LEARNING ACADEMY
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Introducing ISTE+ASCD’s NEW Learning Academy Where Every Educator Finds Their Path Built on decades of ISTE and ASCD expertise, the Learning Academy brings together three proven pathways for professional growth. Whether you’re earning credentials, building skills through online courses, or accessing year-round learning, your next step starts here.
NEW
CREDENTIALS
Competency-Based | Portfolio Driven | Career Advancing
What It Is
Recognized certifications that validate your expertise through research-grounded, high-impact instructional practice. Expert evaluators provide feedback at every stage of your growth.
Who It’s For
Educators ready to demonstrate mastery, advance their careers, and earn credentials that carry weight in the field.
ONLINE COURSES
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What It Is
What It Is
Expert-Guided | Flexible Formats | Skills That Transfer Research-backed courses designed to deepen your practice and strengthen student learning. Choose self-paced (5-hour) or instructor-led (15-hour) formats built around your schedule and goals.
Who It’s For
Educators who want focused skill-building on specific topics, from technology integration to instructional design, with clear learning outcomes.
Unlimited Access | Self-Paced | Year-Round Growth One subscription unlocks the entire Learning Academy catalog—over 100 learning experiences across AI, instructional practice, technology, and digital citizenship. Self-paced microlearning built around real school schedules.
Who It’s For
Educators and districts seeking year-round professional learning that fits into daily life, with the flexibility to explore multiple topics throughout the year.
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LITERACY & LANGUAGE ARTS Literacy Strategies for Learning
Explore why it’s important for every teacher to become involved in teaching students how to read, write, and comprehend subject matter, with teaching strategies in the content areas. 5 hours
Literacy Strategies: Improving Comprehension
Built to introduce teachers to strategies that they can use to help struggling readers, explore instructional strategies that improve comprehension, and see different models of sustained silent reading. 5 hours
Literacy Strategies: Mathematics
This course explains why it’s important for every teacher to become involved in teaching students how to read, write, and comprehend the subject matter being presented to them, with mathematics teaching strategies. 2 hours (coming soon)
Literacy Strategies: Science
Designed to explain why it is important for every teacher to become involved in teaching students how to read, write, and comprehend the subject matter, with a focus on strategies for teaching science. 2 hours
Literacy Strategies: Supporting Students with Disabilities
Participants will explore why it is important for every teacher to become involved in teaching students how to read, write, and comprehend the subject matter, with a focus on strategies for teaching special needs. 2 hours
Six Research-Based Literacy Approaches for the Elementary Classroom
Educators will explore six research-based components of a balanced literacy program that any elementary teacher can use to build literacy skills and increase content knowledge. 5 hours (coming soon)
Teaching Listening and Speaking
Participants will discover practical, proven ways to teach students how to become better listeners, critical thinkers, and confident, competent speakers. 5 hours
Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking This course will get you started on developing competent oral communicators in your classroom through speaking, listening, questioning, multimedia presentations, and adapting speaking styles. 5 hours
ASSESSMENT & GRADING
Actionable Instruction and Assessment
Through this course, educators will better understand rigor and learn strategies to promote more meaningful learning in their classrooms. 5 hours
Advancing Formative Assessment
Educators will gain the knowledge and tools to implement formative assessment effectively while experiencing a transformative cultural shift. 5 hours
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Assessing Learning in Online Environments
Participants will learn to leverage digital tools to provide meaningful feedback and incorporate valuable formative assessments into online teaching. 2 hours
Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom
Explores how assessment works inside a differentiated classroom, covering the purposes of assessment, preassessment, formative assessment and feedback, summative assessment design, and the complications of grading in responsive classrooms. 5 hours
Assessment: Designing Performance Assessments, 2nd Edition
This course covers how to unpack learning standards and benchmarks so that assessment yields information about student progress and mastery of instructional goals. 5 hours (coming soon)
Formative Assessment: Deepening Understanding
Built to delve into activities that allow students to apply learning, formative assessments to evaluate student learning, and using results to plan instruction. 5 hours
Grading Smarter, Not Harder
Based on the ASCD book by Myron Dueck, this course provides tools, resources, and research to help with grading and assessment changes, standards-based grading, and separating academics and behavior. 2 hours
Smarter Assessment Practices
Explore the significance of aligning assessment policies and procedures with the crucial objective of fostering students’ understanding. 5 hours
Using Data to Determine Student Mastery
Designed to explain the science of data in relation to education, this resource covers designing assessment systems, evaluating classroom assessments, and standards-based grading systems. 5 hours (coming soon)
