Kids CAN…Stop Bullying!! is a one day bullying prevention leadership conference for 4th grade students. The day will include activities on building relationships and preventing bullying, skill building for bystanders (kids and adults who see or know about bullying) and a special bullying prevention activity by R.E.S.P.E.C.T.2.  Activities are based on the exemplary research-based elementary bullying prevention curriculum, Steps to Respect by Committee for Children. School teams will be asked to complete a responsibility form identifying how they will address bullying in their school or community and carry the message back to their school that Kids CAN… Stop Bullying! 
 
General registration information:  Each elementary school attending may register a team of 2 to 6 students from grade 4. Each Kids CAN leadership team must be accompanied by an adult school sponsor (administrator, counselor, or teacher.)  School teams should consist of bystanders who would be capable of assuming leadership roles in addressing school bullying. This conference is not designed for students who are identified as engaging in bullying behaviors. Teams should be representative of your school population (gender, ethnicity, abilities, achievement, etc.) Limit of 100 participants (maximum of 80 students)  Morning snack and lunch is served on site. 

                        When: Thursday, October 7th, 2010
                        Where:  ESU 10
                        Time:  8:45 AM-2:15 PM
  
Registration Deadline:   September 24, 2010      
Fees:  $20.00 per person for ESU 10 Title IVA member schools, $30.00 per person for participants who are not members of the Title IVA Consortium.   
                              
Registration contact person:   Contact Jody Suchan at 308-237-5927 or jsuchan@esu10.org with the name of the school; names and number of students attending per team limit of 6 students per team); and the name and contact information for the adult sponsors (s) for each team of students.

If you have questions about this conference, please contact Denise O'Brien at 308-237-5927 or dobrien@esu10.org.

Dr. John Dudley returns to ESU 10 for a two-day Crisis Response Level I training on September 20-21, 2010.  This training is for newly organized school crisis response teams and for school staff and community members new to existing school crisis response teams.  The focus of this training is on student and staff deaths.  Level I workshop participants will:

• Define the types of crisis they should respond to in their schools

• Organize a crisis team(s) to effectively respond to crisis situations in their schools

• Develop effective plans for responding to any kind of crisis in their schools

• Learn how to identify high risk students/staff in the aftermath of a school crisis

• Learn how to do effective follow up with students and staff

• Be prepared to effectively respond to any crisis that impacts their school

Register for this training on ODIE @ https://odie.esu10.org

University of Nebraska at Kearney Counselors will be presenting their program“Campus Connect-Gatekeeper Training” at ESU 10 on September 20, 2010.  The training will run from 2:30-4:30 PM. This program trains educators in understanding the signs of depression and suicide and to recognize them in others. Participants are taught appropriate responses to these signs which are to acknowledge them, let the person know you care, seek a trained professional and increase help seeking behavior of those who interact with youth daily.  This training is being offered to ESU 10 educators Free of charge through a grant awarded by the Nebraska State Suicide Prevention Coalition.  Register for this training on ODIE @ https://odie.esu10.org
   
We invite you to stay for the Crisis Team Training Level I training that begins at 5:00 PM on September 20th.
         

Response to Intervention (RtI), a general education initiative, is an individualized, comprehensive assessment and intervention process.  This process utilizes a problem-solving framework to identify and serve students with academic and/or behavioral needs. On September 20, 2010, ESU 10 Professional Development Coordinators and School Psychologists will be facilitating the following trainings to help teachers and administrators better understand the RtI process.

RtI 101 -  9:00 am - 12:00 pm
This session is intended to assist teachers and administrators who have not previously attended an ESU 101 RtI training, and/or those who would like background in the RtI process. It would be especially useful for new RtI team members to bring them up to speed with current team members. An overview of the RtI process will be provided.

Lunch Provided - 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

Data 101 - 12:45 pm - 3:00 pm
This session is intended to assist teachers and administrators in analyzing data. ESU 10 staff will demonstrate how to read and interpret DIBELS and AIMSweb data. Participants will learn how to read and interpret students' progress monitoring graphs and make decisions based on
data.

Participants may attend one or both of these sessions in person or via their distance learning system. Register for these trainings on ODIE @ https://odie.esu10.org

Workshop days include November 4, 5 and 6, 2010. An opportunity for districts to gather early data for each student in fourth, eighth, and eleventh grades is offered again this fall at ESU 10. Each student paper is assessed separately for each trait by two trained writing teachers for a minimum of 12 individual evaluations per paper.

Analytical scoring is designed to provide teachers, students, parents, and districts with disaggregated information regarding strengths and areas for improvement in each trait for the individual student and aggregated by class. Data  gathered from this workshop will assist with instructional focus and student practice before the Statewide Writing Assessment in February. In past years, according to the participants, the professional conversations during analytical scoring have been valuable for planning instruction when they return to their classrooms.

Administrators or teachers will need to request instructions and writing prompts for the participating grade level(s). Only districts that send one evaluator per 35 student papers per grade level will be eligible for this analytical scoring opportunity. Student writing samples will be due at ESU 10 by Friday, October 22, 2010. Register for this training on odie @https://odie.esu10.org

Please contact Denise O'Brien at 237-5927 or dobrien@esu10.org for additional information.