Events
Understanding Your Child's IEP
Thursday, March 20, 2025
12 PM to 1 PM
Cost: This is a no cost event
Location: Online Event
This training by FAVOR CT focuses on understanding: the New IEP page by page, changes from the old IEP, how parents/caregivers should prepare input/concerns in the different areas of: academic - all subjects, social and emotional, transition planning. List of supplementary aids and services included.
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Agents of Change
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
11:30 AM to 1 PM
Cost: This is a no cost event
Location: Online Event
This workshop by FAVOR CT helps family members understand the change process that drives the networks of care. Topics include: increase your knowledge of System of Care values and principles, enhance your knowledge of Connecticut's Network of Care Transformation initiative-[CONNECT], develop skills to bring family voice to local, regional and state decision-making tables, and advance family engagement in policy and practice.
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10th Annual CT Secondary Transition Symposium
Empowering Pathways
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Cost: $15 registration fee
Location: Central Connecticut State University
10th Annual CT Secondary Transition Symposium
Empowering Pathways: Navigating Adulthood with Confidence
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Central Connecticut State University
The Connecticut Secondary Transition Symposium brings students and their families together with educators and other professionals to improve secondary transition programming and services for students with disabilities.
Our Keynote speakers will be George (“Big G”) and Corrina Manesiotis, owners of Big G’s Cookies in Trumbull, CT. George discovered his love of baking when he took a bake shop class while a student at Trumbull High School. His mother, Corinna, has supported the idea from its inception. Together, the mother-and-son team spent two years developing their own recipes, including a secret ingredient.
All participants must register through Canvas* to gain access to the symposium materials. Instructions for Canvas will be sent within the registration confirmation notice.
There is a $15 registration fee. Students/Youth are FREE (cost to be covered by CT State Department of Education).
Registration is available on the SERC Events page found at https://ctserc.org/events
*Canvas is the Learning Management System where our Symposium’s materials and activities will take place.
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Unlocking the World: Strategies for Comprehension
Thursday, March 27, 2025
10:00am
Cost: No cost
Location: Virtual
THE FOCUS OF THE STORY
How do we know what children know well and what they need to learn to become efficient and effective readers? We use data! Now that we know the components of reading instruction, we’ll look at how to tell if children are mastering what they are being taught. It’s not just about making progress, it’s about making enough progress and using what is learned in actual reading. Our children’s data tells a story. Is it a good one?
Let’s find out!
LEARNING TARGETS
- Describe what data are needed to know how children are progressing in learning to read
- Explain the difference between “making progress” and “making enough progress”
- Explain what to ask about “grades”
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Ride Ahead Film Screening & Transition to Adulthood Fair
Register by 3/21/2025
Friday, April 4, 2025
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Cost: This is a no cost event
Location: 226 Putnam Pike, Killingly, CT
Please join us Fri., April 4, 2025 from 5-8pm for a Transition to Adulthood Fair, free pizza, and a screening of The Ride Ahead, a new film by disability rights activists Samuel and Dan Habib. EASTCONN, in partnership with Killingly Public Schools, was awarded a license to screen this film for our community for free, courtesy of LikeRightNow Films. Anyone ages 12 and up (students, family members, educators, adults with and without disabilities) will be inspired by this film to dream big and be better advocates!
Come for the free pizza and info about community resources during the Transition to Adulthood Fair from 5-6pm, and stay for the film screening and discussion from 6-8pm.
Accessibility: The film will be screened with open captions and audio description is available. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible with ample accessible parking.
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