Current Professional Development Opportunities
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For current Online Professional Learning module offerings please visit The SFUSD Professional Learning page.
Sign-in to the SFUSD website using your district email credentials. Select: Classrooms > Professional Learning
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Special Education Professional Development
SFUSD Curriculum & Instruction: Professional Growth Development Division
Online Courses 🖥️
Inclusive Practices
Click on the links below to access the courses!
30 Powerful Ways to Accommodate
Instructional Accommodations and Curricular Modifications
IEP and Common Core State Standards
Improving Specialized Support Services in Inclusive Schools
Teacher's Role in Supervising Paraeducators
Foundations for Differentiated Instruction
Side by Side: Teachers and Paraeducators in the Classroom
Finding Success in Teaching Math to Students with Disabilities
Want to learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL) at your own pace?
CAST offers two self-paced course options that provide participants with an introduction to UDL, both titled: UDL1: A Framework for Addressing Learner Variability: Theory Into Practice.
UDL1: A Framework for Addressing Learner Variability: Theory Into Practice (A Self-paced Course)
In the facilitated self-paced course you can work at your own pace, but have the benefit of interacting with a CAST facilitator, participating in discussions and completing a course project where you can apply the UDL Guidelines to a lesson in your own context.
In the self-paced course you can manage your own learning process and take advantage of our Online Learning Experience Guide to help you navigate the learning experience.
AUDIT THIS UC DAVIS COURSE!!
Autism Focused Intervention Resources & Modules
AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an EBP with learners with ASD from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download.
Click on the link below to create an account and start accessing the courses!
Autism Internet Modules
Autism Internet Modules (AIM) provide high-quality information and professional development for anyone who supports, instructs, works with, or lives with someone with autism. Developed with partners from across the country, participants can select from over 40 modules to complete at their own time and pace.
Assistive Technology Internet Modules
Assistive Technology Internet Modules (ATIM) is an online learning environment containing 50 AT topics from assessment and funding to content areas such as access to mobile devices, communication, seating and positioning, AT for students with complex needs and more. Developed with partnering universities and nationally renowned experts in the field, ATIM brings you the highest quality content available. Free access as well as professional development certificates and graduate credit are available.
High Leverage Practices in Special Education
The HLP Video Series can support teacher educators and new teachers with concrete, easy-to-access examples of HLPs in action, in real classrooms, with real students. The videos and supporting resources are easily and freely accessible online, offering a practical, real-world illustration of HLPs by teachers intentionally and explicitly using the practice to meet the specific needs of students in their classrooms. HLP videos highlight research-based practices that are captured in settings that resonate with diverse contexts, subject areas, grade-levels, and student needs. Moreover, the videos demonstrate practices across levels of intensity.
Click on the links below for videos and a resource guide
OCALI Centers
Informing public policy and developing and deploying best practices - linking research to real life - so that people with disabilities have the opportunity to live their best lives for their whole lives.
SpEd 101
Are you new to SpEd in SFUSD? Are you a Gen Ed teacher trying to better understand your role in supporting your students? Are you a current SpEd teacher looking to brush up on the basics? This course will empower you to:
-Describe the purpose of an IEP
-Understand roles and responsibilities of general & Special Ed teachers
-Write a student-centered IEP for educational benefit
-Take data and write IEP goals
-Build a list of resources and community of teachers for support
Instructor: Ricki Jo Scott
Google Classroom Join Code: ncz4vcw
Syllabus: SpEd 101
GenEd & SpEd Together: UDL & Inclusive Practices
How do you create learning opportunities that meet needs of all of your students? This course is an introduction to the concepts of inclusive practices and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and will empower educators to start implementing these strategies in their teaching. Learn about Inclusive practice, an approach to teaching that recognizes the diversity of students, and UDL, a set of principles for curriculum development that gives all students an equal opportunity to learn, providing a blueprint for creating flexible instruction that can be customized to meet individual needs.
Instructor: Katurah Weyenberg
Google Classroom Join Code: erzvqy
*SFUSD* Special Education Special Professional Development
Self-Paced Tutorials
Harbottle Law Group
2017March 3, 2018
Supplemental Curriculum Support
Inclusive Practices Professional Development Materials & Hand-outs
Events: Slide decks
Past Professional Development Series
Curriculum & Instruction PDs
Building a Student-Centered IEP: 9/28/17
Scheduling to Meet Student Needs: 10/18/17
Progress Monitoring and Data Collection: 11/9/17
Positive Behavior Intervention Supports: 12/13/17
Goalbook
September 25, 2017
October 10, 2017
November 2, 2017
Curriculum & Instruction PDs
Inclusive Practices / Universal Design for Learning: 1/24/18
Understanding and Responding to Challenging Behavior: 2/21/18
Collaborating with Paras and Other Professionals: 3/8/18
Literacy and Decoding Dyslexia (topic may change): 4/11/18
Admin Institutes
Slide deck links
Special Education Pointers: 2018
Legal Commandments: 2017
Leading Special Education at the school site: 2017
Serving All Students via a Universal Design for Learning Approach 2017: Day 1
Serving All Students via a Universal Design for Learning Approach 2017 : Day 2