Filter by Category
Professional Development
in Course Type
Incident Safety Awareness For Hired Vendors (College of the Siskiyous)
with Greg McFadden
Incident Safety Awareness for Hired Vendors (College of the Siskiyous)
This course is held at College of the Siskiyous in Weed, CA. This course provides an awareness of fireline and incident safety to hired vendors who plan to engage in wildland fire suppression and other incident support activities. It includes an overview of hazards and safety issues, entrapment avoidance, incident organization, how to recognize and mitigate risk, maintain safe work practices while working under an agency supervision, fire shelter deployment, and case studies.
Designed For: Hired vendors working with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) or the United States Forest Service (USFS) on any active incident, including water tender operators, heavy equipment drivers or operators, crew bus drivers, vehicles with a driver, mechanics, fallers, and swampers.
Authority: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and United State Forest Service (USFS) agreements
Standard: State Fire Training (SFT) requires every student to attend the entire course, participate in classroom and group discussions, complete and pass all activities, and complete an oral evaluation.
Date(s): April 11th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Saturday
Time: 9:00am- 5:00pm
Location: College of the Sikiyous 800 College Ave, Weed, CA 96094- Science Building Room 110
Facilitator: Greg McFadden
Fee: $200.00
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -
Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results
with Jenn Snider
Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results
When your work depends on input from people, the quality of your questions matters. This practical workshop teaches you how to ask better questions—whether you’re planning programs, interviewing job candidates, gathering client feedback, or running a quick survey.
You’ll learn how to write clear, unbiased questions, choose effective response options, and avoid common pitfalls that lead to confusing answers. Designed for beginners, this class is friendly, hands-on, and immediately useful. You’ll leave with simple tools and templates you can apply right away.
Date(s): Session 1: April 16th, 2026
1- Thursday
Session 2: April 22nd, 2026
1- Wednesday
Schedule: 1- Wednesday or Thursday
Time: Wednesday 9:00am- 11:00am
Thursday 5:30pm- 7:30pm
Location: Shasta College Community Leadership Center 1401 California St, Redding, CA 96001 Room 9301
Facilitator: Jenn Snider
Fee: $75.00
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -
Quick Tips for Microsoft Excel
with Rio Miner
Quick Tips for Microsoft Excel
Improve your MS Excel use with this refresher course. Learn to quickly review, analyze, and interpret data using MS Excel tricks, formulas, tables, and graphs.Become a better Excel spreadsheet user with this practical skill-enhancing class. Use simple tricks to quickly see patterns, identify outliers, and visualize the numbers better than ever. Learn useful Excelfunctions and formulas to make operations more efficient and identify problems before they grow. If understanding data is key to your business, let us help you unlock the analytical power of Excel.Course Overview:
1. Sort & filter; Conditional formatting; Text-to-Columns
2. How to create a pivot table and recognize patterns in large datasets
3. How to use basic & intermediate formulas
4. Quick Check formulas: sum, count, and average
Date(s): Session 1: April 16th, 2026
Schedule: 1- Wednesday
Time: 5:30pm- 7:00pm
Location: Shasta College Health Sciences 1400 Tehama St Redding CA 96001 Room 8113
Facilitator: Rio Miner
Fee: $50.00
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -
Certified Flagger Training Course (College of the Siskiyous)
with Korey Conry
Certified Flagger Training Course
Learn how to be a safe and effective flagger with ATSSA’s certified flagger training courses. Understand why proper flagger operations are important and learn the standard skillset of a good flagger. Apply and identify standard work zone flagger control references and learn standard flagger practices for various situations. Certification is good for 4 years.
Date(s): Session 1: April 18th, 2026
Schedule: 1 - Saturday
Time: 8:00am- 12:00pm
Location: College of the Siskiyous 800 College Ave, Weed, CA 96094 Science Building Room 110
Facilitator: Korey Conry
Fee: $75 (Regular fee $150.00. Reduced pricing brought to you by Strong Workforce Program funding)
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -
Effective Nonprofit Fundraising and Grant Writing
with Bob Reich
Effective Nonprofit Fundraising and Grant Writing
Whether you are asking for organizational contributions, selling school fundraising items, putting on an event, or other requests, is asking for and bringing in funds to support your organization or program a challenge? You are not alone. You don’t have to apologize when asking for support and contributions for your organization. In this course you will learn techniques to bring in funds and resources for your project or organization. This workshop is valuable for staff, Boards, volunteers, and anyone who is involved with raising funds for your nonprofit organization.
