Education Graduate Credit

This online, self-paced course is designed to help educators strengthen professional communication skills that support collaboration, problem-solving, and positive relationships. Students will explore strategies for listening, questioning, giving feedback, navigating difficult conversations, and communicating with clarity and respect. Through interactive activities, reflection, practice-based scenarios, and professional resources, students will examine their current communication habits and develop strategies they can apply in conversations with students, families, colleagues, and other educational partners. The course emphasizes practical communication skills that help educators build trust, reduce misunderstanding, and support productive professional dialogue.

This online, self-paced course is designed to help educators strengthen classroom management through practical, research-informed strategies that support positive learning environments. Students will explore key concepts related to routines, expectations, relationships, student engagement, behavior support, and classroom culture. Through interactive activities, reflection, classroom-based application, and professional resources, students will examine their current practices and develop strategies they can apply directly in their own educational settings. The course emphasizes practical decision-making, proactive planning, and responsive approaches that help teachers create organized, respectful, and supportive classrooms where students can learn and thrive.

This online, self-paced course is designed to help educators strengthen their leadership capacity through reflection, practical application, and research-informed strategies. Students will explore how collaboration, communication, trust, shared purpose, and professional influence contribute to positive change in educational settings. Through interactive activities, applied reflection, and professional resources, students will examine their own leadership practices and develop strategies for supporting growth among colleagues, students, and school communities. The course emphasizes practical leadership actions that educators can use to build stronger relationships, support shared problem-solving, and contribute to a healthy professional culture.

This online, self-paced course is designed to help educators strengthen their ability to plan and deliver instruction that responds to the diverse needs of learners. Students will explore practical, research-informed strategies for differentiating content, process, product, learning environment, assessment, and support. Through interactive activities, reflection, classroom-based application, and professional resources, students will examine learner readiness, interests, strengths, and needs while developing strategies that can be applied directly in their own educational settings. The course emphasizes flexible, intentional instruction that helps all students access learning, engage meaningfully, and demonstrate growth.

AI is already in your classroom — the question is whether you're driving it. Based on Elevating Educational Design with AI by Katie Novak and Catlin Tucker, this course gives K–12 educators a practical, equity-centered framework for integrating AI tools into lesson design, assessment, differentiation, and student learning.

AI is already in your classroom — the question is whether you're driving it. Based on Elevating Educational Design with AI by Katie Novak and Catlin Tucker, this course gives K–12 educators a practical, equity-centered framework for integrating AI tools into lesson design, assessment, differentiation, and student learning.

This online, self-paced course is designed to help educators examine how beliefs, assumptions, and mindset influence teaching, learning, leadership, and professional growth. Students will explore how mindset affects motivation, resilience, feedback, student support, and the way educators respond to challenges. Through interactive activities, reflection, classroom-based application, and professional resources, students will consider their own thinking patterns and develop strategies to support growth-oriented learning environments. The course emphasizes practical approaches educators can use to strengthen student confidence, encourage persistence, and promote continuous improvement in themselves and others.

What if the system — not the student — is the barrier? Grounded in Rachel Lambert's Rethinking Disability and Mathematics: A UDL Math Classroom Guide for Grades K–8, this course challenges educators to dismantle deficit thinking and redesign their math classrooms for every learner.

When a student's behavior is disruptive, withdrawn, or hard to understand, the instinct is often to react — but what if you could respond instead? Based on The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students by Jessica Minahan and Nancy Rappaport, this course gives educators a research-backed framework for decoding the function behind challenging behaviors and building proactive, compassionate support plans.

Discussion of how understanding of wildlife ecology, history, policy, public wants, and math help shape the decisions a wildlife manager makes as they work to carry out tasks like protecting and conserving endangered species, increasing the number of trophy game species or controlling pest species. Prerequisite: BIO 335 or consent of instructor