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TIU 11/PaTTAN MTSS Mini-Series

August 16, 2024 - May 15, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Special Education
Notices
Act 48 Activity Hours

MTSS Mini-Sessions: Building the Framework

This will be offered as a virtual mini-series for all IU11 teams participating in systemic supports, and any other IU11 schools interested. 

Goals: Support MTSS Teams in various stages of exploration to installation to implementation of MTSS across the IU11 catchment area with: 

  • Conceptual and common understanding of MTSS as a prevention model
  • Resources and support to establish and implement the infrastructure of an effective, functioning MTSS
  • Moving toward the use of RTI methodology to identify specific learning disability (SLD)

Teams will have the opportunity to reflect upon their systems and establish and refine infrastructure to install and implement MTSS. 

All team members must register individually to receive Act 48 hours.  You must attend all sessions to receive full credit.  

August 16, 2024 11:00-12:00 - Overview of series, introduction to Response to Intervention (RTI) for SLD Determination Fidelity Tool, and action planning 

September 19, 2024 11:00-12:00 - PA Standards-Aligned, High-Quality Core Instruction 

October 17, 2024 11:00-12:00 - Universal Screening 

November 21, 2024 11:00-12:00  - Shared Ownership 

December 19, 2024 11:00-12:00 - Data-Based Decision Making 

January 16, 2025 2:00-3:00 - Responsiveness to Intervention 

February 20, 2025 11:00-12:00 - Family Engagement 

March 20, 2025 11:00-12:00 - RTI/SLD Eligibility Determination 

April 10, 2025 11:00-12:00 - Professional Learning 

May 15, 2025 11:00-12:00 - Series closing, plan to complete the fidelity tool with each building team, and develop an action plan for subsequent school year. 

Zoom link for all sessions:

https://paiu.zoom.us/j/92030955439?pwd=wVZ3NUGsPXlJVJyZemeOXsTU9bVKCo.1

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Thursday, September 19
11am - 12pm
Thursday, October 17
11am - 12pm
Universal Screening
Thursday, November 21
11am - 12pm
Shared Ownership
Thursday, December 19
11am - 12pm
Data-Based Decision Making
Thursday, January 16
2 - 3pm
Responsiveness to Intervention
Thursday, February 20
11am - 12pm
Family Engagement
Thursday, March 20
11am - 12pm
RTI/SLD Eligibility Determination
Thursday, April 10
11am - 12pm
Professional Learning

Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Virtual Book Study SY 24-25 Cancelled

Cancelled
September 25, 2024 - May 7, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
STEM
Act 45 Activity Hours

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright 
Description of Activity: 

Tier 2 Virtual Professional learning. Please see prerequisites below. 
A copy of the Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) book is available at your school district’s STEELS Resource Library. Limited copies are available through TIU’s Lending Library. 
PDE and PSU’s Ambitious Responsive Science Education (PARSE) collaborative universities team recommend AST as a foundational guide for the transition to STEELS. 

FREE and 65 hours of Act 48 credit 

We’ll be using Google Classroom to organize all sessions and participant sharings.

What is Ambitious Science Teaching ? 
Ambitious teaching can be learned. Ambitious Science Teaching supports students in tackling authentic and meaningful science phenomena with attention to students’ histories, social interactions, and local and global communities. Ambitious teaching requires that teachers develop deep commitments to student learning and a historical understanding of inequity in science and schools. Ambitious teaching takes practice. This research and website provides resources to develop a vision of ambitious science instruction for today’s complex K-12 classrooms, professional learning, and teacher education. 

Questions to ask: 
How is science done? 
What counts as science? 
Who gets to do science? 

The Vision of Ambitious Science Teaching 
The ambitious teacher “works with students’ ideas” over time. What would you experience in classrooms where ambitious teaching was the focus? You would see and hear: 

  •  Teachers anchoring their instruction in complex and puzzling phenomena that are meaningful and relevant to learners. Teachers design science experiences so that science aims for justice and creates space for joy. 
  •  Students engaging in multiple rounds of creating and revising scientific models, explanations, and evidence-based arguments, expanding ideas over time.  
  •  Teachers use a variety of discourse strategies with students to get them to think deeply and respond to each other’s thinking about phenomena, ideas, and multiple perspectives.
  •  Students prompt each other to engage in sense-making talk during investigations and other activities because students are working to learn from each other’s perspectives.
  •  Students’ ideas being represented publicly and worked on by the class as a collective science learning community.  
  •    Teachers use a variety of discourse strategies to support students in responding to one another’s thinking, build collaborative explanations, and broadly address issues of power and positionality in the classroom and science. 
  • Students using evidence to advocate for justice-centered uses of science based on multiple perspectives, ideas, and questions that have broadened over time. 
  •  Students reflect on how they learned and how they broadened what it means to participate in science together.  

Participants will read chapters and sometimes watch a video before attending a 90-minute interactive virtual session every 2-3 weeks. Sessions will be recorded in the event that a participant needs to miss one or two sessions. Collaboration with peers is essential as we make these shifts to STEELS. Attendees will apply concepts, strategies and tools within their classrooms, aligning one Spring 2025 unit along the way. Act 48 hours will be granted for all three components. 

For a complete list of dates and topics, please click on Detailed Schedule for AST Virtual Book Study SY 24-25 .  Zoom link details also listed. 

