Upcoming Offerings in Special Education
Course | Description | Audience |
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Leveraging Technologies to Support Families during COVID: Strategies for Virtual Family Support and Home VisitingDecember 16 |
Family support is a large part of a special educator’s role, but the shift to online learning has made this incredibly difficult. This webinar will cover ways of supporting families during COVID 19 and with the shift to distance learning. We will share resources for conducting virtual home visits and discuss ways school staff can connect with families, assess their needs, connect them with resources, and support them in meeting their child’s’ needs at home. |
Early Childhood Professionals, Special Education Professionals |
Washington Early Achievers Institute: Promoting Inclusive Practices for all ChildrenDecember 1 to December 5 |
Join us for a week of inclusion. This free virtual institute will enhance the capacity of providers by sharing a research-based tiered approach to inclusive education. Sessions are designed for all childcare providers who care for children age 0-12 and want to learn research-backed strategies to promote accessible and inclusive learning environments. Plenaries will be led by disability self-advocates and experts in the field of inclusion with a focus on culturally responsive inclusion practices for early learning and school-age providers. |
Early Childhood Professionals |
PLC Book Study: Leading Equity-Based MTSS for All StudentsJanuary 18 to February 15 |
An opportunity to discuss, share, and dive deeper into Leading Equity-Based MTSS for All Students, as independent colleagues or as a school team. |
Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, School Leaders, Special Education Professionals |
Investigating Privilege and Access in Educational Systems: How to Avoid Being a “Karen” or “Ken” in the Workplace & with StudentsMarch 17 to March 31 |
In this course, participants will investigate how privilege and access intersects within the educational system through unsuspecting or intentional/unintentional behaviors. We will discuss how people use their privilege as a form of entitlement to gain access, popularly known as being a “Karen” or “Ken.” Participants will dissect and reflect on how this denies others access and perpetuates stereotypes, bias, and racism using historical structures, systems, and institutions to oppress. Together, we’ll develop skill in navigating spaces in more culturally responsive ways in order to begin dismantling structures that gate-keep marginalized or under-represented populations. |
District Leaders, Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Informal Educators, School Leaders, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
UDL in Elementary and Secondary SettingsMarch 30 |
Join us for a quick webinar on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in elementary and secondary settings. We’ll discuss the UDL framework and share examples. |
District Leaders, Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, School Leaders, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Disability Justice in Schools WebinarMarch 7 |
This 90-minute webinar is an introduction to disability identity, history, intersectionality, and movements for Disability Justice in school. We will include activities that expose histories of ableism in schools and introduce you to disabled activist movements. Real-time captioning of the webinar will be provided. |
District Leaders, Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Informal Educators, School Leaders, School Psychologists, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Conference on Research Innovations in Early InterventionFebruary 10 to February 12 |
CRIEI is a multidisciplinary conference created by researchers focusing on methodological advances, research in progress, innovative approaches to combining methodologies, issues in conducting research, and controversial topics related to interventions with young children with disabilities or those at risk for developmental delays and their families. |
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Grown-ups and Kids Together: Let’s Examine What We Consume and Create on Our ScreensFebruary 18 |
This one-hour professional development course will engage elementary educators and their families in a personally meaningful experience with media literacy. What better way to learn about students’ thinking than with a young learner by our sides? Adults/caregivers and their elementary age children are encouraged to join together for an interactive and investigative experience. Please note that educators joining on their own are welcome, and will find the experience meaningful as well! |
District Leaders, Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Informal Educators, School Leaders, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Disability Justice in Schools Mini CourseMarch 9 to March 23 |
In this three-sesion course, participants will take a deep dive into the tenets of Disability Justice and explore applications within their unique school contexts. |
Community Leaders, Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Informal Educators, School Leaders, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Leading for Educational Justice: Stories, Data, and Practices That Move Us Toward More Equitable & Humanizing SchoolsFebruary 22 to February 26 |
In this series of conversations we'll explore what it means to develop systems that truly center justice and equity for each student and the communities served by our education systems. Leadership for Learning (L4L) is a doctoral program at the University of Washington made up of practicing educational leaders focused on realizing educational equity. Principle in this endeavor is authentic engagement with students and families, shared vision and collective action, and high quality teaching and learning for students and educators. As part of our ongoing work to reimagine and realize more just school systems, we invite school leaders, community partners, and anyone interested in joining us in these collective endeavors. |
District Leaders, Informal Educators, School Leaders |
