LADSE Professional Development Opportunities
LADSE Professional Development Opportunities
Upcoming Events |
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| AAC and You and Me! - 1/3/2022 8:00 AM - 2/28/2022 3:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 50 At some point in your career, you will wonder how you can better help a student use their communication device. In this strand, we will explore information based on the latest AAC best practices, new (and not so new) technology, protocols for goals and next steps, wearable AAC, teaching literacy to AAC users and how to problem solve those sticky issues. |
| Basic Sign Language - 11/6/2021 8:30 AM - 11/9/2021 6:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 5 Participants will learn basic sign language: ABC's, fingerspelling, basic vocabulary (introductions, family, school) and basic sentence structures |
| CHAMPS: A Proactive & Positive Approach to Classroom Management - 11/23/2021 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 43 CHAMPS helps classroom teachers develop (or fine-tune) effective classroom management plans that are proactive, positive, and instructional. |
| CPI Full Day Training - Multi District - 1/11/2022 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 3 Crisis intervention focuses on prevention, management, and the rare circumstance in which staff members must intervene with another person to address behavior that may escalate into disruptive or even violent incidents. This program emphasizes the importance of understanding all factors that can contribute to challenging behavior and the most effective means to safely intervene in each unique situation. |
| CPI Full Day Training - Multi District - 2/10/2022 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 19 Crisis intervention focuses on prevention, management, and the rare circumstance in which staff members must intervene with another person to address behavior that may escalate into disruptive or even violent incidents. This program emphasizes the importance of understanding all factors that can contribute to challenging behavior and the most effective means to safely intervene in each unique situation. |
| Cybersecurity for Educators in a Digital World - 11/3/2021 3:30 PM - 12/8/2021 3:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 4 Learn about the potential threats in the digital space. Develop skills to recognize unsafe websites, emails and phishing attempts. Learn best practices for keeping devices secure. |
| Equity in Education: What are the Issues? - 1/19/2022 3:30 PM - 5/4/2022 5:00 PM Spaces Remaining: 19 Participants will examine and challenge our personal biases that arise from many sources: culture, family of origin, media, education, surrounding community, and how those biases affect our behavior as educators. |
| Legal Updates with Darcy Kriha - 11/17/2021 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Spaces Remaining: 60 Participants will be provided with legal updates in special education and apply information about regulations and case law to current practice. |
| Pediatric Bowel and Bladder for the School Based Professional - 2/5/2022 8:30 AM - 3/3/2022 6:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 7 Participants will review a variety of causes of urinary and bowel dysfunction in the pediatric population and the effects on the child's school day You will learn and practice strategies you can use in assessing and managing these issues |
| Preparing Students with ASD for Transition to Adulthood - 11/18/2021 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Spaces Remaining: 331 Part of the Topics for Secondary School Psychologists Series Professional Development Clock Hours and CEUs provided. NASP credit provided. Transitioning out of high school to either continued education or the workplace is extremely challenging for students with ASD. Even though the majority of individuals with ASD have intact cognition and language, most fail to achieve levels of independence in adulthood due to limited functional, social, communication, and adaptive skills necessary for self-sufficiency. This results in a critical need for school systems to prepare for this transition early, intensively, and comprehensively. This workshop will provide an overview of strategies, supports, and accommodations that can be implemented in schools to promote a successful transition. |
| Structured Teaching - 11/23/2021 8:15 AM - 3:15 PM Spaces Remaining: 17 This Event will allow for participants to analyze, discover, and apply the principles of structured teaching within their self-contained special education classrooms |
| The Mental Benefits of Exercise - 4/23/2022 8:00 AM - 5/10/2022 3:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 14 Participants will gain a basic understanding of the neuro/behavioral science of exercise |
| The OT Role in Promoting Positive Mental Health in the Classroom - 1/29/2022 8:30 AM - 2/23/2022 5:15 PM Spaces Remaining: 1 Participants will be able to recognize symptoms of common mental health challenges in the classroom You will learn how to identify and connect student behaviors to underlying social/emotional challenges |
| The SCERTS Model - 2/24/2022 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 186 This workshop will introduce the SCERTS (Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, Transactional Support) model, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary educational approach designed for learners with autism and social emotional learning differences. |
| The Self & Match System: Systematic Use of Self-Monitoring as a Behavioral Intervention (Training for Paraprofessionals) - 11/19/2021 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Spaces Remaining: 447 This interactive and hands-on workshop designed for Paraprofessionals and other implementers of the Self & Match systems. This workshop educates and empowers staff members to become effective implementers of the system. |
| What IEP Teams Need to Know about Extended School Year (ESY) - 11/11/2021 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Spaces Remaining: 45 Informative Information Regarding Extended School Year (ESY |