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Visible Instructional Leadership Year 1 - Session 1

October 14, 2025

Outcomes:

Identify and use specific strategies to impact daily instruction as an Instructional Leader.

Build knowledge of how to design systems to implement immediately and ideas for how to sustain systems.

Includes the Best Seller book “How Leadership Works”

Session 2 is on January 28th. Click here to register .

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Full (Waiting List)
19 Registered

19 Min; 19 Max

UDL Foundations: Building a Roadmap To Learning for All Session 1 (Cancelled)

October 15, 2025

You must register for each session separately. To register for Session 2, please use this link.

Join us for two immersive full-day professional learning experiences centered on exploring the theory and application of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework as a key component of your Continuous Improvement and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) journey.

Each session will include a morning of learning and time in the afternoon for your team to reflect on learning, application, and plan actionable steps for implementation.

Intended Audience:

Newer to UDL: District/school leadership team, MTSS teams, instructional coaches, and educators passionate about designing learning for all students.

Outcomes:
Morning: Community of Practice

Gain a foundational understanding of the beliefs, system drivers, and skills of the UDL framework.
Analyze the three principles of UDL: multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression.
Connect how UDL supports learner variability and provides flexibility to meet diverse needs to support inclusive environments and practices within your instructional model.
Examine Nebraska standards through a UDL lens to build teacher clarity as the first step in intentionally planning to support all learners in Tier 1 instruction.

Afternoon: Focus of Practice

Explore opportunities to connect the UDL framework with existing initiatives and plan next steps based on your district’s context and needs.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Remote

Cancelled

Leveraging MTSS through Foundational Restorative Practices (Day 1 of 3) (Cancelled)

October 16, 2025

Leveraging MTSS through Foundational Restorative Practices

What is Restorative Practices?
Restorative Practices is a comprehensive approach to support connection and community building in schools and establish structures to repair harm. When implemented comprehensively and systematically, this approach has been found to reduce violence, unwanted behavior and bullying, and to increase restoration of relationships. When implemented within a multi-tiered structure, like MTSS, it significantly improves school culture and decreases the use of exclusionary discipline practices.

What is the structure of the training series?
This immersive training series includes three full-day sessions with built-in time for implementation, designed to support your MTSS systems. It is intended for Leadership Teams, such as your MTSS Team, Teachers and Teacher Leaders, and other Support Staff. Participants will leave with tools and strategies that can be applied immediately. This training is based on the Ali Hearn Coaching and Consulting Model.

Remote

Planning a Bright Future: Secondary Transition (Day 1 of 2)

October 20, 2025

Planning a Bright Future: Secondary Transition Flyer
Region 2 Secondary Transition
Cohort Practitioner Focused Trainings

Session 1: Transition Blue Print
Featured Speaker: Lindsay Brown from VR

Review the fundamentals of transition planning.
Review Indicator 13 checklist and connect it to transition documentation.
Meet local organizations in the afternoon during the Community Agency Fair.

Session 2: Building the Transition Plan

Take a deep dive in the core components of a transition plan.
Build a compliant and effective transition plan in a workshop-style format.

Open
7 Registered

No Min; 35 Max

NeMTSS Tier 2 Targeted Series (Day 1 of 2)

October 20, 2025

NeMTSS Tier 2 Targeted Series Flyer

Monday, October 20th, 2025

Tier 2 Overview and Check-In/Check-Out-
Teams will learn the essential components of Tier 2 social, emotional, and behavioral practices within a MTSS, including the use of data to identify unmet needs and create a continuum of support. Steps will be identified to develop a system that allows for the efficient application of Tier 2 practices.
Check-In/Check-Out (Hawken, 2020) is an easy to implement, evidence-based
intervention that provides students with positive connections with adults, and increased feedback on their performance throughout the day. Teams will learn how to install CICO, the essential components of the intervention, and how to monitor student progress.

Thursday, January 15th, 2026

Tier 2 Beyond Check-In/Check-Out and SEB Groups-
This training focuses on implementing additional Tier 2 supports with an emphasis on direct teaching of social and emotional skills and modifying interventions to meet student needs, including utilizing function-based thinking to determine appropriate support. A focus will also be on exploring Social, Emotional, Behavioral groups including analyzing data and entry criteria as well as categories of SEB to meet identified needs.

