Sangamon-Menard County Regional Office of Education

05/13/2026

Read at Your Pace. Reflect With Purpose. Earn While You Learn.

05/13/2026

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.

05/13/2026

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!

05/13/2026

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! 🍎💡

05/13/2026

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

10/03/2025

ROE 51 & The Learning Technology Center (LTC) present the AI Summit

Please join ROE 51 & The LTC for the AI Summit on Friday, October 10 at the Capital Area Career Cen...

08/21/2025

Classroom Management with Dr. Cathleen Weber

Join ROE 51 for a fun professional development event great for any teacher at the Classroom Managem...

07/25/2025

BUILDING TRADES CAREER DAY

Save the Date The Building Trades Career Day will be held on November 18, 2025 from 9:00 AM - 3:00...