2025 Spring Courses   

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Boosting Your Lessons for Student Engagement
                
Dates:​

January 9th & 23rd  (5:00-9:00)

January 11th, 12th, 25th, 26th, 2025  (8:30-4:30)

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Course Description:  EDUC-580-N2090

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This experientially oriented course focuses on highly engaging lesson plans and strategies to help create them. Special attention is paid to the relationship between student engagement and lesson planning, writing learning objectives, curriculum alignment, and engaging activities. Translating that information into a professional development lesson plan for colleagues is emphasized.

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Location:  ZOOM

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Trust, Humor, Praise, and Connection for Meaningful Relationships with Students

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Dates:

February 6th & 20th  (5:00-9:00)
February 8th, 9th, 22nd, 23rd, 2025 (8:30-4:30)

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Course Description:  EDUC-580-N2091

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Educators know the importance of connecting with students. This course focuses on 4 key ideas for making connections and developing relations trust, humor, praise and connection.  You’ll work to set connections using a strategy you’ve not tried. Learn about ways to trust your students to participation in and control their own learning. Examine how you praise your students and create phrases to make sure your students are getting positive, constructive feedback to improve and develop their skills.

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Location:  ZOOM

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​Creating a Student-Led Learning Environment

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Dates:

March 13th & 27th  (5:00-9:00)
March 15th, 16th, 29th, 30th, 2025   (8:30-4:30)​

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Course Description: EDUC-580-N2092

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This experientially oriented course focuses the teacher’s role in student-led learning in the classroom by transferring some of the power of design, decision-making, and collaboration to the students. Topics include: benefits of student-led learning, key strategies that will allow students to be in charge of their learning, and how to shift from teacher-led instruction and activities to student-led activities in the classroom. A multitude of handouts and ready-to-use activities will be given to help teachers make an easier transition from teacher-led to student-led.

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Location: ZOOM

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Refocus and Recharge: Strategies for Finding Balance in Teaching

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Dates:

April 10th & 24th  (5:00-9:00)

April 12th, 13th, 26th & 27th, 2025   (8:30-4:30)      

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Course Description: EDUC-580-N2093

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This experientially oriented course focuses on the need for teachers to refocus and recharge to maintain their mental and emotional well-being, which is crucial for effectively managing a classroom, providing quality instruction, and ensuring student success. If teachers don’t take time to de-stress and rejuvenate themselves, they often experience burnout. This course offers strategies and techniques to return to the classroom with renewed energy and patience.

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Location: ZOOM