Northeast Professional Development Services
"A school is in business to cause and promote learning. For a school to be a model learning organization, all faculty members should be professional learners: They should engage in deep, broad study of the learning they are charged to cause..."
—Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
With a purpose to enable schools in their mission and to promote learning that effectively prepares students for life, the ACSI Northeast Regional Office provides the following professional development activities that are specifically designed for its member schools: distance learning webinars, mini-PDS webinar events of 1–2 hours in length, or a full-day event for a school staff.
Distance Learning Webinars
With an ongoing commitment to provide convenient and affordable professional development services to its member schools, the ACSI Northeast Region offers a fully developed distance learning webinar schedule for the 2009–10 school year. Any combination of webinar hours can be used towards Continuing Education Units (CEU) or state clock hours.
Schools interested in participating in these events must have the following hardware components to access this live media presentation:
- Computer with high-speed Internet connection
- Video projector to display PowerPoint presentation onto a large screen
(for large groups only)
- A telephone connection or Voice over IP (VoIP) may be used for the audio component of the webinar. Your computer should have a quality speaker (or speakers attached) and a microphone if you wish to use VoIP. To listen only, no microphone is required.
Current webinar topics and registration information is now available.
Schedule a Staff Development Event
At an affordable price for member schools, the ACSI Northeast Regional Office is interested to organize and deliver a high-level staff development event for ACSI member schools, with either a full-day or a half-day design. Topics may include those listed below or a specific area of request by the interested school. Scheduled presenters will be experts in the content area.
Sample Staff Development Topics:
- Authentic Student Assessment for the Classroom Teacher (K–12)
- Best Practices in the Teaching of Reading (K–8)
- Biblical School-Wide Discipline (K–8)
- Bullying and Conflict Resolution (K–8)
- Differentiated Instruction for Students with Learning Needs (K–12)
- Effective Use of Block Scheduling (9–12)
- Let's Play! Learning Through Play (Birth–K)
- Multiple Intelligences (K–12)
- Philosophy of Christian School Education (K–12)
- Playing Math (Birth–K)
- Questions That Matter (Birth–K)
- Writing Across the Curriculum (K–12)
Please contact the Regional Associate Director to schedule an event for your school.