Teaching is a balancing act, and your time is your most valuable resource. AI for Teacher Productivity and Workload Reduction introduces AI as a transformative partner, giving you more time to focus on your students. This course supports all K-12 educators, regardless of experience, through hands-on activities, extensive tutorial resources, and methods to automate time-consuming tasks.
Navigating the 'Wild West' of AI in K-12 education? This hands-on online course moves beyond policing to foster a culture of high-level thinking. Shift your students from using AI as a shortcut to utilizing it as a powerful cognitive partner. By integrating AI tools like Brisk Teaching, MagicSchool AI, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot, you will streamline your workflow while building a robust ethical framework.
Western art, from the ancient world to the present, offers far more than beautiful images-it provides powerful stories, cultural insight, and rich opportunities for teaching across the curriculum. In this 25-lecture course, K-12 educators gain both a strong foundation in Western art history and practical strategies for bringing these ideas into their classrooms.
Career Lab: Explore, Connect, Launch! equips teachers with practical career development strategies that directly support student college and career readiness. Participants explore career interests, strengths, and pathways using structured reflection from What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, and What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens, while examining how these same tools can be applied with students.
This course addresses the need for educators to engage with students as effective college-going advocates. National economic competitiveness as well as effective civic engagement require a well- educated work force and population. There are many obstacles that prevent far too many students from considering both the benefits and their ability of going to college.
This course is designed to strengthen participants' awareness and response to students who are victims of violence and aggression in our schools, as well as students who respond to conflicts and difficulties with undue aggression and bullying behavior. CASEL defines Social and Emotional Learning as the 'process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and share empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.
This course is designed to strengthen participant's ability to develop and implement positive peer support, student leadership and adult mentoring programs for grades K-12. While the central mandate for our schools is student learning, students learn and behave better when they feel cared for and also experience a sense of connection with those around them.
This course is designed to strengthen the student's ability to develop and provide group counseling in schools for grades K-12. The course is intended for counselors, school psychologists, and educators interested in helping children and youth develop the relationships, skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed for success in school and in life. Concrete step-by-step plans for organizing and leading groups on a wide variety of topics and for all grade levels is provided.
Over half of public school students in the United States have experienced some form of trauma, which is associated with adverse effects on academic performance, behavior, and social emotional learning (SEL). This course is designed to help educators utilize trauma-informed strategies to create an environment that is safe and supportive for students who may have experienced trauma.
Dealing with parents is one of the most difficult tasks for teachers and administrators today. Yet it is essential to know how to handle difficult situations and to establish positive relationships with students' parents. This course will equip teachers and administrators with the skills needed to expertly navigate even the most challenging encounter with parents while feeling that you have made a positive and meaningful impact.
This course is designed for K-12 teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, nurses, coaches, specialists and other educational professionals who seek to enhance their skills in meeting the needs of students who are coping with grief or loss. The course provides helpful, practical, information on the developmental stages and understandings of death, how to talk with students about death, and four important concepts about death for student understanding.
This course is designed for K-12 teachers, administrators, counselors, and other educational professionals who seek to enhance their skills in meeting the needs of students who are experiencing family changes through divorce and remarriage. Educators often play a critical role in providing structure, safety, and compassion for a student whose home life has been disrupted.
This is an empowering course designed to help educators manage anxiety, depression, procrastination, grief, addiction, worry, panic attacks, perfectionism, rejection, insomnia, and chronic pain using practical, evidence-based techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Adverse childhood experiences, neglect, poverty, divorce, and other childhood stresses have radically changed school culture in the past ten years. In his most recent book, Paul Tough gives educators and care-givers practical, research-based ideas and suggestions for strengthening the non-cognitive skills in students like persistence and grit, relationship building, and developing a growth mindset to support social emotional learning (SEL).
With student reading scores declining and attention challenges rising nationwide, many teachers are reexamining the role of technology in the classroom. This course explores practical strategies for creating more focused, connected, and intentional learning experiences with reduced reliance on screens.
Creativity is one of the most important skills educators can cultivate-yet many teachers and leaders have never been taught a practical process for developing it. In The Creative Thinker's Toolkit, you will discover research-based strategies for generating innovative ideas, solving complex challenges, and creating learning environments where creativity thrives.
Thor, Robin Hood, Queen Guinevere, Harry Potter - these are just a sample of the iconic characters that we will encounter in this course, heroes and heroines that have shaped literature, inspired debate, and moved society. In this course designed for teachers of middle and high school students, we will investigate 24 essential hero stories, their origins, and their impacts.
This course is an introductory course for supporting Multilingual Learners in the mainstream early learning classroom, ages 0-6; written for the general education teacher who has a population of MLLs in their mainstream classes, or for the ENL teacher. This foundational course discusses the similarities and differences of first and second language acquisition, asks students to consider the bilingual/multilingual accessibility of their physical classroom environment & school environment as well as how they utilize and incorporate bilingual helpers in their community.
All students should be supported in school socially & emotionally as they develop through their childhood, yet multilingual learners often have particularly challenging circumstances and/or trauma that can affect the educational experience. This course is for teachers of any content area, K-14, who are interested in improving the social & emotional development of multilingual learners simultaneously while they meet content and language targets.
Move beyond surface-level strategies and explore ADHD through a practical, classroom-ready lens in this fully self-paced professional learning course for K-12 educators. Participants will examine how attention, behavior, and executive functioning impact learning in authentic classroom environments and gain research-based approaches that can be implemented immediately.
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