Roughrider Education Services Program Issue 6 2016 Newsletter.pdf · 300 13th Avenue W, Suite 6C, Dickinson, ND 58601 (T) 701.483.0999 | (F) 701.483.0998 Roughrider Education Services

300 13th Avenue W, Suite 6C, Dickinson, ND 58601 (T) 701.483.0999 | (F) 701.483.0998 www.resp-k12-education.org

Roughrider Education Services Program Issue 6

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Monthly Newsletter

In this Issue

Page 1 Greetings from Director Riley Mattson Page 2 From the Desk of Yvonn Weigel-Frank & Question Persuade Refer (QPR) for Suicide Prevention News Page 3 Horatio Alger Scholarship Page 4 From the Desk of Brittany Wood & From the Desk of Sarah McFadden & Denise Soehren Page 5 From the Desk of Jillian Wass Page 6 ELL Flyer Page 7 Teach Like a Pirate Dave Burgess & Matt Miller Page 8 Question Persuade Refer (QPR) Flyer Page 9 Upcoming PLC’s, Workshops, etc. Page 10 Game On! PE Standards Workshop Page 11 UND K-12 Summer Professional Development Pate 12 RESP Events

The school year seems to be moving along very quickly and RESP continues to provide our school districts with a variety of educational opportunities for staff and students. Please take a close look at the upcoming events and we highly en-courage you to attend any listed below that work into your busy schedule. Summer Learning Opportunities The RESP will be hosting a couple of Professional Develop-ment opportunities:

“Teach Like a PIRATE” by Dave Burgess & Matt Miller – June 21 & 22, 2016 at Dickinson State University. Dave & Matt will be presenting the following two sessions: “Teach like a PIRATE” Day 1 with Dave Burgess and “Digital PIRATE” with Matt Miller Day 2. Dave and Matt use a high-energy, entertaining, and inspirational pro-grams that will transform the way you look at your role as an educator. Learn how to dramatically increase stu-dent engagement, design wildly creative lessons, and build a course that is a life-changing experience for your students. Using a unique combination of magic and humor, Dave and Matt will reignite your passion for the education profession and show you exactly how to make school an amazing place that has students wanting to knock down the walls to get in!

Pathways to Reading (PTR) – Level 1 Training July 14-15 & 18-20, 2016 (5 days) and Level 2 Training July 11-13, 2016 (3 days). Pathways to Reading is a Teacher Profes-sional Development Training Program and Reading Cur-riculum for beginning readers in grades K-2 and strug-gling readers in upper grades. The reading curriculum is comprehensive including manuals, lesson plans, assess-

ments, and small group and large group instructional strategies.

The primary focus of PTR is to help teachers under-stand, and apply in the classroom, the five scientifically validated core components of the reading process. The five core components are: *Phonemic Awareness *Phonics *Fluency *Vocabulary *Comprehension Please contact Denise Soehren our Professional Devel-opment Specialist at 701-483-0999 or [email protected] with any questions.

“Inspired Leadership Retreat” by Tamara Konrade and Tammy Fellers – August 9-11, 2016 at Dickinson State University. Join us for a 3 day Inspired Leadership Re-treat in August. Humans are leaders. Everyone! Legis-lators, board members, business owners, teachers, and students are all leaders. In fact, all of us are leaders in one way or another. Leading is simply influencing your-self and others to take purposeful action to achieve re-sults in your personal and professional life.

Please take the time to check in occasionally to visit our website and check out upcoming educational opportunities for staff and administrators that are being offered in the southwest and throughout the state. Our website address is www.resp-k12-educaton.org, to register for professional development opportunities.

Greetings from Director Riley Mattson

http://www.resp-k12-education.org

mailto:[email protected]



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Question, Persuade and Refer (QPR) for Suicide Prevention News Ask a Question, Save a Life

QPR for Suicide Prevention is holding an evening class in Beach, North Dakota, on Monday, April 18th in the Beach City Hall. Please contact Wendy or Yvonn at 483-0999 for more information or to sign up for this free class! Class is limited to 30 participants. Please contact us to host a QPR for Suicide Prevention training event for your organization or evening community event. If interested, please contact Yvonn Weigel-Frank, QPR Certified Instructor, at 483-0999 or 260-8509. Another class session is being held in Dickinson on April 28th. Registration