Open
20 Registered

20 Min; 60 Max

ASD S.T.E.P.S Training (Day 1 of 2)

October 20, 2025

ASD S.T.E.P.S Training: Strategies & Techniques for Effective Practice: Educating Children with Autism

Flyer

Open
25 Registered

No Min; 40 Max

Visible Instructional Leadership: Cultivating Growth, Cohesion, & Collective Excellence (Year 2) - Session 1

October 21, 2025

Currenlty, this workshop series is only open to the 18 schools districts that are serviced by ESU 3. If you have questions about attending, please contact Jennifer Kennedy at jkennedy@esu3.org.

This is a 2 part series. Register here for Session 2 on March 3rd, 2026

Join us at the ESU 3 in hosting Corwin author Toni Faddis. Outcomes include:

Synthesize practices that an instructional leader can use to cultivate teacher growth and development.
Build an understanding of practices that an instructional leader can use to promote cohesion and growth within the system.
Identify and apply coaching strategies that align with instructional rigor, contextual relevance, and clearly defined teacher and system goals.

Includes the bestselling book "RIGOR Unveiled". Attendance at Visible Instructional Leadership Year 1 recommended, not required

Open
11 Registered

1 Min; 100 Max

Success Criteria Session 1

October 22, 2025

Join us at the ESU 3 in hosting Corwin author Toni Faddis. Outcomes include:

We can explain the role of success criteria in effective teaching and learning.
We can compare and contrast the different ways of creating and sharing success criteria with our students.

Includes the bestselling book " Success Criteria Playbook". Background with Teacher Clarity recommended, Attendance at Teacher Clarity 2024-2025 not required.

Open
78 Registered

1 Min; 100 Max

Leading Transformational and Complex Change (Day 1 of 4) (Cancelled)

October 24, 2025

Are your school improvement efforts making a measurable difference? Do you have a clear plan to move your most important initiatives from vision to successful implementation and lasting impact? Join us for a dynamic, multi-day workshop designed to equip you with the tools and strategies needed to lead transformational and complex change in your school or system. Move beyond theory and learn a systematic process to design, implement, and evaluate professional learning that gets results.

This workshop is designed for any K-12 leader responsible for guiding improvement, including:
- Principals & Assistant Principals
- District & Central Office Leaders
- Instructional Coaches
- Teacher Leaders

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Remote

Cancelled

HAL: Poetry Writing and Performing (Private)

October 24, 2025

Presented by Matt Mason.

By engaging in a variety of unique and wonderful poetry writing exercises, students and their teachers will learn the basic elements of poetic craft, specifically, how to use metaphors, similes, imagery, alliteration, and repetition to create poems with texture and depth.

Breaking into small groups to share their original works, students and teachers will discover how guided questions and a specific vocabulary (“I notice” and “I wonder”) can help the writer not just “revise” his/her poem, but also re-envision it, enabling the writer to see his/her work in a new light.

Once the students and teachers have revised and polished their original poems, participants will, through an exercise that utilizes group performance, learn about the basics of performance and how to use the tools of voice, breath, pacing, and body language (choreography) to make our poems leap off the page and command the stage. These exercises will culminate in a final event where students will have the opportunity to recite/perform their original work, understanding that the goal of performance poetry is to couple the best possible text to the best possible performance.

Students will leave this workshop having learned how to compose superior poems and perform them with confidence.

Goals of the day include: demonstrate creative thought through original poetry, learn poetry writing techniques, and be part of a non-threatening collaborative creative process of expression.

Teachers are active participants and should be part of the day's events including supervision and participation.

