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. **Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours

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. **Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours

Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!

Washington State's Kindergarten Guide, and our own instincts as kindergarten teachers, tell us that we should be gearing our classrooms and instruction toward the needs of our young learners. Explore ways to make sure our classrooms are supporting the developmental needs of our kindergarten learners while setting challenging and achievable goals.

Learn about this new tool that can be used for digital annotation, word prediction or voice tools.

So you have heard of flipping your classroom but would like to learn more about what this means. This module will help you learn the basics of a Flipped Classroom so you can see if it is a tool for you.

This self-paced course is designed to provide you with an overview of Hapara Highlights and to introduce you to the tools that will help you start using Hapara Highlights right away.

In 2017, Lake Stevens School District began to explore poverty and how it impacts the students in our district living in low socioeconomic situations. Lake Stevens has an achievement gap between students on free and reduced lunch and those who are not that we need to work to close. Explore the resources within this module to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to live in poverty and how the living situation impacts students as they walk through our classroom doors. **Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours

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.

In this module, you will learn about the LSSD HiCap program qualification process and structure, characteristics of gifted children, responsibilities of a HiCap teacher, and how to meet the needs of HiCap students. (This module has been updated as of 2023.)

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.

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.

This training provides basic instruction for programming the AAC device Proloquo2Go for use with students. **Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours

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. **Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours

Examine classroom snapshots of scaffolded reading instruction to help you plan a scaffolded reading lesson.

Allow students to take your genius with them anywhere by recording your own Screencasts! Learn and try out a few of the tools available for recording your lessons for later viewing. Once you see how user-friendly these tools have become, you'll want your students to join in the creating to share their brilliance as well!

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.

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!" **Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours

K-12 educators and administrators will: Examine assumptions that create educational barriers for multilingual learners who have been classified as LTELs. Identify practices that address the unique educational needs of multilingual learners who could be classified as LTELs. **Completion of this module earns Equity Clock Hours