Overview:
Executive Function Skills are vital to the learning process. Teachers often overlook these skills as root causes of some of their most mystifying classroom academic or behavior issues. This two-day seminar will focus on insights and strategies to help students who struggle with poor motivation, weak planning and organization skills, memory problems, and impulsive behaviors.
Presenter:
Margaret Searle regularly presents at conferences nationally. She has taught in all grades from kindergarten through 8th grade. Her background includes serving as a Title I director, a middle school principal, an elementary principal, and a K-12 supervisor. She served as president of the Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators and was as an education advisor to President George H. W. Bush. In addition, she is the author of the Ohio Department of Education's
Standards-Based Instruction for All Learners: A Treasure Chest for Principal-led Building Teams (2004),
What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do: Building a Pyramid of Interventions (2007),
Response to Intervention: What Every School Leader Needs To Know About RTI (2010),
Causes and Cures in the Classroom: Getting to the Root of Academic and Behavior Problems (2013), and
Teacher Teamwork: How Do We Make It Work?(2015).
Target Audience:
Administrators, supervisors, counselors, psychologists, special and general education teachers. Many schools find it helpful to send a team made up of administrators, special ed and general ed teachers.
Date:
December 7 & 8, 2017 Note: Registration closes December 4, 2017
Time:
Registration begins at 8:30 AM. Training starts at 9:00 AM and will end by 4:00 PM .
Location:
ESC of Lake Erie West, 2275 Collingwood Blvd., Toledo, OH 43620
Cost:
$150 for ESC of Lake Erie West member districts. $180 for nonmember districts.
Fee includes lunch for both days and instructional materials. Registration is not complete until fees are paid. Please send check payable to ESC of Lake Erie West to ESC of Lake Erie West, Attn: Elaine Robinson, 2275 Collingwood Blvd., Toledo, OH 43620. Please indicate on check the name of the person registered for the training.
