June Newsletter

MISSION Serving Lifelong Learners

Volume 2, Issue 11

Directors Comments
Inside this issue: It is hard to believe that another school year is coming to a close. As you begin your summer, I want to make everyone aware of the professional development sessions that will be held this summer. The Educator Enhancement Academies to support the Next Generation Common Core are scheduled as follows: July 8-10 will be the English/Language Arts for Grades 2 and 3 at Blennerhassett Elementary and Middle School in Wood County. July 22-24 will be the English/Language Arts for Grades 10, 11, and 12 at Blennerhassett Elementary and Middle School in Wood County. July 29-31 will be the English/Language Arts for Grades 6, 7, and 8 at Blennerhassett Elementary and Middle School in Wood County. On August 1 from 9:00 to 3:00, training on the new Counselor Evaluation will be held at RESA 5. Barb Ashcraft will be presenting and counselors will have the opportunity to learn about the new evaluation system and work on goals for next school year. Counselors may register by logging onto the website at http://resa5.k12.wv.us after June 15 and click on the Professional Development tab at the left of the page and then clicking on forms. The registration form will be available. On August 6 from 9:00 to 3:00, training for the principal and the leadership team from each school on the new Teacher Evaluation will be held at the Shrine Club building in Parkersburg. Schools may register by logging onto the website at http://resa5.k12.wv.us after June 15 and click on the Professional Development tab at the left of the page and then clicking on forms. The registration form will be available. As you can see, it will be a busy summer at RESA 5 and I look forward to seeing everyone at these important trainings. Have a great summer!
Page 2 RESA 5 Educator Enhancement Academy Training Page 3- MOVTI is Developing Student Leadership Page 5 ABE Attends the Teacher Academy and Gets Their Ducks in a Row Page 7 Social Media Page 8 Gayle Manchin delivers keynote speech at GED ceremony Page 8 RESA 5 Spelling Bee Results

June 20 West Virginia Day

Ralph S. Board

Send any news articles you would like included in future issues of the newsletter to: rsboard@access.k12.wv.us

The RESA 5 June Calendar can be found at: http://resa5.k12.wv.us

On May 20-22, selected educators along with RESA 5 and RESA 6 personnel and several district administrators attended the Educator Enhancement Academy Training held on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University. Participants spent the three days preparing for a regional delivery model of professional development to address implementation of Next Generation Common Core Standards adopted for West Virginia schools to begin in fall of 2013. In June through July, the educators will design engaging and relevant professional development which will be presented to RESA 5 educators of different programmatic levels in the areas of English Language Arts and Math. The purpose is to equip teachers with a thorough understanding of not only what students will be expected to know, understand and be able to do according to the new standards, but also deep understandings of the foundational shifts in thinking and expectations that are embedded within the standards. The overarching goal is that educators who attend the RESA 5 Educator Enhancement Academy for Implementation of Common Core Standards will be able to deliver standards-based instruction in classrooms to ultimately improve student learning.

Educator Enhancement Academy Training for Trainers

ELA Grades 2-3

Middle School Mathematics

ELA High School

MOVTI is Developing Student Leadership

How do we make student leaders? Giving students opportunities to develop leadership skills is one of the main reasons for our Student Organizations. Students often get so busy being involved in the competitions that few really want to put in the extra time to become leaders. Mid-Ohio Valley Technical Institute has been working this year to put more emphasis on developing leadership skills by encouraging students to take part in clubs community service projects. President Jared Runnion, helped lead the club to participate in the FBLA State Clothing Drive with a local clothing drive that resulted in over 150 pounds of clothing being donated to the St. Marys Community Action, and more donated to the Wood County Salvation Army.

Two business students, Mikayla Hearn and Adrian Speed, helping chapter officers with the bagging of clothing from the clothing drive. The second community service project this year was to boost awareness of Childhood Cancer in honor of 4year old Silas, a liver cancer patient from Lyons, Georgia. The students joined the Go Gold campaign in honor of this young boy who is dying of the disease and requested the movement to paint your nails gold. Over 45 students joined in the campaign and painted their nails gold. They also spread the word to hundreds in their communities about Childhood Cancer. One of the local schools is now thinking of joining the movement as well, to continue to build awareness.

