School and Community Summer 2024

Looking for Career Ladder Hours? MSTA has you covered with a variety of online courses and mini-courses. These courses offer the flexibility and convenience needed to balance your busy schedule while gaining skills and knowledge. Teacher leaders craft each course to address the latest trends, technologies and methodologies in teaching. Whether you’re aiming to enhance your classroom strategies, integrate new technologies, fulfill certification requirements or fulfill career ladder plans, our courses provide practical insights that can be immediately applied in your classroom. Enhance your instruction through our engaging online learning options. Beginning July 1, 2024, all new educators must complete a two-year BTAP with on-going support . On-going support is a minimum of quarterly meetings throughout the first and second year. The BTAP is a Department of Elementary and Secondary Education certification requirement that must be met before upgrading one’s teaching certificate. MSTA’s BTAP focuses on building the capacity of first-year teachers through year-long professional learning and ongoing support tailored to their needs. The BTAP focuses on key elements of DESE’s Beginning Teacher Assistance Program and allows early career teachers the opportunity to hone their skills in the areas of becoming: • Proficient classroom managers and effective community builders; • Skillful instructional designers and facilitators of student thinking and learning; • Professional communicators; and • Reflective learners MSTA’s Onsite and Online BTAP is the first Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP) Amendment to State Statute

It is a stressful time in education. To carry out the work we want to accomplish in the classroom we must first understand the impact of stress on the brain and our students’ basic needs. Using the principles of the Neurosequential Model and traumatology helps us to better address factors such as disruptive behavior, low motivation and other behaviors that teachers are currently seeing in their classrooms. First, we must learn how to reach our students, then we can teach our students. Learner Outcomes: • Gain an understanding of how childhood trauma impacts learning and behavior • Understand the basic principles of the Neurosequential Model • Understand how to make adjustments to current procedures in order to create a brain-friendly environment • Learn ways to incorporate intellectual safety into learning tasks Cost: $300.00 per person. The fee includes the cost of the workshop, lodging on Friday and Saturday nights, three meals on Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday.

step toward meeting this requirement. On-going support will be offered both onsite and virtual. Visit MSTA’s professional learning website to learn more.

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