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This course will help you understand the basics of mindfulness with a focus on how to help kids practice this important skill in schools and learning settings.

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Apply Word Solving Strategies helps you advance the reading skills of young learners.

This course is designed for community members, parents and educational paraprofessionals. You’ll learn quick, actionable tips and strategies that you can use right away, including word solving strategies and prompts to help students become successful and independent readers.

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In this course, you will learn an asset-based approach to teaching and effective strategies for using it with children, emphasizing growth mindset.

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In this course, you will learn how to analyze student attendance data to identify trends and patterns, and use this information to make decisions that will improve student attendance.

This course puts all of your learning together as you learn how to monitor and evaluate attendance interventions in action.

Behavior 101 helps you learn how to support positive behaviors in the classroom.

This course is designed for community members, parents and educational paraprofessionals. You’ll learn quick, actionable tips and strategies that you can use right away, including strategies to enforce positive and constructive behavior support for how to manage disruptions or common issues that you might face when working with students..

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This course will help you challenge assumptions often made about creativity and the role it plays in education and apply a fresh perspective to what creativity is and how to help develop it in children in school settings.

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Este curso ofrece una visión general de cómo puede ayudar a los niños a comunicarse sobre las matemáticas.

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In this course, you will learn about child development and how to work with children.

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Este curso le ayudará a aprender cómo podemos apoyar, evaluar y tender puentes en el aprendizaje en el aula con la lectura de palabras y textos más largos.

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In this course, you will learn problem solving skills and practice creative thinking based on computer science.

Este curso proporciona una visión general de cómo se puede ayudar a los niños a crear y utilizar representaciones para organizar, registrar y comunicar ideas matemáticas.

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In this course, you will learn strategies for improving student attendance and how to align your efforts with continuous improvement processes.

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This course provides an overview of how you can help kids create and use representations to organize, record and communicate mathematical ideas.

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This course will help you identify the values that are important to the individual and the community.

This course helps you improve reading fluency by learning important strategies such as echo reading, unison or choral reading and Reader’s Theatre. Enhance your students’ reading skills by practicing fluency with familiar texts and engaging in interactive reading activities.

Este curso ofrece una visión general de cómo fomentar el pensamiento matemático de los niños.

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Prepare learners for the possibilities of upsetting, confusing or dangerous consequences in digital interactions and build skills to make their digital exchanges positive and productive.

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In this course, you will learn about how social emotional learning is key to positive and safe learning experiences in the learning space and at home.

This course helps you understand the basics of what it looks like to be professional in K-6 classrooms.

In this course, you will learn about inclusive language and how to use it when working with children.

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This course provides you with techniques to help children learn how to regulate their emotions. 

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This course provides an overview of how you can help kids communicate about math.

In this course you will learn about empathy, why it is important and how you can engage with people practicing empathy.

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Este curso se centra en apoyar el desarrollo del vocabulario y el conocimiento de las palabras para ayudar a los niños a comprender las formas de apoyar los sonidos, la pronunciación y el vocabulario en la lectura tanto en inglés como en español.

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This course gives practical, important tips to guide you in creating an inclusive computer science learning environment.

Expand Reading Comprehension provides strategies to deepen students’ comprehension of text.

This course is designed for community members, parents and educational paraprofessionals. You’ll learn quick, actionable tips and strategies that you can use right away, including strategies to encourage students’ understanding and interpretation of text at three levels of reading comprehension; literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension.

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This course is designed to share with you insight on how conflict begins and how to facilitate the process of conflict resolution with children.

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This course presents an overview of why attendance matters and how to discover more about attendance patterns at your school or district.

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School basics prepares you for what to do when you begin working with children in the classroom and what to expect in schools today.

This course is designed for community members, parents and educational paraprofessionals. You’ll learn quick, actionable tips and strategies that you can use right away, including strategies to properly communicate with teachers and what to expect when working in modern schools.

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Este curso proporciona información sobre cómo realizar lecturas en voz alta con éxito para ayudar a los niños a desarrollar la comprensión, el vocabulario y una nueva comprensión del mundo que les rodea.

