June 8-9
8:00am – 4:30pm

Life Skills Training
Instructor: Rick Grinsteiner
ED 500
1 SH/$50

Contact Deb Pilon at dpilon@nd.gov or 701-328-2753

The Life Skills Training program (grades 3-9) is a substance abuse prevention program based on more than 20 years of rigorous scientific research and is one of the most effective evidence-based programs used in schools today.  Life Skills Training is a comprehensive, dynamic, and developmentally designed to promote positive youth development.  In addition to helping children resist drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, Life Skills training also effectively helps to reduce violence and other high risk behaviors.  Using a combination of coaching with peer-interaction and provider-led activities, Life Skills addresses the critical factors found to promote substance abuse.  The highly interactive program strengthens student skills in the following areas: Personal Self-Management Skills, General Social Skills, and Drug Resistance Skills.  The program consists of three levels and thirty class sessions consisting of 45 minutes each.  Over the course of three years, the program can be taught as an intense mini-series for each level, or on a more extended schedule over the three years. Both have been proven effective.

Teaching with Love and Logic
Instructor: Rick Grinsteiner
ED 500
1 SH/$50

Contact Deb Pilon at dpilon@nd.gov or 701-328-2753

Love and Logic is a common sense approach that gives educators skills that cultivate confidence and good decision-making in students.  This is accomplished by offering choices, empathy, and respect to students while at the same time avoiding anger, threats, warnings, and lectures on the teacher’s part.  Through this program educators will become equipped with practical techniques that 1) are simple and easy to learn, 2) teach responsibility and character, 3) change lives and lower stress levels, and 4) have immediate and positive effects on students and schools.  This is not just background and theory; it gives participants hands-on, practical, and easy to learn techniques to use every day in the K-12 classroom.

June 29 – July 2
8:00am - 4:00pm

Mini-Society Young Entrepreneurs’ Summer Camp
Instructor: Barry Striegel
ED 500
2 SH/$100

How to Register: Contact Barry Striegel, 701-738-4812 or b.striegel@und.edu

Entrepreneurial thinking is essential for kids to become successful adults in the 21st Century.  By participating in our Mini-Society Summer Camps, youth and adults will gain a deeper understanding of economics, entrepreneurial thinking, civics, ethnics, leadership and community improvement, transforming textbook lessons into effective EXPERIENCED-BASED projects in math, social studies, civics, language arts and technology THAT KIDS CAN REALLY USE!  They’ll experience the risks and rewards – financial and personal – associated with initiating a business and becoming an active citizen.  They’ll understand that becoming an entrepreneur is a career option and that entrepreneurial thinking precedes real, positive change in any community.

VoWac Workshop I
Instructor: John Pfeifer
ED 500
1 SH/$50, Class is Free to all Williston Teacher Center Members
and to Members of the GNWEC
Williston Teacher Center

To Register: Call VoWac at 605-598-4492

The workshop is designed to motivate teachers to identify their own learning style and the learning styles of their students.  Teachers will learn how to adapt their teaching to their students’ preferred learning styles.  It encourages them to strive for a balanced mixture of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic methods.