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SPARKecademy (up to 30 clock hours) Added 04/02/2020 

Intended Audience: Certificated PE Teachers K-12th Grade 

SPARKecademy is a professional development resource for K-12 Physical Educators.  There are a vast number of modules within the SPARKecademy platform for educators to customize their professional learning. Through these modules. participants will consider how the learning targets connect with CCSS for physical education and incorporate these into lesson plans. Participants will learn to incorporate new strategies to engage students in physical activity as well as how to communicate with parents to continue physical education learning at home. 

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NISE STEM Online Course: Writing in STEM (3 clock hours): 

Intended Audience: K-12th Grade 

Learn how to use a variety of writing strategies to help K-12 students become better writers of informational text. Create a customized planning tool to support writing integration across subjects. Participants will Incorporate writing strategies across STEM disciplines to increase student achievement and prepare for careers in STEM, create a list of text resources to help students master state standards in STEM disciplines and ELA, and come away with list of strategies to for use in STEM lessons. 

NISE STEM Online Course: Reading in STEM (3 clock hours) 

Intended Audience: K-12th Grade 

Explore how to use primary and secondary text resources with students while implementing a variety of comprehension strategies aligned to varying purposes for reading. Develop a customized tool to support the use of reading resources for STEM learning. Participants will Incorporate reading strategies across STEM disciplines to increase student achievement and prepare for careers in STEM, create a list of text resources to help students master state standards in STEM disciplines and ELA, and come away with a list of strategies for use in STEM lessons. 

NISE STEM Online Course: Questioning Strategies (3 clock hours) 

Intended Audience: K-12th Grade 

Explore several educational taxonomies and questioning techniques that will foster students’ critical thinking and lead to more productive classroom discussions. Develop a personalized planning tool that focuses on developing multi-leveled questions and intentionally selecting discussion formats aligned to grade-level standards to stimulate students’ thinking and participation in robust discourse. Participants will explore questioning techniques to foster critical thinking and lead to productive class discussions across STEM disciplines, create a customized planning tool to develop multi-level questions across STEM disciplines, and finally, with intentionality, discuss form aligned grade-level standards to stimulate student thinking and discourse across STEM disciplines. 

NISE STEM Online Course: Argumentation (3 clock hours) 

Intended Audience: K-12th Grade 

Learn protocols that help students positively and productively develop, analyze, critique, and defend arguments. Create a customized tool to develop appropriate goals for your students’ use of argumentation while outlining strategies to accomplish these goals. Participants will develop a plan to provide students with 21st century skill of argumentation across STEM disciplines and in STEM careers, create customized tools for identification of developmentally appropriate goals for student use of argumentation across STEM disciplines, and outline strategies to support goals for the use of argumentation across STEM disciplines. 

NISE STEM Online Course: Engineering Solutions (3 clock hours) Added 03/26/2020 

Intended Audience: K-12th Grade 

Explore the role of the Engineering Design Process (EDP) to address real-world problems while learning how to realistically integrate the EDP into your classroom instruction and develop students’ mastery in its use. Create a customized tool for planning instruction with the EDP. Participants will learn to incorporate the Engineering Design Process into classroom instruction and create a tool to for planning instruction with the EDP. 

STEM for All- ASCD PD Online Course (20 clock hours) 

Intended Audience: Certificated K-12th Grade 

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers are a growing segment of 

the U.S. job market; however, the United States currently lacks the talent to fill a portion of these positions. Integrating STEM into the K–12 curriculum is imperative if the United States wants to cultivate its own talent. This course, STEM for All, outlines the value of integrating STEM into the curriculum at each grade level and offers examples of STEM integration in the classroom and through cocurricular opportunities. This course emphasizes also that STEM integration needs to move beyond the math and science classrooms and students who seek it out. Educators need to make sure STEM concepts are accessible to all students, including those who are presently underrepresented in STEM-based careers. STEM components need to be a part of curriculum and assessments to ensure success outside the classroom. STEM competency is essential to the continued growth of our nation; therefore, it should be encouraged and accessible to all students in all arenas. 

