or computer programs, I thought it would be a good time to look at technology guide-lines that you might find useful for the upcoming year.

When I taught at Centura, I used six basic rules for student expectations concerning computer use in my room. These guide-lines were adapted from my colleague, Mr. Badura, who is now the PK-12 Tech-nology Integration Specialist for Aurora Public Schools.

Computer / iPad Guidelines

1. Leave your laptops / iPad in your bag until I ask you to get them out.

2. The “show hands” rule is in effect at all times.

3. Listen to my directions about which applications to use and what Internet sites you are to access.

4. Keep your hands on YOUR OWN computer / iPad--even when helping someone.

5. NO games unless approved by me for educational purposes.

6. Absolutely NO instant messaging, chat rooms, or personal e-mail unless directed by me as part of the class assignment.

These are simple but effective guidelines. Feel free to use these rules or adapt them to fit your expectations. My only advice is to post the guidelines in your room, go over them the first day, and be consistent.

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Media Library Newsby Susan Sandoval,Media Center Specialist

Media Routes will begin on August 14, 2012 and will run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday every week with the exception of Thanksgiving week. The route days will then be bumped up one day that week and will run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, November 19, 20 and 21, 2012.

Our returning courier, Michael Miller is counting on you to keep him busy delivering items to your school every week. Your day and time schedule is the same as last year.

FREE Media Services: In-services for the ODIE online Media Catalog and Learn 360® are available to you. If you would like to know more about the media catalog, an instructional video clip can be streamed directly on your computer. Login to ODIE, on the left hand side of your screen click on Library. Click on Basic Instructions for us-ing Odie Library Catalog. Each clip is approximately three minutes in length.

Learn 360® Teacher Accounts: To attain a new account for Learn 360 streaming site, login to ODIE , click on the Library link on the left side of page, put a word in the search box and click on a title that has this Learn 360 icon. Once you click on that title an account will be created for you instantly, like magic! You can stay in the Learn 360 site and search more titles, or tab back to ODIE Library for items you won’t find in Learn 360, i.e. NROC streaming titles, models of body parts, etc.

Lamination Order Forms: Please be sure to fill out the order form when sending in your material to be laminated. Always use the large blue bag that is pro-vided free to your school. If you do not have a bag, ask Michael or contact Susan.

ODIE Account: To place an order through the Media Catalog, an ODIE account is required. Go to https://odie.esu10.org, click on “Logon” then click on “Create a ODIE account.

How do I extend my items for one more week? Go to the ODIE Library section and on the left side of the screen click on My Reservations. Find the title that you would like to extend for one more week by clicking on the blue Extend button. It’s that simple! A confirmation email will be sent to you. Please extend the day before the route arrives at your school.

Did you know…

...we have eliminated all VHS titles that are older than the release year of 2003, except for the classics and the items with high usage.

…there will be 75 new DVD titles added to our catalog and streaming server early this fall.Contact: Susan Sandoval at 308-237-2280 or email her at ssandova@esu10.org for any Media questions.

“Thank you so much for letting us use the Star Lab. Chil-dren in Gothenburg (124+), Cozad (50+) and Lexington (215+) loved it and loved learning about stars and space! It was so much fun to hear their reactions in the dark! The

Check out the star lab

‘ohhhs’ and ‘ahhhs’ were great, especially the connected stars and globe cylinders. This is what learning should be all about!

We had 3 handicapped people in Gothenburg, 2 crawled in, out of their chair and without crutches and one rolled in under the side of the dome. I was so glad they all had a chance to experience the star lab.

Thanks for all you’ve done for teachers and kids!!” Pat Longly, recently retired from Lexington Public Schools

Note to teachers: If you are interested in using the por-table Star Lab Planetarium, please contact Susan Sandoval ssandova@esu10.org or 308-237-2280. Because of the technicalities and high value of the Star Lab, we ask that an experienced person that has previously used Star Lab be present during the set up and break down.

