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• Improving Instruction Through Strategic Conversations with Teachers.
  Presented By Robyn Jackson

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  In this course, leaders learn to replace ineffective supervisory models with a new model of strategic conversations designed to quickly assess and understand the primary needs of staff. Dr. Jackson defines and models four conversational types with four types of teachers to demonstrate how teachers can learn to recognize the impact of their teaching behaviors on student achievement.
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• Managing It All: Students, Curriculum and Time.
  Presented By Debbie Silver

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  In this course, educators will learn to head off discipline problems before they occur using student-centered discipline techniques. With strategies in place for managing the classroom, they will learn to design high-quality curriculum, integrating standards, using backwards design principles, and developing activities suited to different learning styles. Finally, educators will learn how to evaluate and prioritize their own activities, delegate, and make time to reach their personal and professional goals.
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• Charlotte Danielson's A Framework for Teaching.
  Presented By Charlotte Danielson

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  In this course, you will experience A Framework for Teaching, not only through Danielson’s words, but through the discussions, observations, and interviews of educators who have incorporated the concepts into their daily practice.  The course also includes real classroom footage and opportunities for self-reflection and active learning with a teacher panel, helping you become the best teacher you can be.
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• Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum.
  Presented By Elizabeth Jimenez

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  This course presents a dynamic look at teaching English language learners, teaching educators to increase the effectiveness of instructional delivery and to create a culturally responsive classroom.  Incorporated into the course are classroom visits that illustrate the principles presented in the course, discussion panels with teachers and middle school students. plus an interview with an actual student on his experience as an English language learner.
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• Motivating Underachievers Using Response to Intervention and Differentiated Instruction.
  Presented By Carolyn Coil

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  In this course, you will explore underachiever patterns and prototypes, illustrated through student profiles drawn from Coil's real life experiences.  You will learn to identify the underachievers in your classroom, including gifted students and those identified for special education. You will also learn to employ targeted intervention strategies and key progress-monitoring techniques, to help students succeed.
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• Setting the Stage for Teaching ELLs Across the Curriculum.
  Presented By Elizabeth Jimenez

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  In this course, educators learn the foundations of language development and language acquisition, setting the stage for developing instructional strategies that are more comprehensible for ELL students across all subject areas. Jimenez demonstrates strategies for assessing students’ knowledge, identifying language learning objectives, and developing differentiated instructional practices that address the varying levels of language proficiency often present in a typical classroom.
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• Making and Using Digital Video for Engaging Learning.
  Presented By Rushton Hurley

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Video can provide highly engaging access to knowledge—particularly when students are the videographers. This course is designed to help students consider the various tools and approaches one can take with video production, focusing on the use of free tools. By the end of the course, educators will have created at least two videos of sufficient quality to meet the standards of Next Vista for Learning, a site with a free collection of videos made by and for teachers and students.
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• Digital Learning: Empowering Teachers for the 21st Century.
  Presented By Ferdi Serim

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  School leaders face the immediate challenges of raising student achievement while also preparing students for success in a digital age. In this course, educators learn about the visible thinking process which provides a practical pathway for developing 21st century skills and simultaneously strengthening student core subject-area learning. Educators also learn to implement research-based, evidence-based practice to strengthen and assess the ISTE NETS-Standards.
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• Authentic Innovation in the 21st Century Classroom.
  Presented By Cheryl Lemke

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  In this course, educators learn from classroom footage and lecture how to use technologically advanced tools that extend students’ thinking by serving as a means to explore ideas, research questions, test hypotheses, compose thoughts, and come to conclusions. Educators will learn to teach their students to use these tools as vehicles for exploring rigorous academic concepts in the world around them, helping their students become genuine innovators who will thrive in the 21st century culture of collaboration.
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• Technology Applications for Teaching and Supporting the Struggling Reader.
  Presented By Ted Hasselbring and Margaret Bausch

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Too many students are entering middle and high schools with such deficits in literacy skills that they are unable to participate in grade-level learning. In this course, research on how the human brain is restructured during the process of learning to read is presented. The course then shows how this research can be applied to better use technology to enhance literacy instruction for all readers, especially struggling ones.
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• Understanding the Digital Generation: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape.
  Presented By Ian Jukes

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Because of digital bombardment and the emergence of the new digital landscape, "digital natives" process information, interact, and communicate in fundamentally different ways than any previous generations. In this course, Ian Jukes introduces neuroscientific and psychological research that explains how the use of technology, including frequent interruptions and shifts in attention, impacts the functions of the brain.
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• Data-Driven Decision Making: Implementing Strategies for Student Achievement.
  Presented By Lee Jenkins

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Add To Cart
  

  Lee Jenkins, former school superintendent, explains how students can achieve higher academic success in less time. Educators will learn to identify the root causes of educational failure, eliminate those causes, and implement solutions using the LtoJ® Process. They learn to modify and focus their instructions by capturing and analyzing student data in the form of graphs, charts, scatter diagrams, and histograms. By setting high standards, students achieve high success rates as they become actively involved in tracking their progress and supporting their classmates to achieve their all-time best scores.
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• Teaching, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age.
  Presented By Meg Ormiston

  

  Recertification Course $149.00 $99.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  Graduate Credit Course (3 credits) $399.00 Details | Syllabus | Add To Cart
  

  In this course, teachers and administrators learn to engage and educate the millennial learner using still images, video and audio clips, assorted technological soft- and hardware, and Web 2.0 collaborative tools to augment instruction and assessment. Aided by energetic panel discussions, interviews, and screen capture sessions, educators will investigate new projects and resources to replace textbook-driven instruction and to motivate and edify their "powered up" 21st century students.
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