Prerequisites: 
Completed at least one of the Tier 1 professional learning options: 

  •  STEELS Experience for K-12 Educators
  •  Or Implementing the STEELS Standards: Developing Science Leadership Teams 
  •  ENGINE 3D STEELS Educators Community of Practice (CoP)
  •  TIU 11 and District offered Introduction to STEELS 
     

Strongly recommended prerequisite: 
Read A Framework for K-12 Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas (2021), free download This ground-breaking research is the foundation of STEELS.

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Wednesday, September 25
8am - 4pm
Session #1 W 9/25/24 3 weeks

Read Chapter 1  A Vision of Ambitious Science Teaching

Select and share a unit you’ll be working on.

Select a partner to work with.

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Wednesday, October 16
8am - 4pm
Session #2 W 10/16/24 2 weeks

Read Chapter 2  Core Practice Set #1 Planning for Engagement with Big Science Ideas

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Wednesday, October 30
8am - 4pm
Session #3 W 10/30/25 2 weeks

Read Chapter 3  Productive Discourse, Part I Talk as a Tool for Learning

Classroom Norms

Apply these Talk Moves early and in support of P#2

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Wednesday, November 13
8am - 4pm
Session #4 W 11/13 2 weeks

Read Chapter 4  Productive Discourse, Part 2 Encouraging More Students to Participate in Talk

Video examples shared during session

introduction to anchoring events 23:56

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Tuesday, November 26
8am - 4pm
Session #5 *Tuesday 11/26 2 weeks

Core Practice Set #2 Eliciting Students’ Ideas

Eliciting student’s ideas 17:33

Eliciting students' ideas (2) 16:29


 

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Wednesday, December 18
8am - 4pm
Session #6 W 12/18/24

Watch video: modeling in the science classroom 24:01

  • Read Chapter 6 Modeling, Part 1 Making Thinking Visible Through Models
     
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Wednesday, January 8
8am - 4pm
Session #7 W 1/8/25

Chapter 7 Modeling, Part 2  

Allowing Students to Show What They Know

Chapter 8 Core Practice Set #3

Supporting On-going Changes in Thinking: Introducing New Ideas

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Wednesday, January 29
8am - 4pm
Session #8 W 1/29/25

Chapter 9  Core Practice Set #3 

Supporting On-going Changes in Thinking: Activity and Sense-making

Chapter 10 Core Practice Set #3

Supporting On-going Changes in Thinking: Collective Thinking

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Wednesday, February 19
8am - 4pm
Session #9 W 2/19/25

Chapter 11 Scientific Argument

Making and Justifying Claims in a Science Community

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Wednesday, March 12
8am - 4pm
Session #10 W 3/12/25

Chapter 12 Core Practice Set #4

Drawing Together Evidence-based Explanations

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Wednesday, April 2
8am - 4pm
Session #11 W 4/2/25
  • Chapter 13  Organizing with Colleagues to Improve Teaching
  • Prep for Assessments discussion
  • Scenario-based, 3D aligned assessments At session
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Wednesday, April 23
8am - 4pm
Session #12 4/23/25

Chapter 14 Can We Be Ambitious Every Day?

  • Appendix A Coherence Between AST and Professional Standards for Practice
  • Appendix B Reminding Ourselves of the Bigger Picture of Instruction 
  • Appendix C Taxonomy of Tools (and Strategies)
  • Appendix D How to Help Students Understand the “What-How-Why” Levels of Explanation
  • Appendix E Rapid Survey of Student Thinking (RSST) Tool
  • Appendix F Supports for Students Making Sense of Experimental Design and Purpose
  • Appendix G Supporting Explanation Writing
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Wednesday, May 7
8am - 4pm
Session #13 W 5/7/25
Final Meeting and Share out
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ENGINE of Central PA: Fall 3D STEELS Educator Community of Practice – Virtual Cancelled

Cancelled
September 26, 2024 - February 6, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

ENGINE of Central PA: Fall 3D STEELS Educator Community of Practice – Virtual

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright, Jeff Remington 
 

 Tier #1 Series Our goals are to begin conversations about the shift towards the new Pennsylvania Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Academic Science Standards (STEELS) that were fully adopted in June 2022. A series of ten interactive webinars will include an 
introduction to Phenomena-based science education, 3D teaching and learning, equity and inclusion, Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, Disciplinary Core Ideas, Student Performance Expectations, PBL, 
Productive Student Discourse, Technology and Engineering Integration, 3D Assessments, and Reviewing and Critiquing for High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM.) Sessions build upon knowledge, pedagogy and practices of 
the preceding ones. It is recommended that all are taken, in order, to develop a foundation for this shift in science education. 


Asynchronous work is required: pre-reading one STEM Teaching Tools Practice Brief, posted reflections regarding the readings, and applying what is learned to participants’ contexts. Participants may join virtually in-person, work completely asynchronously or attend as a hybrid mix.


Fall Series: Thursdays 9/26/24 – 2/6/25 4:00 – 5:30 pm

For a full list of sessions and dates, click on Fall '24-25 ENGINE 3D STEELS Educator CoP.

Number of Participant Activity Hours: 35.0 Location: Virtual 

Time(s): 4:00-5:30 pm

Audience: Administrators K-12 educators, STEM teachers, library media specialists, special education educators 

Recommended Prerequisite: read the National Research Council: A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas (2012), free download

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Thursday, September 26
4 - 5:30pm
Fall Series Community of Practice Session 1
Thursday, February 6
4 - 5:30pm
Fall Series Community of Practice Session 10

Act 89 Staff Meetings

November 20, 2024 - May 6, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11

This meeting is for Act 89 Staff and Principals only.

