P-12 General Sessions

Session Description:  This interactive training introduces five free, practical AI tools and applications that support equity and content mastery for multilingual, SPED, and diverse learners, and all framed within a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and SIOP approach to reduce prep time while increasing student engagement, confidence, and access to rigorous content. Educators will explore using AI to embed content-specific SIOP-scaffolded supports into their already practiced lessons with sentence frames, word banks, step-by-step instructions, and more ways to make content comprehensible. They will also learn how to use responsive SchoolAI Co-Teacher chatbots for scaffolding and clarifying for students, paras, co-teachers, and even homework help, along with Canva-based visuals & slides, Brisk tools for Google Classroom, and gamified assessments using WayGround/Quizizz and CFAs. Participants will leave with ready-to-use resources and a clearer vision of how to integrate AI ethically and effectively—one BYTE at a time.

3 hour Asynchronous session

STEM Qualified Session

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Session Description:  This training is intended to improve skills in using AAC and iPads to support students' communication needs. It will provide background knowledge, hands on experience and allow you time to ask questions and problem solve with the group outside of the classroom.  

We will have snacks, and you can earn clock hours.  You do not have to attend all 4 parts of the training if you do want wish.  Each training will build on the last one but we are confident we can get you up to speed if you don’t attend all of them.

If you attend, please bring your therapy or classroom AAC iPad with you.   If you have attended in the past but would like a refresher we are happy to have you attend again.

2 hour Asynchronous session

Session Description:  ThRead&Write is the replacement for Co:Writer and Snap&Read.  It has all the same features, plus many mor

1 hour Asynchronous session

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X hour Asynchronous session

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Session Description: LIBRARIANS ONLY - in-person collaboration to align on Library standards, Computer Science curriculum, and progress towards Strategic Plan and ASD Library Vision.

1-hour Synchronous session

Session Description: Join Follett rep Tommy Barquinero for an annual update of services they can provide to your library, new information about Destiny, and more.

 This session is only open to K-12 Librarians and Library Paras.

1-hour Synchronous session

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Session Description: Empower your teaching and reach all students with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Discover practical strategies to design flexible learning environments that remove barriers and meet the diverse needs of all kids. Join us and learn how to create engaging, accessible, and effective instruction for every learner.

3 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

Meets FCS01 or FCS02

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***Session Description: How do we move beyond “turn and talk” and hand raising to engage all of our students during partner and whole class discussions?  All our students are Academic English Learners, and we need structured routines in order to support the development of their linguistic skills.  Participants will explore practical strategies to scaffold academic conversations, create inclusive environments that encourage student voice, and use discourse to deepen content understanding.     

 1 hour Asynchronous session

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Session Description: Learn about Co-teaching best practices and get structured time to work with your co-teacher(s). These sessions can also be valuable for anyone interested in learning more about co-teaching and for staff members who work with or support co-teachers.     

2 hour Synchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

Session Description: This session is designed for co-teachers to learn and plan together. Co-teachers will review co-planning resources and incorporate them into unit and lesson design.   

2 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: (To be completed after Co-Planning for Co-Teachers Session 1) This session is designed for co-teachers to learn and plan together. Co-teachers will review co-planning resources and incorporate them into unit and lesson design.    

2 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: New to the district? Want to learn about all the apps and tech you and your students can access? Come join this fun, hands-on class to help you make the most of our online tools. 

1-hour Asynchronous session

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Session Description: This training provides a practical guide to planning for student need by exploring the difference between accommodations and modifications and demonstrating how many of these supports can be provided universally. We will explore the strong connection between supports for students with IEPs and Multilingual Learners. Participants will have the opportunity to closely analyze the specific needs of students with IEPs in their classes, and consider how to embed support universally to decrease planning time and increase student engagement.    

2 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: Attendees will walk away knowing the role of paraeducators in general education classrooms, ideas for how to leverage their support to benefit all students, and strategies to enhance collaboration.   

