District 196 Community Education

Navigate the challenges of your child's digital world and gain helpful tools for your parenting toolbox. Learn practical strategies for social media/friendships, setting boundaries, ensuring online safety and fostering healthy screen habits. Empower yourself with tools to help raise a teen with a smart technology foundation they will use into adulthood.

Do not register here. Please click Register now! New research and information is coming out frequently now about how your learners - and you - learn. Here’s what we know. In the last century, you taught everyone equally by teaching them the same. But we know we each learn differently. So in this century, you teach everyone equally by teaching them differently. In this Certificate in Learning Styles, you get the most advanced information about the three most important and most prevalent characteristics you experience with your participants: generation, gender, and the autism spectrum. Your instructors are some of the foremost authorities in the world on these subjects. They write, and speak around North America, on learning styles. Register now! Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and a very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. After you register, you will be given a web address with easy-to-follow instructions to go to get into your virtual classroom. You may participate any time of day or evening with online reading, listen and see presentations, and complete self-quizzes. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. You will get to know your instructor and other participants. You may make friends. It’s easy. It’s fun. Continuing Education Units (CEUs)/International Learning Units (ILUs) 4.8 Length 48 Hours Price $395.00 Register now!

Becoming a Dad on Purpose doesn't "just happen". It's a journey filled with intention, exercising your strengths and building on areas of improvement. Be introduced to a growth mindset and create your metaphorical toolbelt with easy-to-use tools to create clarity and more effective relationships with your children and spouse. Discover and learn listening techniques, how to reframe high-power questions and communication tips, to bring clarity to your children and deliver meaningful feedback. Upon completion, be equipped for more impactful relationships and, ultimately, become a Dad on Purpose.

It's our belief that changing communities involves changing one family at a time. This curriculum helps increase the supply of young people equipped with the character, compassion and problem-solving skills essential for becoming good neighbors to all. Over the last four decades great pride has been taken in giving specific techniques that work when the "rubber hits the road." Parenting the Love and Logic Way™ represents a "how-to" approach to parenting. Learn: How to avoid un-winnable power-struggles and arguments How to stay calm and empathetic when your kids do incredibly upsetting things How to set enforceable limits How to avoid enabling and begin empowering How to help your kids learn from mistakes rather than repeating them How to raise kids who are family team members rather than demanding dictators And, much more! Each class involves lively discussion, short video clips, short readings, written exercises and lots of stories that teach. The Love and Logic approach is fun! Have you noticed how much more people learn when they're giggling? Session One: Putting an End to Arguing, Back Talk and Begging Session Two: Teaching Responsibility Without Losing Their Love Session Three: Setting Limits Without Waging War Session Four: Avoiding Power-Struggles Session Five: Guiding Kids to Own and Solve Their Problems Session Six: Teaching Kids to Complete Chores ... Without Reminders and Without Pay This class will take place online. Registration is by household. All households will receive a workbook that will need to be picked up at the Community Education office. You will receive an email when it is ready.

Navigating the digital world can be challenging for parents with young children. This practical training class is designed to equip busy parents with essential tools and knowledge to keep your little ones safe in an increasingly connected world. Gain practical tips and strategies for managing technology use, protecting privacy and fostering a safe digital environment for young children. Build your family tech safety toolbox and create a secure digital environment for your little ones!