Secondary Grades

101 Best Strategies for Teaching Social Studies, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OSSL]
This online course features innovative, highly experienced and current social studies teacher, Chris Lange as he shares his favorite and most effective strategies for teaching social studies.

101 Best Strategies for Teaching World Languages, Grades 4-12 - Online Course [OFGK]
This course is organized around video clips of a seminar by Alice Kosnik, an experienced world language teacher and national trainer. You’ll see Alice present and demonstrate practical strategies to increase students’ acquisition of any new language. You'll find a wealth of suggestions for taking new ideas back to your own classroom, including ways to adapt each strategy or technique based on the level of your students’ language learning.

A Language Processing Disorder: What It Is and How to Treat It (Grades K-12) - Online Course [OXD9]
How to treat a language processing disorder. How to assess a language processing disorder. Evidence-based strategies and interventions for speech-language pathologists.

A Practical Approach to Management and Discipline: Starting the Year with Proactive Classroom Management Strategies, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OMS1]
This video-based professional development course demonstrates how to engage middle and high school students in a well-managed, highly productive first day of class; establish key classroom routines to maximize daily learning, and implement proactive strategies and techniques that create positive classroom environments and minimize misbehavior.

A Practical Approach to Management and Discipline: Strategies for Dealing with Challenging, Difficult Students, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OMS2]
This video-based professional development course demonstrates practical, classroom-tested strategies for addressing the misbehaviors of difficult students, de-escalating potentially volatile situations, and facilitating problem-solving conferences to help noncompliant students in grades 6-12 take responsibility for their actions.

Accelerate Your Students’ Communicative Proficiency: Practical Strategies for Maintaining 90%+ Target Language Use in Your World Language Classroom, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OFPR]
This online course features experienced teacher, curriculum developer, and national trainer Catherine Ritz. You will learn practical ways of achieving ACTFL’s goal of 90%+ use of target language in your world language classroom. This course also covers how to effectively structure your lessons and create comprehensive speaking performance assessments with focus on communicative proficiency.

Catching Up Your English Language Learners Who Have Fallen Behind, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OECM]
Catch up your English Language Learners. Improve students’ grammar and vocabulary. Accelerate student learning. Provide support for English Language Learners. Backed by experience and research.

Catching Up Your STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES Who Have Fallen Behind, Grades 1-12 - Online Course [OXBW]
This online course features experienced special education teacher and instructional coach, Catherine Wilson. Throughout the course, Catherine focuses on strategies and tools to help you better support students with disabilities who have fallen behind.

Dealing Effectively with Disruptive Students: Practical, Proven Techniques, Grades K-12 - Online Course [ODD1]
This online course features Mike Dreiblatt, an experienced teacher, principal, and educational consultant. The course addresses a key element of disruptive behavior.

Differentiated Instruction Across All Content Areas, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OTD6]
Enhance your teaching skills with this research-backed on-demand course on differentiated instruction. Learn proven strategies for addressing learning gaps, creating differentiated lesson plans, and more. Perfect for secondary educators across all content areas.

Dyslexia: Best Strategies to Increase Student Success, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OHD1]
Best strategies for dyslexia. How to better support students with dyslexia. Increase student success. Help students gain reading fluency. Backed by experience and research.

Enhancing SPANISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: Practical Activities to Strengthen Your Students’ Proficiency in SPANISH, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OFSY]
This online course features experienced Spanish-language teacher and national presenter, Diego Ojeda. Diego presents this course by demonstrating and modeling teaching strategies in Spanish.

Help Your Students Master the Next Generation Science Standards: Practical Strategies and the Best, New Tools, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OCNM]
In this highly engaging video-based Online course, you’ll learn a wealth of effective ways to help your students master the rigorous science and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts incorporated in the Next Generation Science Standards.

Help Your Students Who Struggle with Mathematics: Practical, Successful Strategies, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OMHF]
This online course features experienced math teacher and national trainer, Brad Fulton as he shares strategies, techniques and tools to help your students who are struggling with math.

Helping English Language Learners Exit Your ELL Program, Grades K-8 - Online Course [OEEH]
This course takes an approach of asking who, what, how and why regarding accelerating students' English language acquisition and successfully exiting EL program.

Improving the Behavior of Attention-Seeking, Manipulative and Challenging Students, Grades 1-12 - Online Course [ODCJ]
This online course features Cindy Jones, behavior specialist, experienced special education teacher, former principal and national presenter. Cindy is passionate about finding creative approaches to working with students with sever behavior problems to improve learning outcomes and provide classroom support to all students.

Improving Your Students' Descriptive Writing, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OWDL]
In this video-based online course, experienced national presenter and English teacher Mary Ellen Ledbetter demonstrates, with her own middle and high school students, a variety of practical and manageable strategies that help students extend and revise their writing, improve their grammar and writing mechanics, and increase the sophistication and style of their written work.

Increase Students’ MINDFULNESS: Strengthen Your Students’ Academic Success and Confidence While Reducing Disruptive Behaviors, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OLFX]
This online course features experienced teacher and national presenter, Kristin Burke as she shares strategies and techniques to increase students’ mindfulness.

Increase Your Success as a Special Education Resource Teacher, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OXRF]
This online course features experienced special education teacher, instructional specialist, and national trainer Savanna Flakes. Savanna provides dozens of ideas, strategies and teaching tools that you can choose from to maximize learning, motivation and engagement of all your students.

