AI for Assessment and Feedback 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn to use AI to create clearer rubrics, richer feedback, and assessments that reveal genuine student thinking. This course helps K-12 educators draft and refine rubrics, generate and improve feedback, and design assessment tasks tailored to their students and content. AI for Instructional Design 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn to use AI as a planning partner to design lessons that are more creative, more tailored to your students, and developed more efficiently. This course helps K-12 educators generate lesson ideas, sharpen learning objectives, and apply professional judgment to shape AI-generated content into rigorous, classroom-ready instruction. AI for Professional Communication 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn to use AI to draft communication that is clearer, faster to produce, and better tailored to each audience. This course helps K-12 educators create assignment instructions, family communication, and student support materials with accuracy, appropriate tone, and their own professional voice. AI in Plain English 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Develop a clear, practical understanding of artificial intelligence and its implications for teaching and learning. This course helps K-12 educators explain AI in accessible language, understand how AI systems work and where they fall short, and recognize why human judgment, ethics, and instructional expertise remain essential in AI-rich classrooms. Applied Alternative Dispute Resolution 12/28/26 - 01/15/27 This course presents conflict resolution skills, models, and procedures in a practice-based approach. Students build expertise in mediation, negotiation, and facilitation while also strengthening durable skills such as communication, problem-solving, and ethical decision-making. Completion of the course meets Kansas Office of Dispute Resolutions training requirements for core mediation approval under the Dispute Resolution Act, K.S.A. 5-509 and Rule 911. The learning experience emphasizes both technical approaches and transferable skills that support effective conflict management across professional settings. Building AI Student Academic Coaches Registration is not available at this time. Learn to design AI tools that guide students through thinking, practice, and revision. This course helps K-12 educators build structured, safe AI study partners with clear guardrails that support genuine learning and student growth. Building AI Teacher Assistants Registration is not available at this time. Learn to design AI-supported workflows that make planning, feedback, and analysis more efficient and more responsive to your students. This course helps K-12 educators build practical, professional AI tools while keeping their expertise and judgment at the center of every decision. Building AI Teaching Ecosystems Registration is not available at this time. Learn to design a coherent AI-supported system that connects instruction, assessment, and communication around your goals for students. This capstone course helps K-12 educators build a sustainable, learning-focused practice that reflects their own students and context. Community Peacebuidling Registration is not available at this time. This course will examine how people actively build peace in their communities and beyond. It will highlight community-centered approaches, applied peacebuilding practices, and the evolving role of AI and emerging technologies in conflict transformation. Students will engage in real-world challenges, develop practical skills, and collaborate on solutions that strengthen communities and support people building peace at local and global levels. Culture and Conflict 03/22/27 - 05/14/27 This course explores how culture shapes the way individuals and groups perceive, experience, and resolve conflict. Learners examine cross-cultural theories, communication patterns, and the impact of variables such as gender, race, colonialism, and power on conflict processes. Emphasis is placed on developing cultural fluency, recognizing personal biases, and applying culturally sensitive strategies to conflict situations. Students build on durable skills such as critical thinking, intercultural communication, and ethical decision-making while analyzing real-world case studies and conducting a cultural interview project. Family and Domestic Mediation 01/19/27 - 05/14/27 This microcredential equips learners with an understanding of divorce mediation, a practice that began in the early 1970s. Mediation allows couples to create their divorce settlements through a cooperative, confidential, and private process that prioritizes the current and future needs of parents and children. It recognizes divorce as a family issue rather than a legal one, empowering those involved to take responsibility for solving their problems. Foundations of Trauma and Traumatic Stress 01/19/27 - 03/12/27 This course examines the foundations of trauma and traumatic stress, exploring how individuals, families, and communities experience, respond to, and recover from trauma. Learners analyze historical, theoretical, and diagnostic frameworks for understanding trauma, including the evolution of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma-informed approaches to care. Emphasis is placed on recognizing risk and resilience factors, ethical considerations in working with trauma survivors, and the importance of self-care for helping professionals. Students strengthen durable skills in empathy, critical thinking, and reflective practice while developing practical competencies in trauma assessment, resilience-building, and intervention planning. Interacting Effectively with AI 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn how to interact with AI effectively through thoughtful prompting, structured dialogue, and critical evaluation. This course helps educators develop human-centered AI interaction habits that strengthen learning, preserve instructional integrity, and reinforce the importance of human expertise in AI-mediated environments. Interpersonal Conflict Skills and Strategies 01/19/27 - 03/12/27 This course develops communication theories and interpersonal skills essential for conflict resolution. Students strengthen durable skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, and emotional intelligence while learning to analyze, manage, and de-escalate interpersonal conflict. Content emphasizes ethical decision-making and the influence of culture, power, and emotion on communication. Organizational Conflict Registration is not available at this time. This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the theories, methods, research, and practice issues involved in identifying and assessing sources of conflict, and designing and implementing intervention plans in organizations and groups experiencing conflict. The organizations explored will include businesses, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, municipalities, and community groups. Students will learn about organizations, organizational development, and organizational psychology. Causes and consequences of conflict within organizations, dispute systems assessment and design, and how conflict resolution professionals work as interveners and agents of change will be the primary focus of the course. It is expected that this course will prepare students to: identify their own professional consultation strengths and interests, assess conflict, and build and evaluate dispute resolution systems. Safe, Ethical, and Responsible AI 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn how to use AI safely, ethically, and responsibly in K-12 classrooms and schools. This course helps educators establish clear expectations for AI use, protect student privacy, evaluate bias and fairness concerns, and make sound instructional decisions using the WISE AI Literacy Framework. Storytelling and Peacebuilding Registration is not available at this time. This course explores storytelling as a tool for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Learners analyze how narratives shape identity, power, and meaning, and examine storytelling methods such as photovoice, digital media, music, and theatre. Emphasis is placed on applying storytelling strategies to address trauma, foster solidarity, and promote reconciliation across diverse contexts. Students build on durable skills in reflection, intercultural communication, and ethical decision-making while developing applied projects that integrate theory and practice. Violence Prevention and Intervention 03/22/27 - 05/14/27 This course explores the causes, consequences, and prevention of violence across individual, family, group, and societal levels. Learners analyze theories of aggression and nonviolence, examine human rights frameworks, and apply evidence-based strategies for intervention and prevention. Emphasis is placed on fostering empathy, ethical decision-making, and trauma-informed approaches that promote nonviolent social change. Students strengthen durable skills in critical thinking, intercultural communication, and emotional intelligence while developing practical competencies in conflict diagnosis, violence assessment, and intervention planning.

