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Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Special Needs, Parent and Community Impact, Leadership | K-12
Education is always evolving and innovating. Although some trends are exciting, keeping up with changes can be daunting, particularly when they involve new laws and regulations. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the newest law that is transforming the face of education with its new procedures and accountability structures.
In this course, you will explore the goals of ESSA as well as the important changes that affect all educators and students. You will evaluate the benefits and challenges of ESSA and develop strategies for implementing its guidelines without upending your entire curriculum. In addition, you’ll create a plan to explain the new law to parents and families and support them through any changes.
Using the strategies from this course, you will be able to understand and incorporate any changes from ESSA that affect you, your students, and their families.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Strategies and resources to understand ESSA and i’s implications for your classroom
- Tools to plan and implement ESSA
- Techniques for supporting parents and colleagues with fulfilling ESSA
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Analyze the goals and regulations of ESSA.
- Compare and contrast No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and ESSA.
- Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of ESSA in education.
- Assess your state’s plan for implementing ESSA and its impact in your classroom.
- Create strategies to successfully implement ESSA regulations with ALL students.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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