Digging for Meaning: Understanding Reading Comprehension, participants will reflect on the goal of reading comprehension instruction, understand what causes poor comprehension, prepare readers with pre-reading strategies, gain insight into the ways sentence structure and text structure affects comprehension.
The Speech Sounds of English - What the consonant and vowel phonemes of the English language to recognize and respond to errors of English Learners and dialect speakers.
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. Youth Mental Health First Aid is primarily designed for adults who regularly interact with young people. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations.
