Course catalog
Every course is instructor-moderated, runs one month, begins on the 10th of each month, provides 25 clock hours and costs $149.
Classroom Management & Behavior
Build calm, well-run classrooms where every student can focus and thrive.
Children & Challenging Behaviors
Our Children and Challenging Behaviors course presents a new way of looking at behaviors in children and common mistakes we tend to make in treating and managing them. Our course includes case histories, practical strategies, and resources which discuss behavioral challenges and aims to forge healing, lasting solutions based on current neuroscience. Once we understand what might be causing challenging behaviors, we can develop techniques designed to help children connect their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions when they simply cannot.
Classroom Management Secrets
Taking our Classroom Management Secrets course will give participants practical advice and step-by-step instructions for devising a classroom management plan that motivates their students to want to behave in the classroom. Among many things, topics will cover important information on how to handle difficult students, how to fuel intrinsic motivation, how to teach routines, and how to be a calmer, more effective teacher.
Creating Safe Classroom Environments
As an educator, you work to make sure your students are in a physically safe classroom environment, but what about socially and emotionally? It is extremely important for students to feel valued, that their social identity and cultures are accepted, and that they are welcomed members of the classroom. Our Creating Safe Classroom Environments course helps educators gain the knowledge for building positive, trustworthy, and challenging curriculum and environments that allow students to flourish. These practices help to empower students to take charge of their own learning and goals.
Rookie Teacher Survival Guide
New teachers in the world of early childhood education can easily become overwhelmed by lesson plans, behavior management, and children's individual needs. This course provides an overview of proper reflective teaching practices, tools to reflect on lesson plan activities, and suggestions for monitoring and encouraging student achievement. Having the right tools as a new teacher provides valuable insight into the world of early education and its many challenges and rewards!
Substitute Teaching Grades K-12
Many people choose substitute teaching to further their career or to gain experience working in classrooms and with students. Our Substitute Teaching course breaks down each grade level in sections that discuss what students are learning and possible activities to implement for each curricular area. We also describe ways to create smooth day to day routines, behavior management techniques, and tips for having success as a substitute teacher.
Diverse Learners & Special Education
Reach every learner with differentiated, inclusive instruction.
Differentiation in the Elementary Classroom
The elementary classroom today, is more diverse, inclusive, and plugged in to technology than ever before and although schools today are changing so rapidly, the power of differentiation remains the same and the need is ever growing! Teachers today are under tremendous pressure to help ensure students meet a set of rigorous, standardized learning topics. Differentiation in the Elementary Classroom will guide teachers with the division of time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct their students.
Homeschooling Gifted Children
Are you interested in homeschooling your gifted child? Does homeschooling seem like a daunting task? Unsure of where to begin or what style of learning to follow? Our Homeschooling Gifted Children course dives into every aspect of learning and what it takes to help your child succeed. We discuss how to choose appropriate curriculum, how to individualize instruction, how to properly integrate technology, and how to foster socialization. We provide information, resources, and tools to help foster learning, build confidence, and help you and your child succeed!
IEPs for English Language Learners
An Individualized Education Plan serves as a blueprint for learners who are eligible for special education services. English Language Leaners who also qualify for an IEP are a unique group of students who require specialized instruction and highly trained educators who understand their diverse needs. Placing students into special education programs is framed within a multi-tiered model that serves as a foundation of IEP development. Our course helps to guide educators in the development and implementation of Individualized Education Plans for diverse learners.
Instruction for Academically Diverse Classrooms
This course will focus on the belief that all classrooms are heterogeneous on many levels, as are the students in them. This course will assist teachers seeking to create learning environments that address the variability that is typical of academically diverse classrooms. The course aims to help teachers determine what differentiated instruction is, why it is essential for all learners, how to begin to plan for it, and how to become comfortable enough with student differences to make school comfortable for each student.
Language Based Learning Disabilities
How children learn, especially ones with disabilities, depends upon their relationship and connection with their parents and teachers. Our Language Based Learning Disabilities course provides support for parents, teachers, and caregivers by discussing how to foster positive relationships, how to accurately assess disabilities, and how to support children both at home and at school.
Learning Disabilities: Practical Information for the Special Education Teacher
This course will take special education teachers through the tasks that are necessary for meeting needs of the students with disabilities successfully. The primary goal of this class is to provide pertinent and practical information for teaching in the special education field, whether it is a special education classroom or just needing assistance with inclusion for students with special needs in the classroom setting. Professionals will learn to identify resources to assist with establishing a productive and satisfying career as a special education teacher.