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HiCap PJ PD: Pedagogies and Strategies (up to 26 clock hours:

Intended Audience: Certificated K-12th Grade

This course includes an orientation session and the option to access up to 25 additional clock hours about strategies for teaching highly capable learners. After attending the one-hour orientation, you will be able to access up to six professional development modules created by some of the leading HiCap experts in Washington state and the nation. These modules will cover the following topics:

• Module 1: Creating Environments for Diverse Learning Needs (TPEP 2a-d, 4a)
• Module 2: Social and Emotional Learning Strategies (TPEP 1b-c, 3e, 4a)
• Module 3: Using Assessment to Make Instructional Decisions (TPEP 1e-f, 3d, 4a)
• Module 4: Inquiry-Based Instructional Approaches (TPEP 1c, 1e, 3b-c, 4a)
• Module 5: Integrating Individual or Small Group Investigations (TPEP 1c, 1e, 3b-c, 4a)
• Module 6: Promoting Creativity (TPEP 1b, 3c, 3e)

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(Course Closed) RRCNA e-Learning (up to 64.75 clock hours)

Intended Audience: K-2nd Grade teachers/ Literacy Coaches

RRCNA offers an e-Learning Center that allows you to customize and track your on-line professional development. There are over 40 video resources to help you meet your learning goals. Search your topic, including a variety of classroom literacy topics, select a session and start learning! Simply view the video, complete a quick quiz and print a certificate of completion. Clock hours are available. Examples of classroom topics include: Incorporating Word Work into Guided Reading, Teaching Writers to Self-Monitor, A Fresh Look at Teaching English Learners, Dive Deeper into Comprehension, Meeting Individual Needs in Small Group, Letter and Word Learning in the Early Literacy Classroom…and many, many more!

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Curriculum Enhancements for CTE Programs (Up to 36 Clock Hours) 

Intended Audience: Secondary Certificated Teachers 

Major topics to be covered in this course are as follows: 

1. Creating and/or updating CTE Frameworks for individual program approval/reapproval 
2. Preparing Equivalency documents to update or apply for Art, Math, Health, or Science 
3. Program safety self-audit—are you ready?  - Teachers will have an opportunity to work through a checklist in preparation of an audit 
4. Creating safety training plans and checklists 
5. Student safety certifications for industry and/or Professional Certifications for teachers 

Participants of this course will: 

1. be current in their knowledge of state and industry Academic and Century 21 standards. 
2. study and prepare the Equivalency documentation needed to present to collaborating department. 
3. be able to evaluate their own program for a safety audit, identifying connecting training plans, checklists that lead to identified industry Certifications. 
4. research certifications for students or staff that are industry recognized credentials 

Renaissance University- STAR Testing, Reports, and Data Interpretation Modules (Up to 7.5 clock hours) 

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated 

Learn more about how Renaissance-U can help educators reach their goals and improve student learning this school year. Ten modules span topics such as, The Essentials of How STAR Assessments Work, Preparing to Work with Data, Using Learning Progressions to Inform Instruction, Goal Setting and Progress Monitoring, and Measuring Growth and Interpreting Change, to name a few.  Participants will self-pace and work through the modules of interest to them.  Once the course is completed, participants will understand the purpose of and how to administer the STAR tests, access reports and interpret data from STAR tests their students have taken, and will be able to monitor student progress and growth goals in relation to STAR achievement data. 

Streamline efficiency with Office 365 apps (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

Learn how to create, share, and sync a document on OneDrive for Business, and use other OneDrive and Office Online features. Explore key features in Office 365. Discover how Office 365 apps can support student learning. 

Getting Started with OneNote (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

Learn how OneNote is organized and how to quickly find materials within notebooks. Create, add, and share pages and content. Utilize digital ink and the replace features. 

