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HAL: Quiz Bowl - Elementary (Private)  

May 11, 2026

• ESU#3 Professional Learning
• Anderson , Lexie

Students competing in academic quiz bowl competitions will answer questions from a variety of topics.  

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HAL: Visual Spatial Thinking (Private) (Cancelled)  

May 12, 2026

• ESU#3 Professional Learning
• Anderson , Lexie

Piet Piet Mondrian will be the inspiration for this project. Students will learn how he tried to distill art down to its basic elements of shape, line, and color, and they will create their own artwork, using his technique. This art project will use rulers & markers.
 will be the inspiration for this project. Students will learn how he tried to distill art down to its basic elements of shape, line, and color, and they will create their own artwork, using his technique. This art project will use rulers & markers.

Visual/ Spatial thinking skills are important for many jobs, but they are often left out of school curriculum. This session is based on the work of Piet Mondrian. Students will stretch their minds to solve puzzles, play pattern games, and create art that uses these important visual/ spatial skills.  Prepare to be inspired!

Four 30 minute rotation stations to get students thinking about patterns, form, color, and space.

One hour long art project based on Piet Mondrian's work


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HAL: Sew a Snoof (Private)  

May 12, 2026

• ESU#3 Professional Learning
• Anderson , Lexie

Workshop Information- Puppetry, Sewing, Pattern Layout, Design, Canva
In this session, students will learn about the different types of puppetry, and they will design and hand sew a professional puppet called a Snoof. They will begin by learning how to whip stitch a felt heart. Then they will learn the basics of fabric nap, pattern layout, and pinning. Students will be able to choose their own fuzzy fur, and they will use felt, ping pong balls, pipe cleaners, and foam to add customized details to their puppet. When the puppet is complete, they will learn how to use Canva to create a beautiful design project with images of their puppet.


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HAL: Extreme Math Elementary (Private)  

May 18, 2026

• ESU#3 Professional Learning
• Anderson , Lexie

This HAL COMPETITION event is a morning of student math problem solving, collaboration, and logic questions.  Student teams of 4, 5, or 6 members will participate in a Sprint Round, Team Round, and a Problem Solving Round during the morning. 
The spirit of the morning is collaboration and math achievement in an effort to recognize the importance of math problem solving. 
•       Students in elementary schools are invited to participate.
•       Each round is timed and student accomplishment will be recorded.
•       Recognition will be provided for individuals in the Sprint Round and for teams in the Team Round.
•       There is no school winner or leader at the end of the event.


REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Schools must include how many teams of 4, 5, or 6 students.
Schools must provide the names of the team members per team. 
Contact Adam Larson if you have enough teams to create your own day
ESU #3 will supply pencils.
Some calculators will be available, but schools may choose to bring their own.
School permission slips and all school field trip requirements are in effect.
At least one adult sponsor/teacher is required to attend with each school represented.
The adult sponsor/teacher will be asked to be a participant in supervision and correcting student papers from the morning.
Questions to alarson@esu3.org 

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Inclusive Practices Academy (Day 5 of 6)  

June 2, 2026

• ESU#3 Student Services
• Harvey, Amy

 Inclusive Practices Academy

The structure of this training is designed to empower teams with the knowledge and tools necessary to foster inclusive learning environments and build co-teaching partnerships. Each team must consist of at least one Special Education Teacher and one General Education Teacher, ensuring a collaborative approach to implementing newfound insights and practices to improve outcomes for all students. Outcomes will be developed throughout the series.

Day 1 - Conditions for Success: Developing Mindsets, Practices, and Co-Teaching Partnerships
Collaboration structures, teacher parity and collective responsibilities, co-teaching myths vs facts, learner variability

Day 2  - Co-Teaching: Effective Inclusive Environments
Foundations of co-teaching, creating effective environments, co-planning and scheduling, co-teaching models and incidental benefit

Day 3 - Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Foundations: Building a Roadmap Towards Inclusive Instructional Practices
UDL Framework, three principles of UDL, learner variability, tailoring instruction through IEPs, flexibility to support inclusive practices within your instructional model

Day 4 - Co-Teaching and Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
Using the IEP as an instructional tool, key principles of SDI, connecting SDI to student needs and standards-based pre-requisite skills, high-leverage practices

Day 5 & 6 - Insights: Reflecting, Sharing, and Applying Learning to Shape the Next School Year
Building principals will be invited for “Conversation and Collaboration” to learn more about IPA and support goals for the upcoming school year.

Science of Reading For Multilingual Learners  

June 4, 2026

• ESU#3 Professional Learning
• Anderson , Lexie

What you'll learn:

SoR Essentials for Multilinguals
Learn how phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension work together to support reading development in multilingual learners.

Active View of Reading
Explore the Active View of Reading framework to understand how decoding, linguistic comprehension, and active self-regulation intersect in successful reading.

Vocabulary Instruction
Discover effective methods for teaching high-utility vocabulary that boost comprehension and support long-term language growth for multilingual learners.

Language Scaffolding
Learn practical, research-based scaffolding techniques that support multilingual learners’ access to complex texts and academic language across content areas.

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Attendance is a TEAM Sport  

June 5, 2026

• ESU#3 Student Services
• Harvey, Amy

CPI Initial Training  

June 9, 2026

• ESU#3 Student Services
• Harvey, Amy

Cognitive Coaching Foundation Training Session 5-8 (Day 1 of 4)  

June 9, 2026

• ESU#3 Professional Learning
• Anderson , Lexie

Part II: Cognitive Coaching (Days 5-8)

Cognitive Coaching Seminars® are an eight-day training. You must have completed Days 1-4 before you can take days 5-8. During days 1–4 you learned the Planning Conversation Map and the Reflecting Conversation Map as well as the tools of Cognitive CoachingSM. Days 5–8 will provide for skill refinement and understanding of the Problem-Resolving Map as well as strengthening your identity as a mediator of thinking and your use of the skills of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions.

• Integration of the maps and tools from Part 1
• Flexibility in coaching for human uniqueness
• Detection and mediation of cognitive shift
• Refined mediation skills and coaching capabilities
• Extended coaching skills to mediate self-directed learning in others when they are struggling with a problem
• Fluency with the tool cluster of pacing
• Enhanced personal acuity, ways of attending, listening, and responding
• Internalized Problem-Resolving Map
• Fluency with the tool cluster of leading
• Integrated maps and tools of Cognitive CoachingSM

Adaptive Schools Summer Foundation Seminar (Day 1 of 4)  

June 11, 2026

• ESU#3 Professional Learning
• Anderson , Lexie

 
Adaptive Schools explores how to develop skills as facilitators and informed group members in informal and formal settings, in small and large groups. Participants will practice implementation, describe specific ways to weave the collaborative fabric of a faculty, develop group member skills, and acquire the principles and understandings to engage in a continuous cycle of team and individual improvement.

Highlights of the Seminar include:

• Increased capacity to initiate, develop, and sustain high functioning groups
• An expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools
• Skills to move groups beyond consensus to common focus
• Ways to value and use dissension, argument and conflict
• Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful

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