Self-Paced Online Classes
With Heart Project is proud to offer a variety of classes through University of Massachusetts Global (UMass Global) to help educators gain education and experience to further their academic and professional careers. Details of each class can be found below.
Trauma-Informed Practices for Educators
Learn how to recognize the signs of trauma, enact interventions to repair harm, and create effective strategies to communicate, resolve conflicts, and build relationships with students.. In this course, educators will learn how to effectively incorporate TIP into their practice to help students feel regulated and relationally safe so they can absorb academic content more effectively. Topics include:
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Understanding the neuroscience of learning (including dosing stress, heterogeneous stress response, and the Neurosequential Model in Education (NME)
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Creating trauma-informed lesson plans
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Applying effective interventions
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Executing de-escalation strategies
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Utilizing schools as a buffer to trauma
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Understanding relational sensitivity, mirror neurons, and how your way of operating your classroom/school may be impacting your students and colleagues
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Trauma-Informed Practices for Educators!!!
(Continuing Education Units (CEUs)/Professional Development hours
awarded upon successful course completion.)
Restorative Practices for Educators
Gain a full understanding of the theories behind the practices that make Restorative Practices (RP) effective. In this course, educators will learn how to effectively incorporate RP into their practice to improve climate and culture. Topics include:
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Using affective language to better communicate with students
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Understanding your behavior management style
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Utilizing RP tools to shift to a restorative behavior management style
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Understanding how shame can impede learning
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Utilizing re-integrative shame to build positive climate and culture in your classroom
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Utilizing circles to build community
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And more!
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Restorative Practices for Educators!!!
(Continuing Education Units (CEUs)/Professional Development hours
awarded upon successful course completion.)
Math - Deepening Conceptual Understanding
Create instruction centered around building conceptual understanding of mathematics by exploring the importance of language, contextual relationships, multiple perspectives, and making connections between ideas. In this course, educators learn a variety of topics, including:
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Exploring the world of math as a language
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Investigating and building upon your own experience with learning math at a deeper and more meaningful level
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Exploring the "why" of math
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Exploring relationships between mathematical concepts and the world we live in
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Building deeper understanding of a variety of math concepts
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And more!
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Math - Deepening Conceptual Understanding!!!
(Continuing Education Units (CEUs)/Professional Development hours
awarded upon successful course completion.)
Integrated ELD Instruction in Math
Create in integrated unit plan that incorporates English Language Development (ELD) strategies focused on academic language, vocabulary development, and listening and speaking in K-6 mathematics. Topics include:
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Learning ways to effectively integrate the California English Language Development (ELD) standards into elementary math instruction
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Reviewing math language demands
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Exploring areas of strength and need of English Learners in your school/district
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Learn and utilize a variety of strategies to incorporate into your math instruction
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And more!
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Integrated ELD Instruction in Math!!!
(Continuing Education Units (CEUs)/Professional Development hours
awarded upon successful course completion.)