Professional Development For Educators

Develop effective strategies for handling real day-to-day situations and learn how to resolve and prevent discipline problems in your classroom.

Focusing on the components of Refocus and timely consequences to maximize instructional time.

Focusing on the components of unconditional positive regard and classroom ecology. This course uses the evidence-based Time to Teach classroom management model. This model is research-based, practical, proven, and is ready to use in the classroom.

Focusing on the components of self-control and teaching to classroom expectations. This course uses the evidence-based Time to Teach classroom management model. This model is research-based, practical, proven, and are ready to use in the classroom. 

Analyze the issues involved with school bullying and create a bullying prevention plan to implement in your classroom to deal with bullying behaviors and support bullying victims.

Learn the importance of maintaining professional boundaries with your students.

Learn early warning indicators of student drop-outs, some potential root causes of those factors, and recommended strategies to help support all the students in your class.

Learn 6 common models to help plan low-prep methods for collaboration that support student learning at high levels.

Discover the building blocks of Restorative Practices (RP) including the fundamental hypothesis, social discipline window, and fair process.

Learn how to recognize the signs of trauma, enact interventions to repair internal harm, and create effective strategies to communicate, resolve conflicts and build relationships. 

Learn strategies for building connections and keeping parents, family members or caregivers engaged, with a focus on clear, frequent, and positive communication. 

Explore differentiated instruction as a fundamental component of intervention processes inside and out of the classroom, and
methods for support students with special needs.

Learn an approach to planning for targeted differentiation in order to support your special needs students in your classroom.

Learn how to design and implement an effective intervention plan that will assist you in managing classroom behaviors, in a manner that enhances the learning environment.

This course helps you understand ADHD types and symptoms, explore strategies and resources, and create a practical classroom plan and original support tool to better serve students with ADHD.

This course helps you understand dyslexia, explore practical strategies and resources, and create a classroom implementation plan and original support tool to better serve your students.

Develop, apply, and improve your skills as an educational coach in order to successfully provide support to educators.

Develop the skills necessary to effectively interact and communicate with others.

This course will provide insights and tools for increasing your leadership influence and effectiveness at all levels of the organization.

Develop the skills to identify, address, and resolve conflict in and out of the workplace.

Learn the fundamentals of financial literacy, including money management, budgeting, debt reduction, investing, and planning for the big financial goals in your life.

In this course, you will evaluate current research in media literacy and define the aspects that have the most potential to affect your students.

This course teaches you how to transition your lesson plans to an online format while leveraging technology to enhance student learning, integrate the SAMR model, and create a transformative educational experience.

This course provides teachers with the foundational skills to transition lessons online, select appropriate platforms, and create a secure, engaging, and equitable learning environment, culminating in a week-long lesson plan and implementation strategy.

Learn how to save time and improve instruction using AI tools.

Earn graduate-level professional development credit for attending a seminar, workshop, training, online course, webinar, reading a book or other PD experience.

Designed for groups of three or more individuals who would like to get together to discuss a quality book, with the purpose of improving professional practice.

Utilize evidence-based practices based on research in neuroscience and psychology to create an effective brain-based lesson.

Develop classroom lessons using the nine research-based strategies that have been proven to be effective in improving student outcomes.

A growth mindset is the foundation for resilience and persistence. Learn how to create a lesson plan that teaches the concepts and strategies for developing a growth mindset.

Create a rigorous, high quality, and engaging project-based learning unit.
 

This course helps you understand and analyze the different learning styles. You will create lesson plans that address the different styles of learning.

 Learn six strategies for improving your learning environment and methods for supporting student learning.

 Explore foundational developmental theories and how students learn, behave, and grow.

Create an integrated unit plan that incorporates English Language Development (ELD) strategies focused on academic language, vocabulary development, and listening and speaking in K-6 mathematics.

Create instruction centered around building conceptual understanding of mathematics by exploring the importance of language, contextual relationships, multiple perspectives, and making connections between ideas.

Investigate the impact of STEM education in order to develop and deliver effective STEM lessons and share this information with others to expand STEM methods in your school or school district.

Learn strategies for implementing classroom assessments and enhancing student learning.

Learn about six co-teaching instructional models, as well as how to successfully implement co-teaching in the classroom.

Learn the five main instructional strategies and how to align them with your learning objectives and plans for assessments, to benefit all learners.

Learn the steps of the action research process that includes identifying a problem, reviewing current literature, formulating a solution, testing the solution, analyzing data, making a conclusion, and sharing the results.

Explore the current research related to integrating the Arts into STEM curriculum as a tool for developing critical thinkers and problem solvers.

Learn what effective learning objectives look like and how to construct a student facing objective based on your classroom learning standards.

Learn basic tools to begin a process of improvement in classroom literacy.

Develop a lens for identifying and implementing culturally diverse texts.

Build a culture of literacy through community book access.

This course covers the positive effect of parent and family partnerships on adolescents’ school achievement and literacy attainment.

Learn the importance of vocabulary word recognition, automaticity, oral fluency, and exposure to volumes of varied genres in order to improve language acquisition and reading comprehension.

Learn strategies to identify and evaluate literacy needs during reading conferences.

Learn how to build literacy through book clubs.

This course covers research-backed strategies for improving reading and writing fluency through leveled grouping, targeted activities, and practical implementation.

This course covers the research-driven model of explicit instruction by teaching how to select the appropriate reading behavior or skill for your student or groups, build an action plan aligned to student goals, and implement the lesson into your elementary reading classroom.

Learn how to evaluate the main components of reading instruction in relation to an approach using the science of reading.

Learn to how to plan, develop, and execute inquiry-based lesson planning.

Learn how to design and facilitate quality academic discussions in the classroom.

Learn how to plan for flipped learning, including how to decide what content students can learn at home, how to deliver online lessons, and the best ways to reinforce that learning with rigorous in-class activities.