10th Annual Great Beginnings, Great Families Conference
August 13th-15th, 2024 | Great Northern Hotel, Helena
WHERE SUPPORT CONNECTS, FAMILIES THRIVE
Join maternal, child, and adolescent professionals, advocates, support staff, and providers for a chance to improve the health and well-being of Montanans. Connect with programs to increase the efficacy of maternal, early childhood, and youth programs throughout our state.
Registration is $100 and is open now. Click here to learn more.
PROVIDED BY MONTANA DPHHS
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Join our OPI Special Education Team!
The Special Education School Improvement Team has an opening for a School Improvement/Monitoring Specialist. The listing will be posted at: https://statecareers.mt.gov/
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Montana Special Education Law Conference
Oct. 21-22 | Best Western Premier Helena Great Northern Hotel, Helena
Join us for a conference covering current legal issues concerning the education of students with disabilities. The cost is $125 per attendee.
Mentoring with the EIPA Report: Skill Development Planning - August 2024
Instructor: Deborah Cates, Ph.D.
Dates: Saturday, August 3rd & Saturday, August 10th
Cost: $400.00
Format: Online live event
Contact Hours: 8 hours (mandatory attendance required on both dates)
Do you provide mentoring or training for educational interpreters? If you do, join us for this unique opportunity focused on understanding how to use the EIPA assessment tool to develop a professional development plan that addresses interpreters’ unique needs. Click here to learn more about this EIPA Mentor training from Boys Town National Research Hospital.
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EIPA MENTORSHIP TRACK OVERVIEW
Participants will attend weekly meetings, alternating between language coaching and interpreter mentoring. The EIPA Track has been specially designed for the work and exam for educational interpreters. This mentorship track costs are covered by the Montana OPI and offered at no cost to the participant, with an opportunity to earn the EIPA exam fee with demonstrated commitment and participation.
The EIPA track will run from August 2024 - May 2025
Space is limited so apply early!
Application period July 1-July 21
*Deadline may be extended if space allows.
August 6 | 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM | MSU-Billings College of Education, Room 427
Presenter: Randy Russell
The Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a framework that helps educators identify students' academic, behavioral, and social-emotional strengths and challenges and provide differentiated support for students based on their needs.
Workshop Goal: To empower educators to work collaboratively to identify, track, and put strategies in place across academic, behavioral, and social-emotional learning to enable all staff to optimize effective interventions and monitor student progress for all students.
The "WHY": The complexity of providing academic and social-emotional support to every student at their ability level requires educators to work together to support students with the understanding of MTSS and what it looks like in daily practice.
August 7 | 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM | MSU-Billings College of Education, Room 427
Presenter: Randy Russell
In divisive times we deal with difficult people, decisions, and situations. How these are handled can "make or break" a school, job, or relationship. It can dictate the culture and climate. This workshop will look at how to create a positive culture or climate that works towards working together as opposed to against each other--especially in schools.
During the workshop participants will explore the key elements of:
- Positive and highly effective school leadership
- Positive and highly effective school teams
- Positive and highly effective school culture and climate
Participants will leave with a game plan using these elements for themselves, their classrooms, and their teams to positively impact and influence the culture and climate of their school.
Also, how to deal with difficult people, decisions, and situations by identifying strategies to work more collaboratively that build respect and cooperation. Which one do you want to go with?
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Founded by Dr. Debra Em Wilson; Presented by Dr. Jessica Gilson Shore
August 7 | 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM | Havre Best Western Inn & Suites
S’cool Moves TABS Course Therapy Based Academic and Behavior Support
Participants will learn how to easily incorporate therapy-based movement into the classroom setting to enhance the learning potential of students. Through the use of S’cool Moves poster activities, students will improve motor planning, rhythm, timing, core strength, vestibular activation, hemispheric integration, and sensory-motor systems to build a solid foundation for learning. They will also improve self-regulation, reading, writing, and focus for academic achievement. Participants will also learn tiered interventions designed for whole school, small groups, and one-on-one intervention. Adaptations and suggestions for preschoolers and remote learning via telehealth will be provided. In addition, they will understand how teachers and therapists working together can achieve goals for their students faster and more enjoyable results. S’cool Moves translates research into action for the benefit of all students. It is a course not to be missed.
