This one-week institute is designed to support educators in successfully implementing strategies and practices to help students develop the skills necessary to manage emotions and be mindful of the impact their thoughts and emotions have on their daily lives. Educators who are knowledgeable about mindfulness and social-emotional learning (SEL) practices, and who embrace the benefits of implementing such practices into their classrooms, can profoundly impact the daily lives of their students. Participants of the institute will leave with curricular tools they can apply in their classrooms to help students develop into socially and emotionally aware young people who thrive in academic and social environments.

Monday, June 25, 2018 – Friday, June 29, 2018
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
mindSpark Learning
455 S. Pierce Street
Lakewood, CO 80226

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$312.50 per person

This Institute is being offered for 4.0 CEUs. CEUs are transcripted through the University of Denver and can be obtained via the University’s Registrar’s Office after the Institute concludes.

Emerging technology in education follows the same trend as all forms of technology – constantly improving and featuring an array of functions that are useful to those utilizing it. However, the ways technology can be used in schools are seemingly endless, and giving it purpose in learning environments can be difficult.

This institute will support educators in mitigating the inevitable learning curve associated with some of the emerging technology in education. Participants will also be tasked with reassessing some of the technology that has been moved out of the circle of “innovative” and into to the area of “obsolete,” and discover new ways to use this tech in their school or classroom.

Ultimately, this institute will cover technology in many areas (Raspberry Pi’s, G Suite, cutting-edge robotics such as Sphero, Dash, and Dot, QR Codes, Osmo for iPhones and iPads, etc.) and leverage expert facilitators, all while exploring how education technology can be integrated into learning environments to increase student engagement exponentially.

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Monday, July 23, 2018 – Friday, July 27, 2018
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
mindSpark Learning
455 S. Pierce Street
Lakewood, CO 80226

$625 per person

This Institute is being offered for 4.0 CEUs. CEUs are transcripted through the University of Denver and can be obtained via the University’s Registrar’s Office after the Institute concludes.

Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a popular and flexible statistical modeling technique that allows causal relationships among psychological variables to be estimated. Whether you’re a social-scientist working in higher-education or industry, a data analyst, a practicing psychologist, or an educator with an interest in quantitative methods, this workshop will provide you with the knowledge and skills to begin implementing this general yet extremely useful technique.

This one-day course assumes no prior experience with SEM, and is intended as both a theoretical and practical introduction. An understanding of SEM will be developed by relating it to participants’ previous knowledge of multiple linear regression, and then by expanding it to allow for correlated and causally related latent constructs. We will start with path analysis among measured variables, move into confirmatory factor models, then structural models involving latent causality, and finally a preview of more advanced topics. Examples from a variety of disciplines will be accompanied by code and output from the Mplus software package.

Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Understand how SEM builds upon and extends the principles and practice of multiple regression.
• Understand how to assess data-model fit of structural equation models.
• Understand how to specify and interpret measured variable path models, and their extensions.
• Understand how to specify and interpret confirmatory factor models, and their extensions.
• Understand how to specify and interpret latent variable path models, and their extensions.
• Read and interpret applied literature that contains structural equation models, and frame theories from your own domain of study as a structural equation model.

This course offers 6 PD hours

One session
Thur., 9:00am–noon; 1pm-4pm, August 2, 2018
Location: Room KRH 305, Katherine Ruffato Hall, DU campus

Cost: $195

Instructors:
Gregory R. Hancock is Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and Director of the Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation program in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Director of the Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research (CILVR). He is past chair of the SEM special interest group of the American Educational Research Association (three terms), serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Psychological Methods and Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, and has taught over 100 methodological workshops in the United States, Canada, and abroad. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science, and received the 2011 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring by the American Psychological Association.

Denis Dumas is Assistant Professor of Research Methods and Statistics at the University of Denver. In general, his research focuses on understanding student learning, cognition, and creativity through the application of latent variable methods, especially multidimensional item-response theory and non-linear growth models. He believes deeply in the power of quantitative research such as this for improving the field’s current understanding of learning, and supporting the academic development of all students. His research has appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Educational Researcher, Journal of Educational Psychology, Psychological Assessment, PLoS ONE, and Academic Medicine. He also serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Educational Psychology, and is a recipient of the American Educational Research Association Excellence in Early Career Research Deeper-Learning Fellowship.

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