Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2019

If you want to learn the 2019 version of Microsoft Excel, this course will introduce you to the program's basic functions and uses. You will learn numerous shortcuts to quickly and efficiently set up worksheets.

Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2019

Learn how harness the power of Excel's data analysis tools and AutoFilter commands and how to create macros that eliminate repetitive tasks.

Introduction to QuickBooks Online

This QuickBooks course will teach you how to manage your business finances with QuickBooks Online. You will learn to use key features of QuickBooks Online and gain hands-on experience creating invoices, receipts, statements and more.

Intermediate QuickBooks Online

This course dives deeper into the software's intermediate features, such as tracking product and service items, managing inventory, and customizing sales forms.

Suite bundles are not eligible for partial drops or refunds. Transfers to other open sessions of the same course are available. Please refer to your school for additional details regarding drops, transfers, and refunds on Suite bundles.

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If you want to develop for mobile, you need to learn how to use React. This frontend JavaScript library provides an effective way for today's developers to build dynamic user interfaces. This online self-paced course will teach you how to create user interfaces with React through a hands-on app building project.

What you will learn

About the benefits of writing user interfaces with React

How data flows in a React user interface

How to write a React component

What a virtual DOM is

To use Create React App to make your first React user interface

The role of JSX in React.

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Ready, Set, Read!

Take this opportunity to find out how children really learn to read and write. Explore current research that cuts through the media messages about reading wars and the right way to teach children. Learn by reading stories about children, doing interactive assignments, and exploring the latest in parent and childcare information. You will see everyday children's play with a new eye as you understand how play can connect to literacy.

You'll learn how a child becomes literate from the moment of birth. First, you'll investigate the many things a child's growing mind must do to make sense of the written word and create writing. From there, you'll explore the development of reading and writing from infancy to the early school years. You'll know what problems to look for and how to assist a struggling reader. You will see how you can boost literacy growth during daily routines and child's play.

Gain confidence in your ability to guide a child's literacy development, and take pleasure in seeing how even the littlest events can lead to major steps in reading and writing success.

Guided Reading and Writing: Strategies for Maximum Student Achievement

Around 30% of students in sixth grade already have trouble with basic reading and writing. These literacy problems affect performance across subject areas, and they often leave teachers wondering how to help. Get the professional development training you need to improve student literacy as an accomplished teacher shares the secrets of turning guided reading strategies into opportunities for teaching writing. The road to literacy is also the road to ingenuity, invention, and imagination, and you'll soon learn how to take your students from groans to grins with creative lesson plans that really work!

We'll start our journey by talking about the reasons reading and writing are so difficult for students. Then we'll meet the total literacy framework and see how it mitigates literacy problems once and for all. Since this framework is based on guided reading lessons that flow naturally into writing challenges, you'll learn the recipe for a successful guided reading into writing lesson.

Once the framework is in place, we'll investigate a number of ways to modify this basic recipe for a variety of K-12 circumstances, wrapping up with a look at good writing habits and the traits of a productive writing conference. If you're looking for the right way to get students excited about the power of literacy, this is the course for you!

Note: To receive 25 hours of instruction in the State of Oregon, please ensure your school is eligible to issue professional development units, and that the course is approved by your professional learning coordinator.

Guided Reading: Strategies for the Differentiated Classroom

Now more than ever, today's teachers are grappling with the question of how to reach struggling readers. While there are no quick fixes, thousands of teachers are combining the principles of differentiated instruction and guided reading with unparalleled success. Mixed in the right proportion, these popular strategies will help you build a balanced literary framework that gets results with even the most challenged learners.

Differentiated instruction tactics will help you understand how your students learn so that you can teach in a way that makes sense to them. When you apply those tactics within the guided reading framework, which helps you lead students through new ways of approaching text, great things start to happen. The result is a classroom full of students who are able to negotiate increasingly challenging texts with unprecedented fluency.

This course is critical for today's educators, who often have to teach on the run with limited resources and unlimited demands on their time. Get ready to reach your readers with ease in no time flat!

