The Power of Progressions: Untangling the Knotty Areas of Teaching and Learning Mathematics

March 10, 2026 8:00 am

Teaching mathematics is about more than just isolated lessons and topics to cover—it’s about building progressions that move students’ thinking forward and reveal the deep connections between concepts. In this session, we’ll explore how problem-based lessons can be intentionally sequenced across a unit to develop understanding that builds over time. By identifying strategies and engaging with tasks, we’ll examine how to create a coherent learning experience that balances application, conceptual understanding, and procedural fluency.

Participants will:
 Unpack the importance of application, conceptual learning, and procedural fluency and their role in moving student thinking through a mathematical progression.
 Engage in grade-appropriate 3-act tasks and understand how implementing low-entry, high-scalability tasks can reach all students. Participants will identify when and how these lessons can be used throughout the scope of a unit.
 Understand how problem-based lessons can be used within the instructional framework (opening, work session, close) and the purposeful moves required to orchestrate an effective closing session.
 Understanding the meaning of fluency and how it should be built through context.
 Unpack the components of a lesson string and the role coherence plays in building meaningful fluency.

 

 

Coaching Beyond the Game: A One-Day Summit for Building Student Engagement, Character, and Excellence in Education-Based Athletics

July 22, 2025 8:15 am

📅 Date: July 22, 2025
📍 Location: CESA #3
💰 Cost: $200
🎤 Keynote Speaker: Geoff Steinbach, former athletic director, Arrowhead High School

About the Workshop

Coaching Beyond the Game is a one-day professional learning series designed for coaches, athletic directors, and school administrators who want to strengthen their programs through evidence-based coaching practices.

Athletic coaching goes far beyond wins and losses—it’s about shaping students into resilient, engaged, and successful individuals. This workshop will tackle critical challenges in interscholastic athletics, including:

✔️ Communication across programs, parents, and schools
✔️ Fostering a positive team culture
✔️ Reducing bullying and negative behaviors
✔️ Recruiting and retaining student-athletes
✔️ Defining success beyond the scoreboard

Through expert-led sessions, interactive discussions, and hands-on strategy-building, you’ll leave with practical tools to elevate your coaching approach.

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Details Price Qty
Coaching Beyond the Gameshow details + $200.00 USD  ea 

What You’ll Learn

  • Strategies for engaging and retaining student-athletes
  • Techniques for difficult conversations with students and families
  • Ways to foster a culture of winning and losing with grace
  • How to develop a coaching playbook aligned with your program’s vision and values

Who Should Attend?

  • Coaches and Advisors (Varsity, JV, Youth, Club)
  • Athletic Directors
  • School Administrators
  • Leaders invested in student success through athletics

Keynote Speaker: Geoff Steinbach, Retired Activities Director, Arrowhead High School

Geoff Steinbach is a distinguished leader in athletic administration and coaching, with a career spanning over five decades in Wisconsin and beyond. A dedicated advocate for student-athletes and coaches, Geoff has served in numerous leadership roles, including President of the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association (WADA), President of the Wisconsin Track Coaches Association, and a founding facilitator of the National Senate of Track Coaches Associations.

His impact extends to shaping state and national athletic programs, serving as a liaison to the WIAA Board of Control, and coordinating one of the most respected track coaches’ clinics in the country. Throughout his tenure as an Activities Director and Athletic Director, Geoff fostered excellence in school athletics, mentoring countless athletes and coaches. His contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including induction into the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association Hall of Fame (2025) and the Arrowhead High School Hall of Fame (2015).

A lifelong educator, Geoff earned his M.S. in Physical Education Administration from California State University, Long Beach, and a B.S. in Physical Education and U.S. History from Carroll College. Even in retirement, he remains actively involved in coaching, professional development, and supporting the next generation of athletic leaders.

📝 Register Today!

Details Price Qty
Coaching Beyond the Gameshow details + $200.00 USD  ea 

SCHEDULE
8:15 – 8:45 AM: OPENING SESSION

  • Workshop introduction and objectives
  • The impact of athletic participation on student success, K-12 and beyond
  • The importance of cultivating a coaching mindset, not just Xs and Os

9:00 – 10:15 AM: FOUNDATIONS OF COACHING (ROUND 1)

  • Session 1: Responsive Coaching Practices for Positive Outcomes
  • Session 2: Understanding and Supporting the Whole Student-Athlete
  • Session 3: Program Development: Recruiting and Retaining Athletes

10:30 – 11:45 AM: DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR SUPPORTIVE COACHING (ROUND 2)

  • Session 4: Effective Communication with Students, Parents, and Community
  • Session 5: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Athletes and Families
  • Session 6: Redefining Success: Winning and Losing with Grace

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM: LUNCH

12:45 – 2:00 PM: BUILDING AND ASSESSING YOUR PROGRAM (ROUND 3)

  • Session 7: Creating Your Performance Coaching Playbook
  • Session 8: Aligning Program Vision, Values, and Actions
  • Session 9: Supporting Coach Professional Growth

2:15 – 3:00 PM: CLOSING KEYNOTE WITH GEOFF STEINBACH, FORMER ATHLETIC DIRECTOR AT ARROWHEAD HIGH SCHOOL

  • The power of extracurricular activities in student development
  • “Winning kids through sports” – beyond wins and losses
  • The lasting impact of effective coaching

WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL GAIN

  • Practical strategies to build more consistent athletic programs
  • Tools for effective communication with student-athletes and families
  • Methods to align program values with coaching practices
  • Resources from WIAA and professional coaching organizations

Register today to transform your coaching system and build programs that develop successful student-athletes both on and off the field!