OneNote Class Notebook: A Teacher’s all-in-one Notebook for Students (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

Learn how OneNote Class Notebook enables teachers to organize, grade, and assess student work with ease. Learn OneNote strategies that engage students in content. 

Microsoft Forms: Creating Authentic Assessments (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

Discover how to use Microsoft Forms to create formative and summative assessments. Understand how to share or duplicate Microsoft Forms to Collaborate with colleagues. Create assessments aligned to standard using the education resources tool.  

Office 365 Teacher Academy (11.8 clock hours)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

Office 365 provides the right environment for better learning outcomes. In this learning path, educators will learn how to become more innovative with cloud-based tools, regardless of the device they use. In this course, learn how to use basic features of Office 365 including Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Sway, Microsoft Forms, Office Online and OneDrive. 

OneNote Teacher Academy (4.5 clock hours)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

In this learning path, you will be learn to navigate within the OneNote Windows 10 app structure, use OneNote tools effectively, create lesson plans, assessments, and learning activities using various tools in OneNote, create notebooks for student and teacher collaboration using OneNote Class Notebook, create notebooks for collaboration between the staff members using OneNote Staff Notebook.

Empower Every Student with an inclusive classroom (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

This course is designed for educators of all subject areas who want to empower students to utilize tools to unlock their full potential by addressing a diversity of needs. 

Transform Learning with Microsoft Teams (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

Learn about Microsoft Teams and how it can be used in classrooms and schools.  

Getting started with Office 365 and Windows (4.5 clock hours)

Intended Audience: K-12 Certificated Staff

Are you brand new to Office 365 for education? Get up and running quickly with the tools that will equip your students for success today and tomorrow. Microsoft Teams, OneNote, and Forms will allow you to build a collaborative classroom that empowers learners to work together, access resources and for you to quickly assess their learning and provide individualized feedback. Once you complete this learning path, we recommend the "Level up with Office 365 and Windows" learning path next. 

Level up with Office 365 and Windows (4.5 clock hours)

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Staff

Now that you are up and running with Microsoft Teams, OneNote and Forms, empower every voice with Flipgrid and provide real-time feedback using class Teams and class notebooks. Turn your classroom into a dynamic learning environment that allows you to know how each student is progressing.

Presentation Design 101: How to create visual slides with impact (10 hours) * Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Staff

A free comprehensive course for non-designers on how to combine text and images like a pro. Full of visual examples, cheat sheets and case studies, this step-by-step visual guide will show you practical design tricks for creating visual slides that complement your oral message. 

STEM Level I (10 hours) * Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Teachers

This learning path is designed for the educator who has little or no experience using technology in the classroom to support STEM learning objectives. It provides the basic knowledge needed to start incorporating computational thinking, basic computer science, some physical computing, Minecraft and more into his or her classroom. 

STEM Level II (8 hours) * Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Teachers

This learning path is designed to provide the educator who has some experience using technology in the classroom to support STEM learning objectives to move beyond basic concepts. It includes the full My Minecraft Journey, how to create maker challenges to infuse computational thinking into the classroom and the basics of programming and computer science with both LEGO Education and MakeCode. 

STEM Level III (4.3 hours) * Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Teachers 

This learning path is designed to provide the educator with an advanced set of skills and knowledge for how to use technology in the classroom to support STEM learning objectives. This learning path includes all of the courses from STEM Level I and STEM Level II along with Minecraft and STEM, Digital Storytelling in STEM and Microsoft Imagine Academy. 

Independent learning with math tools in OneNote (1 hour)* Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Staff

Imagine a world where you can ensure that every student has the ability to see the steps to solve an equation anytime they need. No need to imagine any more! The OneNote Math button will empower your students to be independent learners. The math button not only helps students know if the equation is correct, but it also shows the steps needed to solve an equation. In this course, educators learn how to empower students to be independent learners through the use of the math button in OneNote. 

Digital Citizenship (.5 hour)* Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Staff

Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students for a society full of technology. 

