This training is for new advisors to SkillsUSA. It is a broad introduction to SkillsUSA and all its components.

This course is professional development for Newsela Pro.

Topics will cover SEL, Blended Learning, Technology, Leadership, Building Relationships, School Improvement Plan, Goals, Data Dive, Curriculum Maps, District Trainings: Child Abuse Awareness, Human Trafficking, Bully Prevention, Trauma Sensitive Schools, Cultural Responsiveness and Awareness, and other topics as appropriate.

During this course participants will become skilled at facilitating Number Talks routines in their classroom. Number Talks are a daily routine that build fluency and flexibility with numbers and expressions, engage students in algebraic concepts, and foster the standards for mathematical practice.

This is a course for local education agencies (LEA) who need support on the specific learning disability (SLD) method of Patterns of Strength and Weaknesses. This will be a multi-week course and will require participation, case studies, and pre/post level surveys.

This online course equips educators in all grade levels and content areas with a strategies to implement project-based learning (PBL). The course takes participants through each element of the PBL process, including 1. Developing Questions, 2. Launching Scenario, 3. Gather Information; 4. Organize Information, 5. Create Evidence, 6. Present Findings, and 7. Assess Learning. This course is based on current best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies.

This online course equips educators in all grade levels and content areas with a range of effective cooperative learning techniques. These include a range of approaches to create small, flexible groups of students; optimal instructional activities for these cooperative groups; and strategies for management, organization, and assessment with small cooperative groups. This course is based on current best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies.

This online course prepares educators in all grade levels and content areas with strategies to create smooth transitions between learning segments. The course covers the value of smooth and organized transitions, as well as numerous practical approaches to achieving them in the classroom. This course is based on current best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies.

This online course was developed to assist teachers in learning the dispositions, knowledge, and skills needed to be a teacher leader. Teacher Leaders are defined as teachers who lead in various formal and informal ways in their classrooms, schools, districts, and communities. By the end of this course, participants will be able to describe the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of Teacher Leaders and have had some practice identifying and using the skills.

The speed at which change happens is lightning fast! Educators must develop the skill of thinking flexibly to keep up. Flexible thinking helps with thinking creatively, mindfulness, contentment, problem-solving, and critical thinking. By developing your abilities to think flexibly, you will become more able to adapt to the ever-present changing circumstances.

The focus of this course is to introduce K-12 teachers to the 8 Mathematical Teaching Practices and how to effectively implement the practices. The course includes strategies to implement these practices in order to support students’ development of standards of mathematical practices outlined in the Core Standards.

Have you ever wondered how some teachers get so much done in so little time? Or looked at a fellow teacher’s classroom that seems to get everything done so smoothly? Look no further! This course will provide opportunities to go through your procedures and improve them until your classroom operates just as quickly!

Differentiation is one of the most essential skills of an effective teacher—and one of the most challenging! This course will show you how to create and implement meaningful anchor activities to help enrich all students’ learning.

This online course prepares educators in all grade levels and content areas with strategies to organize, sustain, and encourage classroom discussion. The course covers multiple types of class discussion, including teacher-led discussion, small group discussion, and student-led discussion (Socratic Seminars). This course is based on current best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies.

This course will assist teachers in developing effective formative assessments. Participants will gain an understanding of meaningful assessments by gaining a knowledge of what formative assessments are and when and how to use them appropriately. By the completion of this course, participants will have created a learning progression and identified a timeline for appropriate assessments throughout the learning progression.

Parents are your strongest ally in helping students to succeed. Learn strategies that will support parents in reinforcing at home the skills and knowledge you teach at school! This course will assist educators in improving parent involvement in the educational process. Participants will gain an understanding of the benefits of parent involvement, along with strategies to help parents feel welcome in the school building.

Great teaching takes planning! The purpose of this course is to help teachers become purposeful planners and therefore purposeful teachers. Purposeful planning begins with an understanding of the learning goals for our students. By focusing on learning targets, not tasks, teachers give students a powerful tool for reflection and monitoring of their own learning.

Teaching students to self-assess provides them a very powerful tool to becoming successful lifelong learners. When students self-assess they identify strategies that will improve their understanding and skills. This course will outline and identify these strategies and skills and support teachers in implementing student self-assessment in their classrooms.

The most important assessment students take isn’t the state test--it’s self-assessment! Self-assessment can provide insight into students’ true comprehension and can help to identify gaps in students’ knowledge. Encouraging students to examine their own learning and levels of understanding can also be an important ‘wake-up call’, identifying areas that require improvement. Participants will learn a number of self-assessment strategies in this course and when to use them.

Have you ever asked, "How can we encourage thinking in our students? or "How can we help our students become individuals who can think, plan, create, and question?" Visible thinking routines are one tool to create a culture of thinkers. Making thinking visible promotes engagement, understanding, and independence for all learners.

This online course equips participants with a range of different methods to leverage the power of their questions. These include strategies to increase student participation in answering questions, approaches for responding when students answer questions both correctly and incorrectly, and suggestions for building a classroom culture that encourages risk-taking in asking and answering questions. This course is based on current best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies.

This course is delivered online through the Canvas LMS. One of the weekly assignments is contribution to a discussion board, in which participants respond to a prompt and to each other. This interactive discussion helps learners to process content, is an opportunity for formative assessment of participants’ understanding, and builds a collaborative community.

The course is designed to bring awareness to teachers of the diverse needs of every learner in their classroom and provide suggestions on how to create an equitable learning environment for all. Learn to identify the needs of your diverse learners and use equitable teaching practices to include all learners in every learning experience. This course is based on current best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies

This online course equips participants with a range of different strategies for creating and maintaining student engagement, as well as methods for building student self-monitoring skills for engagement. It is based on current best practices and evidence-based instructional strategies.

In this week-long workshop, educators who want to hone their writing skills will learn sound writing principles through teaching methods that can then be emulated in the classroom. Taught by agents, editors, and authors of published books, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the writing process including planning, drafting, and revising a narrative story which will have practical applications in the classroom.