
De-escalation training with Dr. Stacy Moore

Area teachers hard at work during RISE training with instructor Pattie Wheeler

The January RISE Newsletter is now available!! Be sure and share with your students!! Happy New Year!!!!
Here is the link to get your copy!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pAJ3Fxe3IqwLut3Q-ZgNzVGxl337YrtU/view?usp=sharing


Several of the Coop staff participated in the Great Gift Exchange sponsored by PACE Industries , along with A Level Up, to provide Christmas presents, food, and a fun evening for some students in our area. What a fun and rewarding time to help others in our community during the Christmas season!!



Don't forget that the December RISE Newsletter is available and ready to get it in the hands of your students!! Lots of great ideas!! Give the gift of reading!!! Here is the link to get your copy.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YyknJY3HJwWHW0icOGovBjLdZp9HCHn4/view?usp=sharing


Several teachers participated in the Level 11 assessment training recently at OUR!! Stacy Mahurin did an amazing job and provided a great day of learning for us!!!




Thank you and congratulations to all who helped and participated in the OUR Elementary Chess tournament this year! Here are your team and individual winners!

These teachers invested a day in RISE 3-6 training today and head back into the classroom tomorrow with new tools to support phonemic awareness to the advanced level. Lots of learning and little time for taking photos, but this one was taken at the end of the day, as teachers logged into Kahoot on their devices.


Group 2, in RISE K-2, completed Day 6 and the Academy!! Participants spent this day learning lots about comprehension as a process and ways to support better understanding in the classroom! I am so proud of this group of educators and look forward to watching them continue to grow!!
#RISEArkansas



Group 1, in RISE K-2, completed Day 6 and the RISE Academy!! Participants spent this day learning lots about comprehension as a process and ways to support better understanding in the classroom! I am so proud of this group of educators and look forward to watching them continue to grow!!
#RISEArkansas




Special Education Supervisors from the OUR Co-op area met today for collaboration on best practices in supporting students with IEPs.



G/T Coordinators collaborating on completing the application for the ACT 56 Outstanding GT Program Award.


K-2 RISE Day 6 particpants learning about best practices in supporting reading comprehension.




Hot off the Press! Wednesday OUR Cooperative 4th-12th grade math & science teachers & students can zoom with engineers from TESLA & NASA & more...
This zoom event is "FREE". See the link for more details! https://rb.gy/rrmbby

3 out of the 11 ArACTE Leadership Fellows are from our co-op area! We are proudly supporting the professional development of Ms. Capps (Kingston), Mr. Hendrix (Marshall), and Mrs. Waters (Alpena) through Perkins grant funding. Wish them well as they attend the national ACTE conference in Las Vegas this month!

Dr. Fowler and Literacy Specialists joined Traci Holland and Tricia Kerr in a visit to the Green Forest District. The visit was to focus on the ELL population and how to support them better in literacy instruction. Thank you to all those who participated in this visit. What a great day!!


Great visit with Deputy Commissioner, Stacy Smith, and her Coop Evaluation Team!


Don't miss out on the opportunity to participate in Accurate Administering and Scoring of Formal Assessments!! This is a day that is going to support our work in the identification process for Dyslexia Programs!! Our presenter will be Stacey Mahurin. Here is the link to get signed up!! We look forward to seeing you there!!!
https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=490272

K-2 Literacy just completed Day 5 of RISE Academy!! Teachers have been learning about the importance of oral language, vocabulary, and morphology!! These teachers are working hard to bring the Science of Reading alive in their classrooms!!! Keep up the good work!!!
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And congratulations to our High School Chess Top 3! Thank you to all who participated in the OUR Junior High and Senior High chess tournament! We hope to see you again next year!