Online Courses

Mindsteps® Inc. has partnered with Knowledge Delivery Systems to provide professional-development training and resources beneficial to career advancement in an easy-to-navigate online format. Using Dr. Robyn Jackson’s unique approach to professional development, our courses help teachers reach the next step in their quest to become Master Teachers and give Administrators the tools they need to support them along the way. Graduate credit offered on some courses. We currently offer the following courses for Teachers and Educational Leaders.

Online Professional Development Courses for Teachers

Supporting Struggling Students with Rigorous Instruction

In this course, learn how to support your struggling students without sacrificing rigor. Presenter Robyn R. Jackson starts by helping educators understand why students struggle. From there, participants will learn specific strategies for supporting students such as acceleration strategies designed to prevent students from struggling in the first place, progressive intervention strategies that directly address sources of student struggle and quickly get struggling students back on track, and remediation strategies that target specific areas of difficulty and prepare students for summative assessments. Dr. Jackson will also introduce participants to the four stages of rigorous learning-acquisition, application, assimilation, and adaptation-and show participants how to support students through each stage. Participants will learn specific instructional and support strategies for increasing students’ capacity to engage in rigorous learning experiences, ways to increase the rigor of their own courses, and assessment strategies that extend students’ rigorous learning throughout the unit. Finally, participants will develop a proactive intervention plan that supports students rigorous learning before the lesson, during learning, and through the summative assessment.
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Related Class Resources
How to Support Struggling Students
How to Plan Rigorous Instruction
Resources for Rigor

 

Online Professional Development for Educational Leaders

Improving Instruction through Strategic Conversations with Teachers

In this course, instructional leaders will learn the delicate art of conversing about teaching to improve instruction. Leaders learn to use strategic conversations to collaborate and communicate with teachers to improve teaching practices and to increase student achievement. Strategic conversations help leaders quickly assess the needs of the teaching staff, strategically apply their leadership skills to motivate and support teachers, and help teachers make connections between their instructional techniques and student performance.
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Related Class Resources
The Instructional Leaders’ Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers
The Instructional Leaders’ Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers Mini Book

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Strategic Conversations with Teachers

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