Neurodiversity in Schools
The needs of students are ever changing. By developing and implementing neurodiversity practices, educators can recognize various needs of individual students. Our Neurodiversity in Schools course describes how to create appropriate learning environments that support all neurotypes within schools. By using these practices schools can reduce stigma and focus on student strengths and talents.
Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
In order to adequately meet the needs of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, professionals need to understand the characteristics of this disorder and how to properly implement assessment tools. Our Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders course aims to provide school-based professionals with practical information for identifying, assessing, and intervening with school-age children on the autism spectrum. Throughout this course we will examine challenges, evidence-based practices, and applications of evidence-based interventions within the school setting.
Teaching Children with ADHD
Children are all different, with unique strengths and weaknesses. Educators and parents must remember that when working with children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Our Teaching Children with ADHD course discusses the basic structure of ADHD and various executive functions. We describe how to properly communicate with children and how to address challenging behaviors. We also explore how to help children set achievable goals and gain perseverance.
Teaching Gifted Learners
To meet the needs of every gifted student, differentiating curriculum is not an option, it’s a necessity! Our Teaching Gifted Learners course demystifies challenges that teachers may face when creating curriculum for the gifted learner. By taking this course, you’ll be able to identify gifted students and recognize how to implement research-supported strategies in the classroom. We will target the three components of differentiation – context, process, and product. Not all gifted students are alike – that’s why differentiating curriculum is so important.
Student Well-Being & Social-Emotional Growth
Support the whole child: resilience, mental health and healthy relationships.
A Parent’s Guide to Adolescents
Why do they act that way? That is the question all parents of teenagers have asked themselves at one time or another. Understanding those not children, but not yet adult humans that take over the house is no easy feat. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for elders, and spend all their time sleeping and playing video games. This course addresses what modern teens face today and delves into physiological and psychological issues that turn our loving kids into surely teenagers.
Building Student Resiliency
Adverse childhood experiences describe traumatic events that occur before the age of 18 and are categorized into three groups: abuse, family/household challenges, and neglect. Our Building Student Resiliency course is for the educators who work with the youngest and most vulnerable members of our society: our children. We discuss how adverse childhood experiences impacts teaching and learning while also examining how to incorporate appropriate instructional strategies in the classroom. We also describe how to make sure schools are proactive in more therapeutic and compassionate ways for all students.
Bullying in Schools
Over the last three decades, school shootings have become increasing more frequent. Why is this happening? Our Bullying in Schools course discusses the connections between school shootings, bullying, and gender and social demands placed on children in our schools. Bullying has reached disturbing levels across the country and no one is immune. We’ll discuss aspects of masculinity, social status, violence against girls, cyber-bullying, gay bashing, and adult bullying. This course introduces you to the effects bullying has on our communities and techniques for creating a caring learning environment for our children.
Student Mental Health
Mental health disorders can manifest early in life. Disorders should be identified, correctly diagnosed, and successfully treated to ensure success of children who have mental health disorders. Our Student Mental Health course is geared towards all types of professionals in educational settings such as teachers, district staff, school psychologists, school nurses, social workers, and counselors. We provide information and resources required to advocate for children’s needs in school. We cover a wide variety of topics: evidence-based teaching methods, coordinating services, creating school mental health plans, student violence, special education policy issues, and healthy lifestyles related to mental health.
Technology & Digital Learning
Teach confidently with AI, virtual classrooms and digital tools.
Introduction to ChatGPT
By taking our Introduction to ChatGPT course, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of how to use ChatGPT in work and everyday settings. Among many things, we cover the basics of where to access it, how to get started with its user interface and how to create refined prompts. By learning the fundamentals, you can apply this knowledge into educational and business settings.
Introduction to Google Classroom
Google has changed the face of education in ways few people could have imagined it would. The Google suite of classroom tools are so popular because they are free for schools to use, are accessible, and make sharing and collaborating incredibly easy and fun. Our Introduction to Google Classroom course provides a framework for using technology to engage your learners which in turn will greatly enhance their learning experiences.
K-12 Moving to Virtual Learning
Online education is changing the way that students access and receive high-quality instructional experiences around the world. With online instruction, teachers have a vast array of technology at their fingertips. Our K-12 Moving to Virtual Learning course provides real world tools and techniques for the design and implementation of quality, engaging, and interactive learning experiences for students. We discuss communication tools that foster interaction and collaboration between students and teachers, as well as how to support struggling learners, learners with special needs, and how to properly use assistive technologies.
