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"Tap into Tools" Conference
Whether you have an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, smartphone or any device with Internet access (yes, including a computer), there are numerous apps available to enhance your productivity and your professional learning, as well as enriching instruction and student learning. This conference will highlight some of the myriad of tools and applications available and showcase the ways they are being used in today's classrooms and schools.
Featuring Keynote Presentation:
Leslie Fisher's
Tips & Tricks on iEverything & More
 Have an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and find keeping up to date with all of the new application releases daunting? How about knowing the best tips and tricks out there? This session will start with an overview of top accessories for your iOS device followed by demonstrations of applications perfect for education as well as personal productivity. We will overview some tips and tricks as well as the best places to keep up to date with the latest education app releases. If time remains we will have a birds of a feather session sharing our favorite apps.
Concurrent sessions:
- The Good, Bad and Ugly: Taking Digital Pictures Effectively
- Why We All Need to be Participants
- iShare - Expressive Language Apps for All
- What, Why and How to Use Technology in Your Classroom
- Moving Ahead with Technology in Schools
- Twitter Basics
- Technology on a Shoe String
- Making Text Come Alive
Date: Monday, November 7, 2011
Time: 9:00 to 2:30 (8:30 registration)
Cost: $129 early-bird ($150 after October 19th)
Register online: http://tinyurl.com/ncesconf (Pay by MC/Visa/AMEX/Discover though PayPal - PayPal account not required. Checks may be mailed.)
Register by phone: Call NCES at 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437 between 8:00-4:00.
Deadline: Register by October 28th. Space limited to 120 participants.
Location: 
Hotel accommodations available at a reduce rate of $139 plus tax. Contact the Mountain View Grand directly for reservations.
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Nancibell's Visualizing and Verbalizing
A two-day workshop presenting:
1) the theory regarding the relationship of concept imagery to language comprehension
2) the practice of the specific steps of the Nancibell® Visualizing and Verbalizing® Program to develop oral and written language comprehension.
The Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®) workshop prepares participants to teach students to image concepts and apply that imagery to higher order thinking skills. Highly interactive with videos and practice sessions, the V/V® workshop will take participants from verbalizing pictures to visualizing and verbalizing gestalts for critical thinking and content application.
Date: Tuesday, November 8 and Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Time: 8:00 to 4:30
Location: North Country Education Services, Gorham, NH
Cost: $649 (includes manual, refreshments and lunch)
Deadline: Monday, October 24
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School Leaders Academy for the Common Core State Standards
New Hampshire’s recent adoption of the Common Core State Standards provides opportunities for districts and schools to focus student achievement on standards that build toward college and career readiness. This workshop is designed to assist school leaders with a toolkit to roll out the Common Core State Standards with their staff.
As a result of this workshop, participants will:
- Develop a timeline for their school’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
- Engage with toolkit components designed to model faculty learning activities in “rolling out” the Common Core State Standards.
- Build critical background information of the Common Core States Standards and supporting documents.
- School leaders will leave this workshop with a plan to support their staff’s growth in working with and understanding the Common Core State Standards.
Presenter: Rob Hanson
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Time: 9:00 to 3:30 (8:30 registration)
Cost: $90 Member school staff, $99 Associate Members, $108 Others
Register: Click here to register online or call NCES at 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437 between 8:00-4:00.
Deadline: Register by October 18th.
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Bicycling 1-2-3 Instructor Training
The Bike-Walk Alliance of NH (BWA-NH) is pleased to offer a Safe Routes to School-funded “Train the Trainers” program for elementary school faculty members wishing to promote standardized and sustainable bicycling education. For full description visit http://www.ncedservices.org/profdev.htm#bike.
Cost: For school personnel working directly with grades 4 and/or 5, there is no charge (this can include classroom teachers, nurses, PE teachers, Guidance, Special Ed, or even paraprofessionals or principals). Others, including non-school personnel, may attend for a fee of $40 payable to the BWA-NH.
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 from 3:00 to 6:00 PM
Location: NCES, 300 Gorham Hill Road, Gorham, NH
Registration: Contact Dave Topham at 603.898.9926 or dave@bwanh.org
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Military Culture 101
Children face enormous challenges when a family member is deployed to active duty in a "combat zone." Every day, they may have more to do or fewer opportunities to play ball because the family member is away. Every night, the news reminds them that their loved one may not come home. And the family member staying at home may be under additional stress creating an environment that is quite different from what these children have had before. Military 101 provides information to school personnel on what these children and their families face and how this can impact the life of the child and what it can mean to the child's education.
Dates: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Repeated: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Repeated: Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Time: 8:30 to 12:30
Cost: Free
Register: Please call NCES at 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437
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Reintegration and Special Topics: NH National Guard Follow Up
For those individuals who have already participated in a "Military 101" training (including those who attended the morning session), this session is designed and focused on the return of the Brigade and how it impacts the children.
Special topics include (but are not limited to):
- Reintegration
- Dual deployments of both parents
- The dynamics of being a "step" family
Dates: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Repeated: Thursday, February 2, 2012
Repeated: Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Time: 1:20 to 3:45
Cost: Free
Register: Please call NCES at 800-268-5437 or 603-466-5437
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NC MIDDLE SCHOOL FILM FESTIVAL
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Guidelines for the 2nd annual film festival to be announced soon
NCES was recently awarded funding through the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to support the middle school film festival. As soon as we secure matching funds, we will be releasing the guidelines for this year's competition and festival.
The categories we are seeking matching funds are for trophies, awards, refreshments and to bring a professional filmmaker to 3 sites to work with students. Please contact Lori Langlois at 603.466.5437 or lori@ncedservices.org should you have suggestions or interest in co-sponsorship of the event.
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Contact Info
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Directions to NCES
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