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Wednesday, November 20
12 - 3:30pm
Tuesday, January 28
12 - 3:30pm
Tuesday, February 18
12 - 3:30pm
Wednesday, March 19
12 - 3:30pm
Act 89 Staff Meeting, March
Tuesday, April 15
12 - 3:30pm
Act 89 Staff Meeting, April
Tuesday, May 6
12 - 3:30pm
Act 89 Staff Meeting, May

SEL Networking (Social Emotional Learning)

January 7, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

Tuesday, January 7, 2025 (location will be the main TIU building)
 

This meeting will be the second in a series of 3 SEL Networking events to be hosted this year. 

The topic to be covered this day:

  • Executive Functioning: everything you need to know!

This event is free and open to all General Educators who support special education students, Emotional Support teachers and staff, Learning Support teachers and staff, Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, and any professional team member who works with students in need of enhanced social-emotional skills training! Feel free to share the link and encourage your colleagues to attend.

Lunch will be on your own.

For more information contact Betsy Cox at ecox@tiu11.org

 

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Tuesday, January 7
9am - 3pm
Social Emotional Learning

Tier #1 ENGINE of Central PA: Spring 3D STEELS Educator Community of Practice – Virtual

January 7, 2025 - May 13, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Tier #1 ENGINE of Central PA: Spring 3D STEELS Educator Community of Practice – Virtual

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright, Jeff Remington 

Tier #1 Series Our goals are to begin conversations about the shift towards the new Pennsylvania Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Academic Science Standards (STEELS) that were fully adopted in June 2022. A series of ten interactive webinars will include an introduction to Phenomena-based science education, 3D teaching and learning, equity and inclusion, Science and Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, Disciplinary Core Ideas, Student Performance Expectations, PBL, Productive Student Discourse, Technology and Engineering Integration, 3D Assessments, and Reviewing and Critiquing for High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM.) Sessions build upon knowledge, pedagogy and practices of the preceding ones. It is recommended that all are taken, in order, to develop a foundation for this shift in science education. 


Asynchronous work is required: pre-reading one STEM Teaching Tools Practice Brief, posted reflections regarding the readings, and applying what is learned to participants’ contexts. Participants may join virtually in-person, work completely asynchronously or attend as a hybrid mix. For a full list of sessions and dates, click on Spring 'SY 23-24 ENGINE 3-D STEELS Educator CoP
Series closes June 31, 2024. 

Recommended Prerequisite: read the National Research Council: A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas (2012), free download

Date(s): Series: Tuesdays 1/7/25 – 5/13/25  

Number of Participant Activity 48 Hours: 35.0 

Location: Virtual 

Audience: Administrators K-12 educators, STEM teachers, library media specialists, special education educators

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Tuesday, January 7
4 - 5:30pm
Tuesday, May 13
4 - 5:30pm

Code.org K- 5 CS Fundamentals Workshop for Elementary Teachers - Virtual

January 9, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright, M.Ed.  TIU 11 STEM/STEAM Curriculum and Instruction Specialist

Description of Activity: Code.org CS Fundamentals: Fully supported, free computer science curriculum and activities for Elementary Teachers

Regardless of what subject you teach, computer science is foundational knowledge for all students in the 21st century. Incorporating it into your classroom will give your students a huge leg up. Besides, this is a subject the kids love learning. With the help of this Code.org, no cost, one-day workshop for elementary school teachers, you will receive support in teaching computer science even if you have no prior experience. In addition, the activities are really fun!

What’s in a workshop?

In-person instruction from an experienced computer science facilitator, including an intro to computer science, pedagogy, overview of the online curriculum, teacher dashboard, and strategies for teaching “unplugged” classroom activities. Over 10,000 teachers have participated in a workshop and the majority say it’s the best PD they’ve ever attended.

What you'll get from this workshop:

  • In-person instruction from an experienced computer science facilitator.
  • An intro to computer science and pedagogy.
  • An overview of the online curriculum and teacher dashboard.
  • A printed curriculum guide containing course lesson plans.
  • Strategies for teaching "unplugged" classroom activities.

Sign up now so you can start teaching these life-changing skills!  Learn more about Code.org’s K-5 program at http://code.org/k5.  Please feel free to email Peney Wright for more details. pwright@tiu11.org

Audience: elementary educators, special education teachers, ELL teachers

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Thursday, January 9

Winter Book Study - The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog

January 9, 2025 - April 3, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Special Education
Notices
Act 48 Activity Hours

The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog 
Authors: Dr. Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz 
Facilitated by Betsy Cox 

In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery. How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry tells their stories of trauma and transformation and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what happens to children’s brains when they are exposed to extreme stress—and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease such pain and help them grow into healthy adults. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child. 

Format: Zoom Meetings (Link will be shared via email on 11/1/2024
Audience: Any regular or special education teacher interested in a flexible way to earn Act 48 hours. Specials teachers are also welcome! 
How it works
● Check out the book from the library or purchase it. Begin reading and be sure to note anything that is “discussion worthy” as we will likely circle back to those areas in our meetings. This is a long and meaty book, so pace yourself. 
● The discussion outline will be emailed to you on November 1, 2024. There will be 4 live Zoom meetings that are required in order to receive your credit hours for this offering. Links will be provided in the forthcoming email. 
● Be prepared to participate in Zoom discussions as outlined from 3:00-4:00pm on the following dates: 
○ Thursday, January 9, 2025 
○ Thursday, February 6, 2025 
○ Thursday, March 6, 2025 
○ Thursday, April 3, 2025 
● You will receive 4 participation hours for each session that you attend, totaling 16 hours upon completion of the course. You will not receive hours for any dates that you do not join the live Zoom session. A certificate with your credit hours will be issued upon completion of the book study.

