Upcoming Events

SELPA Sponsored Parent Convening

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

March 3rd, 2025 - 6:00 pm

Join us for an informative convening where we will address key questions about school transitions, services, and district changes.

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Afterschool Special: Parent Consent/Notes/Emergency Circumstances

Virtual

March 5th, 2025 - 3:30 pm

In this series of virtual trainings, Sheri Roberge, ("Ace of SEIS"), and John Fischer, ("FAPE Guy"),  will provide a page by page interactive presentation about writing effective, legal, and error free IEPs. Typically, one page will be covered during each episode. This Episode covers Parent Consent, Notes, and Emergency Circumstances.  The link to participate will be sent the morning of the training.

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Afterschool Special Series: Individual Transition Planning

Virtual

March 19th, 2025 - 3:30 pm

In this series of virtual trainings, Sheri Roberge, ("Ace of SEIS"), and John Fischer, ("FAPE Guy"),  will provide a page by page interactive presentation about writing effective, legal, and error free IEPs. Typically, one page will be covered during each episode. This Episode covers Individual Transition Planning.  The link to participate will be sent the morning of the training.

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DTUG

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or Virtual

March 26th, 2025 - 9:00 am

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Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) - Training of Trainers

RESIG: 5760 Skylane Blvd, Windsor, CA 95492

April 1st, 2025 - 8:30 am

Good news: CPI is back in Sonoma County!  We've partnered with RESIG to provide another opportunity to offer instructor certification in Advanced Physical Skills. If your LEA does not otherwise use ProACT or Safety Care, we recommend you send at least one staff member to this training. 

 
Location: RESIG Offices 5760 Skylane Blvd, Windsor, CA 95492
Cost: $5649 new instructors* / $2249 renew *
When: Apr 1-4 new instructors / April 3-4 renew 8:30-4:30
Lunch: On your own
 
Once your staff member completes this training, they will be able to train the rest of your LEA staff.  In order to maintain their certification they will need to complete 4 trainings per year, then get re-certified after two years.
 
Please note that if you do not attend the event for any reason and are not able to arrange for someone else to take your place, your LEA will still be billed for the full amount.
 
*Discounts will be applied to schools that are RESIG members.

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Postsecondary Transition Planning: Building Bridges to the Future: IEP Strategies for Effective ITPs

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

April 4th, 2025 - 1:30 pm

This workshop will provide a comprehensive approach to creating and implementing effective Postsecondary Transition Plans, beginning as early as 8th grade, to ensure students are well-prepared for future success beyond the classroom.


Date: April 4, 2025
Time: 1:30 - 4pm
Location: SCOE
Presenter: Marybeth Sande

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Diagnostic Center North: When They Don't Show Up: Dealing with School Avoidance

Virtual

April 8th, 2025 - 1:30 pm

Presenter(s)

Intended Audience

  • School psychologists
  • Mental health professionals
  • Administrators
  • Teachers

There has been a steady increase in the number of students who are refusing to attend school. Chronic absenteeism and frequent tardies are significant problems that not only plague schools, but families as well. This training will help provide information on how to identify the reason(s) behind the student's school refusal (whether in person or while engaged in remote learning), and outline evidence-based practice interventions to help students return to class. Case examples will be offered to illustrate the various methods and intervention strategies. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their own case examples.

Participants Will

  • Learn how to identify reason(s) behind a student's school avoidance
  • Learn evidence-based strategies to help students return to class
  • Learn how to assemble an appropriate team to implement and monitor the transition plan

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Diagnostic Center North: Social Communication in School-Age Students- Part 1 of 2

Virtual

April 9th, 2025 - 12:30 pm

Presenter(s)

Intended Audience

  • Speech-language pathologists
  • Administrators
  • Special education teachers
  • School psychologists

Sessions

  • IN014: In-Person (3 hours)
  • IN032: Virtual session 1 of 2 (1.5 hours)
  • IN033: Virtual session 2 of 2 (1.5 hours)

George is having a hard time making friends. In conversations, he sometimes interrupts or changes the topic abruptly. He doesn't pick up on nonverbal cues and often misinterprets his classmates' intentions or feelings. In the classroom, he struggles to follow rules. He always seems to be in trouble. His classmates sometimes tease him. As part of an interprofessional team we are often asked to evaluate and intervene with students who, like George, struggle with social communication. This training will address what social communication is, how we assess it and evidence-based strategies for intervening. The training will focus on students who are in late elementary through high school.

