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Catalogs

Title	Duration (hours)	Description
Ladder Safety	0.75	This course covers safe ladder practices, common hazards when using ladders, and the proper use of different ladder types.
Project Management - Advanced: Project Integration and Plan Development	0.50	This course will cover how to measure data during project integration and differentiate between project and product life cycles. You will also learn how to identify the importance of developing a project plan, the elements of a project plan, the key input required for project plan development, and methods used in project plan development.
Effective Presentations: Fundamentals of Persuasion (Instructor Guide)	1.17	Although all presentations are persuasive to some extent, a true persuasive presentation attempts to influence the way audience members think about something or influence the way they behave. 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.
Call Center Management: Managing for Excellent Service	1.00	This course will cover how to set service levels, achieve service levels, and use reports.
Permit-Required Confined Spaces	1.00	This course covers the safety basics while working in permit-required confined spaces. You will learn the differences between a confined space and a permit-required space, as well as how to identify potential hazards in confined spaces and the safeguards that go along with them.
Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) (CDA 2)	2.00	This course tackles the sobering reality that 25% of children lack enough moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in their daily lives. It explores the crucial role MVPA plays in fostering healthy habits, happiness, and overall well-being. Discover evidence-based strategies to ignite movement in children, empowering them to develop strength, maintain a healthy weight, and cultivate lifelong vitality.
Planning for Emergencies (Corrections)	0.50	The Preparing for Emergencies: Strategies for Small Business course is designed to help participants identify a learning goal and expectation for their own business. Throughout this course, participants will assess their own business readiness plans for emergencies, learn about the four steps in the emergency planning process, and learn about emergency management considerations.
Motivation: Identifying, Planning, and Implementing: Using What You've Learned (Corrections)	0.50	In life, to be a successful, you must have a plan. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, said, “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.” This course has provided you with the information and—we hope—the inspiration to improve your motivational skills and work toward personal success. The final two steps are up to you: You must implement what you have learned and continue to work on improving your skills. In this course you will learn to: work toward improving your motivational skills by using the 21-day habit and satori, and use resources, including websites and books, to continue working on your motivational skills.
Project Teams: Creating a Project Team (Instructor Guide)	1.00	Project teams and non-project teams are similar because they both often have specific time frames in which to complete tasks. However, project teams also have a time frame for the life of the team, whereas non-project teams usually don’t. A non-project team might be established to monitor the effectiveness of an organization’s advertising. The need to monitor advertising effectiveness will be ongoing, and the team will not have an ending date. In this course you will learn to: identify the characteristics of a project team, and understand who the project stakeholders are, and understand how individual responsibilities and stress affect a project team, and how team members can evaluate their 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.
Lifting and Moving—Lesson 1	0.50	There are several disciplines of healthcare that require proficiency in lifting and moving. Prehosital medicine and fire-service-related rescue requires a proficiency in this area that is beyond any other area of healthcare. Our team of experts discuss the challenges that we face in our community. In this first session of the series, we explore the mindset and preparation that must take place in order to achieve success. Final Exam:This multiple choice exam is designed to test your knowledge of the material you just reviewed. You have two attempts to gain a 70% or higher on this exam. Please take your time and answer each question carefully.
CompTIA Security+ Certification - Exam SY0-601	40.00	30 Bird Media's CompTIA Security+ Certification SY0-601 course provides the basic knowledge needed to plan, implement, and maintain information security in a vendor-neutral format. This includes risk management, host and network security, authentication and access control systems, cryptography, and organizational security. This course maps to the CompTIA Security+ certification exam. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course. Students will benefit most from this course if they intend to take a CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 exam. This course assumes basic knowledge of using and maintaining individual workstations. Knowledge equivalent to the CompTIA A+ certification is helpful but not necessary.
12-Step Recovery Programs	1.50	This course covers the history and philosophy behind 12-step recovery programs.
Correcting Performance Problems: Addressing Behavioral Problems (Instructor Guide)	0.84	For a feedback session to be effective, you need to emphasize the impact of the problem behavior to the employee. Their behavior mainly impacts three entities: the organization, co-workers, and the employee. When explaining these factors, you should maintain a proper perspective based on some set guidelines throughout the feedback. In this course you will learn to: communicate and prevent the discrepancy between an employee’s behavior and performance standards, and identify the type of employee reaction and tackle it effectively. 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.
