Your Partner In Professional Development Planning

We understand that every school and district has unique professional development needs. That’s why, with our new professional development planning assistance service, we’ll work with you to curate a list of courses that align with your goals and district requirements. Educators can take high-quality courses that are relevant, practical, and designed to support their growth—while making the approval and planning process smoother for administrators.

Benefits of Working With Us

There are many benefits to partnering with NDSU to curate your professional development program. We bring a strong knowledge of what makes a good professional development course and we have a wide network of individuals who can assist in getting those courses to your educators. You bring a strong knowledge of the content areas and topics that your school needs. Together we can build a program and lighten the load of administering professional development in your school or district. Below are just a few of the benefits you will receive when you choose to work with us.

Our educational partnership can help you identify and prioritize your school or district’s professional development needs.

Gain access to our vast network of educators who can develop courses specific to your needs. We have partnerships with instructors across NDSU as well as educators in school districts nationwide and highly knowledgeable individuals working in other educational organizations.

We offer a menu of existing ongoing courses to select from that meet your needs. Sample and select only the courses you want to approve for use by your educators.

Many courses offer flexible programming options — new and existing courses can be tailored specifically to your needs. Oftentimes an online course can be offered in person or an in-person course can be offered online. We can also do a combination of methods where an instructor can be available for one or two in-person sessions and much of the rest of the course can be completed online synchronously or asynchronously.

Our courses are affordably priced so you and your educators can maximize your budgets. We can also work within your PD budget to provide you a plan that fits just right.

Every professional development course at NDSU undergoes a rigorous review process to ensure quality and relevance. If you want to ensure your educators and staff are receiving the highest quality professional development at the best cost, partner with us. We can make it happen.

Courses are created and taught by degree and content experts—all instructors hold at least a master’s degree, many hold a Ph.D. in their field of study. Sometimes professional development requires an individual outside of the education system to update teachers on new trends or things to be aware of. We partner with individuals from a variety of industries and organizations to bring you timely topics with accurate information from individuals working in that field.

Courses can be designed in 1-credit, digestible chunks for faster time to practical application. This means in 15 contact hours, your educators will have enough information to apply what they learned to their classroom or in their daily interactions with students and their parents.

Who Can Work With Us

Any school or district nationwide can benefit from our professional development planning assistance. You bring your unique state and/or district requirements and we will work to identify and develop courses that meet those unique needs.

If you have courses that meet the needs of other school districts or educators, bring them to us and let us help you promote those courses to our network of educators working on their salary and license requirements.

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