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For the sake of equipping and encouraging as many educators as possible on their paths to long-term flourishing and professional excellence, I began creating online professional development courses for teachers in 2016. Outside of the normal load of research and writing that I take on each year, this is the primary means through which I hope to improve education in the years to come. While I enjoy traveling to schools and conferences around the world, this method of professional development is limited in its scope and high in its cost to myself and those I visit.
So, all-online, schedule-friendly professional development is key if we're all going to create flourishing, effective careers in education.
Below, you'll find the most common use cases for my courses and a list of the courses I've made so far.
The Most Common Use Cases for my Courses (Plus: What They Look Like Inside)
To date, folks tend to use my courses in one of the following ways:
- New teacher mentoring programs. Mentors and mentees will view course lessons together and discuss each video. This is a great way to structure high-yield mentor-mentee meetings and to support capacity building in folks new to the field. I've seen this work especially well with the Classroom Management Course and the Teacher Credibility Mini-Course.
- Mini-PDs to start off faculty or department meetings. In 2022, I added another option for enjoying my courses: group viewing licenses. These licenses give school leaders a single log-in for themselves and the right to view course videos with their entire faculties. My Time Management and Teacher Credibility mini-courses are perfect for this, as they contain just ten core videos of ten minutes or less, AND reflective application questions that are perfect for facilitating group discussions.
- Individual professional development. Because my courses are entirely self-paced and created by a teacher for teachers, hundreds have written me over the years to share that my courses work well for their schedules and needs. My first major course — the Student Motivation Course — was designed with this use case in mind.
The Value Belief Mini-Course
This course is a practical, research-backed professional development course designed to help educators ignite genuine student motivation by fostering the Value Belief—the conviction that what students are learning matters. In this brief, actionable course, teachers will learn effective strategies like mini-sermons, T-chart interventions, and creating knowledge-rich classroom environments to help students connect their personal goals with classroom content. With a focus on the second tier of the Five Key Beliefs Framework, this course equips teachers with the tools to create a classroom culture where learning is seen as meaningful, interesting, and valuable—helping students move from “Why do I need this?” to “This matters to me.” Whether you’re working alone or leading a team, the Value Belief Mini-Course offers real-world solutions that can be implemented immediately, creating lasting impact for both teachers and students.
To register or learn more about the course, click here.
The Principles of Learning Course
This course (new for 2024) consists of ten conclusions about learning we can safely accept as reality and what their application looks like in actual secondary classrooms like yours and mine. It's not a lifeless “hey this is the SCIENCE of learning so do this stuff”, bully-type course — no ma'am. But it is a, “Oh good — not all of teaching needs to be based on hunches or philosophies; there are things cognitive science gives us that we can count on and do something with.
To register or learn more about the course, click here.
The Student Motivation Course
This course consists of 35+ video lessons of 2-10 minutes in length. Each lesson includes a reflective application exercise that can be completed online, in your journal, or through in-person conversation with other people at your site. The course is built around the five key beliefs beneath student motivation, which I explain in-depth in the second chapter of These 6 Things, and which I've written about on the blog extensively, including here, here, here, and here.
To register or learn more about the course, click here.
The Classroom Management Course
This course is taught by Lynsay Fabio (with a handful of guest appearances from me) and consists of 35+ video lessons of 2-10 minutes in length. . In it, Lynsay gives you everything you need to improve as a classroom manager. It focuses on four areas: Plan, Moves, Procedures, and Warmth. Rich with both practice opportunities and dig deeper resources, this course gives you what you need to master the fundamental skill upon which all other teacher skills can be built.
To register or learn more about the course, click here.
The Teacher Credibility Mini-Course
I made this course after completing my ground-breaking new book, The Will to Learn. When creating it, I asked myself: what are the ten strategies that have the biggest impact on a teacher's Credibility but also the least demands on a teacher's effort and energy? What resulted were the ten strategies I teach in this course.
To register and learn more about the course, click here.
The Teacher Time Management Mini-Course
This course teaches 10 disciplines for improving as a time manager, as the #1 frustration of teachers who read this blog is that they do not have enough time. There are 10 lessons, each with reflective application exercises and an online discussion sections. The course also includes access to Dave's monthly, livestreamed office hours, where participants can ask Dave's take on their specific circumstances. Rife with insights gained from Dave's experience balancing classroom teacher and writer and speaker and husband and father responsibilities, this course is grounded in both research and real life.
To register or learn more about the course, click here.
The Teaching with Articles Course
The first online course I created was in response to the many questions I receive from readers about guru Kelly Gallagher's “article of the week” assignment. In the course, I walk through my nine moves for teaching with texts (featured in Chapter 5 of These 6 Things), and I include real-life video examples from my classroom.
To register or learn more about the Teaching with Articles course, click here.
A note on pricing
My courses are priced well below what I think they are worth, based on my own professional development experiences at conferences and in my master's degree programming. However, the mission of my website — which you'll find at the top of this page — drives my pricing.
If you've requested funding for course participation from your administration and have been denied (here's an article we wrote to help with that), please email us at support@davestuartjr.com and let us know a price that works for your personal budget. We appreciate your support of the work here at DaveStuartJr.com.