Participants Will

  • Define social communication and its disorders
  • Describe assessment strategies for students' social communication
  • Explain how to implement evidence-based interventions for students who struggle with social communication
  • Work as part of an interprofessional team to address social communication

A Certificate of Completion is available for virtual trainings, in-person trainings, Special Training Opportunities and Technical Assistance Projects. This may be used to document professional development hours or applied towards the credential requirements for Education Specialist Level II non-university activities.

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Afterschool Special Series: Q & A Forum

Virtual

April 16th, 2025 - 3:30 pm

Welcome to the final session of our virtual training series! Throughout this journey, Sheri Roberge, aka ‘Ace of SEIS,’ and John Fischer, aka ‘FAPE Guy,’ have walked you through creating effective, legal, and error-free IEPs, one page at a time. Now, it's time to wrap things up with a Q&A session—no specific page to cover, just a chance for you to ask all your burning questions! This is the last training in the series, so let's make it a great one!

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DTUG

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or Virtual

April 22nd, 2025 - 9:00 am

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Diagnostic Center North: Telling Stories in School with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) In Person

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

April 25th, 2025 - 9:00 am

Presenter(s)

Intended Audience

  • Speech-language pathologists
  • Special education teachers

Narrative skills are essential to both social and academic development, but these important skills are often overlooked for students who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), particularly when students are at the beginning stages of language development and device use. How can we support the development of these crucial skills in storytellers who use AAC? This session examines the importance and assessment of narrative skills for these students. Finally, we explore evidence-based interventions to support the telling of both personal and fictional narratives from the beginning levels of storytelling to development of episodic stories.

Participants Will

  • Describe the importance of narrative skills for the social and academic development of AAC users
  • Evaluate students' current level of narrative skills
  • Develop intervention plans to increase students' narrative skills

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Telling Stories in School with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) In Person

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403

April 25th, 2025 - 9:00 am

Date:  4/25/25
Time:  9:00 - 12:00
Format:  In-Person
Location: Sonoma County Office of Education
5340 Skylane Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
 

Presenter(s)

Intended Audience

  • Speech-language pathologists
  • Special education teachers

Narrative skills are essential to both social and academic development, but these important skills are often overlooked for students who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), particularly when students are at the beginning stages of language development and device use. How can we support the development of these crucial skills in storytellers who use AAC? This session examines the importance and assessment of narrative skills for these students. Finally, we explore evidence-based interventions to support the telling of both personal and fictional narratives from the beginning levels of storytelling to development of episodic stories.

Participants Will

  • Describe the importance of narrative skills for the social and academic development of AAC users
  • Evaluate students' current level of narrative skills

 

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Diagnostic Center North: Social Communication in School-Age Students- Part 2 of 2

Virtual

April 29th, 2025 - 12:30 pm

Presenter(s)

Intended Audience

  • Speech-language pathologists
  • Administrators
  • Special education teachers
  • School psychologists

Sessions

  • IN014: In-Person (3 hours)
  • IN032: Virtual session 1 of 2 (1.5 hours)
  • IN033: Virtual session 2 of 2 (1.5 hours)

George is having a hard time making friends. In conversations, he sometimes interrupts or changes the topic abruptly. He doesn't pick up on nonverbal cues and often misinterprets his classmates' intentions or feelings. In the classroom, he struggles to follow rules. He always seems to be in trouble. His classmates sometimes tease him. As part of an interprofessional team we are often asked to evaluate and intervene with students who, like George, struggle with social communication. This training will address what social communication is, how we assess it and evidence-based strategies for intervening. The training will focus on students who are in late elementary through high school.

Participants Will

  • Define social communication and its disorders
  • Describe assessment strategies for students' social communication
  • Explain how to implement evidence-based interventions for students who struggle with social communication
  • Work as part of an interprofessional team to address social communication

A Certificate of Completion is available for virtual trainings, in-person trainings, Special Training Opportunities and Technical Assistance Projects. This may be used to document professional development hours or applied towards the credential requirements for Education Specialist Level II non-university activities.

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DTUG

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or Virtual

May 21st, 2025 - 9:00 am

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DTUG

SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or Virtual

June 17th, 2025 - 9:00 am

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