Jaime Graham, junior at St. Marys High School, and business student at the Mid-Ohio Valley Technical Institute (MOVTI) is now the new State FBLA Secretary. She has quickly jumped into her duties by attending her first executive board meeting and recording minutes. She is also still very active in helping our members to be involved in community awareness activities. She hopes to bring a more active FBLA chapter influence into the 2013-2014 school year!
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This photo is a collection of all eight business classes with most participating members being pictured. The movement has been a success, and Silas has even sent word of his thanks for their efforts! It is always a challenge when students strive to achieve a goal that is outside of the norm, or causing them to reach higher than they have before. It is the goal of all teachers to build this desire in all of our students, but we rarely are around to see when they actually achieve that goal. That is the case with MOVTIs business student Jaime Graham. After two years under the guidance of Mrs. Susan Armstrong, and two opportunities to compete nationally with the FBLA club there, Jaime reached for a goal that is outside of the norm for most business students - she ran for a State FBLA Office. Although she was encouraged by her current business instructor, Mrs. Kim Britton, retired teacher Mrs. Armstrong was not there to experience the anxious moments of the campaign and joy in achieving the goal! MOVTI is very proud of the many leaders that have developed through the community service and other FBLA activities!
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ABE Attends the Teacher Academy and Gets Their Ducks in a Row
by Julie Hagan, Instructor and Technology Integration Specialist
Get your ducks in a row is a phrase commonly used to describe preparation and organization. In education, teachers are always working on various forms of preparation and organization to better serve their students. Another common element of education is change. With the new NexGen standards (Common Core State Standards), change is coming to the world of adult education in West Virginia. The new standards will better prepare adult learners for the new high school equivalency exam, post-secondary education and/or 21st Century careers. To prepare to implement the new standards and higher level curriculum, West Virginia Adult Basic Education developed a Curriculum Team. The team dove in to the new strategies, made sense of it all and devised a plan for how it would be implemented statewide. Adult educators from across the state were selected to attend a week-long, intensive training called the Teacher Academy. The Teacher Academy was held at The Resort at Glade Springs from April 29, 2013 to May 3, 2013. The Curriculum Team planned and organized the week in a way that modeled the new methods for the instructors as the content and standards were introduced. Not all adult educators have backgrounds in education or teaching degrees. Many adult educators have Bachelors degrees in other fields and adult licenses. While these instructors are very dedicated and talented, many of them lack the traditional educational foundations. Many instructors with educational backgrounds were trained before methodology and standards were updated. All of the educators from diverse backgrounds came together to learn about the future of Adult Basic Education. Webbs Depth of Knowledge, technology, unwrapping standards, Universal Design, lesson planning and Strategies for Engaging Adult Learners were all covered in detail during the academy. Educators at the Teacher Academy worked together to understand new concepts, unwrap standards and create lesson plans involving higher order thinking skills. The instructors will take the knowledge they gained back to their classrooms and begin to implement it with their students. In July, the Teacher Academy Participants will meet again to discuss progress and plan further implementation. The plan is for the participants to begin introducing the new content, standards and methods in the fall. Adult Basic Education is changing to correlate content to the NexGen Standards and the new high school equivalency exam. The programs are moving into the future to meet the needs of todays adult learners. Instructors will spend more time carefully planning lessons that align with the new standards. The learners will be challenged to go further in their learning experiences. Through this process, higher order thinking skills will be used on a regular basis. Students will be more prepared for college courses and the demands of the 21st Century workplace. Adult educators will no longer simply get their ducks in a row, but will use their new higher level knowledge and skills to keep their aquatic waterfowl in a co-linear formation as Adult Basic Education evolves to meet the needs of the constantly changing learners.