Instructor Bio

Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department. His poetry has appeared in The New York Times and Matt has received a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and in hundreds of other publications. Mason's 5th book, Rock Stars, was published by Button Poetry in September of this year. Find more at: https://matt.midverse.com/

Full
21 Registered
(1 Registration,
20 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

HAL: MCC Bio Discovery Lab (Private)

October 24, 2025

Investigate fermentation and how we can make fuels from plant sources by using different types of feedstocks such as sugars, starches, and cellulose-based biomass. Learn about the process of fermentation, determine why some feedstocks are better than others through hands-on activities, and see how it relates to bioprocessing industries in Nebraska in this biotechnology workshop.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Full
25 Registered
(1 Registration,
24 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

Cognitive Coaching Foundation Training Session 5-8 (Day 3 of 4)

October 29, 2025

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

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Closed
10 Registered

1 Min; 30 Max

ASD One Day Overview of Intensive Teaching of VB

October 29, 2025

Flyer
Presenters: Teri McGill, Metro Region Coordinator and Ali Sweitzer, Metro Region Behavior Specialist

Audience: This training is only for staff who currently work with a teacher/SLP who has completed the 3-Day, Intensive Teaching of Verbal Behavior and is using the programming with student(s).

Description:
*Participants will learn important behavioral teaching principles including what is verbal behavior, discrete trial training, reinforcement, pairing, prompting and shaping
*Participants will learn the verbal operants
*Participants will learn how to use errorless teaching techniques and error correction to help improve skill acquisition
*Participants will receive hands-on instruction and practice on errorless teaching and error correction using the card sort system

Open
11 Registered

15 Min; 45 Max

HAL: MCC Hydroponic Adventures (Private)

October 29, 2025

Join us for an exciting adventure into the world of indoor hydroponic growing systems! In this hands-on class, you'll learn how we can grow fresh, healthy produce in urban areas using a special type of farming called hydroponics. We'll explore the amazing technology behind indoor hydroponic farms, and even get to visit a real working farm. You'll discover how this sustainable and innovative method of farming is changing the way we think about food production and distribution. So come along and let's explore the future of farming together!

Please contact Metro Community College for more details.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Full
7 Registered
(1 Registration,
6 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

MTSS Booster Session

October 30, 2025

MTSS Teams:

As districts continue their MTSS implementation journey, teams will undergo both change and growth. The MTSS Booster Session features targeted breakout sessions, shaped by August team leader feedback, focused on Early Warning Systems, the Problem Solving Process and ICEL by RIOT, Tier 1 Universal Design for Learning, and Tiered Interventions. Three flexible attendance options provide dedicated time and guidance for teams to reflect, refine, or revise MTSS leadership and implementation practices.

Register for one 3-hour session to access breakout topics, on-site consultation, and team planning.

Open
2 Registered

No Min; 75 Max

MTSS Booster Session

October 30, 2025

MTSS Teams:
As districts continue their MTSS implementation journey, teams will undergo both change and growth. The MTSS Booster Session features targeted breakout sessions, shaped by August team leader feedback, focused on Early Warning Systems, the Problem Solving Process and ICEL by RIOT, Tier 1 Universal Design for Learning, and Tiered Interventions. Three flexible attendance options provide dedicated time and guidance for teams to reflect, refine, or revise MTSS leadership and implementation practices.

**Register for a combination of breakout sessions, technical assistance, and extended team time.

Open
1 Registered

No Min; 75 Max

PLUSS Model For Supporting Multilingual Learners

October 30, 2025

A high-impact framework empowering teachers to accelerate multilingual learners' language development and academic success.

In this workshop you will:

Scaffold content standards to meet students’ diverse language needs.

Boost academic vocabulary to deepen comprehension and expression.

Enhance high-quality instructional materials with evidence-based EL strategies.

Build background and spark excitement for learning across subjects.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Remote

Open
16 Registered

1 Min; 32 Max

MTSS Booster Session

October 30, 2025

MTSS Teams:
As districts continue their MTSS implementation journey, teams will undergo both change and growth. The MTSS Booster Session features targeted breakout sessions, shaped by August team leader feedback, focused on Early Warning Systems, the Problem Solving Process and ICEL by RIOT, Tier 1 Universal Design for Learning, and Tiered Interventions. Three flexible attendance options provide dedicated time and guidance for teams to reflect, refine, or revise MTSS leadership and implementation practices.

Register for one 3-hour session to access breakout topics, on-site consultation, and team planning.

Open
0 Registered
No Min; 75 Max

Inclusive Practices Academy (Day 2 of 6)

November 3, 2025

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.

