KUMDC Webinar Archive

Mental Health Issues Common in Children and Adolescents, Part 3 - Featuring Merceydes Morassi, M.S., BCBA, LMHC, LPCC, CIMHP
The third and final session in our series will feature a breakdown of MDD, SAD and suicide. Guidance for teachers on how to approach kids with these issues, indicators of suicide and possible other issues that may present similarly to these disorders.

Mental Health Issues Common in Children and Adolescents, Part 2 - Featuring Merceydes Morassi, M.S., BCBA, LMHC, LPCC, CIMHP
The second session in our series is a breakdown of ASD, ADHD, ODD and Eds. Explanation of each diagnosis and guidance for teachers on how to deal with students with these diagnoses.

Mental Health Issues Common in Children and Adolescents, Part 1 - Featuring Merceydes Morassi, M.S., BCBA, LMHC, LPCC, CIMHP
The first session in our three part series is an overview of mental health issues facing children and teens right now, background info on psychology and how these issues may be targeted by mental health professionals, and guidance to the teachers on who to refer to.

Transition Basics for Families - Featuring Rita Ellis, MEd, NBCT, KUMDC Teaching and Technology Specialist and Cheyney Cushing, MS, KUMDC School Support Officer

Supporting Students Who Stutter in the Classroom Setting - Featuring Wade Smith, MS, CCC-SLP, KUMDC Speech Language Pathologist

Crisis Prevention and De-Escalation - Featuring Yiliana Puerto, MS, BCBA, KUMDC Behavior Analyst

Typical Language Development K-2 - Featuring Génesis M. Tošić, MS, CCC-SLP, KUMDC Speech Language Pathologist

The ABC's of Behavior - Featuring Melanie Fernandez, MS, BCBA, LBA, KUMDC Behavior Analyst

School Psychological Services - Featuring Michelle Tano, M.Ed., Ed.S., KUMDC School Psychologist

Mentoring: Your Tour Guide Towards Transition - Featuring Damien Hunte, MSEd, KUMDC School Support Officer

Introduction to AAC in the Classroom - Featuring Felicia Selan, KUMDC SLP
Learner outcomes:
❖ identify what AAC is
❖ identify populations who may use AAC
❖ identify the various types of AAC
❖ understand the ways in which AAC can be implemented within the classroom

Financial Literacy: A Classroom Economy Project - Featuring Rita Ellis, MEd, NBCT, KUMDC Instructional Specialist and Cheyney Cushing, MS, KUMDC Behavior Specialist.
This webinar gives attendees a look into a financial literacy classroom project specifically designed for students with significant/complex disabilities. The goal behind teaching how to budget, save for emergencies, invest in the future, and avoid debt to every student ensures they can be as independent as possible within critical life skills.

Utilizing Transition Assessments - Featuring Rita Ellis, MEd, NBCT, KUMDC Instructional Specialist and Cheyney Cushing, MS, KUMDC Behavior Specialist.
How do you map out a successful future for your students with significant disabilities? Join us for a look at a comprehensive collection of age-appropriate assessment tools that support transition planning for students with special needs to prepare for positive post-secondary outcomes. Assessments include the Keiser University Independent Living Skills Assessment (KUILSA), the Pictorial Career Interest, and the ONET Interest Profiler, Work Importance Locator, and Ability Profiler.

Setting Goals the SMART Way - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa
Learner outcomes:
❖ Understand the components of goal setting
❖ Explore decision making strategies for middle and high school students
❖ Learn how to create SMART goals

Conflict Resolution: Strategies for Teachers - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa
Learner outcomes:
❖ Examine different kinds of conflict
❖ Develop strategies for teaching students about conflict
❖ Learn about different conflict resolution styles

Make Time Management Work for You - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa
Learner outcomes:
❖ Identify strategies to save time to accommodate student needs
❖ Identify ways to prioritize teacher responsibilities
❖ Identify technological resources that can aid in time management

Comprehension: How do we get there with our students? - Featuring Dr. Fuda Daddio
This webinar focuses on the 5 pillars of reading (phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). If you are noticing your students struggling in any of those 5 pillars, this webinar will help review each of the major reading areas and how they interconnect to help students comprehend text.

Promoting Literacy at Home - Part 1 - Featuring Dr. Fuda Daddio
This webinar will explore how to keep students motivated in continuing their literacy learning while at home.

