Welcome to the Inspire ’16 Professional Development Day Website.
This Teacher-Driven PD Day has a wide variety of options for educators both within the Mendon-Upton Regional School District and outside of the district to participate, collaborate and learn.
Register for Sessions:
Please view the schedule options and click on the sessions you would like to attend to register and to build your day’s schedule.
This can be changed at any time leading up to the day.
You can view the schedule in various forms (simple, expanded, grid, by venue) by clicking on the Schedule Dropdown arrow.
Logistics:
The day will begin at 8:00, with the keynote presentation, starting promptly at 8:15 in the Nipmuc HS Auditorium.
Once sessions are approaching capacity, registration maybe closed if we can’t find a larger venue.
Some rooms may be changed between now and the day of the event.
Some details of sessions may be adapted as well.
We still welcome session proposals by emailing Maureen Cohen at mcohen@mursd.org
Search Features:
You can use the filtering feature on the right by clicking on the topical categories.
You can also use the search box to search by keyword, people, or tags.
Want to know who is attending various sessions? Click on the session and the attendees will be listed on the session page.
Important Note:
Please read the session information carefully. Some of the sessions are open to all participants, and others are closed sessions for only MURSD participants.
The participants will be watching a video training of the following:
In this ground-breaking seminar, professionals from many different perspectives come together to learn how their interventions integrate to remediate some of the more complicated dysfunctions seen in education today. The Pyramid of Potential approach starts the remediation with building blocks of mind and body health from the nutrition and psychology disciplines. This is followed by neurodevelopment (primitive reflex integration) and sensory-motor development from occupational therapy, physical therapy and vision therapy disciplines. Finally, cognitive skills training, such as memory, attention, and processing speed, come from education. This program combines lecture and notes with discussion and hands-on exercises to facilitate every learning style.
Objectives: Identify the common causes of Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Dyscalculia and when brain development occurs for necessary cognitive skills. Explain how many professions, such as education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, nutrition, psychology and others can use an integrated approach to improve Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia. List the 4 underlying areas of brain development needed in order to have academic success. List at least 10 different ways to improve test scores of learning disabled students. List at least 3 ways to improve or accommodate for visual or auditory processing problems that may lead to Dyslexia, Dyscalculia or Dysgraphia. Create a systematic plan of interventions aimed at improving the functioning of a student with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia or Dysgraphia. Listed as 6 hours and 12 minute training.
