Southwest Georgia RESA

March Newsletter 2015 Emailed from Southwest Georgia RESA

Southwest Georgia RESA

570 Martin L. King, Jr. Road

Camilla, GA 31730

Phone: (229) 207-0600

Fax: (229) 336-2888

The PSAT/NMSQT Edition for Educators

The Summary of Answers & Skills (SOAS) Report allows you to take a closer, detailed look at your students' academic skills by providing a snapshot of student performance on each PSAT/NMSQT test question. The AP Potential report will support your efforts to recruit students identified with high likelihood for success in AP or other advanced academic cours-es. Presented online, these reports may be downloaded as easily shared with others at your school beginning in Janu-ary. Join us to learn how to link classroom activities with the skills the PSAT/NMSQT measures--critical reading, math prob-lem solving, and writing skills (and focus on the skills in need of improvement) and how to intentionally recruit students for rig-orous courses. Through personal reflection and group discus-sion, you will begin to devise action plans to help your students to utilize this tool in your school/district. In addition, updates regarding the redesigned PSAT will be shared.

March 24, 2015, 9-3, Southwest Georgia RESA

REGISTER NOW! www.swresa.org

Administrative Professionals Day at RESA Have you ever said this... "I wish there was more hours in the day!" This exciting workshop will cover the im-portance of good time management and problem solving skills in a school. Managing time and effectively prob-lem solving is a critical skill for being more productive and relieving stress. We will focus on the skills, tools and strategies for managing time appropriately, setting priorities and making time spent more productive by identifying and learning how to avoid time wasters. We will also touch on personalized communication.

The day will conclude with “Stressed Spelled Backwards is Desserts” We all know how stressful working with the public can be, but if you look at it through the right lens, it can make you laugh! Get those endorphins moving and laugh your way through the day!

This workshop will be offered twice!! So choose the day that best fits your schedule.

March 2, 2015 OR March 3, 2015 9:00-3:00, Southwest RESA in Camilla, 570 Martin Luther King Road

Register NOW!

ELA

Understanding Constructed Response:

Preparing for the Georgia Milestones! Feb. 24, 2014

Grades 6-8 9:00-12:00 Grades 9-12 12:30-3:30

Back By Popular Demand!

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Southwest Georgia Student Media Festival

Southwest Georgia RESA will be hosting a Student Media Festival to showcase dig-ital media projects produced by our students in south Georgia. We are excited about teachers sharing assignments that are part of their CCGPS units that include student created media projects. Please see the link below for more information and entry

forms. The Southwest RESA Student Media Festival is scheduled for March 19,

2015. Entry guidelines and the application can be found by following the link

Entry Guidelines and Application Limit 3 entries per school !

If a school expects to have lots of participation, please host a school or district level competition before sending entries to the SWRESA Media Festival.

April 28, 2015 8:00-3:00 A resource designed by teachers to provide students with oppor-tunities to explore the important concepts of courage, commit-ment, sacrifice, patriotism, integrity, and citizenship and how these values can be exemplified in daily life.

Participants will receive Medal of Honor Character Development Program Curriculum Kit Breakfast and Lunch will be provided.

Make Plans to Attend SWRESA

Summer Science Conference!!

June 15-16***More info to come!

Coaching Endorsement to be Offered at Southwest RESA

Coaches are agents of change, supporting and improving the performance of their colleagues, improving teamwork among staff, and increasing the commitment of others to the goals of the sys-tem/school improvement plan-all of which result in improving student achievement. Using a cog-nitive coaching model, with particular attention to building cultural proficiency in ourselves and those we coach, this endorsement program pro-vides the skills and knowledge to bring about positive change in the school setting. This pro-gram meets the PSC endorsement criterion for the Lead Professional certification tier for Georgia educators.

In the first course, Culturally Proficient Coach-ing, participants will self-assess their knowledge, skills, and dispositions to become effective coaches, with special attention to the cultural dif-ferences among those we coach and the students with whom we interact. The second and third courses run concurrently at the conclusion of Course 1, and consist of coaching practice in the school/system setting.

Course I will begin June 4 (9:00 – 12:00) and continue on the following three dates: June 18, July 2, and July 16. All courses would be on Thursdays 9 – 12 here at RESA. Courses II and III would immediately follow course one. The dates for those two courses are August 15 and October 10 (Saturdays) 9 – 12.

