Welcome Back: Convocation and Inservice 2021-22
Save the Date! Aug. 31 - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This event will be virtual. Email the help desk at helpdesk@nwresd.k12.or.us or call 503-614-1400 if you need support. You must have a Northwest Regional ESD email address to access the registration information and meeting links.
Overview of the Day
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. - Optional Benefits Fair - POSTPONED - new date will be announced soon
8 - 8:45 a.m. - Optional Wellness Welcome
9 - 11:30 a.m. - Convocation and School Year Kick-Off
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Lunch on your own
12:15 - 1:30 p.m. - Professional Learning Session - Workshop 1
1:45 - 3 p.m. - Professional Learning Session - Workshop 2
3:15 - 4 p.m. - Association Meetings
Details
Workshop Sessions (see full description of workshops below)
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. - Optional Benefits Fair - POSTPONED - new date will be announced soon
8 - 8:45 a.m. - Optional Wellness Welcome
9 - 11:30 a.m. - Convocation and School Year Kick-Off
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Lunch on your own
12:15 - 1:30 p.m. - Professional Learning Session - Workshop 1
1:45 - 3 p.m. - Professional Learning Session - Workshop 2
3:15 - 4 p.m. - Association Meetings
Details
Workshop Sessions (see full description of workshops below)
- Creating an Inclusive Environment: Interrupting Bias and Microaggressions
- Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
- Diverse Educator Pathways Panel: Demystifying Pathways to Licensure
- Everybody’s Gotta Eat, But Everybody Doesn’t: How Does Our Education System Address Racism?
- Exploring Cultural Humility: Insights for Communicating Effectively with Multicultural Families
- Getting Better at Getting Better: Using Equity-Centered Improvement Science to Address Challenges in Your Practice
- Google: Review and What's New
- How to Not Get COVID-19
- Inclusive School Models: Why Least Restrictive Environment is Best For Kids
- Resilient Educators, Resilient Learners: A Deeper Dive
- Resilient Educators, Resilient Learners: A Deeper Dive for Staff of Color
- School Psychology: A Career that Makes a Difference
- Supporting LGBTQ2SIA+ Staff and Students
8 to 8:45 a.m. - Optional Wellness Welcome
Log into the main session early to say hello to colleagues, participate in wellness activities and win door prizes.
9 to 11:15 a.m. - Convocation and School Year Kick-Off
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Superintendent Remarks and Years-of-Service Milestones (9 - 10:15 a.m.)
Join Superintendent Dan Goldman to kick off the school year and learn about key initiatives planned for the year ahead. Goldman joined NWRESD in July 2019 and shortly thereafter, oversaw the creation of a five-year plan for the agency, rooted in the the NWRESD mission, values and community input. Read more about Dan Goldman or follow him on Twitter. |
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Resilient Educators, Resilient Learners: Transforming Shame to Guilt in Pursuit of Racial Justice (10:25 - 11:30 a.m.)
What's the difference between shame and guilt, and why do we experience them? In a session focused on employee health, wellness and inclusion, learn the evolutionary basis of shame and guilt from an interpersonal neurobiology framework, and their essential roles in conscience and character development. Shame can be transformed to guilt, which fuels reparations and grounded action. These are necessary steps in the pursuit of collective liberation and racial justice. How can we better understand our own shame templating in order to move from shame to guilt more actively and adaptively? How do we model and teach healthy metabolism of shame for our students? This workshop aims to provide educators with a new understanding of these primal emotions and illustrate the adaptive roles of shame and guilt in becoming antiracist. |
Dr. Han Ren is a licensed clinical and school psychologist, consultant, speaker and educator. She is deeply rooted in liberation and anti-oppressive work, practicing from a justice-oriented, interpersonal, and systems-informed framework. Through her widely viewed work on social media, she strives to make therapy accessible and applicable to our daily lives and historically overlooked communities. She translates science and theory into snackable applications for liberated, intentional lives. Dr. Ren addresses systems of oppression and the pursuit of collective liberation through her healing work and activism. She recognizes the personal is political and celebrates mental health extending beyond the individual. When she's not in the therapy chair, you can find her laughing with family and friends, caffeinating with black coffee, dancing offbeat to live music, Pelotonning, and on TikTok and Instagram @dr.han.ren.
12:15-3 p.m. - Professional Learning Workshops (first workshop runs 12:15-1:30 p.m. and second workshop runs 1:45-3 p.m.)
Staff will be required to select and register for workshops by 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 31. Unless otherwise noted, most workshops will run twice, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. and then again from 1:45 to 3 p.m.
Staff will be required to select and register for workshops by 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 31. Unless otherwise noted, most workshops will run twice, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. and then again from 1:45 to 3 p.m.
Creating an Inclusive Environment: Interrupting Bias and Microaggressions
This workshop will discuss how microaggressions impact workplace culture and undermine inclusion of BIPOC staff. The best solution is, of course, increasing awareness of microaggressions and interrupting biases through constructive dialogue.
