€400/year
Annual school subscription
- Annual access for the applicable staff range
- Includes the available courses listed below
- Flexible use across the school year
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Practical, expert-led online CPD courses for teachers, SNAs and school leaders in Ireland. Build knowledge, confidence and consistent practice across your school.
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€550/year
Annual school subscription
- Annual access for the applicable staff range
- Includes the available courses listed below
- Flexible use across the school year
€700/year
Annual school subscription
- Annual access for the applicable staff range
- Includes the available courses listed below
- Flexible use across the school year
€850/year
Annual school subscription
- Annual access for the applicable staff range
- Includes the available courses listed below
- Flexible use across the school year
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An Introduction to Dyslexia
With Katie Tuite
This course is designed to provide teachers and educators with the essential understanding and tools needed to support dyslexic learners.
- An Introduction to Dyslexia
- What is Dyslexia?
- The Dyslexic Brain and Comorbidity
- Social and Emotional Impact
- Understanding the Assessment Report
- Fluency and Multi-sensory Teaching
- Dyslexia and Assistive Technology
Available course
Attachment Aware Practice in Schools
With Lucy Mannion
This course on attachment-aware practice in schools is designed for teachers, special needs assistants, school leaders, and the wider school team.
- An Introduction to Attachment Aware Practice in Schools
- Foundations of Attachment
- Attachment-Aware Classroom Practice
Available course
Becoming an Effective Autism Support Teacher
With Mary McKenna
This course is designed for educators seeking to enhance their skills and knowledge in supporting autistic children within the school system.
- 1. Considering the Autism Support Role
- 2. Taking on the Autism Support Role
- 3. Learning about Autism
- 4. Regulation - Creating a Supportive Space
- 5. Sensory Support and Co-Regulation
- 6. Environment, Structure and Communication
- 7. What to Teach - Knowing the Individual Pupil
- 8. Establishing Relationships of Trust
Available course
Emotion Coaching Part 1
With Lucy Mannion
Build a practical, relationship-centred approach to helping children recognise and regulate emotions through connection, clear boundaries and collaborative problem-solving.
- An Introduction to Emotion Coaching
- Emotion Coaching Background
- Emotion Coaching Steps 1 & 2
- Emotion Coaching Steps 3 & 4
- Implementation of Emotion Coaching
Available course
Emotion Coaching Part 2: Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
With Lucy Mannion
This course introduces participants to a neurodiversity-affirming approach to supporting pupils, moving away from deficit-based lenses toward a mindset of curiosity, flexibility, and respect for neurological differences.
- Neurodiversity and Emotional Experience
- Adapting Emotion Coaching through a Neurodiversity Affirming Lens
Available course
Neurodiversity & Focus
With Dr. Helen Ross
Welcome to the Neurodiversity & Focus module, a course designed to help educators explore how to identify and support young people with dyslexia within a mainstream classroom.
- Understanding Neurodiversity
- Universal Design for Learning
- Adaptive Teaching
- Understanding Dyslexia
- Accessibility and Support Strategies
- Supporting Dyslexic Learners in Secondary Schools
- Supporting Dyslexic Learners in Primary Schools
- Conclusion and Reflection
Available course
Speech & Language in a School Setting
With Grace Walsh
Led by a senior speech and language therapist with over 15 years of experience, this course is designed to share valuable insights into how children develop their speech, language, and communication skills.
- Introduction - Speech & Language in a School Settting
- Speech, Language & Communication
- Infant Mental Health and Early Communication Development
- Building Relationships with Parents
- Selective Mutism
- Stammering
- Developmental Language Disorder
- Supporting Vocabulary Development
- Onward Referral Processes for Supports for Children
Available course
The OT Lens: Regulation, Participation, and Inclusion in Schools
With Sarah Hogan
Welcome to "The OT Lens: Regulation, Participation, and Inclusion in Schools," a training series designed to bring occupational therapy thinking directly into everyday school practice.
- The OT Lens - An Introduction
- Sensory Processing
- Cup Sensory Analogy and Window of Tolerance
- Sensory Motor Skills
- Interoception
- Regulation First, Co-Regulation and Self-Regulation
- Sensory Spaces and Movement Breaks
- Developing a Whole-School Approach to Sensory Safety
Available course
Trauma Informed Education Part 1
With Dr. David Cashman
This course on trauma-informed education provides a training program designed to develop a positive, trauma-informed, and neuroaffirmative culture in schools.
- Trauma Informed Foundations - Stress & the Brain
- Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn
- Neuroplasticity
- Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences
- The Dose-Response Effect
Available course
Trauma Informed Education Part 2
With Dr. David Cashman
Discover the foundational principles behind developing a positive, trauma-informed, and relationship-centered school culture grounded in the science of human development.
- Module 1 - Foundational Principles of Trauma Informed Education
- Module 2
- Module 3 - The Window of Tolerance and Energy Bank Accounting
- Module 4 - Polyvagal Theory
- Module 5 - How Safety and Connection Create the Conditions for Learning
- Module 6 - Reading State
- Module 7 - Collective Efficacy
- Module 8 - The Power of Language
- Module 9 - Understanding DEIS
Available course
Understanding Anxiety
With Dr. Jennifer Cuppage
A compassionate, science-backed approach to understanding anxiety and supporting pupils through practical tools, co-regulation and greater awareness of the nervous system.
- Understanding Anxiety - An Introduction
- What is Anxiety?
- The Anxiety Cycle
- Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety
- The Brain in Anxiety
- The Nervous System and The Window of Tolerance
- Frustration Tolerance
- Panic Attacks
- Neurodiversity and Anxiety
- Co-regulation
- Practical Tools
- Observation
- School Avoidance
Available course
Understanding the Nervous System in the Classroom
With Dr. Steve Lane
Explore how nervous system states, safety, stress and co-regulation shape behaviour, relationships and learning in the classroom.
- An Introduction to Understanding the Nervous System in the Classroom
- The Power of Connection
- Wired for Safety
- Co-Regulation and the Social Brain
- Building Cultures of Safety and Connection in Schools
- Adults Have Nervous Systems Too
Coming soon
More professional learning is on the way
Leading New Autism Classes
Teaching in a DEIS School
Introduction to PDA
Restorative Practice
Social Emotional & Mental Health
Accessible Materials & Technology Accessibility
Science of Reading
Our course library will continue to grow.
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