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Strategies for Helping Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
David Freschi, M.Ed., PRSE, will present an overview of strategies for assisting children
with ASD at home and in the community.
Topics to be covered will include:
- Positive Behavior Development
- Setting up Successful Home Supports
- Supporting Communication and Social Skills
- The Older Individual with ASD, Transitions
- Working with the School Team
Ample time will be available for questions and discussion. Please join us for an interesting, informative and valuable evening. All Parents, Teachers and Special Education Support Staff are welcome to attend this FREE presentation.
Date/Time: Monday, May 23, 2011 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Location: NCES, 300 Gorham Hill Road, Gorham, NH
Cost: Free
RSVP: Lisa Blais lisa@ncedservices or 603-466-5437 or 800-268-5437.
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WMRHS LipDub
On January 17, 2011, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 113 White Mountains Regional High School students from Dalton, Jefferson, Lancaster, Twin Mountain, and Whitefield came together on a scheduled day off to produce this video in hopes of improving the school climate. The video is approaching 13,000 views on YouTube. Check it out http://www.youtube.com/wmrhsvideo
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Integrating Land Use into the Upper Elementary & Middle School Classroom
Participants will learn a wide range of age-appropriate, inquiry-oriented field, laboratory, and classroom methods, using as a learning context the assessment of the health of the forest, with a focus on methods developed for the Forest Watch Program. Activities appropriate for 5-8th grade students will be presented for detecting, quantifying, monitoring and mapping a range of forest conditions, each designed to allow the individual student to learn the process of science through asking (and answering) self-generated questions. In addition, ways to motivate students for engagement in inquiry-based learning will be discussed.
Workshop Leaders:
Eleanor Abrams & Michael Middleton, UNH Education Department
Barry Rock, UNH Institute of the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Institute
For: NH certified upper elementary and middle grade educators.
Dates/Times: August 15 & 16, 2011 from 9:00 to 4:00
Location: NCES
Cost: Free ($25 fee to hold your space, refunded on Aug 16 to attendees), lunch provided.
Stipend: $150 stipend for those who fully participate in the two-day session
Registration deadline: June 15. Limited to 10 participants.
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Astronomy and Star Signatures
Led by Eleanor Abrams and Michael Middleton of the UNH Education Department, and Toni Galvin, UNH Institute of the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Institute, this seminar will cover:
Light
Light is more than meets the eye. These hands-on activities will allow participants to become space detectives and learn how scientists determine the composition of stars, nebulae and other space bodies, like a signature or finger print.
Electricity & Magnetism
Electromagnetism is one of the four forces of nature. By building and taking apart several electromagnetic devices, participants will increase their understanding of how magnets and electricity works.
Motivation
Student motivation to engage in with abstract concepts will be discussed.
For: NH certified upper elementary and middle grade educators.
Dates/Times: August 17 & 18, 2011 from 9:00 to 4:00
Location: NCES
Cost: Free ($25 fee to hold your space, refunded on Aug 16 to attendees), lunch provided.
Stipend: $150 stipend for those who fully participate in the two-day session
Registration deadline: June 15. Limited to 10 participants.
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Communities of Practice
In Northern New Hampshire and Vermont, school based Related Service providers often work as the sole practitioners in a school or school district. In response to the problem of “professional isolation”, this fall, NCES will begin offering Community of Practice seminars for school nurses, occupational therapists and speech and language pathologists.
The seminars will allow practitioners the opportunity to meet regularly for workshop presentations, networking, collaboration, problem solving and discussion under the direction of a highly respected and credentialed facilitator.
Brochures of the three series will be available soon at http://www.ncedservices.org/. The registration deadline is September 8, 2011. Each seminar will be limited to 12 participants.
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Train the Trainer: Bicycling 1-2-3 Youth Instructors
NCES anticipates working with the Bike-Walk Alliance of New Hampshire to offer training to those who wish to become certified bicycling instructors for their school. More details should be available soon on the NCES website www.ncedservices.org.
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Title I North Country Project Managers' Meeting
The North Country Title I Project Managers’ May meeting has evolved and taken shape to include two guest speakers, Dr. Lynda Thistle-Elliot, State Director of Homelessness, and Robert Hanson, NH-DOE Leadership Coach and Consultant. Given the agenda, the Title I project managers and I would like to invite the Title I North Country district homeless liaisons and school principals to this meeting.
Date: Friday, May 20, 2010
Time: 9:00-10:45 & 11:00-2:00
Location: NCES
Contact: Deborah Krajcik at deborah.krajcik@ed.state.nh.us
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Strategies for Effective Regular and Special Education Collaboration
Coming late this summer or fall, Trish Walton will lead Strategies for Effective Regular and Special Education Collaboration. We are considering offering this onsite for interested groups. This would be a full day workshop with after school follow-up and online support throughout the school year. Contact Lori Langlois with interest at lori@ncedservices.org.
