The California Alt Pathway to a High School Diploma for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities for Educators and Administrators
2025-05-14 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Meeting ID: 845 0848 9841

The California Alt Pathway to a High School Diploma for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities for Families
2025-05-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual
Meeting ID: 882 8110 8774

Spring Cohort: Universal Virtual Training AAC Foundations - Session 4
2025-05-15 13:00 - 16:00
For more information please see the flyer here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-f15Py95Jze5dAnfOmjCac5Bz3MNRecp/view

Inclusive Learning Circles - Fostering Synergy Between UDL, AT, & AAC
2025-05-21 03:00 - 16:00
Fostering Synergy Between UDL, AT, & AAC
Audience: Open to all educators to expand knowledge and share best practices.
Sessions:

9/18/2024 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

10/16/2024 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

11/20/2024 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

12/18/2024 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

1/22/2025 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

2/19/2025 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

3/19/2025 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

4/23/2025 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

5/21/2025 – 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Click here for flyer.

K-12 AI Summit with Open AI
2025-05-21 09:00 - 15:00
The Riverside County Office of Education is hosting the K–12 AI Summit featuring expert-led sessions by OpenAI, tailored for California district leaders. Join interactive workshops
on practical AI applications for teaching and learning, IT, and district operations.
Attendees will:
• Gain a deeper understanding of AI’s role and impact within K–12 education.
• Participate in hands-on sessions exploring district-level uses of ChatGPT for Education.
• Identify strategies to effectively integrate AI to enhance teaching, learning, IT processes,
and other district operations.
Register at https://events.rcoe.us/AISummitOpenAI

FREE Project ARISE Asynchronous Literacy Courses
2025-06-02 08:00 - 17:00
A Whole-Child Approach to Literacy Instruction

Project ARISE partners have developed a series of self-paced online courses that offer a whole-child approach to literacy instruction. This professional learning opportunity is free to all California educators. Project ARISE is led by three County Offices of Education across the state and supported by the California Department of Education.

CA Literacy Conference
2025-06-17 08:30 - 15:30 | Virtual
Join educators and colleagues virtually from across California collaborating around evidence-based practices in literacy instruction! Click for more information to registration, here.

Early STEAM Symposium
2025-06-27 08:30 - 14:10
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) Outside the Classroom
This free virtual symposium will include sessions on:

STEAM Opportunities Outside the Classroom
Art, Creativity, and STEM
Maker Spaces
Gardening and STEAM
Count Play Explore STEAM Resources
STEAM Family Engagement
Outdoor Play
Literature and STEAM Connections
STEAM in the Library
and a Special Strand on Building Organizational Capacity to Support STEAM

The first 660 people to register have the opportunity to receive a free children’s book. The book giveaway includes Hiking Day by Anne Rockwell or Stack the Cats by Susie Ghahremani.
Attendance certificates will be available for those attending the event.
This event is sponsored by Count Play Explore, previously known as the California Statewide Early Math Initiative. Click here for more information.

Reaching New Heights - Early Bird Registration
2025-06-30
CalECSE Symposium – Early Bird Registration by June 30, 2025
This symposium will provide professional learning and capacity-building sessions encouraging us all to “Reach New Heights” in innovating current systems to provide positive outcomes for California’s youngest learners with disabilities. Click for more information to registration, here.

Reaching New Heights - Regular Registration
2025-07-01
CalECSE Symposium – Registration on/after July 1, 2025
This symposium will provide professional learning and capacity-building sessions encouraging us all to “Reach New Heights” in innovating current systems to provide positive outcomes for California’s youngest learners with disabilities. Click for more information to registration, here.

UDL Immersion Training
2025-07-16 08:30 - 2025-07-17 15:30
UDL Immersion Training
Audience: Open to all educators to expand knowledge in Universal Design
for Learning
12 hours of Continuing Education: This course qualifies for 12 hours of
continuing professional development through California State University,
Sacramento. To earn 1.2 CEUs, please contact Open Access.
In Person: https://placercoe.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=11765
Zoom:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wAZXv7NSQOKhdmoPO4AaCg#/registration
Accessible PDF Flyer

CA MTSS PLI 2025
2025-07-22 - 2025-07-24
The Orange County Department of Education ​and the Butte County Office of Education are hosting the 8th Annual California MTSS Professional Learning Institute (PLI) on July 22-24, 2025 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
This dynamic event brings together classroom educators, administrators, school counselors, school psychologists, school-based mental health clinicians, district leaders, county offices of education leaders, higher education faculty, and community-based organizations committed to advancing academic excellence through inclusive, research-based practices.
The California MTSS 2025 PLI theme “Unite, Empower, Impact” will focus on promoting excellence, equity, and access for all learners through the California MTSS Framework. Click for more information to register, here.

