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Thinking of strengthening your skills in the new year?
January 11, 2021
Did you resolve to strengthen your skills this year? Maybe advance your career? ACSA has options to help busy education leaders do both in 2021 with the ACSA Online Learning Center.
The Online Learning Center debuted last year, giving administrators a destination for online professional development webinars, learning pathways and more. Many courses are on-demand — so you can access professional development when it’s convenient for you, in between the demands of work and life.
Through this dynamic new learning management system, you can register, virtually attend courses, find materials and track your progress. The Online Learning Center (onlinelearning.acsa.org) is also the platform for ACSA’s popular Academies programs and ACSA Leadership Coaching/CNET.
Browse the course catalog and find job-specific courses that will add to your knowledge and help with your next career move. New courses are added frequently in response to the pressing needs of educators, including recent offerings like “Managing a Virtual Workforce” and “Addressing Privilege at Work.”
First-time learners — head to onlinelearning.acsa.org and use the code ACSAOLC for $15 off, now through Jan. 31, 2021.
More than 1,000 administrators have already taken courses at the Online Learning Center. Here’s just a sampling of courses currently offered:
Best Practices for Administrators Collection
Got 15 minutes? Check out these new nano-learning courses from ACSA’s partners at CORE. Learn best practices to use within your school and district for improving academic instruction in these on-demand courses. Take one, two or all six — bundle pricing is offered for purchasing two or more of the following courses:
  • Selecting Screening Tools for Literacy and Mathematics
  • Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Practices
  • Acceleration Not Remediation
  • Reflection and Feedback Protocols and Tools
  • Writing Quality IEP Goals Using Curriculum Based Measurement
  • District & School-site Mathematics & Literacy Implementation Rubric
Stay the Course Administrator Coaching Series
Turnover in schools is costly, in terms of resources and relationships. In this on-demand, five-part series, administrators will rethink how to keep great teachers alongside our students.
Stay the Course founder Kati Vaughn will guide administrators through coaching practices that will empower teachers. Start with trainings for your instructional leadership team on how to build this person-centered coaching into your current teacher development, or dive in more deeply with a school climate audit to identify the needs of your school community. Ongoing restorative coaching and professional learning communities for your teachers can provide the time and space necessary for them to effectively make sense of their experiences in the classroom.
Five sessions included in this series are:
  • Thriving Teachers, Thriving Centers
  • Coaching with Self-Awareness: Exploring Our Iceberg of Identities
  • Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
  • Coaching with Authenticity
  • Coaching with Empathy
Leading Edge Flex Certification
Show them you’re a 21st century leader by completing a Leading Edge Flex Certification. This nationally recognized online professional learning experience is designed to help educators build digital skills to be 21st century leaders. Choose from three elective pathways to earn your certification: administrators, professional learning leaders, and digital educators. Activities are short and incremental, allowing learners to experience bite-sized learning and choice. Participants have a full year to complete their certification online.
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