Each course will be $300.00 for a total of $900.

The following signatures verify both school and sys-tem leadership recommends the above candidate based on the following criteria:

Candidate has a minimum of three years teaching experience.

Candidate holds a Clear-Renewable Georgia Teaching certificate, the service field of School Coun-selor, or the leadership field of Educational Leader-ship.

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SW GA RESA

Cooperative

Purchasing

We offer:

Low prices on school, office, janitorial and

medical supplies, computer supplies &

equipment and laminating film, etc.

secure approval process

– Order online

(www.swresa.org) or call (229-232-8278)

or fax your order (229-336-2888)

member systems pay only 6%

- we are only a phone call

away ...

Purchasing Specialists:

Jeanie Martin

229-232-8278

Iverson Lawhorn

229-520-5026

Purchasing Assistant:

Cheryl Clark

229-255-2241

You are invited to attend a Teachers Retirement System of Georgia’s

One-On-One Pre-Retirement Counseling Session

Date & Time: Location:

Questions? Contact:

To learn more, go to www.trsga.com. Click on “Events” in the upper navigation bar, and select Pre-Retirement Counseling Session.

Providing a future you can depend on

TRS Pre-Retirement Counseling

After you attend one of our pre-retirement workshops, we encourage you to meet one-on-one with one of our experienced retirement counselors. We offer this service to all members within 5 years of retirement, with priority given to those within 2 years.

This 50-minute session will allow you to:• Receiveindividualbenefitestimates.• ReceivedetailedinformationaboutTRSretirementoptions.• Receivemorein-depthinformationaboutpurchasingservice.• Askveryspecificquestionsaboutyourindividualsituation.• Bringaguestwithyoutolistenandaskquestions.

We look forward to meeting you and welcome your questions and feedback!

To register, follow these easy steps:1. Visit www.trsga.com.2. Click on Account Login link in the upper navigation bar.3. Select“ActiveMember”andproceedtotheAccountLoginpage.4. Registerforand/orlog in to your TRS account. 5. Click on Register for an Event.6. Pick the event and time of your choice. You will receive an automatice-mailconfirmationuponyoursuccessfulregistration.

Teachers RetirementSystem of Georgia

You are invited to attend a Teachers Retirement System of Georgia’s

Pre-Retirement WorkshopDate & Time: Location:

Questions? Contact:

Retirement is within reach and it’s time to get serious about it! This workshop will provide you with the information and resources you need to help you map out your retirement plan. We look forward to meeting you and welcome your questions and feedback!

What you’ll learn at this 1-hour workshop:• Planningyourretirement-date,finances,etc.• Retirementplansandbenefits-survivorshipplans,partiallump

sum option.• Theimportanceofnamingbeneficiaries.• Calculatingyourbenefit-thebenefitformula.• Applying for retirement - easy steps tomakeyour retirement

seamless. • Benefitpayments-includingcostoflivingadjustments.• Working after retirement.• Legalconsiderationsandfinancialplanning.• Resources to help you be successful.

TRS Pre-Retirement Workshop

To register, follow these easy steps:1. Visit www.trsga.com.2. Click on Account Login link in the upper navigation bar.3. Select“ActiveMember”andproceedtotheAccountLoginpage.4. Register for and/or log in to your TRS account. 5. Click on Register for an Event.6. Picktheevent and time of your choice. You will receive an automatic e-mailconfirmationuponyoursuccessfulregistration.

To learn more, go to www.trsga.com. Click on “Events” in the upper navigation bar, and select Pre-Retirement Workshop.

Providing a future you can depend on

Southwest GA RESA has been selected as a host site for

Leadercast LIVE in 2015!!!

On May 8, 2015, the Leadercast event will be highlighting

bravery in leadership with the theme, The Brave Ones. The

lineup will include NFL quarterback Peyton Manning,

former mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, and Ed

Catmull, President of Disney and Pixar Studios.

(Click here for more information on the line-up.)

Andy Stanley

Ed Catmull

Rudy Giuliani

Peyton Manning

CLICK THE RESA

EMBLEM TO

REGISTER!

More information coming soon!