This workshop will discuss how microaggressions impact workplace culture and undermine inclusion of BIPOC staff. The best solution is, of course, increasing awareness of microaggressions and interrupting biases through constructive dialogue.
Yashica Island, Equity Professional Development Specialist
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Inger McDowell-Hartye, Equity Professional Development Specialist
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Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
Cybersecurity can affect access to personally identifiable information of everyone through your documents and devices. Attend this session if you’re curious about cybersecurity - protecting your own data and the data of your students and staff. We will talk broadly about why everyone is talking about cybersecurity, share several actions you can take (or not take), and learn more about protecting yourself at work and at home. Learn strategies for keeping yourself safe!
Cybersecurity can affect access to personally identifiable information of everyone through your documents and devices. Attend this session if you’re curious about cybersecurity - protecting your own data and the data of your students and staff. We will talk broadly about why everyone is talking about cybersecurity, share several actions you can take (or not take), and learn more about protecting yourself at work and at home. Learn strategies for keeping yourself safe!
Stuart Long, Chief Information Officer
Diverse Educator Pathways Panel: Demystifying Pathways to Licensure
The Diverse Educator Pathways team invites ESD colleagues interested in pursuing a pathway to licensure to discuss pathway options, share insight on how the process works while still working a full-time job, and assist in separating competing reality and expectations of applying to a teaching program. Learn through the unfiltered lived experiences of our panel participants as they share how they pursued their life’s goal of becoming an educator and what that looked like for them.
Facilitators
The Diverse Educator Pathways team invites ESD colleagues interested in pursuing a pathway to licensure to discuss pathway options, share insight on how the process works while still working a full-time job, and assist in separating competing reality and expectations of applying to a teaching program. Learn through the unfiltered lived experiences of our panel participants as they share how they pursued their life’s goal of becoming an educator and what that looked like for them.
Facilitators
Marina Alvarez, Diverse Educator Pathways Coordinator
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Shira Long-Strand, Administrative Specialist
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Mariana Zaragoza, Regional Educator Network Facilitator and Diverse Educator Pathways Program Supervisor
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Panelists
Elena Barreto, Northwest Early Learning Hub Community Navigator and Northwest Parenting Regional Coordinator
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Julio Bautista, Regional Educator Network Improvement Coach
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Victor Cato, Talent Acquisition and Retention Manager
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Ana Lia Oliva, MA CCC-SLP, NeuroEducator, Special Student Services Coordinator
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Marsha Pack, Regional Educator Network Improvement Coach
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Everybody’s Gotta Eat, But Everybody Doesn’t: How Does Our Education System Address Racism?
People experience this world differently. What we need and what we get from our education system isn’t the same for everyone. Some are well fed and others are going hungry. This session is about how we make sure everybody eats.
We will explore how this ESD is addressing racism, how we support staff to address racism and strengthen each other in our work to cultivate antiracism, multiculturalism and diverse racial perspectives in program design, continuous improvement and decision-making.
People experience this world differently. What we need and what we get from our education system isn’t the same for everyone. Some are well fed and others are going hungry. This session is about how we make sure everybody eats.
We will explore how this ESD is addressing racism, how we support staff to address racism and strengthen each other in our work to cultivate antiracism, multiculturalism and diverse racial perspectives in program design, continuous improvement and decision-making.
Sharif Zakir Liwaru, Director of Equity and Family Partnerships
Exploring Cultural Humility: Insights for Communicating Effectively with Multicultural Families
In this workshop, hone your cross-cultural communication skills. We’ll cover the basics of cultural humility and conceptual approaches to successful interactions with diverse populations and cultures. We’ll also offer technical tips for an improved experience for communicating through an interpreter.
In this workshop, hone your cross-cultural communication skills. We’ll cover the basics of cultural humility and conceptual approaches to successful interactions with diverse populations and cultures. We’ll also offer technical tips for an improved experience for communicating through an interpreter.
Carolina Parente, Spanish-Language Interpreter/Translator
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Carlos Tenorio Hughes, Spanish-Language Interpreter/Translator
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Kelsey Cardwell, Communications Director
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Getting Better at Getting Better: Using Equity-Centered Improvement Science to Address Challenges in Your Practice
Improvement Science empowers educators to unpack challenges in their practice and co-design ways to make things better. In this session you will get a brief introduction to Improvement Science, followed by living the IS mindset of “Bias Toward Action” by beginning to develop an equity-centered improvement hack for a challenge in your practice.
Improvement Science empowers educators to unpack challenges in their practice and co-design ways to make things better. In this session you will get a brief introduction to Improvement Science, followed by living the IS mindset of “Bias Toward Action” by beginning to develop an equity-centered improvement hack for a challenge in your practice.