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Thursday, January 9
3 - 4pm
Session 1
Thursday, February 6
3 - 4pm
Session 2
Thursday, March 6
3 - 4pm
Session 3
Thursday, April 3
3 - 4pm
Session 4

Elementary PBIS Advanced Tiers training, Day 1 of 2

January 10, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

Title: PBIS Advanced Tiers training, Day 1 of 2

Details: Participants will learn how to conceptualize Tier 2 in a Multi-tiered System of Supports; assemble a Tier 2 team; assess current interventions and core features. Participants will also action plan for next steps.  Participans must attend Day 2 on March 7, 2024.
 

Date: January 10, 2025

Time: 8:00am-3:00pm

Location: TIU Main Office, Room TBD

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Friday, January 10
8am - 3pm
PBIS Advanced Tiers training, Day 1 of 2

ECRI training for Administrators, Instructional Coaches and Lead Teachers

January 10, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

ECRI training for Administrators, Instructional Coaches and Lead Teachers

Enhanced Core Reading Instruction™ (ECRI) is a multi-tiered program (Tier 1 and Tier 2) featuring a series of teaching routines designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of reading instruction in kindergarten, first and second grade.  

This course will present information and research about evidence-based reading instruction, and describe and model how to use instructional routines to enhance the delivery of core reading instruction in a multi-tiered system of support. This course will provide resources and guidance to build capacity to provide support for quality implementation of the Enhanced Core Reading Instruction (ECRI) foundational skills instruction. By the end of this course, participants will (a) understand how to present information and research about evidence-based practices (b) be able to describe the explicit instructional elements incorporated into each routine and articulate why they are important, (c) model how to use instructional routines to enhance the delivery of core reading instruction in a multi-tiered system of Tier 1 and Tier 2 support, and (d) be able to use an implementation data collection system to guide continued coaching and professional development.


Join us for this 1/2 day training to learn more about implementing ECRI with fidelity and supporting and coaching teachers.  Please bring a device so that we can look at your school data and how the ECRI suite of interventions can impact classroom instruction and student achievement.   

(Your school/district must have purchased ECRI materials to participate in this training)  

Presenters: Dawn Lynn, Lisa Kruse 
Contact: dlynn@tiu11.org  ekruse@tiu11.org or call 814-542-2501

When: January 10, 2025; 8:30-12:00

Where: TIU 11 Main Office-2527 US HWY 522 South, McVeytown, PA 17051  



 

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Friday, January 10
8:30am - 12pm
ECRI training for Administrators

Gifted Support Network

January 10, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Curriculum
Act 48 Activity Hours

Title: Gifted Support Network

The Gifted Network is an opportunity for teachers who work with gifted students to come together to earn some professional development and to network with other teachers about the latest topics in their field.  The specific focus of each PD session will be added at a later date.

Location: Virtual - https://paiu.zoom.us/j/4476176265

Department: Curriculum

Act 48: 3 Act 48  Hours

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Friday, January 10
9am - 12pm
Gifted Support Network

TIU11 School Psychology Network

January 10, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
Special Education
Act 45 Activity Hours

TIU11 School Psychology Network 

January 10, 2025 - 11:00-12:00pm

* These in-person networking meetings will follow the APR School Psych Panels live from 9-11 at the TIU11 main building, facilitated by Dr. Erica Kaurudar, PATTAN and Dr. Kayla Corl, TIU. 

Registration for the 9-11 webinar is on the Pattan website. 

Registration for Act 48 hours for the School Psych Network is on PD tracker. (11:00-12:00pm) 

Please register for both.  Please contact Kelly Zurybida at kzurybida@tiu11.org with questions. 

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Friday, January 10
11am - 12pm
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ECRI for NEW Teachers

January 13 - 14, 2025
Standing Stone Elementary School
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

Enhanced Core Reading Instruction™ (ECRI) is a multi-tiered program (Tier 1 and Tier 2) featuring a series of teaching routines designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of reading instruction in kindergarten, first and second grade.   

This course will present information and research about evidence-based reading instruction, and describe and model how to use instructional routines to enhance the delivery of core reading instruction in a multi-tiered system of Tier 1 and Tier 2 support. Systematic strategies and instructional routines designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of reading instruction in kindergarten, first and second grade will be described and practiced. By the end of this course, participants will understand how and why (a) using instructional routines can enhance current core reading instruction, and (b) how aligning Tier 1 and Tier 2 reading instruction can lead to high student reading outcomes. Topics will include incorporating explicit instructional elements, aligning intervention for at-risk readers with core instruction, using assessment data to inform and refine instruction, and implementing instructional routines that focus on the essential components of beginning reading instruction.

Join us for this two-day training to learn the Foundational ECRI routines and how to implement them with fidelity in your classroom.  The training will entail learning and practicing each routine while also understanding the "why" of ECRI.  Please bring the following: 

  • A device
  • ECRI Teacher Workbook
  • pen/pencil
  • notebook
  • Resource overlays (i.e. Wonders, Open Court, etc....
  • Your school/district must have purchased ECRI materials to participate in this training)

Presenters: Dawn Lynn, Lisa Kruse 

Contact:  dlynn@tiu11.org, ekruse@tiu11.org or call 814-542-2501

Date: January 13th and 14th, 2025 

Time: 8:00-3:00 p.m.

Location: Standing Stone Elementary School, 29 S. 10th Street, Huntingdon, PA. 16652

Notes:  Lunch is on your own.