Promoting Literacy at Home - Part 2 - Featuring Dr. Fuda Daddio
In part 2 of promoting literacy at home, we continue to explore how to keep students motivated in continuing their literacy learning while at home.

Keeping Students Motivated: Literacy in the Summer - Featuring Dr. Fuda Daddio
This webinar will explore how to keep students motivated in continuing literacy learning throughout the summer months.

Literacy: Preparing for Employment-Part 1 - Featuring Dr. Fuda Daddio
This webinar will explore how to research for a job and prepare for the workforce with a focus on literacy. The participants will learn how to help applicants fill out application and the need for “real life” literacy.

Literacy: Preparing for Employment-Part 2 - Featuring Dr. Fuda Daddio
Literacy is often thought of as reading and writing but communication and critical thinking are major aspects of literacy. This webinar will share the importance of communicating and critically thinking when seeking employment. What will employers ask? How should an applicant respond? What should an applicant do to prepare?

Literacy Strategies in the Virtual World - Featuring Dr. Fuda Daddio
This webinar will share reading strategies and virtual platforms to engage students in the virtual literacy world. The webinar will focus on how the different virtual platforms can aid in helping students to stay motivated in continuing their learning outside of the classroom.

Health and Wellness Resources and Strategies for Students with Disabilities in a Virtual Learning Environment - Featuring Dr. Nina Doleyres.
This webinar will provide different strategies to promote health and wellness while learning in a virtual environment.

Spring Into Transition - Featuring KUMDC Staff: Cheyney Cushing, Rita Ellis, Damien Hunte, and Kerilyn Redish
This webinar will provide an interactive look at assessments to support youth moving forward.

Technology Skills for Students - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa
This webinar will focus on technology skills and provide tips on how to teach students the basics to help improve self-confidence with technology.
Learner outcomes:
❖ Understand the basic functions of Microsoft Word
❖ Learn strategies to teach students how to use Microsoft Word

Decision Making Skills for Students with Disabilities - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa
This webinar will provide tips on how to help students make effective decisions.
Learner outcomes:
❖ Understand the factors that influence decision making
❖ Learn the advantages and disadvantages of choice making
❖ Identify strategies for increasing effective decision making

Financial Literacy Part 1 - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa
This 2-part workshop will explore the concept of financial literacy and provide knowledge to help improve financial management and budgeting.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Define financial literacy
❖ Understand income vs expense

Financial Literacy Part 2 - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa
This 2-part workshop will explore the concept of financial literacy and provide knowledge to help improve financial management and budgeting.
Learner outcomes:
❖ Understand credit score and credit reports
❖ Identify financial resources

Assessment that Counts! - Featuring Dr. Stephanie VanDeventer, Keiser University
This webinar will help parents understand what is meant by assessment in schools and how it is used both in the classroom and in formal testing at the school or district levels. Formative assessment will be introduced as a means of remediation and discussed as part of the learning process leading toward more formal or summative assessments. Participants will also learn ways to encourage students to self-monitor, track progress, and be aware of their own progress in learning.

Connecting with Curriculum - Featuring Dr. Ashlee Robertson, Keiser University
This webinar will introduce the idea of an organized structure to curriculum that focuses on interaction, practicing, and deepening of new content. Participants will be introduced to suggestions for organizing learning, helping to scaffold and build skills, utilizing feedback, and understanding the ways in which students master material for expertise.

Getting Involved with Your Child’s Learning: Five Simple Strategies for Helping Advanced Learners and Struggling Learners - Featuring Dr. Stephanie VanDeventer
This webinar will introduce parents to simple strategies and helpful ways to motivate students to attend to their schoolwork, to develop an interest in learning, to build thinking skills, and to remain attentive.

Utilizing Technology to Engage Students, Part 1 - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa, Keiser University
As schools continue to operate in a remote or hybrid learning environment, teachers can begin to explore additional tools to help meet the needs of diverse learners. This webinar will address the benefits of using technology in the classroom and explore technology tools.

Utilizing Technology to Engage Students, Part 2 - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa, Keiser University
As schools continue to operate in a remote or hybrid learning environment, teachers can begin to explore additional tools to help meet the needs of diverse learners. This webinar will address the benefits of using technology in the classroom and explore additional technology tools.

