Professional Development - Registration
FDLRS/FIN Crown Local Professional Development Registration Site
Serving: Clay , Duval and Nassau School Districts
LessonPix 8:30 - 3:30 April 25 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call and Matthew Take
Visual supports are paramount in everyday life. Participants will learn the importance of visual supports for people of all abilities. Participants will then use the online platform, LessonPix, to create visual supports. LessonPix is an easy-to-use online tool that allows users to create various customized learning materials from any computer, tablet, or even smartphone. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the tools. Participants will create a variety of visuals to be used with students.
Learn how to navigate this online tool to:
• Create numerous custom visual supports
• Browse the library that contains over 40,000 pictures.
• Upload your own clip art or photos to use with our custom materials.
• Find ideas on how to use LessonPix at home, in the classroom, or with children with special needs.
This course is a pre-requisite for Adapt-A-Book and Creating Visual Supports hands-on workshops.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
6 ESE Recertification Points
Learn how to navigate this online tool to:
• Create numerous custom visual supports
• Browse the library that contains over 40,000 pictures.
• Upload your own clip art or photos to use with our custom materials.
• Find ideas on how to use LessonPix at home, in the classroom, or with children with special needs.
This course is a pre-requisite for Adapt-A-Book and Creating Visual Supports hands-on workshops.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs and Pre-K Teachers
Place: FDLRS Crown_ 1531 Winthrop Street
Adapt - a - Book_ 8:00 - 3:30 April 26 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call and Matthew Take
Participants must have attended Boardmaker or LessonPix as a prerequisite to taking the adapt-a-book open lab.
Join this training will be for participants to create adapted books. LessonPix will be the platform used to help with creating manipulatives and visual supports to support the text. The Open Lab will be an opportunity to utilize FDLRS resources (i.e. velcro, laminate, printing of visuals, etc.) to create adapted books. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the available resources and tools in the lab with guidance for the FDLRS staff.
6 ESE Recertification Points
Join this training will be for participants to create adapted books. LessonPix will be the platform used to help with creating manipulatives and visual supports to support the text. The Open Lab will be an opportunity to utilize FDLRS resources (i.e. velcro, laminate, printing of visuals, etc.) to create adapted books. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the available resources and tools in the lab with guidance for the FDLRS staff.
6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs, Pre-K Teachers, Paraprofessionals
Place: FDLRS Training Room - 1531 Winthrop Street
Escaping the Nightmare through Accommodations April 30 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Melissa Call and Phyllis Barrington
Escaping the Nightmare through Accommodations: Use your newly acquired skills for developing high-quality accommodations in order to escape the "room". Learn how to develop, implement and assess accommodations that help students access the standards and make positive gains. This course is from 8:30 - 3:30.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
1. Complete all follow-up activities
2. Upload data into the Student Impact Database
6 ESE Recertification Points
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
1. Complete all follow-up activities
2. Upload data into the Student Impact Database
6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: All Teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room-1531 Winthrop Street
Reading Strategies 8:00 - 11:30am May 01 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Call
Based on the book by Jennifer Serravallo, this training provides over 300 step-by-step strategies to help meet the individual reading needs of each student. From fluency to literary analysis, each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and reading levels to provide teachers with “just-right” teaching. You will need to complete the required follow-up activity to receive points.
Audience: All reading teachers and ESE support teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Writing Strategies 12:30 - 3:30 May 01 2024
Points: 4
Presenter: Call
Based on the book by Jennifer Serravallo and grouped under 10 critical writing goals, this training provides over 300 step-by-step strategies to help meet the individual writing needs of each student. You will need to complete the required follow-up activity to receive points.
Audience: All Teachers and ESE Support teachers who teaching writing
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Multisensory Strategies for Science May 13 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Call, Take
This is an in-depth look at making science instruction accessible to all learners.
Audience: All
Place: FDLRS Training Room
MultiSensory Literacy May 17 2024
Points: 8
Presenter: Call & Take
With each sense that is engaged in learning, the brain is given additional opportunities to encode "integrate" information. Teachers will learn that students who think and learn differently benefit from a variety of approaches, including multisensory approaches. Teachers will participate in a variety of literacy activities that engage multiple senses, and incorporate the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Assistive Technology (AT).
8pts with required follow-up
8pts with required follow-up
Audience: All Teachers
Place: John Love Elementary
Disability Awareness May 21 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff
Learn about disability awareness and working with students in the classroom. Follow-up may be required to receive the full 6 points.