*****Participants must attend both days to receive credit for this workshop.

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Monday, January 13
8am - 3pm
ECRI for new teachers Day 1
Tuesday, January 14
8am - 3pm
ECRI for new teachers Day 2

School Counselor Network (K-12)

January 14, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Curriculum
Notices
Act 48 Activity Hours

Title: School Counselor Network (K-12)

Date: 12/13/24

Time: 9 am - Noon

Location: Virtual - https://paiu.zoom.us/j/4476176265

Department: Curriculum

Act 48: Yes

Description: The School Counselor Network is an opportunity for school counselors from around the region to come together to get some professional development and converse with other counselors on the biggest topics in our area.

Bilal Ghandour, clinical psychologist and associate professor from Elon University, will be speaking about youth/adolescent anxiety with a special focus on social media. 

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Tuesday, January 14
9am - 12pm
School Counselor Network

Student Anxiety and Social Media

January 14, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Curriculum
Act 48 Activity Hours

Description: Bilal Ghandour, clinical psychologist and associate professor at Elon University who recently presented for Mental Health America's conference, will present on student anxiety/depression as it relates to social media.  He will be available for questions following his presentation.  

Title: Student Anxiety and Social Media

Date: January 14, 2024

Time: 9:30 - 10:30 am 

Location: Virtual - https://paiu.zoom.us/j/4476176265

Department: Curriculum

Act 48: Yes

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Tuesday, January 14
9:30 - 10:30am
Student Anxiety and Social Media

STEELS Special Topics, Session B

January 15, 2025
To be Determined (TBD)
STEM

STEELS Special Topics, Session B

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright 

Tier 3 Professional Learning. Please see prerequisites below. 

Session B includes: 
Equity, Inclusion and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

  • Review the CAST UDL Principles
  • Engage with an interactive infographic that pairs principles of UDL with the 3-       Dimensions

STEM: Integrating TE Within STEELS K-12 
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  • In addition to the Science Standards, the Technology and Engineering (TE) Standards are for all students. Many of the new TE Standards will be part of STEM Program curricula.
  • TE Standards are also to be integrated with the sciences, K-12.
  • And, TE Standards are to be integrated within Project/Problem-based Learning, including multiple subject areas.
  • Take a deep dive into the TE grade bands, noticing progressions before, within and after your grade level.
  • Strategies and Examples for TE integration will be shared.
  • Investigate integrated exemplars created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology for all grade bands.
  • Time to begin a grade level and/or K-12 STEM/TE Integration Plan will be provided.  
     

Critiquing and Shifting Towards Phenomena-based 3-Dimensional Curricula  

Equity, inclusion and belonging are tenets of PA’s Equitable Practices.  The STEELS Standards are intended for all learners at every school. Use the principles of Universal Design for Learning to remove barriers to learning, invite all students to take advantage of tools and technology to support successful learning and share the variety of ways you encourage your students to show what they’ve learned. 

"The integration of these disciplines in the standards highlights the interconnectedness of scientific, technological, and engineering focused study; the integral relationship between humans and the environment; and the importance of integrating the teaching and learning of science, technology, and engineering.”  June 2022 PDE STEELS 

Technology & Engineering - Focuses on the interactions among technology, engineering, society, the environment, and other disciplines, with a goal of developing individuals that can create, utilize, and assess current and emerging technologies. The standards are written as grade-banded performance expectations built around technology and engineering strands, practices, and contexts and integrated into a set of specific standards. These components are elaborated upon in Foundation Boxes (hyperlinked for each standard) providing support for design of curriculum"

The new STEELS Standards are intended to promote integration at all grade levels, in all ways:  

  • the sciences integrated with technology and engineering
  • technology and engineering integrated within all the sciences
  • Elementary integration: STEELS with ELA and Math
  • Middle and High School STEELS integration between all subject areas

“The difference in the verbs used in the NGSS tells the story. Gone is the conception of science education as an abstract recall of facts. Instead, students demonstrate proficiency in science by engaging in actual scientific practices — in this case, developing models, designing solutions and constructing arguments. In the words of one standards author, the NGSS requires that students move from demonstrating good note-taking skills to demonstrating true understanding of scientific practices, concepts and core ideas. The resulting implications for classroom practice could not be greater.”  2013, Achieve NGSS Workbook 

Our goals are to shift our teaching to engage 21st Century students in rigorous science learning.  

NGSS Conceptual Shifts 

  • K–12 Science Education Should Reflect the real-world interconnections in science
  • All practices and crosscutting concepts are used to teach all core ideas all year
  • Science concepts build coherently across K-12
  • The NGSS focus on deeper understanding and application of content 
     Integration of science and engineering
  • Coordination with Common Core State and STEELS Standards

Strongly recommended: read the National Research Council: A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideas (2012), free download 

Prerequisites: At least one of these: STEELS Experience for K-12 Educators, Implementing the STEELS Standards: Developing Science Leadership Teams; ENGINE 3-D STEELS Educator Virtual Community of Practice (CoP)

Audience: 3-8 educators, library media specialists, special education educators

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Sessions

Wednesday, January 15
8:30am - 3:30pm
STEELS Special Topics, Session B

Secondary PBIS Reboot

January 15, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

Title: Secondary PBIS Reboot

Details: PBIS core team members from MCJH and MCHS who have been on the team or are new to the team are welcome to attend this 1-day training. It will cover all the information in the Tier 1 training modules and support implementation with fidelity of the PBIS framework.
 

