Online Courses

Two new series of self-paced courses.

Diminish the Reading/Writing Disparity

The three courses in this series are intended to support elementary teachers of reading and writing. Each course in the series is priced at $250.

If we continue to accept the idea that writing lags behind reading, it will! In this series of courses, learn how to use professional resources and classroom structures to guide writers to keep reading and writing expectations moving in the same direction and at the same pace. Use the course links to learn more and to register:-

Understanding and Experiencing the Reading/Writing Correlation

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What You'll Learn

• Understand the theoretical web of reasoning for language, reading, writing and word study.
• Learn the importance of the adult learning design.
• Experience an adult writing experience.
• Experience an adult reading experience.

Correlating Reading and Writing for Improved Proficiency

Register for Differentiation in a Variety of Contexts for Reading and Writing

What You'll Learn

• Analyze reading and writing through a quantitative lens.
• Analyze reading and writing through a qualitative lens.
• Correlate student reading and writing proficiency.
• Understand readers, writers, and texts.

Differentiation in a Variety of Contexts for Reading and Writing

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What You'll Learn

• Understand the importance of differentiation in the elementary classroom.
• Investigate writing contexts within the elementary classroom.

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Building Highly Effective Teams

This series of three courses is designed to help you discover or reaffirm your skills to collaborate effectively with colleagues on a school or district leadership team. Each course is priced at $250. The series includes:-

1. Recognizing and Using Your Assets to Build a Highly Effective Team,
2. Creating Productive, Efficient Teams, and
3. Successfully Navigating Conflict as a Team.

The overall series learning objective is to recognize ourselves as leaders and to develop skills for (1) identifying the individual assets that each team member brings to the team, (2) using protocols for increasing timely, efficient decision-making, and (3) navigating conflict successfully to make the work of the team productive for the school/district and satisfying for all team members.

You may choose to engage with the whole series or the course that will best meet your current needs.

The series or individual course will be most effective when completed simultaneously with your team members. This could be accomplished by scheduling time to move through the course together, literally in the same room at the same time, or it could be accomplished by individuals engaging with the content lessons independently and then coming together collectively for the activities, collaborative discussions, and reflection.

How you choose to engage is up to you; however, the goal of this series is to increase your capacity for working with team members and there will be activities that require you to apply your learning or skills with team members.

Recognizing and Using Your Assets to Build a Highly Effective Team

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This course will help you and your team recognize and tap into the assets within the team. By the end of the course, team members will be able to:

• Articulate how personality and core values impact the work within a team.
• Clarify roles within the team and use strategies for managing time effectively within meetings and independently.
• Apply the theory of how mental models are created to a personal or job-related experience.
• Use a tool to determine the level of team readiness and make plans to support the growth and productivity of the team.

Creating Productive, Efficient Teams

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In this course, we are going to learn to identify or create specific team protocols for increasing timely, efficient decision-making that will enable the team to accomplish its goals.

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Establish norms and protocols, as well as a means of monitoring and correcting them, in order to be highly productive.
• Identify how ideas about leadership influence their interactions with others.
• Select a decision-making process that is based on their unique strengths and the work to be done.

Successfully Navigating Conflict as a Team

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In this course of the series, we are going to learn to use strategies and language to navigate conflict successfully as a team.

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Identify the benefits of conflict on a team.
• Identify your own relationship with conflict.
• Articulate what healthy conflict will look like, and sound like on your team.
• Use strategies and language to navigate conflict successfully.