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The MESC is a partnership of diverse non-public educators across Michigan charged with directing professional learning opportunities made possible under a federal Title IIa grant earmarked for non-public schools in the state.  
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August-September Events
Catapult Learning - Differentiation to Enhance Learning and Effective Classroom Management
August 24, 2019 - Detroit, Michigan
The Michigan Equitable Service Collaborative is excited to partner with Catapult Learning to offer a professional development event on Differentiation to Enhance Learning and Effective Classroom Management .

Differentiation to Enhance Learning
Differentiation is a flexible, responsive, and proactive approach to meeting the needs of every learner in the classroom. Differentiating instruction ensures that all students are able to access, understand, and apply new skills and concepts. Educators will learn how to provide different paths to learning and consider ways to differentiate instruction based on content, process, product, and learning environment to provide appropriate levels of challenge for all students. During this workshop, participants will:
  • Understand the principles of effective differentiation
  • Determine the teacher’s role and responsibilities in a differentiated classroom
  • Learn strategies for differentiating content, process, product, and environment according to readiness, interest, and/or learning preference
  • Practice differentiating a lesson

Effective Classroom Management
Creating a safe and positive classroom environment is critical for students’ social, emotional, and academic success. Proactively and explicitly building a culture of high expectations, respect, and shared values sets the tone for a collaborative classroom and protects both teachers’ and students’ rights. This workshop will help teachers create an effective plan for classroom management that will set the stage for a successful year for all stakeholders. Participants will:
  • Understand the factors that contribute to effective classroom management
  • Explore the relationships among philosophies, beliefs, values, and behavior
  • Learn strategies for establishing a positive classroom environment and preventing behavior problems

Event registration is $25.00 and includes lunch. State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) will be available for an additional cost
The Michigan Equitable Service Collaborative is partnering with NWEA to offer three assessment workshops. Event registration is $25.00 and includes lunch. State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) will be available for additional cost at each location.

Student Growth & Goal Setting and Activating Learners
Saginaw, Michigan - August 20, 2019

Student Goal Setting and Growth
  • Access, interpret, and apply student growth data using the Achievement Status and Growth reports
  • Develop student learning goals using growth projections and learning statements
  • Engage students in goal setting and build shared ownership of data with students and parents
Activating Learners
  • Connect your current practice to research about peer- and self-assessment
  • Identify priorities when planning to support students in peer- and self-assessment
  • Examine best-practice strategies and tools
Providing Feedback
Manistique, Michigan - August 28, 2019

Learning-Focused Feedback
  • Understand how feedback strategies can bridge gaps in student learning
  • Explore the different types of feedback and feedback as a process
  • Investigate approaches to feedback that maximize learning
Classroom Feedback Strategies and Tools
  • Investigate tools that support quality feedback approaches
  • Learn from classroom examples of success with feedback models
  • Use strategies that enhance classroom learning culture
Essential Reports for Teachers and Instructional Ladders
Kalamazoo, Michigan - September 30, 2019

Essential Reports for Teachers
  • Learn to employ metrics from key MAP Growth reports
  • Meet individual student needs by identifying targeted instructional groups based on MAP Growth goal area performance data
  • Boost differentiation efforts by connecting groups of students to skills in the Learning Continuum
Instructional Ladders
  • Use MAP Growth reports to gauge student readiness
  • Design tiered, responsive instructional plans by integrating standards, MAP Growth data, and local curriculum
  • Engage with topics of interest, such as formative assessment or flexible grouping, to deepen your understanding of instructional planning
Project-based Learning
What is Project-based Learning? Join  Trevor Muir  as you learn through hands-on activities how to brainstorm, plan, and manage projects. Using project planning tools, participants will start designing their first projects, and will be equipped to finish the designs on their own and with their collaboration teams.

Trevor spoke at the 2018 MANS Education Conference and Expo in Grand Rapids and here are some things attendees said about his sessions:

"Trevor Muir used technology, music and words to tell riveting stories that captivated his audience and gave me the tools to facilitate story telling in my classroom."

"I really enjoyed listening to Trevor Muir of the "Epic Classroom". In fact, I stayed for his second session, since I was so inspired by his experiences as a teacher. He was entertaining, I laughed and I cried, all in the same session. His passion for teaching was contagious. My brain was racing with ideas I could implement into my classroom to set my students on fire to learn."
 
Choose from one of two locations across Michigan where the MESC will be hosting this discounted professional development event.
 
September 9, 2019 - Bay City, Michigan
September 11, 2019 - Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
The cost for this training is $25.00 per person and includes lunch.
 
State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) will be available.
Michigan Equitable Service Collaborative