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Catalogs

Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Cats	1.00	This course will provide an introduction to cats, including an overview of physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, reproduction and the conservation efforts dedicated to protecting this taxonomic group.
Connection Planning in Long-Term Care	1.00	This module includes training for staff and providers in the importance of social connection and practical strategies learners can use to promote social connectedness in long-term care. The module explains how to implement Connection Planning, a brief, person-centered behavioral intervention for developing resident care plans that address social connection. Connection Planning includes evidence-informed, practical strategies to promote meaningful social connection among residents in long-term care.
Introduction to Fireground Communications	0.50	This course defines communication and identifies five components of a fireground communication model. Each component is described in detail and a procedure for implementing the components is reviewed. The different types of common fireground communications are described and examples of each are given.
Handline Operation #1101 (Instructor Guide)	1.00	This is the Instructor Guide for Lesson #1101 Hoseline Operation. This training session is a skill demonstration and evolution. The presentation is an instructor lead discussion that reviews the importance of fire streamflow for structural firefighting. The lesson reviews standard GPM flows for the AHJ appliances and discusses appropriate situations for the use of those appliances. The training session is concluded with three skills stations that require firefighters to operate hoselines and fire streams from an exterior position.
Making Plans and Developing Policies	2.00	Planning and policy-making are closely linked to the development of quality school-age care programs. When school-age staff are skilled as planners and policy-makers, they can use these skills to design and implement high quality programs that benefit children, youth, and families. It is essential for school-age care professionals to recognize that it is important for policies to grow out of a vision of quality, and a mission that supports that vision. Therefore, creating a vision for quality, developing a program philosophy, and writing a clear mission statement are the first steps in program planning. It is also important for school-age care professionals to use a systematic process to develop goals and objectives, set priorities for accomplishing goals and objectives, and develop goal-based action plans that will help the school-age program achieve its mission. High quality school-age programs are led by professionals who understand how to use effective strategies for creating a continuous cycle of planning and evaluation that supports ongoing program improvement.
Creating and Managing Budgets in School-Age Programs	2.00	When program budgets are developed through a careful, step-by-step process, they become valuable planning tools. By using effective budget planning tools and strategies, school-age care professionals can make realistic projections about the programs financial stability, and design strategies for generating and allocating resources to support the programs vision and mission. It is important for school-age care professionals to understand that the budget process is ongoing. It involves linking financial goals to program goals, identifying program priorities, allocating resources effectively, using reliable methods for calculating potential expenses and revenues, monitoring performance against projections made, and making needed changes and adjustments for the future.
The Six Ps of Marketing School-Age Programs	2.00	Effective marketing of school-age programs is a systematic process that involves research, analysis, assessment of market trends and needs, short-term and long-term planning, and development of effective strategies to promote school-age program services and develop a positive image of the program in the community. It is important for school-age care leaders to recognize that marketing is a far reaching process that includes, but is not limited to, advertising and publicity. When leaders take a comprehensive approach to marketing, their programs and projects have an excellent chance of success. Knowledge and understanding of the marketing process is an invaluable tool for leaders as they plan and implement new programs and projects, assess the stability and need for improvement of current programs, develop plans for new or expanded programs, and develop a positive public image of the program and its services.
Innovative Learning for Modern Educators	1.50	This course is designed to empower educators with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to seamlessly integrate innovative learning strategies into their classrooms. It is just one out of many educational professional courses we offer. Educators will develop the expertise to elevate student engagement, retention, and outcomes, surpassing the limitations of traditional teaching methods. Tailored to inspire, challenge, and guide, this course is a transformative journey for educators, equipping them to create enriched and dynamic learning experiences.
Orangutans	2.00	This course will provide an introduction to orangutans, including an overview of physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, reproduction and the conservation efforts dedicated to protecting this fascinating species.
Grammar Skills: Punctuation and Mechanics	1.00	This course covers how to punctuate clauses in sentences by using commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes as well as how to set phrases apart by using parentheses and brackets; correctly use apostrophes and hyphens. You will also learn how to use quotation marks and end punctuation; identify when to spell out numbers, money, and dates as well how to correctly capitalize words in sentences.
Virtual Teams: Fundamentals of Virtual Teams	0.50	This course will focuse on how to identify the purpose and types of virtual teams, identify the benefits of serving in virtual teams and types of work and meetings carried out by virtual teams, and identify the schedule of a session, and the agenda of a session.
Employee Performance: Feedback	1.67	Giving feedback facilitates organizational growth and development. Feedback helps improve job performance while promoting professional and personal growth in employees. Managers who know how to give feedback allow employees to advance themselves and grow as individuals and workers. Through proper guidance, employees acquire the necessary skills to meet their job requirements. Feedback helps build interpersonal relationships between managers and employees, while improving their self-esteem and job satisfaction. In this course you will learn to: identify the focus of feedback, and give and receive feedback effectively, provide positive and constructive feedback, monitor performance after providing feedback, identify communication styles, and manage difficult feedback sessions, and identify when to avoid giving feedback.