Geriatric Assessment	1.25	As part of an interdisciplinary team working with older adults, it is important to understand the different parts that make up a comprehensive geriatric assessment. This course will provide you with information about the tools used in a comprehensive geriatric assessment that are chosen based on identified needs and areas of concern for individual patients.
Introduction to Assessment for Teachers	1.25	This course covers basic assessment information for teachers. It will be a refresher for basic concepts generally covered in a teacher preparation program. Educators must understand the reasons for assessment and its importance in supporting appropriately designed instruction for students. This course will help you develop new knowledge and review prior knowledge regarding the impact of assessment on teaching and learning.
Health and Stress Management for Paraprofessionals	1.00	Every day, paraprofessionals dedicate themselves to caring for and nurturing students and families. Often, paraprofessionals are so dedicated to serving others, they neglect their own needs. When this happens, paraprofessionals can experience stress that causes them to become overwhelmed, exhausted, frustrated, dissatisfied with job responsibilities, and unappreciated. When they maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle, paraprofessionals are in a much better position to face the challenges of supporting and nurturing children and families with positive energy, enthusiasm, patience, and empathy. By developing self-awareness, linking their personal and professional goals, developing a healthy balanced lifestyle, and identifying and managing stressors effectively, they can create and maintain a positive sense of well-being that allows them to maximize their ability to build positive relationships with students, parents, colleagues, and others.
Benefits of Connecting Seniors and Young Children (CDA 3)	2.00	This course equips you with the knowledge and tools to integrate senior adults into childcare and education programs. Discover how this approach benefits children, seniors, your program, and you, enriching lives across generations.
Project-Based Learning for Teachers	1.75	This course is designed to provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and tools to implement project-based learning (PBL) in their classrooms. The advantages of using PBL along with some ways to zero in on selecting topics and projects will be discussed. This course will help you develop new knowledge about using project-based learning effectively.
Managing Performance: Appraising Employee Performance (Instructor Guide)	1.67	In this course you will learn to: understand the performance appraisal process, identify and gather appraisal material, prepare for an appraisal discussion, lead employees in an appraisal discussion, and respond to defensive employees and resolve conflict in an appraisal discussion.
Construction Safety & Prevention Program: Incident Investigation Procedure	0.50	Incident Investigation Procedure is part of a twelve-part construction safety and prevention program. This course covers the purpose of incident investigation, the approaches to investigating an incident, how to establish an incident investigation program, and more.
Ground Cover Fires	1.50	This course is an introductory level course that introduces the basic concepts of fighting fires that involve natural ground cover. This course describes fire behaviors associated with ground cover fires, identifies the types of equipment as well as methods used to combat these fires. The lesson also identifies specific hazards associated with ground cover fires and describes methods for mitigating the risk of those hazards.
Exploring Four Areas of School-Age Development	2.00	One of the most helpful ways to gain an understanding of the needs and interests of youth between 5 and 12 is to examine their development from four different perspectives: 1) Physical Development, 2) Cognitive Development, 3) Social Development, and 4) Emotional Development. It is important for staff to keep all four of these areas in mind when planning and implementing program activities and experiences. Keeping the four areas of development in mind leads staff to design a balanced set of experiences that nurture and growth and development of the “whole child.”
21st Century Skills in Early Childhood (CDA 2, 3, and 8)	2.00	In this course, you will identify skills considered to be essential for success in the 21st century and examine the critical connection between these skills and academic learning. You will also explore how two Key Learning Areas from Learning Standards for Early Childhood - Social and Emotional Development and Approaches to Learning through Play - can help you promote the development of 21st Century Skills in the children with whom you work. This course is also designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum. It covers Subject Area 2: Advancing Children’s Physical and Intellectual Development, Subject Area 3: Supporting Children’s Social and Emotional Development and Subject Area 8: Understanding Principles of Child Development and Learning.
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.
Hazard Communication Basic (Short)	0.25	This course covers the basics when it comes to hazard communication. The topics will range from the Hazard Communication Standard to the labeling of hazardous materials.