T&L 2900: VIR: A to Z Grant Writing (Instructor-Moderated)

You'll learn how to raise needed funds by discovering how and where to look for potential funders who are a good match for your organization.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: A to Z Grant Writing (Self-Guided)

Learn the ins and outs of grant writing from a veteran grant writer. This course will provide the experience and skills you need to become a successful grant writer as you learn to put together stand-out proposals that will encourage funds from donors.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: A to Z Grant Writing II - Beyond the Basics (Instructor-Moderated)

Are you ready to continue your journey into the world of grants? You will learn how to create a fundraising plan for all types of grant makers. In addition, you will explore websites for finding and reviewing corporate, foundation, and government grant funding opportunities and grant application guidelines.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: A to Z Grant Writing II - Beyond the Basics (Self-Guided)

Are you ready to continue your journey into the world of grants? You will learn how to create a fundraising plan for all types of grant makers. In addition, you will explore websites for finding and reviewing corporate, foundation, and government grant funding opportunities and grant application guidelines.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Advanced Grant Proposal Writing (Instructor-Moderated)

In this course, an experienced grant writer will show you how to research and write winning proposals that get funded. You will become proficient in the proposal format use by the vast majority of public foundations. Learn what to do and what not to do on your cover sheet, narrative, background page, and your stakeholder and third-party evaluation plan.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Advanced Grant Proposal Writing (Self-Guided)

In this course, an experienced grant writer will show you how to research and write winning proposals that get funded. You will become proficient in the proposal format use by the vast majority of public foundations. Learn what to do and what not to do on your cover sheet, narrative, background page, and your stakeholder and third-party evaluation plan.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Blogging and Podcasting for Beginners (Instructor-Moderated)

If you're thinking of starting a blog or just beginning one, this course is for you. Perhaps you'd like to try out podcasting too. You can and it's easy. In this course, you'll learn how to create, manage, and promote your own blog and audio and video podcast using tools that you already have on your computer -- no paid software or equipment is needed.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Blogging and Podcasting for Beginners (Self-Guided)

Blogging and Podcasting for Beginners will teach you how to plan and create you very own blog and podcast. Through hands-on exercises, you will discover the benefits of using free web tools like Blogger, WordPress, Audacity, and YouTube. You will find that creating a blog and podcast is much easier than you ever imagined.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Common Core Standards for English Language Arts K-5 (Instructor-Moderated)

By the end of the course, you'll be confident in your ability to employ the standards in your classroom and in your school. You'll be ready to utilize the best of what's new, keep the best of what you've already got, and enjoy being a great 21st century teacher!

April 1, 2020 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Content Literacy: Grades 6-12 (Instructor-Moderated)

Students must develop literacy skills in order to access, learn, and comprehend. In this course, you'll discover literacy development strategies that will make content come alive for each and every student.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Creating a Classroom Website (Instructor-Moderated)

Learn how to create a classroom website in this fun, easy-to-understand course for teachers. In no time, you will build a site with text, images, animations, tables, links, and more. Then you will create a WebQuest and a blog to add to your site.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Creating a Classroom Website (Self-Guided)

Learn how to create a classroom website in this fun, easy-to-understand course for teachers. In no time, you will build a site with text, images, animations, tables, links, and more. Then you will create a WebQuest and a blog to add to your site.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Creating Classroom Centers (Instructor-Moderated)

In this course, you will learn how to create and implement center activities that boost independent learning in the classroom.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Creating Classroom Centers (Self-Guided)

In this course, you will learn how to create and implement center activities that boost independent learning in the classroom.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success (Instructor-Moderated)

In this professional development course for teachers, you'll get the training you need to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Creating the Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success (Self-Guided)

Get the training you need to reach the diverse mix of students you face every day. You will learn proven strategies for inclusion that turn diversity into opportunity.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom (Instructor-Moderated)

Differentiated instruction (DI) is becoming a mainstay in classrooms across the country as educators are starting to see the ways that the traditional classroom setting limits their ability to reach diverse learners.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom (Self-Guided)

Differentiated instruction (DI) is becoming a mainstay in classrooms across the country as educators are starting to see the ways that the traditional classroom setting limits their ability to reach diverse learners.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Differentiating K-12 Assessments (Instructor-Moderated)

Differentiated assessment is the key to helping every student succeed, and no matter what grade you're teaching, this course will give you the tools you need to gather your assessment data quickly and easily.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Educators Fundamental Series (Instructor-Moderated)

