Training Opportunities
Virtual Professional Development
Attend a virtual 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.
Online Courses
Dates for the 2023–24 school year to be determined.
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 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.
Webinars
Click here to watch the eight-part webinar series Sustaining Kansans Can Competency Instruction. This series was created in early 2023 as collaborative effort between KSDE and the Kansans Can Competency Framework. The eight 45-minute live webinars include questions and answers, reflection prompts, and discussions on sustaining Kansans Can Competency instruction efforts.
Click here to watch the nine-part series Measuring Social-Emotional Growth. This series was created in winter 2022 as a collaborative effort among KSDE, the Kansans Can Competency Framework, and Kansas MTSS and Alignment. After watching each video and completing the reflection, you can earn a certificate for nine hours of continuing education credits by emailing researchcollab@ku.edu.