Frequently Purchased PD Courses
Below are our featured courses. All courses are $5/per clock hour.
70 clock hours, $350
This course explores Pacific Northwest History from an Indigenous Perspective as well as thoroughly teaches the Since Time Immemorial Curriculum.
This course fulfills Certification Program standard 2.E, RCW 28B.10.710 and WAC 181-78A-232
.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
30 clock hours, $150
This course guides secondary teachers through current best practices and effective instruction for the 6-12 classroom. These methods work for all subjects, providing thoughtful and engaging ideas that can be implemented immediately.
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Required Texts: Armstrong, T. (2016). The power of the adolescent brain: Strategies for teaching middle and high school students; Ginsberg, M. (2016). Excited to Learn: Motivation and Culturally Responsive Teaching
40 clock hours, $200
This course explores CCDEI concepts, history, and standards. It provides practical strategies to increase awareness and equity in the classroom.
This course fulfills State of WA CCDEI requirements, Equity Clock Hours
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Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students 1st Edition
20 Clock Hours, $100
This course will help teachers understand how to guard their privacy, act in a safe lawful manner, and avoid liability as an educator. This is a must take course for all new and current teachers in this ever evolving technology age.
30 clock hours, $150
This course presents Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math strategies that can be applied to any classroom to increase engagement and learning.
This course fulfills State of WA STEM requirements.
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Required Text: Getting Started with STEAM: Practical Strategies for the K-8 Classroom. Billy Krakower and Meredith Martin
20 clock hours, $100
This course presents the history, characteristics, and needs of Multiple Language Learners and provides strategies to support them in the general education classroom.
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Activities for English Language Learners Across the Curriculum
30 Clock Hours, $150
This course comprehensively addresses the various strategies needed to implement, support, and/or enhance the dual language experience for all students. The ideas presented will increase engagement, learning, and fun in the dual language and world language classroom.
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Required Texts: Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners by Echevarria, Vogt, Short & Toppel: Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain by Zaretta Hammond
50 Clock Hours, $250
This compelling course helps teachers understand current systems for identification, prevention, and support of struggling readers while identifying common causes and correlations of individual differences in reading abilities. Teachers will be able to identify and select specific instructional literacy strategies that can be implemented immediately in the elementary classroom propelling their students forward in their literacy journeys.
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Required Texts: How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction, Second Edition Resources for Grades K-3 by Sharon Walpole, Michael C. McKenna;
Differentiated Literacy Instruction in Grades 4 & 5, Second Edition Strategies and Resources by Sharon Walpole, Michael C. McKenna, Zoi A. Philippakos, and John Z. Strong
15 Clock Hours, $75
This course advises and addresses how to incorporate paraprofessionals in your classroom to effectively support students, their learning goals, and the classroom environment. It suggests optimal methods for leveraging their expertise and support in the classroom. It is a must take for all teachers.
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Required Text: Working with Paraeducators in the Classroom by Jennifer Cooper Scott, EDD
10 Clock Hours: $50
This fun and engaging course presents and explains the value of storytelling as a teaching tool. It provides multiple prompts to use in the classroom and lists the benefits of storytelling such as recall, language development, vocabulary building, sequencing, visualization, problem solving, thinking skills, and relationship building.
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Required Text: The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling: Rives Collins, Pamela J. Cooper
40 Clock Hours, $200​
This comprehensive course defines social emotional learning and articulates the importance of implementing SEL strategies in the classroom. It reviews competencies, addresses challenges, provides practical strategies for SEL integration, and helps teachers create an action plan for their classroom. This course fulfills the State of Washington SEL requirement: RCW 28A.410.270, RCW 28A.410.273, Program Standards 2.C.vii, WAC 181-78A-232(3)(g)
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Required Text: Social-Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive by Marilee Sprenger
5 Clock Hours, $25
This encouraging course examines the qualities of a great teacher, offering a variety of different perspectives about how teaching changes the lives of students, and conversely, how students change the lives of teachers.
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Required Text: Today I Made a Difference: A Collection of Inspirational Stories from America's Top Educators, Edited by Joseph W. Underwood, EdD.
30 clock hours, $150
This course introduces current best practices that create an inclusive, engaging, and developmentally appropriate classroom learning experience for students from preschool through third grade.
20 Clock Hours, $100
This course presents the science of reading and its basic principles including the five pillars of reading instruction. It provides resources and ideas to implement structured reading in the classroom and why it is so important. This is a must take for all teachers from preschool through high school.
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Required Text: Shifting the Balance, Grades K-2: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom By: Jan Burkins & Kari Yates
20 clock hours, $100
This course explores the many facets of technology in today's classrooms, discerning the benefits and pitfalls of cellphones, online learning, social media, and AI. It focuses on using technology to benefit students while setting healthy limits.
10 clock hours, $50
This module presents the devastating statistics surrounding students of poverty and trauma, offering practical strategies to support their academic and emotional success.
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Required Texts: A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K Payne, Ph.D.Teaching with Empathy: How to Transform Your Practice by Understanding Your Learners, Lisa Westman
20 clock hours, $100
This course explores the different types of assessments, how to create individualized opportunities for students to show growth and differentiation for a variety of learners.
40 clock hours, $200
This course examines the diversity of our classrooms, how to modify, accommodate, engage, and inspire students to learn and grow.
This course fulfills State of Washington CCDEI requirements.
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Required Text: How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms, 3rd Edition by Carol Ann Tomlinson