Behavior Systems Workshop

Join us to build a Better Behavior Management Strategy within your district. Participants

will learn some of the top barriers to preventing effective behavior management and

support—and learn how to better support both students behaviorally and make

educators feel and be more successful in supporting those students. Participants will

also receive assessment and reflection materials to help diagnose where they are

struggling the most and tools to help them improve in those areas.

RSN Meeting 4 at CESA 3 24-25

Join us for our combination RSN / DPI updates meeting in person at CESA 3 on May 7, 2025 from 9 to 3 (8:30 coffee and visit time!). The DPI portion of the day will only be 2 hours rather than 3 and starts at 10 am. If you won’t be able to come to CESA for the day, you will need to register and join the zoom from the link they will send you. Please join us via zoom as well before and/or after the DPI session if you can. The link is in the calendar invite.

RSN Meeting 3 at CESA 3

Join us for our combination RSN / DPI updates meeting in person at CESA 3 on February 19, 2025 from 9 to 3 (8:30 coffee and visit time!). The DPI portion of the day will only be 2 hours rather than 3 and starts at 10 am. If you won’t be able to come to CESA for the day, you will need to register and join the zoom from the link they will send you. Please join us via zoom as well before and/or after the DPI session if you can. The link is in the calendar invite.

Visual Learning Made Simple: Sketchnoting for Engaged and Inclusive Classrooms

teacher sketchnoting on whiteboard about science fair

The Sketchnote Workshop is designed to develop and to strengthen your visual thinking abilities. It will help you understand sketchnoting and strategies for teaching it to students. You will also explore ways to integrate sketchnoting into your class curriculum.

Benefits

teacher sketchnoting on whiteboard

  • Boost Engagement: Sketchnoting combines visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning, increasing student engagement and motivation to learn.
  • Improve Memory: Visual notes help organize and retain information more effectively, supporting better comprehension and recall.
  • Create Inclusive Classrooms: Sketchnoting offers alternative ways for students to demonstrate learning, making lessons more accessible.
  • Enable Differentiation: Teachers can use sketchnoting to personalize learning, offering various ways for students to interact with content.
  • Foster Creativity and Critical Thinking: Sketchnoting encourages creativity and helps students express complex ideas through simple visuals.

Workshop Overview

Mike Rohde presenting to teachers

  • 8:30-9:00 AM: Coffee & Check-in – Time to settle in before the workshop begins.
  • 9:00-10:00 AM: 5 Basic Elements + Exercise 1 (Treehouse) – Learn to draw using basic shapes and apply skills in a group activity. Share treehouse sketchnotes.
  • 10:00-10:15 AM: Break
  • 10:15-10:45 AM: Exercise 2 (Steve Jobs Commencement Address) – Sketchnote a video, followed by group sharing.
  • 10:45-11:00 AM: Break
  • 11:00-11:45 AM: Exercise 3 (Avocado Reading) – Sketchnote an article using templates, then share with the group.
  • 11:45 AM-12:30 PM: Lunch – Sketchnote your lunch.
  • 12:30-1:30 PM: Exercise 4 (Visual Vocabulary) – Build icon libraries for classroom use and share ideas.
  • 1:30-1:45 PM: Break
  • 1:45-2:45 PM: Exercise 5 (Creating Curriculum) – Collaborate on lesson plans and share in a gallery walk.
  • 2:45-3:00 PM: Break
  • 3:00-3:30 PM: Q&A and Application Discussion – Explore practical classroom applications. Stay for further questions.
Details Price Qty
One Day Workshopshow details + $250.00 USD  ea  Goes On Sale
September 23, 2024

Frequently Asked Questions

teacher standing next to her sketchnotes

“What if I can’t draw?”

No problem. The topics and exercises covered are designed for complete beginners with no prior experience. You will learn Mike’s approach to the basics of drawing.

“Where do I start?”

Mike will guide you through simple and fun exercises to build your sketchnoting skills. You will find with just a little practice that this is a skill you and your students can build.

