Online Courses for Educators
Advance your knowledge, skills, and practices with guidance from Learning Forward’s top practitioners for the highest quality online learning experience available. Our online professional learning courses include self-paced, blended, and fully asynchronous online options that help educators advance individual, team, and system growth.
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Self-paced
Introduction to Standards for Professional Learning
Dive into Standards for Professional Learning and the key frames that describe the essential content of adult learning, process elements of high-quality professional learning, and aspects of the professional learning context, structures, and cultures.
The Intersection of Equity and Professional Learning
Equip educators with a comprehensive understanding of the equity standards within the Standards for Professional Learning, and apply them to your own work as you examine the crucial role equity plays in a high-quality professional learning system.
Professional Learning Essentials
Move your system from a "PD mindset" to one that reflects a vision for and key attributes of comprehensive professional learning. Examine key roles and responsibilities for leaders at various levels of a comprehensive learning system and advance professional learning as a driver of improvement.
Blended
New cohorts coming soon. See full list below for upcoming courses.
About our online courses
*Certificate of completion offered on all courses.
Full course list
Self-paced courses
Our self-paced online courses give you the freedom to dive deep into learning no matter your geographic location or schedule limitations.
Introduction to Standards for Professional Learning
Learning Forward’s first fully self-paced online course provides you and your team with an overview of the revised Standards for Professional Learning and strategies for implementing Standards in your school or system.
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Professional Learning Essentials
This course explores foundational components of professional learning to help ensure that everyone in your system understands their roles in planning, implementing, and evaluating professional learning/professional development/PD that improves teaching and learning outcomes.
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Key Roles for Instructional Coaches
This course helps coaches define and apply the key roles they play within a school or system, and prioritize coaching work based on their school/system context, ensuring maximum impact on student learning.
Coming soon.
The Intersection of Professional Learning and Equity
This course highlights the role of professional learning in ensuring equitable outcomes for students by exploring equity foundations, drivers, and practices within the Standards for Professional Learning, and providing strategies to overcome equity challenges.
Enroll here.
Standards Implementation Tools
This course explores tools to help individuals, schools and systems take the next step in standards implementation, including Role-Based Action Guides, Innovation Configuration Maps, and the Standards Assessment Inventory.
Blended courses
Our facilitated courses connect you with other practitioners and top experts in a combination of synchronous and asynchronous activities.
Powerful Practices for Professional Learning
This course expands your tool kit to plan, design, and deliver professional learning that gets results. Implement a professional learning framework, grounded in Standards for Professional Learning, that promotes high levels of learning and retention, and increases adult learners’ capacity and desire to implement new learning.
Implementing a Coaching Cycle
New, veteran, and prospective coaches will unpack, practice, and implement a coaching cycle as well as examine and practice critical components of planning and reflective conversation to set the stage for coaches’ ongoing work with teachers.
Powerful Communication Skills for Coaches
This course will enhance the coaching skills of self-awareness, listening, questioning, and supporting the critical thinking of others. New and experienced coaches will practice coaching interactions with support from their colleagues and experts, and share best practices in facilitating coaching conversations.
New cohort coming 2024
Becoming a Learning Team
This course introduces a five-stage learning team cycle and provides step-by-step guidance in using collaborative learning time to solve specific student learning challenges. Learn a process for using student data to craft student and educator learning goals leading to learning plans, implementation steps, and progress monitoring.