Closed
74 Registered

No Min; 48 Max

Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) and Bounce Back Non-Clinical (BB NC) Curriculums (Day 3 of 3)

November 3, 2025

Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) and Bounce Back Non-Clinical (BB NC) Curriculums

September 8, 2025 - in person at ESU #3
October 6, 2025 - Via Zoom
November 3, 2025 - Via Zoom

Presented by: Emily Arkfeld, LCSW - Papillion La Vista Community Schools and Molly Schnabel, LCSW - Papillion La Vista Community Schools

Description:
SSET and Bounce Back-Non Clinical(BB-NC) are a school-based group intervention for students who have been exposed to traumatic events and are suffering from symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
-Populations Served: SSET: Grades 4-12; BB NC: Grades K-5
-Participants that complete the training will be able to offer BOTH SSET and BB NC within their school or district.
-In 10 easy-to-use group lessons, students who participate in SSET and BB NC increase levels of peer and parent support, as well as learn a wide variety of skill-building techniques to reduce current problems with: anxiety or nervousness, withdrawal or isolation, depressed mood, acting out in school, impulsive or risky behavior

Learning Outcomes:
-Review the definition of trauma and its impact, especially in the school setting
-Overview of group sessions, with resources shared and time to practice
-Discussion of stakeholder buy-in, parent engagement, possible barriers

Consultation: Consultation is a recommended component of the training in order to maintain skills and integrity to the field of trauma informed work. This consultation also provides ongoing support to new group facilitators as they navigate the dynamics of their school setting. Topics will include: engaging difficult or high needs children, collaborating with parents and other professionals, handling ongoing mental health needs for children and families, adjusting sessions when unplanned conflicts arise, etc. Consultation will be two scheduled sessions via zoom for all participants.

Remote

Closed
25 Registered

No Min; 25 Max

ASD Girls on the Spectrum . . .

November 4, 2025

Girls on the Spectrum (Girls with Autism with Average to Above Average Cognition and
Verbal Skills) : Hidden in Plain Sight

Flyer

Presenters:
Teri McGill - Metro Region ASD Network Coordinator
Beth Klootwyk - School Psychologist Elkhorn Public Schools
Nicole Heller - School Psychologist- Elkhorn Public Schools
Jennifer Johnson - School Psychologist- Wahoo Public Schools
Marci Haight - IT Specialist/parent of daughter on the Spectrum- Plattsmouth Public Schools

Audience: All special education and general education teachers, counselors, psychologists, parents, Administrators, and other professionals working with females on the autism spectrum.
Description:
Participants will learn:
•Prevalence of girls on the spectrum along with the difficulties identifying girls on the autism spectrum
•Red flags and characteristics specific to females and how females on the spectrum often
camouflage or mask key characteristics
•Consequences of not identifying girls on the spectrum
•Conditions that can co-exist in females with autism
•Specialized instruction and strategies to support girls with autism in the school setting

Special Note:
This training will include a panel of females on the spectrum to give participants first-hand insight on how autism effects them during their day-to-day life.

Open
1 Registered

15 Min; 65 Max

Preschool New Teacher Institute (Day 5 of 6)

November 4, 2025

Preschool New Teacher Institute Flyer
Teachers within their first 3 years of teaching in a preschool setting and their mentors.

Join us for this 6 session series! The registration link will register you for all 6 sessions.

Topics will include:
-Classroom design
-Daily schedule
-Teaching rules and expectations
-Early Literacy and Math
-Lesson planning
-Working with paraeducators
-Home visits
-Teaching Strategies GOLD

Check-in meetings will be held on the off months.

Closed
7 Registered

No Min; 30 Max

Special Education Facilitators and the Leadership Grind (Day 3 of 6)

November 4, 2025

Special Education Facilitators and the Leadership Grind

Empowering leaders to support, implement, and elevate special education practices.