“Will this be relevant to my instruction? Am I the right person to attend?”

Mike will offer tools and strategies to integrate sketchnotes into any classroom. If you have a positive attitude and are willing to experiment and share your work with a small group, you’re perfect for this workshop.

Bio

image of Mike Rohde

Mike Rohde is a designer and the author of two bestselling books: The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook. He teachers and evangelizes sketchnoting and visual thinking literacy around the world.

He’s a principal designer and visualizer at PKWARE. That team helps groups define problems and imagine new solutions using human-centered, design thinking principles.

Mike illustrated the bestselling books REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, and The Little Book of Talent.

He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and 3 children.

 

Testimonials

teachers sharing their sketchnotes

Teachers’ comments from past events:

“Mike was great to work with as we developed a strategy for helping our teachers learn how to sketchnote and to then teach their students how to use sketchnote techniques. We decided to provide notebooks to our conference attendees and then Mike’s keynote introduced the concepts and provided an opportunity for teachers to learn the basic skills. We then asked teachers to practice their new skills throughout the rest of the conference, including the workshop sessions Mike facilitated.”
— Carl McClendon, Lake Travis Independent School District

“Many teachers have sent me some informal Sketchnotes that they have been using personally and professionally. Your workshop was a hit with our Triple E team and I already have several requests to bring you back.”
— Kris Hanks, Anne Arundel School District, Annapolis, MD

“I’ve been pondering how to use sketchnotes in my classes. I now have a plan to introduce the concept to my classes and a way to utilize it to add to my students’ understanding.”
— An excited teacher at Lake Travis Independent School District

“What a great strategy I was able to share with my students today!”
— Jennifer Crackel, 4th grade, Fresno County Schools

Details Price Qty
One Day Workshopshow details + $250.00 USD  ea  Goes On Sale
September 23, 2024

Literacy Network Series

Join us for our Literacy Network Series where we’ll learn, collaborate, and network around all things literacy!  In addition to our learning, this year we will be reading the book, The Structured Literacy Planner (included in your registration).  Join us!

Inclusive Youth Leadership Bootcamp – Grades 8-11

Attendance and Team Composition:

  • Schools can bring up to two teams per event.
  • Each team consists of 6 students from the designated grade levels.
  • All students are welcome, including those who have attended previous years, to further develop their leadership skills in new team dynamics.
  • Each event has a capacity of 8 teams, and a minimum of 4 registered teams is required

Inclusive Youth Leadership Bootcamp – Grades 4-7

Attendance and Team Composition:

  • Schools can bring up to two teams per event.
  • Each team consists of 6 students from the designated grade levels.
  • All students are welcome, including those who have attended previous years, to further develop their leadership skills in new team dynamics.
  • Each event has a capacity of 8 teams, and a minimum of 4 registered teams is required

 

Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Refresher Training

Please note: This workshop is for those that have completed the initial training in the past and want to renew their certification.

Are you prepared for a potentially violent episode? If a student in your classroom were about to lose control, would you know how to react? Would you recognize the warning signs to de-escalate the individual before he/she became assaultive? If he/she did become physically assaultive, would you know how to protect yourself, bystanders and the acting out individual from injury?

With non-violent crisis intervention training you will learn how to recognize the signs of anxiety and pending disruption. You will learn proper verbal and nonverbal reactions that can interrupt the escalation and calm the situation before it gets out of hand.

Register early-Registration is limited to 20 participants

Cost: $125/Per Person

Materials and lunch are provided.
For further information, contact Jim Nelson via E-mail: jnelson@cesa3.org

CESA 3 Annual Convention

Section 116.02(1)(c), Wis.Stats., calls for the state superintendent to cause the convening of a convention annually on the day that the board of control holds its organizational meeting under s.116.02(1)(a), Wis.Stats., composed of representatives from each school board in the agency.
Each school board has statutory duty to appoint a member as its representative for the purpose of determining the composition of the board of control and to cause a convention to be convened in accordance with s.116.02, Wis.Stats.