From the Desk of Yvonn Weigel-Frank

Succeed 2020 Project Director March… into Spring! Succeed 2020 held a few meetings in February for Project Directors and REA Directors that I was not able to attend but Mr. Mattson was there to keep me informed (Thank you!!). These meetings were about sustainability after our Succeed 2020 grant ends. FHI360 is helping us with this process and will continue to the end of it in June 2017. Hess Corporation North Dakota granted us the Succeed 2020 gift in 2012 with the knowledge that it would extend over a five-year period. While that time is nearing with only one year left, we have new challenges and opportunities to look for-ward to. But with looking forward, we must also acknowledge where we came from and where we are today. Without the Succeed 2020 grant, we could not have grown as we have with staff nor with our programs. RESP has grown from 2 staff to 6 staff. Our programs have expanded tremendously and we are able to help schools where they need it most… in their school. We are able to also make our trainings more specific to the needs of the schools, rather than throw a blanket they may or may not need. We truly transformed what we were at one time and we are at a place today that was merely a dream yesterday. With that, we know we still have more work to do and we are looking forward to it! No matter what the future holds, we must give our many thanks to the Hess Corporation for their belief in us and our state because we know that without that assistance we could not have grown as we have. We are grateful to Hess Corporation North Dakota and to all of you who have spurred this transformation and applauded it! Many thanks goes to all of our school districts, administrators, school staff, board members and many others who are beside us! Thank you FHI360, Succeed 2020 and all of you who make up RESP! Respectfully, Yvonn Weigel-Frank




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Click here to apply.

If you have any questions about the Horatio Alger Scholarships, please contact the Association at [email protected].


http://application.horatioalger.org/

http://application.horatioalger.org/#



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From the Desk of Sarah McFadden & Denise Soehren

Professional Development Specialists

From the Desk of Brittany Wood

Succeed 2020 College & Career Readiness Specialist

Planning/setting up for the Career Expo is in full swing!

We are excited to have over 400 students registered for the Career Expo. It will be a great day for them

to learn about new and exciting careers!

This past month Denise and I discovered more great resources for educators to use in their classroom. All of these resources fit into at least one of Dr. Marcia Tate’s strategies to engage the brain.

FIELD TRIPS: Google Expeditions A virtual reality program built for the classrooms. There are over 100 journeys which teachers can guide their class. Teachers can also apply to have a Google expedition team to come visit their school. ISTE has an article describing Google Expeditions or check out the Google Expeditions site for more information.

PROJECT BASED LEARNING: NDDOT TRAC and RIDES programs The TRAC and RIDES programs from NDOT are free hands on kits for science, math, arts, language arts, and social science classes. TRAC kits are for grades 7-8 and RIDES kits are for K-6. Each kit contains all the necessary materi-als and curriculum for teachers to successfully use the kit in the classroom. Teachers can also request NDDOT staff to come to their school and facilitate a session with their students. For more information please visit the NDDOT TRAC website.

GAMES: Purpose Games Purpose Games is a free site which has fun interactive education games for almost every subject. Creating an ac-count is optional, but if you do you can earn badges and create your own games. As a teacher you can also setup tournaments for your students. The games on Purpose Games are a great way to have your students review a con-cept or use them as a pre-assessment to gauge prior knowledge. If you click on the Games link you can narrow the list of games to a specific subject by using the All dropdown menu.

Games by Subject Computers: Motherboard Quiz Geography: The Countries of Europe History: WWII Pacific Map Math: Length, Area, and Volume Music: Woodwind Instruments Science: Parts of a Flower Vo Ag: External Parts of a Cow

Additional Game Categories Literature Medicine People Sports Miscellaneous (Art, Vo Ag, computers, etc.)

Thank you Pete Hetle for sharing this resource at the Vo Ag Teacher PLC.


https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions/

https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=664&category=In-the-classroom&article=

https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=664&category=In-the-classroom&article=

https://www.google.com/edu/expeditions/

http://www.dot.nd.gov/public/trac.htm



http://www.purposegames.com/

http://www.purposegames.com/game/motherboard-quiz-quiz

http://www.purposegames.com/game/countries-europe-quiz

http://www.purposegames.com/game/423402cc3c

http://www.purposegames.com/game/length-area-and-volume-quiz

http://www.purposegames.com/game/woodwind-instruments-quiz

http://www.purposegames.com/game/parts-of-a-flower-alternate-quiz

http://www.purposegames.com/game/cow-external-parts-quiz



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From the Desk of Jillian Wass

ELL Specialist March is such a great time of year! Many schools kick off the month with Dr. Seuss’ birthday, which also turns into a celebration of reading all month. Therefore, I thought I would share some of my fa-vorite books to use in classrooms with ELL students.

Bilingual Books: Bilingual books are great because they make ELL students feel included in learning with their heritage language, and they also help native English speaking students connect with their ELL classmates.

Count on Culebra This series is fantastic. They teach basic Spanish words, introduce come cultural ele-ments and are entertaining! Also check out Manana Iguana, Tortuga in Trouble, and Fi-esta Fiasco.

Prairie Dog Goes to School / Pispiza Wan Wayawa Iyaye This is a fun bilingual picture book published by the Lakota Language Consortium. The story is modeled along the lines of the classic Lakota tale, "Turtle Goes on the Warpath." Children learn basic elements of the Lakota language, including verbs of travel, sen-tence structure, animals, and numbers. Bridging Cultures: While bridging two cultures can be challenging for students and fami-lies, it can also bring opportunities. There are great stories that highlight the experience of living between two worlds, and can resonate across cultures.

