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Chester County African American Health & Wellness Expo, April 17

Free information and health workshops available for women, men, children & youth, and seniors. The expo is free to the community and will be held indoors - rain or shine! - Health screenings - Fitness demos - Informational exhibits - Entertainment - Door prizes - Giveaways - FREE lunch with your pre-registration!

Ellin Oliver Keene presents: Tapping the Power of Thinking to Teach Comprehension, May 13-14

This is not a two-day workshop. May 13 is for educators interested in Grades 1-3, and May 14 is for educators interested in Grades 4-8. Please click on the link below for information pertaining to each workshop. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have made Ellin Oliver Keene's bestselling book, *Mosaic of Thought*, coauthored with Susan Zimmermann, their central resource for comprehension teaching. Drawing from the newly published Second Edition, this workshop will invite participants on a journey through the intricacies of the mind, particularly in relation to how we comprehend text. Ellin will demonstrate how to help students become thoughtful, independent readers who can not only negotiate their way through print, but also probe the depths of its content and themes. Ellin will share a model that helps teachers focus on what is most essential for students' literacy learning and will describe how thinking strategies known to be used by proficient readers enhance and strengthen children's literacy learning. The workshop will help teachers infuse in-depth, meaningful instruction in comprehension into literature-based and secondary content area classrooms where teachers and students explore, learn from, and react to a wide variety of text. Note: Save $25 - Register before April 1, 2010 Cost: $110 –Subscribers; $135 –Regular (Early Bird before April 1, 2010) $125 –Subscribers; $150 –Regular (April 1, 2010 – May 14, 2010) Professional Development - Six (6) Act 48 hours

RtII in Secondary Schools: Strategies for Success, March 17

Presented by: Dr. Denise Gibbs - Are you looking for strategies to implement Response to Instruction and Intervention at the secondary level? - Has your team been searching for effective tools that can be used for identification, intervention planning, and progress monitoring specific to secondary students? - Is your research turning up more elementary based models than secondary models? - Would you like a review of key secondary literacy research findings to frame your secondary school efforts; an overview of an RtII model designed for secondary schools and a review of effective literacy instruction and intervention principles and strategies? If you answered YES to any of the questions above - this workshop is for YOU and/or your team! Click on the link below for a more detailed description and to register for this amazing opportunity TODAY! Dr. Denise P. Gibbs is Director of the Alabama Scottish Rite Foundation Learning Centers and serves as a reading specialist and RTI consultant for school systems across the country. She has more than 30 years of teaching experience at all levels and is the author of two books: *RTI in Middle and High School: Strategies and Structures for Literacy Success* (LRP, 2009) and *Leading the Dyslexia Challenge: An Action Plan for Schoolwide Identification and Intervention* (LRP, 2004). Cost: $110 –Subscribers; $135 – Regular; includes continental breakfast Free Book: Print this page and bring it with you to the workshop to earn a free book.

Act 45 Workshop - Language-Rich Schools: Increasing Instructional Effectiveness in Multilingual Classrooms, August 1-3

Presenters: Perside and Bill Himmele This course provides school administrators with an opportunity to learn and apply practical and theoretical foundations of second language acquisition, and research-based instructional practices for multilingual classrooms, to their program analysis and development. Participants will learn and apply research in developing English language learners’ academic language in their role as supervisors and instructional leaders. The course will provide participants with job-embedded assignments that further their understanding of their own ELL population as well as a culminating project that supports them in positively impacting teaching and learning in multilingual classrooms. The registration fee is $325.00 (participants are required to purchase the text book at an additional cost). Approved Act 45 Hours = 30

English Language Learner Symposium, August 1-5

Save the date for the second annual English Language Learner Symposium featuring Bill and Persida Himmel as keynote speakers. - Learn best practices and instructional strategies for teaching and assessing English language learners using the Pennsylvania academic standards. - Explore research-based strategies for teaching English language learners how to read and write. - Understand the cultural challenges facing English language learners. Other presenters include: - PaTTAN, PA Department of Education - Dr. Jane Hershberger and Dr. Ann Appolloni, CCIU - Dr. Cheryl Micheau, Penn GSE - And many others… Professional Development - 30 Act 48 Hours

CAT Brandywine Open House, March 23

Looking for the best high school education for your son or daughter? One that prepares students not only to meet the academic challenges of college but also the demands of the work place? Then attend the Center for Arts and Technology Brandywine Campus open house. The Center for Arts & Technology, a public high school for students in grades nine through 12, specializes in providing high school students with both the work force and academic skills they will need to be successful in life. Student may choose from 17 careers to study.

Chester County High School Art Show, May 8-15, 2010

Come out and meet the young artists of Chester County. Nearly 400 works of art created by Chester County high school students will be on exhibit to the general public at the Chester County Art Association in West Chester. The annual Chester County High School Art Show will begin on Saturday, May 8, 2010 with a free reception from 1:00-3:30 p.m. for students, their families and the general public. The student exhibit will be on display through Saturday, May 15. Exhibit hours are Monday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. The exhibit and the reception are free and open to the general public. The Chester County Art Association is located on 100 N. Bradford Avenue in West Chester, PA (telephone number 610-696-5600).

CAT Pickering Coffee & Dessert Night, April 8

Looking for the best high school education for your son or daughter? One that prepares students not only to meet the academic challenges of college but also the demands of the work place? Then attend the Center for Arts and Technology Pickering Campus coffee and dessert night. The Center for Arts & Technology is a public high school for students in grades nine through 12 specializing in providing high school students with both the work force and academic skills they will need to be successful in life.

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