In this learning event you will discover new ideas on solving classroom discipline problems.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Empowering Students with Disabilities (Instructor-Moderated)

Teaching students with disabilities is a rewarding challenge, and this course gives you the tools you'll need to succeed.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Empowering Students with Disabilities (Self-Guided)

Teaching students with disabilities is a rewarding challenge, and this course gives you the tools you'll need to succeed.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Enhancing Language Development in Childhood (Instructor-Moderated)

Follow your child's lead and have fun while enhancing language development. In this fun and user-friendly course for parents, teachers, and caregivers, you will discover how children learn to process language and how they become proficient speakers and thinkers. This course will help you enrich your child's life by stimulating his or her continued speech, brain, and language development in an enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural way.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Enhancing Language Development in Childhood (Self-Guided)

Follow your child's lead and have fun while enhancing language development. This course will help you enrich your child's life by stimulating his or her continued speech, brain, and language development in an enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural way.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Get Grants! (Instructor-Moderated)

In this course, you will learn how to develop successful, grant-fundable proposals.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Get Grants! (Self-Guided)

What makes Gets Grants a different kind of grant writing course? For starters, your instructors have raised millions of dollars in grant funds and will share what they have learned over the years with you. More importantly, we will walk you through both federal and foundation grant writing, pointing out the differences and similarities. In this course, you will learn how to develop successful, grant-fundable proposals.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Grammar Refresher (Instructor-Moderated)

Refine your communication skill, exploring the basics of English grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and concepts like logic and clarity.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Grammar Refresher (Self-Guided)

Develop your English grammar skills and take your writing and speaking to the next level of excellence in this course. This course explores the eight parts of speech, punctuation and mechanics, and foundational sentence construction.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Grammar Refresher II (Instructor-Moderated)

Take your grammar and writing skills to the next level! In this course, you'll review the foundational elements of grammar, including the parts of speech, and master the basics of punctuation and mechanics.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Grammar Refresher II (Self-Guided)

Take your grammar and writing skills to the next level! In this course, you'll review the foundational elements of grammar, including the parts of speech, and master the basics of punctuation and mechanics.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Guided Reading and Writing: Strategies for Maximum Student Achievement (Instructor-Moderated)

Teachers will learn strategies to improve student literacy through turning guided reading strategies into opportunities for teaching writing. The road to literacy is also the road to ingenuity, invention, and imagination, and you'll soon learn how to take your students from groans to grins with creative lesson plans that really work!

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Guided Reading and Writing: Strategies for Maximum Student Achievement (Self-Guided)

In this course, you will examine the reasons reading and writing are so difficult for students. Then you will encounter the total literacy framework and see what it does to mitigate literacy problems. Since this framework is based on guided reading lessons that flow naturally into writing challenges, you will learn to successfully transition from guided readings to writing lessons.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Guided Reading: Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom (Instructor-Moderated)

How do you reach struggling readers? Learn how to combine the principles of differentiated instruction and guided reading with unparalleled success. Build a balanced literary framework that gets results with even the most challenged learners.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Guided Reading: Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom (Self-Guided)

In this course, you will learn differentiated instruction tactics that will help you understand how your students learn. When you apply those tactics within the guided reading framework, which helps you lead students through new ways of approaching text, great things start to happen. The result is a classroom full of students who can negotiate increasingly challenging texts with unprecedented fluency.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Integrating Technology in the Classroom (Instructor-Moderated)

Participants will learn the secrets of technology integration in the classroom, gaining the skills educators need to use tools such as wikis, podcasts, and blogs effectively. You'll discover simple ways to integrate technology to enhance your subject material and meet your course goals. Explore quick-and-easy, standards-based solutions for more interactive lesson plans, exciting WebQuests, and challenging assignments.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Integrating Technology in the Classroom (Self-Guided)

In this teacher professional development course, you will learn the secrets of technology integration in the classroom, gaining the skills educators need to use tools such as wikis, podcasts, and blogs effectively. You will discover simple ways to integrate technology to enhance your subject material and meet your Common Core standards and other course goals.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Instructor-Moderated)

This course will introduce you to various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) and how we interact with AI as consumers in applications like chatbots and recommendation engines. You'll see how AI provides analytics in business and consider industries that may be transformed or even disrupted by AI implementations.

April 1, 2023 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Self-Guided)

This course will introduce you to various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) and how we interact with AI as consumers in applications like chatbots and recommendation engines. You'll see how AI provides analytics in business and consider industries that may be transformed or even disrupted by AI implementations.

