Microsoft Office - Excel Workshop for School Secretaries/Clerks

There will be special introductory 1/2 day workshops on February 28th and Mar. 9th in Rm. 200 at the NRIC Main Office..  Please sign up for only one session.  Future follow-up sessions will be offered at a later date. To Register click here.  These workshops are for Lincoln and North Providence secretaries and clerks only.  There is no fee associated with these workshops.

 RIDE Teacher Assistant Network Spring Session (SORICO) -- In conjunction with the R.I. Department of Education, South Kingstown's Transition Academy is hosting a Teacher Assistant Network Session to be held on Monday, March 5, 2012 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Independent Transition Academy at 25 West Independence Way, Kingston, RI 02881. The topic will be "The Teacher Assistant's Role in Supporting Student Assessment" to be presented by Laura Kacewicz, Office of Instruction, Assessment & Curriculum of the R.I. Department of Education. The fee is $10.00. To register, click here. (Payment may be processed on-line with your credit card or by check payable to Northern RI Collaborative).

 RIDE Teacher Assistant Network Spring Session (NRIC) -- In conjunction with the R.I. Department of Education, the Northern Rhode Island Collaborative is hosting a Teacher Assistant Network Session to be held on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm at NRIC, 640 George Washington Highway, Training Center Rm. 104, Lincoln, RI 02865. The topic will be "The Teacher Assistant's Role in Supporting Student Assessment" to be presented by Laura Kacewicz, Office of Instruction, Assessment & Curriculum of the RI Department of Education. The fee is $10.00. To register, click here. (Payment may be processed on-line with your credit card or by check payable to Northern RI Collaborative).

Regional RTI Training Series: Data Based Decision Making -- In conjunction with Rhode Island College, NRIC is offering a series of trainings designed for school teams to build upon skills over the course of the series.  This three-part series is designed for elementary grade level teams and problem solving teams to practice utilizing data from universal screening to inform instruction and determine interventions, as well as how to use data for group and individual student progress monitoring.  Teams will be required to bring data to each training and return to their schools with follow-up activities that will be part of the following training.  The series will be presented by Shannon Dowd-Eagle, Ph.D and Cara McDermott-Fasy, Ph.D of R.I. College at the Barrington Public Library & Community Center, 281 County Rd., Barrington, RI from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm on October 24, 2011,  January 10, 2012 and March 16, 2012.   Attendance for all three sessions is intended.  Registration is closed.  

School-Based Behavior Support: From Prevention to Intervention, including an RTI Perspective -- This three-part series presented by Gary Stoner, Ph.D. of URI is designed for school teams at the elementary, middle and high school level and will focus on the prevention and management of challenging behavior in schools and classrooms. Participants will be provided with homework exercises to build competencies in the strategies learned during each session. Session 1 will be held on November 30, 2011; Session 2 on February 8, 2012; Session 3 on April 9, 2012.  All sessions will be held from 8:30 am to 11:30 am at NRIC's Training Center Room 104, 640 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln, RI 02865.  Attendance for all three sessions is intended. There is no fee for this training. To register, click here.  

Secondary RTI: Screening & Data Based Decision Making  --  Universal screening is a pivotal component of the primary level prevention in an RTI system, but as with any source of data, it is meaningless until analyzed and acted upon. At a secondary level, "universal" can have several meanings, reliable and valid tools are scarce, and emerging data demonstrates that it is too often used solely to place students, when best practice is to use it in a variety of other ways. District administrators and leadership teams will address these topics so that they can return to their districts, assess their current implementation, and have actionable next steps. This workshop is being presented by Nicole Bucka of NRIC on February 1, 2012 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am at NRIC's Training Center Room 104, 640 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln, RI 02865.  There is no fee for this training. To register, click here.

Progress Monitoring & Data Based Decision Making  --  This session, designed for district administrators and leadership teams, will be presented by Nicole Bucka of NRIC.   Progress monitoring, and using this data to make educational decisions, is the second component of prevention in an RTI framework. Again, emphasis will be around how this information is collected, analyzed, and acted upon. In the State-wide self-assessment, this was a primary area of weakness for many and it is a critical component of Educator Evaluation (formative assessment), so it will also be addressed for two sessions. This session will allow teams to identify several options for how to approach progress monitoring (depending on the purpose) throughout the school and have a glimpse into how to use the data. The next session on "RTI for the Classroom Teacher" will go into more practical application.  This session will be held on March 7, 2012 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am at NRIC's Training Center Room 104, 640 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln, RI 02865.  There is no fee for this training. To register, click here.

 Tier I / Core - RTI for the Classroom Teacher  --  This session, designed for teachers, district administrators, and leadership teams, will be presented by Nicole Bucka of NRIC.  RTI is about being proactive and preventative and a great quote about how it works is: "Get it done in Tier I". Although it is too often associated only with Special Education and people often perceive it is about interventions, it is a general education initiative and it is about much more than interventions. This session will aim to conceptualize the future of our general education under this framework. Feedback from the previous session will be used formatively to guide the specific objectives of this training to be as relevant as possible. Since administrators and leadership teams will be working continually on consensus building and helping teachers see "why" we are changing, this session will help them to better explain to their colleagues how "it all fits together".  This session will be held on April 13, 2012 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am at NRIC's Training Center Room 104, 640 George Washington Hwy, Lincoln, RI 02865.   There is no fee for this training. To register, click here.

Learning and the Brain: Multiple Pathways Model  --  Presented by Janet Zadina, Ph.D.

Day 1 - April 26, 2012 - 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (Registration 8:30 am): Consists of information, experiential activities and strategies designed to help attendees experience new and exciting pathways to actually see how learning takes place in the brain and discover what is required for learning to occur in order to develop instruction and strategies to reach diverse and struggling learners.  The fee is $20.00; location TBD.   To register, click here.

Day 2 - April 27, 2012 - 9:00 am to 3:00 pm (Registration 8:30 am): Consists of small group breakouts to guide attendees through group activities to provide additional strategies geared to specific content areas and then scaffold them into a lesson plan that incorporates Multiple Pathways. Availability for Day 2 is limited and attendance at a Day 1 conference (either April 26, 2012 or Spring 2011) is a prerequisite.  The fee is $20.00; location TBD.   To register, click here.

For your information,  we are pleased to share the following audio podcast series by Dr. Ruby Payne on the Fundamentals of Poverty:

• Poverty Series I
• Poverty Series II
• Poverty Series III
• Poverty Series IV