Lifetouch School Portraits: School Services: Educational Impact

School Services & Programs - Online Professional Development

Educational Impact – Product Overview:

•	Self-paced courses taught by well-known experts for K-12 administrators and teachers
•	Meets the continuing education requirements mandated by state and federal education initiatives
•	Offered in partnership with Educational Impact, the premier online provider of professional development for educators

Uses:

•	Significant cost savings for districts, schools and teachers
•	24/7 online access, including from the comfort of home
•	Self-paced curriculum, including streaming video of real-life classroom presentations by subject matter experts
•	Online assessments of coursework, plus ability to print personalized certificate when course is successfully completed
•	Professional development requirements completed online; no need to attend seminars
•	Ability to convert online coursework into graduate credits at fully accredited universities
•	Online library offers resources for quick reference and to gain new ideas
•	Lesson plans available by grade and course levels
•	Chat rooms with other teachers and administrators facilitate trading ideas, adopting best practices

Sample Courses:

For administrators:
- Strategies for NCLB compliance
- Leading learning communities
- Case studies of schools transformed from under- to over-achievers
For teachers:
- Teaching the ESL learner, ADD/ADHD students and defiant children
- Creating and teaching literacy plans in a variety of settings
- Instructional strategies for teaching in “mixed ability” classrooms
Security-focused:
- Safe schools – prevention, intervention, crisis planning and management
- Responding to Homeland Security threats