Navigating the Multimedia Maze: What Internet Resources Can Engage an Online Learner? - Featuring Dr. Ashlee Robertson, Keiser University
This webinar provides strategies to teachers and parents with online resources, tools, and websites, that may be useful to use in working at home with the student, or to use as tools to build skills, augment schoolwork, increase thinking, and offer engagement.

Tech Talk - Featuring Cheyney Cushing, KUMDC School Liaison, and Rita Ellis, KIMDC Instructional Specilist
Join us for a webinar packed full of information about the different types of apps and technology that can be utilized to help your students get ahead.

Back to School...Back to Reality - Featuring Kerilyn Redish, KUMDC School Liaison
Tips to support students navigating our new “normal”—expectations, routines, and strategies for success.

Summer, Summer, Summer Time - Featuring Damien Hunte, KUMDC School Liaison
❖ Some are carefree...
❖ Some are happy...
❖ Some are relaxing...
❖ Some are working...
❖ Summer is the time to extend learning for your youth. Participants will acquire strategies on how to keep your student(s) actively learning through the SUMMER TIME.

How Student-Centered Learning is Re-Defining Teaching - Featuring Dr. Diana Martin, Professor, Graduate Programs in Education
Based on what educators now know about best instructional practices, student-centered learning is rapidly becoming an innovative replacement for "old school" pedagogy. This session will describe current strategies to create classrooms where learning is not a passive process directed by the teacher; it is, instead, an activity of discovery shaped by student agency.
Topics will include:
❖ What do we know about student-centered learning?
❖ What are benefits of this approach?
❖ What are some of the challenges in changing "the balance of power"?

Mission Transition, Part 1: Tips and Strategies to Help Students Find Success in High School - Featuring Kerilyn Redish, KUMDC School Liaison
Do you have student(s) transitioning into or currently in the high school setting?
Parents and Educators…
YOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT
Join us as we dig into some take-away strategies for your student(s) to find:
❖ COMFORT through building routines and understanding,
❖ STRENGTH through connections and self-advocacy, and
❖ SUCCESS through resources and support.

Mission Transition, Part 2: Tips and Strategies to Help Students Answer the Age-Old Question: WHAT do I want to BE when I grow up?! - Featuring Kerilyn Redish, KUMDC School Liaison
Do you have student(s) currently in the middle/high school setting?
Parents and Educators…
YOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT-
Join us as we highlight some takeaways to assist your student(s) in finding their personal:
❖ INTERESTS – What does he/she like? What activities draw them in?
❖ STRENGTHS –What is he/she good at? In which areas do they shine?
❖ PASSIONS –What is important to him/her? What brings them joy and purpose?

Race to Communicate - Featuring Damien Hunte, KUMDC School Liaison
Do you have the endurance to communicate with your child to ensure that your relationship is strong, and the finish line is their destiny?
Parents…
❖ TAKE YOUR MARK, as you learn strategies to effectively communicate with your child.
❖ GET SET, to understand more about yourself and the needs of your child as you all bridge the gap towards success.
❖ GO! And be effective as you all cross the finish-line together towards transition.

Keiser University Independent Living Skills Assessment (KUILSA) - Featuring Rita Ellis, KUMDC Instructional Specialist, and Cheyney Cushing, KUMDC School Liaison
How do you map out a successful future for your students with significant disabilities? Join us for a look at the Keiser University Independent Living Skills Assessment (KUILSA), a comprehensive collection of age-appropriate assessment tools that support transition planning for students with special needs to prepare for positive post-secondary outcomes.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ understand the importance of conducting transition assessments to guide transition planning for students with significant needs,
❖ know how to utilize the KUILSA to conduct a formative transition assessment,
❖ and recognize the significance of the KUILSA as an assessment tool for students with disabilities.

Student Focused Planning and Technology - Featuring Rita Ellis, KUMDC Instructional Specialist, and Cheyney Cushing, KUMDC School Liaison
This webinar will provide students and parents with research-based strategies for utilizing technology resources for student-centered planning.

Self Advocacy: Preparing for Life After High School - Featuring Rita Ellis, KUMDC Instructional Specialist, and Cheyney Cushing, KUMDC School Liaison
This webinar will provide students and parents with research-based strategies to assist students in planning for life after high school.

