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PD Programs and Resources Eligible for CA State & Federal Funding
The global pandemic challenged our education system in unprecedented ways. As our communities rebound and recover, we have a unique opportunity to re-envision education in ways that better serve all our students.
This website shows how you can use state and federal funding sources —including Learning Loss Mitigation Funding (LLMF), ESSER-I, and ESSER-II funds— to make the maximum impact on student and educator learning.
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Funding for PD Related to SEL
Allowable Uses Under CARES/CRRSA:
- Providing mental health services and supports
- Addressing learning loss among students, including by:
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Implementing evidence-based activities to meet the comprehensive needs of students.
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Improving student engagement in distance education
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Allowable Uses Under Learning Loss Mitigation Funding (LLMF):
- Providing integrated pupil supports to address other barriers to learning, such as the provision of health, counseling, or mental health services
- Programs to address pupil trauma and social-emotional Learning.
Allowable Uses of Expanded Learning Opportunity Grants:
- Training for school staff to address social emotional health and academic needs
Virtual & In-Person Workshops
Re-Engaging Students in Learning
When students understand the relationship between emotions and behaviors in relation to their own self-worth, they can work with adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities. Learn how SEL & behavior workshops with Jessica and John Hannigan can help educators support students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs.
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Virtual Institutes
In this institute participants will be introduced to a multi-tiered framework comprised of best practices that cultivate educator and student resilience in ways that are culturally responsive and trauma informed.
Ideal for individual registrants and groups up to 30. For large groups or whole-school registration, consider booking a Building Resilience workshop.
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Funding for PD Related to Learning Recovery & Accelerating Learning
Allowable Uses Under ESSER/CRRSA Funding:
- Providing principals and other school leaders with the resources necessary to address school needs.
- Addressing learning loss among students, including by:
- Administering and using high-quality assessments to accurately assess students’ academic progress and assist educators in meeting students’ academic needs
- Implementing evidence-based activities to meet the comprehensive needs of students
Allowable Uses Under Learning Loss Mitigation Funding (LLMF):
- Addressing learning loss or accelerating progress to close learning gaps through the implementation, expansion, or enhancement of learning supports
- Providing additional academic services for pupils, such as diagnostic assessments of pupil learning needs, intensive instruction for addressing gaps in core academic skills, additional instructional materials or supports
Allowable Uses of Expanded Learning Opportunity Grants:
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Accelerating progress to close learning gaps, including learning recovery programs and materials designed to accelerate pupil academic proficiency, or educator training in accelerated learning strategies
Virtual & In-Person Workshops
Accelerate Student Learning by Focusing on What Works Best
Visible Learning+ is an approach to K12 professional learning that accelerates student learning by helping you evaulate and assess your impact to maximize achievement for all students.
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Visible Learning+ Virtual Institutes
Join our team of certified Visible Learning+ consultants for virtual 1-day institutes and multi-day series to learn about what works best for accelerating student learning. Dive into pathways for teaching, learning, leading, and equity at our upcoming events.
Ideal for individual registrants and groups up to 30. For large groups or whole-school registration, consider booking a Visible Learning workshop.
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Funding for PD Related to Online & Simultaneous Learning
Allowable Uses Under ESSER/CRRSA Funding:
- Providing principals and other school leaders with the resources necessary to address school needs.
- Planning for and coordinating during long-term closures, including technology for online learning and ensuring educational services can continue to be provided
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Addressing learning loss among students, including by:
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Implementing evidence-based activities to meet the comprehensive needs of students.
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Providing information and assistance to parents and families on how they can effectively support students, including in a distance learning environment.
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Tracking student attendance and improving student engagement in distance education
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Allowable Uses Under Learning Loss Mitigation Funding (LLMF):
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Professional development opportunities to help teachers and parents support pupils in distance-learning contexts
Allowable Uses of Expanded Learning Opportunity Grants:
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Extended instructional learning time by increasing the number of instructional days or minutes, providing summer school or intersession, or “taking any other action that increases the amount of instructional time and services provided to pupils based on their learning need"
Virtual & In-Person Workshops
Learn how to design learning experiences that engage students in multiple different learning environments.
