professional development

This session challenges conventional ideas about AI in education by reframing it not as a novelty tool, but as a strategic partner in advancing personalized learning. Rather than focusing on automation or engagement gimmicks, we’ll explore how AI can support deeper shifts—like elevating learner agency, making data visible and actionable for students, and co-designing rigorous, flexible pathways aligned with the Ohio Personalized Learning Framework. Educators will engage with real classroom challenges and experiment with AI as a co-designer, not a driver. Together, we’ll explore how to use AI to reduce barriers, not increase inequity.

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Does your role include supporting teacher growth?

If so, please plan to join Hamilton County ESC’s 9th Annual Instructional Coaching Institute series to hone your listening and questioning skills with colleagues in similar roles!

This five-session series, created for coaches, lead teachers, department heads, and other building leaders, is designed to develop highly accomplished instructional leaders.

Participants will study the practices and skills necessary for impactful coaching and apply them in real-time as they support teacher growth. Be sure to bring your own device in order to access shared resources.

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Cost is $425/person. Register a team of 4 or more for a discounted fee of $400 each person. Use promocode teamof4 each time a person registers. Optional Ashland Credit Available!

Registration questions or team registration? Contact becky.miller@hcesc.org.

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This professional development session is designed to deepen school psychologists’ understanding and confidence when evaluating students with complex profiles. Together, we’ll explore best practices for assessing students multiple factors—such as co-occurring disabilities, trauma, language differences, or medical conditions—impact a student’s presentation. Participants will engage in case discussions and collaborative problem-solving to strengthen their evaluation approach and decision-making processes. The session will also include a review of recent state law updates and their implications for evaluation practices and eligibility determinations.

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A professional development and networking event to increase conversation and collaboration and between STEM educators.

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Agentic engagement—the most overlooked type—is when students shape their own learning by asking questions, offering ideas, and influencing processes. This session unpacks how agency amplifies all other types of engagement, and how classrooms built on co-construction lead to deeper learning and more equitable outcomes. Educators will explore how to gradually release responsibility while maintaining clarity, structure, and purpose.

Part of the “Engagement to Agency” series, this session builds Tier 1 capacity by shifting effort, ownership, and outcomes toward the learner.

Other sessions available:

Showing Up & Leaning In: Behavioral Engagement as Foundation, Not Finish Line (Oct 7)

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Hearts In It: Emotional Engagement, Belonging, and Motivation (Nov 10)

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Thinking Hard is the Goal: Rethinking Rigor Through Cognitive Engagement (Jan 29)

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Or register for the entire series.

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This course is an interactive and hands-on overview of the various methods by which individuals with multiple disabilities access augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and their environment. Strategies and considerations that impact language learning, and ultimately the ability to communicate with AAC, are also reviewed. Through demonstration, video examples, and hands-on experience participants will learn about eye tracking, head tracking, single and multiple switch control, and touch access for AAC apps as well as the iOS ecosystem. Clinical and practical assessment considerations will be discussed across the access methods, along with implications for teaching and common adjustments to increase effectiveness in access and overall communication. This class will also touch on the impact of various movement disorders and vision related issues on the design of the user interface, adjustments to specific access methods, and overall impact on device setup.

This course will also examine tool use learning as it applies first to powered mobility (Assessment of Learning Powered mobility use – ALP), second as it applies to augmentative and alternative communication (ALP for AAC) and how the ALP impacts decision making for specific strategies and techniques you may implement or provide. Through interprofessional collaboration, the authors will demonstrate how the ALP for powered mobility has been adapted to the AAC population, providing a framework to help guide clinicians in assessing alternative access, and to increase proficiency with the chosen access method. Audience participation in rating videos and reviewing clinical strategies will be included.