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NEWS, UPDATES & OTHER TIDBITS
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Real-Normal Blog
 Are you aware of the North Country blog for teens? Sponsored by the North Country Health Consortium, the Real-Normal blog was started in 2009. The Lin-Wood Prevention Youth Council currently moderates the blog, but the consortium is working to have student contributors from all the North Country Prevention Youth Councils. In the meantime, if your students have articles or ideas to share, you/they should contact Sean O'Brien, at sobrien@lin-wood.org
Visit the site at http://www.real-normal.org/
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Local Schools Receive Community Literacy Award
The Children's Literacy Foundation (CLIF)has selected Colebrook Elementary School and Stratford Elementary School as the two New Hampshire recipients of the Three-Year Community Literacy Award.
From September 2011 through June 2014, CLiF will work with these communities, plus Lunenburg in VT, to provide a wide array of books and programming that nurture a love of reading. Planned programming includes new children's books for the library, visits from authors, illustrators, poets and storytellers, as well as special events created locally.
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Borrow Science Kits
Engineering for Elementary Students
These science kits were funded through the Math and Science Redistribution Grant-STEM Literacy EIE 2009. They are available for loan to schools.
15-6-333 Mariana Becomes a Butterfly: An Agricultural Engineering Story
Insects, Plants & Agriculture; Designing hand pollinators
30 Books, 16 mini kits with replaceable materials
15-6-334 Juan Daniel’s Futbol Frog: A Bioengineering Story
Organisms, Basic Needs; Designing model membranes
40 books
15-6-335 Javier Builds a Bridge: A Civil Engineering Story
Balance, Forces; Designing bridges
Teachers manual, 30 books
15-6-336 A Reminder For Emily: An Electrical Engineering Story
Electricity; Designing alarm circuits
60 books
15-6-337 Saving Salila’s Turtle: An Environmental Engineering Story
Pollution, Bacteria; Designing water filters
154 books, large kit with replaceable materials, teachers manual
15-6-338 Aisha Makes Work Easier: An Industrial Engineering Story
Lever, Pulleys, Work; Designing simple machines
44 books, CD rom
15-6-339 Yi Min’s Great Wall: A Materials Engineering Story
Materials, Properties, Design; Designing walls
15-6-340 Leif Catches the Wind: A Mechanical Engineering Story
Air, Weather; Designing windmills
Contact Raina Scarinza at raina@ncedservices.org in the NCES Media Center for more information on borrowing kits and other materials for free.
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Leadership North Country
Leadership North Country is patterned after the over 350 state, regional, and local Leadership Programs in the United States. In NH there are five regional Leadership Programs and one state Leadership Program.
The purpose of Leadership North Country is to create a leadership core in the northern part of the state who know how to partner and network with each other, who know how to find leadership partners in social services, economic and community development, and who further know and understand what kinds of deliverables and services are available from organizations and agencies outside the North Country for the betterment of its citizens and communities.
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Learning Forward in the Digital Age
Speaker: Marilee Sprenger, an international educational neuroscience consultant and author of Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital Age.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
SNHU, Manchester, NH
Sponsored by: Learning Forward NH (formerly NH Staff Development Council) Learn more at learningforwardnh.org
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Troops to Teachers
ATTENTION VETERANS
$10,000 bonus available to teachers returning from a National Guard or Reserve deployment who work in high need public schools.
$5,000 stipend available to teachers with qualifying military service who are transitioning from teaching non-critical need subject areas to critical need subject areas in public schools.
New England Troops to Teachers
(888) 463-6488
nettt@maine.edu
www.newenglandttt.org |
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Living with Mental Illness
"Knowing Me as a Person", a presentation on what it is like to live with mental illness, will be offered by the National Alliance on Mental Illness - NAMI NH. This free presentation and dinner will by presented by someone who has struggled with mental illness and is now in recovery.
Offered in two locations:
June 8, 2011
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Lancaster, NH
June 29, 2011
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Colebrook, NH
FMI or to register:
Becky McEnany, ext 51
Annette Carbonneau, ext 25
800-242-6264
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Participatory Family Concert in Berlin
Visiting musicians Deborah Stuart and Will Cabell offer a free family music program, using songs and active music to involve parents and young children in celebrating the forests and animals of northern New Hampshire. The program, part of Arts Alliance's series of Weeks Act Centennial activities, will be followed by a potluck dessert buffet. Free and open to all families and young children.
Deborah and Will will be visiting local schools, preschools and day care centers during the day to provide teachers and care providers with professional development and ideas for using music and books in learning and language development. More info: info@aannh.org
May 23, 2011
7:00 PM
Brown School, Berlin
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NHCSS Call for Proposals
The New Hampshire Council for Social Studies is still accepting workshop proposals aimed at elementary grades for their conference to be held on October 27th in Manchester, NH. The conference theme is The Role of Social Studies in the 21st Century. For more information see the events section of nhcss.org.
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