Courses
Just as teaching the students who challenge us most is among our most frustrating experiences as educators, sticking with students until they finally “get it’ is among our most rewarding. In this course you will find the inspiration and field-tested ideas necessary to create a patient and supportive environment for even the most demanding cases…
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Course Description: Is your school prepared to deal with a crisis? Does your school have an up to date plan to deal with hazards of all types? Do staff members know how to protect their students and themselves? In this course educators will receive information and a guide to prepare them for the specific skills…
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This course will help teachers, principals, superintendents, and all educators develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents. It shows you how to deal with the parent who is bossy, volatile, argumentative, aggressive, or maybe the worst- apathetic. It provides specific phrases to use with parents to help you…
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The best way to unleash students’ problem-solving and creativity and prepare them to face real-world problems is to incorporate complex challenges that teach students to respond productively to uncertainty. This course will enable teachers at every grade level to design a full range of challenges in any subject area.
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This course provides a systematic way to improve our questioning while intentionally helping students develop the skills for a productive discussion. Through thoughtful planning, intentional modeling, strategic scaffolding, and differentiated coaching this course will spark your students’ minds and spur discussion.
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This course will provide a framework that will help ensure that you are your students’ greatest asset-and a “Star Teacher” in your classroom. How to expertly manage to engage students in deep learning, harmonize mandated standards with individual student needs, and create trusting relationships in the classroom will be addressed. Full of insightful authentic examples,…
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This course will energize you to maintain or regain a positive outlook and love of teaching. Specific, immediate actions will be provided to you to enhance your well-being and thrive both on and off the job. In the course you will analyze how shifts in awareness, attitudes, and actions can be transformational for you and…
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This course will provide educators with classroom-tested alternatives to the “stand and deliver” teaching techniques that cause so many students to tune out. These techniques will motivate students to participate in learning, as they build confidence and are supported by compelling and safe ways to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of lessons.
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This course will help you find and/or continue the passion to connect with all students who desperately need someone to show them a path to a more positive future. This course is a reminder of the incredible power every educator has to help young people rewrite their destinies.
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This course provides a structure to begin meaningful conversations about race, culture, bias, privilege, and power within the time constraints of an ordinary school. It includes activities, discussions, and readings which educators can use to facilitate learning about these issues. Cultural Competence Now responds to the urgent need to build the cultural competency of educators.
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We want our students to feel safe, collaborate well with others, feel ownership for their learning, and be engaged in their work. Nevertheless, many educators end up using language patterns that undermine these goals. What educators say to students-when they praise or discipline, give directions or ask questions, and introduce concepts-affects student learning and behavior.…
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Today’s educators face a challenge of how to ensure a positive school experience for their students, many of whom carry the burden of adverse childhood experiences such as abuse, poverty, divorce, abandonment and numerous other serious social issues.
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This course will demonstrate how consistent, timely feedback from multiple sources can help students monitor their own understanding and help teachers align assignments, quizzes, and tests. The focus shifts away from the basis of what makes a good teacher toward what makes good learning happen for every student every day.
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What does rigor really mean in literacy instruction? How does it relate to challenging standards-based assessments? This course will define, relate, and explain the thinking students in grades K-8 will be expected to demonstrate using the Depth of Knowledge Framework.
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This course focuses on three fundamental questions to help reduce curricular and organizational clutter in the interest of clarity and focus. What does it mean to understand? What is most important to understand? How do we prioritize our strategic effort to help students understand what is most important? By prioritizing, educators can clear away the…
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