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Empower your potential.

Professional courses are key for career growth. Our courses provide career advancement by providing specialized skills for staying relevant in evolving industries like Microsoft Office, small business, project management, and investing. Check out this quarter’s offerings and get started now.

Questions? Contact us CE@ccs.spokane.edu 509-279-6144.

 

 

Brain-Based Learning Workshop

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Discover how the brain learns best through engaging, research-informed strategies that support cognitive, emotional, and social development. This interactive workshop explores key principles of brain-based learning, including the impact of emotions, environment, and developmental stages of behavior and readiness. Participants will engage in hands-on activities to apply brain-friendly techniques, foster executive function skills, and promote healthy habits and growth mindset. Leave with practical tools to enhance learning environments and strengthen collaboration between educators and families.

This course is eligible for Teacher Clock hours! 

$95


CompTIA Project+ Certificate

CompTIA Project+ is ideal for IT professionals who manage smaller, less-complex projects as part of their job duties but still require foundational project management ski...
$1,750


Cosmetology Instructor Trainee Program

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This program provides licensed cosmetologists, manicurists, estheticians, or barbers the 500 hours needed for the cosmetology instructor's examination issued by the Washington State Board of Cosmetology. Under the supervision of a licensed cosmetology instructor, trainee students receive training in instructional methods and clinical practice in assisting students in all phases of cosmetology. Program fee includes textbook, required kit, CIMA access, and testing and licensing fees. This class is 50% online, self-paced and 50% in-person with supervised teaching. Students may submit documented experience in lieu of some of the required 500 hours - for Prior Learning Assessment (PLA). 

All students must contact Deanna.Eckel@scc.spokane.edu (509) 533-8361 or Paula.Anselmo@scc.spokane.edu (509) 533-8317 before registering. 

$5,459


Introduction to Canva

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Canva is an online design platform that allows users to create graphics, edit photos, create printable materials, and publish their work. Enroll in this course to explore Canva's powerful design tools! Anyone can do this; no graphic design background is needed. Through reading, tutorials, and interactive activities you will start small and build your Canva confidence. Modules are short and allow you to work at your own pace. You will become familiar with Canva's basic layout and interface, design principles, and learn how to apply these to design your own projects. A certificate of completion is earned upon finishing the course. Sign up today!

$79


Introduction To Homeschooling

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Spokane Colleges supports parents who may choose home-based instruction for their children by offering a homeschool introductory course that fulfills one of the four ways to qualify in Washington: completing a qualifying course in home-based education at a postsecondary institution or a vocational-technical institute (RCW 28A.225.010 (4)(a-c). Our parent-qualifying course is designed to be an affordable, convenient, online, self-paced course taught by a homeschool parent who encourages parents just starting their journey. It will build your confidence and arm you with strategies to acquire resources for community connection, learning, assessment, and record-keeping. The course typically takes 3 to 4 hours to complete. A certificate is awarded upon completion.

$55


Teacher Clock Hour Classes

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We are offering the below online Teacher Clock Hour trainings. Please contact us at CE@ccs.spokane.edu or call us at (509) 279-6144 to register.

Class Title

Clock Hours 

  Price

Advanced Classroom Management: Children as Change Agents

30

$210.00

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Information & Interventions for Effective Teaching

30

$210.00

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Information & Effective Intervention Strategies

30

$210.00

Behavior is Language: Strategies for Managing Disruptive Behavior

45

$240.00

Child Abuse: Working with Abused & Neglected Children

30

$210.00

Drugs & Alcohol in Schools: Understanding Substance Use & Abuse

30

$210.00

Early Childhood: Family-Centered Services

30

$210.00

Early Childhood: Observation & Assessment

45

$240.00

Early Childhood: Program Planning

45

$240.00

Early Childhood: Typical & Atypical Development

45

$210.00

Educational Assessment: Assessing Student Learning in the Classroom

30

$210.00

Harassment, Bullying & Cyber-Intimidation in Schools

30

$210.00

Inclusion: Working with Students with Special Needs in General Education Classrooms

30

$210.00

Infant & Toddler Mental Health: Issues & Information for Educators

30

$240.00

Learning Disabilities: Practical Information for the Classroom Teacher

45

$210.00

Reading & Writing in Content Area

30

$210.00

Reading Fundamentals #1: An Introduction to Scientifically Based Research

30

$210.00

Reading Fundamentals #2: Laying the Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction

30

$210.00

Reading Fundamentals #3: The Elements of Effective Reading Instruction & Assessment

45

$240.00

Talented & Gifted: Working with High Achievers

30

$210.00

Teaching Diversity: Influences & Issues in the Classroom

30

$210.00

Teaching Elementary Math Conceptually: A New Paradigm

30

$210.00

Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma & Violence on Student Learning

30

$210.00

Try DI!: Planning & Preparing a Differentiated Instruction Program

45

$240.00

Understanding Aggression: Coping with Aggressive Behavior in the Classroom

45

$240.00

Understanding & Implementing Common Core Standards

45

$240.00

Violence in Schools: Identification, Prevention & Intervention Strategies

30

$210.00

Why DI?: An Introduction to Differentiated Instruction

45

$240.00

Teaching Secondary Math Conceptually: Meeting Mathematics Standards

45

$240.00

Six Traits of Writing Model: Teaching & Accessing 

30

$210.00

 

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