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Professional Development
We help teachers meet the challenges they face every day.
Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education provides a welcoming online space for educators at all stages of their careers to develop effective, targeted solutions to shared problems of practice. From improving classroom engagement to building instructional leadership capacity, cultivating equitable learning environments, and improving learning outcomes, our programs equip you with research-tested tools and strategies that you can use right away.
We offer a broad range of programs and scheduling options so that you can learn at your convenience, on your own or with your team. If you’re ready to help your students and your school make measurable progress, our experienced faculty is ready to help you get started.
Build skills to help you become a more effective leader, coach, and mentor within your team or instructional department.
Teach your students to formulate effective questions, and to use effective questioning to pursue their interests, navigate complex situations, and solve problems.
Learn to use the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to create a deeper culture of inquiry in your classroom, school, district, or organization.
Design family engagement practices that are directly connected to student learning. Increase your capacity to engage staff, families, and your community to improve student outcomes.
Learn to create inclusive, nurturing environments that foster the social, emotional, and academic development of LGBTQ+ youth.
Learn to identify cultural assumptions in literature and incorporate diverse texts and critical conversations into your practice.
Develop a deeper understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and gain the knowledge and confidence to design learning environments that increase access to engaging, meaningful learning experiences for all students.
Learn the principles and practices of instructional rounds, a collaborative process for observing, analyzing, and improving teaching and learning from the Harvard faculty who created the methodology and authored Instructional Rounds in Education.
Help your students and colleagues manage complex disagreements in ways that promote collaboration, enhance empathy, and build community.
Develop practical knowledge, skills, and strategies to enable you and your organization to examine emerging moral crises, understand their complexity, and take meaningful action to remedy them.
Learn to foster global competence on climate action in your school using proven frameworks and tactics for organizational change.
Learning with other educators from your school community provides an opportunity to step away from the day-to-day and come together around a shared problem of practice to collaborate, share ideas, test hypotheses, and support one another’s learning. Our programs are designed with job-embedded learning–providing actionable strategies you can immediately implement into your practice. And enrolling as a group of educators or a team from your organization enables you to learn together, build a common vocabulary, and develop a shared action plan.
Please let us know if you are interested in participating as a group or team in professional development, and our engagement team will work to partner with you on co-creating a professional learning plan for your organization.