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Upcoming:

Effective Online Educators are made by SchoolsPLP and YOU!
Join us for our four-part series: Effective Online Educators!
For this series we're calling our PLC, our Pragmatic Learning Community!
In the next 4 installments we talk about six traits of effective online educators, educators just like you!
Join us LIVE online or watch the recording later to earn a professional development certificate for each part.

PART 2: Clear Expectations & Gaining Knowledge

Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00-12:30 PM MT

Effective Online Educators
3. Provide Clear Expectations
4. Have Technology & Content Knowledge

Join us to talk about how providing clear expectations to students in our online environment starts them on a path to success. Gaining technology knowledge, whether it's navigating the SchoolsPLP dashboard or learning how to connect with students virtually, allows us to become more effective online educators. Becoming more knowledgeable about course content helps us to better support our students in their learning. Read the article "Clear Expectations & Technical and Content Knowledge in Your Online Learning Environment" here!

PART 3: Personalization & Our Roles as Educators

Friday, March 3, 2023 12:00-12:30 PM MT

Effective Online Educators
5. Know how to Personalize Learning
6. Play Many Roles!

Let's talk about how SchoolsPLP allows us to customize content, instructional designs, and settings to truly personalize student learning! As educators, there are so many roles we take on or count on to support our students while they learn! Whether we are graders, computer lab monitors, teachers, mentors, counselors, administrators, technical troubleshooters, or even parents, each role we play is an important part to helping our students be successful in their online learning!

PART 4: Using the FREE SchoolsPLP Toolkit!

Friday, April 7, 2023 12:00-12:30 PM MT

Join us to talk about how Effective Online Educators use the FREE SchoolsPLP Toolkit! Need an icebreaker activity to learn about your students? Add it from the Toolkit! Need an attention-grabbing image for a video you just uploaded? Find it in the Toolkit! Having dozens of icons and templates at your fingertips to use when customizing your courses is one more way that SchoolsPLP makes educators' lives easier and promotes effective online education!

Previous Recordings:

PART 1: Building Relationships & Effective Communication
From: Friday, January 6, 2023

Effective Online Educators
1. Build Relationships
2. Use Effective Communication & Feedback

Let's talk about how SchoolsPLP gives us the tools to build relationships with our students. Being able to communicate with students and provide instant, specific feedback about real-time data on their dashboard or in their Latest Activity feed shows them we care! Read the article "Building Relationships & Effective Communication" here!

Watch the recording here! Then take the quiz for the PD certificate here.

Grading with Ease Please!

From: Friday, December 2, 2022

Learn how to display average and cumulative grades and where to find and print our new report cards. Also learn how to print student work samples and how to archive enrollments at the end of your grading period.

Watch here!

Understanding the Learning Plan!

From: Friday, November 4th, 2022

Learn how to add due dates and release dates. PLUS! How to create individualized learning plans for your students!

Watch here!