ACES
We're really excited about offering so many on-demand professional learning opportunities. A key feature of the menu is how easy it is for you to register - just choose and click. Easy peasy!
We also want to recognize participation in ACE's professional learning as an additional half-step on our salary grids.
It really is this easy to find your lead domino and further your learning journey!Â
Invest in PEOPLE
ACE believes every staff member deserves a high level of support and access to quality professional learning.
Learn TOGETHER
ACE is a community and we realize the best way to build a great culture is to do meaningful work together.
Be PREPARED
We support our staff to grow and prepare for new opportunities that might arise and to excel in their new positions.
Leadership IS EVERYWHERE
ACE is a community where everyone has the opportunity to learn and grow.
Learn on YOUR SCHEDULE
We want staff to have balance in life. ACES' professional learning is timely, flexible, and adaptable ... like the best teachers!
How to ACCESS
⇢ Click a Start Now button with your ACE email.
⇢ Courses are in your Library (click your image or log in at the top-right).
⇢ Download the app to access on the go. Instructions are in all courses.
Teachers and Aspiring Admin
All selections with a white background are designed for educators and each completed course counts as 1 credit toward your half-step credential.
The Highly Effective New Teacher
Highly practical and engaging lessons designed specifically to help new teachers thrive in their first few years.
Join Alex Kajitani, California Teacher of the Year, as he helps you get started on the right foot or use these lessons to get back on track!
12 lessons from Alex Kajitani!Â
The Highly Effective Math Teacher
Teachers often feel under-equipped when trying to be inspirational, impactful, and meet the diverse needs of their students.
Gain tips and strategies that you can use immediately to help ALL of your students achieve!
Ideal for Math teachers and coaches!Â
Little Things Make You Better
This one's for teachers and just as it sounds! Lessons on rapport, assignments, instruction, professionalism, and logistics.
On top of the fantastic content, learning with Rushton is inspiring and a lot of fun!
Ideal for all educators!
Teaching with Organized Binder
Organized Binder equips teachers with practices that integrate with existing curriculum, while offering students daily practice employing executive functioning skills, habits of mind, and growth mindsets.
Mitch demonstrates how to use Organized Binder in a series of excellent tutorials!
Teaching Executive Functions
Executive functions are an essential fundamental skillset.
Go beyond helping students organize their days and learning. with goal-setting, planning, reflection, and organization.
Register with the code WarmU22
Remarkable Teacher Leaders!
How can we lead without authority? Leadership isn't about job titles.
Learn rarely taught leadership tools and strategies that will help you become a more impactful warm demander leader.
Ideal for teachers and team leaders!
Leading as a Warm Demander
Put people first with intentionality and incredible systems.
8 lessons to help you be a compassionate, courageous, and constructive leader!
Our most popular introductory course. Ideal for all current and aspiring leaders!
Current and Aspiring Admin
All selections with a light green background are designed for admin and those aspiring for new leadership positions. Each completed course counts as 1 credit toward your half-step credential.
The Leadership Bootcamp
Our signature leadership course for school and district leaders who want to optimize their priority management, productivity, and peace of mind!
Just like good planning is a prerequisite to good teaching, a few weeks invested in preparing will keep you from spending 12 months repairing.
Hit the ground running with a toolkit filled with planning tools, leadership strategies, and ready-to-use resources.
For new and experienced educational leaders!Â
Make Your School Remarkable!
Every effective principal knows culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Learn impactful strategies in 6 weekly lessons designed to help you surface and nurture the genius of your people!
Ideal for school and district administrators!
Telling the Stories of Your School
The chances are stellar that something good happens somewhere on campus every day a child shows up.
Unfortunately, the chances are also good that these moments don't get shared.
For all educators!
The Remarkable Administrative Professional
Schools are filled with highly-skilled people who often learn at the school of hard knocks.
Build your professionalism, communications skills, systems, and tech skills!
For all office and admin professionals!
Reshaping Your Staff Meeting
This fun series from Rushton Hurley is designed to help school leaders inspire and be inspired in their staff meetings!
Surface, nurture, and inspire stories of success and build a culture of exploration.
For school administrators!
All Staff Personal and Professional Learning
All selections with a light blue background are designed for everyone to find quick lessons that may be taken as a full course meal or sampled like a buffet. Watch when the time feels right - It's kind of like Netflix for PD! Once again, each completed course counts as 1 credit toward your half-step credential.
Tech Timesavers
Did you know that saving 1 minute a day adds up to over 6 hours in a year?
Most people we work with regain 10-20 minutes a day and we've curated all of our most popular video tips for you.
Ideal for everyone!
iPhone Bits & Bytes
Becoming an expert iPhone user doesn’t have to be a difficult, time-sucking process.
In fact, this fun course is the exact opposite of that in 8 lessons that are filled with fun and drip to your library weekly.
Ideal for everyone with an iPhone!
Mindfulness is for Everyone!
We believe everyone is a leader and leaders need to exercise self-care before they can help others.
Easily said and sadly cliché. So what can we actually do during the day to calm our busy heads and make this happen?!
5-15 minute practices for everyone!
Be a Facetime Pro
Build tech confidence and skills in a relaxed, learn-at-your-own-pace course filled with tips that translate to any video tools.
Register for this relaxed course and be ready for your next long distance catch-up.
Ideal for everyone with an iPhone or iPad!
When Parents Bully the School
Adult bullies require skillful communications and clear expectations.
Bullying expert and NYT best-selling author Jodee Blanco will help you work collaboratively with a challenging parent.
For all educators!
1:1 EdTech Coaching
Most teachers aren't quite sure what to ask or who to access when they want a little boost with new tech tools.
Speak with John, contact us, and we'll quickly get you that tech lift!
Just Released!
ChatGPT: A Boom or Our Doom?
What if you could get a tech tool to create a lesson plan, or generate a letter to your students' parents? What if that same tool could be used by students for their assignments?
Explore the possibilities of ChatGPT!
For everyone!
Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.
- Steve Jobs
