Interdisciplinary Studies (IS) Track
The Pedagogies of Teaching, Learning, and Assessing for Global Perspectives
Thursday, February 20, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, GO. *This workshop is mandatory for the GO track.
Presenter(s): EunJung Kim, Clinical Assistant Professor of Elementary Education
Description: This workshop is part of Global Opportunities. It will provide critical perspectives on global education and global citizenship education as a guiding principles, then, explore the pedagogical application by using UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Participants will learn theoretical and practical practice...
ML Workshop 1: Introduction and Home Language Support
Thursday, February 20, 2025 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: ML, IS
Presenters: Lia Plakans, Professor of Multilingual Education, David Degollado, Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education, Marina Durinova, Visiting Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education
Description: **This workshop is required for those in the Multilingual Learner track. This workshop on home language support aligns with the Core Principle of valuing students' identities. After attending this workshop, you will be able to identify...
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LivingWorks safeTALK
Monday, February 24, 2025 12:30pm to 4:30pm
Please register here. This is a fee-based event but free to University of Iowa students in the Teacher Education Program. BTLC Credit: IS, SEBMH (2 credits)
*University of Iowa TEP students: please reach out to TLC@uiowa.edu for the non-fee registration link. Registration deadline for TEP students is one week prior to the workshop. Cancelation deadline is 48 hours prior to the workshop by emailing TLC@uiowa.edu. If TEP students cancel less than 48 hours, they will be assessed the registration...
Design, Cut, Stick: STEAM Learning with Vinyl Cutters and Other Subtractive Manufacturing Tools
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, STEAM
Presenter(s): Kay Ramey, Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences and Educational Psychology, and Darrell Currington, Makerspace Facilitator
Description: In this workshop, students will gain hands-on experience participating in and designing STEAM activities using vinyl cutters, laser cutters, and other subtractive manufacturing tools. For the hands-on STEAM challenge, students will get to make a vinyl cut sticker or laser cut design of their choice...
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Classroom Belonging Audits: Analyzing the Spectrum of Belonging
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, SEBMH
Presenter: Jeff Walls, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership
Description: A widespread sense of belonging at school is essential for a healthy school culture, academic success, and healthy peer and adult relationships for students. The gateways of belonging exist along a spectrum from inflexible to highly flexible. The purpose of this session is to introduce attendees to a spectrum-based understanding of belonging, and share a tool to...
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Broaching Mental Health Concerns with our Students
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: IS, SEBMH
Presenter: Ashley Banta, MA, LPSC, Counseling Psychology PhD Student
Description: Participants will learn how to identify signs of mental health concerns, such as anxiety and depression. Participants will also learn how to broach mental health and respond with empathy. Participants will engage in simulations to practice broaching mental health and responding with empathy.
Learning Goals: 1) Define common signs of mental health concerns. 2) Learn...
Instructional Strategies for Building Academic Talent in Primary Learners
Thursday, February 27, 2025 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: IS, AATD
Presenter(s): Julia Scalzo, Accelerated Learning Teacher with Indian Prairie School District, Aurora, Illinois and Randy Lange, Associate Director, Belin-Blank Center
Description: Come join us for an exciting primary classroom session. The focus will be on inquiry-based learning as well as engineering solutions for a problem that still might exist for characters in picture books. You will walk away with practical, ready-to-go strategies and ideas to...
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Trauma Informed Relationship Building: Connection Supports Success
Monday, March 3, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: IS, SEBMH
Presenter(s): Mary Ball, Scanlan GA, MA, LPSC, Couple and Family Therapy PhD Student
Description: Connection with others and a sense of genuine belonging is essential for student success and engagement. Relationship building practices are therefore a foundational component within a trauma-informed framework that aims to support students affected by trauma. This professional development will review the impacts and prevalence of trauma, explore the...
Colonialism, Imperialism and the Histories that Shaped Us
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, GO. *This workshop is mandatory for the GO track.
Presenter: Maia Sheppard, Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education
Description: People, communities, cultures, and countries are more connected with others across the globe than they have ever been. Globalization, however, is not without problems, both ethical and social. This workshop will explore the global and local dimensions of social, historical and cultural issues that shape us, with a...
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In-Person: Understanding Adolescent Self-Harm and School-Based Interventions
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, SEBMH
Presenter: Ryan Kidder, Behavioral Health Clinician, Scanlan Center for School Mental Health
Description: During this in-person presentation, participants will gain an understanding of the function of self-harm behaviors and why individuals engage in self-harm behaviors. Participants will gain knowledge and understanding of how skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy can be beneficial when working with individuals who engage in non-suicidal self...
