Professional Learning Events Directory

Soluna is funded by California DHCS and designed to meet adolescents where they are at (cell phones) when they need us (after-hours) and with the safety they need to open up. Therefore the program is free to all Schools and students. 

 Soluna is a supplement to the services they can receive at school with the intention of prevention & early intervention, building essential life skills, and fostering a supportive digital environment. In turn, this can reduce pressure on both our educators and clinical infrastructure.

• Role of the Administrator in an IEP
• Family Engagement
• Appropriate curriculum, curriculum supports, and intervention for SWD
• Supporting SPED Staff
• Supporting general ed teachers with SWD
• Co-teaching models and successful implementation
• Evaluation of certificated staff (SPED and general ed teachers)
• Analyzing data for SWD to close the achievement gap

• Hosting keynote speakers
• Sharing Leadership Best Practices
• Participating in the Cost of Poverty Experience
• Learning at the School Culture Summit
• Offering individual coaching by request

• Align a request for assistance form into Tier II services by identifying data decision rules
• Match interventions to student need and fidelity to Check In Check Out (CICO)
• Follow a Tier II action plan that is directly aligned with the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI)

• Systematically implement PBIS Tier I principles
• Follow an action plan that is directly aligned with the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI)
• Access to our PBIS Technical Assistance Coaches Network

• Stimulates motivation & sustains enthusiasm for learning by promoting various ways of engaging with the material.
• Presents information & content in a variety of ways to support understanding by students with different learning styles/abilities.
• Offers options for students to demonstrate their learning in various ways.

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The Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports Workshop is a comprehensive professional development opportunity designed to:

• Empower educators with the knowledge and tools to create inclusive learning environments
• Foster collaboration among Gen Ed & SPED teachers to meet the needs of the whole child

• Culturally sustaining teaching and learning practices that emphasize interacting to use language authentically and build up core ideas in different disciplines.
•  Ways to foster engagement and enhance existing activities for more communication, language use, and peer connections.
•  Ideas for valuing what students bring to the communication and idea-building tables.
•  Next steps for implementing the theory and practices across content areas and grade levels

To truly reach, and exceed, rigorous standards, students need to learn how to use language to clearly communicate to build up whole ideas that are valued in the discipline. This session will equip educators to improve reading, writing, and oral language production across disciplines. Participants will gain:

• Culturally sustaining teaching and learning practices that emphasize interacting to use language authentically and build up core ideas in different disciplines
• Ways to foster engagement and enhance existing activities for more communication, language use, and peer connections
• Ideas for valuing what students bring to the communication and idea-building tables
• Next steps for implementing the theory and practices across content areas and grade levels

• Explore how differing attitudes, opinions and beliefs on the part of both teachers and students impact the classroom environment and school climate;
• Examine how implicit and explicit beliefs impact our ability to create and sustain positive, universal, and equitable school-wide norms and standards for appropriate behavior;
• Increase your understanding of how tobacco companies use systemic inequities to target vulnerable populations, including children, teens, and communities of color;
• Learn how implicit bias can lead to unintentional inequities in school discipline;
• Develop an alternative to suspension program for tobacco and vaping that empowers students to influence peers and younger students in positive and exciting ways; and
• Harness the strength, power, and creativity that comes from our acknowledging and celebrating our diversity.

1. Recognizing signs and symptoms: Participants will learn to identify physical, behavioral, and psychological signs that may indicate a student is under the influence.
2. Understanding different substances: The training covers common drugs and substances that students may encounter, including their effects on behavior, cognition, and health.
3. Effective communication: DITEP emphasizes the importance of open and non-judgmental communication with students.
4. Intervention strategies: Education professionals will be taught appropriate intervention techniques.
5. Legal and ethical considerations: The training highlights the legal and ethical frameworks surrounding drug-related issues in educational settings.
6. Prevention and support: DITEP provides strategies to create a safe and supportive school environment to reduce drug-related incidents.

• Participants will understand the proper mindset for working with parents.
• Participants will understand parenting styles & how to handle them.
• Participants will understand toxic parenting styles.
• Participants will learn general strategies for working with parents.

• Identify developing concerns/threats.
• Gather information from multiple sources and organizational silos.
• Maximize skills and resources to address concerns.
• Monitor outcomes.

• Communicate (to, from, and within the team).
• Collaborate (working together for the best awareness and outcomes).
• Coordinate (engaging in purposeful planning and coordination of actions and interventions within the team and with outside partners).

"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly” stated by Etienne Wenger.  Please join Kern County Superintendent of Schools for a MTSS/SEL Community of Practice collaboration meeting.

Participants are encouraged to join our community of practice where educators can collaborate, share, and learn from other educators as to how they are supporting SEL.

Facilitator: Brianna Crosby

• learn to realiably and validly administer the ELPAC
• be oriented to the ELPAC with Assessment 101 informatio
• get familiar with available resources to support all site coordinators and the tasks you need to complete for the Summative ELPAC

• Describe the Forward Thinking Interactive Journaling® System.
• Present foundational principles and theoretical underpinnings that support the use of journaling as an effective behavioral change strategy.
• Demonstrate effective methods to implement Forward Thinking to support at-risk teens.
• Practice the most powerful facilitation techniques for using Forward Thinking Interactive Journaling® with youth.

The purpose of this network is to collaboratively explore instructional strategies for World Language students and to share best practices for the implementation of the World Language standards and framework.

Participants will:

• Strengthen understanding of the key elements in teaching World Language learners

• Learn and practice effective instructional strategies for building students’ knowledge and skills in communication, culture, and connection of World Languages.

• Collaborate with other World Language teachers and instructional leaders.

• collaborate with educators using KiDS
• learn about county-wide updates and trends
• engage in data-driven focused discussion
• build data literacy and culture
• hear best practices
• share feedback that will impact dashboard development

• Focus on the roles and responsibilities of the LEA CAASPP coordinator in planning and preparing for a successful CAASPP administration,
• Familiarize new coordinators with the assessments that fall under the CAASPP umbrella,
• Explain the responsibilities of the CAASPP coordinator, and
• Offer suggested time frames for completing activities.

• Focus on the roles and responsibilities of the LEA CAASPP coordinator in planning and preparing for a successful CAASPP administration,
• Familiarize new coordinators with the assessments that fall under the CAASPP umbrella,
• Explain the responsibilities of the CAASPP coordinator, and
• Offer suggested time frames for completing activities.

"Boost Your Teaching Toolkit: Join our workshop to easily understand CAASPP and ELPAC accessibility features. Discover how simple Chrome extensions can make learning accessible for all students throughout the year. This session is your key to creating an inclusive and supportive classroom. Don't miss out on this practical and straightforward opportunity to enhance your teaching skills!" 

3rd - 8th Grade: TOSAs, Testing Coordinators, Administrators, Site Administrators, Other Instructional Leaders, Teachers (general education and special education)