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT & BEHAVIOR Conflict Resolution: An Introduction
Designed to introduce teachers to the concept of conflict resolution, its value in a school environment, and the many ways to go about it in the classroom and school setting. 5 hours
Flexible Grouping
Built to explore how flexible grouping consistently combines and reorganizes students in different ways to pursue a wide range of academic and social-emotional goals. 5 hours (coming soon)
Improving Classroom Behavior
Educators will be guided through behavioral leadership, a method in which educators purposefully demonstrate and affirm the behaviors they wish to see in students. 5 hours (coming soon)
Managing Challenging Student Behavior
In this course, teachers will discover a multitude of classroom management approaches to handle challenging student behaviors from many different angles. 5 hours
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION
Accessibility for All: Designing Materials for Any Learner
Educators will learn how to choose and create instructional materials that work for everyone, including those with disabilities. 2 hours
Achievement Gaps: The Path to Equity
Designed to explore the many factors that contribute to unequal patterns of achievement among different groups of students and strategies to address them. 5 hours
Designing for Inclusion
In this course, educators explore how to use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and inclusive practices to proactively design welcoming learning spaces. 2 hours
Effective Instruction for Multilingual Learners
This course helps you locate and analyze proficiency level data, develop culturally responsive strategies, and enhance understanding of critical instructional components for multilingual learners. 5 hours
Equity in Data
Participants will explore the meaning of data in educational spaces, the flaws of existing data practices, and how educators can integrate equity into data processes. 5 hours
Leading From the Margins
Explore essential insights for leaders of color aiming to succeed in predominantly white spaces while actively working to transform them. 5 hours (coming soon)
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES & PEDAGOGY Foundations of Differentiated Instruction
Helps K–12 educators design responsive learning experiences that honor the diverse readiness levels, interests, and learning preferences of all students. Grounded in Carol Ann Tomlinson’s research-based framework, this course provides a clear foundation for understanding and implementing differentiation through three core pillars: philosophy, principles, and practices. X hours
Giving Effective Feedback
Based on the book by Susan M. Brookhart, this course provides clear, actionable steps to help educators develop and implement best practices around feedback. 5 hours
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Intentional and Targeted Teaching 2.0
Built to guide transformation through five integrated components: planning with purpose, climate cultivation, intentional instruction, systematic assessment, and impact documentation. 5 hours
Questioning for Classroom Discussion: Grades 6-12 Participants will explore four quality questioning practices that drive productive discussion and the discussion skills for meaningful discussion in secondary classrooms. 5 hours (coming soon)
Questioning for Classroom Discussion: Grades K-5
This course explores four quality questioning practices that drive productive discussion and the discussion skills that comprise the DNA of meaningful discussion for elementary classrooms. 5 hours
Questioning to Improve Learning
Explore the intricate interplay between questioning and feedback within K-12 classrooms, and how dialogue connects the two. 5 hours
Response to Intervention: An Introduction
Participants will gain clarity on the purpose and requirements of Response to Intervention (RTI) and discover practical strategies for implementing the RTI framework. 5 hours (coming soon)
Streamlining the Curriculum
This course provides an alternative approach to curriculum design and lesson planning using a narrative-driven, storyboard approach. 5 hours (coming soon)
Student Discussions
Designed to provide strategies and examples for how to teach, structure, and engage students in academic conversations that hone speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills. 5 hours (coming soon)
Teaching the Critical Verbs: Closing the Vocabulary Gap
Explore the research, strategies, and most critical verbs used in all standards, which are based on critical thinking processes that students must learn. 2 hours
Total Participation Techniques
Understanding Student Motivation, 2nd Edition
Transformational Planning Danielson Course 1
TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL LEARNING
Educators will discover easy-to-use instructional techniques that transform students into confident, active learners, while examining disengagement’s impact. 5 hours Course 1 of the Transformational Teaching series, focused on the planning decisions that happen before teaching begins: the professional commitments that guide instruction, deep knowledge of students, assessment as a design tool, and the coherence that ties a plan together. 5 hours
Transformational Planning Danielson Course 2
Course 2 of the Transformational Teaching series, exploring what happens when educators shift from controlling learning environments to co-creating them, from assigning work to making intellectual invitations, and from using assessment as judgment to using it to support student agency. 5 hours
Transformational Planning Danielson Course 3
