Youth Mental Health First Aid is design for adults who support youth- parents, teachers, school support staff, community members.
Sign up today for a session that works for your schedule!
Sign up today for a session that works for your schedule!
What if small shifts could lead to big gifts—for yourself, your students, and your school community? Join fellow educators for a year-long exploration of Teach Happier This School Year, a practical and inspiring guide to finding greater joy, balance, and fulfillment in education through intentional, manageable changes!
Meeting quarterly throughout the school year, participants will examine how small adjustments in mindset, habits, relationships, and daily routines can have a powerful impact on personal well-being and professional satisfaction. Through collaborative discussion and reflection, educators will explore research-based strategies for reducing stress, increasing resilience, strengthening relationships, and creating a more positive teaching experience.
A key component of this book study is a year-long reflection journal. Participants will respond to guided prompts, document their learning, reflect on the implementation of new practices, and track how small shifts influence their well-being and effectiveness throughout the school year. Journal submissions throughout the year will encourage meaningful reflection and sustained growth between meetings.
Ideal for: Teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, school counselors, and other school staff who want to invest in their own well-being while enhancing their impact on students and school culture.
Meeting quarterly throughout the school year, participants will examine how small adjustments in mindset, habits, relationships, and daily routines can have a powerful impact on personal well-being and professional satisfaction. Through collaborative discussion and reflection, educators will explore research-based strategies for reducing stress, increasing resilience, strengthening relationships, and creating a more positive teaching experience.
A key component of this book study is a year-long reflection journal. Participants will respond to guided prompts, document their learning, reflect on the implementation of new practices, and track how small shifts influence their well-being and effectiveness throughout the school year. Journal submissions throughout the year will encourage meaningful reflection and sustained growth between meetings.
Ideal for: Teachers, instructional coaches, administrators, school counselors, and other school staff who want to invest in their own well-being while enhancing their impact on students and school culture.
Build the skills and mindset needed to create stronger relationships, foster belonging, and respond to conflict in ways that strengthen rather than divide school communities. This five-session learning series provides educators with a comprehensive introduction to restorative practices and practical strategies for implementation in classrooms, schools, and student support systems.
School Administrators and School-Based Mental Health Professionals, join experts from the Center for Childhood Resilience!
Come learn, reflect, share ideas, and leave with practical strategies you can use right away. Together, we'll explore how teaching regulation and relationships can create the conditions for deeper learning.
Join ROE 51 for a year of self paced professional learning through thought provoking books, podcasts, and films of your choice! $30 a title, earn 10 credits per choice! New titles available after Thanksgiving.
Read at Your Pace. Reflect With Purpose. Earn While You Learn.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month
Becoming a youth Mental Health First Aider isn't just for teachers. Anyone who interacts with children will benefit from the skills and information learned in this course.
Please register June 8 so you have time to complete the pre work needed before the class meets on June 15.
Becoming a youth Mental Health First Aider isn't just for teachers. Anyone who interacts with children will benefit from the skills and information learned in this course.
Please register June 8 so you have time to complete the pre work needed before the class meets on June 15.
SEL isn't one more thing! Join us to see how to integrate SEL skills into your classroom, or be reassured that you are meeting these standards with what you already do in the classroom!
June 22, 2026
Earn PD hours in the morning and relax all afternoon!
June 22, 2026
Earn PD hours in the morning and relax all afternoon!
Ready to transform your classroom?
Join Stephanie Brown on June 24 for a dynamic training on creating a brain-based classroom!
Learn practical strategies to:
✨ Use brain breaks with purpose
✨ Calm the nervous system
✨ Help students regulate emotions
✨ Re-energize learners and increase focus
✨ Get students’ brains ready to learn
Walk away with engaging, ready-to-use ideas that support both student wellness and academic success! 🍎💡
Join Stephanie Brown on June 24 for a dynamic training on creating a brain-based classroom!
Learn practical strategies to:
✨ Use brain breaks with purpose
✨ Calm the nervous system
✨ Help students regulate emotions
✨ Re-energize learners and increase focus
✨ Get students’ brains ready to learn
Walk away with engaging, ready-to-use ideas that support both student wellness and academic success! 🍎💡
Join IESE Network for a Virtual Admin Academy:
(AA #3849) Changing School Culture Through the Teacher
Evaluation Process
(With a Focus on Supporting Special Educators)
If we are honest, evaluation has drifted in a lot of schools. It gets completed. It gets filed. It satisfies the requirement. But too often, it does not fundamentally sharpen instruction. This Administrator Academy is built around a simple premise: if we are going to spend this much time evaluating teachers, it should meaningfully improve practice. We will take a serious look at the instructional practices that matter most in special education classrooms and align them thoughtfully to the Danielson Framework. Not to add complexity. Not to create another initiative. But to make sure what we are observing, scripting, and discussing is actually connected to student growth.
When there is tight alignment between expectations, observation, and feedback, evaluation becomes a leadership tool. When there isn't, it becomes an annual exercise.
