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Skills for Core Alternatively Certified Educators
The number of alternatively certified teachers is rapidly growing — and with that comes the need for intentional, high-quality training to ensure every student receives excellent instruction.
Our comprehensive professional learning equips alternatively certified teachers with the foundational skills, strategies, and confidence they need to thrive in the classroom. Participants will explore best practices across ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies, learning how to design engaging, standards-aligned lessons that drive student success.
From classroom management essentials to research-based instructional strategies, this training provides practical tools teachers can use immediately. Each participant will also receive a hardcopy resource book containing the Missouri Assessment and Teaching Tools (MATTs) — proficiency tools for every core concept their students should master.
Highlights include:
✔ Understanding standards and curriculum frameworks in your content area
✔ Effective lesson planning and instructional delivery methods
✔ Classroom management strategies that work
✔ Assessment techniques and data-driven instruction
✔ Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs
Support your Alt-certified teachers today!

Tools and Training Bundle. This K-12 training bundle comes with a curriculum management tool that easily organizes and audits current resources. This fast tracked process can be accomplished in as little as 1-2 days. The end results is a guaranteed and viable aligned to current resources in a one spot landing page. Ensure every teacher has access and visibility to state standards.

This tool and training bundle includes an ELA Vertical progression for each participant as well as 2 1/2 days of training. Teachers will analyze what the standards say about writing proficiency and have K-5 (or K-12) discussions about vertical alignment expectations in the building/district. At the end of the training each grade level/content will have a clear vision of rigorous expectations as well as tools to put effective writing instruction into practice.

Ready to take your district to standards-based grading? We can provide districts with a clear phases and action steps to make this journey possible. Services include a 1/2 day training overview of the process to a customized contract of services days and support for teachers. Our approach not only includes clear action steps in each phase, it also includes clear exemplars of grade cards, proficiency scales and rubrics.

This training tool and training bundle is targeted for K-5 teachers who want to dive deeply into their grade level standards. Each participant will receive a copy of our 4 Core grade level book (which includes proficiency for each Missouri Learning standard) paired with a 1/2 day of training. Training will provide clarity on the level of rigor for Tier 1 instruction needed for each grade, as well as supports, strategies and graphics to support effective Tier 2 instruction for all grade level standards. This training is ideal for new or alternatively certified teachers but can benefit any grade level teacher with the clarity and confidence they deserve.
Cost: $200 per teacher (this includes a book and 1/2 day training for each teacher).

Don’t see the support or professional development you’re looking for?
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