Upcoming Events

For a more complete list of professional development opportunities, visit www.southdakotapd.com.

• Leadership and curriculum mapping
• Wellness policy topic of satellite seminar
• Crosswalk trainings for CTE teachers scheduled
• Jump start your local wellness policy
• Training addresses health education standards and assessment
• Evaluate health education curriculum at HECAT training

Leadership and curriculum mapping
A one-day workshop – Role of Building Leadership in the Curriculum Mapping Process – will be held Oct. 11 at the Ramkota in Pierre. The workshop, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., targets administrators. It will be led by Dr. Susan Udelhofen.

Key concepts that will be addressed during the workshop include:

• Overview of curriculum mapping process
• Curriculum consensus building and decision-making
• Curriculum mapping and teacher evaluation
• Strategies for finding time
• Building leadership teams
• Building a curriculum mapping cabinet
• Looking at feeder patterns
• The relationship with Education Service Agencies
• Creating a map of mapping
• Staff development
• Curriculum mapping implementation plans
• One, two and three plans
• Mapping beyond building the maps

This workshop session is offered by the department’s Office of Curriculum, Technology and Assessment. Registration is available online at www.southdakotapd.com. For information, contact Gay Pickner at (605) 280-3613. gay.pickner@state.sd.us


Wellness policy topic of satellite seminar
A two-hour program on school wellness policy development will be held Oct. 18 via satellite and Web cast. Time is 2-4 p.m. (Central) and 1-3 p.m. (Mountain). The event is offered by the National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI).

According to information released by NFSMI: “The primary goal of this program is to provide child nutrition professionals and other key players in the school and community an opportunity to hear the most current school wellness policy information. The program will feature local school districts that have health and wellness efforts already under way. It will also allow participants the opportunity to call in and have their questions answered by a panel of experts.”

The satellite coordinates and directions for accessing the Web cast can be found at www.nfsmi.org/.

The program also will be broadcast in South Dakota through the Dakota Digital Network (DDN). The following public schools have signed up to view the broadcast: Harrisburg, Brandon Valley, Aberdeen, Redfield, Bison and Meade (Sturgis). There are still spaces available on the DDN system if your school would like to join the broadcast.

At its September meeting, the South Dakota Board of Education approved a Model Wellness Policy for South Dakota.

Anyone interested in signing up for the DDN session, should contact Amy Richards at (605) 773-4718 or amy.richards@state.sd.us.


Crosswalk trainings for CTE teachers scheduled
By April of 2006, all of the state’s career and technical education (CTE) teachers are required to have their crosswalk completed and syllabi on file with the department’s Office of Career and Technical Education.

Two upcoming workshops will train teachers in the crosswalk process and give them time to develop or update their course syllabi. The workshops are slated for Nov. 8 in Rapid City and Jan. 31 in Mitchell.

The goal of the statewide Crosswalk Project is to provide a standards-based curriculum for CTE programs that includes technical standards, academic standards and employability standards. By going through the crosswalk process, CTE teachers will:

• Develop instructional strategies that meet the learning needs of all students;
• Identify areas within the curriculum where academic, technical and transferable work skills need to be enhanced and integrated;
• Meet Perkins accountability;
• Assist schools in meeting state-adopted academic standards;
• Help schools meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind.

Teachers can register for the workshop online at www.southdakotapd.com or by downloading the form at doe.sd.gov/octe/training and faxing or mailing it to the South Dakota Department of Education, Office of Career and Technical Education, 700 Governor’s Drive, Pierre, SD 57501. Fax: (605) 773-4236.

Jump start your local wellness policy
Get a head start on the new U.S. Department of Agriculture local wellness policy requirement! Recruit a team to attend a Nov. 10 workshop that will provide the training, information and resources necessary to develop and implement your local wellness policy. The workshop will be led by Dayle Hayes, an award-wining author and educator.

Participants can choose to attend a morning session that runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon or an afternoon session that runs from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Both sessions will be held at the Ramkota in Pierre.

The training will provide an overview of South Dakota’s new Model Wellness Policy, recently approved by the Board of Education. The workshop also will provide time for school district teams to develop an action plan for policy development and implementation for their district.

School districts are invited to bring five team members. At least one team member must be an administrator. Those districts with a full five-member team registered will receive first priority to attend the training. A minimum of three team members is required to be eligible to attend the training.

Besides an administrator, other team members might include a food service worker, teacher, student, school board member, community member, parent, nurse, dietitian, medical professional or local business representative. Registration is limited to one team per school district.

There is no cost for registration. Travel expenses, including mileage, meals and lodging, will be reimbursed by the Department of Education. The workshop is sponsored by Coordinated School Health and Child and Adult Nutrition Services.

A registration form will be available online on Friday, Oct. 14.

If you have any questions, please call Child and Adult Nutrition Services at (605) 773-3413.


Training addresses health education standards and assessment
The Coordinated School Health Program will host a South Dakota Health Education Standards and Assessment Training Nov. 7-8 at the Country Inn & Suites in Watertown. Participants will receive information and skills-building opportunities related to South Dakota’s health education standards and assessment.

Participants will explore the health education standards, including the core concepts and skill categories. They will learn to align standards, assessment and instructional activities. They will practice scoring student work. And, they will learn to differentiate between assessment for the purpose of accountability and assessment for the purpose of instructional improvement.

This training is appropriate for elementary teachers, curriculum directors, health education teachers, administrators, school counselors, school nurses, parents, and other interested individuals.

One hour of graduate or undergraduate credit is available through Augustana College; the fee is $50. One hour of teacher renewal credit is available through the South Dakota Department of Education at no cost.

For questions regarding the training design and content, please contact Beth Davis, Coordinated School Health Program, at (605) 773-6808 or beth.davis@state.sd.us. To register, contact Diane Madsen at Northeast Prevention Resource Center, (605) 886-0123, ext. 217. Registration is required by Nov. 1.


Evaluate health education curriculum at HECAT training
A training event designed to assist your school in the delivery of quality health education is set for Dec. 5-6 at Cedar Shore Resort in Chamberlain. Called HECAT, the Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool was developed by the Center for Disease Control’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, in partnership with health education experts across the country. HECAT allows educators to evaluate their curriculum based on research that supports positive health behaviors among students.

South Dakota is one of five states to be awarded a unique opportunity to offer this HECAT training. “It’s especially timely for our state, as the new graduation requirement for .5 credit of health education or physical education takes effect in the fall of 2006 with incoming freshmen,” said Beth Davis, health education coordinator with the Coordinated School Health Program.

The HECAT workshop will demonstrate the process for evaluating health education curriculum to determine its quality, effectiveness and appropriateness for your students. This workshop is beneficial whether you are seeking to adopt new health education curriculum, enhance existing curriculum, or instructing pre-service health education students.

The training is sponsored by Coordinated School Health, Rocky Mountain Center for Health Education and Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Northeast Prevention Resource Center.

There is no registration fee; however, pre-registration is required. To register, contact Diane Madsen, Northeast Prevention Resource Center at (605) 886-0123, ext. 217 or dianem@humanserviceagency.org. This workshop will be capped at 30 people and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

PLEASE NOTE: Dates and activities are tentative and contingent upon final federal approval of the HECAT.