Our Professional Learning department is dedicated to fostering continuous growth and development among educators. We believe that investing in the professional growth of teachers, administrators, and staff leads to enhanced student achievement and a thriving educational community.
At the heart of our mission is the commitment to providing high-quality, relevant, and research-based professional development opportunities. We aim to empower educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to excel in their roles and make a lasting impact in the lives of students.
We offer these opportunities in a variety of ways.
We maintain a statewide, regionally-based network that provides opportunities
for mandated professional development for school administrators. Our offerings focus on a range of relevant topics for best practices in educational leadership.
We provide access to hundred of academies, trainings, activities, and courses through the Illinois Online Academy to help you fulfill your licensure requirements.
We connect and collaborate with districts to learn what services would be most beneficial to each school climate. Our team can then tailor our approach with a range of options to maximize the return for the educators we work with.
We provide timely and relevant support to educators in their journey to meet the ever-increasing demands of teaching and leading through a variety of synchronous and asynchronous online workshops. All offerings provide participants with research-based, relevant resources and help address the critical issues facing educators today.
Through these opportunities, educators are empowered to make immediate and long-lasting changes in their professional practice to help increase student achievement while also meeting their social and emotional needs.
By statute, every administrator must complete a minimum of one approved academy annually and a minimum of five in each administrator certificate renewal period.
The Illinois Online Academy provides a range of online academies that meet this criteria while providing research-based strategies to help you on you journey. Topics range from combatting educator burnout, meeting and presentation tips, restorative practices, and more.