Introduction to Notebook LM

This free course talks teachers through setting up an AI Notebook with Google Notebook LM.

Course•By Crystal Brooks

Special Education: The Basics

This Prep Time PD will focus on high incidence learning disabilities, defined as those most prevalent in every classroom. Students identified as having one of these challenges typically have an average to above average intellect and can participate in the general education classroom 80-100% of the day when provided with accessible curriculum materials, accommodations to remove the barriers to learning and showing what they know, as well as strength-based strategies for learning.

Course•By Crystal Brooks

Hiring With Inclusion in Mind

The course focuses on hiring practices to ensure new faculty, staff, and administrators are dispositionally aligned with your school's mission to include children of ALL academic abilities. The course contains examples of interview questions to include when considering new hires, who to include in the hiring process, and idenitfying protocols that ensure consistency in hiring for mission.

Course•By Colleen McCoy-Cejka

Understanding Dysgraphia

This course is designed to help educators understand Dysgraphia and its impact on student learning. You will walk away with practical skills and accommodations to implement in your classroom to support students with Dysgraphia.

Course•By Sue Milano

The Joy and Freedom of Flexible Assessment

In this course, participants will develop a firm understanding of how standards, curriculum, and assessment align to ensure students are learning skills and content AND showing teachers in multiple ways how they have learned skills and content. Just as there are many methods of instruction, there are also many methods of assessment. Providing students a variety of ways in which to show what they have learned provides all learners with the opportunity to use their strengths to show learning. Developing and grading assessments that truly focus on the standards being taught provides teachers with the freedom and flexibility to assess learning in many ways. This course allows teachers time to reflect on common assessment practices and consider all the ways we COULD be gauging student growth and learning.

Course•By Colleen McCoy-Cejka

Autism Basics

In this course, Autism Basics Part 1, participants will learn what Autism is and the common characteristics and behaviors of people with Autism. This course will give an overview of strategies to use in the classroom that help Autistic individuals function successfully in an academic environment. Once you finish Part 1 of Autism Basics, it is recommended that you move on to Part 2, which covers what to do and what NOT to do when helping Autistic students to succeed in your school and classroom.

Course•By Crystal Brooks

Speech-Language Pathology - The Basics

Course•By Jennifer Booth

School Age Communication Disorders

Course•By Jennifer Booth

Understanding ADHD with practical strategies!

Participants will learn about the types, prevalence, neurology, strengths, impact, and accommodations for students with ADHD in the classroom

Course•By Sue Milano

Peer Mentoring

Peer mentors support students with complex learning needs so that they can be included in the day to day activities of the school community. This course explores what mentors need to know for the mentees to be successful.

Course•By Crystal Brooks

Educational Implications of an Emotional Disability

An informative course on the fundamentals of Emotional Disability. Including definitions, implications, and strategies.

Course•By Colleen McCoy-Cejka

Understanding Dyslexia

Dyslexia affects one in every five students on average. It is increasingly more important for teachers to learn what Dyslexia is and is not and how to create a learning environment that accommodates for students with Dyslexia. The course will outline the different types of Dyslexia and the impact those neurological differences can have in the classroom.

Course•By Sue Milano

Visual Processing and Educational Implications

This course explains about visual processing and its meaning. Learners will be shown real-life examples of visual processing and the difference between visual processing weakness and visual impairment. The class then demonstrates the educational implications of students with visual processing weaknesses in math, reading, and writing and how to support these students.

Course•By Colleen McCoy-Cejka

Working Memory: Educational Implications

This course will help learners to gain understanding of working memory, examples of, and types of deficits associated with. They will also acquire a knowledge of the impacts of a working memory deficit and strategies to support students in a classroom setting.

Course•By Colleen McCoy-Cejka

Understanding Down Syndrome - Part 1

Down Syndrome is a chromosomal condition that impacts various parts of a person's life. Students in this course will learn about the characteristics, strengths, challenges, and diagnosis of Down Syndrome in order to be best prepared to educate students with Down Syndrome in your class.

Course•By Sue Milano

Understanding Down Syndrome Part 2

This course will take you through the strategies and intervention approaches for students with Down Syndrome. You will learn about Accommodations and Modifications, Goal Setting, and writing service plans to meet the needs of the students with Down Syndrome in your class. The course will resources available to support teachers and students with an emphasis on collaboration amongst parents and caregivers.

Course•By Sue Milano

Accommodations and Modifications

Understand exactly what accommodations and modifications are and the differences between the two. Dive deeply into specific accommodations and how to tie them into your instructional design.

Course•By Sue Milano

Fluid Reasoning and Crystalized Intelligence: Implications and Strategies

Course•By Colleen McCoy-Cejka

Executive Functioning Skills

Learn about Executive Functioning Skills to empower yourself as a teacher to help accommodate for students that struggle with time management, flexibility, organization, focus, initiation, and working memory.

Course•By Sue Milano

Syllabication

Dive into the world of syllables! The building blocks of reading and writing, syllables are a foundational part of every classroom. In this course you will learn why syllables are so important to any reading and spelling program. We will cover syllable types and patterns, and you will see a step-by-step demonstration of dividing words into syllables using those types and patterns.

Course•By Sue Milano

Dyscalculia

This course will explain the neuroscience of math learning disabilities and how Dyscalculia is an impairment in number sense and magnitude. Participants will learn about subitizing, decomposition/recomposition, accommodations, and strategies to support students with Dyscalculia.

Course•By Sue Milano

Engaging All Learners: Total Participation Strategies

Ready to improve engagement and student learning in your classroom? In this course, you will learn the rationale behind integrating total participation strategies into your lessons and build your teacher toolkit of student engagement strategies.

Course•By Clare Curry

Prep-Time PD (K-8)

Courses to build knowledge and skills for solid instruction for ALL learners.

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Prep-Time PD for High School

Topics specifically tailored to the high school educator: ADHD, Flexible Assessment, Special Ed-The Basics, Engaging All Learners, Autism, and Working Memory.

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Speech and Language Bundle

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