Practical Behavior Strategies for the Classroom - Featuring Rita Ellis, KUMDC Instructional Specialist, and Cheyney Cushing, KUMDC School Liaison
In this webinar we will explore:
❖ Learned helplessness and ways to overcome it
❖ Behavior prevention
❖ Teaching strategies
❖ Reinforcement techniques

Transition Basics for Families: What parents and students need to know - Featuring Rita Ellis, KUMDC Instructional Specialist, and Cheyney Cushing, KUMDC School Liaison
What do you need to know about transition to best support your student with a disability?
❖ What are transition services?
❖ What does it mean to be a self-advocate and to be self-determined?
❖ How should families be involved?
❖ What are Post School options?
❖ What are some community and agency resources available?

The Possible in the Impossible Through Mentoring - Featuring Damien Hunte, KUMDC School Liaison
Mentoring can improve academics, behavior, personal/social success, and determination for at-risk students with disabilities. A mentor provides youth with someone who can nurture emotional connections, provide support, guidance, and opportunities to help youth succeed in life and meet their goals. Learn how the Keiser University Multidisciplinary Center’s Mentorship program was designed and the impact it is continuing to have on youth with disabilities who are at-risk.

Tackling Transition Needs Through Assessment - Featuring Rita Ellis, KUMDC Instructional Specialist, and Cheyney Cushing, KUMDC School Liaison
How do you map out a successful future for your students with significant disabilities? Join us for a look at the Keiser University Independent Living Skills Assessment (KUILSA), a comprehensive collection of age-appropriate assessment tools that support transition planning for students with special needs to prepare for positive post-secondary outcomes.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ understand the importance of conducting transition assessments to guide transition planning for students with significant needs,
❖ know how to utilize the KUILSA to conduct a formative transition assessment,
❖ and recognize the significance of the KUILSA as an assessment tool for students with disabilities.

Teaching Strategies for Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination - Featuring Dr. Diana Martin, Professor, Graduate Programs in Education
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Describe the relationships between self-esteem and self-advocacy and self-determination
❖ Identify teaching practices to develop student self-advocacy competencies
❖ Identify methods to help students identify life goals and desired outcomes

This is Us: Building Community Through Morning Meetings - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will provide strategies for building community in your classes through effective morning meetings.

Differentiated Instruction - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor.
Differentiated instruction is an approach to classroom teaching where the classroom and management of instruction are customized to various learners with diverse needs. The promotion of effective learning is the outcome. This seminar will introduce the concepts of differentiated instructions and apply them to teaching. Participants will gain a better understanding of this philosophy and approach and how they may implement it for their classrooms.

Powerful Teaching Techniques for Engaged Learning - Featuring Dr. Brian Keintz, Keiser University Education Chair of Graduate Programs in Education
Participants in this webinar will:
❖ Understand the types of power and how they are present in teachers, administrators, and students.
❖ Develop a series of strategies as teachers that help them to better control behavior, motivate learning, and empower students.

Time Management - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor.
This webinar will:
❖ Identify strategies to save time to accommodate student needs.
❖ Identify ways to prioritize teacher responsibilities.
❖ Identify technological resources that can aid in time management.

Conflict Resolution - Featuring Dr. Manuel Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor.
During this webinar, participants will:
❖ Examine different types of conflict
❖ Develop strategies for teaching students about conflict
❖ Learn about different conflict resolution styles
Handout: If you would like to complete a personal assessment of your style that Dr. Rosa speaks of in this presentation, you can click on this resource link (http://bit.ly/2U0Nl0G) to download a copy of the self-assessment.

Creating an Inclusive Classroom - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
Participants of this webinar will learn strategies to create a classroom environment that helps students feel welcome and accepted.

Generational Differences - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will:
❖ Examine demographic information about the different generations in education.
❖ Explore strategies to prepare teachers to work with parents, students, coworkers and supervisors from different generations.

Professionalism - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
Participants of this webinar will be able to:
❖ Define professionalism
❖ Describe components of professionalism
❖ Share strategies for teaching professionalism

CoTeaching: What Should This Look Like - Featuring Dr. Jessica Fuda-Daddio, Professor and Academic Advisor, Educational Leadership
This webinar will share research based models of effective Co-Teaching Models currently used within schools. A discussion focused on the objectives and purpose behind what co-teaching should look like and why it is effective will be at the center of this webinar. This Webinar will be informative yet interactive.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ The participants will identify with different models of co-teaching.
❖ The participants will understand ways to promote collaboration and shared instructional time.
❖ The participants will understand how co-teaching can benefit instruction and student learning.

