Professional Development Hub

Want to empower and motivate your students to become expert learners? This course is grounded in the philosophy of inclusion for all students and utilizes the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. The course will encourage critical conversations, problem-solving, and hands-on exploration, and educators will will consider student empowerment through a UDL lens. The course has six lessons that provide concrete examples of ways to leverage UDL in teaching strategies, lesson planning, assessment and technology integration to engage students of all abilities.

Essential Learning Outcomes

• Implement Inclusive Practices using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a strategy.

• Establish inclusive classroom practices and environments to serve a diverse group of students.

• Design and implement an action research project on inclusive practices and UDL.

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Internet safety course for staff.

This course is designed to introduce staff to the Destiny Library System

287 Employees: Click here for the enrollment key (must be logged into your 287 Google account to view). Once you have the key, click on the course link, enter the key and you may begin!

This is an introductory virtual course in understanding and using number talks to increase student understanding of number sense. It introduces theories, models, and methods for analyzing and addressing student understanding of mathematical concepts. The goal of this course is to enhance your skill in conducting number talks. Course objectives will be achieved through interactive learning experiences, reading, critical reflection, small group practice, classroom application and independent work.

To access the course make sure that you have logged in to this site and then use the enrollment key that you received. (Contact Annie Mitty ammitty@district287.org or your due process facilitator if you need the key.) Then you will be able to view the resources and complete the quizzes.

The resource will walk you through the creation and editing of an efolio.

This is the McREL training course for District 287's evaluation system. Learn everything you need to know for your evaluation year.

If you would like to be enrolled in this course, contact Ben Magras for an enrollment key.

This course provides tutorials for just about any Moodle skills you'll want to learn. It will also provide you with some quick design tips and best practices with students.

This is a 10 Unit Moodle on Notching Up the Nurtured Heart Approach. This course will provide principals for notching up the use of the Nurtured Heart Approach in one's classroom and school. This course will provide salient examples and clarity as it relates to recognizing students' greatness, not giving energy to negativity and in providing clear rules and consequences.

This module will teach participants how to build effective presentations using Prezi, the online presentational tool. It will also encompass the basic elements of online design.

This is a book study for staff to utilize for the book Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique Morris. 

This course provides the core training and vision for the role of Educational Assistants at Intermediate District 287.

The ChildTrauma Academy

www.ChildTrama.org

The Neurosequential Model in Education

Introduction

The human brain is a remarkable and complex organ. It mediates all of our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It is the organ that allows us to form and maintain relationships, read, write, dance and sing. There is not a single aspect of human life that doesn’t involve the brain. And, the brain is  the target of our educational efforts. Whether the focus of the lesson is to learn to shape clay, skip rope, grasp long division, compose a paragraph, share, work in a team, or master the history of North Dakota, the teacher is trying to provide the patterned, repetitive experiences that will change the specific neural networks in the child’s brain that mediate those functions.

The purpose of the Neurosequential Model in Education (NME) is to help educators, caregiversand students better understand some of the most important – and most easily mastered – concepts related to how the brain develops and changes. Understanding and acting on these concepts will lead to more effective and pleasurable learning experiences. The core concepts that the NME introduces have broad relevance for teaching typical as well as at-risk children.

There are several ways that the ChildTrauma Academy brings the NME to educators and educational settings; some of these are didactic (e.g., a  day  long seminar using a lecture format), some are more consultation based (e.g., the CTA’s web-based Case-based NME teaching series) and some are relational, interactive and involve an ongoing learning process.

Participants will reflect on learning from The Innovator's Mindset by George Couros.