Mandatory Trainings
SafeSchools Course
Medical Emergency Response Team Training
This training will provide building secretaries with updated information required by law for student safety and well being.
This series of professional development dates are for K-3 classroom teachers, special education teachers, coaches and interventionists.
At this one-day Number Talks session, you will be introduced to a Number Talk and the teaching practices that support the use of Number Talks in the classroom.
Materials Made Right
Training for individuals who will edit the GISD Website
Teachers will select games from AV-MR Course 1 and 2 to differentiate the construct or level to meet the needs of all students in their classrooms.
At this one-day session, participants will be introduced to Guided Math and the teaching practices that support Guided Math, including how to use formative assessment to guide mini-lessons and station activities.
Elementary Mathematics Leadership meetings provide networking opportunities to teachers who serve as representatives of their district.
MRIS is a year long course hat provide intensive intervention training and develops teaching expertise in mathematics.
Open to High School Principals and AP Coordinators
Jennifer Fletcher explores classroom strategies to help students at all levels read, write, listen, speak, and think rhetorically.
K-6 Struggling Readers Series
Secondary Specially Designed Instruction Series
Learn how life in poverty can negatively impact student achievement and success - and how you can change that!
Synergy sessions for new users or those who need a refresher.
Develop Language Scaffolds to support EL reach academic success
This training is exclusively offered to Genesee & Lapeer County CSI, Partnership, ATS, and TSI school staff and Administrators ONLY through the Regional Assistance Grant.
4-day course that includes dynamic, diagnostic,individual assessments in number words and numerals, structuring numbers and addition and subtraction strategies.
On-going support for teachers who have completed an AV-MR Course (Add+Vantage Math Recovery®).
Join us as we explore Read Alouds as a way to motivate students, build community and improve comprehension and vocabulary.
Passage based writing (PBW) is a skill that is necessary for students to fully comprehend and talk about text.
Dr. Pawloski presents the latest research from neuroscience that provides direction for educators.
4-day course that includes dynamic, diagnostic, individual assessments in number words and numerals, structuring numbers and addition and subtraction strategies.
Join us as we play with listening games, rhyming, phonemes, alliteration and manipulation of sounds.
Join us as we take a deeper look at concepts of print, building vocabulary and comprehension.
Please join us as we explore the Essential Instructional Practices in Literacy for Grades 4-5 and work to improve student achievement.
Add+VantageMR® Fractions: Math Recovery® Strategies for the Classroom explores the difficulties many students have making sense of fractions.
Building Numeracy in Grades K – 5; 3 Day Series
Our Team Purpose: The Mathematics Leadership Team will participate in research-informed professional development experiences.
Develop a number sense routine for 8-12 minutes per day to increase student fluency in the basic operations (whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percent).
Educators will spend a day with local employers, exploring industry trends and ways to connect classroom content to the work world and best business practices.
Student-Centered Coaching is an evidence-based instructional coaching model that shifts the focus from ‘fixing’ teachers to collaborating with them to design instruction that targets student outcomes
Mandatory, one-day training for GECS employees.
The use of film can serve as a powerful tool in the social studies classroom and, where appropriately utilized, foster critical thinking and civic mindedness.
Cognitive Coaching℠ Foundations Seminar is designed for principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and others who strive to support and guide a higher level of practice with their colleagues.
This workshop will cover economics and entrepreneurship for grades 3-5.
Training to administer the online version of the assessment.
Developing literacy practices for English Learners of higher proficiency, grades 3-5
Writing strategies to support English Learners at a high writing proficiency level (WIDA 3.0-5.0)
Working with new immigrant students in a secondary setting
The basics of beginning to work with English Learners in the classroom
Research-Based best practices to implement with English Learners
KRA Teacher Certification: Join us for this two day professional learning to become certified in administering the KRA.
Paper/Pencil version of the WIDA Assessment
Review and Re-certification for Administrators of WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten
Initial training to administer the WIDA assessment to Kindergarten English Learners
Training for WIDA Alternate ACCESs
Developing IRIP Plans for EL grades K-3
Join us as we explore the Reading Workshop model and the benefits of running a workshop classroom.
A course designed for new and existing CTE teachers.
Join us as we explore the Writing Workshop model and the benefits of running a workshop classroom.
The SUPES Academy is a comprehensive leadership development experience to prep individuals who will be the next class of superintendent candidates.
GISD offers this ETS Parapro Assessment for prospective and practicing paraprofessionals.
This training is designed to focus on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in the classroom.
School teams complete a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) to identify the function of difficult student behavior.
Tier 2 teams provide intervention for students identified as at-risk for more severe problem behavior.
