SESC Classes

Standard course offerings are delivered by SESC Cadre trainers through instructive and interactive means allowing for participant understanding of topic elements. Customized workshops tailored to the unique needs/circumstances of the requesting group can also be provided on a limited basis. SESC professional learning courses are available throughout the year. For current offerings, visit the WEA Website.

The Special Education Support Center (SESC) offers professional learning courses to schools, districts, community groups, advocacy organizations, and individuals upon request. Customized workshops tailored to the unique needs/circumstances of the requesting group can also be provided on a limited basis. Professional learning courses are offered to groups with a minimum of 15 and maximum of 50 participants. For more information contact Special Populations Program Coordinator Phyllis Campano (pcampano@washingtonea.org)

Below is a list of all the trainings that have occurred. Note that that these courses may not be currently available. For the current list of courses, please visit the Online Courses page.

 

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Behavior Intervention Strategies to Support Students through Inclusive Practices

Participants will be cultivating a growth mindset when working with students with social, emotional, and behavioral needs. They will learn about the different lens of behavior and high leverage practices for supporting students with social, emotional, and behavioral needs in inclusive classrooms. They will identify the root causes and different functions of behavior.

Beyond Survival: Addressing Barriers to Inclusion with MTSS

Participants will cultivate a growth mindset when working with students who experience social, emotional, and behavioral needs. They will learn about the different lens of behavior and high leverage practices for supporting students with social, emotional, and behavioral needs in inclusive classrooms. They will identify the root causes and different functions of behavior. Finally, participants will walk away with a mindset that allows them to build successful relationships, how to utilize effective feedback, and knowledge acquired from direct learning experiences within the SimSchool integrated programs to foster student engagement and inclusivity.

Coaching and Mentoring - Facilitating Co-Teaching: Supporting Mentors and Coaches w/Inclusive Practices

This course is designed for coaches and mentors with a wide range of experience in co-teaching. Participants will explore and apply their knowledge of the models, roles and responsibilities, co-planning, and data collection as related to co-teaching. Coaches and mentors will practice and increase their skills and knowledge of facilitating the development of strong co-teaching teams.

Coaching and Mentoring for Successful Inclusion of Students with Significant Disabilities

This course is designed for coaches and mentors who support teachers and other staff members working with students that have significant disabilities. Coaches and mentors will examine the steps to system change around inclusion, and gain access to tools and strategies to increase inclusionary practices for all students using effective coaching techniques.

Coaching and Mentoring of Inclusionary Behavioral Strategies

Educational Leaders will evaluate the lenses of themselves and their colleagues that limit student behavioral change as well as reinforce systemic and historically exclusionary practices; identifying frameworks that will help to cultivate alternative lenses from which to view behavioral approaches. They will look at ways to coach teachers for lasting and equitable change by applying high leverage practices and other research-based methodology.

De-Escalation Strategies for Educators

This course is designed to help educators gain skill in recognizing signs of a potential behavioral crisis and remediating before the event. In addition to exploring how their own behavior can effect the escalation cycle, participants discover and practice de-escalation techniques that recognize the importance of maintaining student dignity during behavior crises.

Developing a Compliant Prior Written Notice

Participants will gain a deep understanding of what a Prior Written Notice (PWN) is, why it matters, and how to write it in a way that meets both legal standards and communication best practices. This session combines direct instruction with real-world examples, collaborative activities, and practical tools that can be applied immediately in both school and home settings.

Developing Transition IEPs

This course provides the knowledge needed to develop meaningful, collaborative and compliant transition IEPs aimed at assisting the qualifying student with disabilities in achieving successful educational/ employment/ independent living skills beyond high school.

Effective Co-teaching Strategies for Inclusion

This course focuses on co-teaching as a component of high leverage inclusionary practices; developing high quality co-teaching practices. Co-teachers are highly encouraged to attend together.

Embedding Social Emotional Skills Across the Preschool Day

This course focuses on specific teaching strategies in order to increase the depth of development of young children’s social emotional skills. Along with the “why” this course will demonstrate and walk participants through how they can teach Social Emotional Skills across the day using Universal Design as well as using strategies that intentionally target and embed specific Social Emotional skills across an early childhood student’s day. This course provides equity clock hours as Social Emotional Skills are influenced by cultures and just as diverse as cultures. Just as diversity is an asset; every student is an asset.