LSSD Professional Learning Portal
Establish Culture for Learning
Growth Mindset
Explore what growth mindset means and how to encourage it within your students.
Earn 2 clock hours
Establish Culture for Learning
Importance of Play for Learning
In our preschool and kindergarten classrooms, play is a critical component. Children learn through play - not just about social emotional skills and problem solving, but also how to use the language and math skills in action. Learn about the importance of play, types of play and structures to encourage productive play.
Earn 3 clock hours
Establish Culture for Learning
Morning Meetings
What makes a Morning Meeting a powerful routine to include in your day and how can the time be best utilized to strengthen the classroom community, learn social-emotional skills and set the tone for the day? Explore this module's resources to answer these questions.
**Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours
Earn 2 clock hours
Establish Culture for Learning
Second Step: Elementary SEL Curriculum
Second Step is our adopted Social Emotional Learning curriculum for elementary schools in the Lake Stevens School District. It is intended to be a resource to classroom teachers to build social-emotional skills with their students, primarily through the Morning Meeting structure, although teachers could also choose to teach a Second Step lesson outside of Morning Meetings. This module will provide you access to an overview training from Second Step to get you started!
**Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours
Earn 1 clock hour
Communicating with Students
Helping Students Become Independent Learners
Do you have students who do not seem to have self-regulation skills to monitor their own behavior and stay on task? Participate in this module where you will learn about some strategies you can teach and ways to communicate with students to increase their ownership and self-regulation of their behavior.
Earn 2 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Supporting Perfectionism in Gifted Students
In this module, you will learn about the different types of perfectionism, how perfectionism affects gifted students, and how to support perfectionism in students, especially those who are qualified within our Highly Capable Program.
Earn 1 clock hour