Classroom Strategies to Promote Social Emotional Learning - Featuring Dr. Diana Martin, Professor, Graduate Programs in Education
Social and emotional learning skills are needed both for student achievement in the classroom and for student transition to adult decision making. The webinar will provide resources and best practices to help teachers create educational environments and activities that build student SEL.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Describe the components of social and emotional intelligence
❖ Identify teaching practices to develop SEL student competencies
❖ Identify methods to involve families in SEL development

Teaching Students Money Management - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will address the many aspects of money management.  It will serve as a “train the trainer” and give participants talking points to share with students and fellow teachers.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Know the components of a budget
❖ Learn tips on how to balance a budget
❖ Share strategies for creating lesson plans on money management

Reflective Practice in Instructional Decision Making - Featuring Dr. Jessica Fuda-Daddio, Professor and Academic Advisor, Educational Leadership
This webinar will share research on the importance of reflection in instructional decision making and the three different types of reflection. Also, a discussion on open-ended questions to promote reflective thinking by students will be presented.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Identify with what reflection entails.
❖ Understand the three levels of reflective practice.
❖ Understand the levels of effective questioning depending on purpose of instruction and student learning.

Drop Out Prevention, Part I - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will address the reasons why students drop out of school and share strategies to prevent students from making the choice to leave school.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Learn statistics on dropout rates for students in the US educational system
❖ Understand why students drop out of school
❖ Share strategies for preventing students from leaving school

Drop Out Prevention, Part II - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will be a follow up to the first Drop Out Prevention webinar and review the reasons why students with disabilities drop out of school and share current strategies to help students overcome obstacles.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Identify reasons why students with disabilities drop out of school
❖ Understand how to engage students in active learning
❖ Learn the fundamentals of effective mentoring
❖ Share strategies to involve parents in the dropout prevention process

“I Think I Can”: Using Student Self-Efficacy to Build Motivation - Featuring Dr. Diana Martin, Professor, Graduate Programs in Education
Self-efficacy beliefs have been linked to student motivation, achievement and classroom behavior. This will help teachers and parents learn about the power of self-efficacy and methods they can use to improve students’ perceptions of their own ability to succeed.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Identify the links between student’s self- efficacy and motivation
❖ Identify best practice to encourage self-efficacy
❖ Identify ways to model behaviors that build student achievement

Goal Setting and Achievement - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will serve as a “train the trainer” to help students set both short term and long term goals.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Understand the components of goal setting
❖ Explore decision making strategies for middle and high school students.
❖ Learn how to create SMART goals

Summer Preparation for Service Learning - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will discuss the important of aspects of service learning and how service learning opportunities can be created for students with disabilities.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Define Service Learning
❖ Understand the history of service learning
❖ Share strategies for incorporating service learning into the curriculum

Power Behind Open Ended Questioning - Featuring Dr. Jessica Fuda-Daddio, Professor and Academic Advisor, Educational Leadership
This webinar will share and extend upon a previous webinar on reflective practice and instructional decision-making. A discussion focused on different questioning techniques to extend student thinking will be at the center of this webinar. Ultimately, this would be a good first session or follow-up session to dig deeper in extending on ways to promote strong critical thinking skills.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ The participants will identify with different types of questioning techniques and purpose.
❖ The participants will understand ways to extend student thinking beyond simple responses.
❖ The participants will understand the levels of effective questioning depending on purpose of instruction and student learning.

Effective Strategies for Preparing for Post Secondary Programs - Featuring Dr. Manny Rosa, Keiser University Graduate School Professor and Advisor
This webinar will discuss the options available for post-secondary education and preparation for life after high school.
Learner outcomes:
❖ Identify common student goals for life after high school
❖ Explore options for post-secondary education

