Upcoming Professional Development Workshops
Please come to all in-person PD events with your IEIN number. You will need this information for your sign in sheet. If you do not know your IEIN, you can get it by clicking on this link. https://sec3.isbe.net/IWASNET/login.aspx.
Short-Term Substitute Training
The Regional Office of Education is offering FREE three-hour trainings required for short-term substitute teacher certification.
Prospective substitute teachers must have an Associate’s degree OR have completed 60 or more semester hours of college coursework.
You must complete this training and then you are ready to apply. You will be able to substitute in all grades of public schools, pre-kindergarten through grade 12. A short-term substitute license is valid until June 30, 2028.
Although not required for regular substitute teachers, the training is also open and available to those educators as well. The chart below shows the training dates and times.
Registration closes on May 12, 2026.
Book Study: Reading Above the Fray – Reliable, Research-Based Routines for Developing Decoding Skills
Join our asynchronous book study on Reading Above the Fray, designed specifically for early elementary teachers. This flexible learning opportunity allows you to engage with the content at your own pace while exploring practical ways to support young readers with increasingly complex texts.
Throughout the study, you’ll reflect on your practice and learn how to apply simple, effective decoding strategies. Participants will also have opportunities to share ideas and insights with colleagues in an online space.
This book study consists of asynchronous coursework on the Teachable online platform ONLY. There will be NO live Zoom meetings for this book study.
We have a limited number of grant-funded books to distribute to participants, so sign up soon! Please note that books MUST be picked up in either Jacksonville or Quincy. We are unable to mail books. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Registration closes on May 28, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Book Study: This is Disciplinary Literacy – Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Doing… Content Area by Content Area
Discover how literacy looks different across every discipline in this asynchronous book study for grades 6–12 educators.
Grounded in This Is Disciplinary Literacy: Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Doing… Content Area by Content Area by ReLeah Lent, this experience moves beyond one-size-fits-all strategies to explore how each subject area uses literacy as a tool for thinking and learning. Whether you teach math, science, social studies, ELA, or another content area, you’ll learn how to help students engage in the authentic habits of your content area.
Participants will explore practical, ready-to-implement strategies that bring disciplinary literacy to life in lessons, units, and projects. Join us to deepen student understanding, increase engagement, and make learning more meaningful in YOUR content area.
This book study consists of asynchronous coursework on the Teachable online platform ONLY. There will be NO live Zoom meetings for this book study.
We have a limited number of grant-funded books to distribute to participants, so sign up soon! Please note that books MUST be picked up in either Jacksonville or Quincy. We are unable to mail books. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Registration closes on May 29, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Anxious Generation Book Discussion Series
An impactful discussion on The Anxious Generation, a compelling exploration of how today’s students face unprecedented levels of anxiety and the unique challenges that come with growing up in a hyperconnected world. Explore the factors influencing mental health and examine practical strategies to better support emotional well-being. Create more compassionate, resilient classrooms and learning spaces. Become a part of the conversation shaping the future of student mental health.
Purchase your own book here:
Amazon.com : the anxious generation by jonathan haidt
These sessions consist of four one-hour Zoom discussions. There is no online coursework component.
Reading the book prior to each session is encouraged and will help you get the most out of the discussions; however, you are still welcome to participate even if you have not completed the reading.
Each Zoom session is worth 1 PDH, which will be awarded during the session.
June 2, 9, 23, 30 10-11 AM
Registration closes on May 28th.
Funded by the Area 3 SEL Hub
Lunch & Learn: Meaning-Driven Fluency Instruction
We all know fluency and comprehension go hand in hand—but it’s easy to forget that comprehension can actually drive fluency, too. In this session, we’ll dig into practical, meaning-centered approaches that help students read with confidence, expression, and purpose. You’ll learn how to teach students to spot meaningful word groups that support natural phrasing, use the action and emotion in text to build prosody, and understand how these elements lead to more efficient reading rates—without turning practice into a race against the clock. You’ll leave with ready-to-use strategies that keep the focus exactly where it belongs: on making meaning.
Registration closes on May 29 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Google NotebookLM for Educators
Join us for an engaging workshop designed specifically for educators eager to enhance their teaching toolkit. This session will explore the transformative capabilities of Google NotebookLM, a versatile platform that can elevate your classroom experience.
Participants will learn how to use Google NotebookLM and the available tools. The workshop will include hands-on activities and group discussions, allowing educators to exchange ideas and insights.
This event promises to be both informative and interactive, providing valuable strategies for classroom integration. Prepare to leave inspired and equipped with new skills to enhance your teaching practice.