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New Media Streaming Service

Good news! Are you ready to create a teacher account for the Learn 360 streaming site? Following are some simple steps to get you up and running.

First login to ODIE and click on “Library” on left side of your screen. In the search box located in the upper left corner type in a keyword (‘butterfly’ is a good word) and click on “Search.” From the search list locate a Learn 360 title and click on it to open. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link “This item is available from Learn

360. Click here to view this item.” You will be directed to the Learn 360 site and if you are a first time user, it will automatically create an account for you.

That is all there is to it. From this page you will be able to stream, download, create quizzes and classes and so much more. For additional help and information, click on the Home tab, then on the right side of screen you will find, Training Webinars, New Tutorials and Valuable Resources, to help guide you through the Learn 360 site with ease.

By choosing to search for titles through the ODIE Library you will have the option of ordering all of the new Nebraska titles on DVD that were recently pur-chased, instantly stream titles from NROC (National Repository Online Curriculum) plus the Learn 360 titles. You are now equipped with an amazing educa-tional library of over 14,000 media items.

The beginning of another school year has arrived and we are updating our records in order to serve you better. You should receive “K-12 Directory Information Sheets” on the ESU 10 media delivery route the week of August 13-17. Please cor-rect and completely fill out the necessary information on these pages. Indicate your current valuation (by county) and enrollments (by grade). Please list district personnel on the back of the page or include a school directory.

Fill out the forms completely and return them to Trina Shaw at ESU 10 by September 14, 2012.

Thank you for your assistance. Have a good school year!

Request for Updated School Information

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Fall Analytical Scoring of

Student Writing

Preparation for NESA-W

Registration/ available on ODIE https://odie.esu10.org/

workshops

Specific Write Trait

data to students &

your district Oct. 11-12, 2012

9:00-3:30 p.m. at ESU 10—Kearney

You can expect specific feedback on stu-dents’ writing to improve their perfor-mance. Analytical scoring is designed to provide teachers, students, parents, and districts with disaggregated information regarding writing strengths and areas for improvement. Data gathered from this workshop will assist with identifying instructional focus and student practice necessary to increase performance on the State-wide Writing Assess-ment in February. Past participants have found the professional conversations and results from the analytical scoring process to be very valuable for enhancing instruction in the classroom. You must register on ODIE by September 15 to participate. Once registered, you will receive in-structions necessary for participating and submit-ting student’s papers. Districts must send one eval-uator for every 30 student papers submitted and participate in both days of scoring. Student papers must be submitted to ESU 10 by October 5th.

Questions: Bob Lungrin, ESU 10

Professional Development Director

(308) 237-5927 blungrin@esu10.org

PREPARATION

Analytical Scoring of Student Writing

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ESU 10 Workshops

This one-day workshop on September 18, 2012 is designed for all grade levels and all subject areas. The day starts with an overview and discussion of Bloom’s Taxonomy in your classroom. The rest of the workshop is then separated into learning and designing sections based on Bloom’s Taxonomy levels. Ideas will include best practices, Web 2.0 tools, and possible mobile apps. At the end of the workshop, your unit will be revamped with fresh ideas and new tools of engagement.

Jamey Boelhower, Remote Learning Specialist and Denise O’Brien, Professional Development Coordinator will be facilitating this collaborative workshop.

Register on ODIE

Tools of Engagement

Creative Mobile Apps

Mobile devices are changing way we teach and learn. On October 2, 2012, Jamey Boelhower, Remote Learning Specialist at ESU 10, will demonstrate apps and other technologies that are on the cutting edge of creative content. We will play with and discuss ways to incorporate these apps into your curriculum. Areas include photography, animation, and augmented reality.

You will need your laptop and a mobile device (iPad, iPod, Android). Join Jamey for this inspiring day of new technology for your classroom!

