Professional Development & Continuing Education

Take your learning to the next level.

Expand your knowledge and create opportunities. Move your career forward or in a different direction. Enhance your ability to work with others. Explore new ways of thinking. Do it all with flexibility and support from our expert faculty and staff.

Our programs are designed to help you pursue professional development and lifelong learning through workshops, lectures, seminars, courses, and conferences across a wide range of subjects.

Certificate Programs

These programs for educators, artists, and mental health professionals can help you expand your skills and advance your career without committing to a degree program.

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Online Courses

Fine-tune your design skills or advance as a teacher through courses that allow you to study what you want, when you want, where you want.

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Center for Advanced Professional Studies

Get professional development that addresses critical content areas through certificates, seminars, institutes, and workshops for individual educators, districts, and community partners.

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Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative

Discover opportunities to participate in literacy-focused workshops and courses for educators as well as our annual Literacy for All conference.

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Center for Math Achievement

Deepen your mathematics content knowledge through our on-campus workshops for educators or request a consultation in your school or district.

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Center for Inclusive and Special Education

Uncover resources through our center’s development opportunities, including offerings from the Lesley Institute for Trauma Sensitivity.

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Institute for Arts and Health

Bring a new skill set to your profession by learning to use the arts to promote health and well-being in educational, community, and institutional settings.

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STEAM Learning Lab

A place for our students and community partners to engage in learning and inquiry-based exploration. Embracing the “maker” way of knowing, this is where our community can play, tinker, design, and create.

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7 Ways Professional Development Helps

Want to expand your teaching and learning horizons? Discover how professional development can help you become a better teacher.

Read about the benefits of professional learning.

Credit & Professional Development Points

Non-credit: You will receive a certificate of attendance which can be converted to Professional Development Points in your school district.

Graduate credit: In Massachusetts, 1 semester hour of graduate credit= 22.5 PDPs. If you teach outside of MA, please check with your state’s Department of Education for more information.

Become a School Leader

Expand your reach beyond your classroom, for greater impact on both your students and your career.