Registration closes on June 1, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn- Reaching Reluctant Learners: Understanding Engagement in Today’s Classrooms Session 1/3
This workshop goes along with the SEL Series: Beyond Compliance – Helping Reluctant Learners Engage. This workshop CAN be attended if you cannot attend the other 2 sessions.
In many classrooms today, educators encounter students who appear reluctant to participate, hesitant to take academic risks, or disengaged from learning. Rather than viewing these behaviors as simple motivation problems, this session explores the deeper factors that shape student engagement, including learning gaps from disrupted schooling, screen fatigue, attention challenges, and a lack of psychological safety in classroom environments.
Using Phillip Schlechty’s levels of engagement, participants will examine how students move between authentic engagement, strategic compliance, ritual compliance, retreatism, and rebellion. Through this lens, educators will explore how classroom experiences, relationships, and expectations influence whether students feel willing and able to participate.
Participants will reflect on common barriers to engagement and consider how factors such as a sense of belonging, perceived competence, meaningful work, and clarity of expectations influence student participation. The session will also introduce key social-emotional skills connected to engagement, including growth mindset, self-confidence, perspective-taking, and agency.
Educators will leave with a clearer framework for recognizing why students disengage and practical strategies for shifting classroom conditions so that reluctant learners feel safer, more capable, and more willing to participate.
Seat paid for by the Area 3 SEL Hub Grant
Registration closes on May 29, 2026
StarLab Portable Planetarium Training
Unleash the cosmos in your classroom! This StarLab workshop equips teachers with everything needed to bring the wonders of the universe to life. Participants will learn the ropes of setting up and taking down our inflatable planetarium and explore engaging lesson ideas about stars and planets. Don’t miss this stellar opportunity to bring this amazing opportunity to your school and ignite your students’ curiosity about space!
Registration closes on June 1, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Please note: This workshop will begin at Rooney Elementary (4900 Columbus Road, Quincy) and will end at the Regional Office of Education (507 Vermont Street, Quincy).
Lunch & Learn: Small Groups, Big Thinking – Comprehension Instruction for K-2 Readers
Even our earliest readers can think deeply about text when we give them the right tools. This session unpacks how to build strong comprehension skills in K–2 through small‑group lessons grounded in the gradual release model. Learn how to choose high‑quality books that spark discussion, teach strategies in ways young learners can truly understand, and scaffold thinking so students steadily take more ownership. Walk away with predictable routines and ready‑to‑use instructional moves that help comprehension “stick.”
Registration closes on June 2, 2026 , or when the participant cap is reached.
An Educator’s Guide to Canva
Are you familiar with Canva’s basics and want to learn more? Discover how Canva can transform your teaching and engage your students! This hands-on session will guide you through using Canva’s templates, presentation tool, whiteboard, and docs for lesson plans and student collaboration. We will also explore Canva’s Magic AI. Come prepared to interact through group discussions and activities.
Registration closes on June 4, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn – Navigating Digital Waters: From Well-Being to Thriving
As schools begin to address the ongoing student mental health crisis, educators can do more to foster well-being in their classroom – especially around technology habits and use. Join us as we explore practical strategies for maintaining digital well-being, including resources to help students practice balancing technology use – for school and for entertainment – with their individual mental health.
Along the way, we’ll also explore ways students can move from surviving to thriving in their digital lifestyle. Participants will even learn how to help students create personalized plans for self-regulating their technology use outside the classroom.
Seat paid for by the Area 3 SEL Hub Grant
Registration closes 06/03/2026
Lunch & Learn: AI for Busy Teachers – Save Time with Gemini in Google Classroom (K – 5)
Did you know that Google Classroom has powerful AI tools at your fingertips? Join us to find out how Google Gemini can lessen your workload, create quick activities for your students, and do so much more! This session is designed for teachers in grades K – 5.
Registration closes on June 5, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn: EduProtocols for All – Foundations and Extensions
Discover how EduProtocols can transform teaching and learning in YOUR classroom! These dynamic instructional lesson frames engage students through critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity, creating meaningful opportunities for deeper learning and active participation. Participants will explore practical ways to use and adapt EduProtocols for their subject and leave with practical, ready-to-use strategies!
Registration closes on June 8, 2026 , or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn- Moving from Compliance to Engagement: Structures That Motivate and Support Learners Session 2/3
This workshop goes along with the SEL Series: Beyond Compliance – Helping Reluctant Learners Engage. This workshop CAN be attended if you cannot attend the other 2 sessions.
Once we understand why students disengage, the next step is designing classroom structures that make participation more accessible and meaningful. This session focuses on practical strategies educators can use to support reluctant learners when working independently, with partners, and in collaborative groups.