Intended audience:
Special Education Facilitators, Supervisors, Coordinators, Leaders

Outcomes:
-Outline the responsibilities of a facilitator and develop effective approaches to help teachers successfully apply theoretical knowledge in practical classroom settings.
-Practice communication skills and equip facilitators with techniques to build and sustain strong collaborative partnerships.
-Provide practical tools and identify strategies to effectively support and hold teachers accountable for the implementation of Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) and development of compliant and high-quality Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).
-Apply evidence-based practices to foster inclusive learning environments. -

Closed
48 Registered

No Min; 25 Max

Planning a Bright Future: Secondary Transition (Day 2 of 2)

November 5, 2025

Open
7 Registered

No Min; 35 Max

HAL: Quiz Bowl Grade - 6

November 6, 2025

In order to give ESU3 districts priority for these events, if you are outside of ESU3 and want to talk about registering and pricing please contact Adam Larson

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

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Open
9 Registered

1 Min; 15 Max

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

November 7, 2025

Part II: Cognitive Coaching (Days 5-8)

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

Closed
10 Registered

1 Min; 30 Max

HAL: Quiz Bowl - Elementary

November 7, 2025

In order to give ESU3 districts priority for these events, if you are outside of ESU3 and want to talk about registering and pricing please contact Adam Larson.

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

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Open
3 Registered

1 Min; 15 Max

HAL: MCC Forensic Science Workshop (Private)

November 7, 2025

If you have dreamed of being a CSI agent, a forensic pathologist, or a crime scene analyst, this is the workshop for you. Learn the tools and techniques used by real-life forensic scientists to solve crimes and uncover hidden evidence.

Please contact Metro Community College for more details.

Full
21 Registered
(1 Registration,
20 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

HAL: MCC Bio Discovery Lab (Private)

November 7, 2025

Full
25 Registered
(1 Registration,
24 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

Leveraging Teacher Clarity for Student Engagement Year 1 - Session 1

November 11, 2025

Outcomes:

Extend knowledge of strategies that build teacher clarity to increase student engagement.

Build an understanding of how to utilize data and feedback to adjust instruction and increase student engagement.

Grow knowledge of strategies that increase the opportunities to engage in learning.

Develop an understanding of systems and strategies for developing teacher clarity so teachers can plan and design lessons that engage students in learning.

Includes the 2nd Edition of the Best Seller “The Teacher Clarity Playbook”

Session 2 is on February 3, 2026. Click here to register.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Open
15 Registered

25 Min; 100 Max

HAL: Extreme Math Elementary (Private)

November 11, 2025

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

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Full
1 Registered

1 Min; 1 Max

HAL: Extreme Math Elementary (Private)

November 12, 2025

Full
1 Registered

1 Min; 1 Max

Science of Reading For Multilingual Learners

November 12, 2025

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.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Remote

Open
49 Registered

1 Min; 50 Max

HAL: Pop Art Favorites (Private)

November 12, 2025

Pop Art Favorites

How are your favorite products marketed? We will discuss product brands, logos, labels and how they are marketed. I will share works from a few favorite pop artists, Burton Morris in particular, and how they depicted very common brands in their artwork. They will choose a logo to paint using acrylic paint sticks and watercolor pencils. We will use a sharpie to add details to the piece. Through this workshop, students will learn the process of creating a project beginning with the inspiration through idea development, project creation, completion and critique.

Personalized Workshops

Although the workshops described all have a theme, I would love to work with you to tailor the project to what you are working on in the classroom or just an idea you have. I can also create a project using different materials, a project series taking place over more than one workshop, or a group installation project for your school.

Instructor Bio

Full
25 Registered
(1 Registration,
24 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

UDL Intermediate: Continuing the Journey Session 1

November 13, 2025

Register for Session 2 HERE

Join us for two immersive full-day experiences designed to elevate your understanding and application of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Building on your prior implementation efforts, these sessions will help you embed UDL strategically across your systems and cultivate lasting capacity."

Each session will include a morning of learning and time in the afternoon for your team to reflect on learning, application, and plan actionable steps for implementation.

Intended Audience:
Prior Foundational Knowledge of UDL District/school leadership teams, MTSS teams, instructional coaches, and educators.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Open
19 Registered

1 Min; 100 Max

Pyramid Model Follow-Up Session

November 14, 2025

Pyramid Model Follow-Up Session

This session will allow participants to dig into the materials provided at the initial Pyramid trainings. General information will be shared along with additional resources. Participants will have independent time to access materials, explore resources, and plan. Pyramid Expansion Grant coaches will be available to support participants.