April 1, 2023 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Leadership (Instructor-Moderated)

Leadership skills can help you gain the respect and admiration of others, while also allowing you to enjoy success in your career and more control over your destiny. Contrary to popular belief, leadership skills can be learned and developed. Even if you don't hold a leadership position, this course will teach you how to use the principles of great leaders to achieve success in almost every aspect of your daily life.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Leadership (Self-Guided)

Leadership skills can help you gain the respect and admiration of others, while also allowing you to enjoy success in your career and more control over your destiny. Contrary to popular belief, leadership skills can be learned and developed.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Reading Strategies Suite (Instructor-Moderated)

In this six-week course, you'll learn response to intervention (RTI) strategies that ensure the struggling readers in your classroom get the help and education they need.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Ready Set Read (Instructor-Moderated)

Take this opportunity to find out how children really learn to read and write.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Ready Set Read (Self-Guided)

Take this opportunity to find out how children really learn to read and write. Explore current research that cuts through the media messages about reading wars and the right way to teach children. Learn by reading stories about children, doing interactive assignments, and exploring the latest in parent and childcare information.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Response to Intervention: Reading Strategies that Work (Instructor-Moderated)

Learn how to use Response to Intervention to ensure struggling readers get the help they need by bringing in tiered interventions for their reading level and unique challenges. Help students with phonics, fluency, vocabulary mastery, comprehension, and writing.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Response to Intervention: Reading Strategies that Work (Self-Guided)

Whether you're working with struggling readers in kindergarten or 12th grade, you will find that these strategies work with a full 80% of students, without the need for special pull-outs or extra IEP intervention. Why? Because RTI gets to the root of the problem - quickly.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Solving Classroom Discipline Problems (Instructor-Moderated)

Participants in this course will learn a step-by-step approach to effective, positive classroom discipline.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Solving Classroom Discipline Problems (Self-Guided)

Participants in this course will learn a step-by-step approach to effective, positive classroom discipline.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Solving Classroom Discipline Problems, Part 2 (Instructor-Moderated)

Participants will learn how to deal effectively with serious discipline problems and help the most challenging student make responsible choices. Learn a new research-based six-step approach to solve severe and chronic discipline problems. Preventative strategies will be covered.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Solving Classroom Discipline Problems, Part 2 (Self-Guided)

Participants will learn how to deal effectively with serious discipline problems and help the most challenging student make responsible choices. Learn a new research-based six-step approach to solve severe and chronic discipline problems. Preventative strategies will be covered.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Spanish in the Classroom (Instructor-Moderated)

If you struggle to communicate with your Spanish-speaking students and their families, and you don't know your cabeza from your codo (that's your head from your elbow), don't worry - help is here!

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Spanish in the Classroom (Self-Guided)

If you struggle to communicate with your Spanish-speaking students and their families, and you don't know your cabeza from your codo (that's your head from your elbow), don't worry - help is here!

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Kit for New Teachers (Instructor-Moderated)

Whether you're already teaching, a newly credentialed graduate, or a substitute looking to transition to full-time, this course will provide you with proven tools, tips, and tricks to make your early years in the classroom a breeze.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Survival Kit for New Teachers (Self-Guided)

Whether you're already teaching, a newly credentialed graduate, or a substitute looking to transition to full-time, this course will provide you with proven tools, tips, and tricks to make your early years in the classroom a breeze.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching High School Students (Instructor-Moderated)

The course covers a broad range of topics, including differentiated instruction, classroom management and discipline, assessment strategies, and gaining parental support.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Math: Grades 4-6 (Instructor-Moderated)

Reinvent math instruction for grades 4-6 by bringing hands-on learning, inexpensive manipulatives, and real-world connections into your classroom.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Math: Grades 4-6 (Self-Guided)

Reinvent math instruction for grades 4-6 by bringing hands-on learning, inexpensive manipulatives, and real-world connections into your classroom.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Science: Grades 4-6 (Instructor-Moderated)

Join us and learn about the nature and history of science as well as how to help students in this age group grasp the scientific method.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Science: Grades 4-6 (Self-Guided)

Want to increase your effectiveness as a science teacher for the middle grades? Come learn about the nature and history of science as well as how to help students in this age group grasp the scientific method. You'll receive lots of worksheets and specific examples of some great experiments you can use in your own classroom.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Smarter with SMART Boards (Instructor-Moderated)

Having SMART Boards in the classroom and knowing how to use them to provide quality instruction are two different things! If you have a SMART Board in your classroom, but have little training in using it, you may be wondering, "what on earth do I do with it?"