Participants will explore how instructional scaffolds can reduce cognitive and emotional barriers that prevent students from engaging in academic work. The session will examine how clear routines, structured collaboration, and purposeful task design help students build confidence and sustain participation.
Educators will also examine how social emotional skills influence engagement across different learning formats. For example:
- Independent work requires skills such as self-discipline, perseverance, and task initiation
- Partner work relies on communication, perspective-taking, and shared responsibility
- Group work requires collaboration, leadership, and collective problem-solving
Participants will analyze classroom scenarios and identify ways to embed supports that help students move from passive participation toward meaningful engagement. By the end of the session, educators will have a set of strategies they can immediately apply to make academic tasks more accessible, purposeful, and motivating for reluctant learners.
Seat paid for by the Area 3 SEL Hub Grant
Registration closes on June 5, 2026
Lunch & Learn: AI for Busy Teachers – Save Time with Gemini in Google Classroom (6 – 12)
Did you know that Google Classroom has powerful AI tools at your fingertips? Join us to find out how Google Gemini can lessen your workload, create quick activities for your students, and do so much more! This session is designed for teachers in grades 6 – 12.
Registration closes on June 9 , 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn – From Power Struggles to Partnership: Language That Builds Relationships
- Leave with 7+ tools to avoid power struggles, use language to build relationships & better understand how trauma impacts behavior
- Continue to develop perspective that success looks different for every student
- Leave with the perspective that they’re having a hard time, not giving you a hard time
- Take some ME TIME to reflect on all 7 tools you will be able to use next day
Seat paid for by the Area 3 SEL Hub Grant
Lunch & Learn: Literacy Analysis Bridge – Help Your Students Move from Reading Critically to Writing Well
Teaching literary analysis can feel like asking students to leap from plot summary straight into complex essays. This session introduces The Literary Analysis Bridge, a practical framework that helps students move from scaffolded support to confident analytical writing. We’ll examine common obstacles that prevent deeper thinking and explore targeted strategies for building key subskills like selecting evidence, writing commentary, and connecting details to larger ideas. Participants will leave with a clear progression for teaching analysis, adaptable for grades 7–12, along with ready-to-use ideas for helping students move beyond summary and develop stronger, more independent literary thinking.
Registration closes on June 12, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn: Read, Regulate, Reflect: Using Literacy to Build Self-Regulation in K – 3
Discover how integrated literacy can build young students’ self-regulation skills using a simple, research-based four-step routine: I breathe, I feel, I notice, I move. This session will guide participants through each step, the neuroscience behind it, and visuals to support implementation.
Learn how to launch the routine with engaging picture book read-aloud lessons, discussion questions to strengthen oracy, extend it through writing prompts to deepen self-awareness, and build emotional vocabulary with targeted literacy activities. You will leave with ready-to-use resources to use this regulation routine with your students for increased emotional awareness, vocabulary, and a calm classroom culture.
Registration closes on June 12, 2026 or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn: Using Mentor Texts to Strengthen Student Writing
Educators will explore how to intentionally use mentor texts to elevate student writing across grade levels and genres. Participants will learn how to select powerful texts, model craft moves, and guide students in noticing and applying techniques such as strong leads, organization, voice, word choice, and purposeful endings. Through practical examples and ready-to-use strategies, teachers will leave with tools to make writing instruction more explicit, engaging, and transferable to students’ independent work.
Registration closes on June 15, 2026, or when the participant cap is reached.
Lunch & Learn-Teaching Engagement Skills: Helping Students Build the Habits for Learning Session 3/3
This workshop goes along with the SEL Series: Beyond Compliance – Helping Reluctant Learners Engage. This workshop CAN be attended if you cannot attend the other 2 sessions.
Engagement is often treated as something students either have or do not have. In reality, the behaviors that sustain engagement are skills that can be explicitly taught and strengthened over time.
This session focuses on how educators can intentionally support students as they develop the social emotional skills needed for sustained engagement in learning. Participants will explore how skills develop progressively, moving from awareness to guided practice to independent application, and why students often struggle when these steps are skipped.
Educators will examine how to break down complex skills into manageable components and create opportunities for students to practice them within academic work. Participants will also explore how reflection routines, feedback, and classroom dialogue help students recognize their growth and transfer skills across learning situations.
By the end of the session, educators will understand how to support students at different stages of skill development and will leave with practical approaches to help reluctant learners build the habits, confidence, and strategies necessary for meaningful engagement in school.
Registration closes on June 12, 2026
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ROE #1 Workshop Cancellation Policy
No refunds will be provided for workshops.
ROE #1 reserves the right to cancel a workshop due to low registration enrollment, presenter cancellation, and/or other unforeseen circumstances. All fees will be returned if a workshop is cancelled.