Teacher Academy participants work together to create a device that will allow an egg to drop without breaking.

Julie Hagan and Nick Northup, Instructors and Technology Integration Specialists for RESA 5, scan participant QR codes with iPads to track participant attendance.

Teacher Academy participants learn about Webbs Depth of Knowledge.

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Maximize the Benefits - Minimize the Risks

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) delivered 15,000 Living Life Online booklets to Stella Moon, Adolescent Health Initiative Coordinator. With the assistance of Teresa Pickens, Regional School Wellness Specialist, and Nancy Creighton, Westbrook Health Services Childrens Outreach Liaison, 14,750 booklets were distributed to the 6th-12th graders in RESA 5s region. A special thank you to the school counselors and teachers who initiated a dialogue with their students about maximizing the benefits and minimizing the risks of social media. Also, the FTC delivered 5,000 Heads Up booklets that were given to 3,788 public school employees, 600 Westbrook Health Services employees and 400 community members. Stop, Think, Connect is a national public awareness campaign aimed at increasing understanding of cyber threats. Its goal is to empower people to be safer and more secure online. The following websites provide additional social media tips and resources to help protect yourself, your family, your friends and your devices www.onguardonline.gov, www.staysafeonline.org and www.netsmartz411.org. For more information, please contact Stella Moon at smoon@access.k12.wv.us or 304-485-6513, Ext. 1314 or Teresa Pickens at trpicken@access.k12.wv.us or 304-485-6513, Ext. 1310. There were some individuals who lived their lives labeling instead of online. Lindsay Proffitt, RESA 5s Co-Op, Gary Moon and 9 volunteers from Westbrook Health Services (pictured below) attached a RESA 5 & Westbrook Health Services label to the 20,000 booklets. These individuals deserve a round of applause!

Westbrook Health Services Volunteers From left to right: Sara Salisbury, Sandy Richards, Geraldine White, Dalton J. Christy, Chris Sturgeon and Mary Harley. Not pictured: Raymond Huffman, Linda Lynch and Ann Wolfe.
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Gayle Manchin delivers keynote speech at GED ceremony

Article by Brett Dunlap, Parkersburg News and Sentinel on May 20, 2013 Reprinted with permission.

PARKERSBURG - Those who received their GED diplomas took responsibility for their lives and decided to make a change for the better, the state's former first lady told a crowd of graduates and their families Tuesday night during a graduation ceremony at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. Gayle Manchin, wife of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was the keynote speaker Tuesday for the Wood County Schools Adult Recognition Ceremony, where about 70 people received their GED diplomas. During the 2012-13 school year, 549 adult students took part in educational programs, said Doug Kiger, director of Technology and Adult Education for Wood County Schools.

Photo by Brett Dunlap Gayle Manchin, wife of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and the former first lady of West Virginia, was the keynote speaker Tuesday for the Wood County Schools Adult Recognition Ceremony at West Virginia University at Parkersburg.

Of the 226 students who took the GED test, around 178 passed all five parts of the test. ''There is a very large percent of the students graduating from high school this week who could not pass the test that you have passed for this honor tonight,'' Kiger said. Kiger spoke of the reasons why people decided to return to get their GED and the people who supported them in their journey. ''This is a second opportunity,'' he said. ''There are a lot of people who helped make sure this day happened.'' Ages of graduates have ranged from 16 years old to 72 years old with the average age of most students in the mid-20s, said Bruce Goody, GED examiner. Students enroll in GED programs for many reasons, Manchin said. Many are looking to update their job skills while others were not able to originally finish high school for any number of reasons, but want to come back now to finish what they started, to improve their lives. ''I believe the key word here is 'reason,''' she said. ''For most of us if we have a reason for doing something, we are much more likely to do it and do it well.'' Manchin pointed out the alarming statistics of students who drop out of high school and a number of students who gave up learning around the third grade, regardless of how long they may have remained in school. ''You may have been one of those students, one of those who didn't respond to the typical school setting,'' she said. ''One of the most important lessons we can learn in life is we have to accept responsibility; we have to be responsible for all of the choices we have made in life - the bad ones, the good ones and the ones that may change our lives forever.
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RESA 5 - Regional Council

