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This workshop will focus on the work of Joellen Killion Community in Your Middle/High elementary schools for 2020-21: any teacher who
and the research she has compiled in her book, “The School (PSEL Standards 5 and 7) attends the free professional learning may order
materials for all their students. Join our webinar for
Feedback Process.” Executive members of Learning
Forward New Jersey will engage professionals Aug. 3, 2020; 9 am - Noon school leaders on how to make hybrid instruction
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with the importance of feedback for learning with Presenter: Dennis Morolda, FEA Consultant
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Workshop Outcomes: interactive professional development experience
• Distinguish between feedback and feedback for focusing on practical ways to re-establish community in Special Education - Back to School
learning in your school after the COVID-19 crisis. This highly Edition
• Understand the rationale for feedback for engaging professional development will examine Aug. 6, 2020; 9 am to 3 pm
learning practical strategies that can be utilized virtually and Presenters: David Nash, Esq., LEGAL ONE
• Identify different types of feedback when students are back in the building. Gain a robust Director; John Worthington, Esq., LEGAL
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• Apply the feedback for learning process adolescent teachers and students to meet their social ONE Consultant
• Generate ways to use this content to advance and emotional needs in the classroom, large group Fee: $100 members/$125 non-members
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connected and empowered through strong inclusive determining the need for and extent of compensatory
Implementing LGBTQ Lessons virtual and face to face community building practices. services, the key elements to consider including in IEPs
• Use morning meeting/advisory time to address
moving forward, the supports that may be necessary for
and Instruction developmentally appropriate SEL competencies students reentering school, lessons to be learned from
(PSEL Standards 3, 4 and 10) (self-awareness, self-management, social recent case law, key considerations related to disparities
awareness, responsible decision-making,
in identification and discipline rates for African American
Jul. 30, 2020; 9 am - 3 pm relationship skills) students, and the latest guidance from the U.S. and New
Presenters: Lori Burns, Project Manager for • Re-establish/create strong communities (face to Jersey Departments of Education.
the +LGBTQ Curriculum Pilot Project; Kate face and virtually)
Okeson, Founder/Director of Make It Better • Establish look/sound/feel expectations that The Real Role of the School
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Fee: $100 Members/$125 Non-Members autonomy, competence, fun, safety) Climate Teams (PSEL Standards 3, 5,
What does implementation of the LGBTQ curriculum • Share ideas and strategies that you/your staff and 6)
look like in a classroom? How can an interdisciplinary have utilized during virtual learning Aug. 12, 2020; 9 am - 12:30 pm
approach support instruction? In this session, Presenter: Pat O’Keefe, FEA Consultant
participants will learn about the key elements of the
curriculum and hear from content area experts about Principal/AP/VP Survival Guide Fee: $60 Members/ $75 Non-Members
best practices in implementing the curriculum across Aug. 3, 2020; 9 am - 3 pm What is the real work of New Jersey’s mandated
several content areas including Literacy, History, Presenters: Sandra L. Jacques, Esq., LEGAL School Climate Teams? What role should the SCT
Math, Science, Health/PE, World Languages, and the ONE Supervisor of Legal Research and play in preparing for the re-opening of schools? Let’s
Visual and Performing Arts. Content Development; James J. Sarto, Ed.S., examine the broad responsibilities of School Climate
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Free Webinar for NJPSA Members and NJ Leaders to Leaders Program Coordinator consider what programs and initiatives schools have
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Guests Novice, experienced, veteran principals and assistant learning (SEL) and a positive school climate will also
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You are making plans to reopen schools in • Daily school operations, duties, and Instruction and Continuity of
September, but do you have and can you get the new responsibilities Learning (PSEL Standards 4, 7, and 10)
products and services you now need to operate in a
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