GENIUS Initiative Freedom Dreaming for Student Success Conference
2025-07-22 08:30 - 2025-07-24 16:00
The GENIUS (Genuine Empathy & Nurturing Intellect for Underserved Students) Initiative proudly presents Freedom Dreaming for Student Success.
The goal of this event and following related activities is to equip and empower schools and districts to meet the needs of our Black/African American and our other most marginalized students by addressing the opportunity gaps using Equity Multiplier funding and other resources. Click here to register.

Strengthening Your System Through Universal Design for Learning
2025-07-22 08:45 - 10:30
Join the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) at the 2025 CAMTSS Professional Learning Institute for a dynamic pre-conference session focused on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Learn from field experts and district leaders as they share strategies for strengthening best first instruction, aligning with the Statewide System of Support. Attendees will walk away with actionable tools and a customized UDL implementation plan.

Guiding the IEP Journey: The Essential Role of the Administrative Designee (Trainer-of-Trainers Series)
2025-07-29 13:00 - 2025-07-30 15:00
Prepare your team to serve as administrative designees in IEP meetings for the 2025/2026 school year!

Grounded in IDEA and aligned with California Education Code, this training builds both the technical and relational skills needed to serve as an effective administrative designee.
Participants will explore the new High Quality IEPs Toolkit: Administrative Designee Edition and receive customizable resources to support staff training at their sites.
Series will include:
Part 1: A Place to Begin & Before the IEP
Understand the role of the administrative designee, assess readiness, and learn how to set the stage for a compliant, collaborative, and student-centered IEP process.
Part 2: During & After the IEP
Develop the skills to lead legally compliant and effective IEP meetings, then support the team in implementing the plan with fidelity—ensuring accountability and promoting student progress beyond the meeting.
To register click here and for additional information click here.

2025-07-30 13:00 - 15:00
A two-part virtual training series that equips Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) to build the knowledge, confidence, and leadership capacity of administrative designees as they guide students, families, and teams through the individualized education program (IEP) process.
Part 2: During & After the IEP – Develop the skills to lead legally compliant and effective IEP meetings, then support the team in implementing the plan with fidelity—ensuring accountability and promoting student progress beyond the meeting.
Click here to see flyer.
To register click here.

Asynchronous Courses on UDL, AT, and AAC - Fall Access Window
2025-08-01 15:00 - 2025-09-30 16:00
ASYNCHRONOUS COURSES
UDL IMMERSION
UDL/AT IMMERSION
AAC FOUNDATIONS
To register click here and for more information please look into their website here.

Bridging Belonging: Inclusive School Culture Community of Practice (CoP)
2025-08-19 09:00 - 10:00
Join us for this Community of Practice to share experiences and engage in ways to foster an inclusive mindset for education specialists, general education teachers, and administrators.
The goal of this CoP is to serve as a platform to support inclusive practices for students with extensive support needs through:

Knowledge Sharing
Expert Coaching
Peer Discussions

*For your convenience, the AM and PM sessions in the same month will cover the same content. *
Click to here register.

AAC Foundations Training (In-Person)
2025-08-21 08:30 - 2025-08-22 15:30
Audience: Open to all educators to expand knowledge in Augmentative Alternative
Communication
Location: PCOE Burns Room – 360 Nevada Street, Auburn, CA 95603
12 hours of Continuing Education: This course meets the qualifications for continuing
professional development for Speech-Language Pathologists as required by the
California Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Licensing Board, PDP #338
To register click here and for more information please go to the website.

The ABCs of Early Childhood Assessments
2025-08-21 14:00 - 16:00
CalECSE is proud to offer a dynamic 2025–2026 lineup of no-cost, virtual professional development and family outreach sessions for Early Childhood Special Education professionals and caregivers across California. These offerings are thoughtfully designed to improve outcomes for young children with disabilities by providing timely, intentional, and innovative strategies that lead to meaningful change. Registeration: Link

Bridging Belonging: Inclusive School Culture Community of Practice (CoP)
2025-08-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-09 15:00 - 16:00
Join us for this Community of Practice to share experiences and engage in ways to foster an inclusive mindset for education specialists, general education teachers, and administrators.
The goal of this CoP is to serve as a platform to support inclusive practices for students with extensive support needs through:

Knowledge Sharing
Expert Coaching
Peer Discussions

*For your convenience, the AM and PM sessions in the same month will cover the same content. *
Click here to register.

