Target Audience: Educators PK-12, ESE, SLPs, OTs, Staffing Specialists, Behavior Specialists, Paraprofessionals, Administrators (all levels)

Requirement: You must have a current login and password for Boardmaker Online

Course Objective:  Participants will learn, through hands-on exploration, how to use the Boardmaker Online website to find interactive premade activities and use tools and templates to build new activities for individual students and small/whole group instruction. Participants will also learn how activities can be standards-aligned and data-tracked, to support communication, core content area instruction (ie. reading, writing, math, etc), social/emotional learning, and much more.

Course Description: Participants will learn and understand:

• how use of Boardmaker Online activities and visual supports can incorporate the Universal Design principles of multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression in the instruction of all students

• how to log on, search for, and save premade print-based, interactive, and data-tracking performance activities

• how to use premade templates and tools to create and share new print-based, interactive and data-tracking performance activities

• how to create student accounts, assign specific activities to a student, and align activities to standards and/or IEP goals

Implementation Activity:  Participants are required to submit pre- and post- student impact data prior to receiving 12 inservice points.

Follow up Method: Email communication and coaching throughout the implementation period will be available upon participant request.  

Contact Mia Laudato at mia.laudato@fdlrsaction.org.

Target Audience: Educators Grades K-8

Course Objective: Participants learn how to develop a learning environment focused on clear, consistent expectations that increases learner engagement and provides every student the opportunity to be academically successful.

Course Description: Our goal for this day is to support teachers in the development of a cohesive classroom management plan that supports student achievement.  Components of the classroom management plan include:

• guidelines & rules

• class organization

• student expectations (utilizing the CHAMPS acronym)

• classroom procedures & routines

• class & student motivation

• early stage corrections

We focus on a 3-step process for communicating expectations:

1. teach the expectations

2. observe student behavior

3. provide meaningful feedback

Each participant will receive a CHAMPS Teacher Planner published by Safe & Civil Schools.

Implementation Activity: Classroom behavior system pre- and post- data are required prior to receiving 12 inservice credits.  

Follow Up Method: Email communication and coaching throughout the implementation period, as well as on-site coaching (per participant request) will be available.

Target Audience:Teachers (K-2), Teachers (K-12 ESE), Paraprofessionals (K-2, K-12 ESE), Therapists (SLP, OT,PT)

Course Objective:

Participants will be able to create, search for, and share visual supports to be used with students to provide multiple means of representation, action and expression.

Course Description:

In this half day training, participants will learn how to use the easy to learn technology tool, LessonPix (LessonPix.com), to make visual supports and educational activities for their classrooms.

They will also create visuals and activities to bring back for immediate use in their classrooms.

*Participants will receive a one year subscription to use LessonPix to create Universally designed and differentiated activities/visual supports for their classroom.

Implementation Activity:

Participants will complete the following prior to earning 6 inservice credits:

1. Share at least 2 activities, on the LessonPix share site, that they have created.

2. Submit student impact data for a minimum of five students at www.fdlrsaction.com.

Follow Up Method: Email communication and coaching throughout the implementation period, as well as on-site coaching (per participant request) will be available.