Registration through PRC-Saltillo. 1.3 ASHA CEUs available

Agenda:

Day One

15m – Introduction

90m – ALP for AAC Pt. 1

30m – ALP for AAC pt. 2

60m – Vision (Acuity Issues, Ocular Motor, and Cortical Vision Impairments)

45m – Positioning and Movement Disorders

45m – Touch Access

60m – Assistive Touch & Gestures

45m – iOS Shortcuts

Day Two

120m – Eye Tracking

120m – Switch Control

60m – Head Tracking

60m – Environmental Controls

30m – Video Grand Rounds

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The Regional Attendance Collaborative is designed to bring together area districts to explore ideas, invest time with your team, and support energy into addressing attendance successes and challenges. Attendance teams of area districts are invited to participate in this 4 session Collaborative throughout the 2025-2026 school year.

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This course is an interactive and hands-on overview of the various methods by which individuals with multiple disabilities access augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and their environment. Strategies and considerations that impact language learning, and ultimately the ability to communicate with AAC, are also reviewed. Through demonstration, video examples, and hands-on experience participants will learn about eye tracking, head tracking, single and multiple switch control, and touch access for AAC apps as well as the iOS ecosystem. Clinical and practical assessment considerations will be discussed across the access methods, along with implications for teaching and common adjustments to increase effectiveness in access and overall communication. This class will also touch on the impact of various movement disorders and vision related issues on the design of the user interface, adjustments to specific access methods, and overall impact on device setup.

This course will also examine tool use learning as it applies first to powered mobility (Assessment of Learning Powered mobility use – ALP), second as it applies to augmentative and alternative communication (ALP for AAC) and how the ALP impacts decision making for specific strategies and techniques you may implement or provide. Through interprofessional collaboration, the authors will demonstrate how the ALP for powered mobility has been adapted to the AAC population, providing a framework to help guide clinicians in assessing alternative access, and to increase proficiency with the chosen access method. Audience participation in rating videos and reviewing clinical strategies will be included.

Registration through PRC-Saltillo. 1.3 ASHA CEUs available

Agenda:

Day One

15m – Introduction

90m – ALP for AAC Pt. 1

30m – ALP for AAC pt. 2

60m – Vision (Acuity Issues, Ocular Motor, and Cortical Vision Impairments)

45m – Positioning and Movement Disorders

45m – Touch Access

60m – Assistive Touch & Gestures

45m – iOS Shortcuts

Day Two

120m – Eye Tracking

120m – Switch Control

60m – Head Tracking

60m – Environmental Controls

30m – Video Grand Rounds

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The Ohio Teacher Evaluation System 2.0 training is required for evaluators who are new to OTES to address shifts with OTES 2.0 and to lead to a pathway that leads to OTES 2.0 re-credentialing with the objectives of:

1) Promoting an understanding of the procedures within OTES 2.0 and how they differ from OTES 1.0.

2) Promoting an understanding and application of the OTES 2.0 teacher performance rubric while learning to collect evidence that demonstrates teacher performance.

3) Applying lessons learned and best practices from OTES 2.0 implementation to date.

4) Learning about and identifying High-Quality Student Data (HQSD).

Upon completion of the OTES 2.0 Evaluator Training, evaluators (participants) may credential through the new online credentialing system. The OTES 2.0 Evaluator Training will provide a better understanding of the OTES 2.0 Framework and Model, allow practice of skills, and allow for sharing of resources and best practices in educator evaluation.

Lunch will be on your own. The cost is $250 per participant. Personal checks or purchase orders made out to the Hamilton County ESC located at 11083 Hamilton Avenue. Cincinnati, Ohio 45231

YOU MUST REGISTER VIA ODE USING THE OH|ID PORTAL (formerly SAFE/STARS).

Please follow this link for registration: https://safe.ode.state.oh.us/portal/

Registration questions?
Call Sara Cole at 513-674-4274 or email sara.cole@hcesc.org.

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Join Amy Wettengel & Chris Walters for a day of rich math tasks and deep questioning. In the morning, experience a series of math tasks as a student with a debrief focus on questioning types and strategies. Participants will examine questioning tactics that deepen learning and have space for intentional discussion around impact and benefits for gifted learners.

The afternoon structure will resemble a workshop model in which participants will bring or select a task for their classroom on which they want time to design, plan, and build intentional questioning supports based on the learning from the AM.
This session is ideal for any teacher ready to expand their low floor, high ceiling skillset and looking for new ways to challenge all learners. This session counts for 6 hours of gifted HQPD.

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