Professional Learning
Our professional learning opportunities reflect district priorities, provide educators relevant programming and facilitate collaboration and sharing of resources.
Training topics include:
- Equity and culturally sustaining instruction and assessment
- Equity-based multi-tiered system of support (MTSS)
- Instructional practices to support English learners and emergent bilinguals
- Instructional leadership skill development
- Educator mentoring
- Curriculum development
- STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)
- Embedded use of technology tools and personalized learning
- Inclusive practices
- Professional learning and coaching for paraprofessionals and other classified support staff
- Professional development, training and technical support for child care providers
- and more!
PDNetworks FAQs
Registration for the majority of Clackamas ESD trainings is done through PDNetworks. Please see below for answers to frequently asked questions about the PDNetworks platform.
Child Care Resource & Referral trainings FAQs
Please see below for answers to frequently asked questions about trainings from our Child Care Resource & Referral team.
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Teaching & Learning News
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