Apple Pie 4th of July "No one wants to eat Chinese food on the Fourth of July," says a young girl to her par-ents who insist on keeping their Chinese restaurant open on Independence Day. An honest portrayal of the tug between traditions old and new, as well as what it really means to be American.

Jalapeno Bagels When Pablo must bring something to share for his school's International Day, he consid-ers several items from his family's bakery. But his mother's Mexican pan dulce, empana-das, and chango bars don't do the trick. His father's bagels and challah bread are ap-pealing, but not quite right either. Then the boy helps to make the family specialty, Jala-peño Bagels, joint creation from the cultures of both parents, and decides that it is the perfect contribution: '...a mixture of both of you. Just like me.'

Other Ideas: Biographies, books on cultural traditions (like food, dance, art, music), immigrant stories, folk tales, poetry, and holidays are great topics to include other cultures into your classroom!


http://www.colorincolorado.org/book/prairie-dog-goes-school-pispiza-wan-wayawa-iyaye



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Save The Dates! Teach Like a PIRATE Author: Dave Burgess & Matt Miller Where: Beisiot Activity Center (BAC) When: June 21-22, 2016 Time: 8:30AMMST Registration (both days) 9AM-4:30PMMST (both days)

Roughrider Education Services Program (RESP) is hosting national speakers and best-selling authors Dave Burgess (Teach Like a PIRATE) and Matt Miller (Ditch That Textbook) for two days of interactive professional learning. Day 1 - Teach Like a PIRATE Dave will be presenting the following two sessions: Teach like a PIRATE and Digital PIRATE. Dave uses a high-energy, entertaining, and inspirational program that will transform the way you look at your role as an educator. Learn how to dramatically increase student engagement, design wildly creative lessons, and build a course that is a life-changing ex-perience for your students. Using a unique combination of magic and humor, Dave will reignite your passion for the education profession and show you exactly how to make school an amazing place that has students wanting to knock down the walls to get in! Day 2 - Ditch That Textbook Matt encourages teachers to free their teaching and revolutionize their classrooms. Packed with practical advice, spe-cific recommendations for tools, and the encouragement you need to revolutionize your classes, Matt will inspire you to create relevant teaching that gets student buy-in so they will enjoy learning. Highlights of Matt’s presentation include: why and how to go digital, which online tools work best for teachers, how to be more productive in fewer hours, how to plan ahead for an amazing school year and much more! To Register: www.escweb.net/nd_resp/default.aspx Use escWorks #: 32755 Cost -$100/person (includes meals & beverages). No refunds for partial attendance. $200 for non-members. -Continuing Education Credit (1) will be available through DSU for $50/person (must attend both days). If you have any questions, please contact RESP at 701.483.0999.

Reserve your spot today to ensure attending this great workshop!

Made possible by Succeed 2020 Initiative and DPI Professional Development Grant Funding.




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Question Persuade Refer (QPR) for Suicide Prevention is a protocol for suicide pre-

vention that helps people to recognize warning signs of suicide crisis and how to question, persuade and refer someone for help. The protocol teaches “gatekeepers” (those in a position to help), to prevent suicide through hope and action. In this suicide prevention training, participants learn about statistics, learn the QPR protocol and practice the protocol through role play, which gives them a chance to walk/talk through a person’s wish to commit suicide and get them help. Short videos are also used during the presentation to give more insight into the global statistics, the QPR method and why it helps, and also some background on brain disorders that per-tain to suicidal thoughts and actions.

Ask a Question, Save a Life

For further information, please contact: Yvonn Weigel-Frank, Certified QPR Gatekeeper Instructor, at

RESP, 483-0999.

QPR is not intended to be a form of counseling or treatment.

QPR is intended to offer hope through positive action.

QPR is intended to teach those who are in a position to recognize the

warning signs, clues and suicidal communications of people in trouble to

ACT vigorously to prevent a possible tragedy.




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Registration

Participants for the Content & Grade Level PLC’s can register in escWorks via the RESP web-

site: www.resp-k12-education.org/registration.php

Or Go directly to escWorks at:

www.escweb.net/nd_resp (to sign in, register and view the calendar of events).


http://www.resp-k12-education.org/registration.php

http://www.escweb.net/nd_resp



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Registration

Participants for the Principal Meetings can register in escWorks via the RESP website:

www.escweb.net/nd_resp/default.aspx

Use Session ID: 32044


http://www.escweb.net/nd_resp/default.aspx



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Please visit our website at: www.resp-k12-education.org to view upcoming RESP Events. We continue to update our website, periodically. If you have suggestions for inclusion, let us know!

RESP Events

Please forward this newsletter onto staff & school board members. If you have any questions regarding an item discussed in this issue, please contact our office at: 701.483.0999, M-F from 8AM - 4PMMST.



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Roughrider Education Services Program Issue 6 2016 Newsletter.pdf · 300 13th Avenue W, Suite 6C, Dickinson, ND 58601 (T) 701.483.0999 | (F) 701.483.0998 Roughrider Education Services