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MUHSD Online Safety Trainings

Public School Works

Merced Union High School District is fully committed to the health and safety of all faculty, staff, students and visitors. The district believes that occupant safety and a healthy environment are important factors in the functioning of the total educational program, making the district schools a better place to learn and work, creating positive relationships with the district customers and stakeholders, and preparing students to be responsible citizens and to work safely in the community.


As part of the district’s ongoing program to meet this safety commitment, comply with regulatory requirements, and contain health care costs, all employees must complete certain safety training, when they first start working for the district and periodically thereafter. The courses are available through My Safety Portal on the new PublicSchoolWORKS online staff training system.

 

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Instructions for Accessing Online Trainings

Please view the handout below for instructions:

 

Online Training Instructions

 

 

MUHSD InnovatEd

InnovatEd offers teachers, administrators, and classified staff personalized learning opportunities in areas related to blended learning and technology, pedagogy and instructional best practices, and various other job and educational service related areas. InnovatEd courses are divided into a two-tiered system. Each tier requires a different level of commitment from the participant and tiers progressively increase in rigor. 

Explore the quick links below for more information on required online trainings for staff or to log in to the InnovatEd professional learning platform.

Please contact MUHSD InnovatEd staff with any questions.

Staff can now enhance their professional knowledge at home, on their prep periods, during weekends and vacations. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all, one-time trainings. InnovatEd allows staff members to learn at their own pace and on their own schedule about the topics they are most interested in. 

 

Log in to InnovatEd

Staff Login

Please complete this form to request an account if your attempt to log in is unsuccessful.

Completion & Compensation

Participants must demonstrate 90% mastery completion of all activities in a given course to successfully complete it. There is no extra compensation for Tier 1 courses, curriculum support courses or required MUHSD trainings.

Certificated staff may earn extra compensation for Tier 2 courses ($200 per course).  Tier 2 courses completed by the 25th of each month will include extra compensation on the following month's payroll check.

Classified staff should seek approval from their supervisor before beginning any course to ensure the course is approved for fulfilling Classified's PD requirements, per contract.

Tier 1 Courses

Tier 2 Courses

  • This course will help participants learn about:

    • strong passwords
    • hackers and why they hack
    • social engineering
    • email spoofing and phishing
    • social media & online privacy

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  • This course will take an in-depth look at communication, including different aspects, strategies, and tools to consider when working with students to become effective communicators, and:

    • Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts
    • Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
    • Use communication for a range or purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
    • Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness as well as assess their impact
    • Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multi-lingual)

     

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  • This course examines the skills and behaviors associated with effective student collaboration, including tools and strategies to support students in developing collaboration skills. We want students to:

    • Develop norms, build consensus and resolve group conflicts.
    • Work interdependently towards common tasks and goals. 
    • Employ strategies and tools to develop goals and organize, schedule and prioritize tasks in the process of achieving the larger group-established goal. 
    • Contribute relevant ideas while eliciting, providing and implementing feedback. 

     

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  • This course examines the skills and behaviors associated with critical thinking, including tools and strategies to support students in developing critical thinking skills, and:

    • Research and vet relevant resources, employing strategies for recording and tracking information.
    • Work to produce unbiased, fair-minded, and thorough solutions that demonstrate deep understanding.
    • Explain the rationale for conclusions using inductive and/or deductive reasoning. 
    • Articulate the connection between classroom learning and real world contexts. 

     

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  • This course will take an in-depth look at fostering creativity, including different aspects, strategies, and tools to consider when working with students to become creative innovators. We want students to:

    • understand and articulate the purpose driving the process; employ methods for generating an abundance of original ideas, drawing on a multitude of source material; demonstrate a willingness to challenge traditional and/or existing perspectives and processes.
    • Intentionally sort, arrange, categorize and prioritize ideas in ways that turn options into creatively productive outcomes; employ sustained inquiry techniques; willingly take risks, tolerate ambiguity, learn and adapt from mistakes and failures, and display a desire to grow.
    • Solve the defined problem or meet the identified need in a way that is viable, unique, and/or transformational in scope.

     

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  • The MUHSD Must Haves should be planned for and visible in each learning experience, each day. These are institutionalized, research-based professional practices that are woven throughout the MUHSD Instructional Framework and will foster student achievement academically, behaviorally, and social-emotionally. Topics covered in this course include:

    • Learning objectives and targets
    • Student voice and connectedness
    • Academic Rigor 
    • The 4Cs
    • Checking for Understanding
    • Closure

    *Note: The culminating activity at the end of this course will ask you to apply new learning to develop an activity to implement with students. The implementation component is required and must take place AFTER your start date in this course.

     

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  • Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:

    • Understand the three core principles of UDL
    •  Develop effective learning goals
    •  Design lessons that:
      • Address barriers to equity and can accessed by ALL students
      • Provide student voice and choice and create options for students to overcome their own barriers to learning
      • Offer multiple means of engagement

    *Note: The culminating activity at the end of this course will ask you to apply new learning to develop an activity to implement with students. The implementation component is required and must take place AFTER your start date in this course.

     

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