Professional Development

CES Professional Development helps districts, schools, and individuals improve educator and student performance with open enrollment events, online courses, tailored site-based learning, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and other Communities of Practice, coaching, and consulting.

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Professional Development for Educators

We work to focus on challenges/tough problems that are important to teachers. We strive to bring you transformational, research-based practices and perspectives, preparing educators to work with diverse groups in an inclusive way and address how students learn at all stages of development.

CES face-to-face workshops for professionals feature engaging, expert instructors and classroom-ready strategies and tools that attendees can apply right away.

We offer a number of fully online workshops and courses – you can attend from anywhere, often with more flexible timing than our traditional face-to-face events.

We also offer blended courses that focus on deep, transformative experiences via multiple means of learning, hands-on work, and engagement with peers in a highly collaborative process.

 

CES Professional Learning Communities are groups that are hosted and facilitated by CES specialists. To view the list of PLCs and Communities of Practice for the coming school year, click here.

Consulting and Site-based Work

CES has developed specialized expertise in a number of key content areas to support educators and leaders, schools, districts, and the students they serve. CES consultants offer site-based services including tailored training and learning experiences, and coaching and observation. 

  • Community Health
  • Curriculum Services
  • Early Childhood
  • English Learners
  • History and Civics
  • Impact of Poverty
  • Leadership
  • Literacy
  • Research & Evaluation
  • Social Justice and Equity
  • Special Education
  • Technology in Education

CES has been a tremendous resource to our schools. The opportunities you offer for administrators and teachers to gather and share experiences and resources have been enormously helpful.

— Professional Development Participant

Upcoming Offerings

The Collaborative for Educational Services provides professional development, continuing education, coaching and technical assistance online, in hybrid form, and in person. Our open enrollment courses, workshops, and other learning can also be brought on site to schools, districts and organizations, and customized to meet your organization’s needs. To the right are just a few of our open enrollment, active upcoming offerings. Please click the button below to see more.

Click here to download our Professional Development calendar.

Dec 5 2024
Using genAI to Spark Creativity

Using genAI to Spark Creativity – Fall ’24 – Spring ’25

What happens at the intersection of human creativity and AI tools? Have you been itching to create something, but couldn’t find the spark to move from idea to action? What if AI could help get you

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Dec 6 2024
Youth Mental Health – Blended Learning Virtual Version

Youth Mental Health – Blended Learning Virtual Version – Fall 2024 – 12/6

Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to

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Jan 7 2025
Bridging to Belonging: Working with Polarization in Schools PLC

Bridging to Belonging: Working with Polarization in Schools PLC – Spring 2025 with PDPs

With the upcoming election cycle, the ongoing tensions around what and how we teach in schools today, and the increasing anxieties of young people, we believe it's imperative to create a space

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Jan 7 2025
Bridging to Belonging: Working with Polarization in Schools PLC

Bridging to Belonging: Working with Polarization in Schools PLC – Spring 2025

With the upcoming election cycle, the ongoing tensions around what and how we teach in schools today, and the increasing anxieties of young people, we believe it's imperative to create a space

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Angela Burke, M.Ed.

Angela Burke, M.Ed, oversees CES Professional Services teams that include Professional Development, Licensure, Research and Evaluation, and Healthy Families and Communities. Burke has over 20 years of experience in managing technology across K-12, Higher Education and Fortune 100 settings. She has extensive experience in K-12 curriculum and professional development planning.  She has been the Director of Technology for school districts in Ohio and Massachusetts, Associate Director of Academic Computing at Barnard College and Help Desk & Acquisition Services Manager for Johnson Controls and a middle school classroom teacher/team leader.

Angela has a Master’s Degree in Adult Education and Curriculum, is a Google Certified Educator and has been an adjunct faculty member in the Schools of Education at Miami University of Ohio, University of Dayton, Wright State University and Westfield State University.

Position: Director of Professional Services

Email: aburke@collaborative.org

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