CACE

CACE Ed Tech Workshop: Supporting Positive Classrooms and Success for All Students (via Zoom)
2021-11-12 12:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
This afternoon workshop is designed specifically for Ed Techs and will include presentations and activities that will help participants identify and evaluate strategies, techniques, and tools for working effectively with challenging student behaviors. In addition, participants will be given the opportunity to analyze the role of social-emotional learning (SEL) in classroom management and how it impacts their work.
Presenters include:

Professors Alana Margeson and Wendi Malenfant, Education Department at University of Maine at Presque Isle
Dr. Eric T. McGough, Principal, Caribou High School
Dr. Andrea Drabek, School Psychologist, Maine School Administrative District #1
Lori Scovil, Special Education Teacher and Special Education Site Manager, Caribou High School

Taking Time to B.R.E.A.T.H.E. with Dr. Joelle Hood
2020-10-29 14:30 - 17:00
Taking Time To B.R.E.A.T.H.E.
Strategies for Strengthening Personal and Professional Resilience

Session 1: Thursday, October 29, 2020, 2:30-5pm
Session 2: Thursday, November 5, 2020, 2:30-5pm
Session 3: Thursday, November 12, 2020, 2:30-5pm

Zoom information will be emailed to you before the event! Participants are encouraged to join this virtual workshop from their own device.
Let’s face it. Life is full of change and uncertainty and is pretty stressful right now for most of us. When students and staff experience chronic stress, it can negatively impact their motivation, performance, and well-being, which can then affect the morale and climate of the home, the classroom, the staff room, the organization, and the community. There couldn’t be a more important time to focus on strengthening our well-being and resilience than right now.
Participants in this engaging workshop will walk away with simple research-based practices from the fields of Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, and Social Psychology, that they can utilize with themselves, their teams, and their students to reduce stress and anxiety, improve attention and performance, and strengthen overall physical and psychological well-being. This transformational learning session provides an easy framework to give staff the understanding, motivation, and practices needed to work on becoming better humans, better educators, better leaders and better organizations.
B = Build Belonging & Cultivate Connection
R = Reflect on Purpose
E = Engage in Self-Compassion
A = Amplify Attention, Awareness, & Awe
T = Tap Into Thankfulness And Appreciation
H = Harness Your Thoughts
E = Empower Empathy Everyday

Taking Time to B.R.E.A.T.H.E. with Dr. Joelle Hood
2020-10-29 17:30 - 20:00
Taking Time To B.R.E.A.T.H.E.
Strategies for Strengthening Personal and Professional Resilience

Session 1: Thursday, October 29, 2020, 5:30-8pm
Session 2: Thursday, November 5, 2020, 5:30-8pm
Session 3: Thursday, November 12, 2020, 5:30-8pm

Zoom information will be emailed to you before the event. Participants are encouraged to join this virtual workshop from their own device.
Let’s face it. Life is full of change and uncertainty and is pretty stressful right now for most of us. When students and staff experience chronic stress, it can negatively impact their motivation, performance, and well-being, which can then affect the morale and climate of the home, the classroom, the staff room, the organization, and the community. There couldn’t be a more important time to focus on strengthening our well-being and resilience than right now.
Participants in this engaging workshop will walk away with simple research-based practices from the fields of Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, and Social Psychology, that they can utilize with themselves, their teams, and their students to reduce stress and anxiety, improve attention and performance, and strengthen overall physical and psychological well-being. This transformational learning session provides an easy framework to give staff the understanding, motivation, and practices needed to work on becoming better humans, better educators, better leaders and better organizations.
B = Build Belonging & Cultivate Connection
R = Reflect on Purpose
E = Engage in Self-Compassion
A = Amplify Attention, Awareness, & Awe
T = Tap Into Thankfulness And Appreciation
H = Harness Your Thoughts
E = Empower Empathy Everyday

