Professional Learning and Coaching

The following resources lend support to providing training, guidance, and/or technical assistance.

Description	Type	Length	Certificate
Access to the General Education Curriculum/Literacy Access for ALL This FREE, 10-part video series containing over 70 coaching videos and hundreds of resources explores strategies grounded in research that are designed to ensure ALL learners have access to the general curriculum.
Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment Planning Guide Throughout this guide, you will be introduced to the planning process for transition assessment. It is important we intentionally plan for transition assessment to ensure we reduce duplication, build on a student’s progress, and identify individualized assessment to build the youth’s profile in relationship to those skills needed for their adult life goals.
Assistive Technology Internet Modules (ATIM) ATIM include 58 interactive learning modules on topics related to AT including but not limited to resources about, assessment, implementation, transition, and AT for specific curricular areas and areas of independent living.
Checklists A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron covering strategies, discussion, and ideas you can implement tomorrow using the strength of checklists.
Clear Goals A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron discussion about the importance of Clear Goals, relating them to the Thought Bubbles from an earlier episode.
Culture A 10 Minutes with Barb and Ron discussion about school culture - the good, bad, and the ugly.
Designing for the Least Restrictive Environment in General Education Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) is a critical principle of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). School districts and families often struggle with WHERE and HOW to ensure LRE. What does the law really say? How can we use the UDL framework to reduce barriers and ensure that the general education classroom is the least restrictive environment? This presentation offers an engaging discussion that will stretch our thinking, allow for collaboration, and improve outcomes for each and every learner!
Effective Practices: Supporting Youth In School, In the Community and On the Job and Predictors of Post School Success Effective Practices and Predictors are research-based strategies that focus on supporting transition age youth to gain critical skills and experiences. The Practices and Predictors are useful to transition professionals in school and agencies across systems and in multiple environments.
EMPOWER Future Ready Learners Through the Lens of UDL Have you ever wanted to integrate your technology in a way that considers where students are in their learning, where they need to be, and permits them to select the pathway to get there? We are living in a digital age where information is just a click away; however, learning should be more than just a Google search. This webinar explores voice and choice with the UDL framework to a personalized playlist for all students.
Empowering Expert Learners yields Successful Post-secondary Outcomes Discover how the UDL Expert Learner builds successful lifelong learning and improves the likelihood of on-time graduation and successful post-secondary outcomes. This will be accomplished through discussion, and a role play involving a building leadership team.
How Can Universal Design for Learning Revive our Family Engagement? In this webinar the presenters will share the basic concepts of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and offer ideas for using multiple means of engagement, representation, and expression to give us fresh perspectives on the opportunities schools create for families to support student learning.
Inclusive Practices That Support Learners With Complex Needs Are Individual Education Programs (IEPs) driving the changes that we want for our learners who are eligible for special education? Or have they become a boilerplate document that teams complete, but don’t use to full capacity within the classroom? The intent of the federal law IDEA is “ensuring equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities.”
Rethinking the Design and Implementation of Individualized Education Programs Through a UDL Lens Are Individual Education Programs (IEPs) driving the changes that we want for our learners who are eligible for special education? Or have they become a boilerplate document that teams complete, but don’t use to full capacity within the classroom? The intent of the federal law IDEA is “ensuring equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities.”
Social Emotional Engagement in Learning Research in social neuroscience fosters our understanding of the development of social and emotional competence in the classroom. Understanding how social connections fuel our brains to grow and how we, as educators, can consider engagement through a social, emotional, and cognitive system, provides us opportunities to socially emotionally engage our learners while ensuring access through Universal Design for Learning (UDL) with all learners. The outcome from this session will provide a practical inquiry tool for educators to discover what’s working in their practices to enhance learner engagement.
The Leader‘s Role in Supporting UDL Learn about key leadership practices that support and sustain the use of the UDL framework to ensure that all learners are purposeful and motivated, resourceful and knowledgeable, and strategic and goal directed.
The Marriage of UDL and PBIS - A Framework to Support the Whole Child Participants will be able to identify how Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) complement one another and provide a systematic framework that supports the whole child. Participants will be able to identify how the UDL guidelines and the components of PBIS are more similar than different and support educators in their efforts to be intentional when striving to meet the needs of each and every learner.
Transition Assessment and Transition Planning, InspirED Webinar Series Explore a 3 part InspirED series on Transition Assessment and Transition Planning offering good foundational information for all team members serving transition youth (special educators, general educators, therapists, transition coordinators, paraprofessionals, etc.)
Universal Design for Learning 101 Discover a framework known as Universal Design for Learning and how it lowers barriers to learning, offers choices and uses research informed practices to support learning.
Universal Design for Learning and the Importance of Learning Standards Explore the importance of collaboration and student involvement within the UDL Framework when it comes to standards. You will leave with tools and knowledge to get you started and ideas to involve and empower your students learning. This exciting webinar will raise questions, as well as examine how we use our Learning Standards through the UDL framework. For instance, what does our planning look and sound like when we work collaboratively with students to create learning targets?
Using Practice Profiles to Monitor Universal Design for Learning Implementation In this webinar presenters will describe a practice profile and will apply a practice profile to a current implementation, monitoring, approach.
Using UDL to Leverage Co-Planning Do you regularly collaborate with co-teachers or other school staff to proactively plan to support the learning of all of your students in the general education classroom? If you are a general education teacher, intervention specialist, ESL teacher, speech-language pathologist, OT/PT, title teacher or another collaborative teacher, then this webinar is for you. Join us as we discuss how to use UDL to leverage co-planning. Bring your best ideas as we discuss how to make these partnerships work for the benefit of all students.
Weaving the UDL Framework with Specially Designed Instruction: A Beautiful Tapestry with and without disabilities A quick 30 minutes on how Specially Designed Instruction compliments Universal Design for Learning.
What Works for Work training series OCALI set out to introduce selected evidence-based practices and how to incorporate these into the academic, vocational and social education and preparation for transition youth. The project, commonly known as What Works for Work, resulted in user-friendly tools and resources now available on this website.