Addressing Bullying & Harassment Issues
Addressing Bullying & Harassment Issues
Addressing Bullying & Harassment Issues
This course examines bullying and other forms of harassment and the social, emotional, and physical impact it has on P-12 students. Development of strategies and interventions that decrease bias and prejudice in school settings will be explored. The course will also refine teachers’ core beliefs related to human rights for all children by exploring bias/prejudice issues, legal perspectives, and school violence.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5232
Boys In Today's Culture
Addressing Bullying & Harassment Issues
Addressing Bullying & Harassment Issues
This course examines the potential impact of contemporary culture and the environment on the emotional development of boys. The course will facilitate student exploration of the societal factors that can lead some boys to lives of isolation, anger, shame, and helplessness.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5346
Educating & Raising Thriving Kids
Addressing Bullying & Harassment Issues
Childhood Rewired & The Anxious Generation
This course examines issues facing educators and parents raising and educating children in a fast-paced and performance-oriented culture and society which rarely allows for mistakes or failure. The course will facilitate student exploration of the societal factors that impact student achievement in a world that often overlooks the process rather than the product.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 7760
Childhood Rewired & The Anxious Generation
Childhood Rewired & The Anxious Generation
Childhood Rewired & The Anxious Generation
This course will view and examine the nature of childhood and its decline into almost extinction. Participants will discuss and study the epidemic of childhood mental illness as well as such topics as the evaporation of childhood play and independent exploration. We will also discuss the great rewiring of childhood and its interference in social/neurological development, sleep deprivation, limited attention spans, addiction, social comparisons & perfectionism. Participants will also delve into the growing damages caused by social media and virtual worlds. Course participants will focus on steps that parents, schools, and families can take to restore a more human childhood.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 8758
Developing Grit In The Classroom
Childhood Rewired & The Anxious Generation
Developing Grit In The Classroom
This course examines the thought that the secret to outstanding achievement is not based on talent, but a combination of persistence and passion known as “grit.” The course will facilitate participant exploration of the caveats of labeling students gifted and talented but instead how grit can help students succeed. Participants will research such ideas through stories and writings of successful students, athletes, musicians, scientists, doctors, and other successful people who have displayed the qualities associated with grit to reach monumental success.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 7082
Emotional Intelligence
Childhood Rewired & The Anxious Generation
Developing Grit In The Classroom
Related competencies such as adaptability, persuasiveness, initiative, and empathy. Participants look at research related to how the human brain works not only from the cognitive aspect, but also from an affective emotional intelligence perspective. Students explain educational implications and develop teaching strategies to enhance emotional intelligence in children.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5345
Emotional Lives of Teenagers
Growth Mindset for Student Success
Emotional Lives of Teenagers
In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today’s teens contending with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about their own mental health, it’s easy for their parents and teachers to feel anxious and overwhelmed. Course participants will research and discuss adolescent emotional development as well as develop and share strategies to support teens who feel at the mercy of their emotions.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 7897
Five Kinds of Minds
Growth Mindset for Student Success
Emotional Lives of Teenagers
Teachers examine and evaluate Howard Gardner’s five kinds of minds: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful mind, and the ethical mind. Strategies to develop each of the five minds in order to prepare teachers and students for the opportunities and challenges they are likely to face in the future will be a focus.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5349
Growth Mindset for Student Success
Growth Mindset for Student Success
Growth Mindset for Student Success
This course examines the differences between a growth and fixed mindset and the connections to learning. Educators will explore strategies for creating a culture of growth within their classroom. Concepts of effective feedback, powerful failure, perseverance, and process learning will be discussed.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 7083
Intelligence Reframed
Pre Adolescent Females in Todays Society
Growth Mindset for Student Success
The need to differentiate instruction is based upon three core principles: no two people see the world the same way, no two people learn exactly the same way, and education works best when there is recognition of the first two principles. The course examines a number of definitions of what it means to be an intelligent person and how to translate that information to specific classroom instructional and management strategies. Through increased awareness of the complexities associated with intelligence and knowing, students will be able to articulate, address and use various learning strategies in the classroom.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5236
Powerful & Authentic Student Care
Pre Adolescent Females in Todays Society
Pre Adolescent Females in Todays Society
This course’s main theme and objective is to investigate and discuss strategies to honor each learner as a distinctive and irreplaceable student and HUMAN BEING. Such topics discussed include building a community rather than just a classroom, cultural humility, habits of mind and developing joy in learning. Course participants will research such ideas through readings, stories and participant dialogue.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 8163
Pre Adolescent Females in Todays Society
Pre Adolescent Females in Todays Society
Pre Adolescent Females in Todays Society
The role of pre-adolescent/adolescent females in today’s schools and society, with emphasis on the developmental transitions from elementary to middle school, and middle school to high school, will be examined. Issues relating to young females and their self-esteem, self-respect, and self-awareness is explored.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5233
Schools In The Age of Globalization
Social and Emotional Intelligence Through The Eyes of Seven Who Dared
Social and Emotional Intelligence Through The Eyes of Seven Who Dared
This course explores recent American educational reforms related to globalization and technology. Participants will review myths, fears and the evolution of accountability. Course participants will discuss the understanding of technology knowledge and skills needed to be successful teachers in the 21st century.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5347
Social and Emotional Intelligence Through The Eyes of Seven Who Dared
Social and Emotional Intelligence Through The Eyes of Seven Who Dared
Social and Emotional Intelligence Through The Eyes of Seven Who Dared
Course participants will examine the life and work of seven historical figures and how they utilized social and emotional intelligence to make a difference in their world and the lives of millions. These seven individuals exhibited such traits as empathy, listening, persuasiveness, self-expression, motivation, and self-awareness. Participants will explain educational implications from the lives and stories of these individuals as well as develop teaching strategies to enhance social and emotional intelligence with their students. This course will examine the lives and work, in the realm of social/emotional intelligence, of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Lewis, Fred Rogers, John McCain, Josse Antonio Abreu, Robert Kennedy and Malala Yousafazi (subject to change).