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Este curso le ayudará a aprender cómo las oportunidades de hablar en clase ayudan a los niños a desarrollar sus idiomas.

This course provides an overview of how to help children select internet resources.

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In this course, you will learn about developmentally appropriate practices and how to use them to support children’s learning and development.

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This course teaches you how to use mindfulness to manage stress and help children with their stress levels.

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This course explores how to create positive learning environments by focusing on promoting positive behaviors rather than discouraging negative ones.

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This course helps you improve reading development through phonological awareness. Learn about onset and rime, break words into syllables, facilitate rhyme recognition and generate rhyming words to enhance phonemic awareness skills.

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This course helps you learn how speaking opportunities in the classroom help children build on their languages.

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This course helps you understand why spoken language skills – speaking and listening – are an important factor in supporting literacy.

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This course helps you understand and teach phonics for reading development. Learn about letter naming, short and long vowels, consonants, consonant clusters and vowel clusters. Enhance your teaching strategies to help learners recognize and differentiate sounds, improving their reading skills.

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This course focuses on supporting vocabulary development and word knowledge to help children understand ways to support sounds, pronunciation and vocabulary in reading in both English and Spanish.

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This course prepares you to build and utilize relationships and adult support.

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This course provides an overview of how you can help kids create and use representations to organize, record and communicate mathematical ideas.

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Practice Civic Character will provide you with techniques to tap into your empathetic side to positively impact your students by learning to engage in diverse perspectives and contexts.

This course is designed for community members, parents and educational paraprofessionals. You’ll learn quick, actionable tips and strategies that you can use right away, including strategies to relate with people from all walks of life by engaging with skills that can improve your communication and relationships with students and other important people in your life.

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Este curso pretende ayudarte a animar a los niños a utilizar representaciones para mostrar cómo piensan sobre las matemáticas y por qué.

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This course prepares you to connect and build a sense of belonging in schools.

This course prepares you to help children in grades K-6 to create and reach writing goals.

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Support language and literacy for multilingual students

This course is designed for community members, parents and educational paraprofessionals. You’ll learn quick, actionable tips and strategies that you can use right away, including strategies that will help you encourage language and literacy development for multilingual students.

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This course helps you understand how to get children to be interested in and become familiar with letters, before they begin reading and writing.

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This course helps you understand how children develop print awareness through their own writing and drawing.

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This course will help you understand what phonological awareness is and how to help foster it in the early childhood years.

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This course helps you understand I-statements and how they can empower children to speak about their feelings.

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This course helps you to learn about how we can support, assess and bridge learning in the classroom with reading words and longer texts.

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This course provides information on how to deliver successful read-alouds to help kids build comprehension, vocabulary and new understanding of the world around them.

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This course explains what it means to reflect critically and shares some of the tools to practice this reflection.

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This course helps you improve reading comprehension through pre-reading activities. Learn how to activate prior knowledge, make predictions and use a K-W-L chart to engage young readers and set them up for success in their reading journey.

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Help students learn the risks and take steps to protect their information and privacy.

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This course explores basic computer science and technological literacy.

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This course prepares you to help children in grades K-6 to create and reach writing goals.

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This course demonstrates how students can be taught to write better informative essays through structure, instruction and assistance that helps them plan, draft, revise and share information and ideas.

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Read aloud to children prepares you to effectively read aloud to young learners.

This course is designed for community members, parents, and educational paraprofessionals. You’ll learn quick, actionable tips and strategies that you can use right away to read aloud to children effectively.

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Learn to guide young people toward building healthy connections with the people around them, healthy relationships to the world around them and a sense of belonging in community.

This course provides knowledge about the benefits of connecting with the land by spending time outdoors.

Learn to improve mindset and movement together through everyday life by reconnecting Indigenous youth with their culture of movement.

This course provides a number of stress relief ideas that are from Indigenous cultures, along with other well-known stress relief practices.

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In this course you will get to know systems thinking, consider why systems thinking leads to better problem solving and discover tools which can help you apply systems thinking.

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This course provides community educators with tips to help students write persuasive essays