Response to Intervention: Reading Strategies That Work

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could be proactive in helping our struggling readers? Well, we can! In this six-week course, you'll learn response to intervention (RTI) strategies that ensure the struggling readers in your classroom get the help and education they need. RTI is research based and gives us a strategic plan to bring tiered interventions to our students, at their reading level and with their unique challenges in mind. Helping them with phonics, fluency, vocabulary mastery, comprehension, and writing, these intervention strategies tackle the toughest literacy problems with flexibility and creativity.

During our time together, you'll discover tools like Elkonin Boxes, alphabetic arcs, Bloom's Taxonomy, and new and exciting graphic organizers. Whether you're working with struggling readers in kindergarten or 12th grade, you'll find that these strategies work with a full 80% of students, without the need for special pull-outs or extra IEP intervention. Why? Because RTI gets to the root of the problem—quickly!

If you're eager to learn the right ways to help your struggling readers make steady progress throughout the year, you'll find that this course gives you the power to teach flexibly and creatively, without the need for extra training in literacy or fluency. As an added bonus, there's nothing quite like helping students discover the pleasures of reading!

Suite bundles are not eligible for partial drops or refunds. Transfers to other open sessions of the same course are available. Please refer to your school for additional details regarding drops, transfers, and refunds on Suite bundles.

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Have you ever heard the old saying, "Buy low, sell high?" News stories about the softening real estate market might scare away some novice investors, but experienced investors recognize weak markets as opportunities to pick up bargains. In many areas, now is the time to buy before prices start climbing again. In this course, you will learn how to make money in any area, in good times and bad, even if you have little money to start with.

Real Estate Investing includes specially designed worksheets and hands-on activities to take the guesswork out of your investing efforts. Start developing a plan for your own investing efforts based on proven methods used every day by full-time, professional real estate investors. You will learn how to invest in foreclosures, manage a rehab project, and build your team of real estate professionals (title officers, lawyers, accountants, mortgage brokers, appraisers, and more). This course also explores the effects of higher interest rates and cover alternative strategies for a changing market. By the end of the course, you will be working toward your first (or next) deal.

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Education can change your life, by transforming your wage-earning potential and offering a stable job in an unstable world!

Take #YOURNEXTSTEP here at MSAD 52 Adult Education in Turner and earn college credit! We offer a college prep course that will help you academically and personally prepare for college. 

We will work on success strategies, time management, and academics to prepare you for college success. We will visit local colleges and have guests from the Maine Education Opportunity Center and FAME Maine to help with financial aid and scholarships. 

Take #YOURNEXTSTEP in your career by joining our next Maine College Transitions Program.   

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This teacher professional development course teaches you common character traits of gifted students and areas of struggle your gifted students may experience. You will delve into the social-emotional development of gifted students and areas that may be necessary for you to support. You will leave the course with specific social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies you can implement immediately to support your students.

The course comes with a downloadable PDF of the content and a planning template to help you map out the support you will provide to your gifted students.

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Stand out to future employers or acquire a potential promotion with your existing employer with a globally recognized project management certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. This comprehensive online course will prepare you for the PMI's® prestigious Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification exam and what to expect after you complete it. You will learn about the eight project performance domains and what is new in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) 7th edition.

Expand your knowledge of important industry-related methodologies, including predictive and agile project management. Raise your project management IQ by exploring project management tools and techniques. Throughout the course, use proven learning strategies to help absorb key terminology, concepts, and processes while preparing for your online project management certificate.

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This teacher professional development course provides you with a step-by-step guide to Project-Based Learning (PBL), also known as project-based teaching and project-based education. You will understand what PBL is, and the common misconceptions people have about it. The course will guide you through a complete PBL cycle, covering critical steps, including aligning content standards, developing a big idea, identifying content area standards, setting student performance goals, choosing a final product, planning for community involvement, selecting assessments, scaffolding student work, preparing for the final presentation, and incorporating reflections after the project has been completed.

Throughout the course, you will gain practical knowledge and tools for effective PBL implementation in their classrooms. You will design a PBL cycle plan ready for implementation by the end of the course and leave with templates and resources ready to be used in the classroom.

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