Details Price Qty
Coaching Beyond the Gameshow details + $200.00 USD  ea 

Generative AI Leadership Academy (Spring Cohort 2026)

January 1, 2026 3:30 pm
  • Join our comprehensive 6-week online micro-credential program designed to equip educational professionals with the knowledge, strategies, and resources to train and support educators in foundational Generative AI Literacy effectively. This program combines structured learning, live interaction, and practical application to help participants confidently integrate AI tools into their educational practice.

 

  • Through 4 live webinars, a comprehensive workbook, and a final project, you’ll gain the skills and insights needed to make AI a meaningful part of your teaching toolkit. Participants who complete the cohort and final project will earn an email badge and a certificate of completion as recognition of their efforts and expertise.

 

 

 

  • Webinars:
    • Webinar 1: January 14, 2026
      Kick-off & Generative AI Fundamentals
    • Webinar 2: January 28, 2026
      Building Educators’ AI Literacy
    • Webinar 3: February 4, 2026
      Instructional Applications and Strategies with GenAI
    • Webinar 4: February 11, 2026
      Preparing to Foster AI Literacy in Students and Educators

Generative AI Leadership Academy (Fall Cohort 2025)

September 1, 2025 3:30 pm
  • Join our comprehensive 6-week online micro-credential program designed to equip educational professionals with the knowledge, strategies, and resources to train and support educators in foundational Generative AI Literacy effectively. This program combines structured learning, live interaction, and practical application to help participants confidently integrate AI tools into their educational practice.

 

  • Through 4 live webinars, a comprehensive workbook, and a final project, you’ll gain the skills and insights needed to make AI a meaningful part of your teaching toolkit. Participants who complete the cohort and final project will earn an email badge and a certificate of completion as recognition of their efforts and expertise.

 

 

 

  • Webinars:
    • Webinar 1: September 17, 2025
      Kick-off & Generative AI Fundamentals
    • Webinar 2: October 1, 2025
      Building Educators’ AI Literacy
    • Webinar 3: October 8, 2025
      Instructional Applications and Strategies with GenAI
    • Webinar 4: October 15, 2025
      Preparing to Foster AI Literacy in Students and Educators

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.

 

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.

3rd Annual Paraprofessional Summit

August 19, 2025 8:30 am

Are you looking for effective strategies for supporting students while maintaining a calm and positive demeanor? Join us for Love and Logic® Training designed specifically for paraprofessionals! 

This year’s training with Paul Gasser is designed just for you—with a fresh focus on behavior and building strong relationships with students! Instead of multiple breakout sessions, you  will spend the day learning how to:


 ✨ Strengthen your connections with students
 ✨ Learn strategies to manage challenging behaviors with confidence
 ✨ Set firm but loving boundaries while staying calm
 ✨ Reduce power struggles and classroom disruptions

Paraprofessionals play a key role in student success, and this training will equip you with practical, easy-to-use tools to make your job easier and more rewarding.

Empower yourself, enrich your skills, and transform your professional practice.

 

Love and Logic is a classroom management and discipline approach designed to help educators create a positive learning environment while teaching students responsibility, self-regulation, and problem-solving skills. It was developed by Jim Fay and Dr. Charles Fay and is widely used in schools to manage behavior effectively.

Key Principles of Love and Logic

  1. Shared Control – adults and students share control of decisions, fostering responsibility and self-regulation.
  2. Shared Thinking & Decision-Making – Instead of imposing rules, students are encouraged to think critically about their choices and consequences.
  3. Natural Consequences – Students experience the natural outcomes of their actions in a supportive environment.
  4. Empathy Before Consequences – adults show empathy rather than anger when enforcing consequences, helping students learn from their mistakes rather than feeling punished.
  5. Building Positive Relationships – Strong adult-student relationships create a safe and respectful environment, reducing behavioral issues.

Strategies in the Classroom

  • Enforceable Statements: Instead of commands, adults phrase rules in a way that gives students choices (e.g., “I allow students to use class materials as long as they use them appropriately.”).
  • Delaying Consequences: Instead of reacting emotionally, adults take time to think before giving a consequence, allowing for more thoughtful discipline.
  • Setting Limits with Choices: Offering choices within limits helps students feel in control while still following expectations (e.g., “Would you rather complete your work now or during recess?”).
  • Using Empathy, Not Anger: A calm, empathetic response to misbehavior helps students reflect on their choices (e.g., “That’s so sad. I see you chose to break a rule. How do you think we can fix this?”).

Benefits of Love and Logic in Schools

  • Reduces power struggles and adult stress.
  • Encourages students to take responsibility for their actions.
  • Helps create a respectful, positive classroom climate.
  • Improves student self-regulation and problem-solving skills.


Agenda

  • 8:30 AM: Registration
  • 9:00 AM: Welcome and Morning Session
  • 11: 30 AM: Lunch
  • 12:30 PM: Afternoon Session
  • 2:45 PM: Closing
  • 3:00 PM: Conference Completed