NJ Sustainable Schools Consortium, in collaboration withUSGBC NJ, and the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council, is offering NJ educators the opportunity to participate in the newly launched Green Classroom Professional Certificate Program. The program encourages sustainable practices in classrooms to further the mission of creating green schools for everyone within this generation.

Green classroom professionals advocate for healthier, more environmentally responsible places in which to work and teach. With the Green Classroom Professional Certificate, the classroom will turn into a living laboratory, creating foundational awareness of greener lifestyles, energy savings, and environmental health in students and educators.

Who?

The program is designed to provide pre-K–12, teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and other pre-K–12 stakeholders with the knowledge and skills to:

• Identify features that support or impede environmentally healthy, resource efficient, and sustainable learning spaces, and
• Recognize, adopt, and implement practices that promote health among students and school occupants.

Other requirements:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must Agree to GBCI’s Disciplinary and Exam Appeals Policy

Why?

• Support the health among school occupants
• Provide the best environment for student academic performance
• Decrease absenteeism due to environmental factors
• Support environmentally responsible practices by learning how to: save energy, save water, and improve indoor environmental quality
• Apply for elective continuing education credits to maintain your teacher certification
• Foster an attitude among youth and future generations to appreciate and model sustainable practices
• Help create an awareness of the importance of greening a classroom
• Be part of a green building community

General Info

Cost for the course and assessment is $47 for NJ Sustainable Schools Consortium.

Certificate is valid for 5 years

Online Course

12 modules on green classroom topics

2–3 hours to complete total course

Each module requires about 10 to 15 minutes to complete

60 days to complete the course

Online Assessment

30 animated questions based on course content

1 hour to complete

30 days to complete the assessment after beginning course

National Board Certification

Candidate Support Classes

Our on-line support classes are centered around an EIRC candidate support curriculum. National Board Certified Teachers facilitate discussions that enable teachers to discover evidence of their own accomplished teaching. Web based resources allow participants to work through the process of certification. Classes run September through April.

Support Class Topics:

Class 1 :Organizing and Getting Started

Class 2: Exploring the Five Core Propositions

Class 3: Writing for Reflection

Class 4: Making Good Choices

Class 5: Aspects of Teaching

Class 6: Ways to Read the Scoring Process

Class 7: Assessment Center Preparation

Participants will be awarded 50 professional development hours for this course.

National Board Certification is consistent with all New Jersey Teacher Effectiveness models

Cost: $499 per person

Attention Advanced Candidates!

To provide continued support as you pursue National Board Certification, EIRC designed On-Line Advanced National Board Certification Support Classes. This on‐line program is designed for teachers in their second or third year of candidacy. While you may have initially been disappointed if you did not certify on your first attempt, remember the process can take up to three years to complete. Don’t forget the resolve and dedication that got you to this point.

Last year we offered a similar on‐line course for advanced candidates. We are proud to announce that 100% of those second/third year candidates enrolled in our on‐line course received National Board Certification!

Class Structure:

The class is organized into different modules.  For each module there is something to read (or a video to watch) and a reflection to complete at the end of the module.  Your facilitator, Jenna will read the reflections and comment, offering suggestions and feedback.  In addition you will receive weekly emails with tips, suggestions, and ideas to work on.  Finally, Jenna will also read each participant's portfolio entry and provide comments and questions.

This course opens on December 17, 2012 and will remain open through April 30th, 2013, or until your final portfolio submission.

* This workshop is for NBCT Candidates. If you are not currently a candidate and would like to learn more, visit http://www.nbpts.org

For more information, call 856-582-7000 ext.109  or  email Allison Mulch, amulch@eirc.org

Membership is valid for ONE YEAR from date of submission.

Presenter:  David Grapka

What does it mean to understand? How does understanding differ from knowing or being able to do something?  How can we support our students to understand what they are learning?  How can we design curriculum, assessment, instruction, and professional development to promote understanding, rather than knowledge-recall learning? Join your colleagues for an interactive, hands on day of learning that will result in your being able to:
1) Explain the research principles and learning theory underlying Understanding by Design (UbD); 2) Describe and facilitate six ways your students can demonstrate understanding, rather than just knowledge-recall learning; 3) Apply the principles of backward design to your professional role(s) involving student achievement; and, 4) Collaborate with your peers to develop an action plan for using UbD principles and strategies in schools, districts, and/or other learning organizations.

Breakfast included in cost of registration.

FREE Information Session Provided by LinkIt!

Welcome to the next generation of assessment management and data reporting!!

LinkIt! Navigator is a revolutionary diagnostic tool for analyzing all district and school data including:

1. Create your own custom test by selecting from LinkIt! question banks
2. Learn how to use student assessment data to predict standardized test scores
3. Local Assessment Creation
4. Online testing for Common Core and PARCC preparation
5. Meeting ESEA Growth Targets
6. Reporting and Data Warehousing
7. Teacher Performance
8. SGO (Student Growth Objectives)

New Jersey clients will be presenting and sharing their experiences.

