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The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) for Administrators |
1.50 |
Welcome to The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) course. This course is designed for anyone who works in a school. It is just one of the many K-12 courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about students and will help you understand how DASA is implemented within schools. |
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Food Allergy Basics: Symptoms and Triggers |
1.00 |
Welcome to Food Allergy Basics: Symptoms and Triggers. This course identifies the symptoms and triggers of food allergies.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Define food allergy.
- Identify the foods that cause 90% of all food allergies.
- List the symptoms of food allergies. |
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Food Allergy Basics: Preventing Reactions |
1.00 |
Welcome to Food Allergy Basics: Preventing Reactions. This course is focused on ways to prevent accidental exposure to foods that can cause an allergic reaction.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Describe ways to prevent accidental exposure to foods that cause an allergic reaction.
- Demonstrate how to read a food label to reduce the risk of accidental exposure to foods that can cause an allergic reaction. |
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Food Allergy Basics: Emergency Response |
1.00 |
Welcome to Food Allergy Basics: Emergency Response. This course is focused on how to use a Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Emergency Care Plan to care for a child with a food allergy.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Explain the correct use of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Emergency Care Plan.
- Identify the six rights of medication administration. |
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Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness |
1.25 |
Unfortunately, child abuse is a prevalent issue in today's world. Child care workers and volunteers, coaches, and others who work with children must be knowledgeable about the topic to ensure children's safety. This course will make you aware of the many issues related to child abuse and help you recognize and prevent child abuse within and outside of program walls. It offers advice about how to respond to a child who divulges abusive information and what to do with this information. As someone who works with children you will learn how to protect the child, your organization, and yourself from accusations of abuse. |
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After School Improvement Series: Indoor Environments |
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This webinar will discuss the role a well-planned indoor environment plays in supporting the developmental needs of school-age children. It will talk about the use of interest areas as tools for creating an indoor environment that supports children’s interests and developmental needs. In addition, we’ll learn how to plan indoor environments that are warm and inviting, help children feel welcome and comfortable and will allow them to participate in different activity areas at the same time without disturbing one another. And finally, we’ll discuss the role a well-planned indoor environment plays in keeping children safe and engaged. |
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OSTPD - Promoting Positive Youth Development |
1.00 |
This training will define Positive Youth Development, benefits of Positive Youth Development and how to implement Positive Youth Development. |
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OSTPD - Supporting Attendance through After School Programming |
1.00 |
This training will cover a number of areas regarding how after school programs can support youth attendance in school. By looking at and exploring the connection between after school programming and attendance in school, we see how after school programming supports attendance at school as well as how to coordinate with the school in order to maximize the positive impact of after school on school attendance through collaboration. |
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OSTPD - Supporting Alternative Pathways through Service Learning |
1.00 |
This training will cover a number of areas regarding how after school programs can support alternative pathways by using service learning. The course will review what service learning is and provide a solid foundation of this concept. It will then look at the benefits of service learning followed by how service learning supports youth’s alternative pathways. It will conclude with information on how to get started and creating a path to implement service learning in your own program.
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Engaging English Learner Families and Communities |
2.00 |
This online course serves as a compliment to Healthy Cultural Identities and Engaging Families and Communities, an in-person training offered through CalSAC's English Learner Training and Professional Development Project. This course will help participants go deeper and gain more examples and strategies related to some of the 5 Tips for Engaging English Learners' Families and Communities introduced in the training. |
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Dance for Joy: Confident, Calm, and Compassionate |
1.00 |
This module from Dance for Joy will provide teachers with resources and activities that can be used and modified to support physical, mental, social, and emotional development in young children.
This course covers 5 activities: Tickle the Sky, Tapping, Every Little Cell, We are One, Scoop up the Universe. |
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Dance for Joy: Movement, Music, and Rhyme |
1.00 |
This module from Dance for Joy will provide teachers with resources and activities that can be used and modified to support physical, mental, social, and emotional development in young children.