K-12 Virtual Student Engagement
Education and the way things are taught have changed dramatically in recent years. Students are now expected to learn from a distance to a certain degree. It might be fully virtual or a blend of brick-and-mortar learning and distance learning. Whichever mode, the main goal remains the same: to ensure that students are learning. Our K-12 Virtual Student Engagement course provides steps for fostering teacher-student relationships, increasing clarity and engagement in a virtual setting. We describe the proper ways for planning, coaching, and demonstrating lessons across platforms and how to provide constructive feedback and assessment.
Teaching with AI
Technology associated with AI is changing most aspects of life, including teaching and learning. Our Teaching with AI course covers how we think with AI, how we teach with AI and how we learn with AI. We describe how to become literate with AI and how to create proper prompts in order to get great and accurate responses. AI helps to brainstorm classroom discussions, assignments and policies. Our course covers all of these topics and more.
The Flipped Classroom
Are you ready to flip your classroom? Thinking about using a less than traditional method of teaching in your class? After learning about the history of the “flipped classroom,” you will look at how the roles and expectations of students and teachers change when using this model. No longer are students using textbooks and sitting in rows with a chalkboard. Today’s generation is using the Internet and technology to approach learning. Teachers are facilitators and encourage learning through interacting with the students, not lecturing. The Flipped Classroom course will give you strategies and tips to effectively implement the model into your class.
Using Technology in Your Classroom
Technology and content area curriculum should be partnered in such a way to enhance not just learning for the students, but also increase enthusiasm for the teachers. Students today have at their fingertips access to a variety of information and communications that did not exist when their teachers were children. Students seamlessly integrate new technologies into their lives in ways that mystify many adults. Our classrooms must capture and keep students’ attention and focus. Today that means utilizing as much technology throughout each subject every day. Our course promotes the use of technology throughout the classroom. In our class, students will be introduced to the most powerful instructional tool of today to enhance classroom instruction and push the boundaries to challenge all students to think and learn in meaningful ways.
Zoom 101
The way we communicate as a society has undergone massive changes throughout the years. Zoom allows us to reach out and collaborate easily, affordably, and reliability no matter where others are. It can be used in both a professional and personal setting. Our Zoom 101 course provides a thorough look at Zoom’s suite of communication tools and services and provides steps for setting up, connecting, making calls, and hosting meetings.
STEM, Creativity & Engaging Instruction
Spark curiosity with hands-on, project-based and research-backed strategies.
Fueling Creativity in the Classroom
All teachers want children to fulfill their creative potential, but teachers and other adults often unintentionally stifle creativity. Fueling Creativity in the Classroom is designed to help teachers know and understand the skills that children need to thrive in the future: knowing how to learn, passion and curiosity, people skills, and creativity. Teachers need to ensure that every single early childhood setting is a place where ideas can grow and our course will help new and seasoned teachers with their approach in fostering creativity for the students in their classrooms.
Instructional Strategies for Academic Success
No single strategy can guarantee that a child will learn. Instructional strategies work in collaboration with other educational methods to influence student learning. Our Instructional Strategies for Academic Success course explores over 330 specific instructional strategies. We discuss how to use assessments, how to conduct lessons, and implement rules and procedures all while building positive relationships with students.
Project Based Learning Techniques
One challenge for teachers trying to incorporate Project Based Learning (PBL) strategies into their classroom is having the knowledge to implement effectively. Our Project Based Learning Techniques course will help guide you through the process of setting up beneficial learning environments. We cover theories behind PBL, as well as planning activities, assessment, feedback, and reflection strategies. By taking our course, you’ll discover the fascinating world of PBL by using hands-on and engaging learning techniques.
