Virtual or Face-to-Face Professional Development
Attend a virtual or face-to-face training with a recognized Competency Trainer. Register as a team of educators or individual teacher. Contact pnoonan@ku.edu to discuss customized professional development for your district.
Summer Training
These trainings are provided across two days in virtual and in-person formats. They are designed for upper elementary through high school teachers to better understand instructional activities to teach assertiveness, conflict management, or self-regulation either in core content or other applicable areas such as counseling, special education, or CTE. Through these highly interactive trainings, educators will gain the knowledge and resources to apply social-emotional instructional practices. You will leave the second day with a plan for instruction.
- June 14th 8:30-Noon and June 15th 8:30-Noon (Virtual)
- June 7th 8:30-Noon and June 8th 8:30-Noon (Virtual)
Teaching Self-Regulation: 75 Instructional Activities to Foster Independent, Proactive Students
- August 3 (9:00–4:00) and August 4 (8:00–3:00) at Topeka Public Library
Online Courses
These six week, facilitator-led courses are designed for teachers to better understand instructional activities to help students develop essential competencies, either in core content or other applicable areas. Through these interactive courses, educators will be provided the knowledge and resources to learn competency-development practices for any content area. Each week, instructional activities will be reviewed and then discussed with colleagues, with facilitation from a Recognized Trainer. Course activities are asynchronous and can be done anywhere at any time of day.
The course fee is $20 per person. Each course is capped at 30 students, and participants will receive 18 CEUs with an option to receive one graduate credit hour from Baker University (additional $80 payment is required).
Questions about group enrollment? Contact Pattie Noonan at pnoonan@ku.edu.
July 11–August 19, 2022
Assertiveness (middle/high school focus with elementary adaptations)
Conflict Management (middle/high school focus with elementary adaptations)
Self-Efficacy (middle/high school focus)
Self-Regulation (middle/high school focus)
September 19–October 28, 2022
Assertiveness (middle/high school focus with elementary adaptations)
Conflict Management (middle/high school focus with elementary adaptations)
Self-Regulation (middle/high school focus)
Self-Regulation (elementary school focus)
January 23–March 3, 2023
Assertiveness (middle/high school focus with elementary adaptations)
Conflict Management (middle/high school focus with elementary adaptations)
Self-Efficacy (elementary school focus)
Self-Regulation (middle/high school focus)
Webinars
This webinar series, Measuring Social-Emotional Growth, is a collaborative effort among KSDE, the Kansans Can Competency Framework, and Kansas MTSS and Alignment.