Creating Community Collaborations	2.00	Across the country, more and more communities are forming community collaborations to address the out-of-school needs of children and youth of all ages. When different segments of the community join together, share ideas, and pool their resources and efforts to create out-of-school time initiatives, children and youth benefit. What one organization or program may not be able to accomplish alone is often achievable when partnerships and collaborations among diverse groups and individuals are formed. When school-age care professionals are knowledgeable about what it takes to create and sustain successful collaborations, they can play an important leadership role in creating out-of-school time initiatives and programs that will meet the needs of children and youth in their communities now and in the future.
Observing Children in School-Age Programs	2.00	Conducting and documenting objective, accurate observations of children in school-age programs is an important professional responsibility of school-age care professionals. Two useful tools for structuring observations are developmental checklists and anecdotal records. Both tools provide rich information that help staff learn about children’s development. When school-age care staff conduct regular observations of children’s development, and prepare objective documentation of these observations, they are able to discover the uniqueness of each child, and provide developmentally appropriate guidance and support for all children in the program.
Sharing Information with Parents and Other Professionals: Communication Tools	1.00	School-age children work on many important developmental tasks during their out-of-school hours. One of the important responsibilities of school-age care staff is to help parents stay in touch with how their children are growing and developing during program hours. In this course, we will explore tools used to communicate with families about their children.
Freelance Work	0.50	This course will teach you what freelance work is and why it's becoming a common career path for many professionals. Freelance work is completed by people known as freelancers, who are self-employed rather than having a permanent employment to a singular company. This type of work involves short-term jobs, such as gigs or temp jobs.
Lifting and Moving—Lesson 2	0.50	In the second session, we will discuss body mechanics and what you can do to properly train to perform in a safe manner. Final Exam: This multiple choice exam is designed to test your knowledge of the material you just reviewed. You have two attempts to gain an 80% or higher on this exam. Please take your time and answer each question carefully.
Grammar Skills: Word Choice	1.00	This course covers how to choose the appropriate words for clear communication and how to recognize and use frequently misused words correctly. You will also learn how to avoid common spelling errors and correctly attach prefixes and suffixes to words.
Time Management: Information Overload	1.00	This course will focus on how to identify the causes of information overload and overcome it by screening information, control paperwork by organizing your office and filing system, and communicate effectively to increase productivity.
Employee Performance: Conflicts	0.67	In any organization, there are individuals with unique personalities and responsibilities. Conflicts are an inevitable part of employee interaction. Knowing how to resolve conflicts when they arise is vital to the well-being of any company. In this course you will learn to: identify common myths associated with workplace conflicts, common reasons that conflicts arise, and types of workplace conflict, and distinguish between conflict management and conflict resolution.
Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Customers and Vendors	0.50	Your customers include anyone who uses your company or organization to obtain goods and services. Customers might be internal or external. An internal customer is a member of your organization and can be a supervisor, colleague, or subordinate. An external customer is someone from outside your organization. Each customer is of equal importance, regardless of the amount of business that customer provides to your organization. You should provide the same level of quality goods and services all your customers, and all are equally deserving of efficient and effective communication. In this course you will learn: to respond to customers’ complaints, and to reject a vendor’s contract without rejecting the vendor, and address a complaint to a vendor.
Business Ethics: Managerial Ethics	1.34	In this course you will learn to: identify the characteristics of ethical managers, different ethical styles, and the important ethical components of various human resource issues, and ensure ethical behavior in the workplace and address the ethical dilemmas of subordinates.
Business Ethics: Organizational Ethics	1.50	In this course you will learn to: identify the need for organizational ethics and the types of ethical issues that arise in various functional areas, promote and maintain ethical principles in business, develop a corporate code of ethics and execute an internal audit, identify types of corporate social responsibilities and handle conflicts in responsibilities when they arise.
Grammar	1.50	Grammar is an essential part of any work environment. However, it can come with many different eccentricities. In this course, you will learn how to avoid common grammar mistakes in both your personal and professional writing.
Managerial Leadership: Defining Employee Roles and Priorities (Instructor Guide)	1.50	A vision is created by an organization to inspire its members to work together to reach for an ideal of what the organization can become. The members of the organization should use the vision as the standard to determine the day-to-day functions of their individual roles. The vision is the guide to use every time an action is taken, a decision is made, or a plan is developed to improve the organization or the people in it. An organization’s vision should enable the members in every role to do what is in the best interest of the organization. In this course you will learn to: determine leader roles and strengthen employee roles, and align employee priorities and evaluate employee performance. This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course.