Training of Trainers on Child Sexual Abuse Personnel Awareness and Education (Via Zoom)
2021-12-03 08:30 - 12:00 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
In this virtual workshop, participants​ will be trained to deliver the one-hour personnel training required for all staff. This 3.5 hour training is intended for school nurses, counselors, or educators who will serve as trainers to their peers/colleagues.
Draft agenda:
➤ Welcome and Introductions
➤ Overview of Law, Policy & Resources
➤ Understanding Child Sexual Abuse
➤ Understanding Sexual Development
➤ Responding to Sexual Behaviors
➤ Response and Referral System
➤ Local Connections
➤ Questions & Answers

A Zoom link will be sent in advance of the workshop

Leader Connect with Kim Marshall (via Zoom) : Grading Practices
2021-12-14 08:15 - 09:15
Doug Reeves frequently asks audiences of educators what final grade they would give a student who received the following grades for assignments and homework (in this sequence) over the course of a semester: C C missed D C missed B missed B A. Educators’ answers range from F to A, revealing differences in how grades are computed from class to class. We’ll discuss whether this might be true in your school, and how schools can reduce failures by having a consistent approach to zeroes, averaging, and other grading dilemmas.

Social Emotional Learning And The Brain with Author Marilee Sprenger via Zoom
2022-01-14 12:00 - 14:30
Social Emotional Learning and the Brain
Every student has a story. Teachers can help rewrite many of those stories and reinforce others. The path is clear:

Fostering student–teacher relationships, empathy, emotional awareness, and self-regulation; building and handling peer relationships; and making responsible decisions will lead to success in school and in life.
Linking strategies that activate and enhance appropriate brain responses will provide happier and healthier classrooms.
Understanding emotions and the brain will lead to practical classroom applications, reinforce what you are already doing and show you why it works, and provide new avenues for teaching with the social-emotional brain in mind.

Learn how to create positive childhood experiences that counter adverse childhood experiences, and give students the tools to understand what is happening inside them and how to respond. This is the promise of a classroom based on social-emotional learning and the brain.
Check out Marilee’s website here!

Registration is free for CACE member schools and $50 per person for non-CACE member schools.

Leader Connect with Kim Marshall: Let's Talk About Expert Teaching (via Zoom)
2022-02-01 08:30 - 09:30
In this collaborative discussion session, we will discuss how teachers can most effectively orchestrate learning in each lesson, as well as ways to engage students, and feedback that’s most conducive to student learning.

History in Stones: Mapping Cemeteries to Preserve and Teach the History of Central Aroostook County (via Zoom)
2022-02-17 15:00 - 16:00
Dr. Kimberly Sebold, History Professor at UMPI, has been working on a public history project called History in Stones: Mapping Cemeteries to Preserve and Teach the History of Central Aroostook County. The project goal is twofold: create searchable maps of the cemeteries in Central Aroostook County using ArcGIS Online and write an interactive history of Central Aroostook County to be used by middle and high school social studies teachers who teach Maine History and American History. ArcGIS Online StoryMap Journals will be the platform for these interactive histories of the area. To make history more relevant and tangible, the project histories will focus on the lives of certain individuals in area cemeteries by explaining how world, national and state events affected these people and Central Aroostook County communities. Curriculum will be developed and linked to the Maine State Learning Results for both the searchable cemetery maps and the interactive StoryMap Journals. All of the information will be posted on an UMPI supported website that is free to anyone. Area teachers can help by reviewing and using the materials in their classrooms and providing feedback. High school teachers can help by identifying students who need volunteer areas and could help clean, georeference and photograph cemeteries from May to October under the supervision of Dr. Sebold. The first StoryMap Journals will be available by February 2022. They will focus on the Aroostook Band of Micmacs.
Look for announcements of additional Zoom workshops and/or contact Dr. Sebold directly if you would like to use materials or help ahead of Feb. 4. Her email is kimberly.sebold@maine.edu and her phone number is 207-762-2010.