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Social Emotional Behavioral Mental Health (SEBMH) Track
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Trauma Informed Classroom Practices: Disruptive Behaviors
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: SEBMH, IS
Presenter: Amanda Elliott, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa
Description: Topic 1: Begin with framework of trauma experiences that are common to youth in Iowa. Then we will further mental health outcomes of trauma and how that might result in classroom behaviors. We will then wrap up the session discussing level 1 interventions that would provide support for students whom may have experienced trauma in their...
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Supporting Students with Eating Disorders- Where Do I Even Start?
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: IS, SEBMH
Presenters: Taylor Ford, Assistant Director of Clinical Services and Crisis Response, Sam McVancel, Licensed Psychologist, and Liz Gleason, Social Worker, Scanlan Center for School Mental Health
Description: Eating disorders in students have more than doubled over the last several years and school mental health providers may be the first to notice. Build awareness of the signs and symptoms of eating disorders and how to connect students and...
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Emotional Labor in Education: Managing the Invisible Work of Teaching
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 5:00pm to 5:50pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: IS, SEBMH
Presenter(s): Alex Parker, Doctoral Candidate at Johns Hopkins School of Education and 4th Grade Teacher
Description: In this session, we will discuss the role that emotions, and emotional labor, play in the professional lives of teachers. Then, we will focus on strategies to effectively instruct in an affectively healthy and beneficial manner. The professional development will provide teachers with tools to improve their vocational health, along...
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LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)-UISG
Thursday, April 24 8:30am to Friday, April 25, 2025 4:30pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: SEBMH, IS (4 credits)
Presenters: Jess Pavelich, Liz Gleason, Jamie Elizalde, Barry Schreier, Scanlan Center for School Mental Health
Description: ASIST is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first-aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety. As the world’s leading suicide intervention workshop, LivingWorks’ ASIST program is supported...
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LivingWorks safeTALK
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 12:30pm to 4:30pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, SEBMH (2 credits)
This is a fee-based event but free to University of Iowa students in the Teacher Education Program (TEP).
TEP students: Please reach out to TLC@uiowa.edu for the non-fee registration link.
Registration deadline for University of Iowa TEP students is one week prior to the workshop. Cancelation deadline for University of Iowa TEP students is 48 hours prior to the workshop by emailing TLC@uiowa.edu. If University of Iowa TEP students...
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LivingWorks safeTALK
Monday, June 9, 2025 8:30am to 12:30pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, SEBMH (2 credits) *This is a fee-based event but free to University of Iowa students in the Teacher Education Program (TEP).
University of Iowa TEP students: please reach out to TLC@uiowa.edu for the non-fee registration link. Registration deadline for TEP students is one week prior to the workshop. Cancelation deadline is 48 hours prior to the workshop by emailing TLC@uiowa.edu. If TEP students cancel less than 48 hours, they will be assessed the...
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Multilingual Learner (ML) Track
ML Workshop 1: Introduction and Home Language Support
Thursday, February 20, 2025 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credits: ML, IS
Presenters: Lia Plakans, Professor of Multilingual Education, David Degollado, Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education, Marina Durinova, Visiting Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education
Description: **This workshop is required for those in the Multilingual Learner track. This workshop on home language support aligns with the Core Principle of valuing students' identities. After attending this workshop, you will be able to identify...
ML Workshop 2: Reading and Vocabulary Support for Multilingual Learners
Thursday, March 27, 2025 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, ML
Presenter(s): Dr. Lia Plakans, Professor of Multilingual Education, Dr. David Degollado, Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education, Dr. Marina Durinova, Visiting Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education,
Description: This workshop is MANDATORY for students in the ML Track. The session on reading and vocabulary development aligns with the Core Principle of developing learners' skills and supporting their intellects. Upon completion of the...
ML Workshop 3: Family & Community Engagement
Friday, March 28, 12:00pm to Friday, April 11, 2025 11:59pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, ML
Presenter(s): Lia Plakans, Professor of Multilingual Education, David Degollado, Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education, Marina Durinova, Visiting Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education,
Description: **This is an asynchronous workshop through ICON. Registered students will have access to the ICON workshop beginning March 28 with a completion deadline of April 11. This workshop is MANDATORY for students in the ML Track.** This session on...
ML Workshop 4: Oral Language Development
Thursday, April 10, 2025 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Please register here. BTLC Credit: IS, ML
Presenter(s): Dr. Lia Plakans, Professor of Multilingual Education, Dr. David Degollado, Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education, Dr. Marina Durinova, Visiting Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education
Description: This workshop is MANDATORY for students in the ML track. This session aligns with the Core Principle of developing learners' skills and supporting their intellects. Upon completion of the workshop, students will be able to deliver...