The 2026-27 CALIE Certified Educator cohort returns from the winter break on Wednesday, January 13 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm PT. Session 5 opens the design arc of the program, where participants connect their capstone project to meaningful outcomes for students, educators, or systems and learn how to design for access, participation, usability, and realistic implementation.
- Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2027
- Time: 4:00 to 5:30 pm PT
- Location: Virtual (live meeting for enrolled participants)
- Applications: Applications for the 2026-27 cohort close October 14, 2026
- Cost: $2,000 program fee, payable in 1, 2, or 4 installments
- Applying: Free, and nothing is due when you apply
It is easy to design something that works for the teachers who were already on board. Designing for the students who need it most, the colleagues who are stretched thin, and the constraints that will not go away takes more discipline. Participants come back from the checkpoint with a sharpened challenge and spend this session deciding what their project will actually do for learners and how they will know.
In this session you will:
- Define the outcomes your project is meant to produce and for whom
- Design for access and participation across the full range of learners
- Test usability against the daily reality of a classroom or school
- Set implementation expectations you can meet
Sessions 5 through 8 ask what you are designing, how it supports learning or educator effectiveness, what evidence is shaping it, and how it can be implemented realistically. This session starts that work.