Learning Outcomes:
• Assess the current culture of observation and evaluation in their building and determine whether it is driving instructional growth or reinforcing compliance habits.
• Strengthen the connection between the instructional practices they expect to see and the framework they use to evaluate them.
• Examine their current evaluation process and identify where time is being invested well-and where it is not producing a meaningful return.
• Develop an observation approach that supports continued teacher growth while respecting the real time constraints administrators face.
• Guide teachers in building focused professional growth plans rooted in clearly defined, locally understood standards of proficient practice.
• Lead staff conversations that build shared clarity around what strong special education instruction looks like in their context.
• Use Al appropriately within the evaluation process to help organize evidence, surface patterns, and strengthen feedback, while keeping professional judgment and final decisions firmly in the hands of the evaluator.
If evaluation is going to take the time it takes, it should move the needle.
This session is designed to help you make sure that it does.
Space is limited! FREE!!!
June 10, 2026 9:00AM-12:00PM
Virtual Via Zoom
(AA #3849) Changing School Culture Through the Teacher
Evaluation Process
(With a Focus on Supporting Special Educators)
If we are honest, evaluation has drifted in a lot of schools. It gets completed. It gets filed. It satisfies the requirement. But too often, it does not fundamentally sharpen instruction. This Administrator Academy is built around a simple premise: if we are going to spend this much time evaluating teachers, it should meaningfully improve practice. We will take a serious look at the instructional practices that matter most in special education classrooms and align them thoughtfully to the Danielson Framework. Not to add complexity. Not to create another initiative. But to make sure what we are observing, scripting, and discussing is actually connected to student growth.
When there is tight alignment between expectations, observation, and feedback, evaluation becomes a leadership tool. When there isn't, it becomes an annual exercise.
Learning Outcomes:
• Assess the current culture of observation and evaluation in their building and determine whether it is driving instructional growth or reinforcing compliance habits.
• Strengthen the connection between the instructional practices they expect to see and the framework they use to evaluate them.
• Examine their current evaluation process and identify where time is being invested well-and where it is not producing a meaningful return.
• Develop an observation approach that supports continued teacher growth while respecting the real time constraints administrators face.
• Guide teachers in building focused professional growth plans rooted in clearly defined, locally understood standards of proficient practice.
• Lead staff conversations that build shared clarity around what strong special education instruction looks like in their context.
• Use Al appropriately within the evaluation process to help organize evidence, surface patterns, and strengthen feedback, while keeping professional judgment and final decisions firmly in the hands of the evaluator.
If evaluation is going to take the time it takes, it should move the needle.
This session is designed to help you make sure that it does.
Space is limited! FREE!!!
June 10, 2026 9:00AM-12:00PM
Virtual Via Zoom
ROE 51 and The Learning Technology Center are hosting the AI Summit on Friday, October 10.
Location: Capital Area Career Center (CACC)
Address: 2201 Toronto Rd. - Springfield, IL
Time: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Free professional development activity!
Register: AI Summit 2025 Registration Page (Opens new tab)
Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome
(PANS) and Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric
Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections
(PANDAS) are increasingly recognized as
underlying causes of sudden, severe changes in
behavior, mood, and function in children.
🧠 Explore. Understand. Regulate. Transform.
Join us for a FREE powerful professional learning experience that dives into the brain science behind childhood adversity and its impact on learning on Friday June 6, 2025!
✨ In this workshop, you will: 🔍 Explore the neuroscience of stress and trauma
📚 Understand how life circumstances affect the brain and behavior
🛠️ Practice brain-friendly strategies to support regulation
🏫 Create an optimal learning environment for all students
🎒 Takeaway a Regulation Toolbox full of ready-to-use classroom resources
Let’s work together to build classrooms where every student can thrive!
Our renewal open office hours scheduled for today, April 24, 2025, are cancelled. Please join us again on Thursday, May 8!
In the meantime, you can find helpful renewal information on our website under the License Renewal section.
Reminder: ROE 51 Renewal Open Office Hours now LIVE on Zoom from 2:00-3:30 pm today. If you need assistance renewing, please join the Zoom link below.
Zoom link: https://ltcillinois.zoom.us/j/7812479165
Through engaging discussions, interactive activities, and practical examples, participants will leave prepared to promote a culture of belonging and respect within their schools and communities.
Register today!
Join us for a free half day of learning about the brain! Gain insights into behavior and stress in your classroom while learning how to create the best environment for your students. Each participant will receive a kit full of tools to implement strategies!
ROE 51 is hosting Orton-Gillingham training this summer!
Today is the day!
Is your educator license due for renewal this year in your ELIS account? ROE 51 is offering virtual open office hours TODAY to assist you with renewing your educator license! Please join us from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm via Zoom if you need any renewal assistance in your ELIS account.
Please follow the link to join between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm:
https://ltcillinois.zoom.us/j/7812479165
