🌞🎉 Congrats on reaching the end of the school year! Before you head out for summer break, take a few minutes to add these 2026-27 professional learning opportunities to your calendar.

Our events are organized into the following categories:

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Equity and Family Partnerships
📚 Teaching and Learning
🏫 Culture and Climate
🧩 K-12 Special Education

🚗 👩‍🏫 Worried about paying for a sub? Many of our training opportunities are eligible for substitute and mileage reimbursement. Visit our instructional services fiscal page to learn more.

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Equity and Family Partnerships

“I hope all educators have a chance to come to see this."

-Denise Reynolds, instructional coach in the St. Helens School District

Joseph, a student at St. Helens High School, co-leads a presentation on the importance of offering career and technical education classes to students. Photos by Tracey Goldner. 

Cascade Alliance for Equity Student-Led Summit
Join students from across the region as they lead discussions, share their experiences, and inspire action around equity, belonging, and positive change in schools and communities.

📅 October 9
📍 Warrenton, Oregon

📚 Teaching and Learning

Build your instructional toolkit through workshops, coaching, collaboratives, and training series in literacy, math, assessment and data, and career and technical education.

Laurel Fischer, a professional learning coach at NWRESD, demonstrates how to conduct a vowel-intensive exercise in a small group. The activity helps students learn how to identify vowel sounds.

Accountability & Assessment Leadership Series (designed for K-8 principals as they navigate Senate Bill 141 accountability requirements)
📅 Aug. 12, Oct. 8, Feb. 4 and May 26
📍 Hillsboro

Science of Reading, Science of Teaching, Data-Based Decision Making Series
📅 Sept. 24, Oct. 15, Dec. 3 and Jan. 14
📍 Hillsboro


The Science of Writing 3-Part Series
📅 Nov. 3, Jan. 26 and April 22
📍 Hillsboro


Literacy Small Groups Based on Data 
📅 Nov. 17 and May 6
📍 Hillsboro


Career Guidance Collaborative
📅 Sept. 30, Jan. 13 and March 3
📍 Hillsboro, Virtual


Follett Destiny Users Training
📅 Sept. 18
📍 Hillsboro

Career and Technical Educator Mentorship: Join our mentoring program either as a new educator mentee (less than 5 years of CTE teaching experience; CTE endorsed teachers welcome!) or as an experienced CTE teacher mentor. Administrators can also nominate teachers for this opportunity. Mentors and mentees will receive a stipend. 

📢 Coming soon: Math instruction support!

🏫 Culture and Climate

Strengthen your school's climate through responsive, evidence-based practices focused on attendance, behavior, social-emotional learning, safety and mental health.

Cheyanne, right, is blossoming after several years of feeling disconnected from school. Jewell educators have made several changes in recent years to improve the school’s culture and build trust with families.

Behavior, Attendance, and Social Emotional Systems (BASES)
Three-part training series for school teams focused on improving systems for school student attendance, behavior and social emotional learning. Join in Hillsboro or Seaside. 
📅 Sept. 22 or Oct. 1, Nov. 3 or Nov. 5, Feb. 11 or Feb. 18
📍 Hillsboro or Seaside


Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
📅 Aug. 6-7, Sept. 17-18, Oct. 29-30, March 4-5 and April 15-16
📍 Hillsboro


Oregon Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (OCALM)
📅 Oct. 5
📍 Hillsboro


Crisis and Tragedy Response (Flight Team) Training
📅 Oct. 16
📍 Hillsboro


Collaborative Problem Solving
📅 Oct. 22-23 or April 20-21
📍 Hillsboro or Seaside


Sexual Incident Response Training
📅 Dec. 4
📍 Hillsboro


School Safety and Mental Health Summit
📅 Jan. 13
📍 Virtual

Individual coaching and consultation are also available for:

• Attendance: Whitney Wagner
• School Safety: Neha Hertzog
• Behavior & SEL: Lindsey Pratt

Additional professional learning opportunities in Behavioral Safety (Threat) Assessment, Connect Suicide Postvention, Youth Mental Health First Aid, and Be Sensitive Be Brave (BSBB) for Suicide Prevention and Mental Health coming soon.

🧩 K-12 Special Education

Enhance your knowledge of individualized education programs (IEPs), special education processes, related services, and more. 

Educators who are part of our Traumatic Brain Injury regional collaborative attend an October training at our Washington Service Center in Hillsboro.

Parent Advisory Committee
Connect with families from Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and Washington counties in a supportive community for caregivers of children with disabilities. Participants share experiences, exchange resources and ideas, build connections, and provide feedback that helps us strengthen special education services in our region. We'd love your help spreading the word about this opportunity that families have told us is a lifeline.

📅 7-8:30 p.m., fourth Thursday of the month during the school year 
📍 Virtual

Series Offerings 

IEP Foundations
📅 October-January
📍 Virtual and Hillsboro

Special Education In-Depth
📅 October-May
📍 Virtual


Functional Behavior Assessment to Behavior Intervention Plan: Train-the-Trainer
📅 October-January
📍 Virtual


Elevating Support for Neurodivergent Students
📅 Dates coming soon
📍 Virtual


IEP Refreshers 
📅 Dates coming soon 
📍 Virtual

Spotlight Sessions 

Communication Matrix
📅 Sept. 17 and Dec. 10
📍 Virtual


Artificial Intelligence in IEP Development: Guidance, Compliance, and Strategies
📅 Sept. 30 or Feb. 11
📍 Virtual


Initial Safety Care Training - Core Curriculum
📅 Sept. 29-30, Oct. 27-28, Feb. 9-10
📍 Hillsboro


Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Basics
📅 Oct. 1
📍 Hillsboro


Section 504 Deep Dive
📅 Nov. 17
📍 Hillsboro


Secondary Transition: IEP Workshop
📅 Feb. 4
📍 Hillsboro


Community Agency Collaboration
📅 Feb. 4
📍 Hillsboro

Ongoing Content Sessions 

AAC in Action - Practical Strategies for School Teams
📅 Oct. 6, Dec. 8, Feb. 2 and April 6 
📍 Virtual


Blind Visually Impaired Student Fund (BVIS) Tech Time
📅 Oct. 5, Nov. 2, Dec. 7, Feb. 1, March 1, April 5 and May 3 
📍 Virtual


Technical assistance on K-12 special education topics is also available:

Regional Technical Assistance Provider: Malory Turner

View more K-12 special education events and subscribe to our K-12 special education newsletter.