Upcoming Offerings Professional Learning

Business Series: ABA 101 will have an administrative focus that concentrates on how to open and manage an ABA business as a business leader.

ABA 103 focuses on the issue of staff retention and ways that companies can intervene to decrease staff turnover. 

This webinar, presented by Dr. Janine Jones, is part of the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training Center's 2021 Speaker Series.

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. 

Haring Center staff and Early childhood special educators (teaching in Birth-Grade 3 settings) will share strategies, practices, and supports that have effectively and efficiently supported families and young children during COVID. Please join us for a collaborative conversation around best practices and lessons learned as we all navigate this new normal!

This workshop will cover everything you need to know about green screens. We’ll introduce tricks for setting your space and uploading photos for your background, show lots of examples of how you can teach a range of social and academic skills, and review how to use green screens in large, small and individualized settings. 

This webinar, presented by Dr. Emma Elliott-Groves, is part of the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training Center's 2021 Speaker Series.

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.

Project-based learning is an important and an effective teaching approach to challenge all learners, including those who are above grade level and need advanced instruction. But there is no one way to implement project-based learning, and teachers often find it difficult to integrate project-based learning into required units of study. Gather with other teachers who are implementing inquiry approaches to their curriculum in this series of virtual Professional Learning Communities (PLC) meetings.

In this webinar, district leaders from five school districts will reflect on what they’ve learned about supporting instruction during the “dual pandemics” of COVID- 19 and racial injustice. They will share their current and future efforts to center the experiences and perspectives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and emphasize family and community relationships to reorient district-level decision-making.

This webinar focuses on the ethical analysis of a behavioral consultation case study involving masturbatory behavior of an early adolescent with a developmental disability

This webinar walks you through steps to take to start integrating social-sexuality instruction into your services.

This webinar presents an overview of modern social-sexuality instructional resources for learners with ASD.

In this course, participants will learn about why we need to practice media literacy when consuming, sharing, and creating print and digital media. We will cover the core concepts of media literacy and practice integrating them into existing lessons and pedagogical practices for in-person and remote instruction.

In this course, participants will learn about why we need to practice media literacy when consuming, sharing, and creating print and digital media and how to stay safe as digital citizens. We will cover the core concepts of media literacy and digital citizenship and practice integrating them into existing lessons and pedagogical practices for in-person and remote instruction.

Third Grade Teachers, join us for an exciting opportunity to engage in learning about how to teach an Orca whale unit in a virtual learning environment. This interactive and entertaining workshop will bring science to life as we explore best practices for online learning about a true orca whale story. Walk away with a complete Orca unit and confidence in using it with your students.

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.