Courses

From Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education. Opioid abuse and deaths among youth have sky-rocketed. States and school districts are including drug prevention awareness within the K-12 curriculum. Contained within this course are sample district plans/strategies, educator training and proactive K-3 elementary curriculum addressing the current opioid crisis.

This course will review the knowledge and skills assessed on the PSAT 10, and compare them with content assessed on the SAT. Upon completion participants will be able to review the data with students and colleagues, and connect PSAT 10 to college and career resources.

This course will review the knowledge and skills assessed on the PSAT 8/9 and compare them with content assessed on the SAT. Upon completion participants will be able to review the data with students and colleagues, and connect PSAT 8/9 to college and career resources.

The purpose of measuring student’s academic growth is to immediately inform the instructional process in order to increase student learning and close achievement gaps. This course helps educators understand the process of using formative assessment to measure student growth and close achievement gaps.

This course is designed to help educators understand the accountability requirements concerning chronic absenteeism, and will discuss resources and strategies to improve student attendance and engagement.

This informational service has been created for paraprofessionals. The intent of this ELN service is to be used as a resource, not as a strict set of “rules” that must be followed. These videos, websites and documents allow districts locally to collaborate, practice and calibrate paraprofessional resources for face to...

Promoting and building a culture of tolerance in schools can be a daunting task; however, it begins with the educational leader facilitating and modeling openness, respect, and freedom of thought. Participants in this course will create strategies, timelines, evaluation, and progress monitoring to establish, promote, and sustain effective practices related...

This course introduces practical applications of learning science for the remote classroom. In other words, teaching practices that will help you and your students find success in a non-traditional learning environment.

No one is born racist or anti-racist; these result from the choices we make. Being anti-racist results from a conscious decision to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily. Participants in this course will experience self-analysis on types of racism, biases, empathy and tenets of racism.

(3PD Hrs.) This introductory course will provide teachers with the foundational information needed to create developmentally appropriate lesson plans for preschool children. Participants will be introduced to a framework that includes the following components: curriculum content, systematic observation and analysis and reflection.

(3 PD Hrs.) Dr. Diana Zaleski, Illinois Education Association. The purpose of this course is to discuss opportunities for educators to collaborate with and support students and their families during times of remote instruction.

(2 PD Hrs.) Participants in this course will examine, identify and analyze the roles and responsibilities of an effective paraprofessional and will utilize instructional strategies and assess behavioral strategies and/or activities that provide support to paraprofessionals in the classroom setting.

(3 PD Hrs.) This course is designed to help educators understand the accountability requirements concerning chronic absenteeism, and will discuss resources and strategies to improve student attendance and engagement.

(2 PD Hrs.) Resilience describes the ability to bounce back from adversity in life. A more comprehensive and complex definition identifies resilience as a protective or positive process that is employed to reduce the negative outcomes that are possible when risk factors are present. In this course, Mick Duffy will...

(3 PD hrs.) This course will help administrators understand common cybersecurity threats and appropriate responses. This course will also provide foundational best practices to secure student data. Through this course, you will develop a collection of cybersecurity resources and policies for your school or district.