Morning session includes continental breakfast.

FREE Information Session Provided by LinkIt!

Welcome to the next generation of assessment management and data reporting!!

LinkIt! Navigator is a revolutionary diagnostic tool for analyzing all district and school data including:

1. Create your own custom test by selecting from LinkIt! question banks
2. Learn how to use student assessment data to predict standardized test scores
3. Local Assessment Creation
4. Online testing for Common Core and PARCC preparation
5. Meeting ESEA Growth Targets
6. Reporting and Data Warehousing
7. Teacher Performance
8. SGO (Student Growth Objectives)

New Jersey clients will be presenting and sharing their experiences.

Afternoon session includes lunch.

Presenter:   John  Burd

In today’s society we have many new technologies to assist with formative assessment.  The SMART Senteo Response Remotes allow teachers to poll students in various ways, from a warm-up to a simple quiz or test.  The iPad/iPod Touch can be used as a response remote. Another technology to  use is the cell phone.  There are also web 2. tools that will serve this purpose. Teachers will learn how to use all  these forms and how easy it to set each one up.

(Bring iPad/iPod Touch)

Breakfast is included with the workshop fee.

Presenter:   John  Burd

Apple computers have long provided solutions for individuals with disabilities. This workshop will examine how the iPad can support individuals with disabilities. Participants will review apps, built-in accessibility, access methods (including switch access), peripherals and mounting devices. Discussions will include pros and cons of the iPad versus other solutions or devices. Participants should have a general knowledge of how to use the iPad.

(Bring your own iPad)

Breakfast is included with the workshop fee.

Be one SMART teacher by attending EIRC’s Summer SMART Board Boot Camp. SMART Certified Trainer, John Burd, will lead participants through a two-day training which will demonstrate everything attendees want to know about SMART Boards in the classroom to help get their students engaged and motivated. Come ready to learn in this hands-on two day workshop.

 $175 per person or register a team of 3 for $450

Presenter: John Burd

The Top Ten Tech Tools for teachers in Web 2.0, Twitter, Apps, and Videos will be shared and explored in this workshop.  Participants will learn how teachers can best use education technology to motivate and engage students while delivering the Common Core.  Leave this workshop with some great tools you will want to implement in your classroom.  Participants can stay connected and share tools, resources, and tips on line on EIRC’s ETTC blog.

 $99 per person 

Continental Breakfast will be served

Presenter: John Burd

An iPad can change the way you teach. EIRC’s two-day iPad Institute will assist teachers in learning the gamut of uses for the iPad; including but not limited to set up, iTunes, Facetime, how to use the iPad in the classroom, educational apps that       involve student in the learning process, Common Core apps, and formative assessment. Attendees should have an iTunes account and an iPad.

 $175 per person or register a team of 3 for $450

Presenter: Ernest E. Brattstrom, Jr.

Learn how to use research-based interventions to effectively individualize instruction, monitor student progress, and implement strategies to meet students’ specific needs through the Intervention and Referral System.  This workshop will provide all participants with valuable tools to create a systemic change in their school.

Participants will explore the components of quality team decision making and problem solving, peer consultation models, effective intervention and instruction approaches, including general education classroom services, needs-based instructional services, and special education services.

General and special education teachers and administrators will find this seminar very useful. Participants will receive an abundance of material and pertinent handouts.

Continental breakfast will be served

Presenter:  Helena Kosoff

Show Me the Money is a fast paced one-day seminar for school administrators and  non-profit agency leaders to explore the processes of grant writing and fund raising as well as locating and creating funding sources and resources.

You will leave this seminar with your grant outline/draft and specific sources of funding!

Participants will discover:

• Key elements of grant writing, unlock ideas and venues integral to securing funds
• Traditional and non-traditional grants from government to foundations, from sponsors to philanthropists
• Lucrative language, specific terminology and "tricks of the trade"
• How to easily prepare an RFP and network for success

Bring an idea and your coffee mug!

TO REGISTER ADDITIONAL ATTENDEES:

1) Fill out form below. You are "Attendee 1"

2) Enter the additional attendees by clicking on the bottom of this form where is says "Add More Attendees?"

PLEASE CLICK SUBMIT ONCE.  If required questions (asterisk) are left incomplete your form cannot be submitted. You will receive an automatic response to your e-mail confirming your registration.

This training session will demonstrate how to identify and apply core curriculum skills needed to teach and enhance writing abilities in grades two to twelve.  Writing with SPICE is considered by many teachers to give students sensible lifelong skills and has  actually made both the teaching and learning of writing less stressful.

Mike Devono has established a way to communicate over 29 years of intense, interactive instructional experience.  He has developed styles of both active and engaging language  activities as well as unique writing strategies.   A recent  survey showed significant growth in students achieving at the advanced proficiency level in numerous schools where Mike has introduced SPICE.

FREE COPY OF "TEACHING WRITING WITH SPICE" with each registration!

Continental Breakfast Included