 announcing the skateistan elearning platform  announcing the skateistan elearning platform rubymateja mon 11152021 1337 thu 11182021 1200 posted by the goodpush team we are thrilled to finally share something we ve been working on behind the scenes for a while now our new elearning platform dedicated to social skateboarding projects  education toolkit lesson ideas online learning we are delighted to announce skateistan s new elearning platform  the first online learning platform dedicated to social skateboarding projects    so what s it all about  we are often asked by social skateboarding projects for training courses and other ways for teams of staff and volunteers to build their knowledge and improve their practices so we decided to put together the first ever online learning platform specifically for the needs and best practices of social skateboarding projects we have designed several goodpush courses for all levels so whether you re at the beginning stages of setting up your organization or you ve been operating for years we hope you ll find something for you the intention of our elearning platform is to centralize the main topics which social skateboarding projects worldwide have stated they would like extra knowledge or training in we believe that these courses will enable skateboarding initiatives to strengthen their knowledge base in order to provide safer more inclusive programs which prioritize staff and participant wellbeing sneak peek into our child protection ecourse  which courses are available  our learning lab features goodpush ecourses on topics related to  child protection skate programs mental health wellbeing monitoring evaluation and learning creative education coming soon inclusion diversity coming soon this is just the start though we will continue to update the platform with more courses and resources so make sure you keep checking back for the updates and let us know if you have any suggestions of courses that would be useful for your organization how can these ecourses help you  you can use the ecourses as a training tool for your team as an onboarding process for all new staff members volunteers to work through or as an annual refresher for your whole team in order to keep up best practices to learn new ideas for your skate educational programs and lesson planning there might be some useful tips in there you haven t tried out or the courses may get your imagination flowing for a brainstorming session with your team especially with the child protection and monitoring evaluation and learning courses you can mention that your team have all completed these online courses when applying for funding and grants it will show diligence and thoroughness to mention that you are refreshing on these trainings on a regular basis and always working to improve practices  great how do i get set up  our ecourses are available for free to all registered members of goodpushorg if you already have an account simply click the login with goodpush button on the learning lab login page  if you don t have a goodpush account yet you can  register here  see our short video below for instructions of how to register and login to the elearning platform once you ve done that you are good to go and explore all the courses available there    a massive thank you to  penceo sport for sponsoring skateistan with probono use of their simple and interactive  thelearning lab elearning platform  