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Hidden Sparks is now accepting applications for its subsidized Internal Coach Program, designed to train faculty members of a school to be school-based experts on diverse learners. Coaches receive training and ongoing support as they help teachers hone in on strategies for maximizing student strengths. Participating schools in NY, NJ, Baltimore, Chicago, and now, Boca Raton, Florida. The 6-day training will take place on February 9, 10, 24, 25, & March 8-9 2016 in a Midtown Manhattan location.

Designed to support a school’s long term ability to address the needs of struggling learners, the ICP program provides training in understanding and teaching to diverse learning styles, behavior management, facilitation skills, and mentoring to selected faculty members to be resident Hidden Sparks “Internal Coaches.” Training begins Spring 2015 to prepare Internal Coaches to begin coaching in their schools during the 2015-16 school year.

Yachad and the International Jewish Resource Center for Inclusion and Special Education will present a five-session webinar series, “Including Special Needs Students into a Limudei Kodesh (Jewish Studies) Classroom and Curricula,” beginning Wednesday January 8, from 12-2 p.m., EST, with its first session, “Edible Torah Projects: A Webinar on Experiential Learning.” The intended audience is day school and yeshiva teachers who include diverse students in their classrooms.

Join Hidden Sparks for the 2012-13 school year of Hidden Sparks Without Walls, an online audio conference accessible from home or school. The Hidden Sparks Without Walls initiative is designed to strengthen an educator's knowledge and practice in working with diverse learners. The program offers free short-term distance classes for teachers, educators and administrators in Jewish day schools and yeshivot, to give them the tools to enhance the ways in which children learn and behave. It also enables teachers across similar or diverse disciplines to share ideas, curricula, and talk about their practice.