Participants will experience a fun blend of dance cardio, strength training, and upbeat music designed for all fitness levels. Whether you’re a longtime fitness enthusiast or just looking for a fun way to boost your energy during PD Palooza, this session offers a great opportunity to relieve stress, build community, and prioritize wellness while having a blast!
Description - Students’ brains are constantly developing, and their behavior, attention, emotional regulation, and learning needs reflect the stage of development they are in. This session will provide an overview of typical brain development across childhood and adolescence and explore how these developmental changes influence behavior and learning in the classroom. Participants will learn practical, developmentally appropriate strategies that can be implemented at different grade levels to support students’ cognitive, social, and emotional growth.
Objectives - By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Describe key stages of typical brain development across childhood and adolescence and how these stages influence learning and behavior. Apply developmentally appropriate instructional and behavioral strategies that align with students’ cognitive and self-regulation capacities. Adjust classroom expectations and supports to better match students’ developmental needs.
Participants will learn how to utilize jiu-jitsu instructional methods such as detail shading, radical praise, and error correction strategies in order to boost engagement and create a positive classroom environment. Participants will practice these teaching techniques in small groups while learning life-saving self-defense skills in a safe environment from a dual-certified Gracie jiu-jitsu instructor. This session is geared toward any district personnel P-12.
This training provides educators and school staff with a foundational understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), including the different levels of support needs and the behavioral characteristics commonly observed in school settings. Participants will explore how autism can impact communication, social interaction, sensory processing, and behavior. The training will also address how these characteristics may present in the classroom and how staff can respond in ways that support student success and reduce misunderstandings about behavior.
Limited Capacityfull Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.
Teachers face increasing demands on their time, from lesson planning and assessment creation to parent communication and administrative tasks. This session introduces educators to the free version of ChatGPT as a practical tool to improve efficiency and enhance instructional practices.
Participants will learn how ChatGPT differs from familiar tools such as Google Search and Google Drive, and how it can generate customized materials rather than simply locating information.
Through live demonstrations and guided practice, educators will explore how ChatGPT can support: lesson planning and instructional design, assessment and rubric creation, differentiation and scaffolding, communication with families and colleagues, routine administrative tasks
Session Objectives By the end of the session, participants will: understand how ChatGPT functions and how it differs from traditional search tools, identify multiple ways ChatGPT can save time and improve workflow, practice using effective prompts to generate classroom-ready materials, evaluate appropriate and responsible uses of AI in education
This is a full-day session, and all session hours are required to participate. (You will dismiss for lunch and return to complete the training.) You also will have a $5 fee for your CPR card.
I have been a Conway Public School Nurse for 18+ years and recently was honored to become the School Nurse Coordinator as well as the coordinator of the School Based Health Clinic. As school nurses our main goal is to educate our students about their bodies and how to care for them... Read More →
Wednesday July 15, 2026 10:20am - 2:55pm CDT CHS Library
Participants will experience a fun blend of dance cardio, strength training, and upbeat music designed for all fitness levels. Whether you’re a longtime fitness enthusiast or just looking for a fun way to boost your energy during PD Palooza, this session offers a great opportunity to relieve stress, build community, and prioritize wellness while having a blast!
This professional development training is designed to deepen educators’ understanding of the disability categories recognized under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Participants will explore the characteristics, eligibility criteria, and educational implications of each disability category to better support students receiving special education services.
Objectives: 1. Identify and describe the disability categories defined under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). 2. Differentiate between disability categories that may present with similar characteristics. 3. Recognize common characteristics and educational needs associated with each disability category.
In this session, participants will practice speaking, listening, and having a short conversation in Spanish with the goal of being able to communicate with Spanish-speaking students and their parents.
Participants will experience a fun blend of dance cardio, strength training, and upbeat music designed for all fitness levels. Whether you’re a longtime fitness enthusiast or just looking for a fun way to boost your energy during PD Palooza, this session offers a great opportunity to relieve stress, build community, and prioritize wellness while having a blast!
Description - Students’ brains are constantly developing, and their behavior, attention, emotional regulation, and learning needs reflect the stage of development they are in. This session will provide an overview of typical brain development across childhood and adolescence and explore how these developmental changes influence behavior and learning in the classroom. Participants will learn practical, developmentally appropriate strategies that can be implemented at different grade levels to support students’ cognitive, social, and emotional growth.
Objectives - By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Describe key stages of typical brain development across childhood and adolescence and how these stages influence learning and behavior. Apply developmentally appropriate instructional and behavioral strategies that align with students’ cognitive and self-regulation capacities. Adjust classroom expectations and supports to better match students’ developmental needs.
Participants will experience a fun blend of dance cardio, strength training, and upbeat music designed for all fitness levels. Whether you’re a longtime fitness enthusiast or just looking for a fun way to boost your energy during PD Palooza, this session offers a great opportunity to relieve stress, build community, and prioritize wellness while having a blast!
Model how to collaboratively co-construct classroom social contracts that help students have buy-in to classroom culture. The goal of the social contracts is to create shared expectations that foster a positive, respectful, and inclusive learning environment. The process modeled promotes student ownership, accountability, and a sense of belonging, transforming classroom management from teacher-imposed rules to a shared, community-driven culture. Included with the process is a way to also incorporate a classroom vision that helps give a greater purpose to the learning as well.
This training provides educators and support staff with an overview of how to respond to student misbehavior using a function-based approach. Participants will learn how to identify the most common functions of behavior (escape, attention, access to tangibles, and sensory/automatic reinforcement) and how adult responses can unintentionally reinforce problem behavior. The training will focus on practical strategies for responding to behaviors in ways that address the underlying function while teaching and reinforcing appropriate replacement behaviors. Staff will review common classroom scenarios and practice selecting responses that reduce problem behavior and support positive student outcomes.
Description - Early experiences shape brain development. While supportive relationships promote healthy development, exposure to chronic stress and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can alter how the brain develops and functions. These changes can influence attention, behavior, emotional regulation, and learning in the classroom. This session will provide an overview of how trauma and adverse childhood experiences affect the developing brain and how these impacts may appear in school settings. Participants will explore how trauma can influence students’ stress responses, executive functioning, and relationships with adults and peers.
Objectives - By the end of this session, participants will be able to: Describe how chronic stress and adverse childhood experiences can impact brain development. Recognize common classroom behaviors that may be linked to trauma-related stress responses. Explain how trauma can affect attention, emotional regulation, executive functioning, and learning.
