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Professional Learning

Welcome to professional learning at Stanford Graduate School of Education. We offer a variety of research-based learning opportunities for educators and school system leaders.

Take a look at what we have to offer and consider joining our community of education professionals, learning together to support excellence and equity in education.

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Upcoming opportunities

Attend a webinar, workshop, or multi-day institute. Our learning opportunities are designed to be engaging and model effective teaching practices. Join us!

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Online | School Leaders | Fee
CSET School Leaders Program
March 1, 2023 - June 30, 2025
Center: Center to Support Excellence in Teaching
This national program is a two-year opportunity for site leaders to deepen their knowledge, skills, and impact in a community of practice where collaboration enables transformational change.

Online | Well-being | All content areas | Fee
Virtual Challenge Success S.P.A.C.E Camp
June 27, 2023
Center: Challenge Success
new professional development opportunity for K-12 educators to explore our research-based, equity-centered SPACE Framework and learn practical problem-solving strategies grounded in Continuous Improvement to drive meaningful school change.

Online | History | Fee
Going Deeper with Reading Like a Historian: Local History, OUTs, & Discussion
July 11, 2023 - July 13, 2023
Center: Stanford History Education Group
In this interactive institute, participants will learn about adapting historical documents, teaching local history with document-based lessons, using Opening Up the Textbook (OUTs) lesson plans, and supporting student discourse.

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Programs and fellowships

Our cohort-based learning experiences leverage Stanford faculty and research, collaboration with peers, and ongoing support to take your career to the next level.

Stanford EdLEADers

Stanford EdLEADers is a professional certificate program for K–12 school system leaders. Flexible, 100% virtual, and cohort-based, EdLEADers is offered jointly with Stanford Graduate School of Business and is designed to equip education leaders to effect systemic improvements in their districts.

Learn more and apply

Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship

This year-long fellowship for aspiring community college presidents aims to develop exceptional leaders who can push the field forward and achieve high levels of student success.

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The Hollyhock Program

Hollyhock is a suite of programs that offer transformational professional learning to early-career high school teachers, leadership development for graduates of the program, and professional development and community for school leaders of participating schools.

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National Board Candidate Support Program

The GSE’s National Board Resource Center offers an online, cohort-based program of support for educators seeking National Board certification. The program is open to all teachers interested in high-quality collaboration and professional development.

Learn more and register

Ongoing learning opportunities

Our research centers offer a variety of online, self-paced learning opportunities for educators and school leaders.
 

Online | In-person | Hybrid | Fee
Assessment Professional Development Workshops
Center: Challenge Success
Learn assessment strategies that support and better gauge learning in the classroom as well as start conversations about assessment practices in your faculty group.

Online
Effective Classroom Conversations
Empowering students to have meaningful conversations is critical to personal and academic success. In this course, you’ll learn teaching methods that are effective in fostering productive and constructive academic discussions for all students.

Hybrid
Preparing for National Board Certification

Teachers often state that pursuing National Board certification was their most powerful professional learning experience. It can be challenging to determine what and how best to provide evidence of your accomplished practice. The goal of this course is to support teachers pursuing certification by combining collaboration with other educators and National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) and using a compilation of key resources.


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people participated in professional learning developed by Stanford GSE in 2019-20
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Our research centers develop a variety of resources for educators at all levels as well as teacher educators. Visit our resource page to browse our offerings.

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Professional learning research centers

Our research centers work in partnership with educators and schools to develop learning opportunities that are responsive to the needs of school communities. Visit our centers’ websites to learn more and subscribe to their content.
 

Center to Support Excellence in Teaching works in educational partnerships to solve persistent problems of practice by improving the quality of instruction, keeping equity at the center of the work, and developing leaders.

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Challenge Success provides schools and families with proven strategies that promote well-being and engagement with learning to transform the student experience. They offer resources and learning experiences for schools, families, and students.

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Stanford History Education Group’s professional learning, curriculum, and assessments support research-based instructional methods in history. SHEG also offers the Civic Online Reasoning curriculum for educators in all subject areas to teach critical online inquiry skills.

Visit the SHEG website

The California World Language Project (CWLP) is a collaborative project that conducts research on topics pertaining to Second Language Acquisition and sponsors professional learning opportunities for World Language educators.

Visit the CWLP website

Youcubed’s mission is to inspire, educate, and empower teachers of mathematics, transforming the latest research into accessible and practical forms. Youcubed offers learning opportunities, community, and resources.

Visit the youcubed website

GSE faculty bring the latest advances in the social sciences, technology, and teacher preparation to the field of education. You can learn more through our research centers page.

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Connect with us!

Subscribe to our professional learning newsletter for quarterly updates on learning opportunities and resources.

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Subscribe to the GSE’s monthly newsletter, The Educator, for the latest on our education research.

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Interested in hiring our graduates? You can list your open positions in our careers portal on our career resources website.

Hire GSE students and alumni

We’d love to hear from you! For questions or to inquire about customized learning experiences for your school or district, please contact

Heidi Chang
Director of Professional Learning

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