Book Talks with Miss Molly and Bow Tie Guy

January 6, 2025 7:00 am
Monthly Recordings Available

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.

Purchasing a district license will give your whole school access to all the upcoming book talks for the remainder of the 2025 school year.

Enhancing Music Education with AI: Tools and Techniques for Modern Music Teachers

January 9, 2025 12:00 pm

Discover how artificial intelligence can transform your music classroom in this engaging one-hour webinar designed for music educators. Learn to leverage AI tools to enhance student creativity, simplify lesson planning, and foster collaboration.

We’ll dive into two powerful AI-driven tools: one for composing music in various styles and another for collaborative digital audio production. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, you’ll see how these tools can be seamlessly integrated into your teaching practice to inspire and engage students of all levels.

By the end of the session, you’ll gain actionable insights, hands-on techniques, and access to resources that will empower you to bring cutting-edge technology into your music education toolkit. Whether you’re tech-savvy or just beginning your journey with AI, this webinar is perfect for modern educators looking to stay ahead of the curve.

Key Takeaways:

  • Learn how AI tools can create personalized music exercises and compositions.
  • Explore collaborative and remote learning possibilities with AI-powered platforms.
  • Walk away with practical strategies and resources to integrate AI into your music curriculum.

Agenda

1. Welcome and Introduction (5 minutes)

  • Host introduction:
    • Brief background of the presenter (music educator/AI enthusiast).
    • Overview of the webinar objectives:
      • To explore two AI tools that can revolutionize music teaching.
      • To demonstrate their applications for student engagement and curriculum enhancement.
  • Outline of the session and housekeeping rules.

2. Exploring AI Tools for Music Teachers (20 minutes)

Tool 1: MuseNet (or Similar AI Composition Tool)

  • Introduction:
    • What it is: A deep-learning-based tool that generates music in various styles.
    • Why it matters: Enables personalized compositions for students and class activities.
  • Live Demonstration:
    • Showcase how to input parameters (e.g., style, tempo, instruments).
    • Generate a short piece of music in real-time.
  • Educational Applications:
    • Assigning creative composition tasks to students.
    • Creating custom backing tracks for performance or practice.

Tool 2: Soundtrap for Education (or AI-Based DAW)

  • Introduction:
    • What it is: An online, collaborative Digital Audio Workstation with AI features.
    • Why it matters: Facilitates collaborative learning and remote music projects.
  • Live Demonstration:
    • Record and edit a simple melody using AI-powered suggestions.
    • Demonstrate collaborative features by inviting participants to join a live project.
  • Educational Applications:
    • Promoting teamwork through group compositions.
    • Simplifying music production for students with limited experience.

3. Practical Applications in Music Education (20 minutes)

Creating Custom Lessons with AI:

  • Use AI tools to generate music exercises tailored to student skill levels.
  • Demonstrate creating a sight-reading exercise using AI-generated sheet music.

Enhancing Student Creativity:

  • Discuss how students can use MuseNet for improvisation and experimentation.
  • Explain how AI assists in teaching complex concepts like harmony and counterpoint.

Collaborative and Remote Learning:

  • Show how Soundtrap facilitates collaboration among students from different locations.
  • Suggest projects like “classroom symphony” where each student contributes a part.

4. Q&A Session and Wrap-Up (15 minutes)

  • Q&A Session:
    • Invite questions about the tools, their uses, and potential challenges.
  • Wrap-Up:
    • Recap key takeaways from the session.
    • Share resources: links to AI tools, tutorials, and articles.
    • Announce future workshops or available support for further training.

CESA 3 Speech and Language Pathologist Professional Development and Networking 1 of 3

January 22, 2025 11:30 am

11:30-2:30 pm- Lunch Provided

This is an opportunity for speech-language pathologists in the CESA 3 region to collaborate for discussion, education, and networking! SLPs will be provided with current information from DPI that is pertinent to SLP services.

$100/per person for the series (includes lunch/snacks)

 

Questions?

Lisa Aalgaard, CESA 3 RSN Director| laalgaard@cesa3.org

Allison Pierce, SLP Facilitator | apierce@cesa3.org

CESA 3 SLP Network #3

May 16, 2025 11:30 am

If you did not register for the series beginning on the 1/22/2025 Network Session.  Please email Renee Nelson at rnelson@cesa3.org to get added to the workshop.  $100 registration for the series.  See Description on 1/22/25.

Keys to Beginning Reading – Summer 2025 Cohort

June 9, 2025 8:30 am

What is this training?

This practical course provides the background knowledge needed to teach all the components of beginning reading instruction. The instructional practices are designed to easily transfer to classroom lessons and can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. 