Innovative, New Activities for Strengthening Your Physical Education Program, Grades K-8 - Online Course [OPSS]
This online course is organized around video clips of a seminar by experienced physical education teacher, national trainer and author Dennis Stands. You'll learn innovative activities and practical tips
for strengthening and energizing PE programs, grades K-8.

Integrate Your SLP Interventions into Classrooms Using Timesaving Strategies to Move from a Caseload to a Workload Approach, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OXSO]
The purpose of this course is to expand your professional repertoire with proven, easy-to-implement options that support best practices for school-based SLPs and take into account the time, budgetary and instructional constraints in today’s busy schools.

Interactive Vocabulary Strategies That Boost Student Learning and Achievement, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OVDB]
Directly teaching vocabulary improves reading comprehension and increases subject area achievement. This course takes you inside classrooms, grades 6-12, where teachers are using highly engaging instructional strategies to help students commit vocabulary to long-term memory and deepen their understanding of course content.

Keys to Enhancing Your Effectiveness as a School Nurse, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OXN7]
This online course features Vickie Beckwith, an outstanding school nurse with over 20 years of experience, as well as a national trainer. Throughout the course Vickie shares tips, techniques and resources to maximize your time as a school nurse.

MAKERSPACES: Creating Motivating, Engaging Work Spaces for Your Library, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OBMX]
This online course features award-winning librarian and national presenter, Tricia Kuon, as she defines, explains and demonstrates Makerspaces.

Motivating the Unmotivated: Teaching the Hard-to-Reach Student, Grades 3-12 - Online Curse [OLUZ]
Increase classroom engagement. Motivate your students. Improve student learning. Build relationships with students. Backed by experience and research.

Practical Classroom Strategies for Making Inclusion More Successful, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OXIK]
This online course features National Trainer Sonya Heineman Kunkel and a group of highly-skilled secondary teachers who demonstrate a number of effective strategies for enhancing the learning of students with special needs in inclusive classroom settings.

Practical Strategies for Dealing with Disrespectful and Disengaged Students, Grades 1-12 - Online Course [ODSJ]
How to improve students’ behavior. Dealing with disrespectful students. How to improve student engagement. Best strategies for student behavior. Backed by experience and research.

Practical Strategies for Special Education Paraprofessionals in Inclusive Classrooms, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OXPH]
Skilled paraprofessionals are critical to the success of students with special needs in general education inclusive classrooms. This course demonstrates practical, highly-effective strategies that enhance the learning and performance of special education students in K-12 inclusive classrooms.

Practical Strategies for Using Project-Based Learning to Enhance Your STEM Instruction, Grades K-8 - Online Course [OCSB]
This course focuses on five core elements essential to successfully implementing PBL to enhance STEM in grade K-8 classrooms: planning, launching the lesson, managing the middle, integrating assessments, and the final project.

School Nurses - Best, Current Practices for School Medical Emergencies, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OXN4]
In this course, you have the opportunity to learn from experienced national trainer and practicing nurse, Sandra Moritz, as she shares up-to-date practices for dealing with a wide range of school medical emergencies.

SCHOOL NURSES: Best Practices for Addressing Mental Health Issues in Your Schools, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OXN8]
This online course features Vickie Beckwith, an outstanding school nurse with over 20 years of experience, as well as a national trainer.

SLPs: Language Disorders vs Language Differences for ELLs, Grades P-12 - Online Course [OXD5]
Speech-language therapy for English Language Learners (ELL). How to effectively support English Language Learners as a speech-language pathologist (SLP). Determine language disorders from language differences. Backed by experience and research. ASHA approved.

Strengthen Your Math Instruction for Your English Language Learners, Grades 3-12 - Online Course [OMEY]
How to teach math to English Language Learners. How to reduce students’ math anxiety. How to teach math word problems. Improving students’ math vocabulary. Backed by experience and research.

Strengthening Students’ Writing Skills While Decreasing Grading Time, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OWSC]
How to decrease grading time. Best strategies for English/language arts teachers. How to improve students’ writing skills. Improve students’ writing. Using AI in students’ writing. Backed by experience and research.

Strengthening the Executive Function Skills of Students with Special Needs, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OXFP]
Executive functions enable students to manage their time and work effort, engage in appropriate behaviors and thrive as learners: critical skills for academic success. In this course you’ll see a wealth of strategies and techniques for addressing executive function difficulties that prevent students with special needs from being prepared and ready learn to across a range of classroom settings, grades K-12.

Strengthening Your Students' Writing Skills by Teaching Smarter, Not Harder, Grades 6-12 - Online Course [OWTL]
This video-based online course features experienced English teacher Mary Ellen Ledbetter as she works with middle and high school students. She demonstrates a variety of practical and manageable strategies that help students extend and revise their writing, improve their grammar and writing mechanics, and increase the sophistication and style of their written work. All English/language arts educators – whether first-year teachers or veteran instructors – will find new, time-efficient strategies they can immediately implement in their own classrooms to improve their students’ writing.

Teaching Media Literacy Skills in a Fake News World, Grades K-12 - Online Course [OBLM]
Prepare students for the digital age with this on-demand course in media literacy. Learn how to teach essential skills to detect fake news, evaluate media quality, and navigate misinformation. Ideal for all educators.