This cohort is for districts who are participating in the Career Consultant program. District identified career committees will attend to engage in professional learning, collaboration, and program planning. Development of career pathways is based on the nationally recognized Redefining Ready metrics and professional learning will include outside expertise and exemplars to guide district teams in design. Cohort sessions may take place at Sourcewell or another location dependent on content of the session.

The New Teacher Academy is designed to increase confidence and capacity in novice educators by combining relevant training with growth-focused coaching support. Support throughout the year includes five full-day trainings at Sourcewell, four individual in-classroom coaching sessions, Catalyst Whole Group Leadership, and Catalyst Live.

We invite you to join the Brainerd Lakes Area Funders Network organizations to learn about opportunities, priority areas, eligibility, and application timelines/deadlines from several area foundations and funders. We also want your feedback on gaps that exist with funding and/or areas of need that have limited funding options. There will also be time for networking with your colleagues.

Learn how to remove classic frustrations encountered by all law enforcement officers and the impact of rewarded cynicism. Officers, sergeants, and those who assist them will reflect upon the traumas and triumphs associated with modern law enforcement, and how these influence the pivotal balance between professional and personal relationships.

Learn key strategies for keeping more students in the room more of the time. There are times when students have needs or behaviors that make it tricky to keep them in the general education setting, while keeping them and the rest of the class focused on learning.

At the core of strong classroom management is how the adults manage themselves. In this class, participants learn strategies (based on observations and field-testing in more than 50,000 classrooms) that allow them to strengthen relationships, increase equity, reduce frustration, and foster independence in the classroom.

The Minnesota Service Cooperatives have collaborated to bring you a virtual, asynchronous option to meeting your Cultural Competency licensure requirement. This course provides video learning, personal reflection time, an opportunity to hear from educators in the field, and many additional resources to explore as you continue your journey to be an even more culturally competent educator.

What makes a school experience excellent? In this speaker series we will excavate the supports needed across the academic continuum that ensure each student gets what they need and is given opportunities to grow. We will hear from educators specializing in both special education as well as gifted and talented programs. Each will unpack how to deliver specialized instruction both within the general classroom and beyond that supports students no matter where they are in their learning journey or how their brains are wired. Every student deserves excellence in their education.

This day of professional development, including a keynote presentation, breakouts, and networking, is dedicated to current topics in the field of early childhood education. Topics presented are relevant for individuals, partners, and teams.

Ed Venture boxes provide ideas and strategies for teachers in every box. Subscribers will receive a physical box complete with ready-to-use tools and strategies, access to on-demand content and CEUs, online network to collaborate with other subscribers, exclusive content, and supplies to support the strategies. Every box will have learning focused on deepening understanding, assessment and feedback, engagement, classroom management, relationships, direct instruction, Minnesota, and a bonus category!

For more information, visit the Ed Venture boxes webpage >

Registration deadlines:

September box: Sept. 15, 2023

November box: Nov. 10, 2023

March box: March 8, 2024

This speaker series and cohort excavates what contributes to excellence in schools. Topics include curriculum and student voice, using an indigenous lens, creating psychological safety, and supporting academics across the continuum: special education to gifted and talented. The cohort includes four full days with guest speakers in the morning and a deeper dive, personal applications, and individual action plans in the afternoon. Members of the cohort will also be invited to three, one-hour after-school virtual connects and have access to up to three 1:1 coaching sessions to support putting your learning into action.

This on-demand course will define formative assessment and explore the benefits of utilization. Participants will learn about various formative assessment techniques for both virtual and in-person learning, and will leave the session ready to implement and achieve some formative assessment quick wins.

Using formative assessments regularly and consistently can give both educators and learners an even clearer picture around what learners know. Formative assessments also provide educators with a guide to developing learning experiences and lesson planning that can meet the needs of all learners. By using formative assessments with purpose, educators can maximize student learning and increase the effectiveness of their lesson design and delivery.

This event is offered in partnership with the Initiative Foundation and the Nonprofit Plus Team.

Are you wanting to build bigger and better relationships with the corporate community in support of your organization? Do you struggle to secure corporate sponsorships? Are you at a loss on how to create or connect to employee giving programs? Join fundraising expert Janet Cobb from the Nonprofit Plus Team for a day filled with practical, interactive approaches, templates and time for developing materials, and feedback on your work. Walk away with a solid plan and useable content - just in time for the year-end fundraising season!

This event is the first day in a three-day Fundraising Summit. Come for one or sign up for all sessions:

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  Day 1: Get Ready for Give to the Max Day

  
  


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  Day 2: Stocks, Bequests, Endowments, oh my...

  
  

Sourcewell strives to bring the highest-quality resources, information, and training opportunities to our members. We’re honored to team up with the Initiative Foundation and the Nonprofit Plus Team to bring this opportunity to our central Minnesota region.   

