In this course, we'll focus on supporting mental health among educators at the forefront, guiding students, families, colleagues, and the wider community. Recognizing how mental health affects our school professionals is crucial.    As educators, you will learn about the impact of mental health on teachers and some effective coping methods you can use in the workplace. The course outlines some possible mental and emotional health challenges educators may face, offers practical ways to tackle these issues, and suggests solutions to overcome related barriers.   Read more

In this course, you will learn about restorative practices and explore how they can benefit educators who want to improve their emotional intelligence and well-being and how they communicate in and outside the classroom. Throughout this course, you will examine the differences between self-care and self-maintenance, how restorative practices redefine self-care, and learn some simple steps you can begin today. Read more

This course will introduce participants to the process of mentoring a new teacher. The participant will also review the four key themes of an effective classroom as defined by The Framework for Teaching Clusters © The Danielson Group, Inc..  Additionally, the participant will apply the learning by developing their plan for the initial conversation  with their mentee. Read more

This course will continue building the participant’s understanding of the process of mentoring a new teacher and give a detailed explanation of the mentoring cycle. The participant will also review the four key themes  of an effective classroom as defined by the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards.  The participant will be taken through the phases of the mentoring cycle and given tools for diagnosing mentees’ needs, planning for interventions, setting new goals, and reflecting on the mentoring process. Finally, the participant will apply the learning by completing the first mentoring cycle with their mentee. Read more

An advocacy perspective requires educators to believe that with adequate support, multilingual learners (MLs) can achieve at the same level as their non-ML peers. Advocates also believe that educators have a shared sense of responsibility for the academic achievement of MLs. For educators to approach MLs’ instruction from an advocacy perspective, they must understand the needs and key areas for ML advocacy, as well as understand the tools and strategies that can support advocacy efforts.  Read more

Multilingual learners (MLs) have unique needs when it comes to demonstrating their understanding and knowledge in an academic setting.  Creating assessments that provide MLs with opportunities to successfully demonstrate their learning is one of the key skills that teachers of MLs need to master. Assessments are one of the most important tools educators use to gather data that will drive best practices in their classroom instruction. To accurately assess MLs, teachers must identify the most appropriate tools to evaluate the reliability of assessments and create appropriate accommodations for their students.  This course will support teachers through the intentional design, creation, and evaluation of assessment tools for classroom use so that results best reflect multilingual students’ content knowledge, as well as their language ability. Read more