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You Have the Technology - Now What?
Learn with Bridges to make the most of technologies and resources for students in need.

This series of Professional Learning Workshops is a comprehensive collection designed for educators, highlighting 4 essential technologies and resources: Literacy, Boardmaker, Clicker and Widgit Online.
These workshops are crafted to empower teachers with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to effectively implement assistive technologies and resources. By participating, educators will be better equipped to support students with high needs, ensuring that every student can thrive in an inclusive learning environment.

Through this series, educators will:

• Learn to create inclusive and engaging educational content.
• Understand the benefits and applications of different assistive technologies.
• Receive hands-on training to maximize the effectiveness of tools like Boardmaker, Clicker, and Widgit Online.
• Gain practical tips and strategies to enhance literacy and communication for students with high needs.

Explore transformative workshops and take a significant step towards ensuring that every student in your classroom has the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential.

Workshop Series

Literacy and Complex Learning Needs

These early literacy workshops delivers educators’ strategies to support a comprehensive literacy program for emergent, transitional and early conventional readers and writers.
Students who are at an emergent literacy level require different strategies than those approaching a conventional level. We’ve developed our workshops to focus on different levels of readers and writers with their specific needs.
Participants can attend all workshops or choose the ones that apply to the learners they support.

Boardmaker

Our practical focused sessions can ensure your entire education community gets the most out of its Boardmaker investment.
Bridges first started training and supporting Boardmaker over 25 years ago. Since then, our professional development has gained an unmatched reputation for experience, expertise and quality.
With an instructional team that draws from decades of work in education, speech language pathology, assistive technology and occupational therapy, our Boardmaker sessions will support the implementation of the technology.

Clicker

Clicker is the award-winning complete literacy toolkit that enables students of all abilities to significantly develop their reading and writing skills.
These sessions are the practical launch point your team needs to take full advantage of the personalized literacy supports in Clicker, and to learn how to apply this powerful tool to whole class instruction, too.
These sessions support educators who are new to Clicker or who haven’t used Clicker recently. Each session builds upon the skills explored during the previous session, so educators can develop their comfort in small chunks.

Widgit Online

In this series, participants will discover all the ways educators can create so much in Widgit Online, so simply. Books, labels, flashcards, illustrated stories, communication boards, visual schedules, activities, timetables and so much more to support literacy learning and communication for a wide range of students across the curriculum.
With an instructional team that draws from decades of work in education, speech language pathology, assistive technology and occupational therapy, our Widgit Online sessions will deliver new skills to create and share materials with your students and classes right away.