Grow your skills. Advance your career.

Graduate-level professional development and continuing education courses for teachers. Completely online and self-paced, with university credit options to support your goals for credential renewal, salary advancement, and continued professional growth.

Course + ACE Credit

Graduate-level, degree-eligible

$459

$394

with code BACK2SCHOOL

Course + UCSD Credit

Graduate-level continuing education

$399

$334

with code BACK2SCHOOL

Course Only (PDI)

In-Service, Non-Credit (45 Hours)

$169

Flexible Timeline

Courses are fully online and self-paced, so you can learn on your own schedule. With year-round term options, find the timing that works for you.

University Credit

Earn graduate-level, degree-eligible credit through ACE or graduate-level continuing education credit through UCSD.

Consistent Format

Every course follows the same format. We make it simple so teachers can take multiple courses and know exactly what to expect.

Immediate Access

All course materials are available immediately upon enrollment. No textbooks required. Begin learning on day one.

UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS

Earn credit that works for your goals

Choose the credit path that supports credential renewal, salary advancement, or graduate degree progress.

American College of Education (ACE)

  • Graduate-level, degree-eligible credit
  • Nationally accredited institution
  • Counts toward graduate degrees
  • Transfer up to 9 credits

UCSD Division of Extended Studies

  • Graduate-level continuing education credit

  • UC system institution
  • Ideal for credential renewal
  • Salary advancement support

Course-Only

  • In-service hours

  • Professional development hours
  • Most affordable option

  • Perfect for initial exploration

Check Out Our Most Popular Courses

Focused Interventions to Improve Executive Function Skills

  • 6 Weeks Avg

  • Self-paced

  • Grades K-12

This course helps teachers understand eight core executive functioning skills and apply targeted instructional strategies that support students’ organization, self-regulation, academic success, and growth mindset.

Proactive Strategies for Middle and High School Behavior Management

  • 6 Weeks Avg

  • Self-paced

  • Grades 6-12

This course equips middle and high school educators with research-based strategies and knowledge for understanding why students act out and how to address challenging student behaviors.

Instilling a Growth Mindset in Students

  • 6 Weeks Avg

  • Self-paced

  • Grades K-12

This course helps educators foster a growth mindset through meaningful feedback, effective questioning, and modeling strategies that build students’ confidence, resilience, and willingness to learn from mistakes.

Adopting High-Leverage Strategies to Engage Struggling Students

  • 6 Weeks Avg

  • Self-paced

  • Grades PreK-12

This course equips teachers with high-leverage, evidence-based practices, including differentiation, data-driven planning, collaboration, and tiered interventions to make learning more accessible, engaging, and effective for students.

Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom

  • 6 Weeks Avg

  • Self-paced

  • Grades 6-12

This course equips middle and high school educators with practical differentiation strategies for adapting content, instruction, assessments, and learning environments to increase engagement and growth for diverse learners.

Recognizing & Responding to Students’ Speech & Language Needs

  • 6 Weeks Avg

  • Self-paced

  • Grades PreK-5

This course equips educators to recognize speech and language needs and apply inclusive, evidence-based strategies that support communication, literacy, academic achievement, and social-emotional development.

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Level Up Your Career (and Your Salary)

You’ve mastered the classroom. Now master your next step. Flexible, affordable professional development with university credit options that count. Whether you’re working toward credential renewal, salary advancement, or simply becoming an even stronger educator, your next step starts here.

What Others Say About PDI…

“I feel honestly invigorated and refreshed from this course. I was provided with tangible resources that I can use in my classroom. One of the most beneficial parts of this was creating student “buy-in” and creating a classroom that students feel seen and a part of. I loved the resources that I could use. I was able to create some of my first day of school slides for procedures and beginning of the year routines that will surely start my year strong.”

Jennifer Falcone, PDI Participant

“I love PDI’s course format as it allows me to work on the course in my own time when I have the time. I can focus on my class when I need to and my classroom when I need to do that. I also like the prompt feedback I have always received from the instructors.”

Joanne Forrest, PDI Participant

“The content was amazing. It was challenging, insightful, and most of all relevant to teaching today. The resources made the learning much easier and practical to implement in the classroom.”

Jake Beigle, PDI Participant

“The course format is why I continue to take courses through PDI. The courses are self paced and with that I’m able to take courses when I have the time to complete them. This allows me to get the professional development I need that I otherwise would not be able to get given my current work-life balance.”

Sheri DeChellis, PDI Participant

“The content was fantastic. I have been teaching for 13 years and I thought I was pretty good at guided reading. I learned SO MUCH from this course and the assigned articles that I cannot wait to implement when school starts back up August 16th. I now feel as though I am well equipped to teach guided reading at a much higher level than I have before.”

Shaun Carvalho, PDI Participant

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