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Professional development and teacher enhancement Similarly, Special Education staff engaged in a series of
programs (counseling, Reading, Differentiated professional development trainings that focused on
Instruction, Intervention, 21st Century Learning, preparing students for the 21st century. This included
Technology, New Teacher Orientation, Special Education, strategies for engaging and instructing students with
Common Core, Gifted and Talented) disabilities, universal design for learning, cycle of effective
instruction, Mindset, technology, Eliminating Barriers to
Learning, technology, writing goals aligned to the CCSS, social
skills, classroom management and engagement. Counselors,
Psychologists, and Nurses also participated in trainings to
support student engagement and motivation, school safety
and connectedness, mental health needs of students,
effective communication strategies, and social skills. Special
Education trained 500 instructional assistants on working
with students with disabilities, professionalism,
confidentiality

Professional development was also provided to teachers, so
that technology could be integrated into instructional
practice, including in the following areas: iPads,
Chromebooks, Google Apps for Education, Smartboard,
Haiku, Edmodo, Technology Implementation for Common
Core Unit Design (Elementary and Secondary), SBAC

Local Assessments and Reflection, Envision Math Technology,
CAASPP, Aeries.net, Online and Blended Learning

Scope of service: LEA wide Scope of service: All schools

_x_ALL _x_ALL
OR:
__Low Income pupils __English Learners OR:
__Foster Youth __Redesignated fluent English proficient __Low Income pupils __English Learners
__Other Subgroups:(Specify)______________ __Foster Youth __Redesignated fluent English proficient
__Other Subgroups:(Specify)________________________