AI for Assessment and Feedback 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn to use AI to create clearer rubrics, richer feedback, and assessments that reveal genuine student thinking. This course helps K-12 educators draft and refine rubrics, generate and improve feedback, and design assessment tasks tailored to their students and content.

AI for Instructional Design 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn to use AI as a planning partner to design lessons that are more creative, more tailored to your students, and developed more efficiently. This course helps K-12 educators generate lesson ideas, sharpen learning objectives, and apply professional judgment to shape AI-generated content into rigorous, classroom-ready instruction.

AI for Professional Communication 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn to use AI to draft communication that is clearer, faster to produce, and better tailored to each audience. This course helps K-12 educators create assignment instructions, family communication, and student support materials with accuracy, appropriate tone, and their own professional voice.

AI in Plain English 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Develop a clear, practical understanding of artificial intelligence and its implications for teaching and learning. This course helps K-12 educators explain AI in accessible language, understand how AI systems work and where they fall short, and recognize why human judgment, ethics, and instructional expertise remain essential in AI-rich classrooms.

Applied Alternative Dispute Resolution 12/28/26 - 01/15/27 This course presents conflict resolution skills, models, and procedures in a practice-based approach. Students build expertise in mediation, negotiation, and facilitation while also strengthening durable skills such as communication, problem-solving, and ethical decision-making. Completion of the course meets Kansas Office of Dispute Resolutions training requirements for core mediation approval under the Dispute Resolution Act, K.S.A. 5-509 and Rule 911. The learning experience emphasizes both technical approaches and transferable skills that support effective conflict management across professional settings.

Building AI Student Academic Coaches Registration is not available at this time. Learn to design AI tools that guide students through thinking, practice, and revision. This course helps K-12 educators build structured, safe AI study partners with clear guardrails that support genuine learning and student growth.

Building AI Teacher Assistants Registration is not available at this time. Learn to design AI-supported workflows that make planning, feedback, and analysis more efficient and more responsive to your students. This course helps K-12 educators build practical, professional AI tools while keeping their expertise and judgment at the center of every decision.

Building AI Teaching Ecosystems Registration is not available at this time. Learn to design a coherent AI-supported system that connects instruction, assessment, and communication around your goals for students. This capstone course helps K-12 educators build a sustainable, learning-focused practice that reflects their own students and context.

