Micro-credential Courses

Trauma Informed Practices for Educators

Reinforce and extend core trauma-informed approaches with additional strategies and case studies. This section supports educators in refining classroom systems, collaborating with support staff, and sustaining compassionate, high-expectation learning environments.

Holistic and Contemplative Wellness Practices for Educators and Counselors

This class explores holistic wellness through mindfulness, somatic awareness, and Indigenous wisdom traditions that support counselors and educators in sustaining their well-being while serving others. Participants will explore and engage and in contemplative, mindful and somatic practices to help reduce stress, prevent burnout, and cultivate deeper presence. Rooted in relational and indigenous approaches to healing, the course invites educators and counselors to reconnect with balance, community care, and sustainable ways of showing up with clarity, compassion, and purpose.

Culture, Community, and Connection: Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy

This additional section offers the same core focus with new opportunities for collaboration and application. Educators will analyze case studies and plan concrete shifts that make instruction more relevant, rigorous, and relationship-centered.

All Means All: Inclusive Education in Today’s Classrooms

Learn practical approaches for designing lessons and environments where every learner can participate and succeed. This course emphasizes Universal Design for Learning, co-teaching strategies, and classroom routines that reduce barriers and promote belonging.

Ethnic Studies in Practice: Pedagogy and Curriculum Design for High School Teachers

An additional section opens space for more high school teachers to develop robust Ethnic Studies courses. Participants will workshop units, assessments, and community partnerships that ground learning in students’ lived experiences.

Restorative Classrooms: Circles, Reflection, and Alternatives to Suspension

Learn how to build a restorative classroom culture that centers relationships, accountability, and community. This course provides practical circles, conferencing strategies, and language teachers can use to respond to conflict in ways that repair harm and strengthen belonging.

Trauma Informed Practices for Educators

Strengthen your capacity to recognize the impact of trauma and respond with empathy, consistency, and care. Educators will learn classroom strategies, routines, and supports that promote safety, regulation, and resilience for all students.

Trauma Sensitive and SEL Practices for Supporting Immigrant Students

This class explores SEL and trauma-sensitive practices for supporting immigrant students. Participants will learn culturally responsive strategies that foster safety, belonging, and resilience while honoring students’ identities, languages, and lived experiences. The course also highlights practical tools educators and counselors can use to create supportive environments that promote healing, trust, and academic success

Culture, Community, and Connection: Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy

Deepen understanding of culturally responsive and sustaining practices that affirm students’ identities and communities. Participants will examine curriculum, communication, and grading through an equity lens and design more inclusive learning experiences.

Purpose and Resilience: SEL for High School Students

Help adolescents connect to purpose, navigate stress, and build durable SEL skills that support long-term success. This course blends research-based practices with practical routines that integrate self-awareness, goal-setting, and resilience into everyday high school instruction.

Developing Impactful IEPs: Advanced Practices for Special Education Teachers

Strengthen skills in writing IEPs that are clear, measurable, and truly supportive of student growth. Participants will practice crafting goals, accommodations, and progress-monitoring plans that align with legal requirements and classroom realities.

Ethnic Studies in Practice: Pedagogy and Curriculum Design for High School Teachers

Design meaningful, standards-aligned Ethnic Studies experiences that honor the voices, histories, and contemporary realities of diverse communities. Participants will leave with curriculum ideas, discussion protocols, and resources that foster critical thinking, identity development, and civic engagement in high school classrooms.

Responding to Crisis: Understanding the Behavior Cycle and Antecedent-Based Interventions

Prepare to respond calmly and effectively when crises arise on campus. This course reviews communication protocols, de-escalation strategies, and post-crisis supports that prioritize student and staff safety and healing.

Every Learner, Every Need: Foundations of Differentiated Instruction

Build a strong foundation in differentiating content, process, and product to meet diverse learner needs. Educators will explore flexible grouping, formative assessment, and choice-based structures that increase access and engagement for all students.

Growing Hearts and Minds: SEL Foundations for TK–3 Classrooms

Discover developmentally appropriate SEL practices for the earliest grades, grounded in play, routines, and relationships. Participants will explore strategies for naming feelings, building friendships, and creating emotionally safe classrooms for TK–3 students.

Building Community and Agency: SEL for Grades 4–6

Support upper-elementary students as they develop identity, empathy, and responsible decision-making. Educators will learn engaging lessons and routines that embed SEL into academics, peer relationships, and classroom culture in grades 4–6.

Understanding IEPs: A Practical Guide for General Education Teachers

Demystify the IEP process and clarify the general educator’s role on the IEP team. This course equips teachers with strategies to implement accommodations, collaborate with specialists, and advocate for students with disabilities in inclusive settings.

Strategies to Support ELLs

Explore practical, classroom-tested strategies to help English Learners access grade-level content while developing academic language. Participants will learn how to scaffold instruction, build vocabulary, and design collaborative routines that honor students’ home languages and cultures.

Teaching Through Storytelling

Leverage the power of storytelling to deepen comprehension, build community, and increase student voice. Educators will practice narrative techniques and multimodal projects that bring content to life across subject areas.

Teaching Through Storytelling

Leverage the power of storytelling to deepen comprehension, build community, and increase student voice. Educators will practice narrative techniques and multimodal projects that bring content to life across subject areas.

Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

Examine concrete ways AI tools can support differentiation, feedback, and efficiency while keeping human relationships at the center. This course balances innovation with critical digital literacy, helping teachers guide students in using AI ethically and effectively.

EdTech Essentials: Tools, Tips & Techniques

Get up to speed on high-impact digital tools that simplify instruction and boost engagement. Participants will explore practical workflows, time-saving hacks, and classroom examples that make educational technology feel manageable and meaningful.

New State Literacy Roadmap and Literacy Content Blocks

Understand the new state literacy roadmap and what it means for curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Educators will unpack key shifts, examine sample content blocks, and plan next steps to align site literacy practices with emerging expectations.