Children’s Learning Institute Training Resources

Here is your quick start guide to the online training available for CLI Engage Circle and Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment. There are hundreds of hours of training courses available to you online through the Children’s Learning Institute website.

The first thing you will want to do is to download and read through the CLI Engage Quick Start Guide.

Here are other additional resources organized into How-To Guides. After completing your training courses you may need to refer back to these guides throughout the school year.

Here is a thorough and informative introduction to what CLI Engage is, does, and how it works. This is a recording of a previous webinar. Helpful for sure but not required.

The Circle program offers collections of over 2000 activities in both English and Spanish. With Circle you can save activities and create your own collection. Most activities include an Exemplar video. Circle offers progress monitoring results with data to plan differentiated and appropriate instruction for your students.

For infant and toddler you need to complete the teacher training: “Play with Me” Series. There are four course to complete: Talk with Me, Read with Me, Grow with Me, and Connect with Me.

CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Teacher Training: Play with Me Series

CIRCLE Progress Monitoring Pre-K Assessment Training This online training provides an overview of the CIRCLE Progress Monitoring assessment, guidelines for administration and reports.
You must complete this one module course.

Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment (TX-KEA) Training (SI) The Texas Kindergarten Entry Assessment (TX-KEA) Training is a series of courses designed to provide an overview of the assessments, guidelines for administration, and reports. 
You must complete the first two modules of this course; TX-KEA Introduction (Self-Instructional) & TX-KEA Administration Guidelines (Self-Instructional)