In public schools, effective online professional development affects students. Student learning and achievement increases when educators engage in effective professional development focused on the skills needed to address students’ major learning challenges.

New teachers, juggle an overwhelming number of unfamiliar issues, such as classroom management, instruction, curriculum, school culture and operations, test preparation and administration, state standards, parent relations, and interactions with other teachers. Left to themselves, they may develop counterproductive behaviors. With extra support, however, new teachers learn more effective practices to apply to daily challenges.

More experienced teachers who have a routine, a long standing curriculum, and are in a rhythm, must still earn continuing professional development credits.

For this group, cost, speed, and ease are often the criteria in pic0e most tenured teachers to learn in in a way that will impact their classroom.

At the district level, Literacy Solutions offers budget friendly access to professional development resources which helps to recruit new teachers, retain your current staff, and set your staff on a path to be more effective educators.

Whether you have taught for 1 year or 30, whether you are a district of 500 students or 500,000, the requirements and opportunities to improve outcomes for teachers and students are the same.