Brain Development, Part 1 - Featuring Dr. Laurie Slifka, Faculty, Graduate Psychology Department
The human brain is composed of a complex network of neural connections, developing before birth and continuing into adulthood. Importantly, the connections formed in early childhood can either provide a weak or strong foundation for the remainder for the lifespan of that individual. Genetics provide the blueprint for the formation of these connections that are then influenced by environmental factors (e.g., diet, stress).  Part I of this webinar series will provide an overview of brain development and discuss environmental factors that influence this process. This knowledge can aid efforts to help children who have experienced childhood adversity. Additionally, critical periods of potential vulnerability will be discussed. Understanding these patterns may help caregivers and educators design and/or improve interventions.
Learner outcomes
❖ Describe how the brain develops in infants, children, and adolescents
❖ Understand the influence of genes and the environment on brain development, as well as risk and protective factors
❖ Develop strategies for caregivers and educators of those who have experienced childhood adversity

Brain Development, Part 2 - Featuring Dr. Laurie Slifka, Faculty, Graduate Psychology Department
Part II of this webinar series will discuss recent neuroscience research that has helped aid our knowledge of the neurodevelopmental processes in both typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Understanding these biological underpinnings can help foster both empathy and innovation in how we respond to and educate children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Learner outcomes
❖ Describe how the brain develops in typically developing children and children with neurodevelopmental disabilities
❖ Understand the biological basis of cognitive function in children and adolescents
❖ Utilize knowledge to develop effective approaches to educate students with and without neurodevelopmental disabilities

Brain Development, Part 3 - Featuring Dr. Laurie Slifka, Faculty, Graduate Psychology Department
The human brain is composed of a complex network of neural connections, developing before birth and continuing into early adulthood. By the time children are six years old, their brains are approximately 90-95% the size of an adult’s brain. However, the brain needs to undergo significant remodeling in adolescence before it can function as an adult brain. Part III of this webinar series will discuss recent neuroscience research that has expanded our knowledge of the neurodevelopmental processes in adolescents.
Learner Outcomes:
❖ Describe how the brain develops during adolescence
❖ Understand the influence of genes and the environment on adolescent brain development, as well as risk and protective factors
❖ Utilize knowledge to develop effective approaches to support the development of adolescents’ thinking

Improving Self-efficacy in Students with Learning Differences: Problem Solving Approaches - Featuring Dr. Lori Daniels, Graduate Instructor, Psychology Program
While the end product of academic success is often emphasized, an important foundation of such success is overlooked; the mindset of the student.  Beliefs about the ability to control academic progress determine goals pursued, task effort, and resiliency to set-backs. Defined as academic self-efficacy, this concept is relevant for students with learning differences as they use their previous successes and failures to gauge how they will perform on a new task. This webinar will discuss specific problem solving approaches educators and parents can use to increase self-efficacy in students with disabilities.
Learner outcomes
❖ Assess and evaluate the concept of academic self-efficacy
❖ Identify the importance of academic self-efficacy levels on behavior patterns
❖ Apply specific strategies to help increase academic self-efficacy in students with learning differences

Health and Wellness Resources for Caretakers of Youth with Disabilities - Featuring Dr. Nina Doleyres, Academic Program Coordinator and Professor – Doctor of Health Science
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
❖ Identify the risk factors associated with a sedentary lifestyle when caring for youth with disabilities
❖ Demonstrate the benefits of nutrition and exercise to promote wellness
❖ Examine the value of counseling and respite services for the caregivers’ mental health well-being

Math and Reading: Preparing Students for Life after High School - Featuring Dr. Jessica Fuda-Daddio, Professor and Academic Advisor, Educational Leadership
This webinar will focus on instructional decisions in math and reading to help engage students in the learning process while preparing students for life outside of school. Necessary math and reading skills and ways to help students transfer these skills into the "real world" will be discussed.
Learning Outcomes:
❖ understand important reading and math concepts that will help students in life after high school.
❖ reflect on what they are currently doing in the classroom and ways to help students apply this learning outside of school.
❖ identify different ways to meet student needs to help with future success.

Applying the Teaching Engagement Model to Classroom Instruction - Featuring Dr. Brian Keintz, Keiser University Education Chair of Graduate Programs in Education, with guest, Dr. Steve Roth
Learning and adult career development depends upon the motivation of the student and the degree to which learners are responsible for engaging in the learning community.  This session will examine the theory of teaching effectiveness.  The three components of the theory will be presented including content, curriculum, and social effectiveness. The seminar features current applications and teaching techniques that maximize the interaction between the learners and instructors using these three modes.  Participants in the session share their practices, and will see how knowledge these approaches help them to evaluate colleagues and their own classrooms.