Professional Development

Annenberg/ CPB Learner

A comprehensive resource including online courses, curriculum materials, and teacher professional development opportunities. Certificates of Participation are available to those working in groups. These certificates may be used for inservice or recertification credit. Graduate credit is available for courses and most workshops for a reasonable cost.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

This site includes events, on-site training, online resources, and courses for credit. This site includes a large array of topics such as character education, classroom management, environmental education, school safety, and much more.

Brain Connection

Information on the brain and learning, brain teasers, and courses for credit are available on this site.

Bureau of Education and Research

An excellent resource for staff development, seminars, conferences, on-site training, and courses. Inservice credit or graduate credit is available.

Center for Teaching International Development

On-line and on-campus courses as well as advanced placement Summer Institutes for education professionals. Topics include Regional Studies, World Geography, World History, World Religions, and more.

Diane Morrison Consulting

With courses covering such unique subjects as personality training, creativity, utilizing humor, managing emotion and developing leaders, Diane Morrison Consulting courses are not only insightful and useful, but also interesting and fun. Plus, the Graduate Credit can go toward your recertification and salary advancement.

ERIC: EBSCO Database

Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents.

Education World

Lesson planning, professional articles, and courses for credit are included.

Heritage Institute Online

Self-paced online courses for credit, seminars, and conferences in all subject areas.

MAS Ultra: EBSCO Database

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. 

New Horizons

Computer courses and online seminars on many applications including, microsoft, adobe, design, and media. Can take courses online or in a classroom.

Professional Development Collection: EBSCO Database 

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of education journals, including many peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

PBS Teacher Source

This site includes more than three thousand free lesson plans and activities as well as current events for the classroom by grade level or subject.

Teachers' Domain

Gain multimedia resources for the classroom and teacher professional development, includes lesson plans. Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components — collections and courses — that help teachers enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills.

World Wide Learn

Online courses and graduate degrees available. Includes business courses, career training, continuing education, language courses, online training, and personal development.