Please bring your materials bag from the initial Pyramid training (including the flash drive) and your computer.

Open
2 Registered

10 Min; 30 Max

HAL: Quiz Bowl - Middle School

November 14, 2025

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

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Open
7 Registered

1 Min; 9 Max

HAL: MCC Bio Discovery Lab (Private)

November 14, 2025

Full
25 Registered
(1 Registration,
24 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

Pyramid Model Follow-Up Session

November 14, 2025

Open
2 Registered

10 Min; 30 Max

HAL: Quiz Bowl - Middle School

November 17, 2025

Full
10 Registered

1 Min; 8 Max

Rule 3 Workshop

November 18, 2025

This workshop helps teams understand Nebraska’s updated Rule 3, identify compliance changes, and collaborate on implementation. Participants will review HAL Plan requirements, identification procedures, and service options. Teams that attend will review their current HAL reality and make plans to change what is needed to stay compliant with Rule 3.

Team Outcomes:
- Time and Space to learn and collaborate as a team on Rule 3 changes
- Content followed by team time to work facilitate changes needed to stay in compliance with Rule 3
- Opportunity to collaborate with other districts to see how they support their HAL students, teachers, and families

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Open
36 Registered

1 Min; 100 Max

Special Education Community Of Practice (Day 2 of 4)

November 19, 2025

Special Education Community Of Practice-Cass and Washington County

Audience: Special Education Practitioners + Directors

Join us at ESU #3
8:30-11:30am - Session for Secondary/Young Adult
12:30-3:30pm - Early Childhood/Elementary

This Special Education Community of Practice (COP) is specific to districts in Cass and Washington County. The COP is a collaborative network of special education practitioners, and directors from similar districts dedicated to improving outcomes for students with disabilities. Through shared problem-solving and the exchange of effective strategies, members will work together to enhance IEP development and compliance, and emphasize the use of evidence-based instructional practices to support learning needs of all students.

Closed
22 Registered

15 Min; 40 Max

ASD Maximizing the Day: Building Independence Through Functional and Academic Skills

November 19, 2025

Maximizing the Day: Building Independence Through Functional and Academic Skills

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Description:
Participants in this workshop will gain an understanding of the importance of beginning with the end goal in mind to develop effective and meaningful programs for students with complex needs. We will envision where we want our students to be in five years, establish broader objectives, and break these down into smaller, actionable goals to create a structured path for learning and skill development. We will explore various curricula and strategies that support academic growth, social skills, life skills, and career readiness for students from upper elementary through age 21.
Dr. Peter Gerhardt emphasized, “Everyone is capable of living and working in the community with the proper supports, and no one should have to earn the right to be in the community.” Participants will leave with the belief that all students are capable of community integration and with practical strategies to continue building meaningful programs for their students.

Participants will:
-Be able to articulate why starting with the end outcome in mind is essential for creating meaningful programs for students with complex needs.
-Recognize the importance of identifying long-term visions for their students and break them down into achievable short-term goals to facilitate effective learning and skill development.
-Learn about various curriculums and strategies that support academic, social, life, and career readiness skills for students from upper elementary through age 21.
-Gain insights from Dr. Peter Gerhardt's work on community inclusion, learn strategies to ensure all students can live and work in the community with appropriate supports, and develop plans to implement this in educational programs.
-Leave with practical techniques to design and implement meaningful and supportive educational programs for students with complex needs, aligning with the vision of community inclusion and participation.

Open
8 Registered

15 Min; 60 Max

Principal Support Initiative (Day 3 of 6)

November 20, 2025

Principal Support Initiative:
Empowering Principals, Driving Student Success

Goals of the Initiative Being Studied:
Goal 1: Strengthen leadership and self-efficacy of principals to effectively support high quality, culturally relevant classroom instruction.
Goal 2: Improved and equitable academic, behavioral, and/or social outcomes based upon the school’s needs and context for high need students.
Goal 3: Increase collective efficacy of effective principals and teachers serving under-resourced schools.

