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How to Provide Effective Support to English Learners in the School Library
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This professional development course, specifically created for School Librarians, focuses on the English language/multilingual learner experience, EL/ML law, teaching all learners, connecting with families and EL/ML teachers and ways to make our space and resources more welcoming to EL/ML students.
Integrating Digital Tools to Support Students with Disabilities and Unique Learning Styles
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Just as everyone has a unique fingerprint, each student has an individual style of learning. Not all students in a classroom learn a subject in the same way or share the same level of ability. Technology Integration, which supports differentiated instruction, is a method of designing and delivering instruction to best reach each student.
Designing Inclusive Schools Through Leadership
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This 15 PDP asynchronous course is designed for educators seeking to build inclusive school systems that support the academic, social, and emotional success of all learners. Participants will explore leadership practices that foster equitable access, collaborative instruction, and a culture of belonging for students across diverse learning needs and backgrounds.
Teaching, Smarter Not Harder: Supporting Today’s Youth Through Intentional Learning Environment Design
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This course helps teachers reframe classroom challenges through a skill-development lens and provides practical, teacher-controlled strategies for designing learning environments that support today’s learners, without adding new programs or workload.
Practical Strategies for Teaching ELs, An SEI Refresher
This course provides educators with research-based, practical strategies for supporting English Language Learners across all content areas and proficiency levels. Participants will explore key instructional approaches, including strategies for building academic language, developing communication skills, supporting literacy development, and creating culturally responsive learning environments.
Leading Integrated SEI MTSS Systems: A Professional Development Course for Massachusetts School Administrators
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Massachusetts school administrators bear direct legal, programmatic, and instructional accountability for the English language development of Multilingual Learners (MLLs). Yet in most Massachusetts schools, the Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) program and the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework operate as parallel systems — and the students who most need coherent, integrated support fall through the gap between them.Â
Co-Teaching to Maximize Student Learning
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This workshop is designed to support educators in strengthening effective co-teaching practices, and purposeful differentiation to meet the needs of diverse learners. Using Anne Beninghof’s research-based books as mentor texts, participants will explore practical, classroom-ready strategies that align with inclusive practices and high-impact instruction. This session is ideal for general education teachers, special education teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators seeking to strengthen inclusive instruction and collaborative teaching models.
From Outrage to Understanding: Mastering High-Stakes Conversations in School Leadership
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Based on the SchoolCEO article “From Outrage to Understanding,” this two-hour intensive workshop moves beyond theory and into the “practice of presence.” We will explore the science of why these conversations feel so difficult—focusing on the role of norepinephrine and the “offline” brain—and provide leaders with a toolkit to bring critical thinking back to the table.
Advanced Listening for Multilingual Learners: Designing, Scaffolding, and Assessing Comprehension
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This advanced course offers teachers a focused, in-depth exploration of listening comprehension for multilingual learners—an essential but often underdeveloped area of instruction. Participants will analyze listening demands, complete a classroom listening task audit, and examine common myths about language comprehension.
Gemini A.I. & Google Workspace
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Morning Session:
Level Up Your Launchpad: A Beginner’s Guide to Gemini in Google WorkspaceÂ
Stop wondering about AI and start leveraging it to simplify your daily tasks.Â
Afternoon Session:
Beyond the Launchpad: Advanced Gemini Strategies inside Google Workspace
Ready to take your administrative expertise into deep space? Having established your core knowledge, you are now prepared to harness the advanced automation capabilities within Google Workspace.Â
Supporting Multi-lingual Learners with Disabilities
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Double Session
Morning Session: Supporting Multilingual Learners: Best Practices for Prevention, Evaluation, and Specially Designed Instruction
Afternoon Session:
Building Bridges: Moving Beyond Co-Teaching Toward Integrated Collaboration
Providing Reading Intervention for Students PreK-3
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This graduate course will provide a scaffolded opportunity to learn more from foundational documents and key components of literacy as well as supplemental scholarly literature, tools, and activities that help to strengthen pedagogical practices and target interventions based on real live data.
Providing Reading Intervention for Students Grades 4-9
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This graduate course will provide a scaffolded opportunity to learn more from foundational documents and key components of literacy as well as supplemental scholarly literature, tools, and activities that help to strengthen pedagogical practices and target interventions based on real live data.
Science of Reading
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This course provides a strong foundation in the best practices of literacy instruction. Essential areas of reading instruction are addressed: understanding the science of reading, phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary development, fluency, and comprehension.
Literacy Foundations for English Learners
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This course serves as a foundation in the methods, materials and approaches for teaching foundational literacy to English learners in grades PK-4. Educators will be provided a scaffolded opportunity to learn more from foundational documents and key components of the Mass Literacy site as well as supplemental scholarly literature, tools, and activities that help to strengthen pedagogical practices and accelerate the outcomes of all English Learners.