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Smarter with SMART Boards (Self-Guided)

Having SMART Boards in the classroom and knowing how to use them to provide quality instruction are two different things! If you have a SMART Board in your classroom, but have little training in using it, you may be wondering, "what on earth do I do with it?"

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Students with ADHD (Instructor-Moderated)

In this course, you will discover practical ways to help children with ADHD control their behavior and succeed in school. And you will be learning from the real experts: the children themselves.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Students with ADHD (Self-Guided)

In this course, you will discover practical ways to help children with ADHD control their behavior and succeed in school. And you will be learning from the real experts: the children themselves.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Students with Autism: Strategies for Success (Instructor-Moderated)

In this course, you will discover the neurobiology behind these disorders and the way it affects students' behavior, learning, and thinking. Most important, you will learn creative, easy, low-budget strategies to help your students with Autism succeed in the classroom and beyond.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Students with Autism: Strategies for Success (Self-Guided)

In this course, you will discover the neurobiology behind these disorders and the way it affects students' behavior, learning, and thinking. Most important, you will learn creative, easy, low-budget strategies to help your students with Autism succeed in the classroom and beyond.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities (Instructor-Moderated)

This course will teach you how to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities in your classroom. With lessons developed by an experienced special educator, you will explore the special education process, from working with individualized education programs (IEPs) to helping students struggling with reading comprehension, math skills, and writing.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities (Self-Guided)

This course will teach you how to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities in your classroom. With lessons developed by an experienced special educator, you will explore the special education process, from working with individualized education programs (IEPs) to helping students struggling with reading comprehension, math skills, and writing.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Writing: Grades 4-6 (Instructor-Moderated)

engaging lessons for literary response, narrative writing, expository writing, and persuasive writing. Also learn to strengthen your students' writing using technology.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Writing: Grades 4-6 (Self-Guided)

Learn how to motivate and assist developing writers using 6+1 Trait Writing and Writer's Workshop. Develop engaging lessons for literary response, narrative writing, expository writing, and persuasive writing. Also learn to strengthen your students' writing using technology.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Writing: Grades K-3 (Instructor-Moderated)

From the time that a young child picks up a crayon and makes marks on a paper to when an older child puts the finishing sentence on an autobiography or a poem, a young author is developing the skills that will be used for a lifetime.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Teaching Writing: Grades K-3 (Self-Guided)

From the time that a young child picks up a crayon and makes marks on a paper to when an older child puts the finishing sentence on an autobiography or a poem, a young author is developing the skills that will be used for a lifetime.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: The Creative Classroom (Instructor-Moderated)

Learn how to use creativity to teach reading, writing, visual arts, performing arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and physical and health education.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: The Creative Classroom (Self-Guided)

Learn how to use creativity to teach reading, writing, visual arts, performing arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and physical and health education.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: The Differentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention Connection (Instructor-Moderated)

Today's teachers are using two powerful approaches - Differentiated Instruction (DI) and Response to Intervention (RTI) - to help every child succeed academically. In this course, you'll learn how to put this "dynamic duo" to work in your own classroom teaching and lesson plans.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Understanding Adolescents (Instructor-Moderated)

In this course, an experienced social worker will help you gain a deep understanding and appreciation of your adolescent's development and behavior. You'll uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind and gain valuable information on how they think, how they feel, and how their identities develop.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Understanding Adolescents (Self-Guided)

In this course, an experienced social worker will help you gain a deep understanding and appreciation of your adolescent's development and behavior. You'll uncover the secrets of the adolescent mind and gain valuable information on how they think, how they feel, and how their identities develop.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Using the Internet in the Classroom (Instructor-Moderated)

Harness the power of the Internet to make your textbooks and lessons come alive! Teach your students how to locate and evaluate Internet resources. Improve the caliber and amount of discussion through the use of e-mail and discussion boards. Learn how to safeguard your students and their personal information while they are using the Internet. The Internet can make teaching easier--this course will show you how.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026

T&L 2900: VIR: Using the Internet in the Classroom (Self-Guided)

Harness the power of the Internet to make your textbooks and lessons come alive! Teach your students how to locate and evaluate Internet resources.

April 1, 2022 to April 1, 2026