Calhoun County: Superintendent Council Member Jackson County: Superintendent Council Member Roger Propst Larry Harris Blaine Hess Carroll Staats

''One of the choices you made is you took responsibility and chose to come to the GED program.'' In many cases, friends and family helped to make sure their loved one reached this point. ''I ask you to look around you and reflect on the sacrifices that both you and your friends and family made that enabled and empowered you to be here tonight,'' Manchin said. The students in the GED program looked at where they were, what they wanted to accomplish and how they were going to get there. ''You have a sense of direction about who you are and where you are going,'' Manchin said. ''Each of you has found relevance in academics; you have found the reason and it has contributed to your world. ''Maybe for the first time in your life, learning has become meaningful.'' People with a high school diploma or the GED are likely to earn $7,400 a year more than those who don't graduate from high school. Continuing education could increase that amount. ''You all found the reason to be here and we are all so very proud of you,'' Manchin said. ''This will provide you a beginning of what you can be. ''You are taking ownership of your educational growth and continued development through what will be a lifelong learning experience.''

Pleasants County: Superintendent Michael Wells Council Member Jim McKnight Ritchie County: Superintendent Council Member Roane County: Superintendent Council Member Tyler County: Superintendent Council Member Wirt County: Superintendent Council Member Wood County: Superintendent Council Member Ed Toman Sheryll Jameson Mickey Blackwell Paul Cummings Robin Daquilante Linda Hoover Dan Metz, Chair James Rader J. Patrick Law, Vice-Chair Jim Fox

Chief Instructional Leader Representative: Ms. Donna Barksdale, Assistant Superintendent, Pleasants County Schools Teacher Representative: C. Vance Weekley, Pleasants County Middle School Principal Representative: Joe Oliverio, Worthington Elementary, (Wood County) Higher Ed Representative: Cynthia Gissy WVU-P Secretary to the Council: Ralph S. Board, Executive Director WVDE Representative: Betty Jo Jordan, Executive Assistant to the State Superintendent

RESA 5 Spelling Bee Results

Area students participated in the Twenty-Third Annual RESA 5 Spelling Bee on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at RESA 5 in Parkersburg. The RESA 5 Spelling Bee features competition in two divisions (fifth/sixth and seventh/eighth grades) and is open to county champions from the eight counties served by the agency. In the fifth/sixth grade division, the winner was Erika Riggs, a sixth grade student at Calhoun Middle High School in Calhoun County. Erika is the daughter of Kim and Curt Riggs of Big Springs, WV. Katie Lemon, a sixth grade student at Edison Middle School in Wood County, was the runner-up. Other competitors in this division included Jace Fisher, 5th grade student at Kenna Elementary School in Jackson County; Brady Reed, 5th grade student at Creed Collins Elementary School in Ritchie County; Abby Nichols, 5th grade student at Reedy Elementary School in Roane County; and Brooklyn Smith, 6th grade student at Wirt Middle School in Wirt County. In the seventh/eighth grade division, the winner was Teresa Riffle a seventh grade student at Ravenswood Middle School in Jackson County. Teresa is the daughter of David and Li-yun Riffle of Millwood, WV. Kaleb Nicholas a seventh grade student at Calhoun Middle High School in Calhoun County was the runner-up. Other competitors in the seventh/eighth grade division included Hanna Williams, 8th grade student at Pleasants County Middle School; Wren Downs, 8th grade student at Ritchie County Middle School; Savanna Petry, 7th grade student at Walton Elementary School; Kia Sleesman, 8th grade student at Wirt County Middle School; and Anna Fahta, 7th grade student at Jackson Middle School.

RESA 5 2507 Ninth Avenue Parkersburg, WV 26101 Phone: 304-485-6513 Fax: 304-485-6515

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