New & Emerging School Leaders Workshop (via Zoom) w/ Ted Hall of Great Schools Partnership
2022-03-04 08:30 - 12:00
Great Schools Partnership Senior Associate Ted Hall will lead a session for educators in the CACE service area interested in learning more about or becoming school administrators. The interactive session—conducted over Zoom—will involve community building, engagement with current school leaders who will share perspectives and advice, and an opportunity to explore and engage with a variety of relevant scenarios.
Non-CACE member registration cost is $50

How We Learn: Five Essential Practices for Successful Learning with Dr. John Almarode
2022-03-25 12:00 - 14:30 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
“I don’t know” and “I don’t remember” are phrases that haunt every classroom teacher and learner. How do we create experiences that lead to better learning for all students so that they will “know” and “remember”? Over the past fifteen years, the science of learning has provided many insights into how we think. Furthermore, these promising principles provide a starting point for inspired and passionate teachers to build the capacity in learners to see themselves as their own teachers. This workshop shows you how! The body of research on how we learn provides well established principles and practices that enhance the learning outcomes for each of our students. Moving beyond performance on a test, this workshop links these essential principles to the everyday instructional decisions you make in your classroom.
Practicing what we preach, you will take part in an edge-of-your-seat learning experience that translates these principles to practices across multiple content areas and grade-levels. You will leave with strategies that will make learning stronger for all of your students.
Workshop is via Zoom (link will be sent to those registered).
Fee for non-CACE schools: $100

Leader Connect with Kim Marshall: Let's Talk About Failure (Zoom)
2022-04-12 08:30 - 09:30
Join us Tuesday, April 12, as Kim Marshall helps us dig into the psychology of student failure, as well as strategies for remediation and overall strategies for learning forward when failure occurs.

History in Stones: Mapping Cemeteries to Teach History with Dr. Kimberly Sebold
2022-05-09 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
CACE is pleased to once again offer this workshop, sure to be of interest for middle/high school history teachers, as well as preservice teachers.
Dr. Kimberly Sebold, History Professor at UMPI, has been working on a public history project called History in Stones: Mapping Cemeteries to Preserve and Teach the History of Central Aroostook County. The project goal is twofold: create searchable maps of the cemeteries in Central Aroostook County using ArcGIS Online and write an interactive history of Central Aroostook County to be used by middle and high school social studies teachers who teach Maine History and American History. ArcGIS Online StoryMap Journals will be the platform for these interactive histories of the area. To make history more relevant and tangible, the project histories will focus on the lives of certain individuals in area cemeteries by explaining how world, national and state events affected these people and Central Aroostook County communities. Curriculum will be developed and linked to the Maine State Learning Results for both the searchable cemetery maps and the interactive StoryMap Journals. All of the information will be posted on an UMPI supported website that is free to anyone. Area teachers can help by reviewing and using the materials in their classrooms and providing feedback. High school teachers can help by identifying students who need volunteer areas and could help clean, georeference and photograph cemeteries from May to October under the supervision of Dr. Sebold.
Explore the project website here (in progress).

CACE Connect: Secondary Science
2022-05-10 15:00 - 16:15 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
This workshop invites science teachers in grades 7-12 to join together to make professional connections across districts; share innovations and resources; pose scenarios for larger group problem solving; and brainstorm flexible opportunities for meeting the needs of learners throughout CACE districts.
A discussion protocol will be used to help organize the discussion and to offer the opportunity for all to share. Participation in this new model of CACE conversation and collaboration will also help determine the potential for similar workshops, moving forward.

CACE Connect: World Languages
2022-05-16 15:00 - 16:15 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
This workshop invites World Languages teachers to join together to make professional connections across districts; share innovations and resources; pose scenarios for larger group problem solving; and brainstorm flexible opportunities for meeting the needs of learners throughout CACE districts.
A discussion protocol will be used to help organize the discussion and to offer the opportunity for all to share. Participation in this new model of CACE conversation and collaboration will also help determine the potential for similar workshops, moving forward.