Community Peacebuidling Registration is not available at this time. This course will examine how people actively build peace in their communities and beyond. It will highlight community-centered approaches, applied peacebuilding practices, and the evolving role of AI and emerging technologies in conflict transformation. Students will engage in real-world challenges, develop practical skills, and collaborate on solutions that strengthen communities and support people building peace at local and global levels.

Culture and Conflict 03/22/27 - 05/14/27 This course explores how culture shapes the way individuals and groups perceive, experience, and resolve conflict. Learners examine cross-cultural theories, communication patterns, and the impact of variables such as gender, race, colonialism, and power on conflict processes. Emphasis is placed on developing cultural fluency, recognizing personal biases, and applying culturally sensitive strategies to conflict situations. Students build on durable skills such as critical thinking, intercultural communication, and ethical decision-making while analyzing real-world case studies and conducting a cultural interview project.

Family and Domestic Mediation 01/19/27 - 05/14/27 This microcredential equips learners with an understanding of divorce mediation, a practice that began in the early 1970s. Mediation allows couples to create their divorce settlements through a cooperative, confidential, and private process that prioritizes the current and future needs of parents and children. It recognizes divorce as a family issue rather than a legal one, empowering those involved to take responsibility for solving their problems.

Foundations of Trauma and Traumatic Stress 01/19/27 - 03/12/27 This course examines the foundations of trauma and traumatic stress, exploring how individuals, families, and communities experience, respond to, and recover from trauma. Learners analyze historical, theoretical, and diagnostic frameworks for understanding trauma, including the evolution of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma-informed approaches to care. Emphasis is placed on recognizing risk and resilience factors, ethical considerations in working with trauma survivors, and the importance of self-care for helping professionals. Students strengthen durable skills in empathy, critical thinking, and reflective practice while developing practical competencies in trauma assessment, resilience-building, and intervention planning.

Interacting Effectively with AI 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn how to interact with AI effectively through thoughtful prompting, structured dialogue, and critical evaluation. This course helps educators develop human-centered AI interaction habits that strengthen learning, preserve instructional integrity, and reinforce the importance of human expertise in AI-mediated environments.

Interpersonal Conflict Skills and Strategies 01/19/27 - 03/12/27 This course develops communication theories and interpersonal skills essential for conflict resolution. Students strengthen durable skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, and emotional intelligence while learning to analyze, manage, and de-escalate interpersonal conflict. Content emphasizes ethical decision-making and the influence of culture, power, and emotion on communication.

Organizational Conflict Registration is not available at this time. This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the theories, methods, research, and practice issues involved in identifying and assessing sources of conflict, and designing and implementing intervention plans in organizations and groups experiencing conflict. The organizations explored will include businesses, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, municipalities, and community groups. Students will learn about organizations, organizational development, and organizational psychology. Causes and consequences of conflict within organizations, dispute systems assessment and design, and how conflict resolution professionals work as interveners and agents of change will be the primary focus of the course. It is expected that this course will prepare students to: identify their own professional consultation strengths and interests, assess conflict, and build and evaluate dispute resolution systems.

Safe, Ethical, and Responsible AI 09/01/26 - 05/01/27 Learn how to use AI safely, ethically, and responsibly in K-12 classrooms and schools. This course helps educators establish clear expectations for AI use, protect student privacy, evaluate bias and fairness concerns, and make sound instructional decisions using the WISE AI Literacy Framework.

Storytelling and Peacebuilding Registration is not available at this time. This course explores storytelling as a tool for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Learners analyze how narratives shape identity, power, and meaning, and examine storytelling methods such as photovoice, digital media, music, and theatre. Emphasis is placed on applying storytelling strategies to address trauma, foster solidarity, and promote reconciliation across diverse contexts. Students build on durable skills in reflection, intercultural communication, and ethical decision-making while developing applied projects that integrate theory and practice.

Violence Prevention and Intervention 03/22/27 - 05/14/27 This course explores the causes, consequences, and prevention of violence across individual, family, group, and societal levels. Learners analyze theories of aggression and nonviolence, examine human rights frameworks, and apply evidence-based strategies for intervention and prevention. Emphasis is placed on fostering empathy, ethical decision-making, and trauma-informed approaches that promote nonviolent social change. Students strengthen durable skills in critical thinking, intercultural communication, and emotional intelligence while developing practical competencies in conflict diagnosis, violence assessment, and intervention planning.