Educator Professional Development Online Training Onsite Workshop

Curriculum

Designed for educators beginning to use our products. Learn to access your account, create classes, assign curriculum and enroll students, understand how to find curriculum that addresses your students' needs. Fully understand the instructional components of the product, and how to best implement in a variety of instructional settings.

Assessment

Designed for educators who are just beginning their assessment implementation. Participants will participate and proctor an online technology assessment event, describe why the assessment is important, create classes, set up assessment events, and enroll students, and interpret assessment reports and results.

Sky - Digital Learning Environment

This introductory workshop prepares teachers to use SKY to assign and manage curriculum with students. Teaching & Learning with Sky

Implementation

To help your school or district make the most of its digital investment, we provide high-quality training tools and custom consultation to match our products with your teaching environments.

Product Training

Beginning Introduction and Integration

Ideal for first-time users of our products, this hands-on workshop will help educators get started with the essential basics. Teachers will set up classes, enroll students, explore and assign curriculum to support current curriculum plans. Educators may also develop custom curriculum, review reports and determine assessment strategies, design lesson plans, and more. The Learning.com curriculum is designed to promote overall literacy and academic fluency by integrating technology-based learning into every subject. Teachers are empowered by the ability to customize instruction to address the needs of every individual learner, based on individual strengths and challenges. Aha!Math will cover Response to Intervention (RTI) solutions.

Available for: EasyTech, Aha!Math, Aha!Science, Middle School STEM

Advanced Implementation and Integration

Designed as a follow-up to the Beginning Introduction and Integration workshop, this session delves deeper and helps teachers build a strong, supportive implementation plan. Teachers will develop strategies to integrate technology into their day-to-day practices, evaluate their district’s tech standards and goals, determine how to implement product at their school, decide what curriculum will be introduced and reinforced, determine assessment strategies, share best practices, and more. Aha!Math will cover Response to Intervention (RTI) solutions.

Available for: EasyTech, Aha!Math, Aha!Science, Middle School STEM

Curriculum Mapping

In this workshop, our facilitator will work with educators to develop a comprehensive curriculum map that integrates technology tools and solutions into their current core curriculum to promote seamless implementation and increased student achievement. Educators will also learn about how the Learning.com platform is utilized to deliver curriculum units, and how the Learning.com District Custom Publishing tool takes their scoped and sequenced curriculum units and digitally disseminates material to their district.

Available for: EasyTech, Aha!Math, Aha!Science, Middle School STEM

Modeling and Mentoring

This workshop will focus on identifying and visiting specific school implementations, and working with the school coordinator on addressing site-specific needs and observing or leading student usage. Teachers observe a Learning.com professional development trainer conduct a technology integration activity with their class, and then debrief on ways to incorporate technology with their daily teaching practices.

Available for: EasyTech, Aha!Math, Aha!Science, Middle School STEM

Family Involvement

This workshop is ideal for school districts interested in promoting family involvement with technology. Teachers will learn how to introduce and involve families with our solutions and curriculum, create opportunities for families to learn and support technology at home, design and administer a family technology night, create technology integration activities that involve family participation, strategize ways to involve families in their child’s education, and more.

Available for: EasyTech, Aha!Math, Aha!Science, Middle School STEM

Core Content

STEM

This hands-on workshop is designed for teachers who are just beginning to implement an integrated STEM approach to instruction. Teachers will embark on an in-depth exploration into what STEM is and why it can be so effective. In addition, teachers will gain a thorough understanding of the engineering design process, and learn how to create inquiry-driven projects and fully-integrated STEM units they can use right away. The ultimate goal of the workshop is to give teachers the tools they need to confidently begin their STEM integration the very next day.

Available for: Aha!Math, Aha!Science, Middle School STEM

Project-Based Learning and Curriculum

This workshop is designed for districts that want to enhance their core curriculum with technology. Educators will review their district’s core content standards, scope, and sequence; integrate technology with content standards; design lesson plans that incorporate technology; identify effective uses of technology integration; determine assessment strategies for technology integration; and share best practices and student examples.

Available for: EasyTech

Assess and Achieve (Pretest)

This workshop is designed for educators who are just beginning their assessment implementation. Participants will learn how to proctor an online technology assessment event. In this session, educators discuss why the assessment is important, create classes, enroll students, set up assessment events, and learn how to access , interpret and prescribe to assessment reports and results. Every workshop is customized to support the school or district’s curriculum, and is aligned to applicable state standards.

Available for: TechLiteracy Assessment, 21st Century Skills Assessment, Wayfind

Data Evaluation (Posttest)

This workshop will help educators understand how to interpret reports, and evaluate and prescribe to the data to make informed instructional and programmatic choices targeted to their results and identified learning gaps. Every workshop is customized to support the school or district’s curriculum, and is aligned to their state’s standards.

Available for: TechLiteracy Assessment, 21st Century Skills Assessment, WayFind

Teaching & Learning with Sky

This introductory workshop prepares teachers to use SKY to assign and manage curriculum with students.

Managing a Sky Campus

Learning.com Coordinators will be prepared to complete the tasks required to manage a SKY campus, including managing teacher accounts.

Creating Engaging Content with Sky

Learn to create your own digitally enhanced and interactive items for use with students.

Planning & Creating Digital Units of Instruction with Sky

Learn to compile user-generated items with other curriculum resources from your content library to create standards-aligned units of instruction.

Creating & Distributing District Curricula with Sky

Learn to align your district-wide curricula with all digital resources and load it into SKY for easy access by teachers and students.

Curriculum Mapping with Sky

Work with experienced professionals to create a grade-level or grading period matrix of curriculum to match your district needs.

Providing online tools and consultation for successful implementation

To help your school or district make the most of its digital investment, we provide high-quality training tools and custom consultation to match our products with your teaching environments.

Online resources available 24/7

We are constantly improving and adding training materials to the Resources section of your account.

• Implementation plans to guide your experience with our products
• Video tutorials for on-demand training
• Product guides to answer frequently asked questions

Implementation and set-up

We're here to help your implementation go smoothly and successfully. Every implementation includes the basic "nuts and bolts" online training, access to all Learning.com guides and resources, and assistance with importing student and educator data into Learning.com database, systems and roster, including:

• Creating district and school building master accounts
• Account setup and activation
• Regularly scheduled Web-based training
• Access to all Learning.com online tutorials, guides and resources
• Personal support assistance by phone, email and interactive chat weekdays from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific time.

Project management and consulting

Our seasoned professionals can create a customized implementation plan with a district-wide and year-long guide on how to make the most of your investment and truly see the power of our solutions. Project management is always customized to meet your needs, and can include:

• Assistance throughout the course of your project, for example, an assessment period
• A dedicated project manager to perform or oversee required activities
• Ongoing communication with your key participants
• Assistance with design and planning for the project
• Help with the design, delivery and implementation of any Web site necessary for participating districts in your project
• Assist with, and/or deliver professional development
• Advise and assist with best practices/strategies for a successful project implementation
• Assist with data imports
• Act as a single point of contact for implementation and technical support
• Help check system requirements to ensure smooth online testing
• Track progress and reports
• Provide technical support
• Regular updates to monitor progress and track usage
• Provide statewide reporting
• Provide an annual report
• Participate in all evaluation projects