New PD!
915 Teaching with Integrity: Understanding Professional Responsibility in Education and Finding Your Professional Identity
20 Clock Hours: $100
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This informative and important training discusses the ethical constructs posed by the modern classroom and teaches educators how to remain safe, document issues, find their own voice, and understand the legal ramifications of instruction, media, communication, and copyright issues. This is a must take module for all new and experienced educators.
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910 Supporting Grieving Students
20 Clock Hours: $100
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This important course teaches about grief (1 in 12 students will experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18) and how to support students through the difficult grieving process. It presents a reflective approach to learning and suggests multiple strategies, resources, and ideas to implement with individuals and/or classrooms. It is a must-take for all educators.
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Required Text: A Child’s View of Grief by Alan Wolfelt.
900 Improving Secondary Assessments
10 Clock Hours, $50
This engaging course examines various assessment strategies and how they can improve student engagement and learning in the secondary classroom. It thoroughly presents the necessity of relevant and applicable assessments, rather than cookie-cutter or standardized choices, giving the classroom teacher new tools to understand how well their students are learning.
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Required Texts:
Fair Isn’t Always Equal, Rick Wormeli
Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work, Robert Marzano
885 Increasing Learning and Engagement in MS Math with the Thinking Classroom
20 Clock Hours, $100
Peter Liljedahl’s book Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics revolutionized the traditional ways of teaching mathematics. It presents a completely opposite methodology of teaching, “I Do, We Do, You Do” which is a standard in many math classrooms today. This course comprehensively teaches how to implement new strategies to help students learn, retain, and engage in math concepts.
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Required Text: Building Thinking Classroom in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl
880 Teacher Toolbox: Literature Circles
30 Clock Hours, $150​
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This comprehensive course teaches the concepts, components, strategies, and benefits of Literature Circles for all grade and ability levels. It provides the necessary support and instruction to implement literature circle techniques in your classroom which will facilitate student growth and their love for reading.
Required Text: Traditional Literature Circles: Literature Circles Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, 2nd Edition by Harvey Daniels
705 Social Media and Student Well-Being: Taking Action
30 Clock Hours, $150
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This important course will examine the text The Anxious Generation and what author Jonathan Haidt refers to as a rewiring of childhood from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood. Haidt offers collective action, practical solutions, and recommendations for a healthier childhood. This course will also suggest specific practices, experiences, and routines that can be implemented within the classroom setting, needing little to no outside resources.
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Required Text: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt
875 ADHD vs. Autism vs. AUDHD
5 Clock Hours: $25
This informative course offers a description of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and the intersection of both known as AuDHD. Designed for teachers working with neurodiverse students, this course focuses on understanding the similarities and differences between these diagnoses. Educators will learn practical strategies to create supportive, inclusive learning environments that meet the unique needs of these students. The course will help deepen knowledge about identifying traits and implementing targeted strategies to meet the students’ academic and social needs for success.
870 Teacher Toolbox: Reimaging Data
20 Clock Hours, $100
This intriguing course is based on the text Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation by Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan. It challenges the idea of using standardized tests and typical data to drive teaching and learning and instead proposes a transformative model where educational success is defined by human stories instead of numbers. It encourages a holistic approach of instruction based on student experiences.
Required Text: Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation by Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan.
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755 Child Abuse and Neglect, Mandated Reporting, ACES, and SEL
20 clock hours, $100
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This course examines the critical topics of identifying child abuse and neglect, mandated reporting, Adverse Childhood Conditions (ACES), and Social Emotional Learning. It fulfills the State of Washington WAC 181-79A-030 and RCW 28A.410.035.
865 Reflections in Practice: Strengthening Learning Partnerships
10 Clock Hours, $50
This quick and relevant course intends to help teachers understand the importance of family engagement in the classroom and offer strategies to improve involvement, leading to student success. Teachers will be asked to journal their learnings and explore how their own practice can be improved through a reflective process.
Required Text: Powerful Partnerships A Teacher’s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success by Karen L. Mapp, Ilene Carver, and Jessica Lander.
735 Learning Partnerships: Family Engagement and Community Partnerships in the Classroom
50 Clock Hours, $250
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This informative, updated course equips educators with the knowledge and skills to effectively engage families and communities in the educational process, fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for student success. This course is grounded in the State of Washington CCDEI standards and fulfills the CCDEI requirements for clock hours.
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Required Texts: School, Family, and Community Partnerships Your Handbook for Action 4th Edition. Joyce L. Epstein and Associates.
101 Ways to Create Real Family Engagement by Dr Steven M Constantino
835 ECE Literacy Strategies
20 Clock Hours, $100
This relevant and current course provides numerous instructional strategies and information to enable the p-3 teacher to create a quality, effective literacy program in their own classroom. It reviews the science of reading, core literacy principles, developmental understandings, applicable assessments, and intentional supports.
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Required Text: Literacy Strategies for Early Childhood by Jodene L. Smith
860 Serving Gifted and Talented Students in the Classroom
20 Clock Hours
This informative module presents the characteristics of gifted and talented students; discerning how they learn and what they need to be successful in the classroom. This PD will equip teachers with strategies that will help students find success in and outside of a traditional gifted program.
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Required Texts: Differentiated Instruction in the Regular Classroom by Diane Heacox; The Differentiated Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson
770 Since Time Immemorial
50 Clock Hours, $250
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This comprehensive course explores Washington State Indigenous Tribes, their history, heritage, and uniqueness. It then examines the Since Time Immemorial Curriculum, providing an in depth look at its requirements, classroom implementation, and resources. Collaboration with tribes and strategies for lesson planning are presented. This course fulfills State of Washington Senate Bill 5433 STI requirement.
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Required Texts: Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History by David Jepsen and David Norberg; A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest by Dr. Robert H. Ruby M.D., John A. Brown, Cary C. Collins
845 Implementing the Science of Reading in the 3-5 Classroom
30 Clock Hours, $150
This engaging and informative course identifies common literacy practices to reconsider based on previous and current confusion and misunderstandings. It identifies high leverage instructional routines for teachers to consider, implement, and support their shift to a new perspective regarding literacy instruction. This course addresses the 3-5 classroom.
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Required Text: Shifting the Balance 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading Into the Upper Elementary Classroom (3-5) by Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins and Kari Yates
840 Implementing the Science of Reading in the k-2 Classroom
30 Clock Hours, $150
This engaging and informative course identifies common literacy practices to reconsider based on previous and current confusion and misunderstandings. It identifies high leverage instructional routines for teachers to consider, implement, and support their shift to a new perspective regarding literacy instruction. This course addresses the k-2 classroom.
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Required Text: Shifting the Balance 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading Into the Balanced Literacy Classroom (K-2) by Jan Burkins and Kari Yates