About Wayne RESA Enhancing Education in Wayne County.

This workshop will offer an overview of using Boardmaker 7 to provide visual supports, low-tech communication boards and interactive activities for your students. It will include hands-on experience using Boardmaker Community Activities as well as creating materials and interactive programs to support communication, activities, and scheduling.

Join other new teaching staff and learn the 'behind the scenes' of the Kaymbu system. From entering children, to using the 'extra' features, participants will experience a live tour and hands on time to practice new skills.For best learning experience, please bring your laptop or tablet with you.

Home visits are often the first step in building strong, trusting relationships with families. This session focuses on how thoughtful, relationship-centered home visits help families feel welcomed, valued, and connected to the GSRP classroom from the start. We’ll share simple, practical ideas for making home visits meaningful, supportive, and aligned with Wayne RESA and GSRP expectations. so partnerships with families can grow naturally throughout the year.

CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training for GSRP staff that will include an early childhood focus. Day 1 of the training will include Nonverbal and verbal techniques to safely prevent, recognize and respond to crisis situations that may involve more challenging behaviors and a therapeutic response for children and staff will be covered. Day 2 will focus on Physical Intervention: Including disengagement and holding skills. When all nonverbal and verbal techniques have been exhausted and the individual presents an imminent risk of harm to themselves or others, additional intervention may be necessary as a last resort. Day 2 is for staff in the organization that would be responsible for performing restraint if necessary as a last resort in a GSRP classroom, the Key Identified Personnel. Day 2 requires the completion of Day 1. No exceptions will be made.

CTE Coordinators & Directors Steering Committee Professional Learning Community (PLC) provides collaborative professional learning for district leaders responsible for planning, implementing, and improving Career and Technical Education programs. Participants engage in data review, policy updates, and strategic problem-solving to strengthen program quality, ensure compliance, and align programs with workforce needs and state priorities.The PLC focuses on leadership practices, program improvement, funding requirements, industry partnerships, and equitable access to high-quality CTE pathways.Through shared learning and coordinated planning, members strengthen regional alignment and enhance student access, participation, and success in CTE programs.

This course provides a clear, easy to follow overview of how to write effective anecdotal notes and score them within the COR system. Participants will learn what to observe, how to write objective notes, and how to match observations to COR items and levels.Ideal for educators who want a simple, practical approach to accurate documentation and scoring.

A one-hour session centered on the relationship-first approach to family and community engagement. This approach positions leaders as relational rather than transactional. Engage with the MiFamily Region 10 team to learn about the five principles that form the foundation of a strong family engagement framework for Michigan.

A monthly gathering of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Directors from across Wayne County, where we convene to collaborate, share insights, and strategize on enhancing our CTE programs. This meeting serves as a vital platform for directors to discuss new initiatives, best practices, and the ever-evolving landscape of vocational education. The monthly agenda focuses on program improvement. Topics include: administrative responsibilities, program compliance, networking opportunities, roundtable discussions, and guest speakers. This meeting represents an invaluable opportunity to ensure our CTE programs are aligned with industry demands and effectively equip our students with the skills they need to succeed. Participation is crucial as we work together to drive excellence in career education throughout our community.

Want to learn more about The Essential Instructional Practices in Early Mathematics: Essential Instructional Practice (EIP) 6? EIP 6 states- Engage children regularly in brief (5-15 minute) interactive number sense routines focused on developing mental strategies for seeing quantity and working flexibly with numbers. This course focuses on Whole Number Number Talks which are one type of a Number Sense Routine you might choose to implement within your classroom.This is a self-paced course in Edupaths. In this course, you will be introduced to a Number Talk and the teaching practices that support the use of a number sense routine in the classroom. You will watch videos, plan for a number talk, practice recording student thinking, and consider the questions to use to support students' conceptual understanding of mathematics.Once the course window has opened, you will receive access via an Edupaths link to the course content.The cost of this workshop includes a Whole Number Number Talk book and a complete set of images to be used to support student understanding of numbers.To receive SCECHs, the course must be completed in its entirety by the last date of the course you are registered for. You can expect the full course to take approximately 8 hours to complete and can be broken into subtopics to more easily fit your schedule.Please be advised that once the registration period has closed, course materials will be sent to the address associated with your Learning Stream account. Once the materials are sent, the course is non-refundable.

This hands-on training is designed for new GSRP teachers and associate teachers as they prepare to open and implement a high-quality GSRP classroom. Participants will learn the essential parts of the GSRP classroom model, including how to create a balanced daily schedule, set up an engaging classroom environment, plan for choice time, support smooth transitions, and build strong adult-child relationships.Teachers will work through real classroom examples and begin creating tools they can use right away, including a visual daily routine, classroom layout ideas, planning structures, and strategies for supporting social-emotional learning. The training will also include guidance on intentional teaching, team teaching, outdoor learning, family engagement, and how to avoid practices that are not aligned with GSRP, such as worksheets, letter of the week, homework, and long rote whole-group activities.By the end of the session, teachers will have a clearer understanding of what a GSRP day should look and feel like, how to support children through play-based learning, and how both teaching team members share responsibility for planning, instruction, assessment, behavior support, family communication, and classroom implementation.

Discover how to use everyday routines to capture high quality anecdotal notes aligned with COR and Teaching Strategies GOLD. Participants will learn when and where to observe for specific developmental domains, making documentation more intentional, efficient, and meaningful for assessment and planning.

This session will introduce educators to YPAR, an innovative approach to positive youth and community development in schools. Young people are trained to conduct systematic research to improve their lives, their communities, and the institutions intended to serve them, applying real world contexts to their school experience.