Date(s): Session 1: April 22nd- May 6th, 2026
Schedule: 3- Wednesdays
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Virtual Via Zoom- Link to be sent prior to class
Facilitator: Bob Reich
Fee: $110.00
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -
Note: The instructor will email the Zoom link to all participants prior to the start of class.
Introduction to Microsoft Excel (Tehama Campus)
with Rio Miner
Introduction to Microsoft Excel
Enhance any business or career with the analytical power of MS Excel! Learn to organize, analyze, and interpret data using MS Excel tricks, formulas, tables, and graphs.Get new insights from your data! Become a better Excel spreadsheet user with this practical skill-enhancing class. Find patterns, identify outliers, and see the numbers better than ever before. Learn useful Excelfunctions and formulas to make operations more efficient and identify problems before they grow. If understanding data is key to your business, let us help you unlock the analytical power of Excel.Course Outline:
1. How to organize data
2. Using sort & filter functions
3. Conditional formatting
4. Tying it together: Recognizing patterns in large datasets
5. How to use basic formulas
6. Quick Check & Basic formulas: sum, count, and average
7. How to create a pivot table
8. Text-to-columns
9. Advanced formulas: VLOOKUP; CONCAT
Date(s): Session 1: May 14th- May 28th, 2026
Schedule: 3- Thursdays
Time: 12:30pm- 2:00pm
Location: Shasta College Tehama Campus 770 Diamond Ave Red Bluff CA 96080 Room 7114
Facilitator: Rio Miner
Fee: $115.00
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -
SBDC- Launching Cottage Food Business in Northern California
with SBDC
SBDC- Launching Cottage Food Businesses
This two-part course is structured to support entrepreneurs in Northern California who want to learn how to start a cottage food business. The course content will cover the following topics:
- Defining products, brand, and vision/mission
- Identifying target audience and customer
- Online marketing, social media, and eCommerce
- Industry trends and benchmarks
- Go-to market strategies
Note: The local SBDC has partnered with Shasta College to bring a series of professional development courses. These courses are beneficial to anyone with a small business or those looking to start a small business. Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, and grants with the California Office of the Small Business Advocate. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA or the California Office of the Small Business Advocate. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least 72 hours in advance of this event; please send an email with the subject header ACCOMMODATION REQUEST to Shasta-Cascade SBDC, Alexander@siskiyoucounty.org, (530)222-8323
Date(s): Session 1: May 21st- May 28th, 2026
Schedule: 2- Thursdays
Time: 5:00pm- 7:00pm
Location: Shasta College Community Leadership Center 1401 California St. Redding CA 96001 Room 9301
Facilitator: Quintin Gaddy, Director: (SBDC)
Fee: $30.00
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -
SFT Ethical Leadership for Instructors
with Brian Hammond
SFT Ethical Leadership for Instructors
Description: This course provides the knowledge and skills needed to identify the value of ethical behavior in instructional settings, describe how ethical norms influence individual ethics, identify a personal ethical perspective and core values and how they impact communication and ethical decision making, and make an ethical decision using an ethical decision-making model, in order to assist in making ethical decisions when faced with an ethical dilemma in an instructional setting and carry out the roles and responsibilities of an SFT instructor in an ethical manner.
Designed For: Individuals who wish to teach State Fire Training courses as a registered instructor and anyone interested in pursuing ethical behavior in an instructional setting.
Authority: Office of the State Fire Marshal
Standard: Attend all class sessions and complete all activities and assignments.
Total Hours: 8
Dates: May 26 & 27
Schedule: Tuesday and Wednesday
Time(s): 6:00PM-10:00PM
Location: Online / Synchronous
Facilitator: Brian Hammond
Fee: $200 (includes $75 SFT Diploma)
MUST READ: click here to view refund policies -