Date: January 15, 2025

Time: 8:30am-3:00pm

Location: TIU Main Office Building

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Wednesday, January 15
8:30am - 3pm
Secondary PBIS Reboot

Instructional Coaches Network Meeting

January 15, 2025
To be Determined (TBD)
Curriculum
Act 48 Activity Hours

Title: Coaches Network

Date: 1/15/25

Time: 1 pm - 3 pm

Location: TBD

Department: Curriculum

Act 48: Yes

Description: The Coaches Network is an opportunity for academic coaches from around the region to come together to get some professional development and converse with other coaches on the biggest topics in our area.

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Wednesday, January 15
1 - 3pm
Instructional Coaches Network

Health/PE Training

January 20, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Curriculum
Act 48 Activity Hours

Title: Health/PE Training

Description: Elementary HPE Teachers will be provided two individualized sessions.
Session 1 will include information on how to enhance health at the elementary level. Teachers will navigate building a strategic plan to enhance the delivery of health education. Session 2 will look at monitoring their equipment within and outside of the school. Teachers will look at new ways to utilize all available tools to maximize the use of equipment and materials in their physical education classes.

Secondary HPE teachers will be provided two individualized sessions. Session 1 will look at monitoring their equipment within and outside of the school. Teachers will look at new ways to utilize all available tools to maximize the use of equipment and materials in their physical education classes. Session 2 will evaluate their current PE program. The
purpose of this session is to provide teachers with tools to incorporate more lifelong fitness into their PE program.

Date: January 20, 2025

Time: 9 am to 3 pm

Location: Virtual - Teams link will be provided by PDE.  Virtual Link: https://paiu.zoom.us/j/95138153143


Department: Curriculum

Act 48: Yes

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Monday, January 20
9am - 3pm
Health and Physical Education Training

STEELS District Leadership Teams Fall & Spring Meetings

January 22, 2025
To be Determined (TBD)
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright

Description of Activity: 

Prerequisite: Implementing the STEELS Standards: Developing Science Leadership Teams

Tier #2 Session For established school district STEELS Leadership Teams who have completed the Implementing the STEELS Standards: Developing Science Leadership Teams professional learning. Continued support for the STEELS Rollout towards full implementation beginning in SY ‘25-26. Sessions will include school districts’ updates, collaboration and application of district planning resources. All team members encouraged to attend; special topics will be featured. 

Special Topics to include:

  • STEM for All Learners
  • 3-Dimensional Assessments
  • Integrating STEELS at the Elementary Level and Secondary Level
  • Technology and Engineering Standards Integration
  • Shifting and/or Selecting High Quality Instructional Materials
  • STEM/STEAM and Computer Science with STEELS
  • Planning for T & E Learning and Integration K-12
     

Advanced Projects may include:

  • Developing a cohesive unit Storyline
  • HQIM Reviews or Shifting Deep Dive and Working Session
  • Developing STEELS aligned formative and summative assessments
  • Supporting Leading Elementary Teacher Superstars “SLEETS” for STEELS
  • Team Planning: Ongoing Professional Learning for teachers, STEELS Curriculum Mapping, etc.
     

Alternate dates which also offer these opportunities are Special Topics A on 11/16/24, Special Topics B on 1/15/25, Special Topics C on 11/14/24 or 2/25/25 and STEELS: Planning for T & E Learning and Integration on 2/26/25. A STEELS Special Topics a’ la carte 4/3/25 will also include choice of STEELS modules.

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Wednesday, January 22
8:30am - 4pm

Shared Waters: Turnkey Curriculum for 2nd – 5th Grades Environmental Literacy & Sustainability (EL & S) Education

January 23, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Shared Waters: Turnkey Curriculum for 2nd – 5th Grades Environmental Literacy & Sustainability (EL & S) Education

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright

Description of Activity: 

Shared Waters enriches education by integrating Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) into school curricula, providing resources for teachers and actionable learning for students. It aims to cultivate environmental literacy and sustainability, transforming students into knowledgeable advocates who can identify and solve local watershed issues. It provides a comprehensive curriculum, ready-to-use instructional materials, and professional development to foster the next generation of environmental stewards right from their classrooms.

What is a MWEE?

The Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) is a learner-centered framework that focuses on investigations into local environmental issues and leads to informed action. MWEEs are made up of multiple components that include learning both outdoors and in the classroom that are designed to increase environmental literacy by actively engaging students in building knowledge and meaning through hands-on experiences contribute to stronger, sustainable, and equitable communities.

Through turnkey classroom-tested curriculum, hands-on science kits, and professional development, the Shared Waters team assists administrators and teachers in seamlessly embedding standards-aligned environmental literacy and sustainability education into the district and school curriculum.

Pre-requisite:

Be enrolled or complete the MWEE 101 Online Course, 6-8 hours, Act 48 credit awarded

Become an EL & S MWEE TIU 11 Partner! Eligible for an EL& S mini grant up to $2,000.00 for your district’s program. 

  • Attend the MWEE 101 Online Course
  • Attend the 1-day Shared Waters Professional Learning
  • Submit an implementation plan and share feedback about your program
     

Time(s): 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Audience: 2 nd – 5 th grades educators, STEM teachers, library media specialists, literacy coaches, special education educators, administrators, paraprofessionals

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Thursday, January 23
8:30am - 3:30pm
Shared Waters

TUSCARORA INTERMEDIATE UNIT 11 SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCIL

January 23, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
Special Education

TUSCARORA INTERMEDIATE UNIT 11 SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVISORY COUNCI

SAVE THE DATES 
2024-2025 
9:00am 
(end times vary from 1:00pm-3:00pm depending on topics. TaC will be available for consult whole day! ) 

*September 26, 2024 
*October 24, 2024 
December 5, 2024 
January 23, 2025 
February 27,2025 
April 24, 2025 

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Thursday, January 23
9am - 3pm
Special Education Advisory

Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Session #3 AST Practice 2 - Eliciting Students’ Ideas [Half- day AM] Cancelled

Cancelled
January 28, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Session #3 AST Practice 2 - Eliciting Students’ Ideas [Half- day AM]

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright and Eric Yoder 
Tier #2 Professional Learning. See prerequisites below. 

