Professional Development just got better. By leaps & bounds.
Welcome to the new era of PD, where courses are divided into manageable bite-sized chunks, chock-full of research based strategies that you can implement today.
Practical, personal professional development.
Access courses and resources custom-made to deepen your craft – when and where they actually work for you.
Micro-courses built to fit real-life
Reflections integrated into learning
Recertification ready documentation
Artifact Analysis
Explore dynamic ways to support artifact analysis in your social studies classroom.
Civil Discourse in the Classroom
This course introduces educators to a research-backed framework for facilitating productive, respectful dialogue in classrooms of all levels.
Podcasting for Educators
Learn how to use professional podcasts as powerful classroom texts and support students as they create podcasts.
Historical Inquiry in the Classroom
Made for any social studies teacher who wants to elevate their inquiry instruction and empower students to think like historians.
Nonfiction Reading Strategies
Learn how to teach students to read strategically in any subject area, so they can navigate nonfiction texts with purpose, confidence, and clarity.
Accreditation
Grow your skills, know it counts.
We make it easy to form a habit of professional growth with progression tracking, fun challenges, and gentle reminders when new courses drop. With digital certificates and badges backed by the W&M School of Education, you can have confidence that your learning will be valued.
Classroom-ready resources.
We’re not just here to change PD, we also want to help you in the classroom. Built to to be quick grabs and easy follows, we want to empower you to find content that meets your teaching needs.
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Powerful pedagogy, made joyful.
Our courses and resources are built with cutting-edge research-backed learning techniques. But it’s not just for the course contents benefit. They’re built to improve the desired skills while also introducing new habits of the mind that make learning exponentially easier and more meaningful.
The Learner’s Journey
The structured, continuous process within our courses that will guide you from initial curiosity to a state of mastery.
Moments of Reflection
A moment of ‘pause’ within our courses, designed to analyze and reflect on a learning theory that is being used within.
W.A.G.O.L.L.
We present high-quality examples during learning to help contextualize desired outcomes and build lasting understanding.
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Stop Rushing Past Artifacts: Why Slowing Down Changes Everything
Engaging with artifacts in the classroom can be used as a tool to move from surface‑level observations to deeper questions and reasoned interpretations, and it can be fun too!
Explore Word Gaps for an Instant Reading Comprehension Boost
Explore Word Gaps for an Instant Reading Comprehension Boost My seventh-grade English teacher had an annoying habit. During her class, if we pointed out a word in a book and asked her what it meant, she would say, “The dictionaries are over there,” pointing her long, manicured nail across the room. So, we slogged across the […]
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