LSSD Professional Learning Portal
Designing Coherent Instruction
Literacy Practices to Target Weakness Associated with Dyslexia
In this module, you will learn background on dyslexia, our state's requirements for screening and instruction when a student has been determined to have weakness associated with dyslexia, and what materials and approaches we can utilize with students.
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
AAC Basics
This training provides a basic introduction to important principles for getting started with using AAC in the classroom. It is appropriate as a first learning step for any staff member working with students who use AAC from low tech to high tech.
Earn 1 clock hour
Communicating with Students
AAC: Classroom Implementation
This training provides examples and instruction for how to implement AAC in the classroom across subject areas and is intended to build on the introductory learning in the other AAC modules within the Professional Learning Portal.
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Central Auditory Processing Disorder
In this module, you will learn what CAPD/APD is and identify tools and accommodations to be used with a student with CAPD to improve student academic performance in the classroom.
Earn 1 clock hour
Communicating with Students
LessonPix
This module provides an overview of the use of LessonPix, a digital tool for creating personalized schedules, learning tools, and communication materials to use with your students.
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Social Stories
This training provides instruction on how to write and implement social stories and comic strip conversations for students with autism spectrum disorder and would be helpful to any staff member working with this population of students in both self contained and general education classrooms.
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Tools for Translation
It can be a challenge to have a student who is learning English or communicate with families whose native language is not English. There are some simple yet helpful tools that you have access to that can support this important communication.
Earn 2 clock hours
Communicating with Students
Visual Schedule and Related Apps
This training provides instruction in how to program and use the First Then Visual Schedule App, Choiceworks visual schedule app, and Pictello app to support students using AAC devices.
Earn 1 clock hour
Communicating with Students
Visual Supports: Evidence-Based Practices
This training provides instruction about the various types of visual supports and how to implement their use in the classroom. This training is specifically geared towards students with autism spectrum disorder, but the principles can be applied more broadly to other developmental delays. It would be helpful for both general education and self contained teachers across grade levels.
Earn 2 clock hours
Assessment in Instruction
Basics of Homeroom Premium Dashboards
In this module, you will learn how to set up your Homeroom Dashboard and how to navigate the wealth of information that you have access to. You will also learn some basic features that allow you to use Homeroom for different purposes: Student Spotlight, creating groups, and understanding the risk indicators within Homeroom.
Earn 2 clock hours
Assessment in Instruction
Unpacking WIDA Scores to Inform Instruction
In this module, you will become familiar with your English Learners' WIDA scores, what they mean, and how you can use them to inform your work with these students within your classroom. You will also become familiar with the WIDA "Can Do" Descriptors to look at current skills and the next step for skills within the listening, speaking, reading, and writing domains.
Earn 1 clock hour
Flexibility and Responsiveness
AAC: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This module will help you determine whether a student you are working with could benefit from an AAC tool, and provide you ideas for using that tool to grant access to and improve communication throughout daily routines throughout the school day. The intended audience for this training is staff who work in a self-contained special program classroom.
Earn 4 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Access and Rigor: Amplify Science for English Learners
What strategies and supports engage English Learners in the authentic practices of science and engineering, and ensure equitable access to deep learning in science? Figure out the answer to this question as you experience an Amplify Science instructional sequence and analyze it through an EL lens.
Earn 1 clock hour
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Intervention Team Guidance on Requests for Grade Skipping
This module is intended to train members of building Intervention Teams to address requests for students skipping a grade (grade acceleration) brought forth by families or staff, and explores the rationale behind our guiding principles on the topic as well as the process to follow.
Earn 1 clock hour
Flexibility and Responsiveness
LSSD Retention Guidance and Processes for Intervention Teams
This module is intended to train members of building Intervention Teams to address questions about retaining students brought forth by families or staff. This module will unpack the LSSD Retention Guidance document and related resources.
Earn 2 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners in the Classroom
In this multi-section module, you can explore the following topics related to supporting your English Language Learners: understanding levels of language development, strategies for scaffolding learning, and strategies for encouraging academic discourse.
Earn 5 clock hours
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Proloquo2Go Training Basics
This training provides basic instruction for programming the AAC device Proloquo2Go for use with students.
Earn 1 clock hour
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Providing Closed Captioning Accommodations
Students who are deaf or hard of hearing may have accommodations that legally require educators to ensure that videos used for instruction include captions. Learn about tools to find videos with CC, add CC to videos and create CC videos.
Earn 1 clock hour
Flexibility and Responsiveness
Technology Tools to Create Text Accessible Documents
All PDF documents are not created equal! Most are just pictures of text and are not accessible to vision impaired students and parents. And how about all those images you use? How can blind people "see" them? This workshop shows you how tools and tips to make all your files "text accessible!"
Earn 1 clock hour