Starts: 8:00 am

Starts: May 10, 2013

Ends: May 10, 2013 - 9:00 am

Location: Room 10 of the State Office Building

Description: The first conference committee meeting (regarding high stakes testing legislation) is scheduled for Friday, May 10, at 8 am in Room 10 of the State Office Building.

We encourage you to be in contact with your legislators regarding the elimination of the GRAD tests and any other items in the bills you feel strongly about. Make your voice heard!

Visit for more information: http://www.mspaonline.net/2013/05/09/legislative-update-5-8-2013/

Starts: 10:00 am

Starts: May 14, 2013

Ends: May 14, 2013 - 11:30 am

Location: http://psychcorp.pearsonassessments.com/pai/ca/training/webinars/Cause-and-Effect-Webinar.htm

Description: Free webinar!
To Register:
http://psychcorp.pearsonassessments.com/pai/ca/training/webinars/Cause-and-Effect-Webinar.htm

Meeting Description:
This webinar will provide educators and psychologists with an overarching framework for effectively diagnosing and treating reading comprehension disorders in children. There will be an overview of reading from a brain-based educational perspective, as well as a review of the neural underpinnings of literacy in children. Specific emphasis will be placed on frontal lobe functions such as executive functioning and working memory as the primary cognitive constructs that allow children to hold, manipulate, and self organize verbal information in an archived manner for more effective recall. Scores of evidenced based interventions will be
shared including specific reading comprehension programs, as well as classroom strategies and accommodations. Lastly, specific case studies should provide participants with a better understanding of how various tests of memory, language, intellectual functioning, and executive functioning can be integrated to pinpoint common reading pitfalls that hinder literacy outcomes.

Starts: 10:00 am

Starts: May 16, 2013

Ends: May 16, 2013 - 11:30 am

Location: Dial-In Number(s): See Invitation

Description: Free Webinar!
To Register go to this site and scroll down to May Webinars:
http://psychcorp.pearsonassessments.com/pai/ca/training/webinars/Cause-and-Effect-Webinar.htm

Meeting Description:
This presentation will discuss how executive functions are involved in directing and coordinating the use of multiple cognitive capacities to read words and connected text passages, discuss assessment approaches (with an emphasis on the PAL-II) for identifying executive function-related reading problems, and discuss teaching strategies for helping students compensate for the effects of executive function difficulties.

Starts: 9:00 am

Starts: May 17, 2013

Ends: May 17, 2013 - 12:00 pm

Location: Metropolitan State University, Midway Campus in St. Paul, MN

Description: Minnesota Psychological Association presents:

Addressing Bullying and Related Problems in Children and Adolescents

When: May 17th, 2013
Where: Metropolitan State University, Midway Campus in St. Paul, MN

About the Program:
This presentation aims to help participants understand the complex factors that often contribute to bullying and the problems that are commonly experienced by children and adolescents who are involved in bullying as aggressors, victims, or both. Participants will learn about school, group, and individual approaches to preventing and treating bullying and victimization, with emphasis on working with individual children and adolescents involved in bullying.

Participants will:
1. Gain understanding about the complex factors that can contribute to bullying problems.
2. Understand problems commonly experienced by children and adolescents who are involved in bullying as aggressors, victims, or both.
3. Become familiar with the characteristics of school-based programs that are successful in reducing bullying.
4. Learn evidence-based approaches to psychological assessment and intervention when working with children and adolescents in bullying.

Click here for more information and to register! http://www.mnpsych.org/event-registration?regevent_action=register&event_id=12

Starts: 2:00 pm

Starts: May 23, 2013

Ends: May 23, 2013 - 3:00 pm

Location: http://nasp.inreachce.com/Details?mediaType=bae80c37-9ab1-49da-b01a-1b5db926a477&groupId=584583fa-9638-4e21-b7cb-0428ffe6e8a4

Description: NASP Webinar: What School Psychologists Need to Know about Law and Electronic CommunicationWhen: 5/23/2013
Time: 2pm-3pm Central
Cost: $20 for NASP members; $30 for non-members
More information & to register: http://nasp.inreachce.com/Details?mediaType=bae80c37-9ab1-49da-b01a-1b5db926a477&groupId=584583fa-9638-4e21-b7cb-0428ffe6e8a4

Meets Ethics/Legal Regulation and School Psychology CPD Requirement for NCSPs:
E-mail, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and other forms of electronic communication make it easier for educators to communicate with their colleagues and with students and parents. However, significant legal issues arise when educators use these forms of communication as some schools have discovered too late. School attorney Karen Haase will review recent legal decisions involving electronic communication and will provide practice suggestions on how to avoid legal problems while still using these technologies.