PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS
PD Written by Teachers, For Teachers
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Our
Purpose
PD Pro provides a voice and space to the expert educators, administrators, and coaches currently working in the field to create exceptional, relevant, and practical professional development.
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We know teachers need current and applicable strategies to support their students.
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We believe that the collective knowledge in our schools can and will improve the educational landscape through training, mutual understanding, and support.
PD Pro
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT WORKS FOR YOU
CREATED BY CURRENT TEACHERS
PD Pro works with current educators to create courses based on their unique expertise in schools. As educational leaders, coaches, and masters in their subjects, they provide strategies based on current best practices as well as their personal experiences working with diverse learners.
RELEVANT, PRACTICAL COURSES
PD Pro courses are designed to support educators in current classrooms, providing practical and applicable methods, ideas, and techniques that can be implemented immediately.
FLEXIBLE TIMELINE, ONLINE ACCESS, AFFORDABLE
PD Pro courses can be taken and completed on your own timeline with access from any computer. Courses cost $5/clock hour and are available in a variety of options from 5 hours to 70.
HOW TO EARN CLOCK HOURS
PD Pro believes that the attainment of clock hours should be straightforward and affordable. To earn clock hours, follow these steps:
1. Select the course you would like to take by examining the catalog or choosing from the featured courses below.
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2. Follow the prompts to pay for the course.
3. Complete the course and submit the required assignment.
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4. Clock hours will be sent to your email.
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5. Give your clock hours to your school district.
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Have questions? Email us: pd@pdpro.org
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New PD!
Reflections in Practice: Strengthening Learning Partnerships
10 Clock Hours, $50
This quick and relevant course intends to help teachers understand the importance of family engagement in the classroom and offer strategies to improve involvement, leading to student success. Teachers will be asked to journal their learnings and explore how their own practice can be improved through a reflective process.
Required Text: Powerful Partnerships A Teacher’s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success by Karen L. Mapp, Ilene Carver, and Jessica Lander.
New PD!
Learning Partnerships: Family Engagement and Community Partnerships in the Classroom
50 Clock Hours, $250
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This informative, updated course equips educators with the knowledge and skills to effectively engage families and communities in the educational process, fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for student success. This course is grounded in the State of Washington CCDEI standards and fulfills the CCDEI requirements for clock hours.
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Required Texts: School, Family, and Community Partnerships Your Handbook for Action 4th Edition. Joyce L. Epstein and Associates.
101 Ways to Create Real Family Engagement by Dr Steven M Constantino
New PD!
ECE Literacy Strategies
20 Clock Hours, $100
This relevant and current course provides numerous instructional strategies and information to enable the p-3 teacher to create a quality, effective literacy program in their own classroom. It reviews the science of reading, core literacy principles, developmental understandings, applicable assessments, and intentional supports.
New PD!
Serving Gifted and Talented Students in the Classroom
20 Clock Hours
This informative module presents the characteristics of gifted and talented students; discerning how they learn and what they need to be successful in the classroom. This PD will equip teachers with strategies that will help students find success in and outside of a traditional gifted program.
New PD!
Since Time Immemorial
50 Clock Hours, $250
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This comprehensive course explores Washington State Indigenous Tribes, their history, heritage, and uniqueness. It then examines the Since Time Immemorial Curriculum, providing an in depth look at its requirements, classroom implementation, and resources. Collaboration with tribes and strategies for lesson planning are presented. This course fulfills State of Washington Senate Bill 5433 STI requirement.
New PD!
Implementing the Science of Reading in the 3-5 Classroom
30 Clock Hours, $150
This engaging and informative course identifies common literacy practices to reconsider based on previous and current confusion and misunderstandings. It identifies high leverage instructional routines for teachers to consider, implement, and support their shift to a new perspective regarding literacy instruction. This course addresses the 3-5 classroom.
New PD!
Implementing the Science of Reading in the k-2 Classroom
30 Clock Hours, $150
This engaging and informative course identifies common literacy practices to reconsider based on previous and current confusion and misunderstandings. It identifies high leverage instructional routines for teachers to consider, implement, and support their shift to a new perspective regarding literacy instruction. This course addresses the k-2 classroom.
Featured PD Courses
Below are our featured courses. All courses are $5/per clock hour.
70 clock hours, $350
This course explores Pacific Northwest History from an Indigenous Perspective as well as thoroughly teaches the Since Time Immemorial Curriculum.
This course fulfills Certification Program standard 2.E, RCW 28B.10.710 and WAC 181-78A-232.
30 clock hours, $150
This course guides secondary teachers through current best practices and effective instruction for the 6-12 classroom. These methods work for all subjects, providing thoughtful and engaging ideas that can be implemented immediately.
40 clock hours, $200
This course explores CCDEI concepts, history, and standards. It provides practical strategies to increase awareness and equity in the classroom.
This course fulfills State of WA CCDEI requirements.