Executive Functioning and Reading Comprehension
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This graduate course explores the critical connection between executive functioning skills and reading comprehension. Participants will examine how cognitive processes such as working memory, attention, self-regulation, and flexible thinking influence a student’s ability to construct meaning from text.Â
Instructional Coaching in Literacy
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This graduate course explores the role of instructional coaching in strengthening literacy instruction and improving student learning outcomes. Participants will examine evidence-based coaching practices through the lens of the Science of Reading, culturally responsive instruction, adult learning theory, and literacy-focused instructional improvement.
Upcoming Fall Professional Development Opportunities
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Student Services Leadership Institute for NEW and ASPIRING Directors and Assistant Superintendents
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ACCEPT Collaborative is pleased to offer a NEW Student Services Leadership Institute (SSLI), a practitioner-informed, application-focused program, designed specifically for current and aspiring districtwide Directors and Assistant Directors of Student Services or Special Education.
Leading Integrated SEI MTSS Systems: A Professional Development Course for Massachusetts School Administrators
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This 5-module online course builds the knowledge, tools, and leadership skills Massachusetts administrators need to design and lead an integrated SEI-MTSS system: one grounded in Massachusetts law and DESE policy, responsive to the full diversity of MLL profiles in your school, and sustained through rigorous data use, genuine family partnership, and adaptive change leadership.
Teaching, Smarter Not Harder: Supporting Today’s Youth Through Intentional Learning Environment Design
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This course helps teachers reframe classroom challenges through a skill-development lens and provides practical, teacher-controlled strategies for designing learning environments that support today’s learners, without adding new programs or workload.
How to Provide Effective Support to Students with Disabilities in the School Library
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This professional development course, specifically created for School Librarians, focuses on the disability experience, disability law, teaching all learners, adaptive and assistive technology and school library accessibility.
Fading Support
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Focused on the process of fading supports for students receiving special education services, this workshop will explore why and how to fade both academic and behavioral supports in order to reduce learned helplessness, strengthen executive functioning skills, and move students toward greater independence in authentic learning environments. The session will address legal considerations related to fading support and will examine the progression from intensive supports to more generalized, consultative models that promote skill transfer and real-life application.
Safety Care Training
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Safety-Care training for schools offers prevention-focused crisis management for K-12 staff, teaching de-escalation, physical safety, and behavioral support skills to reduce restraints and injuries, aligning with PBIS/MTSS frameworks to create safer, more positive environments for students with challenging behaviors. It emphasizes verbal and non-verbal strategies, physical management techniques (like the Small Person Stability Hold for younger kids), and proactive classroom structures, making it suitable for teachers, aides, administrators, and even transportation staff.Â
Transition Planning
This workshop is designed to support educators, administrators, related service providers, and transition specialists in developing high-quality transition plans. Participants will deepen their understanding of state and federal requirements with a focus on effective transition planning.Â
Specially Designed Instruction, Differentiation & Co-Teaching
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This workshop is designed to support educators in strengthening their use of specially designed instruction (SDI), effective co-teaching practices, and purposeful differentiation to meet the needs of diverse learners. Using Anne Beninghof’s research-based books as mentor texts, participants will explore practical, classroom-ready strategies that align with inclusive practices and high-impact instruction.Â
Oracy and Academic Talk for Multilingual Learners: Structured Speaking Across Proficiency Levels
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This session focuses on structured speaking and academic talk for multilingual learners, building directly on prior listening comprehension skills. Participants will learn to create scaffolded oral language opportunities, design speaking routines aligned to WIDA proficiency levels, and support student participation in a meaningful, equitable way. Using video examples, discussion, and task-based planning,
Adaptive Music Independent Study
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This course consists primarily of independent study work to help teachers reach 10- and 15-hour PDP requirements for their license renewal while deepening their understanding of adaptive music education pedagogy and meeting the needs of students who receive Special Education services. Completion of Intro to Adaptive Music Education for 5 or 6 professional hours is a prerequisite; those hours can be bundled with this independent study to apply to licensure requirements.Â
McKinney-Vento Mandated Liaison Training for Massachusetts Educators
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This session will be tailored to Massachusetts educators. Session topics include every stage of McKinney-Vento implementation: identification, enrollment, eligibility, school selection, transportation, dispute resolution, data collection, and liaison responsibilities. Facilitators also share practical strategies for balancing these duties alongside other professional responsibilities, with dedicated time for self-care and peer connection.
How to Provide Effective Support to Students with Disabilities in the School Library
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This workshop satisfies the requirement for 15 PDPs in Special Education for recertification. Â
This professional development course, specifically created for School Librarians, focuses on the disability experience, disability law, teaching all learners, adaptive and assistive technology and school library accessibility.
From Outrage to Understanding: Mastering High-Stakes Conversations in School Leadership
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Based on the SchoolCEO article “From Outrage to Understanding,” this two-hour intensive workshop moves beyond theory and into the “practice of presence.” We will explore the science of why these conversations feel so difficult—focusing on the role of norepinephrine and the “offline” brain—and provide leaders with a toolkit to bring critical thinking back to the table. Participants will spend the majority of the session in active practice, applying “Looping for Understanding” and “Active Listening” techniques to real-world scenarios.