Improvement Science Basics - Fall 2025
2025-08-25 09:00 - 2025-08-26 15:00
Improvement science is a powerful tool for educators seeking to identify areas of improvement, implement evidence-based interventions, and measure progress. This course is designed to provide educators with the knowledge and skills needed to become effective change agents in their classrooms, schools, and districts, and to make a positive impact on student learning and outcomes.
This course consists of three, two-day online sessions and is open to public educators (districts, charters, SELPAs, COEs and State Agencies) in California. Between sessions, teams practice applying their learning with the support from SIL improvement facilitators. Organizations should plan to send teams of 2-4 participants that will work on a shared problem of practice. The time commitment between sessions ranges from 5-10 hours. Please review the complete course description before submitting your team’s application: https://bit.ly/ISBOverview25-26.
Selected teams will be sent a notification email that includes a link to register for the course. If you have any questions about this professional learning opportunity, please contact us at info@systemimprovement.org.
*Please note, teams with a problem area focused on Students with Disabilities are given priorities with admissions, but all are welcome to apply.
Click flyer and here to register.

Occupational Therapy Assessments in Early Childhood
2025-08-27 12:00 - 13:00
CalECSE is proud to offer a dynamic 2025–2026 lineup of no-cost, virtual professional development and family outreach sessions for Early Childhood Special Education professionals and caregivers across California. These offerings are thoughtfully designed to improve outcomes for young children with disabilities by providing timely, intentional, and innovative strategies that lead to meaningful change. Registration: Link

Demystifying Indicator 12: Data That Drives Timely Transitions
2025-08-29 12:00 - 13:15

CCIL 3.0: Reimagining Systems for All Learners
2025-09-04 09:00 - 14:30
Hosted by the Bay Area Geographic Leads Consortium
In partnership with California Coalition for Inclusive Learning (CCIL), California Collaborative for Impactful Pathways (CCIP) and Innovations Collaborative
Join county office colleagues from across our region for a yearlong series focused on deepening Universal Design for Learning (UDL) practices at the classroom and system levels. Together, we will center multilingual learners, especially those who are dually identified, by designing learning environments that honor their identities, amplify their voices, and build from their cultural and linguistic assets.
Registration link.

Unlocking Student Engagement: Math and UDL Strategies Interactive Learning Series
2025-09-04 15:00 - 16:30
Enjoy free, interactive, hands-on learning!
Explore practical UDL strategies to design accessible math lessons that support learner variability, boost engagement, and ensure all students succeed.
Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/plMAp6nFSwqff_pyphloug#/registration

2025-26 EXL (Including ELO-P) Office Hours
2025-09-05 12:00 - 13:30
Welcome to our 2025-26 EXL Office Hours webpage! The California AfterSchool Network (CAN), in partnership with the California Department of Education (CDE) Expanded Learning Division (EXLD) and other members of the System of Support for Expanded Learning (SSEL), is co-hosting virtual Expanded Learning Office Hours this 2025-26 year, in Fall, Winter, and Spring.
Office Hours are on select Fridays from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM. The first approximately 30 minutes will be set aside to provide the latest updates on ELO-P, ASES, and 21st CCLC. The remaining time will be used for Q&A and sharing promising practices.
Registration Link

Transforming Lives Summit - Nurturing Seeds of Genius
2025-09-08 08:30 - 15:00
You are invited to join Kings County Office of Education in Fresno, CA on September 8–9, 2025, for Transforming Lives: Nurturing Seeds of Genius, a two-day event dedicated to uplifting at-promise youth. On Day 1, Nicole Tucker-Smith will focus on cultivating inclusive environments where young people feel seen, valued, and empowered. On Day 2, Zara Sims will present “Roots to Reentry – Empowering Youth for Transition,” offering insight and strategies to support youth navigating reentry and rebuilding pathways to success. Together, we will explore how to affirm brilliance, foster resilience, and transform lives.

This event if part of the statewide equity GENIUS Initiative and is hosted by co-lead Kings County Office of Education. For more information, please contact Equity and Continuous Improvement Coordinator Jessica Womack.
Click here to register: https://kings.k12oms.org/89-264685

Transforming Lives Summit - Nurturing Seeds of Genius - Day 2
2025-09-09 08:30 - 15:00
