Courses

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Course #554 So Each May Soar: The Principles and Practices of Learner-Centered Classrooms

By pwsadmin / February 17, 2022 / Comments Off on Course #554 So Each May Soar: The Principles and Practices of Learner-Centered Classrooms

This course is a collection of strategies to reconnect with professional and personal aspirations, build an energized and mutually respectful classroom community, and deliver instruction that feels alive to you and your students.

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Course #555 EdTech Essentials: The Top Ten Technology Strategies For All Learning Environments

By pwsadmin / February 17, 2022 / Comments Off on Course #555 EdTech Essentials: The Top Ten Technology Strategies For All Learning Environments

This course will focus on the EdTech skills and strategies educators should use to ensure the best of online spaces for classroom learning. The course will navigate students through the overwhelming number of options in digital tools and spaces and guide students in learning best practices.

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Course #556 The Essential 25: Teaching The Vocabulary That Makes Or Breaks Student Understanding

By pwsadmin / February 17, 2022 / Comments Off on Course #556 The Essential 25: Teaching The Vocabulary That Makes Or Breaks Student Understanding

This course will prepare students to understand and apply 25 essential high-frequency words that students must know to be academically successful. They must be able to understand and apply these concepts, but too often they do not have a firm grasp of the meanings or what skills they require.

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Course #557 Understanding Oppositional and Defiant Disorder

By pwsadmin / July 15, 2022 / Comments Off on Course #557 Understanding Oppositional and Defiant Disorder

Are you looking for a detailed and in-depth guide that will help you understand the intricate details of oppositional and defiant disorder? This course will give you the tools you need to be able to take control and manage a student or child that suffers from ODD. The techniques in this course suit children and…

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Course #558 The Flexibly Grouped Classroom: How to Organize Learning for Equity and Growth

By pwsadmin / July 15, 2022 / Comments Off on Course #558 The Flexibly Grouped Classroom: How to Organize Learning for Equity and Growth

This course shares a staged implementation approach that takes students from simple partner set-ups designed to build cooperative skills to complex structures ideal for interest and readiness-informed academic exploration. It covers the key factors to consider when forming groups and highlights how this approach to organizing learning can help you disrupt rigid tracking, deliver targeted…

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Course #559 Engage the Brain: How To Design For Learning That Taps Into the Power of Emotion

By pwsadmin / July 15, 2022 / Comments Off on Course #559 Engage the Brain: How To Design For Learning That Taps Into the Power of Emotion

Research on the brain shows that emotion plays a key role in learning, but how can educators apply that research in their day-to-day interactions with students? This course will have specific suggestions for classroom strategies that make a real difference in how and what students learn.

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Course #560 How To Reclaim your Energy, Passion and Time

By pwsadmin / October 31, 2022 / Comments Off on Course #560 How To Reclaim your Energy, Passion and Time

Every educator needs this course during these difficult times. Being an educator is more stressful than ever, and educators must constantly shift gears to stay on top of the newest initiatives, students changing needs, and a more challenging parental and political climate. When you can establish good habits, focus on what is possible within your…

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Course #561 Loving Teaching Special Education: 50 Strategies For Success

By pwsadmin / February 7, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #561 Loving Teaching Special Education: 50 Strategies For Success

Burnout runs rampant in education, particularly in the field of special education, and has only increased in recent years. This course identifies 50 evidence-based strategies and practices to help special educators enjoy their work for the long haul. You’ll discover new ways to work with families, manage your classroom, teach in culturally responsive ways, and…

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Course #562 Classroom Behavior

By pwsadmin / February 7, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #562 Classroom Behavior

How do you respond to difficult behavior in the moment when you know that punitive, compliance-based behavior is so often ineffectual? What’s the best way to prevent students from acting out in the first place? The path to success requires behavioral leadership, where you strategically model and affirm the behaviors you want to see in…

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Course #563 Strategies To Boost Cognitive Engagement

By pwsadmin / February 7, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #563 Strategies To Boost Cognitive Engagement

Transform your classroom culture from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student engagement. Build a culture of thinking that emphasizes essential 21st century skills – from critical thinking and problem solving to teamwork and creativity. 50 teacher-tested instructional strategies for nurturing students’ cognitive abilities across the full range of thinking…

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Course #564 Because Of A Teacher

By pwsadmin / February 7, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #564 Because Of A Teacher

As an educator you make a DIFFERENCE in the lives of learners. Through a series of heartfelt and uplifting stories by leading educators who reflect on their years in education this advice and strategies are suited for all teachers new and experienced. This course offers hope and encouragement for educators who are under attack from…

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Course #565 The Joy of Reading

By pwsadmin / July 19, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #565 The Joy of Reading

It is possible to teach students reading without killing their love for reading in the process. This course will provide practices that nurture joy in reading while identifying factors that destroy joy with a clear understanding of the realities of today’s classrooms. You will become reading encouragers, and role models for lifelong joyful reading.

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Course #566 Stressed Out to Stress Wise Grades 5-12

By pwsadmin / July 19, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #566 Stressed Out to Stress Wise Grades 5-12

Learning in school is challenging enough without the exhaustion, anxiety, and distraction of stress added to it. Tight deadlines, high expectations, friction with peers, family drama: With all these stressors on middle and high school students and few healthy outlets for releasing them, it’s no wonder they have trouble concentrating on schoolwork. Have everything you…

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Course #567 Teach For Authentic Engagement

By pwsadmin / July 19, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #567 Teach For Authentic Engagement

Explore how to design instruction and structure classes so all students can authentically connect with the content, their learning, and with one another.

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Course #568 Critical Thinking In The Elementary Classroom

By pwsadmin / November 15, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #568 Critical Thinking In The Elementary Classroom

This course guides elementary teachers supporting students to think deeply about rich content, make meaningful connections, and address issues in a broader more meaningful way. Critical thinking is essential in both the classroom and every day life.

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Course #569 From Behaving To Belonging: Supporting Students Who Challenge Us

By pwsadmin / November 15, 2023 / Comments Off on Course #569 From Behaving To Belonging: Supporting Students Who Challenge Us

In this course teachers can shift from a behavior management mindset (that punishes students for behavior or rewards students for good behavior) to an approach that supports all students-even the most challenging ones-with kindness, creativity, and acceptance. This is a shift to a strengths-based approach to more inclusive and caring classrooms.

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