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A comprehensive set of educator courses and programmings for professional development offered by Global Online Academy (GOA) in our comprehensive Professional Learning Catalog, featuring learning experiences for K-12 educators.
CBL: From Time-Based to Performance-Based is a self-paced course on designing learning experiences that allow each student to move towards mastery at their own pace and path. The shift from “time-based” to “performance-based” fundamentally entails rethinking time so that students can advance based on proficiency of a skill rather than seat time. This course will support you in redesigning elements of your curriculum to make room for reassessment and differentiation. This is the fourth in a series of five self-paced courses about practical and purposeful shifts that educators can make in their classrooms. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
CBL: From Content-Driven to Skills-Driven Learning is a self-paced course that supports educators in understanding the principles of competency-based learning and how to take steps towards designing competencies and learning outcomes. You'll investigate examples of competency architectures to familiarize yourself with the way other schools and learning organizations are adopting CBL and work through a design process that will allow you to walk away with a usable competency-based learning rubric. This is the first in a series of five self-paced courses about practical and purposeful shifts that educators can make in their classrooms. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
CBL: From Grading to Feedback is a self-paced course which will explore key elements of feedback that drive student learning. Feedback is foundational to a CBL approach: students must receive specific, actionable feedback aligned to competencies and learning outcomes throughout their learning processes. In this course, we will explore key elements of feedback that drive student learning, taking into consideration that when we live and teach in a grades-based system — as many of us do — we want to ensure that our grading practices align with and prioritize good and equitable feedback practices too. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
CBL: From Lessons to Experiences is a self-paced course that will guide you in rethinking your approach to your day-to-day classroom planning and practice. Instead of viewing curriculum as a checklist, you'll learn how to reframe your approach to pacing and design to create an immersive experience that replicates what the work of your discipline might look like in a professional, real world context. This is the third in a series of five self-paced courses about practical and purposeful shifts that educators can make in their classrooms. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
CBL: From Educator-Designed to Co-Designed is a self-paced course that supports teachers in rethinking their role as a classroom leader and content expert and making shifts to adopt the stance of a coach and facilitator. One of the goals of competency-based learning is to support student agency. Making the shift from educator-designed to co-designed experiences is integral to creating a culturally responsive learning environment that empowers our students to become purposeful, self-directed learners. This is the fifth in a series of five courses about practical and purposeful shifts that educators can make in their classrooms. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
How might we redesign discussions to empower all students to meaningfully engage? How can discussions offer all students access points for conversation and learning? In this short experience, you’ll examine your discussion practice and take steps for more active and learning-focused participation. Designed to move you from understanding to implementation in just a few hours, this self-paced course provides highly curated resources, examples, and action steps for redesigning how you create and facilitate discussions. You’ll leave with a student-centered protocol for your next discussion that empowers students to join, lead, engage, and reflect. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
Assessments that are rooted in robust cycles of feedback have the single most significant impact on student learning. To ensure that we, as educators, can maximize the effectiveness of our feedback while managing our feedback workload, we need to employ the use of a feedback ecosystem. When educators design feedback ecosystems, they plan for students to exchange, receive, and apply meaningful feedback in an integrated, sustainable way. This workshop explores the what, why, and how of providing students with ongoing, timely, and actionable feedback, leaving with a plan for launching a learning experience with a feedback ecosystem in place.
The disruptions of the past few years in education have renewed interest in competency-based learning (CBL), a system designed to promote agency, equity, and transfer in schools. But what is CBL? Why does it matter? How might schools begin working towards it? In this workshop, a GOA coach will help your team understand the core elements and impact of CBL and, through a series of simple exercises, introduce five key shifts for moving towards CBL in classrooms and beyond. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of CBL as a framework for learning design as well as concrete approaches to bring competency-based learning into their classrooms.
The AI landscape is vast, and educators are busy. This foundational experience offers a focused exploration of the possibilities within AI in education. Curated resources, experiences, and examples are tailored to help you discover how AI essentials can support your teaching practice. Participants will leave with the understanding, confidence, and readiness to declare, 'I can do this, and I can do this tomorrow!' This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
GOA will design and facilitate a retreat experience for your leadership team and/or leadership interested educators rooted in leadership foundations. The retreat focuses on building leadership capacity through the development of five core leadership competencies: Facilitating Human-Centered Meetings, Communicating Effectively Across Multiple Modalities, Thinking in Systems, Making Decisions in the Face of Ambiguity and Uncertainty, and Aligning Vision to Strategy to Tactics. Facilitation invites reflection, collaboration, and relevant connections to current school initiatives.
How might we redesign rubrics to empower students to lead their own learning? In this self-paced experience, you’ll shift rubrics from tools for final assessment to tools for leading a learning process. Designed to move you from understanding to action in just a few hours, this self-paced course provides highly curated resources, examples, and action steps for redesigning how you create and use rubrics. You’ll leave with a student-centered plan for designing and using rubrics to empower students to understand learning criteria, to reflect, to give and receive feedback, and to self-assess. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
How might we redesign portfolios in a way that empowers students to develop ownership over their own learning and to prioritize learning processes? In this short experience, you’ll shift portfolios from a teacher-directed collection of summative, product-based assessments to a student-led curation of artifacts of learning-in-progress. Designed to move you from understanding to action in just a few hours, this self-paced, fully asynchronous course provides highly curated resources, examples, and action steps for redesigning how you create and use portfolios. You’ll leave with a framework for designing a student-led process portfolio that provides students with choice and voice in how they show and share their learning. This course is self-paced and open for one year to participate.
Are you ready to embrace AI in your school? In this hands-on workshop, educators will deepen their understanding of AI’s potential impacts on learning. Through tailored sessions, explore practical strategies for integrating AI into your practice, whether you're new to the technology or seeking advanced techniques. Engage in collaborative activities and sharing protocols to foster continuous dialogue within your community on AI. This is a half-day or full day workshop. Based on your goals and time allotted, schools can choose to include specific sessions on Assessment and AI; Creating Your Own GPT; Improving Your AI Prompting; AI and Workflow; and AI for Feedback Loops.
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This session offers practical how-tos for AI comfortable faculty members eager to engage with and incorporate the latest in AI developments. For more comfortable AI users. This includes advanced prompting techniques and creating your own GPT. In this session, the GOA facilitator will offer short demonstrations and coach participants through their own design time.
The rise of generative AI presents a unique opportunity to design assessments that support greater student agency in the assessment process. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore starting points for using AI in the assessment design and implementation processes to empower students to lead their own learning. Participants will leave with concrete takeaways on how AI can inform student-centered assessment design.
Learning can be more meaningful and empowering when learners engage in experiences that are responsive to their needs and relevant to their interests. In this session, we will discover how to use AI platforms to personalize learning, focusing on designing for more agency, greater depth, and increased relevance. Through collaborative exploration and practical application, participants will leave more equipped to incorporate AI to develop more responsive and relevant learning experiences for each student.
