Experts In Education Survey

The Protective Layers of Culture and their influence on students and education teams. This interactive course will address how to identify and respect the elements of a student's culture, educators' roles in inviting students to share their cultural identity and reducing liability for the LEA. Participants will understand how to infuse a student's cultural framework (spirituality, household practices, interaction, values, ethnicity and race, religion and belief systems (SHIVER-B), into academic planning.

Bullying. This interactive course will define bullying and the accompanying power imbalances. Participants will understand how to recognize bullying patterns, how to empower victims, and will understand the emotional needs of the bully.

Behavior Management & Change. This interactive course will address students' behavior in terms of the function of behavior and strategies to address a variety of undesired behaviors (disruptive, undesired, unmotivated). Participants will understand how to write and implement FUBAs (why) and BIPs (how) pf student behavior.

Deescalating difficult parent situations. This interactive course will address causes of parent conflict, and the rights of educators to work in a safe environment. Participants will understand how to establish boundaries, tone, and strategies for deescalating abusive parent behavior.

High Quality Instructional Cycles. This interactive course will define the common research-based steps of instruction and will demonstrate how to use an instructional cycle to provide measurable evidence of learning. Participants will understand how to develop, implement, and evaluate every step of an instructional cycle.

Special Education, Related Services, and the Multi-disciplinary teams. This interactive course will review the steps of the special education process and how students with disabilities access a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). Participants will understand the roles of potential members of the multi-disciplinary teams, related services, how to ensure they are providing a FAPE, and the documentation and paper trail that ensures a FAPE is being provided.

Autism. This interactive course will review autism eligibility and the difference between an educational classification and a medical diagnosis. Participants will understand the social confusion that student's with autism experience and strategies for teaching students with autism.

9 Critical Communication Skills for Severe Populations. This interactive course will cover essential communication skills that can be taught to students with significant cognitive disabilities. Participants will understand 1) what skills are critical for students with severe cognitive disabilities, 2) where to begin each students with these skills, and 3) how to teach each skill.

Get your school culture back! Creating a realistic culture unique to why your LEA exists. This interactive course cuts through all the jargon by defining what school culture is and what it is not. The course will help school teams create a foundational framework of its culture by identifying: its core values, its core beliefs about students and adults, and the non-negotiable of the LEAs. Participants will understand the core elements that constitute the culture of the LEA and then how to harness the unique non-negotiables of the LEAs, and get them working. Participants will identify current positive school culture elements and where things have gone "off the rails". The team will be shown how to put cultural elements into practice and how to protect the LEA's culture.

Leadership Development that works! (Systems Approach to Leadership Growth). This interactive course will define an LEA as a system and why this understand is important. Participants will see the leader's unique role in understanding each stakeholders place in the goals and operations of the LEA. Participants will understand how to identify each element of the LEA that constitutes a "system" and the steps that can be taken to play roles in the improvement of the LEA.

Systems Approach to LEA Accreditation by Connecting Different Departments through Systems. This interactive course will show leaders and team members how each department of the LEA support each other and empower each other in collaboration towards LEA accreditation. Participants will have assistance in breaking down accreditation and chartering requirements to user-friendly evidence. Participants will understand how to evaluate current departmental processes and how to use a systems approach to streamlining processes.

Continuous Improvement Cycles. This interactive course will define "continuous improvement", and will demonstrate how this concept is vital to the LEA and to the evidence building of "growth" and meeting requirements of accreditation. Participants will understand how to take the elements of continuous improvement and implement them at the classroom level, department level, and LEA level.

User-friendly Strategic Planning (Development, Implementation, Evaluation, Metrics). This interactive course address this crucial element either missing from or under utilized in LEAs. This course breaks down the most effective elements of and steps to developing an LEA strategic plan. Participants will understand how to use each defined step of plan development and how to connect these steps to measurable LEA productivity. Participants will understand how to transform a strategic plan from being a compliance document to a tool that empowers and defines a high functioning LEA.

Leading through empathy and expectations. This interactive course teaches LEA teams how to connect in a professional setting by defining "empathy in action," and the roles of empathy in staff/team member relationships in the unique landscape of current education environments. Participants will understand how to broaden their perspectives regarding their employees' or team members' responsibilities and how to improve entire team relationships and outcomes through a process of "empathy in action."

User-friendly PLCs: A Continuous Improvement Approach to PLC teams. This interactive course will introduce a ten-year researched and implemented PLC cycle for training teachers and administrators to effectively implement the PLC non-negotiables of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and intervention. This cycle ties together seamlessly, expectations of using collaboration and data as requirements in accreditation and a highly functioning LEA system. Participants will understand how to utilize content and standards, measure the effectiveness of instruction through student learning assessments, identify contributing factors to learning or lack of learning, set data-driven goals, differentiate instruction, and how to identify effective teaching strategies which need imbedding.

Sweet Lemonade: How to make your "Mess" your Message and Vision. This interactive course will explore the vulnerability and the lens to identify our past and present experiences, how they defines d how us, and how they provide inspiration and material to empower other professionals. Participants will understand a thinking process and a format for our own collective experiences and lessons learned, and transform them into a dynamic platform for empowering others to change. This course is a combination of creating sense of urgency, developing empathy, and actively using our experiences to promote changes in others' behavior and professional "ruts."

Pain Points: Diagnosing Organizational Breakdowns and Causes. This interactive course teaches a process for identifying our current professional pain points, and their effects on organization "stall" or toxicity. The course will assist teams in transitioning from toxic to teachable. Participants will understand how to accurately describe pain points and identify how these issues are impeding the LEA from achieving needed outcomes. Participants will learn how to effectively problem solve by understanding root causes and how to remove root barriers to goals and outcomes.

Experts In Education

Professional Development Needs Assessment

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* 1. Please select training topics of need.

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* 2. What is your name?

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* 3. What is your LEA?

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* 4. Tell us something extraordinary about your LEA!

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