Professional Learning Education

The Professional Learning Education (PLE) E-Catalog highlights opportunities for Clark County School District employees to build capacity through high-quality professional learning that cultivates motivation, promotes engagement, and supports professional growth. All workshops and courses offered by PLE have been approved for use toward LICENSE RENEWAL and SALARY ADVANCEMENT for teachers/licensed employees.

This newsletter provides HIGHLIGHTS of course offerings. Click on this link to view course information and register through the Enterprise Learning Management System (ELMS).

CCSD's Professional Learning Education Department records all Professional Learning Education classes onto the ELMS transcript.

Examine the benefits of integrating art across different content areas, explore research strategies that will enhance student achievement through arts integration, and practice re-designing lessons with an Art-integrated approach.

• Integrating Art Across the Content Areas
  

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This course is structured to lead teachers through the process of identifying and maintaining effective aspects of their current management plan while adding and/or strengthening any missing or less-effective elements. Step-by-step, teachers are guided to design an effective behavior management plan for the next school year.

• CHAMPS: Improving Classroom Management

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This course focuses on building relationships, providing outreach to families, and developing an appreciation and understanding of families from diverse backgrounds.

• Family Engagement and Partnerships for Student Success

This course is accepted for removal of the Parental Involvement and Family Engagement license provision.

Upon completion, tuition reimbursement for CCSD teachers and administrators with the license provision is available as grant funding allows.

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These Humanities workshops and courses provide participants with avenues to develop cross-disciplinary lessons that improve students' awareness and critical analysis skills. Specific feedback is provided to participants as they integrate resources into their current curriculum to support student growth.

• Holocaust Education
• Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education Classes
• Intro to STEAM

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Learn about supporting students in acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs to reach their full potential. Watch for more professional learning opportunities that support literacy!

• Explicit Phonics

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Current research on education reform affirms that it is critical for teachers to meet the learning needs of those students for whom disparities in achievement persist. This course will focus on the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to launch one on the life-long process of continuous improvement in cultural proficiency and support educators in linguistically and culturally responsive teaching. The goals of this course are to provide educators with an introductory overview of cultural competency and culturally responsive teaching as framed by the Clark County School District, to bridge cultural gaps through inclusive practices and effective cultural communications, and to empower teachers to infuse culturally responsive teaching and restorative practices into their professional practice.

• Overview of Cultural Competency Frameworks

This course meets the license renewal requirement of NRS 391.0347.

Upon completion, tuition reimbursement for CCSD teachers and administrators with the license renewal requirement is available as grant funding allows.

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Physical Education professional learning is dedicated to promoting essential, lifelong physical activity for students. Participants of these workshops and courses will acquire knowledge, concepts, principles, and strategies to enhance their lessons immediately.

• Understanding Eating Disorders
• Physical Education in a Virtual World
• Wellness Coaching: Another Skillset of a Teacher
• Strength Training in Education

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Do you want to engage students digitally and leverage productivity tools to their fullest? Some of CCSD's best online-blended learning instructors are offering Technology Education workshops and classes that culminate in the production of personalized digital content for your classroom!

• Canvas
• Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Forms, Slides)
• Digital Design
• Productivity Tools
• Digital Research Methods and Tools
• Digital Data Collection
• Digital Publishing

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The Zeiter Literacy Development Center in the UNLV College of Education currently offers five microcredential courses that educators can choose from to support educators working or interested in Title I settings. Participants are welcome to take as few as one and as many as all five courses. Courses are offered multiple times a semester with defined start and stop data, and participants will have one month to complete their work for credit.

• Homelessness and Housing Vulnerability
• Engaging English Language Learners
  
• Engaging Learners through Literacy
  
• Engaging Learners through Learning Data
  
• Engaging Learners through Science & STEM

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Email us and tell us what kind of professional learning we could provide for you.

ple@nv.ccsd.net

Are you interested in creating and presenting districtwide professional learning opportunities? Please contact our office to apply.

ple@nv.ccsd.net

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To view and register for available Professional Learning Education (PLE) classes, non-CCSD participants must request an account for the Enterprise Learning Management System (ELMS). Please use the link below to request an account.

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Email: ple@nv.ccsd.net
Website: https://cpd.ccsd.net/departments/pde/
Location: 3950 Pecos-McLeod Interconnect, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Phone: (702)799-1921