Teach Illinois
TeachIllinois offers online Professional Learning opportunities for ALL educators – you don’t have to live in Illinois to participate. The offers courses that qualify for official PD Hours toward recertification for a small fee.
Professional Development
Resilience-Supportive Schools Illinois (RSSI)
Resilience-Supportive Schools Illinois (RSSI) is a free and voluntary support that uses school-specific data to connect educators with evidence-informed tools and resources to improve the mental health and well-being of their school communities.
Embodies Anti-Racist Education
Embodies Anti-Racist Education site provides various opportunities to engage in anti-racist education.
You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup
Taking care of yourself is vital. It can be challenging to prioritize time for yourself when there are so many other people and things to take care of in life. But focusing on others, whether it’s family, students or friends, is difficult if you haven’t already taken care of your needs. We also need to call out the need for collective or community care, which is communal responsibility of the group rather than the lone task of an individual. By the end of this course, participants will be able to: understand the definitions of commonly used terms; increase knowledge about the ABCs of self-care; learn about collective care and healing-centered environments; complete your Action Plan with your self-care information.
Youth Truth Student Survey Professional Development
Not for profit organization that uses info from youth surveys to report on power of collaboration, relationships and youth voice. Provides PD to schools and districts to deepen understanding of using student voice and other stakeholder feedback to accelerate change.
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Welcoming Schools for LGBTQ Students
HRC Foundation’s Welcoming Schools is a comprehensive bias-based bullying prevention program that provides LGBTQ+ and gender-inclusive professional development training, lesson plans, booklists and resources specifically designed for educators and youth-serving professionals. In addition to working with individual schools, the Welcoming Schools team works with districts to increase the internal capacity for districts to improve school climate by training facilitators within the district to deliver Welcoming Schools content to district educators.
Using Data to Promote Equity in School Discipline
Using Data to Promote Equity in School Discipline: training series to help schools and districts improve their school discipline policies and practices
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Universal SEB Screening Resources
Professional learning and associated information about universal social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) screening and tools.
Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package
The Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package offers school and district administrators and staff a framework and roadmap for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach school- or district wide. The Training Package includes a variety of resources for educating school staff about trauma and trauma-sensitive practices and for providing school leaders with a step-by-step process for implementing a universal, trauma-informed approach using package materials.
Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators
Trauma-Informed Skills for Educators (TISE), is a self-paced, user-friendly e-learning course designed to help K-12 educators recognize trauma and support students who may be affected by trauma. TISE contains eight modules. Modules 1–4 educate users about trauma and resilience. Modules 5–8 focus on building the skills needed to create a positive school climate, communicate in a trauma-informed way, de-escalate situations in the classroom, and collaborate with staff members to build a trauma-responsive school environment. There is a cost for this training.