Renae Iversen, Professional Learning Specialist
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Annie Tronco, Professional Learning Coach
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Google: Review and What's New
Google Suite is changing to Google Workspaces! Please join us to hear, see and practice the latest changes to all things Google. The Suite was powerful before. Added security and usability features make it even more powerful with Google Workspaces. We will review some of the basics of using Google for email, word processing, presentations and spreadsheets. We will also share new features along with some tips and tricks to help save you time, increase collaboration online, and connect with your coworkers!
Google Suite is changing to Google Workspaces! Please join us to hear, see and practice the latest changes to all things Google. The Suite was powerful before. Added security and usability features make it even more powerful with Google Workspaces. We will review some of the basics of using Google for email, word processing, presentations and spreadsheets. We will also share new features along with some tips and tricks to help save you time, increase collaboration online, and connect with your coworkers!
Aaron Sackett, Supervisor of Technology Systems
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Corin Wyatt, Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Innovation
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How to Not Get COVID-19
This workshop will cover NWRESD's COVID-19 health and safety protocols for the 2021-22 school year.
This workshop will cover NWRESD's COVID-19 health and safety protocols for the 2021-22 school year.
Sarah Pope, Deputy Superintendent and Reopening Schools Lead
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Richelle Kaye, Registered Nurse
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Heather Simko, Registered Nurse
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Inclusive School Models: Why Least Restrictive Environment is Best For Kids
This session will dig into WHY inclusion is the best model both for students receiving special education services and their non-disabled peers specifically in pre-K through third grade. You should attend this session if your school is moving toward an inclusion model in the upcoming year or if you are currently using a “learning center” or pull-out model for the majority of your special education services.
This session will dig into WHY inclusion is the best model both for students receiving special education services and their non-disabled peers specifically in pre-K through third grade. You should attend this session if your school is moving toward an inclusion model in the upcoming year or if you are currently using a “learning center” or pull-out model for the majority of your special education services.
Johnna Timmes, Executive Director of Early Learning
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Kendra Hughes, Early Learning Network Lead
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Megan McCarter, Executive Director of Instructional Services
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Liane Chappell, Principal of the Hillsboro Early Childhood Center
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Resilient Educators, Resilient Learners: A Deeper Dive
Add intention to learning from Dr. Han Ren's main session. Dig in with hands-on activities, such as journaling, self-enquiry, reflection, and mindfulness to create personal and professional wellness goals for the year, especially in the context of contributing to an antiracist workplace and educational system.
Add intention to learning from Dr. Han Ren's main session. Dig in with hands-on activities, such as journaling, self-enquiry, reflection, and mindfulness to create personal and professional wellness goals for the year, especially in the context of contributing to an antiracist workplace and educational system.
Dr. Han Ren, Licensed Clinical and School Psychologist, Consultant, Speaker and Educator
Resilient Educators, Resilient Learners: A Deeper Dive for Staff of Color
This session is reserved for staff of color. Add intention to learning from Dr. Han Ren's main session. Dig in with hands-on activities, such as journaling, self-enquiry, reflection and mindfulness to create personal and professional wellness goals for the year in a racial affinity space.
This session is reserved for staff of color. Add intention to learning from Dr. Han Ren's main session. Dig in with hands-on activities, such as journaling, self-enquiry, reflection and mindfulness to create personal and professional wellness goals for the year in a racial affinity space.
Dr. Han Ren, Licensed Clinical and School Psychologist, Consultant, Speaker and Educator
School Psychology: A Career that Makes a Difference
Do you love working with children/youth and want to make a positive difference in their lives? Would you like to be able to work with several age groups and connect with the community and families to support students? Looking for a change from being in the classroom on a daily basis? Come check out this session to learn more about school psychology! In this session participants will learn about:
Do you love working with children/youth and want to make a positive difference in their lives? Would you like to be able to work with several age groups and connect with the community and families to support students? Looking for a change from being in the classroom on a daily basis? Come check out this session to learn more about school psychology! In this session participants will learn about:
- How they can improve the lives and learning of children and youth as a school psychologist
- The common locations school psychologists work in
- The educational pathways to getting certified, including local universities with school psychology programs
- The need for professionals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and males in the field
Allyn Kirnak, School Psychologist
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Damon Lorenz, School Psychologist
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Tina Meier-Nowell, Special Education Coordinator
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Supporting LGBTQ2SIA+ Staff and Students
In this session, participants will:
In this session, participants will:
- learn about the terms LGBTQ2SIA+
- have an understanding of the ‘Every Student Belongs’ guidance from the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) for LGBTQ2SIA+
- practice self reflection to understand own beliefs
- learn how to respond and support LGBTQ2SIA+ students and ensure an inclusive and safe environment for all
- develop language and tools around how to interrupt bias and hateful incidents around LGBTQ2SIA+ students
Naheed Brown, Professional Learning Specialist
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Kimberley Ednie, 9th Grade Success Network Co-Lead & Professional Learning Specialist
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Jenn Johnson, School Safety and Prevention Specialist
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Laura Kanter-Fellows, 9th Grade Success Network Co-Lead & Professional Learning Specialist
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