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Continuing Professional Education
Interested in a new career? Want to earn CEUs or contact hours to maintain your professional license? Need to update your skills for your own professional development or to help make your company run more efficiently and be more cost effective? The Skagit Valley College Continuing Professional Education program offers classes to help you achieve these goals!
Credit options at Skagit Valley College
We can also help you identify opportunities to link to credit and certificate programs at Skagit Valley College. There are many short term programs available to help you increase your earning power and get the job you want.
Registration
To register via phone using a VISA or MasterCard: call (360) 416-7638 or check out our new online registration option for returning students. E-mail: tee.overby@skagit.edu for more information.X Close Summer Workshops
Summer Quarter Workshops
Continuing Professional Education
Coaching Skills for Breakthroughs and Performance (Mount Vernon Campus)Learn coaching fundamentals and principles to start different kinds of workplace conversations. Coaching is rapidly becoming the new supervisory language that promotes collaboration and productivity. We share an easy-to-use tool that enables people to navigate a coaching session and get positive results. This tool can be used in a wide variety of settings from disciplinary issues to inspirational ideas.Flagging and Traffic Control (Mount Vernon Campus)
Each class is six hours and meets for two three hour sessions. Upon successful completion, students receive a Washington State Traffic Control Flagger card that is valid for three years. Must be 18 years of age or older to receive the flagging card.Managing Conflict Effectively in the Workplace (Mount Vernon Campus)
Got conflict? Everybody does; it’s inevitable. Do you know how to manage conflict to achieve better collaboration, innovation, productivity, profitability? This workshop focuses on behavioral approaches, backed up by brain science, to give folks confidence and success when handling differences. And, it doesn’t matter where the conflict occurs: with co-workers, customers, supervisors, or direct reports. Managing Meeting Madness (Mount Vernon Campus)
Feel like you’re going to waste time when you hear the word, “meeting?” Somewhere around 50% of time in meetings is wasted in this nation. The results are frustration, slow or no movement forward on projects, cynicism, and more. What if you could design a framework that allowed people to get things done quickly and effectively and have fun at the same time? Come to this class and design a Meeting Management Model customized to your operation. Promise: your time won’t be wasted.
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Fall Quarter Workshops
Continuing Professional Education
Flagging and Traffic Control (Mount Vernon Campus)Each class is six hours and meets for two three hour sessions. Upon successful completion, students receive a Washington State Traffic Control Flagger card that is valid for three years. Must be 18 years of age or older to receive the flagging card.
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Winter Quarter Workshops
Continuing Professional Education
Cats & Kittens: Intro to Ttouch (Mount Vernon Campus)Does your cat refuse to use the litter box, bully other cats in the family, or is too frightened to come out from under the bed? This hands-on, interactive workshop is for you! Improve your cat's health and well-being using the Tellington TTouch method and help reduce anxiety, fear and aggression in your cat. Learn first aid techniques that can save your cat's life, and explore techniques for working with feral cats. Bring a stuffed animal (not your kitty!) to practice with.Dog Shorts: Calm Down (Mount Vernon Campus)
Jumping up, demand barking, hyperactivity, over-excuberance with other dogs--all signs that your dog is lacking self-control. This workshop focuses on humane training and management techniques to help your dog learn how to greet people and other dogs appropriately, stay four-on-the-floor, and settle on a mat.Dog Shorts: Come Back! (Mount Vernon Campus)
Coming back when called is a skill that can save your dog's life, and it's the one thing most dog owners find really difficult to train or maintain. It doesn't have to be. This workshop covers why your dog doesn't want to come back to you and several techniques to help you and your dog achieve a solid recall.Dog Shorts: Walk With Me (Mount Vernon Campus)
Does your dog pull on the leash, or worse, bark hysterically or lunge when she sees other dogs or people? Walking calmly on leash is a skill that can be taught. You don't have to use harsh equipment or get rough with your dog. This workshop covers effective and humane techniques to make your dog a joy to work.Dog Shorts: Watch Your Mouth (Mount Vernon Campus)
Barking, whining, chewing, even biting are all natural dog behaviors. This workshop helps you understand what your dog is telling you when she exhibits these behaviors, and what to do about them in a humane and effective manner. Class applies to all ages of dogs, from puppies to seniors.Dogs and Puppies: Intro to TTouch (Mount Vernon Campus)
Does your dog shriek and lunge at other dogs? Dig up your yard? Chew your shoes? Do you have a teething puppy or an older dog feeling his age? This hands-on interactive course is for you. Improve your dog's behavior and health using the TTouch method to reduce anxiety, fear and stress in your dog and explore techniques to address common behavior problems such as digging, barking, chewing, leash pulling, and jumping up. We'll also practice TTouch first aid techniques that can save your dog's life. Bring a stuffed animal to practice on--not your dog.Flagging and Traffic Control (Mount Vernon Campus)
Each class is six hours and meets for two three hour sessions. Upon successful completion, students receive a Washington State Traffic Control Flagger card that is valid for three years. Must be 18 years of age or older to receive the flagging card.House Building in San Juan County (San Juan Center)
This workshop will prepare you for homebuilding and residential contracting while also introducing you to methods for conducting an effective and cost-conscience project. The course provides you with information, resources and problem-solving strategies to help you achieve a successful house building project. For those already experienced this class offers business practices to further sharpen your skills.Introduction to Fly Fishing (Mount Vernon Campus)
This course focuses upon fly fishing for trout in western North America streams and lakes. The beginner will acquire sufficient knowledge and skill to start fly fishing and catch trout. The topics include: matching lines, rods, and reels; casting fly line; selecting leaders, knots, and tippets; learning about trout foods and related flies; basic fly tying; trout habitat and behavior; and fly fishing methods. About half of the classes will be actual "hands-on" learning by doing. There will be a couple optional Saturday classes as well.
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Spring Quarter Workshops
Continuing Professional Education
Flagging and Traffic Control (Mount Vernon Campus)Each class is six hours and meets for two three hour sessions. Upon successful completion, students receive a Washington State Traffic Control Flagger card that is valid for three years. Must be 18 years of age or older to receive the flagging card.Fly Tying (Mount Vernon Campus)
This class uses a wide variety of tying materials and techniques to create some of the most productive trout flies for western North America streams and lakes. Two fly patterns are tied each night. You will also learn to make minor changes in these patterns to make site specific flies that “match the hatch”. All fly tying equipment and materials are provided.