OneNote Staff Notebook: Tools for staff collaboration (.5 hour)* Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Staff

Learn how to collaborate with colleagues or staff using OneNote. OneNote Staff Notebooks have a personal workspace for every staff member or teacher, a content library for shared information, and a collaboration space for everyone to work together, all within one powerful notebook. 

Crafting a collaborative learning environment with Class Teams (1 hour)* Added 3/31/2020 

Intended Audiece: K-12 Certificated Staff

Microsoft Class Teams enables teachers to collaborate with students while seamlessly integrating assignments, assessments, and applications directly into the Team 

Gang Identification and Intervention (3 clock hours) Added 04/03/2020 

Intended Audience: Classified, Certificated, Administrative K-12th Grade  

Local community member, Mr. Jesse Campos, discusses current trends involving at-risk youth and gang activity. Mr. Campos also shares effective strategies for interacting with at-risk youth and gang members within our communities. This training also includes information from a panel of former gang members that discuss what is needed in our community to help our youth struggling with gang-related challenges. Participants in the course will learn to identify current trends involving at-risk youth and gang activity as well as identify effective strategies for interacting with at-risk youth and gang members within our community. 

Character Strong Virtual Summit: Available April 13, 2020 – April 24, 2020 

(12.5 Clock Hours) Added 03/31/2020 

Intended Audience: All Staff- Administrators, Certificated, Classified K-12th Grade 

Character Strong is hosting a Whole Child Virtual Summit on April 13-24. During this event, participants will have an opportunity to hear from a variety of speakers regarding the importance of educating the Whole Child and building a positive school culture. Participants will gain understanding of the importance in educating the Whole Child and the importance of building a positive school culture, as well as identify strategies to achieve both. 

FBA to BIP for Behavior Specialists and Counselors (up to 8.5 clock hours) Added 03/26/2020 

Intended Audience: Certificated K-12th Grade Behavior Specialists and Counselors

This seven-module series helps participants increase their understanding around identifying functions of behavior and behavior intervention planning. Module topics include the following: understanding behavior, FBA Interviews, FBA observations, function-based interventions, behavior intervention strategies, implementation planning, and evaluation planning. Upon completing this course, participants will, understand the different functions of behavior and how to complete the Functional Assessment Checklist for Teachers and Staff. Participants will be able to identify function-based interventions and behavior intervention strategies, and lead function-based intervention planning. 

Basic FBA to BIP School-wide Training (3 clock hours) Added 03/26/2020

Intended Audience: Certificated and Administration K-12th Grade 

This two-module series helps participants increase their understanding around identifying functions of behavior and behavior intervention planning. Upon completion of this course, participants will understand the different functions of behavior and be able to identify function-based interventions as well as behavior intervention strategies. This will result in the ability to lead function-based intervention planning. 

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Streamline efficiency with Office 365 apps (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: Classified K-12 Grade

Learn how to create, share, and sync a document on OneDrive for Business, and use other OneDrive and Office Online features. Explore key features in Office 365. Discover how Office 365 apps can support student learning.

Getting Started with OneNote (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: Classified K-12 Grade

Learn how OneNote is organized and how to quickly find materials within notebooks. Create, add, and share pages and content. Utilize digital ink and the replace features.

Microsoft Forms: Creating Authentic Assessments (1 clock hour)

Intended Audience: Classified K-12 Grade

Discover how to use Microsoft Forms to create formative and summative assessments. Understand how to share or duplicate Microsoft Forms to Collaborate with colleagues. Create assessments aligned to standard using the education resources tool.

Office 365 Teacher Academy (11.8 clock hours)

Intended Audience: Classified K-12 Grade

Office 365 provides the right environment for better learning outcomes. In this learning path, educators will learn how to become more innovative with cloud-based tools, regardless of the device they use. In this course, learn how to use basic features of Office 365 including Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Sway, Microsoft Forms, Office Online and OneDrive.

Week of March 30, 2020

 

PD Courses Sponsored by OSPI

 

Understanding and Recognizing Dyslexia (2 clock hours)

 

Glean Education has graciously extended their offering of the Understanding Dyslexia course to April 15, 2020 for free!

