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New AA#2001 - Illinois Performance Evaluation - Teacher Evaluation Training
This two-day academy is designed for individuals who are seeking initial training qualification for teacher evaluation. Multiple courses are available, but you must attend both days of each given course. The evaluations will be based on standards of effective teaching, with evaluators trained and prequalified to conduct observations, collect evidence, and provide helpful feedback in a timely way. 

Dates: March 8th & 9th, 2019 | July 16th & 17th, 2019 | August 5th & 6th, 2019 | September 12th & 13th, 2019

Follett Destiny and Collection for the Future Ready Librarian
In this keynote, Shannon McClintock Miller will share the importance of collaboration with teachers and students and what this can bring to a school community by sharing stories, resources and ways to make this happen in exciting and successful ways. 

This workshops will take place on April 8, 2019 from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM at the Kane County ROE.

Advanced Digital Threat Assessment One-Day Training
Participants will leave with a concrete understanding of how to find and curate relevant digital information as is typically represented in a real-life digital threat assessment data gathering scenario.

This workshop will take place on April 23, 2019 from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM at the Kane County ROE.

Institute Day Registration - ALL SITES NOW OPEN!
Institute Day 2019 will be held on March 1, 2019 at various Kane County locations. We want to thank all of the host sites for volunteering their classrooms, auditoriums, and available spaces along with those who put in a presenter proposal. All of these continued efforts help us make Institute Day possible!

Registration is now open for all sites but filling fast! You can visit https://kaneroe.org/institute-day/ for more information on Institute Day!

The Progress Report:
This week's post in The Progress Report is about Physical Education in schools, including how D301 staff have worked tirelessly to offer free PE PD sessions for all educators! We also announce last week's giveaway winners.

The Progress Report is a collaborative discussion space for professional learning. If there are any topics that you would like to see a post on or guest write yourself,  please contact Katie Algrim.

#EdCTOChat hosted by Phil Morris
January 8th marked the first ever #EdCTOChat that included a lot of great individuals, personalities and conversation through the 30-minute Twitter chat. You can follow #EdCTOChat anytime on Twitter to look back on previous chats and also follow along and engage on future Twitter chats!
New Emailing List for Courses
The Kane County Regional Office of Education is looking for an easier, streamlined way to reach all of you when we are offering a new course or opportunity such as the Short-Term Substitute Teaching license courses.

We share all of our courses and new opportunities through our social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook, but not everyone has an account for those social networking websites. In order to make it easier, we would like to give everyone the opportunity to subscribe to an additional newsletter that will be sent out each time we are offering a new course with accessibility to directly register for that event or share with someone you know.

Upcoming & Ongoing Workshops
Short-Term Substitute License Training
  Dates: Feb. 27, Mar. 19 or Apr. 11
Location: Kane ROE
Cost: $25
Teaching in a Blended Learning Model v12
60 Day Online Course
30 PD Credits
Cost: $195
Making Questions Count
 60 Day Online Course
8 PD Credits 
Cost: $40