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 6475
Student Well-Being in the Post Pandemic Classroom
Social and Emotional Intelligence Through The Eyes of Seven Who Dared
Student Well-Being in the Post Pandemic Classroom
This course examines challenges faced by educators in today’s post pandemic and often divided world. Today more than ever student well-being is moving to the forefront of education as social and emotional learning becomes paramount. Well-being and social and emotional learning are becoming more important as post-pandemic students often struggle with anxiety, depression, lack of learning preparedness, anti-social behaviors and attention deficits. Course participants will research and discuss such learning barriers and challenges as well as develop and share strategies to meet the well-being and SEL needs of their students and children.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 7896
Stories of the Civil Rights Period
Supporting Challenging Students – Creating Loving and Inclusive Classrooms
Student Well-Being in the Post Pandemic Classroom
The Civil Rights Movement dramatically altered the nation’s culturally entrenched footholds and anchors dictating the treatment of minorities. Through stories, participants examine the lives of many people and the events that helped transition the United States from a society of exclusion to one of greater inclusion. Participants will explore how issues brought to the attention of not only Americans, but the entire world, can and will help young people point their compass in a positive direction in their own moral, emotional, and ethical development.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5234
Supporting Challenging Students – Creating Loving and Inclusive Classrooms
Supporting Challenging Students – Creating Loving and Inclusive Classrooms
Supporting Challenging Students – Creating Loving and Inclusive Classrooms
Challenging student behavior is one of the most significant and difficult issues educators face. This course will allow participants the opportunity to learn to utilize the ideas of love, inclusion, acceptance, creativeness, and heart in the areas of student behavior and discipline. This course will examine the paradigm shift from a punitive mindset to a strength-based, loving approach and encourages the radical act of creating more inclusive and caring schools.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 7895
Teaching Today’s Children In The “All About Me” World
Supporting Challenging Students – Creating Loving and Inclusive Classrooms
Supporting Challenging Students – Creating Loving and Inclusive Classrooms
This course examines issues facing educators and parents during the “Me, Me, Me Epidemic.” Topics such as entitlement, student empathy, humility, humbleness, expectations, and reasonable praise, needs of others and developing moral compasses will be researched and discussed. Course participants will discuss and develop strategies for use in their own classrooms and schools.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 7759
The New Soft Leadership Skills
Understanding The Social Lives of Children
The New Soft Leadership Skills
Teacher and student leadership roles are explored through identification and analysis of the social norms, values and practices that currently shape the educational system. Course explores how teacher-leaders can more effectively facilitate student learning and help create and promote social change.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5235
The Unschooled Mind
Understanding The Social Lives of Children
The New Soft Leadership Skills
Educators examine the sensory and symbolic knowledge development of children and the body of research that suggest that schooling has little impact on young children’s intuitive and common sense understanding of their worlds. The structure of schools and its impact on achievement development is also investigated.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5955
Understanding The Social Lives of Children
Understanding The Social Lives of Children
Enhancing Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom
This course views the importance of children’s social lives, the tendency of children to torment their peers, the redemptive power of friendship, and the personal effect teachers have on the classroom environment. Participants study the importance of secure attachments of first friendships, the necessity of best friends, and the power of group involvement.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 5348
Enhancing Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom
The Truth Marches On…Moral & Ethical Development Through The Eyes Of Civil Rights Pioneers
Enhancing Social and Emotional Learning in the Classroom
This comprehensive 45-hour course is designed to equip educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively promote social and emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom. Participants will explore various strategies, techniques, and resources to create
a positive and inclusive learning environment that fosters students' emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.
By the end of this course, participants will have the tools and knowledge to effectively
integrate social and emotional learning into their teaching practice, ultimately
promoting a positive and inclusive classroom environment that supports the holistic development of students.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 8465
The Truth Marches On…Moral & Ethical Development Through The Eyes Of Civil Rights Pioneers
The Truth Marches On…Moral & Ethical Development Through The Eyes Of Civil Rights Pioneers
The Truth Marches On…Moral & Ethical Development Through The Eyes Of Civil Rights Pioneers
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s altered our nation. However, racism continues to weave itself into the fabric of every facet of American life. Through stories and texts, participants will examine stories and lives of individuals from the 1960’s to today who helped pave the way for inclusion and those still trying today to better the lives of minorities.
Participants will explore how the work and courage of civil rights leaders and social activists can help young people grasp the concept of inclusion as well as determine individual moral, emotional and ethical development.
$450 3 Credit Hours
*Does not include text or possible video rentals
Facilitator: Russ Pieken
Course Number: 6476
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