August 8 | C’Mon Inn | Bozeman, MT
Presenter: Dori Phillips
Do you like hands-on workshops? Then this one's for you!! This course will include activities and games that support fact fluency in the Montana Math Content Standards (K-5). Time will be spent learning about warm-ups for ongoing cumulative review, instructional tools, and ideas of how to extend learning for students who finish early.
August 8 | C’Mon Inn | Bozeman, MT
Presenter: Dori Phillips
Spend the day in a hands-on workshop creating manipulatives and playing games that will be classroom-ready the next day. The morning will focus on Number Sense, the basic skills that children need to learn to work fluently with numbers. When students have good number sense they are more fluent with basic math facts and better problem-solvers!
The afternoon will focus on “Fraction sense”, the basic skills that children need to learn to work fluently with fractions. Spend the afternoon learning the progression of fractions skills and playing games that will increase students’ “fraction sense”.
August 12-13 | The Forge Hotel, Anaconda
Explore effective instructional and classroom management strategies that build resiliency in adults first. Learn how the brain provides signals of needed support that will assist with the self-regulation process. Practice activities that prime the brain for learning and build connections within the classroom that will strengthen the school family. Leave this training with ideas to incorporate into your daily routine that will minimize challenging behaviors. Join Dr. Jenny Barkac and Maureen Kampfe for two fun-filled days of learning.
July 30 | 8:30-3:30 PM | Havre Best Western Inn and Suites
What is Conscious Discipline?
Conscious Discipline is an adult-first transformational, trauma-responsive approach to self-regulation that integrates:
- Social and Emotional Learning
- Equitable School Culture
- Theory and Application
- Research and Brain-Based Discipline Practices
In this one-day Conscious Discipline training, the participants will learn and practice classroom management and social-emotional learning skills and techniques. Conscious Discipline utilizes everyday events rather than an external curriculum and addresses the adult's emotional intelligence as well as the child’s. The participants will learn to respond to daily conflict in a way that transforms it into an opportunity to teach critical life skills using the components of safety, connection, and problem-solving in the classroom, as they create a School Family.
August 19-20 | Fairmont Hot Springs
Join your fellow colleagues at beautiful Fairmont Hot Springs for the 2024 Special Education Boot Camp on August 19-20, 2024. Topics will include IEP requirements, Infinite Campus, School-Based Evaluations for Dyslexia, Report-Writing, and Evaluation Review Meetings. Hosted by Region IV CSPD and Great Divide Education Services.
September 23rd | 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM | Great Falls Hampton Inn
Presenter: Tessie Rose Bailey
Data literacy is an essential component of an effective and sustainable multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). This interactive session will clarify the four elements of data literacy and provide scaffolded opportunities for teams to use their fall screening data for Tier 1 and supplemental intervention decision-making. Access to fall screening is required for full participation in the session.
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August 6 | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Miles City Community College, Miles City
August 8 | 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Helena College University of Montana, Helena
We are happy to announce TWO amazing days happening in Montana this summer! Discovery Education is providing two full days of FREE professional learning to all teachers, administrators, and other educators working in Montana Public Schools.
Our events will be held in Miles City on August 6 at Miles Community College and in Helena on August 8 at the University of Montana Helena campus. Plan for a full day of learning about Discovery Education Experience, DreamBox Learning, Science within Discovery Education Experience, and Mystery Science.
Discovery Education will provide lunch and snacks throughout the day!
For more information contact:
Allison Nys anys@discoveryed.com
Natalee Hawks nhawks@discoveryed.com
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SAVE – the – DATE
November 6 – 8, 2024, Great Falls Heritage Inn
Welcoming youth with disabilities, families, educators, and service providers for an unforgettable and fun learning experience. The MYT conference offers the resources to help you create successful transition plans for independent living in the adult world.
Special Education General Information:
Contact Kelley Brown, at 406-444-5661 or check out our webpage.
Danni McCarthy, Montana's State Special Education Director, 406-594-3610
The OPI is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, require an alternate format, or have questions concerning accessibility, contact the OPI ADA Coordinator, 406-444-3161, opiada@mt.gov, Relay Service: 711.
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