Register on ODIE

“CEENBot Robotics: STEM Practices for Schools

October 8, 2012 Northeast Community College, Norfolk, NENov. 30, 2012 ESU 4, Auburn, NEPresenters: Dr. Neal Grandgenett, UNO, STEM Education Office

Dr. Bob Goeman, UNO STEM Education Office Dr. Elliott Ostler, UNO STEM Education Office

Dr. Bing Chen, UNL Peter Kiewit InstituteAnd Additional Presenters

Questions: negifted@gmail.com9:00-4:00 pm..$175/person

Free CEENBoT Robot/Teacher For Attending

This workshop that will use robots in education to engage, and excite students to explore topics in math, science, technology and engineering. Registrations forms at www.negifted.org

• Teachers get a $325 free CEENBoT Robot Gr. 6-12 Teachers of Math, Science, Engineering, Technology• Mini Grant Option For Multiple CEENBoTs For Your School• $130 Reimbursement For Substitute or Teacher Stipend• Min. of 12 per site Max of 24 per site

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Using the RTI Process in Math K-12

This presentation will provide an overview of using Curriculum Based Measures screening and progress monitoring data as part of data-based decision making in a Response to Intervention Model. Administration, scoring, graphing, and data decision-making rules will be discussed. In addition, diagnostics that lead to effectively selecting interventions will be suggested. Evidence-based mathematics interventions will be described and resources provided.

Date:September 28, 2012: 8:30-3:30 Location: ESU 10 Audience:K-6 teachers, special education and Title I teachers, administration Fees: $50.00

To register click hereRegistration Deadline: September 21, 2012 For more information email dhericks@myelearning.org or call 402.597.4843Breakfast and lunch provided

Dr. Erica Lembke is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Missouri, a trainer for the National Center on Response to Intervention, and was formally secretary on the national board of the Division for Learning Disabilities. She is currently working on a federally funded IES grant to examine the use of handhelds to conduct mathematics progress monitoring and ad-minister mathematics diagnostic interviews. Dr. Lembke has presented over 100 national/international and state presentations on the topics of progress monitoring and response to intervention.

These workshops are sponsored through a collaborative effort of NE ESU Staff Development Affiliate, ESU Coordinating Council and the Nebraska Mathematics Science Partnership Grant

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On October 25, 2012 National Archives Education Specialist, David Rosen-baum will lead a training in the use of primary sources documents in the classroom. Samples from the National Archives will be used and shared for teachers to use and download. Best practices in collaboration, critical think-ing and analysis will lead the day in

21st Century Skill development. A live distance learning connection will be part of the day with the National Archives and with Durham Museum. The distance learning session is intended to model the process and allow participants to see and hear what is available for classroom use.

The day’s training will be hands on and participatory. This workshop is ideal for classroom teachers, high ability pro-gram teachers, social studies teachers, language arts teachers and other disciplines that want to enrich their classroom for grades 3-12. There will be opportunities to discuss the use of primary source materials in small groups by grade level and or discipline. Participants will leave the session with free replicas of artifacts, web site access to artifacts, guidelines for how to use the artifacts to support classroom instruction and details for free distance learning options.

Bring your laptop!

This workshop is hosted by the Nebraska Association For Gifted. Registration is through the Nebraska Association For Gifted (NAG). See the registration form at www.negifted.org . Cost is $145 or $110/person if four or more attend from one school district. Questions can be forwarded to John Thomsen at negifted@gmail.com.

Teaching with Primary Source Documents

by Kelly Clapp,Professional Development Coordinator

This workshop is designed to help School Improvement Leaders at both State Accredited and NCA/AdvancED Accredited schools lead district personnel and the External Review Visit Team as Continuous Improvement Plans are developed, implemented, and reviewed. During the two-day workshop, participants will: • Increase their knowledge of leadership and school improvement• Analyze/integrate the Standards for Quality Schools within the context of

collaborative Continuous Improvement Plans• Review action plan strategies and resources• Plan for qulity external team review visits

The Power of Collaboration in Continuous Improvement

October 8-9, 20128:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.ESU 10, Kearney, NERegister at www.advanc-ed.org$120 per person (or $85 per person in a team of four people from one organization.)Lunch and refreshments provided

Sponsored by AdvancED-Nebraska, Nebraska Department of Education (NDE),Nebraska Council for School Administrators (NCSA), and the Educational Service Units (ESUs)

All educators having leadership responsibilities in their schools are encouraged to join us.