Explore how to design learning experiences that leverage technplogy and develop rutines and procedures that ensure engagement whether some students are at home or in the classroom.
More about Simultaneous Learning Workshops
Effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occurs.
Learn how to develop distance learning strategies that are purposeful and intentional with a focus on what works best to accelerate student learning. The Distance Learning live, virtual workshops support educators in building both our students' capacity (and our own) for distance learning through the application of Visible Learning research.
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Simultaneous Learning Institutes
Explore the implementation of effective simultaneous learning and discover strategies for leveraging technology and developing routines that will ensure engagement during these 1-day virtual PD events.
Ideal for individual registrants and groups up to 30. For large groups or whole-school registration, consider booking a Simultaneous Learning workshop.
Professional Books
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Funding for PD Related to Addressing Systemic Equity
Allowable Uses Under ESSER/CRRSA Funding:
- Providing principals and other school leaders with the resources necessary to address school needs.
- Activities to address the unique needs of low-income children or students, children with disabilities, English learners, racial and ethnic minorities, students experiencing homelessness, and foster care youth
Allowable Uses Under Learning Loss Mitigation Funding (LLMF):
- Addressing learning loss or accelerating progress to close learning gaps through the implementation, expansion, or enhancement of learning supports
- Providing integrated pupil supports to address other barriers to learning
Allowable Uses of Expanded Learning Opportunity Grants:
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Providing targeted academic interventions, with priority for low-income students, English language learners, youth in foster care, homeless youth, students with disabilities and pupils identified for tiered reengagement strategies
Virtual & In-Person Workshops
Build a foundation for systemic equity growth
The Deep Equity model helps schools and districts establish the climate, protocols, common language, and common goals for systemic equity transformation. Build school-based equity teams to foster relational trust for authentic dialogue and implement culturally responsive teaching practices.
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Funding PD Related to Trauma-Informed Practice
Allowable Uses Under ESSER/CRRSA Funding:
- Providing principals and other school leaders with the resources necessary to address school needs.
- Activities to address the unique needs of low-income children or students, children with disabilities, English learners, racial and ethnic minorities, students experiencing homelessness, and foster care youth
- Providing mental health services and supports
Allowable Uses Under Learning Loss Mitigation Funding (LLMF):
- Providing integrated pupil supports to address other barriers to learning, such as the provision of health, counseling, or mental health services
- Programs to address pupil trauma and social-emotional learning.
Allowable Uses of Expanded Learning Opportunity Grants:
- Training for school staff, including trauma informed practices, to address social emotional health and academic needs
- Integrated pupil supports, such as health, counseling or mental health services
Virtual & In-Person Workshops
Transform schools with trauma-informed strategies for teacher and student well-being
Schools can build their resilience by implementing effective systems (teams and teamwork) that build teachers' self and collective efficacy to address the behavioral and social-emotional needs of their students, in ways that are trauma-informed and culturally responsive.
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Funding for PD Related to Literacy & Mathematics
Allowable Uses Under ESSER/CRRSA Funding:
- Providing principals and other school leaders with the resources necessary to address school needs.
- Addressing learning loss among students, including by:
- Administering and using high-quality assessments to accurately assess students’ academic progress and assist educators in meeting students’ academic needs
- Implementing evidence-based activities to meet the comprehensive needs of students
Allowable Uses Under Learning Loss Mitigation Funding (LLMF):
- Providing additional academic services for pupils, such as intensive instruction for addressing gaps in core academic skills
Allowable Uses of Expanded Learning Opportunity Grants:
- Accelerating progress to close learning gaps, including learning recovery programs and materials designed to accelerate pupil academic proficiency
Virtual & In-Person Workshops
Literacy & Math Consulting with Fisher & Frey
Whether you're looking for guidance in writing, reading, or balanced literacy instruction, you'll find high-impact strategies from Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey to expand your expertise and improve literacy skills for all students.
Events
Reading Comprehension Virtual Institute
Join Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law for a deep dive into evidence-based reading instruction that provides a structured framework developed to teach the foundational skills of reading while developing the motivation and critical reasoning K-12 students need to become lifelong readers.
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