## Available courses

### Access to NGSS for ALL Students

Take a deeper look at the NGSS science standards released in April 2013 and learn to cultivate science learning for ALL students through research-based strategies.

### CGI Math: Enhancing a Student's Cognitive Learning of Mathematics

This course will define CGI, the benefits of using it and guide a participant in their first steps of implementing CGI in their own class in alignment with CCSS. Through CGI, participants will learn how to better plan for mathematical activities in their classroom and enhance their mathematical instruction.

### STEAM Everyday for Everyone

Learn to provide authentic learning experiences in the sciences, math, and the arts. Help students be more invested in learning, use more of their brains, succeed in all subjects, and get equipped for demands of higher education, careers, and life.

### Personalizing Learning

This course develops educators’ appreciation and capacity for delivering personalized instruction, to meet and surpass state/district priorities and standards, and to prepare students for a successful future both in academia and in life outside classroom walls.

### Formative Assessments to Heighten Engagement, Guide Instruction, and Improve Learning

Teachers learn fast, fun, and effective strategies to monitor students’ knowledge, interests, and thinking in order to guide instruction, monitor and promote student learning, and improve outcomes through formative assessment.

### Movement for Improvement

Learn the value of movement and exercise with the benefits it provides to learning, health, behavior, classroom management in the classroom, and even a teacher’s ability to thrive in the teaching profession. Applicable across all disciplines.

### Course Extension Credit

Is your enrollment about to expire or you would like more time to complete a course?

### Arts Integration for Equity and Excellence: Music

Equipped with an understanding of music and its role in cognitive and social development, participants will explore and articulate strategies for using music to enhance classroom learning. They will create lesson plans, write reflective and critical responses, share ideas and experiences, and become familiar with technological resources for integrating music.

### Bringing out the Best in All Students through Strategic Grouping

This course targets meeting the needs of diverse learners in general and special education classrooms, particularly through strategic grouping. In order to group students most effectively, even in order to successfully teach students, it is imperative that teachers conscientiously get to know each student as much as possible. Often students' strengths go unrecognized, and many needs go unnoticed, frustrating the teaching and learning process. When strengths are celebrated and deep needs are validated in students, their best efforts, abilities and character can be evoked. The course provides an overview of federal laws and regulations related to meeting the needs of students, as well as various needs that require the accommodation of teacher. Strategies are listed, but the bulk of the course discusses the component of arranging groups to meet students' needs and to bring out their strengths. The course examines specific grouping options for particular dynamics and learning results. The course ends with an argument for maximized inclusion for students, as well as Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's model of portraiture in the field of education, to find ways of discovering, defining, and bringing out the goodness that is present in every student.

### A Civil Right: Quality ELD Instruction

This course guides participants to utilize technology tools in order to foster, increase, build, and assess meaningful interactions to promote mastery of ESL standards.

### Closing the Achievement Gap

This course provides research and proven methodologies from leaders in education on the topic of equity and excellence in education, particularly for African American and Latino students.