CACE

New & Emerging School Leaders Workshop (via Zoom) w/ Ted Hall of Great Schools Partnership
2022-03-04 08:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
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

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

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.

CACE Connect: Secondary Math
2022-05-24 15:00 - 16:15 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
This workshop invites math 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: Visual and Performing Arts
2022-05-25 15:00 - 16:15 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
This workshop invites Visual & Performing Arts 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.

CACE Day 2022
2022-09-16 08:00 - 14:30 | Caribou High School, 308 Sweden St, Caribou, ME, 04736, United States
The Central Aroostook Council on Education and Great Schools Partnership is proud to present CACE Day 2022!
After a 2-year hiatus from in-person professional development, CACE is excited to bring together educators from Central Aroostook County to strive to improve the art and science of educating the youth of Maine. CACE continues its commitment to providing opportunities for the school units of Central Aroostook County to collaborate, innovate, and together move education forward. September 16 will provide us all an opportunity to better our craft and fulfill our calling of providing a high quality education for all our students.

Keynote Speaker: Yellow Light Breen, President/CEO Maine Development Foundation. MDF is a non-partisan, statewide driver of sustainable economic growth in Maine. They connect people, decision-makers, and communities through trusted research, leadership development, and creative partnerships to stimulate new ideas, solve problems, and improve the lives of all Mainers.

Breakout Sessions provided by Great Schools Partnerships: Teaching practices that ensure and uphold equity in education. Great Schools Partnership is a nonprofit school-support organization working to redesign public education and improve learning for all students. They are a team of passionate, committed educators and school leaders who bring decades of collective service in public schools.

Leader Connect with Kim Marshall
2022-11-15 08:30 - 09:30 | Virtual (A link to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to you in advance.)
CACE is proud to present the continuation of Leader Connect with Kim Marshall! Join us and fellow administrators from around the region on Tuesday, November 15 at 8:30am for a discussion on how to best serve our schools as we come out of the pandemic and to a new normal. A link to the event will be sent in your confirmation email.
