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InspireSTEM: Empowering Educators for Future Innovators

Dive into the latest trends and best practices in STEM education, with hands-on activities, collaborative projects, and expert-led sessions designed to empower teachers to inspire the next generation of innovators.

Aug. 21, 2024

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8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Sourcewell

Land Use 201

This is an advanced training session. This workshop is intended to help build capacity for tenured zoning administrators to approach complex land use scenarios in their changing communities.

April 3, 2024

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10 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Sourcewell

License Renewal: Mental Health and Suicide Prevention

Led by a mental health professional and educator, this webinar will cover key facts about children's mental health, early warning signs of mental health disorders, and signs and symptoms of childhood suicide. Discussion will include strategies for how to respond and how to access help for students.

On demand

License Renewal: Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

This training focuses on why and how our body and brain respond to stress/crisis and how that affects our work, wellness, and interactions. Explore Social-Emotional Learning strategies to recognize dysregulation in yourself and others, as well as strategies to regain and retain regulation. These strategies apply to interactions with students, colleagues, and caregivers.

On demand

License Renewal: Reading Instruction Preparation

This webinar provides participants an opportunity to explore components of effective reading instruction including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and motivation and engagement. Within each component, participants will learn what it is, why we teach it, and how we teach it.

On demand

License Renewal: Supporting our Multilingual Learners

Multilingual learners in our classrooms are a huge asset. Not every educator may feel confident in how to best support and include these students. This webinar offers insights to support educators in creating optimal learning environments and instructional strategies for each learner.

On demand

Multilingual Learner / EL Teacher and Coordinator Training

This workshop is designed to build awareness, create an action plan, and support implementation of supports for multilingual learners and EL/ELL/ESL students. Explore considerations for programming, resource allocation, program models, and ideas for cross department collaboration and high leverage strategies to support the multilingual learners in your school/district.

Aug. 21, 2024

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8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Sourcewell

NGSS Storylines - The A-Z of Connecting Lessons

This NGSS-aligned teacher workshop introduces storyline-based learning, revolutionizing student experiences with real-world relevance and immersing educators in the intricacies of 3D learning. Teachers step into students' shoes, connecting concepts across disciplines, nurturing curiosity, and fostering critical thinking in science education. They journey through complete storylines, experiencing firsthand the transformative power of this approach, walking away with a clear picture of the new science standards, and shifts in teaching pedagogy.

June 20, 2024

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8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

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Sourcewell

Nonprofit Community Impact Funding Review Day

Sourcewell will award tens of thousands of dollars to local nonprofit organizations through Community Impact Funding. However, Sourcewell doesn't select the projects, you do! Join us for Community Impact Funding Review Day and if you are affiliated with a 501c3 nonprofit in the region, you have a vote. Applicants will present their project and then participants will then have time to ask questions and rank projects for funding.

June 18, 2024

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1-4 p.m.

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Sourcewell

Open Meeting Law and Data Practices

This is a specialized training on both practical and legal considerations of open meeting law and data practices. Participants will gain an understanding of these very complicated laws,  learn how to access appropriate tools, and leave with practical knowledge for working within the laws’ parameters.

April 4, 2024

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9 a.m.-12 p.m.

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Crosslake Fire Hall Training Room (south side of building)

Paraeducator Online Training

Join this on-demand training opportunity to access a wide variety of online courses designed to provide paraprofessionals the targeted training needed to succeed as a Title I paraprofessional, including strategies that can be applied immediately.


The training includes access to over 150 courses and can be used for professional development or certification. Access to the content will be available for one year from your registration date. If you are using this training for certification, you must complete PARA Assessment 1 and PARA Assessment 2. The assessments must be proctored. Please be aware that this is an on-demand training and any preparations for the assessments are up to the individual to complete online.


Sourcewell will not be hosting proctoring sessions at this time, please see this FAQ document for more information.

On demand

Principal Nourishment

Sourcewell is partnering with Agile Ideas Leadership (AIL) to bring this 5-session series to school leaders. Topics will include developing instructional leadership, fostering a positive and supportive work environment, providing instructional feedback, engaging in challenging conversations, and aligning your building teams.

Multiple days

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8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

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Sourcewell

Recognizing and Addressing Harmful Language

Language is ever evolving and changing. Sometimes knowing which terms or descriptions to use can be difficult and sometimes we don’t even know we are using outdated or harmful language. This webinar is focused on promoting positive language around topics such as race, gender, and common school-based labels and language.

On demand

Regional Adult Foster Care Conference

Sourcewell is excited to host our Regional Adult Foster Care Conference in partnership with the counties we serve which include Cass, Crow Wing, Morrison, Todd, Wadena, Otter Tail, and Douglas Counties. This virtual conference will provide an opportunity to learn about the evolving changes around family adult foster care and community residential settings and provide you with pertinent professional development. Each participant will receive 4 hours of professional development.

April 19, 2024

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9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

School Communications Annual Planning

This professional development session will share tools and resources for best practices in school communications planning. In addition, participants will have time to develop the annual communications plan for their school district.

July 25, 2024

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8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

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Sourcewell

Sourcewell Educator Summit 2024

The Sourcewell Educator Summit is an excellent opportunity to engage with leading education experts as you continue the work of creating a culture of learning for all.

Aug. 7-8, 2024

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8:20 a.m.-3 p.m. daily

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Breezy Point Resort

Supporting English Learners in Every Classroom, Every Day

Multilingual learners are enrolling in unprecedented numbers across greater Minnesota. Every teacher and school administrator can be prepared to support this diverse student population. Dr. Amy Young will walk us through how to support every multilingual learner in every classroom, every day.

Aug. 20, 2024

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8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Sourcewell

Trauma-Informed Practices: Bridging Knowledge to Action

This training provides an opportunity to examine and evaluate your current practices when responding to young people experiencing trauma. Learn about and address behaviors resulting from unmet needs, then problem-solve and plan interventions using grade-level-specific student and schoolwide scenarios. Scenario responses will explore and apply a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) model for behavior. Resilience is not a result of hard times; it’s a result of the various supports available during challenging times. Let us be those proven supports and make the shift from understanding trauma, to responding in ways that build resilient young people, ready to thrive socially, emotionally, and intellectually.

Aug. 22, 2024

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8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Sourcewell

Youth Mental Health First Aid - August 2024

Identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges among young people. You will build the skills and confidence you need to reach out and provide initial support to young people. You will also learn how to help connect them to appropriate support.

Aug. 15, 2024

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8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Sourcewell