These webinars pertain to important subjects including personal wellness, student instruction, and professional learning.
Participants will learn about iSOSY STAT Lessons (Short, Targeted, and Timely) which are designed to offer migratory students quick lessons on topics that are very pertinent to their lifestyles. Each lesson includes vocabulary, activities, and assessments.
Participants learn more about the hope that comes from trauma recovery. "Resiliency is defined as the ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity. An increasing body of research is showing that most people–especially kids–can bounce back from risks, stress, crisis, and trauma, and experience life success."
This presentation addresses the impacts of working with high stress situations and the individual, as well as organizational, strategies necessary to mitigate the effects. Participants review methods for coping, understand the power of self-regulation, and explore comprehensive areas of well-being that foster resilience and social-emotional growth.
Focus on your skill-building to support social emotional learning (SEL) strategies with your students and families. This interactive webinar provides an overview of core social emotional learning skills and practical, applicable ways to reinforce them in ourselves as professionals and with the youth and families we serve.
The iSOSY Student Portal was introduced in Summer 2022 to offer a dynamic, interactive site designed just for migratory students. This introductory webinar shows participants how to access the portal, train their students to use it together or on their own, and enjoy the new resources including live lessons, Google Classroom tools, and other great student-centric materials.
New to the iSOSY website? This webinar walks participants through the updated version of the site and highlights the important materials available. Service providers and recruiters will find professional development materials, instructional tools, webinar archives, contact information, the Student Portal, audio resources, and other useful resources.
These two interviews follow Dr. Johnson’s well-received webinar on the important topic of self-care for service providers. The research behind personal wellness/mental health shows clearly that taking care of ourselves is imperative if we are to succeed in caring for others. It is very difficult for most of us to incorporate the concept of self-care into our busy lives and can too often be something that we put off until tomorrow.
These two interviews follow Dr. Johnson’s well-received webinar on the important topic of self-care for service providers. The research behind personal wellness/mental health shows clearly that taking care of ourselves is imperative if we are to succeed in caring for others. It is very difficult for most of us to incorporate the concept of self-care into our busy lives and can too often be something that we put off until tomorrow.
This overview of substantive concepts and resources to assist service providers, planners, and trainers in developing the practice of mental health/personal wellness awareness helps both providers and students to achieve better personal mental health and well-being in order to increase happiness and potential. This training package is also designed to encourage participation in the broader community effort to promote emotional and personal well-being. It is the intention that the full participation of service providers in student/family personal wellness promotion will lead to more fulfilling and productive lives for all migratory students and their families.
Dr. Mona Johnson reviews methods for coping with career stress, compassion fatigue, and potential secondary traumatic stress which can result from continuous exposure to school-based and/or other student trauma(s). Participants reflect on their social emotional competence, explore comprehensive areas of professional wellness, and are introduced to a framework to create an individualized self-care plan to support positive resilience and personal growth.
Presenters walk through 10 best practices identified as important keys to strengthening your initial engagement with OSY and maintaining a successful relationship. There is a lot of diversity within the migratory student community, but essential to every success with OSY is establishing a strong relationship with them and determining how to motivate and mentor each as necessary.
This webinar features a virtual discussion about the effects of COVID-19 on the nation, our educational institutions, and the migratory community. The presentation addresses helping migratory students and their families deal with the stress of the crisis and the uncertainty of what the future holds. It also includes strategies for self-care and maintaining your own personal wellness so that you may best be a strong support for others.
This webinar includes useful ways for service providers to reach and teach their students remotely. Walk through the steps to design a viable lesson deliverable through Zoom, GoToMeeting, and similar platforms. The presenters show what it looks like to teach remotely and legitimately engage students for quality learning. Highlighted are iSOSY materials already designed for virtual use so participants leave the webinar equipped with the tools and skills needed to successfully work remotely with students.
Participants enjoy an overview of the English for Daily Life lesson all about SHOPPING, learning the ideology behind the lesson and the many digital tools designed to enhance this lesson for ELLs. Participants walk through the lesson itself and may watch the follow-up webinar English for Daily Life: An In Depth Look at Specific Strategies that details the online tools available to enhance the lesson, whether in person or virtually.
This webinar helps participants get familiar and comfortable with important online tools - EdPuzzle, Quia, and Quizlet - used to engage students in new and exciting ways. Participants learn about creating their accounts, as well as accounts for their students, and how to use the tools with confidence.
This webinar highlights the successful Goal Setting and Learning Plan project that was revamped and improved for virtual use during the time of the pandemic. Join the work group leaders as they walk through how to use the program successfully even when you cannot meet face-to-face with your students. The brand-new Goal Setting Rubric is also introduced and explained.
In this webinar, all four Office of Migrant Education-funded consortia share ideas and resources currently available to help provide high quality services for all MEP students. Realizing the pandemic brought a time of modifying the approach to working with migratory families and youth, the consortia directors share resources to help in the process of reaching out and providing needed services to students during the challenges of the time.
This webinar introduces participants to the important discussion of what service providers can do when confronted with a student who may be exhibiting suicidal thoughts or plans. The module includes information from National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's #bethe1to campaign.
Participants will learn about the collection of iSOSY’s Disaster Preparedness STAT Lessons designed to introduce migratory students to preparing for a variety of natural disasters. The overview lesson includes a communication plan and emergency supply list. The additional lessons focus on tornado, flood, hurricane and wildfire safety.