About Mary Wolf
Mary Wolf has 20 years of elementary classroom teaching experience, and is proud of her many years working as an instructor for the Connecting Link. She began her association with TCL as a student, and was intrigued by the wide range of topics offered. Over the years, she has met many outstanding educators through Connecting Link classes, and looks forward to forging new friendships and helping educators reach their goals.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) in Education
Today’s schools are richer in diversity than ever before. This course is designed to provide educators with the resources, tools, and steps necessary to foster a welcoming, safe, and productive learning environment built on respect for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) for all students. Course participants will examine the implications of historical inequities on personal beliefs and practices, as well as modern day school policies and procedures. Educators will be challenged to look at their professional practices and curriculum materials from new perspectives and will be empowered with resources and strategies necessary to advance DEIB initiatives in their classrooms and schools.
Throughout the course, participants will engage in interactive dialogue through a variety of mediums to receive valuable feedback to reflect on from their instructor. All formative and summative projects are reviewed and graded, and feedback from the instructor will be provided allowing the participant to enhance their portfolio of educational tools/resources to impact their classroom or school community.
Course #: IMF25006
Dates: 10/06/25 - 11/02/25
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Dates: 10/06/25 - 11/02/25
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Equity & Diversity Social & Emotional Learning Positive Classroom Management
Format:Interactive
View CourseExecutive Function and Creating Effective Learning Assessments
This course is designed to teach participants the importance of metacognition, provide background knowledge of the core executive function processes, and help apply their knowledge of executive function processes to help students better understand themselves as learners. Participants will learn how executive functioning skills are the cognitive powers that help develop good habits which leads to effective school and life management.
The course will also look at the process of how to create effective assessments. Assessments are essential to the learning process, as evidenced in that assessments inform the instructor on the effectiveness of their instruction, as well as they provide a way to measure students' mastery of the course's educational learning targets. The course will explore how to identify course goals for assessment, determine test structure and design, write effective questions, and apply a variety of testing methods to differentiate testing methods.
Course #: IMF25013
Dates: 11/03/25 - 12/07/25
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Dates: 11/03/25 - 12/07/25
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