Description of Activity: Why do we use these particular four practices? 
Our main objective as science teachers is to change students’ thinking over time, so we need to know what our students understand about the target science ideas in the first place. This set of practices—eliciting students’ ideas—is used at the beginning of a unit of instruction. It is designed to 1) reveal the range of resources that students use to reason about a set of science ideas (working theories, everyday experiences, language), 2) activate their prior knowledge about the topic, and 3) help you to adapt upcoming instruction, based on how students reason about the anchoring event. Please note that this set of practices is about more than “hooking” students or temporarily capturing their interest. 

In this session learn about the importance of Productive Student Discourse, using culturally relevant and their own words, to communicate, figure out and make sense of science concepts. 

During this session, we will focus on: 

  • Modeling eliciting students’ questions and ideas as well as activating prior knowledge 
  • Supporting students to represent their thinking publicly 
  • Science and Engineering Practice of developing and using models: students modeling as a technique for explaining student thinking
  • Making student thinking visible 

Highly Recommended: Visit https://ambitiousscienceteaching.org/ to preview the website (Getting Started) and watch the Eliciting students’ ideas video ,16;39. Also read Ambitious Science Teaching: Chapters 5-7, Appendix C 

Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Book Study – Virtual Sessions begin September 29 th , 2024 and with Session #2 on October 16 th , 2024. 

Prerequisites include: 

  • AST Session #1: Introduction to Ambitious Science Teaching and Culturally Relevant Science Teaching 
  •  AST Session #2: Practice 1 - Planning for Big Ideas 

Note: Selected sessions will be recorded and made available for an asynchronous option. Asynchronous work to include pre-reading of the website and/or AST paperback, viewing AST videos, posted reflections regarding the readings and videos, and applying what is learned to participants’ contexts. Participants may join in-person, work completely asynchronously or attend as a hybrid mix. Please contact Peney at pwright@tiu11.org for complete details.

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Tuesday, January 28
8:30am - 3:30pm
Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Session #3

Strategies for Teaching STEELS: Open Sci Ed Institute

January 28 - 30, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright

Free to all TIU 11 regional participants

Description of Activity: In support of the STEELS Standards full implementation next year, OpenSciEd offers essential teaching routines, protocols and strategies to meet qualitative, rigorous, high level instruction and learning for all students. Although you do not have to use the free OpenSciEd curriculum, exemplar units are available for middle school and high school. Elementary units have begun to be released, one per grade level K-5. More to come through 2026.

School districts across PA and the nation are using OpenSciEd to support their science programs. EdReports states that OpenSciEd middle school (the initial series developed) “meets expectations for Alignment and Usability. In Gateway 1, the materials meet expectations for Three-Dimensional Learning and Phenomena and Problems Drive Learning. In Gateway 2, the materials meet expectations for Coherence and Full Scope of the Three Dimensions. In Gateway 3, the materials meet expectations for Usability.” 2023

Goals: Creating classrooms with inspired educators & motivated learners.

OpenSciEd empowers educators to go beyond traditional science teaching methods by bringing together leading science researchers and educators to craft curriculum that is aligned to how students learn best.

“My students have begun to realize they have the power and the knowledge to plan and investigate how the world works around them.”  7th Grade Teacher

Prerequisites: STEELS Experience K-12, an introduction to STEELS, or ENGINE 3D STEELS Educator Community of Practice

Highly recommended: Read A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (2012), free download

Check ins and support to follow throughout the school year. 

Free to all TIU 11 regional participants

Non-TIU 11 regional participants: $450.00 for all 3 days

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Tuesday, January 28
8:30am - 3:30pm
Day One
Wednesday, January 29
8:30am - 3:30pm
Day Two
Thursday, January 30
8:30am - 3:30pm
Day Three

PBIS Tier 1 Training Southern Fulton Elementary Staff

January 28, 2025
Southern Fulton Elementary School
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

Positive Behavior Training Southern Fulton Elementary Staff

PBIS Tier 1 Training, Southern Fulton Elementary Staff

8:30am-3pm each of the following dates:

Aug 9

Oct 22

Jan 28

Mar 19

May 7

Instructor Elizabeth Cox ecox@tiu11.org

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Tuesday, January 28
8:30am - 3pm
PBIS SFSD Elementary

Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Session #4 AST Practice 3 - Supporting on-going changes in thinking [Half-day PM] Cancelled

Cancelled
January 28, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Session #4 AST Practice 3 - Supporting on-going changes in thinking [Half-day PM]

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright 
Tier #2 Professional Learning. See prerequisites below. 

Description of Activity: Supporting on-going changes in thinking 

Throughout any unit of instruction, students are frequently engaged in different types of activity. For example, students might do hands-on work with materials, use computer simulations, conduct observations of phenomena, design experiments, or collect and analyze different types of data. The purpose of this set of practices is to help students develop new ideas to use in revising explanations and models for the anchoring phenomena.