This course covers 5 activities: I Touch My Nose, I Touch My Toes, Hold Yourself Tight, Wake Up Right, Reach One Way, Reach the Other, Locomotor Freeze Dance, Salt and Pepper Dance. |
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Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment for Our Nation's Children and Youth |
0.75 |
This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to create safer, more inclusive environments for children. You will learn about the dynamics of bullying, the impact it has on those who are bullied, and strategies for prevention. |
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Dyslexia |
1.00 |
This course will provide you with an overview of dyslexia to help you understand what it is all about, the challenges a student with dyslexia faces, and the best ways in which teachers can effectively support students with this disability. |
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Engaging Middle School Youth in College & Career Readiness |
1.00 |
This course will introduce participants to the College & Career Readiness Toolkit, developed by the Maryland Out-of-School Time (MOST) Network, as well as developmentally appropriate activities and considerations for implementing college & career readiness with middle school youth in an out-of-school time setting. |
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Engaging High School Youth in College & Career Readiness |
1.00 |
This course will introduce participants to the College & Career Readiness Toolkit, developed by the Maryland Out-of-School Time (MOST) Network, as well as developmentally appropriate activities and considerations for implementing college & career readiness with high school youth in an out-of-school time setting. |
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Down Syndrome |
0.50 |
This course will help you understand the unique characteristics that children with Down syndrome possess and the challenges that they face. It will provide you with knowledge on how to create the best learning environment possible to meet their needs by giving you specific ways to plan your curriculum and ways in which you can encourage communication. You will feel prepared to make accommodations to welcome children with Down syndrome into your classroom. |
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English Language Learners |
1.00 |
This course will give you a greater understanding of the circumstances under which some English language learners came to the U.S. and the challenges they may face. Strategies for teaching language acquisition skills will be provided, and you will learn the importance of collaborating with families and communities. |
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Healthy Bodies: Promoting Good Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care |
1.00 |
This course will give you a broad overview of how to instill healthy habits at an early age. It will provide you with information about the nutritional needs of children and the benefits and risks associated with physical activity levels. Strategies will be given to use this knowledge in the classroom. |
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SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Keeping Babies Safe |
1.50 |
This course will give participants a brief overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths. Participants will learn about recent research and statistics, the importance of child care providers, AAP SIDS Task Force recommendations, and how to implement polices in child care. |
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English Learner Socio-Emotional Factors and Typologies Review |
0.50 |
This course serves as a compliment to Knowing English Learners, an in-person training offered through CalSAC's English Learner Training and Professional Development Project. This review course is for CalSAC EL Trainers and participants. CalSAC Trainers can use this module as a way to brush up on the Socio-Emotional Factors and English Learner Typologies before conducting a training, and participants can use the module to further their understanding of the Factors and Typologies. |
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Infectious Diseases: Daily Health Check |
1.00 |
This course is focused on the daily health check, and how it relates to policy guidelines about whether or not children with symptoms of infectious diseases can participate in program activities.
Course Learning Objectives:
Describe the elements of a daily health check.
Discuss how daily health checks relate to policy guidelines about whether or not children with symptoms of infectious diseases can participate in program activities. |
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Safe Infant Sleep: SIDS and the Safe Infant Sleep Position |
1.00 |
This course is focused on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ best practice recommendations for reducing the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) and for promoting safe sleep in infant care settings.
Course Learning Objectives:
Define Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), and their relationship to safe infant sleep in infant care settings.
Identify safe infant sleep position and safe sleep environments. |
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Safe Infant Sleep: Safe Sleep Policy |
1.00 |
This course is focused on safe infant sleep policies, and how to communicate best practice for safe sleep with the families of infants in your care.
Course Learning Objectives:
Explain the purpose and contents of a safe infant sleep policy.
Explore strategies for communicating with families about safe infant sleep practices. |
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Infectious Diseases: Environmental Management |
1.00 |
This course is focused on reducing the risk of infectious diseases in early care and education environments.
Course Learning Objectives:
List environmental management strategies for reducing the spread of germs that cause infectious disease. |
