Upcoming Professional Development
2026 - 2027 Calendar
Special Education Courses
August
6
9:00am - 3:00pm
Air Traffic Control: Executive Functioning
(Primary K-5)
This engaging professional development experience helps educators understand the brain-based abilities that drive student success by exploring the core components of executive functioning, including initiation, inhibition, flexibility, working memory, organization, planning, and self-monitoring. Participants will examine how these cognitive skills impact a student's ability to meet challenges, manage tasks, and achieve meaningful goals.
August
18
9:00am - 3:00pm
Dyscalculia and Math-Based Learning Challenges
This professional development session helps educators understand math-based learning challenges, including dyscalculia and math anxiety. Participants will gain practical, evidence-based strategies to better support students through targeted instruction and effective learning plans.
August
26
9:00am - 3:00pm
Empowering Independence: Professional Development for Assistants and Aides
Empowering Independence is a professional development workshop designed for Teaching Assistants and Aides who want to make a deeper, more intentional impact in the classroom. Through practical frameworks, hands-on role-play, and collaborative discussion, participants will explore how to shift from doing the work for students to building the skills that allow students to succeed on their own.
August
27
9:00am - 3:00pm
Dyslexia & Dysgraphia
What Every Educator Needs to Know: Identifying Dyslexia and Dysgraphia is an essential workshop presented by the Da Vinci Collaborative, designed to demystify reading and writing challenges in the classroom. Grounded in the Science of Reading, this session explores the neurobiological and genetic foundations of dyslexia and dysgraphia, helping educators recognize critical warning signs across all grade levels.
September
11
9:00am - 3:00pm
Navigating Challenges in a Co-Teaching Environment
(Secondary 6-12)
Participants will explore how to develop clearly defined policies and procedures for educating students with special needs in the general education setting, establish equitable roles and responsibilities for all co-teaching partners, and employ effective differentiated instructional strategies across content areas and support environments.
September
9
9:00am - 3:00pm
Navigating Challenges in a Co-Teaching Environment
(Primary K-5)
Participants will explore how to develop clearly defined policies and procedures for educating students with special needs in the general education setting, establish equitable roles and responsibilities for all co-teaching partners, and employ effective differentiated instructional strategies across content areas and support environments.
September
15 & 16
9:00am - 12:00pm
⭐Navigating Challenges Pathway⭐
This engaging 2-day professional development experience equips educators with a structured, data-driven framework for making student challenges both diagnostic and prescriptive. Participants will explore how to identify and analyze student data, collaborate to diagnose root causes, and design targeted instructional plans that directly address learning gaps.
September
22
9:00am - 3:00pm
Small Group Instruction
This engaging professional development experience focuses on maximizing the impact of small group instruction. Participants will learn how to effectively group students based on data, design targeted mini-lessons, and manage the rest of the classroom to ensure all students are engaged in meaningful learning. Educators will leave with practical frameworks and tools to make small group time purposeful, efficient, and impactful for every learner.
October
1
9:00am - 3:00pm
Dyslexia & Dysgraphia
What Every Educator Needs to Know: Identifying Dyslexia and Dysgraphia is an essential workshop presented by the Da Vinci Collaborative, designed to demystify reading and writing challenges in the classroom. Grounded in the Science of Reading, this session explores the neurobiological and genetic foundations of dyslexia and dysgraphia, helping educators recognize critical warning signs across all grade levels.
October
22
9:00am - 3:00pm
Empowering Independence: Professional Development for Assistants and Aides
Empowering Independence is a professional development workshop designed for Teaching Assistants and Aides who want to make a deeper, more intentional impact in the classroom. Through practical frameworks, hands-on role-play, and collaborative discussion, participants will explore how to shift from doing the work for students to building the skills that allow students to succeed on their own.
October
27
9:00am - 3:00pm
Air Traffic Control: Executive Functioning
(Secondary 6-12)
This engaging professional development experience helps educators understand the brain-based abilities that drive student success by exploring the core components of executive functioning, including initiation, inhibition, flexibility, working memory, organization, planning, and self-monitoring. Participants will examine how these cognitive skills impact a student's ability to meet challenges, manage tasks, and achieve meaningful goals.
November
9
9:00am - 3:00pm
Dyscalculia and Math-Based Learning Challenges
This professional development session helps educators understand math-based learning challenges, including dyscalculia and math anxiety. Participants will gain practical, evidence-based strategies to better support students through targeted instruction and effective learning plans.
November
12
9:00am - 3:00pm
Small Group Instruction
This engaging professional development experience focuses on maximizing the impact of small group instruction. Participants will learn how to effectively group students based on data, design targeted mini-lessons, and manage the rest of the classroom to ensure all students are engaged in meaningful learning. Educators will leave with practical frameworks and tools to make small group time purposeful, efficient, and impactful for every learner.
December
8
9:00am - 3:00pm
Navigating Challenges in a Co-Teaching Environment
(Secondary 6-12)
Participants will explore how to develop clearly defined policies and procedures for educating students with special needs in the general education setting, establish equitable roles and responsibilities for all co-teaching partners, and employ effective differentiated instructional strategies across content areas and support environments.
December
17
9:00am - 3:00pm
Navigating Challenges in a Co-Teaching Environment
(Primary K-5)
Participants will explore how to develop clearly defined policies and procedures for educating students with special needs in the general education setting, establish equitable roles and responsibilities for all co-teaching partners, and employ effective differentiated instructional strategies across content areas and support environments.
December
22
9:00am - 3:00pm
Small Group Instruction
This engaging professional development experience focuses on maximizing the impact of small group instruction. Participants will learn how to effectively group students based on data, design targeted mini-lessons, and manage the rest of the classroom to ensure all students are engaged in meaningful learning. Educators will leave with practical frameworks and tools to make small group time purposeful, efficient, and impactful for every learner.
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