Topics: Cultural Competency, American Indian History and Culture, Mental Health, Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies (PBIS), Reading Instruction, Suicide Prevention, Teaching English Language Learners and more.

Topics: Cultural Competency, American Indian History and Culture, Mental Health, Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies (PBIS), Reading Instruction, Suicide Prevention, Teaching English Language Learners and more.

Topics: Cultural Competency, American Indian History and Culture, Mental Health, Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies (PBIS), Reading Instruction, Suicide Prevention, Teaching English Language Learners and more.

Topics: Cultural Competency, American Indian History and Culture, Mental Health, Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies (PBIS), Reading Instruction, Suicide Prevention, and Teaching English Language Learners. The MN Requirements Package #1 aligns with the relicensure requirements in Minnesota.

Topics: Cultural Competency, American Indian History and Culture, Mental Health, Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies (PBIS), Reading Instruction, Suicide Prevention, and Teaching English Language Learners. The MN Requirements Package #1 aligns with the relicensure requirements in Minnesota.

Addressing accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to appropriately meet the needs of teachers and a variety of students. This online course for teachers may meet state requirements to renew a teaching license. Check with your state department of education.

Make teaching ALL students a very real possibility with the Universal Design of Learning (UDL) framework. This structure builds on research findings that show how a single teaching approach has very limited results on student learning and highlights the need for a new curricular approach in which a learner’s level of recognition, strategic, and affective networks are all taken into account to determine the best means of teaching.

Students from all backgrounds, temperaments, and abilities should have access to a classroom ambience that is conducive to their learning. Positive Behavior Management helps educators transform challenging behavior, systemically and individually, to create such an environment. Learn evidence‐based Positive Behavior Intervention Solutions (PBIS) practices to identify and eliminate triggers in the classroom, encourage positive behaviors, and give students individualized care and support. This proactive PBIS approach, with three tiers of interventions, can strengthen students’ relationships, improve their communication skill, and circumvent conflict.

This cultural competency and responsiveness training helps teachers assess their own cultural lens and examine potential bias that impacts the classroom framework with equitable sensitivity to all learners across languages, genders, religions, races, cultural backgrounds, and special needs.

The development of early literary and reading skills are foundation for every student’s education. Gain a comprehensive understanding of challenges that hold potential readers back, including phonological impairments and reading disorders. Adopt best science-research-based reading strategies to tackle these including use of explicit, systematic and sequential approaches to reading instruction, developing phonemic awareness, and implementing multisensory intervention strategies. An incredibly useful tool for teachers looking to unlock their students’ reading potential, the course is a must-have for teachers.

Create a welcoming environment that ensures English Language Learners thrive educationally through the integration of useful research based strategies that promote student engagement with the lessons and curriculum.

Develop students’ independent reading skills in the classroom, through the process of guided reading, while also promoting comprehension, critical thinking, problem solving, intellectual skills and interpersonal communication.

Utilize Google Classroom as a tool for inclusive education, plan flexible lessons and curricula using unique Google Classroom features, and learn how to create Google Classroom content – including videos, quizzes, games, and more!

This course provides an in-depth understanding of the language acquisition process to enable educators to successfully teach English Language Learners.

Equips teachers to support student learning through better reading and comprehension across the curriculum and grade levels.

This course explores the latest research to help students develop strong reading comprehension skills. It is full of strategies, illustrations, examples and practical tools that teachers can use in the classroom. Learn about ways to introduce students to new vocabulary, analyze content, develop perspectives and use graphic organizers. Teach students to question, draw inferences, visualize and make predictions. Teachers can use these in a range of subjects including language arts, science, geography, history, arts and music

Transform teaching practice, and enhance students’ reading levels, by incorporating technology into classroom reading activities. This approach enables teachers to successfully assess available technology, employ it successfully, and help students read with higher accuracy and better comprehension.

Provides a basic understanding of warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and adolescents as well as ideas and strategies that help teachers work with students.

Teachers will learn to identify possible early signs of suicide and be introduced to tools that may be helpful to students. Creative activities and strategies can help promote safe classroom environments. The course also encourages teachers to work together with their school in initiating and implementing school-wide policies and programs on suicide prevention.

Help students to tackle difficult text and understand it better. The strategies in this course help improve learning comprehension and are applicable to all subjects.

Create nurturing, safe and diverse learning environments that enable every child to thrive. Special needs encompass a range of conditions and challenges that affect a child’s academic performance. Students with special needs may need assistance in learning, movement, and/or communication. Support all students’ varying capacities and capabilities regardless of their unique requirements or obstacles.

Smart teachers struggle with classroom management. Skilled teachers elect to use strategies that create more problems than they solve. This course focuses on proven ideas that when used, work.

Reading and writing are crucial aspects of student learning and critical life skills. Teaching students to read and write can be layered and challenging, especially since individual learners require teachers to adapt a range of teaching methodologies and approaches.

This cultural competency and responsiveness training helps teachers assess their own cultural lens and examine potential bias that impacts the classroom framework with equitable sensitivity to all learners across languages, genders, religions, races, cultural backgrounds, and special needs.