2-hour asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: In 2024, OSPI released updated guidance for writing inclusive, strengths-based IEPs. This training is designed to help IEP teams and case managers uplift and encourage students by putting their strengths at the forefront of planning.

3-hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: We can help students improve both their reading and writing by focusing on conjunctions.  Conjunctions connect ideas in a sentence and can help students write more complex sentences.  Learn more about the "Because, But, So" strategy which comes from the book "The Writing Revolution."  After completing the session, participants will know how to incorporate this effective strategy into their literacy instruction. 

1 hour asynchronous session

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Session Description: This session will give you an introduction to Ross Greene's Collaborative Proactive Solutions model. This model gives high quality and practical strategies for connecting with and supporting not only our most challenging students but all students.  He gives a new lens with which to look at students with challenging behavior and gives the adults tools to stay calm and proactive.

3 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: Straight from the 2026 Inclusionary Practices Institute, This incredible session will focus on designing classroom routines that remove barriers to learning and increase learner agency. Participants will access practical strategies that provide flexible options for daily instructional routines. Take away concrete resources that support productive struggle for diverse learners. 

2 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description:  Provide awareness and understanding of policies and laws related to immigrant and refugee families

• Develop support systems for families and students through a culture of caring

• Show resources and ways to share resources with families and students.

1 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: The Sentence Expansion strategy helps students use question words to expand their sentences and give more information to the reader.  This strategy also supports comprehension by building understanding of syntax.  Join this session to get started using this strategy with your students.     

2 hour asynchronous session

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Session Description: This course will provide an overview of how all staff can best support students who have the potential to escalate.  Both proactive and reactive strategies are provided.  If you want to know more about de-escalation without taking a full certification course, this is the class for you.  If you are already certified in a de-escalation course but want to learn more, this is the class for you!  

4 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: As 3-year-old Emilio prepares to start school, his family finds itself embroiled in a challenge all too common for children with disabilities – to secure the right to an inclusive education. Cornered in one of the most segregated education systems, New York City public schools, filmmaker Olivier and his wife Hilda turn the camera on themselves and their child with Down syndrome, as they navigate a byzantine system originally designed to silo children with disabilities. 

2 hour Asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: When 1:1 support is prescribed in a student's IEP there are many pitfalls of dependence that all educators need to avoid.  Patrick Mulick will discus the strategies and systems that can be used to navigate this in the classroom so your students can reach their greatest potential. 

1 hour asynchronous session

Equity Qualified Session

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Session Description: For Librarians and Library Paras only.

The State Library is hosting an all-day online PD on 10th October, and will post the recordings online afterwards.

The day will start with a timely and topical keynote on AI and media literacy by Alana Winnick, author of The Generative Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Education. Gavin Downing, Washington teacher librarian and ALA Councilor, will bring us all back together to talk about law and advocacy for school librarians. The rest of this year’s sessions will focus on bringing back joy and creativity, and put the focus on the practitioner, highlighting the projects, programs, and innovations that your colleagues have successfully brought to their classrooms and libraries … and will now offer to you!

To take part, you must register with the State Library first:

https://washstatelib.libcal.com/calendar/trainingandevents/schoollibrarytrainingday2025

DO NOT claim your clock hours through the State Library.  Claim them through the Training Series and they will be free.

7 hour Asynchronous session

Session Description: **Librarians Only**

Fiscal/HR Data Specialist Michael Blessing will review how to access your Library account information in Skyward, and how you can track and manage your budgets across the school year.

1 hour Synchronous session

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Session Description: Want to get more out of the Clever homepage?  Learn how to create your own teacher page full of custom links for your students.

1 hour Asynchronous session

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Session Description:  There were many updates to Google products over summer - come learn what's changed with Classroom, Docs, Gemini, and more!

This will be a live session with an opportunity for Q&A.  The recording will be available afterwards.

1 hour Synchronous session

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