This event is offered in partnership with the Initiative Foundation and the Nonprofit Plus Team.

Give to the Max Day 2023 is fast approaching! Make the time in early October to get everything ready to go for a successful day on Nov. 16. Learn what it takes to plan, promote, and launch a successful giving day. Join fundraising expert Janet Cobb from the Nonprofit Plus Team for a day of step-by-step instruction, content creation, and practical feedback. You'll be ready to knock your fundraising efforts out of the park and build momentum for the year-end giving season.

This event is the first day in a three-day Fundraising Summit. Come for one or sign up for all sessions:

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  Day 2: Stocks, Bequests, Endowments, oh my...

  
  


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  Day 3: Building Stronger Relationships with Corporations

  
  

Sourcewell strives to bring the highest-quality resources, information, and training opportunities to our members. We’re honored to team up with the Initiative Foundation and the Nonprofit Plus Team to bring this opportunity to our central Minnesota region.   

This event is offered in partnership with the Initiative Foundation and the Nonprofit Plus Team.

Is your organization prepared to receive gifts of stock? Do you capitalize on the Requirement Minimum Distributions - and do you know how the laws have changed? Do you think you're too small for an endowment? Join fundraising expert Janet Cobb from the Nonprofit Plus Team as she digs into how your organization can best prepare for, promote, and grow your planned giving programs. Think you're too young or small? Don't know how or where to begin? Then this day is designed for you! Walk away with the know-how to get started - just in time for the year-end giving season.

This event is the first day in a three-day Fundraising Summit. Come for one or sign up for all sessions:

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  Day 1: Get Ready for Give to the Max Day

  
  


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  Day 3: Building Stronger Relationships with Corporations

  
  

Sourcewell strives to bring the highest-quality resources, information, and training opportunities to our members. We’re honored to team up with the Initiative Foundation and the Nonprofit Plus Team to bring this opportunity to our central Minnesota region.   

This course focuses on recognizing and healing racialized trauma by using Resmaa Menakem’s text, “My Grandmother’s Hands”. Explore the intersections of trauma, race, racism, history, and the body. The text and course focus on awareness as well as learning the pathways to mending our hearts and bodies.

Did you know that Minnesota is home to 11 federally-recognized tribes? Do you know whose ancestral lands your school is now occupying? In this series we will excavate a perspective that is too often minimized, misrepresented, or sometimes completely absent: the perspective of our nation's first people. Join us as we hear first-hand accounts from a panelist of regional, native voices sharing about schooling experiences. In addition to our panel, we will hear from experts from the Minnesota Humanities Center and Understand Native Minnesota as they lead us through how to find and implement resources from an Indigenous lens that honors the past, present, and future.

Join us for an engaging half-day training session designed to equip educators in Region 5 with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand and harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT in the classroom. This session will help educators will engage in practical exercises to familiarize themselves with ChatGPT and its functionalities, share insights and ideas for leveraging AI to create innovative learning experiences, and address potential concerns and ethical considerations related to AI usage in education.

This training will provide a collaborative environment for time and space to network across agencies. Expand your knowledge and gain awareness of resources available to children and families in our region.

This webinar will identify elements of differentiation and explore differentiation strategies such as questioning, grouping, and choice. Use these strategies to meet both support and challenge needs of your diverse students.

Led by a mental health professional and educator, this webinar will cover key facts about children's mental health, early warning signs of mental health disorders, and signs and symptoms of childhood suicide. Discussion will include strategies for how to respond and how to access help for students.

This training focuses on why and how our body and brain respond to stress/crisis and how that affects our work, wellness, and interactions. Explore Social-Emotional Learning strategies to recognize dysregulation in yourself and others, as well as strategies to regain and retain regulation. These strategies apply to interactions with students, colleagues, and caregivers.

This webinar provides participants an opportunity to explore components of effective reading instruction including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation and engagement. Within each component, participants will learn what it is, why we teach it, and how we teach it.

Multilingual learners in our classrooms are a huge asset. Not every educator may feel confident in how to best support and include these students. This webinar offers insights to support educators in creating optimal learning environments and instructional strategies for each learner.

We know that the teaching of reading is of paramount importance. We also know from the recent Minnesota Principals Survey that principals cite ‘Instructional Leadership’ as an area they feel a lack of confidence. Through a generous partnership between the Higher Education Literacy Partnership (HELP) and the University of Minnesota’s Principals Academy (MPA), we are able to offer this professional learning opportunity for our regional administrators. This professional development series consists of 14 content focused video modules grouped into 4 units: Unit 1: The Science of Reading; Unit 2: MTSS; Unit 3: LETRS, and Unit 4: Every Voice Counts. Each unit will include a facilitated conversation that will take a deeper dive into the content and consider ways to utilize the information within your school and district.