 $35.00 beginning April 16, 2020

 

Administered by OSPI

 

Description

In this online, self-guided course you will learn what dyslexia is, what it isn't, and how to support it in your classroom.

Topics Covered: 

• Introduction to Understanding and Recognizing Dyslexia
• Dyslexia Simulation
• What Dyslexia Is
• What Dyslexia Isn't
• Dyslexia in the Gen Ed Classroom
• End of Course Survey
• Additional Resources

Click here to enroll: https://courses.gleaneducation.com/courses/dyslexia?coupon=WATeachMarch2020

 

OSPI is offering 2 free clock hours to educators who complete the course.  To receive the clock hours, you must do one extra step and register on pdEnroller as well as Glean Education. The OSPI and Glean systems are not connected. The ELA Office will manually validate each course completion the week of April 6-10, 2020. 

If you are currently registered on pdEnroller, please use the same email address when registering on the Glean Education platform. 

Link to pdEnroller:

https://www.pdenroller.org/ospi/catalog/event/102814

*Please note the course dates on pdEnroller can not be changed, the pdEnroller registration will be available until April 15, 2020.

Cost: Free

 

LTSC: An Introduction to Close Reading (4 clock hours)

Presenter: Kim Kellogg

Description: OSPI worked closely with the nine ESDs to develop content-specific online learning for educators during Long-Term School Closure (LTSC).  This online course is a result of that collaboration. This workshop will focus on effective implementation of close reading skills and strategies. Participants will learn about the phases of close reading and how these link to the ELA CCSS, ways to annotate texts, and how to create text-dependent questions for literary and informational texts. 

This course will be offered via Canvas. Participants may complete the course at their own pace. There will be a Zoom check-in between participants and the instructor.

Target audience: 3rd-high school educators and TOSAs.

Dates: Mon, April 6 2020 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

Click here to enroll: https://www.pdenroller.org/nwesd/Catalog/Event/102966

 

Teaching English Language Arts Virtually: Collaborating for Effective Practice (3 clock hours)

Dates:  April 7, 21, 28  2:00-3:00 pm (a total of three one-hour sessions)                                       There will be other offerings, click on link below to fill out survey.

Presenter: Molly Berger

Description: Designed as a community of practice (CoP), participants will share ideas, successes and challenges in teaching ELA virtually. Sessions will be live through Zoom and limited to 10 participants. Additional groups will be created according to meeting time preferences.

3 one-hour live, online sessions via Zoom. Participants must have a laptop or tablet with a stable internet connection. They will need to connect with a camera and microphone as well or a cell phone. . Three one hour sessions are planned but may be extended if the group would like.

Click here to enroll:  https://www.pdenroller.org/catalog/event/102882

 

Kids at Hope: Free Online Hope Forums- Strategies for Life’s Challenges (clock hours not available)

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

ERIN GRUWELL

Special Guest: Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of New York Times bestselling book, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. Erin’s experience inspired the major motion picture, Freedom Writers starring Academy Award winner Hilary Swank portraying Erin.

 

Join Rick with

Erin Gruwell

LIVE

 

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

11:00am | Pacific and AZ

12:00 pm | Mountain 

1:00pm | Central

2:00pm | Eastern

 

Click here to Register for April 1^st:  https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TC7pPL2kRNGBlY8cNVpbTQ

 

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

DANNY & DAVID DIAZ

 

Special Guests: David and Danny Diaz will be our HOPE Forum guests as we examine how an entire community rallied around its youth when no one gave them a chance. The Diaz family, their coach Jim White and the McFarland, CA community inspired the Disney film McFarland USA starring Kevin Costner.

 

 

Join Rick with

Danny & David Diaz

LIVE

 

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

11:00am | Pacific and AZ

12:00 pm | Mountain 

1:00pm | Central

2:00pm | Eastern

 

Click here to Register for April 8^th:  https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0pD31gP_TrKSNTqvX8QMDA