We want to make clear that this set of practices should be repeated multiple times throughout a unit. Multiple activities and multiple rounds of sense making are required to build towards a deep understanding of an explanatory model. A single activity is not enough to accomplish this.

Ambitious Science Teaching Practice #3 involves supporting ongoing changes in students’ thinking about scientific concepts. This practice recognizes that science learning is an iterative process that requires students to continuously revisit and revise their prior understandings and beliefs as they encounter new information and evidence.

In Session #4 we will delve deeply into meeting the Three Core Practices which support ongoing changes in thinking within an immersive experience:

  • Introducing new ideas 
  •  Engaging students in activity and sense making 
  •  Collective thinking 

Highly Recommended:  Visit https://ambitiousscienceteaching.org/ to preview the website (Getting Started) and watch the Supporting on-going changes in thinking video ,21:52. Also read Ambitious Science Teaching: Chapters 8 - 11, Appendices D-E 

Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Book Study – Virtual Sessions begin September 29 th , 2024 and with Session #2 on October 16 th , 2024. 

Prerequisites include: 

  •  At least one Tier #1 PL 
  •  AST Sessions #1 - #3 

Note: Selected sessions will be recorded and made available for an asynchronous option. Asynchronous work to include pre-reading of the website and/or AST paperback, viewing AST videos, posted reflections regarding the readings and videos, and applying what is learned to participants’ contexts. Participants may join in-person, work completely asynchronously or attend as a hybrid mix. Please contact Peney at pwright@tiu11.org for complete details.

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Tuesday, January 28
12:30 - 3:30pm
Ambitious Science Teaching (AST) Session #4

Safety Care Recertification Training

February 4, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

Safety-Care is a training program for staff working with children, adolescents, or adults who may exhibit challenging or dangerous behavior.  Participants in the course learn a wide variety of prevention skills so that they can each contribute to a physical and social environment that encourages behavior patterns that are positive and safe.  Please note that this is a re-certification training.   There will be a $7.00 charge for materials and processing. 1/2 hour lunch on your own. We need a minimum of 6 people in order to run the training. 

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Tuesday, February 4
8am - 3:30pm
Safety Care Recertification

Shared Waters: EL & S Turnkey Elementary Curriculum for STEELS Leaders

February 6, 2025
Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11
STEM
Act 48 Activity Hours

Shared Waters: EL & S Turnkey Elementary Curriculum for STEELS Leaders 

Instructor(s): Peney E. Wright

Description of Activity:  Train-the-Trainer or LEA Leadership Professional Learning

Shared Waters enriches education by integrating Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) into school curricula, providing resources for teachers and actionable learning for students. It aims to cultivate environmental literacy and sustainability, transforming students into knowledgeable advocates who can identify and solve local watershed issues. It provides a comprehensive curriculum, ready-to-use instructional materials, and professional development to foster the next generation of environmental stewards right from their classrooms.

What is a MWEE?

The Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience (MWEE) is a learner-centered framework that focuses on investigations into local environmental issues and leads to informed action. MWEEs are made up of multiple components that include learning both outdoors and in the classroom that are designed to increase environmental literacy by actively engaging students in building knowledge and meaning through hands-on experiences contribute to stronger, sustainable, and equitable communities.

Through turnkey classroom-tested curriculum, hands-on science kits, and professional development, the Shared Waters team assists administrators and teachers in seamlessly embedding standards-aligned environmental literacy and sustainability education into the district and school curriculum.

Time(s): 8:30 am – 3:30 pm    Audience: IU STEM PoCs, Administrators, literacy coaches, Curriculum Coordinators, science chairs or district leaders, districtwide STEELS Leadership Team Members 

 

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Thursday, February 6
8:30am - 3:30pm
Shared Waters

Huntingdon/Fulton County Transition Coordinating Council Meetings 24-25

February 11, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

The Huntingdon/Fulton County Transition Coordinating Council is a group of like-minded individuals that wish to support students with disabilities that are of transition age (14-21), as they work towards life after high school. The goal of the group is to strengthen their knowledge in the area of transition through training, resource sharing, interagency collaboration, and networking. 

Target Audience: Huntingdon and Fulton County Special Education Teachers & Administrators, Outside Agencies/Providers, Local Business Owners, Guidance Counselors, School Social Workers, Parents, or Secondary Students

*These meetings will be held via Zoom. Virtual Meeting Link will be sent to participants upon registration

If you have any questions please contact:

Staci Young, TIU 11 Educational Consultant

syoung@tiu11.org

814-542-2501x1126

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Tuesday, February 11
8:30 - 10am
Huntingdon/Fulton County Transition

Mifflin/Juniata County Transition Coordinating Council Meetings 24-25

February 13, 2025
Your Internet Ready Computer
Special Education
Act 48 Activity Hours

The Mifflin/Juniata County Transition Coordinating Council is a group of like-minded individuals that wish to support students with disabilities that are of transition age (14-21), as they work towards life after high school. The goal of the group is to strengthen their knowledge in the area of transition through training, resource sharing, interagency collaboration, and networking. 

Target Audience: Mifflin and Juniata County Special Education Teachers & Administrators, Outside Agencies/Providers, Local Business Owners, Guidance Counselors, School Social Workers, Parents, or Secondary Students

*These meetings will be held via Zoom. Virtual Meeting Link will be sent to participants upon registration

If you have any questions please contact:

Staci Young, TIU 11 Educational Consultant

syoung@tiu11.org

814-542-2501x1126


 

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Thursday, February 13
8:30 - 10am
Mifflin/Juniata County Transition