Explore components of effective reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation and engagement. Within each component, participants will learn what it is, why we teach it, and how we teach it.

Learn with us as we explore the 2022 Minnesota data science anchor standard with Jessica Strom to see how we can incorporate data science into your Building Thinking Classroom. Grade 6 teachers, choose which session might be the best fit for you. The BTC content will be similar in both sessions.  This session will include more examples for middle and high school classrooms.

Join your fellow SchooLinks users in Minnesota to collaborate on new features, learn strategies, and more.

This professional learning day is designed for AVID Site Teams across Region 5, Minnesota to celebrate successes, strengthen collaboration, and deepen understanding of effective AVID implementation.

Participants will engage in learning across AVID systems, distributed leadership, and the characteristics of effective site teams. Teams will explore implementation instruments and data collection practices that support monitoring and strengthening AVID implementation.  Structured collaboration time will allow principals, site coordinators, and teachers to connect both with similar roles and across content areas.

The day intentionally prioritizes extended site team planning time, allowing teams to apply their learning, refine their site team plans, clarify responsibilities, and identify next steps to amplify AVID implementation within their schools.

Paraeducator Online Training provides a wide variety of online courses that give paraprofessionals the specific training they need—with strategies they can apply immediately.

Learn to support students in combining intrinsic ingredients into personalized flow-based projects by doing it yourself.  Meaning, you'll be the learner and we'll support you in creating your own one-of-a-kind project.

In this one-day workshop participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and comunity provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, response, and recovery. 

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Putting teachers and nurses together cultivating compassion. Let's make people feel safe, heard and valued.  A team approach to support your unique journey toward impactful change, nurturing compassion, forging connections, and driving positive, progressive transformations in both professional and personal lives.

Join our inaugural book club over the summer. Education professionals often don’t find time to read for themselves. This offering takes this reality into account, and we seek a community of readers looking to refresh over the summer. We have selected, JOY!, by Timothy Kanold, a reflective and practical guide for educators seeking to cultivate lasting joy in their personal and professional lives.  The group will meet in June, July, and August to discuss the book and its personal and professional impact. Registration is required by May 15 to ensure timely delivery of the book.

Language is ever evolving and changing. Sometimes knowing which terms or descriptions to use can be difficult and sometimes we don’t even know we are using outdated or harmful language. This webinar is focused on promoting positive language around topics such as race, gender, and common school-based labels and language.

The STAR Autism Program teaches children with autism the critical skills identified by the 2001 National Research Council. The ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) instructional methods of discrete trial training, pivotal response training, and functional routines form the instructional base of this comprehensive program for children with autism. 

This extensive two-day workshop provides participants with detailed examples and practice activities on how to implement the evidence-based practices. Participants will learn how to implement these strategies through structured lesson plans and a curriculum scope and sequence. The workshop will include extensive data collection systems and participants will learn to collect and use data for instructional decision making.

The STAR Autism Program teaches children with autism the critical skills identified by the 2001 National Research Council. The ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) instructional methods of discrete trial training, pivotal response training, and functional routines form the instructional base of this comprehensive program for children with autism. 

This extensive two-day workshop provides participants with detailed examples and practice activities on how to implement the evidence-based practices. Participants will learn how to implement these strategies through structured lesson plans and a curriculum scope and sequence. The workshop will include extensive data collection systems and participants will learn to collect and use data for instructional decision making.

This training was developed exclusively for Sourcewell’s Minnesota Region 5 partners as professional development for those serving students in transportation roles. Created in response to Transportation Directors’ requests, the course provides practical strategies for addressing student conduct concerns on school buses through the lens of Social Emotional Learning. Participants will explore ways to increase self-awareness, avoid deficit thinking, and honor the experiences of everyone involved. Each unit includes flexible learning options for either facilitated group training or self-paced individual learning.

It is more important than ever that we embrace practices known to insulate young people from the impact of traumatic events. These practices support students who are experiencing adversity, allowing them to remain/become ready to learn, connect, and thrive. Participants will examine the trauma responsiveness of current practices and pedagogy, then use scenarios to apply trauma responsive practices and interventions. This training focuses on strategies and interventions that are trauma responsive, trauma protective, and also academically sound pedagogical practices. The course will provide and use the text, Trauma Responsive Educational Practices: Helping Students Cope and Learn.

To better support students impacted by trauma, educators must first understand the various types of traumas (beyond ACES) and how trauma affects the brain and behavior in both students and adults. This equity-infused training is embedded with trauma-informed practices that support resilience and address its insulating factors of relationship, regulation, and responsibility. The topic of trauma is approached with care and consideration for people with a wide range of lived experience.