Professional Development

WSCA-Sponsored Professional Development

2024 WSCA On-Demand Conference

March 25, 2024 • On-Demand
2025 WSCA On-Demand Conference

August 12, 2024 • On-Demand
Sponsor/Exhibitor Registration - 2025 WSCA Conference

March 05, 2025 • DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport 18740 International Blvd, Seattle, WA 98188

Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Graduation Equity Webinar Series

Graduation Equity Webinars were designed for leadership teams to highlight best practices with strategic real practitioner examples and help growth minded education leaders and advocates to learn from Washington districts who are doing innovative work. Using OSPI data and experience from practitioners, Graduation Equity Webinars reveal the systems that drive success with an equity focus and key strategies that are getting students to graduation.

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Date	Time	Theme

September 11, 2024	10:00 - 11:30 AM	College & Career Pathway for Students with Disabilities
October 9, 2024	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Harassment Intimidation & Bullying Case
November 13, 2024	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Empowering Students & Families with Varying Immigration Status
December 11, 2024	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Overdose Response & Preparedness
January 8, 2025	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Artificial Intelligence Hacks for Leadership Teams
February 12, 2025	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Attendance Support for Students with Extended Absences
March 12, 2025	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Peer Mentoring & Empowering Youth Voice
April 9, 2025	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Alternative Learning Options
May 14, 2025	10:00 - 11:30 AM	Teacher Strategies for Supporting Mental Health in the Classroom

If you can't make it, we post all our videos on the OSPI YouTube Channel - Check out our playlist! Subscribe by clicking on the bell to get alerts for videos as we post them.

Free Resource

BEST (Beginning Educator Support Team)

Mentor Foundational Opportunities are designed to build core knowledge of mentoring for equity. Mentor Academy 101 and 201 are 12-hour trainings. Nakia Academy can be taken in place of Mentor Academy 101 by participants who identify as people of color. Participation in Mentor Academy 101 or Nakia Academy is the prerequisite for participation in any other BEST event. Beginning Fall of 2024 there is a Nakia Mentor Academy specifically for School Counselors (Nakia Cohort D)

Professional Development offered throughout the year

Yoga Calm Workshops

Yoga Calm is an innovative child education method that reduces stress, improves self-control, and develops social/emotional skills. It's good for children and you too! Workshops qualify for graduate credits, CEU, and clock hours through Portland State University, NBCC, and the WSCA.

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Professional School Counseling Journal Articles

Subscribers of "Professional School Counseling" can earn CEUs for reading journal articles and passing a short online quiz about the material. Articles are worth up to 0.1 CEUs, and an entire journal will earn you approximately 1.0 CEUs. ASCA is an IACET-Authorized Provider of CEUs. There will be a small fee for the CEUs. For more information log onto the journal section of ASCA.

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National Board for Certified School Counselors

National Certified School Counselors (NCSC) are nationally certified counselors who offer the highest standards of practice for schools and students because they have met stringent education, examination, supervision, experience, and ethical requirements in school counseling.

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Dependable Strengths

Dependable Strengths is a unique research-based process proven to increase self-esteem, motivation, and interest in learning for people of all ages.

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Free Resource

School-Based Mental Health Trainings

School counselors, social workers, psychologists, school-based therapists, administrators, and other professionals are invited to enroll in FREE web-based training to help address the complex mental health and developmental needs of students experiencing adoption, foster care, or kinship care.

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