Tools & Resources
S.C.A.T. School Crisis Assistance Teams for Adams & Pike Counties
Pike County Film Library Catalog of Videos available for check out in the Pike County Film Library.
Internet Safety Fight against exploitation aimed at youthful users of the Internet.
Child & Family Connection Information on eligibility for Early Intervention Services.
ACT Truancy Forms Abolishing chronic truancy in our schools.
Job Openings Search job openings for the West Central Four Area.
ROE #1 Workshops
Positive Behavior Interventions Supports – Overview (#195)
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Quincy City Center, 201 South 3rd Street (former Holiday Inn)
Cost - $100
Presenter – Brenda Melcher, Consultant
This course will provide an overview of Positive Behavior Interventions. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a process for creating safer and more effective schools. PBIS is a systems approach to school-wide and classroom discipline designed to enhance the capacity of schools to educate all students. PBIS is a research-based data-driven model that works with all students including those with challenging behavior problems. This one-day 7.5 hour workshop is an overview of PBIS and designed to assist schools in preparing for training and implementation.
Credit: Administrators’ Academy for Administrators’ Certificate renewal or 5 CEUs for professional development for teachers.
More information on PBIS available at www.pbisillinois.org.
To Register: Contact ROE #1 at 217-285-6714 (Pittsfield
Rethinking the Senior Year: Model Programs for Keeping Seniors Engaged ( #503)
Friday, June 13, 2008
8:30 am -3:30 pm
Pittsfield – Farm Bureau Building, 1301 E. Washington St.
Cost - $100
Presenters – Larry Rehage and Janice Dreis
This course will help administrators address a critical issue with which high schools across the country are struggling. This course will equip educational leaders with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to conduct a review of senior high school year and effect improvements that can vastly increase the lifelong value of this culmination of the students’ K-12 education. Participants will rethink approaches to working with high school seniors, building upon a philosophical framework that embraces the themes of transition, self-advocacy, and community service. Participants will learn how to implement a year-long service project, identify and address important transition issues, design a Senior Institute, encourage project-based and student-directed learning, and foster powerful mentoring relationships that can positively affect the entire school culture. This will be a six hour course including 30 minutes of application /dissemination.
To Register: Contact ROE #1 at 217-285-6714 (Pittsfield
