Courses
Whether it is planning and delivering instruction or just interacting with others throughout the day, every action you take is an opportunity to demonstrate empathy toward your students, your colleagues, and yourself. Teaching With Empathy explores three types of empathy – affective, cognitive, and behavioral – and clarifies how they intertwine with curriculum, learning environment,…
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This course is a collection of strategies to reconnect with professional and personal aspirations, build an energized and mutually respectful classroom community, and deliver instruction that feels alive to you and your students.
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This course will focus on the EdTech skills and strategies educators should use to ensure the best of online spaces for classroom learning. The course will navigate students through the overwhelming number of options in digital tools and spaces and guide students in learning best practices.
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This course will prepare students to understand and apply 25 essential high-frequency words that students must know to be academically successful. They must be able to understand and apply these concepts, but too often they do not have a firm grasp of the meanings or what skills they require.
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Are you looking for a detailed and in-depth guide that will help you understand the intricate details of oppositional and defiant disorder? This course will give you the tools you need to be able to take control and manage a student or child that suffers from ODD. The techniques in this course suit children and…
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This course shares a staged implementation approach that takes students from simple partner set-ups designed to build cooperative skills to complex structures ideal for interest and readiness-informed academic exploration. It covers the key factors to consider when forming groups and highlights how this approach to organizing learning can help you disrupt rigid tracking, deliver targeted…
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Research on the brain shows that emotion plays a key role in learning, but how can educators apply that research in their day-to-day interactions with students? This course will have specific suggestions for classroom strategies that make a real difference in how and what students learn.
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Every educator needs this course during these difficult times. Being an educator is more stressful than ever, and educators must constantly shift gears to stay on top of the newest initiatives, students changing needs, and a more challenging parental and political climate. When you can establish good habits, focus on what is possible within your…
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Burnout runs rampant in education, particularly in the field of special education, and has only increased in recent years. This course identifies 50 evidence-based strategies and practices to help special educators enjoy their work for the long haul. You’ll discover new ways to work with families, manage your classroom, teach in culturally responsive ways, and…
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How do you respond to difficult behavior in the moment when you know that punitive, compliance-based behavior is so often ineffectual? What’s the best way to prevent students from acting out in the first place? The path to success requires behavioral leadership, where you strategically model and affirm the behaviors you want to see in…
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Transform your classroom culture from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student engagement. Build a culture of thinking that emphasizes essential 21st century skills – from critical thinking and problem solving to teamwork and creativity. 50 teacher-tested instructional strategies for nurturing students’ cognitive abilities across the full range of thinking…
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As an educator you make a DIFFERENCE in the lives of learners. Through a series of heartfelt and uplifting stories by leading educators who reflect on their years in education this advice and strategies are suited for all teachers new and experienced. This course offers hope and encouragement for educators who are under attack from…
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It is possible to teach students reading without killing their love for reading in the process. This course will provide practices that nurture joy in reading while identifying factors that destroy joy with a clear understanding of the realities of today’s classrooms. You will become reading encouragers, and role models for lifelong joyful reading.
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Learning in school is challenging enough without the exhaustion, anxiety, and distraction of stress added to it. Tight deadlines, high expectations, friction with peers, family drama: With all these stressors on middle and high school students and few healthy outlets for releasing them, it’s no wonder they have trouble concentrating on schoolwork. Have everything you…
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Explore how to design instruction and structure classes so all students can authentically connect with the content, their learning, and with one another.
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This course guides elementary teachers supporting students to think deeply about rich content, make meaningful connections, and address issues in a broader more meaningful way. Critical thinking is essential in both the classroom and every day life.
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