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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, I'm only too aware that 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 what I've made so far.
Coming Soon: The Will to Teach
I'm in the process of creating an all-online, schedule-friendly professional development course for educators like me. Here's what you'll learn from the course:
- Memorable, no-nonsense practices for depressurizing your mind, emotions, body, and social circle. Most of the work for teachers in these areas is ridden with fluff and remarkably disorganized, so that “self-care” becomes a topic that can actually create stress! This won't be like that.
- How to undertake simple, profound habit-shaping experiments. We'll look at proven methods for dropping unhelpful habits and picking up the ones you want.
- How to create the conditions that cultivate your own motivation. For the first time, I'll help you examine how to cultivate the five key beliefs beneath student motivation… in yourself.
- The handful of lenses that I use to obsessively simplify my craft. It's difficult to love something that is hopelessly complex. We've got to simplify! I'll let you behind the curtain to show you how I habitually do this.
- Learn how to help your own will to teach by encouraging your colleagues. It's a great thing to give courage! Let's unpack the science and skill of it a bit.
Plain and simple, this course is going to help you create a more motivated, joyful context within which to work, and it's going to leave you with tools and frameworks for being an agent for sanity in your setting. You'll teach from a more settled and grounded place, and that'll yield fruits that make it even easier to love what you do, come what may.
The course will be optimized for busy people like you and me — all substance, no fluff, with links to resources for those who wish to nerd out or dig deeper. It'll be possible to do it using nothing but an internet connection and a journal, but there will also be a discussion forum for those seeking to work out course concepts in community. Certificates of completion indicating 10 hours of professional development will be awarded by request. Video lessons are designed to be completed in as little as 10 minutes per day.
The course will release in early 2021, with limited spots. Be the first to hear by signing up for the waitlist 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). 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 Time Management 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.