Professional Learning: Special Education

This one-hour professional development course will engage elementary educators and their families in a personally meaningful experience with media literacy. What better way to learn about students’ thinking than with a young learner by our sides? Adults/caregivers and their elementary age children are encouraged to join together for an interactive and investigative experience. Please note that educators joining on their own are welcome, and will find the experience meaningful as well!

In this series of conversations we'll explore what it means to develop systems that truly center justice and equity for each student and the communities served by our education systems. Leadership for Learning (L4L) is a doctoral program at the University of Washington made up of practicing educational leaders focused on realizing educational equity.  Principle in this endeavor is authentic engagement with students and families, shared vision and collective action, and high quality teaching and learning for students and educators. As part of our ongoing work to reimagine and realize more just school systems, we invite school leaders, community partners, and anyone interested in joining us in these collective endeavors.

Join us for an interactive panel discussion around reopening schools with inclusion and equity. We will hear from a group of special educators, working in preschool through elementary settings. Panelists will share their experiences supporting learners in person and providing instruction while maintaining COVID safety plans. We will also spend time in break-out groups, discussing reopening plans and practices based on age and grade level.

Join us for the launch and celebration of Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children by Timothy San Pedro in partnership with College of Education doctoral student Alayna Eagle Shield, Micheal Munson, Faith Price, Tara Ramos and Kristina Lucero and their families.

This webinar will provide participants with a working understanding of accommodations versus modifications, as well as when to implement either and for whom. 

Business Series: ABA 101 will have an administrative focus that concentrates on how to open and manage an ABA business as a business leader.

ABA 102 will have a clinical focus that concentrates on how to manage the clinical responsibilities needed in effective and ethical programming from a leadership perspective.

This webinar will teach you how to recognize and respond to issues as a supervisor for registered behavior technicians (RBTs).

The goal of the Project DATA Model is to provide a school-based program for young children with ASD and related disorders that is effective, meets the needs of its consumers (e.g., families and school personnel), is acceptable to consumers, and is sustainable.

ABA 103 focuses on the issue of staff retention and ways that companies can intervene to decrease staff turnover. 

This online learning module will give both an introductory look at getting connected with insurance companies as well as a more advanced understanding of how to navigate some of the more challenging business aspects.

In this two-day workshop, early childhood and elementary educators will come together to explore project-based learning for young students. In particular, the facilitator will focus on ways to differentiate instruction, connect learning to their students’ lives, and promote ways to engage students in reasoning, hypothesizing, predicting, analyzing, and problem solving.

In this course, participants will investigate how privilege and access intersects within the educational system through unsuspecting or intentional/unintentional behaviors. We will discuss how people use their privilege as a form of entitlement to gain access, popularly known as being a “Karen” or “Ken.” Participants will dissect and reflect on how this denies others access and perpetuates stereotypes, bias, and racism using historical structures, systems, and institutions to oppress. Together, we’ll develop skill in navigating spaces in more culturally responsive ways in order to begin dismantling structures that gate-keep marginalized or under-represented populations.