Lead with Confidence When Crisis Hits
Administrative Training Series: Crisis Response & TIG Leadership
Be prepared before the crisis. This two-day, in-person training is designed specifically for building and district-level leadership—as well as designated crisis team leaders—to build critical knowledge, skills, and confidence in evidence-based crisis response and Traumatic Incident Group (TIG) practices.
Learn how to navigate every phase of a crisis, avoid the most common (and costly) pitfalls, and implement effective, research-supported strategies that align with your school’s legal and professional responsibilities.
Because school crisis doesn’t schedule an appointment.
Dates: July 24–25, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM | In-Person
Facilitator: Amy Scheel-Jones, Director, Transformation in Education & ICISF Instructor
This ICISF-certified training supports the CISM model, now designated by SAMHSA as an evidence-based practice.
All current and aspiring school crisis leaders and their crisis response teams are welcome—administrative title not required!
The cost for 2 Full Days of Training is only $499 per person!
School teams of 4 or more participants will receive a 20% discount, as well as one FREE registration for their School Resource Officer or Local Police Officer (Include them in your registration for materials and lunch count)!
Safe and Healthy Schools Members will also receive a FREE Crisis Plan Review and Coaching Date from CESA 3!
Trainer requires a deadline to register of June 23, 2025 to ensure materials and a minimum of 20 people is required to run this workshop!
Book Talks with Miss Molly & Bow Tie Guy is a monthly video series created for students in grades 2-5 to engage readers and promote high-quality, relatable books. Each month, the hosts, Molly & Jim, spend 10-12 minutes highlighting three chapter books of varying complexity by introducing the characters, providing a summary, and reading a short section.
Book lists are shared in advance to give schools the opportunity to source and display the books prior to them being recommended. Purchasing a district license will give your whole school access to all the upcoming book talks for the 2025-2026 school year.
Email mthielen@cesa3.org or jaddison@cesa3.org with the list of teachers you would like added to the email list and Mighty Networks.
Join fellow Speech-Language Pathologists in the CESA 3 region for a valuable opportunity to connect, collaborate, and grow professionally! Each session will include time for discussion, education, and networking, along with updates from DPI relevant to SLP services.
- Time: 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- Lunch is provided
- Cost: $100/person for the entire series (includes four sessions)
Please note: Participants only need to register once—on the date of their first attendance—to be enrolled in the entire series.
📅 Series Dates:
- October 10, 2025
- December 3, 2025
- February 5, 2026
- April 28, 2026
Questions?
- Lisa Aalgaard, CESA 3 RSN Director| laalgaard@cesa3.org
- Allison Pierce, SLP Facilitator | apierce@cesa3.org
Calling all bookworms!
Join us for CESA 3 Lit Wars where 4th and 5th grade students go head-to-head in a morning full of friendly literacy competition and fun! Students will be an “expert” in one title and compete with their grade level team to answer questions covering all six!
- Counting by 7’s by, Holly Goldberg Sloan
- And Then, Boom! by, Lisa Fipps
- Wonderstruck by, Brian Selznick
- Found by, Margaret Peterson
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham by, Christopher Paul Curtis
- Freewater by, Amina Luqman Dawson
3 Students/Grade Level Team
1 Grade Level Team/District
This event is FREE to GT Consortium Members
Are you ready to challenge your brain and have a blast at Puzzle Mania?
This exciting new event is for 6th grade students who love a good mystery and a clever riddle. Work in teams to solve brain teasers, logic puzzles, and riddles that will test your thinking skills and creativity.
- 5 students/district
- 6th Grade
**Open to CESA 3 GT Consortium Members
Join us for CESA 3’s first GEOBee Competition!
6th grade students will put their geography knowledge to the test at CESA 3’s first ever GEOBee!
Participants will answer questions about countries, capitals, landmarks, cultures, and more in this fun and challenging competition.
**Open to CESA 3 GT Consortium Members
Are you an educator who teaches students in grades 3-12? Are you looking for ways to increase, improve, and support the development of students’ writing abilities?
Keys to Content Writing provides professional development for research-based best practices for writing instruction that can be integrated in any subject and aligned to state literacy standards. Participants learn practical strategies for teaching writing skills, how to use writing to support content learning, and how to provide scaffolds to students who need support.
The asynchronous course takes approximately 12 hours to complete and a training manual is included. The topics/modules include:
- Writing Basics
- Quick Writes
- Sentences and Paragraphs
- The Writing Process
- Summary Writing
- Three Types of Writing (informational, opinion/argument, narrative)
- Writing from Sources
*Additionally, this exclusive cohort will have access to four LIVE 1-hour facilitated sessions to expand on the course modules, collaborate with other CESA 3 educators, and bring this learning into action. Can’t make it to a session? They will be recorded and shared out.
Link to the course schedule
Interested in joining? Don’t wait! There is a maximum of 12 participants for this cohort.
See you there!
Jim Addison
Join us for The Anxious Generation, a FREE, three-part series exploring Jonathan Haidt’s book and research on the rise of students’ anxiety and mental health concerns, along with discussion around “the great rewiring” of students’ brains. Participants will discover how more restricted play and increased screen time has influenced student well-being and learning, and discuss ways to take collective action.
While reading the book alongside our discussions is encouraged, it is not required– you are welcomed to join either way!
FREE for CESA 3 Schools! Non-CESA 3 Schools: only $75.
Safe and Healthy Schools Members and Project AWARE schools will receive a copy of the book for FREE!
Session dates
June 26, 2025- Part 1 & 2: A Tidal Wave and The Backstory (9-10am)
July 14, 2025- Part 3: The Great Rewiring (9-10am)
August 4, 2025- Part 4: Collective Action for Healthier Childhood (9-10am)
The Annual Inclusive Youth Leadership Bootcamp is designed to teach youth essential leadership skills through hands-on activities and problem-solving exercises. The day is filled with unforgettable and fun-filled opportunities for students to build their confidence, learn to trust themselves and others, and explore the art and science of leadership development.
Activities focus on Life Readiness Skills, such as:
- Trust Building
- Problem Solving
- Creating Positive Cultures
NEW THIS YEAR! Both dates will have a holiday celebration theme! We heard how hard it is to get away in the spring with older students, so we are doing back to back dates – less sub prep!
- Tuesday, December 2: Grades 4 – 7
- Wednesday, December 3: Grades 8 – 11
Each event begins at 9:30 am (arrival at 9:00 am) and concludes at 1:45 pm.
Attendance and Team Composition:
- Schools can bring up to two teams per event
- Each team consists of 6 students from the designated grade levels
- All students are welcome, including those who have attended previous years, to further develop their leadership skills in new team dynamics
- Each event has a capacity of 8 teams, and a minimum of 4 registered teams is required to hold the event
Registration Details:
- Registration deadline is Monday, November 17 at 5:00 pm
- Cost for each team registration: $300
- There may be funding opportunities available for different grade levels (please contact Rose Cutting to discuss further at rcutting@cesa3.org)
