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.

Feb 5 2025
Impact of (gen)AI: Wednesday Webinar Series

Impact of (gen)AI: Wednesday Webinar Series – Spring 2025 – 2/5

Join the AI Team from CES’ Center for Emerging Educational Practice to explore important (and sometimes thorny) issues surrounding generative AI and its impact on our students, schools and

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Feb 18 2025
Civic Engagement in Any Subject: Integrating Local History Across the Curriculum

Civic Engagement in Any Subject: Integrating Local History Across the Curriculum – Spring 2025

The work we’ll do in this full day workshop is predicated on the idea that the more students know about the rich and fascinating environment, history, economy, and people of the Pioneer Valley, the

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Feb 28 2025
Creating Your AI School Policy

Creating Your AI School Policy – Spring 2025 – Online

It's time for your district to consider establishing AI policies and procedures, but you don't want to face a blank page to start this process.   In this full-day session we’ll use

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Mar 4 2025
Youth Mental Health – Blended Learning Virtual Version

Youth Mental Health – Blended Learning Virtual Version – Spring 2025 – 3/4

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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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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