STEM for Teachers in Grades 4-8
Are you an educator in grades 4-8 who is struggling with STEM concepts and techniques for incorporating them into your classroom? Or are you new in the STEM field? As an educator, our STEM for Teachers in Grades 4-8 course will help you create, select, and adapt quality STEM lesson plans that will energize and help your students grow academically and as individuals. This course covers how to assess students’ understanding of concepts and procedures, how to utilize project-based learning styles, and how to focus on your students’ creative side so they develop important critical thinking and collaboration skills
STEM in the Elementary Classroom
Are you looking for new ways to foster communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity skills for your students? Are you interested in STEM concepts but aren’t sure how to incorporate them into your elementary classroom? STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math which are all vital content areas for knowledge and development. Our STEM in the Elementary Classroom course will introduce you to STEM-infusion concepts and discuss why these concepts are important for children’s overall growth and development. Sample lesson plans, lesson plan templates, and STEM challenge ideas help to jumpstart brainstorming activities for integrating STEM into your classroom. We’ll also discuss ideas that support ways to engage other teachers, parents, and administrators.
Student Engagement and Learning
Are you looking for ways to enhance your practice of teaching? Do you need to find new and exciting ways to engage your students? Our Student Engagement and Learning course explores the potential of formative assessment and techniques for improving student learning. We summarize key research on classroom formative assessment and show how these practices have a greater impact on educational achievement than most other reforms. Finally, practical techniques are discussed to help educators incorporate strategies into classroom practice.
Early Childhood, Literacy & Language
Strengthen early learning, reading and language development.
Childhood Language Development
Children with speech, language, or listening problems can look forward to less frustration, self-doubt, and misplaced blame for their limitations if they are properly diagnosed and treated and if their family is informed and supportive. If you suspect or have been told that your child has as a speech, language, or listening problem, our course will give you a deeper understanding of the diagnoses and how to offer help for your child. Armed with knowledge, you are in a better position to help make your child’s life more fulfilling and far less challenging.
Homeschooling Starter Guide
Our Homeschooling Starter Guide course outlines steps for creating a positive and effective home learning environment and how to develop a solid teaching philosophy. We will explore various homeschooling models, rules, and requirements, as well as ways to develop proper goals and implement lesson plans. Many families who homeschool have discovered its vast benefits and homeschooling has grown tremendously in the last few years. Our course provides you with the tools to make your homeschooling journey fun, effective, and sustainable!
Preschool Fun Ideas!
Preschool Fun Ideas is an overview of age appropriate practices for early childhood educators. This course covers the fundamentals of creating engaging and nurturing learning centers, discuss the importance of each learning domain, give examples of activities to incorporate into your daily schedule, and finally you will get hands on experience by creating your own lesson plan.
Teaching the Struggling Reader
Everyone who reads written language employs reading strategies. When teaching students to read, you are showing learners the kinds of reading decisions that proficient readers make rapidly and automatically to understand the text. When readers use these strategies often enough in a conscious and deliberate way, at some point, the practices become unconscious skills that they apply automatically whenever they read. This course focuses on practical "how-to" instructions to practice while helping students gain a greater understanding of what they are reading. Our Teaching the Struggling Reader course provides strategies for teachers and parents to use to help give their young readers the confidence they need to gain a love of reading!
Professional & Personal Growth
Grow your career, communication and confidence as an educator.
Become Confident & Assertive
Do you feel like people walk all over you? Do you want to learn to be a more confident, assertive individual? If so, this course is for you. The class will teach you the necessary skills to be decisive and in control of your life. You will learn to improve your relationships, move your career forward, and earn the respect of your friends, family, spouse, co-workers, and even your boss.
Discover a Career as a Teaching Assistant
Our Discover a Career as a Teaching Assistant courses provides a comprehensive overview of this rewarding career in the education field. Our course covers the various ways paraprofessionals support the overall development of the child and it also introduces effective instructional strategies and behavior management techniques. Understanding ways paraprofessionals support the classroom, academically and emotionally, will help define how vital this profession is.
Improve Your Grammar & Punctuation
Feel a little rusty with your grammar skills? Take our Improve Your Grammar & Punctuation course! Students taking this course will benefit from a review of English grammar, punctuation, and capitalization rules. Other topics covered include how to construct sentences and paragraphs that flow gracefully and we will provide clarification to some of the English language’s most confusing and confounding words. The practical nature of this course will provide students of all ages with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the workplace or to improve their writing skills for other purposes.
Teaching Adults
The way you teach is as important as what you teach. If you are interested in working with adult learners, our course will provide you with a better understanding of what it takes to aid in the education of working professional adult students. Today, teaching requires more creativity and understanding. Instructors need to be aware of the diversity of adult learners and instructors must retain a greater depth of skills than ever before. In this course, you will learn how to use the most current methods in adult learning to give you the confidence you need to succeed and overcome the challenges that accompanies the adult learner.