Voices from the Field: Reopening Inclusive and Equitable ClassroomsApril 28 |
Join us for an interactive panel discussion around reopening schools with inclusion and equity. We will hear from a group of special educators, working in preschool through elementary settings. Panelists will share their experiences supporting learners in person and providing instruction while maintaining COVID safety plans. We will also spend time in break-out groups, discussing reopening plans and practices based on age and grade level. |
District Leaders, Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Protecting the Promise Book Launch & CelebrationApril 22 |
Join us for the launch and celebration of Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children by Timothy San Pedro in partnership with College of Education doctoral student Alayna Eagle Shield, Micheal Munson, Faith Price, Tara Ramos and Kristina Lucero and their families. |
District Leaders, Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Informal Educators, School Leaders, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Student Accommodations and Modifications in the Tier 1 SettingOngoing |
This webinar will provide participants with a working understanding of accommodations versus modifications, as well as when to implement either and for whom. |
Elementary Teachers, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Culturally Responsive Strategies for Building Relationships with FamiliesOngoing |
This webinar will focus on building parent-teacher relationships by increasing cultural awareness. We will share the importance of identifying cultural differences and strategies to address the needs of students and families. |
Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Virtual Social and Emotional Support: Zoom Social Skills for All LearnersOngoing |
In this webinar, Drs. RinaMarie Leon-Guerrero and Ariane Gauvreau will discuss concrete ways teachers and providers can provide social skills instruction, strategies for facilitating social skills groups online, and other means to increase social opportunities for students during distance learning. |
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers |
ABA Business 101: Business FundamentalsOngoing |
Business Series: ABA 101 will have an administrative focus that concentrates on how to open and manage an ABA business as a business leader. |
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Special Education Professionals |
Leveraging Technologies to Support Families During COVID: Strategies for Virtual Family Support and Home VisitingOngoing |
Family support is a large part of a special educator’s role, but the shift to online learning has made this incredibly difficult. This webinar will cover ways of supporting families during COVID-19 and with the shift to distanced learning. |
Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, School Leaders, Special Education Professionals |
ABA Business 102: Clinical FundamentalsOngoing |
ABA 102 will have a clinical focus that concentrates on how to manage the clinical responsibilities needed in effective and ethical programming from a leadership perspective. |
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Special Education Professionals |
Early Childhood Education in the Time of COVID: Voices From the FieldOngoing |
This webinar will center the voices of early childhood special educators (teaching in Birth-Grade 3 settings) with the goal of learning from strategies, practices, and supports that have effectively and efficiently supported families and young children |
Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers |
Project DATA Model for Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum DisordersOngoing |
The goal of the Project DATA Model is to provide a school-based program for young children with ASD and related disorders that is effective, meets the needs of its consumers (e.g., families and school personnel), is acceptable to consumers, and is sustainable. |
Early Childhood Professionals, Special Education Professionals |
Early Childhood Education in the “New Normal”: Strategies for Supporting Preschooler and Early Elementary Students with Online InstructionOngoing |
This webinar will share strategies for supporting a range of learners, with and without disabilities, in online settings. |
Elementary Teachers, Families, Informal Educators, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
ABA Business 103: Staff RetentionOngoing |
ABA 103 focuses on the issue of staff retention and ways that companies can intervene to decrease staff turnover. |
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Special Education Professionals |
Supporting Parents with Challenging Behaviors at HomeOngoing |
This training will explore current practices in the implementation of online parent coaching for challenging behaviors at home. The focus is for early childhood staff working with families around behavior support. |
Early Childhood Professionals, Elementary Teachers, Secondary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |
Sexuality, Disability & ABA Practice 202: Ethical Management of Sexualized BehaviorOngoing |
This webinar focuses on the ethical analysis of a behavioral consultation case study involving masturbatory behavior of an early adolescent with a developmental disability. |
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Special Education Professionals |
Supporting Preschoolers and Families as They Return to SchoolSeptember 22 |
We will be discussing strategies to support the trickiest parts of the preschool day, including transitions, following behavioral expectations and building friendship skills. We will also be sharing strategies for building relationships with families. |
Early Childhood Professionals |
Successfully Supporting ALL Students in the General Education ClassroomSeptember 29, October 13, October 27 |
Learn a variety of evidence based approaches that enable both General Education teachers and Specialists to feel comfortable and confident providing support in the classroom setting to students with diverse needs or atypical profiles. Register for the three-part series or an individual session. |
Elementary Teachers, Special Education Professionals |