Mercer County ESC Professional Development

1. Educational Leadership Seminars and Workshops
from the Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, Ohio
The Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, OH offers a variety of school leader and teacher
leader workshops aimed at increasing student achievement and educator productivity. All trainings are
conducted in cooperation with Curriculum Management Systems, Inc. (CMSi), with licensed trainers.
• The Three Minute Classroom Walk-Through Training is an exclusive approach to supervision for
any educational leader responsible for mentoring and supervising teachers who desires to move
supervision to a collaborative level, which can have a powerful impact on student achievement. This
two-day training includes visitations to actual classrooms.
• The Three Minute Walk-Through Follow-up is designed for districts that have had administrators
trained in the Downey (3 Minute) Walk-Through Training. The follow-up can be customized to meet
the administrators’ needs.
• Advanced Classroom Walk-Through Training is designed for those who have completed the initial
level walk-through and have some experience using walk-throughs in their school. This advanced
training provides supervised practice in the basic walk-through protocol and the reflective process.
This is a two-day training.
• SchoolView: Gathering Trend Data on Curricular and Instructional Classroom Practices
(School Visitation Protocol) is a diagnostic data-gathering tool that principals and other school
leaders can use to gather trend data regarding curricular and instructional practices in the classroom.
This observational data can be used for needs assessment and changes in classroom practices as a
result of staff development initiatives. One day training.
• Raising Student Test Scores: A Baker’s Dozen Ways presents to teachers, school-based
administrators, and other instructional leaders 13 powerful strategies to raise student test scores. This
one-day seminar focuses on working with low-performing students with effective approaches to
improve student achievement and also works with high performance schools who seek continued
student growth.
• Examining Student Work for Standards Alignment and Real-World/Test-Item Formats is
designed for school-based administrators and teacher participants to examine classroom artifacts of
student work and calibrate those artifacts with state standards and tested objectives. The calibration
process provides educators with feedback regarding the grade level and cognition type of student
work.
• Deep Curriculum Alignment is an intensive two-day seminar that implements proven strategies to
improve student achievement via curriculum alignment. The seminar provides individuals with the
knowledge and theoretical base as well as the practical steps to construct teacher-friendly curriculum
guides that increase the congruence between the written, taught, and tested curricula in classrooms,
schools, and school districts and that will lead to substantial gains in student achievement on high-
stakes tests currently in use.
Here Are the Best Ways to Receive The Trainings…
• Attend One of Our Local Training Sessions here in west central Ohio. For a complete list of
upcoming sessions go to our website at www.mercercountyesc.org and click on “Professional
Development.” Sessions are reasonably priced and include all materials. Workshops are held in
school buildings in the Celina or Wapakoneta area and are easily accessible off of I-75.
• Bring the Training to Your District. Our licensed trainers travel around the state. This gives you
maximum flexibility in selecting training dates, locations and saves money for larger groups. For
details, availability, and costs email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org, or call 419-
586-6628. For on-site trainings in your district, one price includes the seminar, travel expenses and
workshop materials.
• Arrange for a Training at a Regional Site like an Educational Service Center or State Support Team
location near you.
Contact Information:
• Email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org
• Phone at 419-586-6628
• On-line at www.mercercountyesc.org, then click on “Professional Development”

2. Workshops from The Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, OH
For details call 419-586-6628 or email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org
The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through
Learn a classroom visitation protocol that inspires reflective discussion between you
and your teachers! This two-day training includes theory, hands-on practice, and
visitations to actual classrooms. Based on the Carolyn Downey book of the same
name, by the end of the workshop you will be trained to go back to your school and
conduct classroom walk throughs and engage teachers in reflective conversations.
The skills and information you will learn in this two-day training include:
 How the walk through observation structure is implemented
 How the walk through and its accompanying reflective conversations work with the appraisal
process
 How the underlying premises of the approach, which is informal and non-judgmental in
nature, focus on the development of staff through reflective choice
 How the reflective conversation and questions complement the classroom walk throughs
 How reflective questions are phrased
 How dynamic, new “reflective conversation dialogues” are conducted
 How frequent classroom visitations and the walk through process are supported by a strong
research base
The ultimate goals of this training are to create:
 Reflective, self-directed, self-analytical, interdependent teachers who examine their own
practices (even those who initially are at the dependent level)
 Teachers who are continually willing to improve their teaching
 Teachers who are committed to teaching the district curriculum and working for ever-higher
student achievement
Raising Student Test Scores:
A Baker’s Dozen Strategies for the Classroom
Learn the thirteen strategies that the best schools use to improve student test
performance!! All participants receive a copy of the great book 50 Ways to Close the
Achievement Gap.
Need to raise student test scores on high-stakes tests? This one-day seminar presents to teachers,
school-based administrators and other instructional leaders thirteen powerful strategies to raise
student test scores. This Baker’s Dozen focuses on working with low-performing students with
effective approaches that are equally successful with all students and are meant to provide
educators with the initial and on-going steps to improving student achievement.
Based on the renowned book, 50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap, by Carolyn Downey, this
seminar is great for a team of teachers or the entire staff. An entire district, one school, or even
an individual teacher can implement the strategies learned in this seminar. Not only are the
thirteen powerful strategies introduced and explained in detail, but also they are prioritized in
order of their greatest effect!

3. Workshops from The Mercer County Educational Service Center, Celina, OH
For details call 419-586-6628 or email Jeffrey Tuneberg, Ph.D. at tunebej@mc.noacsc.org
Coping with High Stakes Testing:
Deep Curriculum Alignment
A workshop for curriculum designers, curriculum directors, and others whose daily
work focuses on the development of a tightly aligned curriculum
Deep curriculum alignment is adjusting what is taught to align with what is measured on the
high-stakes test. It increases the fit between what children learn and how they are assessed.
Achievement is assured and gains are evident almost immediately. It is a complex process
involving intensive effort and skill in curriculum design, delivery, and monitoring. Based on the
work of Fenwick English, Betty Steffy, Carolyn Downey and others, you will be trained to focus
on what it truly important in the school improvement process. The ultimate goal of this training
is to provide educators with the ability to create a curriculum document which will guide teaching
that will promote higher student achievement as it is measured on high-stakes tests.
 The topics covered during  You will also learn how to:
this two-day session include:
 Backload publicly-released test items into the
 Principles of alignment curriculum
between the written, taught,  Deconstruct test items
and tested curriculum  Determine the context, content, and cognitive level for
 Rationale for curriculum alignment
alignment  Develop parallel test items
 Foundational concepts of deep  Check for text/test alignment
alignment  Design curriculum guides from state standards
 Specialized terminology used  Develop a multi-year plan for curriculum review
in the deep alignment process  Design a curriculum guide format and its critical
 Sociological perspective of components
cultural capital and how it  Evaluate curriculum documents
relates to students and tests