This asynchronous course is broken into 11 asynchronous modules:

  • Module 1: Literacy Basics
  • Module 2: Oral Language
  • Module 3: Phonemic Awareness
  • Module 4: Phonics & Advanced Word Study
  • Module 5: Fluency
  • Module 6: Vocabulary
  • Module 7: Sentence Structure
  • Module 8: Text Structure
  • Module 9: Comprehension
  • Module 10: Reading Difficulties
  • Module 11: Reading Assessment

Who is this training beneficial for?

Any educator who teachers reading. While the content is designed for K-3 educators, educators outside of these grade levels may find this training to also be beneficial. Title funds may be utilized for staff outside of K-3.

Does this meet the Act 20 requirement? 

This training meets the K-3 professional development Act 20 requirement as this training is found on the CERI (Center for Effective Reading Instruction) approved list.

What are benefits of this training?

By working in a cohort with other CESA 3 educators, we aim to provide a collaborative and supportive space to share ideas and grow in our learning together. Our trainer, Jim Addison, brings his passion, experiences, and lifelong mission to improve literacy systems to facilitate 12 hours of course accelerators. In these accelerators, he aims to bring research to life and share how the information in the course can directly support educators of all age or grade levels.

How is the course set up? 

While the course itself is asynchronous, we have set the pacing up with the busy teacher in mind.

Modules 1-3 will be completed during our first in-person kickoff day at CESA 3 in addition to our facilitated sessions.

Modules 4-8 will be completed separately with two 2-hour sessions to review and extend the material.

Modules 9-11 will be completed on your own time and reviewed at our final in-person session.

 

Keys to Beginning Reading – Spring 2025 Cohort

January 27, 2025 8:30 am

What is this training?

This practical course provides the background knowledge needed to teach all the components of beginning reading instruction. The instructional practices are designed to easily transfer to classroom lessons and can be integrated with any reading curriculum or published reading program. 

This asynchronous course is broken into 11 asynchronous modules:

  • Module 1: Literacy Basics
  • Module 2: Oral Language
  • Module 3: Phonemic Awareness
  • Module 4: Phonics & Advanced Word Study
  • Module 5: Fluency
  • Module 6: Vocabulary
  • Module 7: Sentence Structure
  • Module 8: Text Structure
  • Module 9: Comprehension
  • Module 10: Reading Difficulties
  • Module 11: Reading Assessment

Who is this training beneficial for?

Any educator who teachers reading. While the content is designed for K-3 educators, educators outside of these grade levels may find this training to also be beneficial. Title funds may be utilized for staff outside of K-3.

Does this meet the Act 20 requirement? 

This training meets the K-3 professional development Act 20 requirement as this training is found on the CERI (Center for Effective Reading Instruction) approved list.

What are benefits of this training?

By working in a cohort with other CESA 3 educators, we aim to provide a collaborative and supportive space to share ideas and grow in our learning together. Our trainer, Jim Addison, brings his passion, experiences, and lifelong mission to improve literacy systems to facilitate 12 hours of course accelerators. In these accelerators, he aims to bring research to life and share how the information in the course can directly support educators of all age or grade levels.

How is the course set up? 

While the course itself is asynchronous, we have set the pacing up with the busy teacher in mind.

Modules 1-3 will be completed during our first in-person kickoff day at CESA 3 in addition to our facilitated sessions.

Modules 4-8 will be completed separately with four 1-hour sessions to review and extend the material.

Modules 9-11 can be completed on your own time, or during the morning of our final in-person session.

In total, this will only require you to miss two days from your classroom.

Taliesin Design Challenge (4-part series)

October 3, 2024 9:00 am

Students will explore Frank Lloyd Wright, his design philosophy, and his designs for small family homes and neighborhoods from a century ago. Through individual and group design challenges, students will design and prototype their own small home for a pre-determined location appropriate for the 21st century.

 

 

RSN Meeting 4 at CESA 3 24-25

May 7, 2025 8:30 am

Join us for our combination RSN / DPI updates meeting in person at CESA 3 on May 7, 2025 from 9 to 3 (8:30 coffee and visit time!). The DPI portion of the day will only be 2 hours rather than 3 and starts at 10 am. If you won’t be able to come to CESA for the day, you will need to register and join the zoom from the link they will send you. Please join us via zoom as well before and/or after the DPI session if you can. The link is in the calendar invite.

Inclusive Youth Leadership Bootcamp – Grades 8-11

April 25, 2025 9:00 am

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
  • Teen Leadership Members will receive a $50 discount per team!

CESA 3 Annual Convention

August 5, 2025 6:00 pm
Section 116.02(1)(c), Wis.Stats., calls for the state superintendent to cause the convening of a convention annually on the day that the board of control holds its organizational meeting under s.116.02(1)(a), Wis.Stats., composed of representatives from each school board in the agency.
Each school board has statutory duty to appoint a member as its representative for the purpose of determining the composition of the board of control and to cause a convention to be convened in accordance with s.116.02, Wis.Stats.