Audience: All teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Multisensory Strategies for Math May 24 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Call, Take
This course will take an in-depth look at teaching math to all students
Audience: all teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Creating Visual Supports: Open Lab 8:30 - 3:30 June 03 2024
Points: 8
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call and Matthew Take
The Creating Visual Supports: Open Lab will be open for participants to create visual supports. LessonPix will be the platform used to help with creating manipulatives and visual supports. The Open Lab will be an opportunity to utilize FDLRS resources (i.e. velcro, laminate, printing of visuals, etc.) to create to support students in academics, behavior, transitions, etc. Visual supports are paramount in everyday life and are a must for people of all abilities. This will be an active session with participants working directly with the available resources and tools in the lab. Participants will be able to create a variety of visuals to be used with students.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs, Pre-K Teachers, Paraprofessionals
Place: FDLRS Crown_ 1531 Winthrop Street
Open Lab for Creating Student Centered Task boxes_Open Lab_8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. June 04 2024
Points: 8
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Call and Matthew Take
The prerequisite to this course is Creating Visual Supports/LessonPix.
The Open Lab for Task boxes is designed so that participants can create resources and visual supports that are aligned to their student’s IEP goal(s) and support them in a variety of skills, from early literacy to math, social-emotional learning to life skills. Task boxes provide a designated space to concentrate on specific tasks, including practice materials, exercises, or games related to the subject being taught, and address the unique learning styles, abilities, or interests of each student. This individualized differentiation in the classroom allows students to engage with materials in a way that suits them best.
8 ESE Recertification Points
The Open Lab for Task boxes is designed so that participants can create resources and visual supports that are aligned to their student’s IEP goal(s) and support them in a variety of skills, from early literacy to math, social-emotional learning to life skills. Task boxes provide a designated space to concentrate on specific tasks, including practice materials, exercises, or games related to the subject being taught, and address the unique learning styles, abilities, or interests of each student. This individualized differentiation in the classroom allows students to engage with materials in a way that suits them best.
8 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: ESE Teachers, SLPs, OTs, Pre-K Teachers, Paraprofessionals
Place: FDLRS Crown_ 1531 Winthrop Street
Classroom Management June 11 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Johnson, Barrington
This training addresses specifics of behavior management such as collecting data, maximizing structure, reinforcement, class room expectations and rules, and responding to inappropriate behavior.
Audience: All Teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Classroom Management June 12 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Johnson, Barrington
This training addresses specifics of behavior management such as collecting data, maximizing structure, reinforcement, class room expectations and rules, and responding to inappropriate behavior.
Audience: All Teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Disability Awareness July 15 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Barrington
Learn about disability awareness and working with students in the classroom. Follow-up may be required to receive the full 6 points.
Audience: All
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Classroom Management July 16 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Johnson, Barrington
This training addresses specifics of behavior management such as collecting data, maximizing structure, reinforcement, class room expectations and rules, and responding to inappropriate behavior.
Audience: All teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Multisensory Strategies for Literacy July 17 2024
Points: 8
Presenter: Call, Take
With each sense that is engaged in learning, the brain is given additional opportunities to encode "integrate" information. Teachers will learn that students who think and learn differently benefit from a variety of approaches, including multisensory approaches. Teachers will participate in a variety of literacy activities that engage multiple senses, and incorporate the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Assistive Technology (AT).
8pts with required follow-up
8pts with required follow-up
Audience: All Teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Avoiding Power Struggles July 18 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff
Inappropriate behavior that leads to power struggles consumes too much instructional time. Minor disruptions quickly escalate into classroom battles, eroding relationships and respect. How do you get ahead of the curve by interacting with the most challenging students in ways that will make them want to behave? This training is designed to provide ESE teachers with specific strategies of prevention and interventions that take little time and maintain the educator’s authority and the students' dignity so that power struggles occur less often.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
1. Complete all follow-up activities
4 ESE Recertification Points
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
1. Complete all follow-up activities
4 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: All teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room - 1531 Winthrop Street
Multisensory Strategies for Math July 18 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: Call, Take
This course will take an in-depth look at teaching math to all students
Audience: All teachers
Place: FDLRS Training Room
Sensory Island for Paraprofessionals - 8:30am to 3:30pm July 30 2024
Points: 6
Presenter: FDLRS Staff
Learn about student sensory integration difficulties while competing in a variety of sensory based challenges.
Based on Lauren H. Kerstein's My Sensory Book: Working Together to Explore Sensory Issues and the Big Feelings They Can Cause: A Workbook for Parents, Professionals, and Children. It is designed to be a tool to help parents, professionals and children
themselves understand the sensory systems.
The training focuses on the child as a whole person as we explore sensory issues, sensory modulation, emotional modulation, and the relationship between the sensory and emotional systems.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
1. Complete all follow-up activities
6 ESE Recertification Points
Based on Lauren H. Kerstein's My Sensory Book: Working Together to Explore Sensory Issues and the Big Feelings They Can Cause: A Workbook for Parents, Professionals, and Children. It is designed to be a tool to help parents, professionals and children
themselves understand the sensory systems.
The training focuses on the child as a whole person as we explore sensory issues, sensory modulation, emotional modulation, and the relationship between the sensory and emotional systems.
Course Requirements to receive credit for taking this course (points or certificate of completion)
1. Complete all follow-up activities
6 ESE Recertification Points
Audience: Paraprofessionals,
Place: FDLRS Crown - 1531 Winthrop St