Professional Learning Catalog

Responding appropriately to challenging behaviors of students continues to be a critical conversation throughout K-12 school systems. The professional learning opportunities in this package provide strategies and resources in supporting all staff in managing behaviors that create a safe and secure learning environment for all.

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• CPI Enhanced Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Certification
• CPI Enhanced Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Recertification
• Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) for Educational Success
• Understanding and Managing Challenging Behavior Top Ten Tips for Educators
• Verbal De-Escalation: The Prevention-Intervention-Postvention Cycle

• Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP)
• Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
• Suspension, Expulsion, and Manifestation Determination
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: Behavior Contracts
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: Check-In Check-Out (CICO)
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: Individual Visual Schedules
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: Peer Mentoring
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: Reward Systems
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: School-Home Communication System
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: Self-Monitoring
• Strategic Behavioral Intervention Series: Structured Breaks and Class Pass

The professional learning opportunities within this package provide effective inclusive strategies in maximizing environmental and instructional considerations in improving the outcomes of students with disabilities.

• An Introduction to Supporting English Learners
• Universal Design for Learning Foundations: Taking UDL from Theory to Practice

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Practices That Work

Charter schools are required to provide a continuum of supports ensuring that students with disabilities, as designated by their Individualized Educational Plan (IEP), receive the mental health services necessary to benefit from a special education program. The professional learning opportunities within this package review the continuum of mental health services and provide instructional strategies that meet the individual needs of students.

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• Preventing and Responding to Threats of Suicide and Self-Harm
• Trauma Informed Practices in Schools
• Youth Mental Health First Aid

Coaching and developing paraeducators is a necessity in achieving improved outcomes for students with disabilities. The professional learning opportunities within this package provide instructional and environmental support strategies to assist paraeducators in reinforcing and augmenting the efforts of classroom teachers.

Paraeducator Academy

Paraeducator Academy

• Paraeducator Series: Roles and Responsibilities
• Paraeducator Series: Assisting and Supporting Accessible Instruction
• Paraeducator Series: Behavior Management Basics

In a healthy and positive school culture, all students experience equally supportive learning environments and opportunities that help them learn and thrive. The professional learning opportunities in this package provide schools with improvement strategies that foster positive school climates and improve the conditions of learning for students with disabilities.

• Teaching the Whole Child: Designing Universal Supports for Social-Emotional Learning

School teams are required to provide a results-oriented process focused on improving the academic and functional achievement of students with disabilities that support the successful transition from school to post-school education and employment. The professional learning opportunities in this package review state and federal requirements on secondary transition services and provide strategies for school teams in assisting transition age youth to identify and move towards the post-secondary goals of their choice.

• Planning for the Future: Developing an Individualized Transition Plan (ITP)

Building a solid foundational understanding of how to support students with disabilities is critical in developing an effective outcomes-based special education program. The professional learning opportunities in this package will provide guidance on the fundamentals of special education and review both the compliance and performance aspects of programs for students with disabilities

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• Developing the Thread of Educational Benefit Through Writing Compliant IEPs: Part One
• Developing the Thread of Educational Benefit Through Writing Compliant IEPs: Part Two
• Writing Grade Level, Standards-Aligned Compliant IEP Goals Focused on Outcomes
• Serving Students with Disabilities in an Independent Study (IS) Setting
• SEIS Learning Lab – Description Coming Soon
• SEIS Learning Navigation – Description Coming Soon
• Fundamentals of IEP Notetaking – Description Coming Soon
• Effective Leadership of IEP Teams: Administrative Designee – Description Coming Soon

• Understanding the ABC’s of ESY (Extended School Year)

Specific disabilities, such as autism and dyslexia, present their own unique challenges within the learning environment. The professional learning opportunities in this package provide a foundational understanding of specific disabilities and targeted evidence-based strategies to support students with needs in identified areas.

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• Designing Instructional Programs for Students with Significant Support Needs
• Meeting the Needs of Students with Autism- Understanding Eligibility, Support Strategies, and Evidenced-Based Practices
• Overview- Instructional Strategies for Struggling Readers and Students with Dyslexia
• Instructional Strategies for Teachers to Support Struggling Readers and Students with Dyslexia
• Speech and Language: Understanding the Thread of Educational Benefit – Description Coming Soon

The Charter SELPA currently offers four pre-recorded webmodules to assist psychologists in the area of special education evaluations.

• Assessment for Dyslexia
• Assessment of English Learners
• Independent Educational Evaluations (IEE)
• Patterns of Strengths and Weaknesses