20 Clock Hours, $100
This course will help teachers understand how to guard their privacy, act in a safe lawful manner, and avoid liability as an educator. This is a must take course for all new and current teachers in this ever evolving technology age.
30 clock hours, $150
This course presents Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math strategies that can be applied to any classroom to increase engagement and learning.
This course fulfills State of WA STEM requirements.
20 clock hours, $100
This course presents the history, characteristics, and needs of Multiple Language Learners and provides strategies to support them in the general education classroom.
30 Clock Hours, $150
This course comprehensively addresses the various strategies needed to implement, support, and/or enhance the dual language experience for all students. The ideas presented will increase engagement, learning, and fun in the dual language and world language classroom.
10 Clock Hours: $50
This fun and engaging course presents and explains the value of storytelling as a teaching tool. It provides multiple prompts to use in the classroom and lists the benefits of storytelling such as recall, language development, vocabulary building, sequencing, visualization, problem solving, thinking skills, and relationship building.
50 Clock Hours, $250
This compelling course helps teachers understand current systems for identification, prevention, and support of struggling readers while identifying common causes and correlations of individual differences in reading abilities. Teachers will be able to identify and select specific instructional literacy strategies that can be implemented immediately in the elementary classroom propelling their students forward in their literacy journeys.
40 Clock Hours, $200​
This comprehensive course defines social emotional learning and articulates the importance of implementing SEL strategies in the classroom. It reviews competencies, addresses challenges, provides practical strategies for SEL integration, and helps teachers create an action plan for their classroom. This course fulfills the State of Washington SEL requirement: RCW 28A.410.270, RCW 28A.410.273, Program Standards 2.C.vii, WAC 181-78A-232(3)(g)
15 Clock Hours, $75
This course advises and addresses how to incorporate paraprofessionals in your classroom to effectively support students, their learning goals, and the classroom environment. It suggests optimal methods for leveraging their expertise and support in the classroom. It is a must take for all teachers.
5 Clock Hours, $25
This encouraging course examines the qualities of a great teacher, offering a variety of different perspectives about how teaching changes the lives of students, and conversely, how students change the lives of teachers.
30 clock hours, $150
This course introduces current best practices that create an inclusive, engaging, and developmentally appropriate classroom learning experience for students from preschool through third grade.
20 Clock Hours, $100
This course presents the science of reading and its basic principles including the five pillars of reading instruction. It provides resources and ideas to implement structured reading in the classroom and why it is so important. This is a must take for all teachers from preschool through high school.
20 clock hours, $100
This course explores the many facets of technology in today's classrooms, discerning the benefits and pitfalls of cellphones, online learning, social media, and AI. It focuses on using technology to benefit students while setting healthy limits.
10 clock hours, $50
This module presents the devastating statistics surrounding students of poverty and trauma, offering practical strategies to support their academic and emotional success.
20 clock hours, $100
This course explores the different types of assessments, how to create individualized opportunities for students to show growth and differentiation for a variety of learners.
40 clock hours, $200
This course examines the diversity of our classrooms, how to modify, accommodate, engage, and inspire students to learn and grow.
This course fulfills State of Washington CCDEI requirements.
Retooling
Teachers can now add the elementary, early childhood education, and special education endorsements to their certificates through PD Pro and Northwest Educational Development. Each endorsement consists of content modules, reflections, and a field experience. Retooling can be completed in your own classroom (if your classroom matches the endorsement you are seeking) and on your own timetable. Click below for more information.
Author Spotlight: Merideth Hansen
Merideth Hansen is an accomplished K-8 educator with over 30 years of dedicated experience in diverse classroom settings across Whatcom and Skagit Counties. Throughout her career, Merideth has focused on serving students in Title 1 schools, enriching the educational experiences of children from a wide array of backgrounds and cultures. Her extensive expertise spans multiple roles, including general education elementary classroom teacher, Title 1/LAP reading and math specialist at both the elementary and middle school levels, and a Pre-K to 6th grade art instructor. Merideth has also been trained as a high-capable cluster classroom teacher and has served as an autism specialist for her grade level, highlighting her commitment to meeting the varied needs of her students. As an active member of her previous district’s math committee, Merideth played a pivotal role in developing a transitional CCSS math curriculum for elementary grades that was used for three years prior to the next math text adoption. She has also been instrumental in providing district-wide professional development and math coaching, ensuring that her colleagues are equipped with the tools and strategies necessary to support student success. In addition to her contributions within the classroom, Merideth has passionately mentored future educators, hosting 23 student teaching interns from Western Washington University (WWU) and Northwest Educational Development (NWED). She has also guided over 15 science and literacy practicum students from WWU over her career, sharing her knowledge and fostering the next generation of teachers. In addition, Merideth has been a NWED supervisor for retooling candidates and interns. Outside of the classroom, you may find Merideth playing trivia with friends, traveling with her family, gardening, going for a long walk or hike, or getting lost in a good book.