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On June 4th, 2012, 35 teachers swooped down on ESU 10 for 7 days to learn how to design and deliver high-quality units of instruction in a blended learning environment and share with other like minded educators with a passion for growing and learn-ing from each other. Teacher from Amherst, Anselmo-Merna, Ansley, Cozad, Elm Creek,Gibbon, Grand Island Northwest, Greeley-Wolbach, Gothenburg, Lexington, Loup City, Overton, Shelton, and Wood River at-tended the workshop.

We used instructional design strategies from “Understanding by Design,” a

Blending Technology and Improving Instruction

framework for designing effective in-struction. This framework uses a back-ward design approach by focusing first on identifying desired outcomes, then determining appropriate assessments, and lastly, planning relevant, effective and engaging learning experiences both in the classroom and online. Teachers had access to a warehouse of resources and materials to support them in this new way of teaching as well as building a community of like-minded educators.

The technologies we used focused on a web based accessible environment in which students will have access to

a variety of tools provided by ESU 10 and other third party hosts to engage them and give them op-portunities to enhance their 21st century learning. From a digital dashboard, students use their single sign-on to access Moodle, Google Apps, their ePortfolio and a host of other district, regional and global services to help them succeed in their learning.

Quotes from participants:

• The key concept that I will take from this workshop is that the true measure of understanding in the transfer or application of knowledge.

• We as teachers need to be up to date so that we can effec-tively engage our new gen-eration of students with our proven strong instructional design of curriculum. The implementation of the blended learning environment is es-sential for success and true understanding! We need to reach all students and adapt to the variety of learning styles!

• If you know what your goals are and what you want stu-dents to know, then creating a unit with valuable content with the technology integrated is what makes sense.

• Personally I feel Moodle goes hand in hand with the UbD ap-proach! I had to laugh at my-self because when I first began I was wondering how I was going to do Ubd on Moodle...now I’m wondering how I will use Moodle for anything else!

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Teaching reading is both an art and a science, and both aspects are neces-sary for students to improve reading achievement. This workshop helped teachers gain a deeper understanding of the science of reading. Partici-pants were given an in-depth look at each of the Big 5 components (pho-nemic awareness, phonics, vocabu-lary, fluency, comprehension) and how to effectively teach them.

Kari Malleck, Elementary Reading and Special Ed teacher, and Jason Stubbs, High School English teacher, of Amherst Public Schools attended this five day workshop held at ESU

10 in July. Kari said “I attended this workshop to learn the aspects of reading and how best to teach students. This workshop will help me teach low readers and new readers the elements they need to know to be successful readers.”

Jason said “I had never taken a class to teach reading, knowing the basic strategies will help me teach struggling High School students in English. Using these aspects will better enhance the curriculum we are already using. Participants in the workshop prepared one lesson each day, so we were able to experience teaching a lesson using these methods and hear five others. We left the workshop with a good grasp of this type of reading instruction.”

The Big Five of Reading

Art Teachers Network Day

Joni Fox of Johnson County Center and Anna Sasse of Syra-cuse Public Schools came to share their expertise on glass fus-ing at the Art Teachers Network at ESU 10 on July 26, 2012.

The purpose of networks at ESU 10 is to provide profes-sional development specific to your curricular needs helping teachers enhance their students’ learning opportunities.

Terri Wylie of Lexington Middle School said “It was fun to learn something new that your school has resources for. I met new people and it was great to collaborate with teachers in the district!”

Terri Wylie of Lexington Public and Jan Jones of Kearney Public Schools inspect some glass pieces.