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February 2017:
Instill Respect, Responsibility, and Cooperation
Presenter: Cynthia Kaitfors-Smith, Director, Discipline That Restores, Fresno Pacific University
Description: Discover how restorative justice principles, learning styles and poverty affect behavior. This Restorative Strategies & Tools webinar will explore how one responds to conflict and making the shift from a punitive to a restorative approach. Gain tools to instill respect, improve student responsibility and cooperation in the classroom and school.

December 2016:
Instructional Leadership: The Role of the Teacher Librarian in California Schools
Presenters: Melanie Lewis, Assistant Professor of Education & Program Director of Teacher Librarian Services
Maria Petropulos, Adjunct Instructor & District Library Coordinator for Selma Unified
Description: Most California educators have never encountered a professional teacher librarian. Why is that…and what exactly is a teacher librarian? In this webinar, you’ll learn about the unique role teacher librarians play in providing instructional leadership in California’s K-12 schools to develop multiple literacies across all disciplines in both traditional and digital learning environments, how they’re prepared for this role, and how you can either hire or become one.

November 2016:
Using your Heart as a Compass: Reflective Practice in Teaching
Presenters: Peter Kopriva, Ed.D., Professor of Early Childhood Development
Sijmontje Kopriva, M.A., Teacher of Physical and Health Impaired, Fresno Unified School District
Description:  In order for children to grow academically and socially it is critical they learn how to manage their emotions and to learn how to build long lasting relationships with others. This is especially true of children who live with physical and health impairments. Participants will learn of the successful implementation by the presenters of both Montessori Inspired Practice and Intentional Teaching Strategies used in planned instruction during a fifteen-week period with students.

September 2016:
The Power of Picture Books
Presenter: Tara Warmerdam, CPD Instructor
Description:  Picture books are not limited to the preschool classroom. In fact, picture books can be an integral part of a balanced literacy program at all grade levels! Join this webinar to discuss strategies and ideas for reading picture books with children while emphasizing the power of visual literacy.  You will also learn about using picture books with text sets at the middle grade and high school level.

August 2016:
Power Up: Guiding Your Leader In Technology Integration
Presenter:  Matt Gehrett, Ed.D, Assistant Professor of Education; Administrative Services Program Director
Description: Are you a teacher on special assignment or academic coach? Do you want to help your site leader effectively lead in technology integration? Discover strategies from 360-degree leadership along with research and real life stories to help you take next steps in leading/guiding your leader.

June 2016:
Writing Anxiety: The Thinking, Feeling and Behaving Traps That Hold Students Back & Strategies to Overcome Them
Presenter:  Dr. Lisa Keith, Assistant Professor of Special Education; Mild/Moderate Program Director
Description: The ability to overcome writing anxiety and writer’s block is a huge challenge for many students. In this webinar, you will learn the common thinking and behaving errors that lead to unfinished and late papers, and some strategies for working through procrastination or anxiety to achieve your goals, or help your students to achieve theirs.

May 2016:
Healthier Students are Better Learners: Integrating Health Standards into Your Classroom
Presenter:  Angel E. Krause, Curriculum and Instruction Associate Program Director
Description: Educators experience daily how a student’s health affects learning in the classroom, but what can teachers do about it?  During our session we will discuss health as a null (or missing) curriculum, evaluate the current health challenges our students face, and discuss three easy ways to begin adapting our lessons - integrating health standards into our core subjects.  Join us for an interactive training as we grapple with the phrase “Every teacher is a health teacher”.

April 2016:
Integrating Technology: Enhancing the Teaching & Learning Experience
Presenter:  Dr. Jeanne Janzen, Educational Technology Program Director, Fresno Pacific University
Description: Join Dr. Jeanne Janzen as she shares practical tips regarding integrating technology into the classroom.  During the session, Dr. Janzen will be interviewing students from our Educational Technology Master’s Program.   They  will be sharing their experiences and projects from their work with students at Central Unified School District in Fresno.

March 2016:
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty: Revisiting the classic Common Core standards
Presenter: Gary Gramenz, Dean of the School of Education, Fresno Pacific University
Description: As the educational community works to simultaneously understand and implement the Common Core standards and its emphasis on the development of various intellectual traits and capacities, it is worth pausing to consider the most recent educational reform in light of the classical understanding of the educational task. This presentation highlights three elements from the “classic” common core educational standards as understood by classical educational theorists: truth, goodness, and beauty and the role each plays in developing an educated person. After the presentation, the participant will walk away with suggestions, a primer for practical ways to bring beauty to students both in the physical environment of the classroom and in the person of the teacher.

February 2016:
Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
Presenter: Nancy Isaacs, Discipline that Restores Director, Fresno Pacific University
Description: Discipline That Restores’ is a classroom management system based on restorative justice principles. This program uses strategies to create respect, cooperation, and responsibility in the classroom. This webinar explores two of the strategies Discipline That Restores describes as essential to creating this kind of classroom—Constructive Reminders and Creating a Respect Agreement.