Year 1 will focus on:
- Fostering effective communication and collaboration
- Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement
- Leveraging data for goal setting and decision making
- Understanding and navigating complex systems

Closed
17 Registered

1 Min; 16 Max

HAL: Paper Collage Animals (Private)

November 21, 2025

Paper Collage Animals

Inspired by the collage art of Clare Youngs, we will create our own patterned paper using paint sticks, markers, stamps, ink, and chalk. These colorful textured papers will be cut up and shared amongst the students. Animals of the students’ choice will be created using these papers. Students will cut each animal part from complimentary papers which results in a well-balanced work of art. Through this workshop, students will learn the process of creating a project beginning with the inspiration through idea development, project creation, completion and critique.

Personalized Workshops

Instructor Bio

Julie Fjell is an artist, designer, muralist and freelance art teacher. She has taught high school and middle school art, developed and taught art camps for kids, created an art club in her children’s elementary school, taught adult art classes and currently teaches seniors and memory care patients. Julie has a business selling her pottery, hand stamped metal jewelry and illustration works.

Disclaimer: By participating in this event organized by ESU #3, you hereby grant permission to ESU #3 to use your image and likeness captured during the event for promotional and media purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, photographs, videos, and audio recordings. If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding the use of your media, please reach out to the primary contact of this event.

Full
25 Registered
(1 Registration,
24 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

Cognitive Coaching Graduates Review Series

December 2, 2025

Group Coaching and Using Coaching Maps and Tools with Small Groups-
During this review session you will have the opportunity to go deeper into the elements of group coaching, and an opportunity to practice group coaching with others within the group.

CLICK HERE to register for Session 3.

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Open
2 Registered

1 Min; 50 Max

HAL: Poetry Writing and Performing (Private)

December 3, 2025

Presented by Matt Mason.

Students will leave this workshop having learned how to compose superior poems and perform them with confidence.

Goals of the day include: demonstrate creative thought through original poetry, learn poetry writing techniques, and be part of a non-threatening collaborative creative process of expression.

Teachers are active participants and should be part of the day's events including supervision and participation.

Instructor Bio

Full
16 Registered
(1 Registration,
15 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

ASD Engaged and On Task (2 Days) (Day 1 of 2)

December 4, 2025

Engaged and On Task *Formerly Intro to Intensive Teaching of Verbal Behavior/Engaged and On Task 3 Day Training

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Audience: Please attend training with other team members (2-4) who work with students with Autism or developmental disabilities. (Special Education Teachers, SLP’s, Administrators, and other Professionals working with students with Autism)

During this intensive, two-day boot camp, participants will receive hands-on instruction and practice on key instructional protocols that are designed to address the core deficits of autism including the development of verbal skills, flexible responding, and appropriate social interactions. Participants will be tested out on specific protocols which will include errorless teaching, error correction procedures, and data collection. Bootcamp training will also include information on specific systems necessary for effective school-based programming ABLLS-R, including how to schedule instruction, organization of materials, ongoing training of staff and data-based decision making.While the intensive teaching program taught in this training is designed to meet the unique needs of learners on the autism spectrum, it is also beneficial for students who demonstrate negative behaviors due to a lack of functional language skills. (This training has been adapted from the original training created by Mike Miklos and Amiris Dipuglia from PaTTAN.)

Open
11 Registered

15 Min; 30 Max

HAL: Poetry Writing and Performing (Private)

December 4, 2025

Presented by Matt Mason.

Students will leave this workshop having learned how to compose superior poems and perform them with confidence.

Goals of the day include: demonstrate creative thought through original poetry, learn poetry writing techniques, and be part of a non-threatening collaborative creative process of expression.

Teachers are active participants and should be part of the day's events including supervision and participation.

Instructor Bio

Full
25 Registered
(1 Registration,
24 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

MCC Science on the Sphere - Cartography (Private)

December 5, 2025

Using captivating Science on the Sphere technology, kids will delve into the science of cartography. From learning how scientists change a globe into a map to creating a 3D model of a topographical map, this interactive experience brings geography to life. Join us to spark a lifelong fascination with maps and the world around us.

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Full
21 Registered
(1 Registration,
20 Students)

1 Min; 1 Max

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