Course 3 of the Transformational Teaching series, exploring what it means to treat teaching as principled work, take ownership of growth through reflection, and build the partnerships and systems that make strong teaching last. 5 hours
Understanding by Design: An Introduction, 2nd Edition
You’ll explore how the principles and practices of Understanding by Design (UbD) can help you get the most out of your instructional time through video examples and in-depth readings. 5 hours
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING & STUDENT WELL-BEING Fostering Resilient Learners
Educators will explore the urgent and growing issue of childhood trauma and its profound effect on learning, with strategies for creating a trauma-sensitive classroom. 5 hours
Increasing Student Engagement
Explore authentic engagement comprehensively and gain tools and strategies to create meaningful learning environments. 5 hours (coming soon)
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into Instruction
Based on All Learning Is Social and Emotional, this course introduces SEL and a five-part model that can be easily integrated into instruction. 5 hours (coming soon)
Powerful Student Care
Designed to provide educators with the Powerful Student Care (PSC) approach framework, ensuring that all students, regardless of background, receive the support they need to thrive. 2 hours
Supporting Student Well-Being
This course provides strategies that educators can use to support student well-being through meaningful connections and impactful technology integrations. 2 hours
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Built to examine the basics of motivation and its role in academic performance, with strategies to create a respectful classroom and engage students. 5 hours (coming soon)
Accelerating Student-Driven Learning
Educators will learn to cultivate increasingly flexible and engaging student learning by selecting blended models, increasing student agency, and improving engagement.
2 hours
AI Literacy for Education
Participants will receive comprehensive coverage of AI literacy concepts.
5 hours
Blended Learning: An Introduction
Designed to introduce various blended learning models and guide teachers through exploring the implications of blended learning on instruction.
5 hours
Creating Community in Online Classrooms
Educators will be empowered to build a positive classroom community, implement effective communication strategies, and facilitate collaboration online.
5 hours
Designing Online Learning Experiences
Designed to help educators incorporate student agency into online lessons and design effective, engaging content for digital or blended classrooms.
2 hours
Digital Literacy in the Classroom
Built to guide K-12 educators in developing and utilizing digital literacy skills as a key component of digital citizenship.
5 hours
Game On! Reimagine Learning Through Gameplay
Explore the instructional value of game-based learning and gain the tools to shift classroom cultures.
5 hours
Get Started with Open Educational Resources
This course teaches how to find high-quality OER resources and understand how to use them effectively.
5 hours
Introduction to the ISTE Standards for Students
In this course, you will explore the ISTE Student Standards and their corresponding indicators of success, with opportunities to reflect on your professional practice.
5 hours
Make Teaching Sustainable
Educators will be guided in transforming their practice through key mindset shifts: Humanity over industry, Collectivism over individualism, Empowerment over control, Minimalism over maximalism, and more.
5 hours
New Teacher Essentials
This course equips educators with essential skills and knowledge to thrive in their teaching careers through expert guidance, interactive content, and practical applications.
5 hours
Parents as Partners in Schooling, 2nd Edition
Introduction to the ISTE Standards: Educators
Built to provide an in-depth analysis of ways schools are successfully meeting the parent-school connection challenge and strategies to create that connection.
5 hours
Preventing Educator Burnout
In this course, you will explore the ISTE Standards for Educators and their corresponding indicators of success.
Leading Project-Based Learning With Technology Participants will build capacity to implement Gold Standard Project-Based Learning (PBL) with technology to engage and empower students.
5 hours
Based on The Burnout Cure by Chase Mielke, this course shares pragmatic steps related to mindfulness, empathy, gratitude, and altruism that teachers can use.
5 hours
5 hours
Surviving the First 30 Days for New Teachers
Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: Instructional Coaching Essentials — Foundations
5 hours
LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Builds the diagnostic lens coaches and administrators need before working with a real teacher, covering the boundaries of the coaching role, the relational characteristics that make coaching genuinely effective, and the Continuum of SelfReflection, a four-stage framework for reading how a teacher thinks about their own practice from real classroom evidence.
5 hours (coming soon)
Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: Instructional Coaching Essentials — In Practice
The second course in the series, for coaches and administrators ready to run a complete coaching cycle with a real teacher: selecting a partner teacher, diagnosing their stage and matching strategy and language to it, field-testing the plan through real observation and feedback, and evaluating impact to extend the model to more teachers.
5 hours
Fostering Teacher Bandwidth
Based on Educator Bandwidth by Jane Kise and Ann Holm, this course provides tools and strategies to reduce stress, avoid burnout, and regain time.
5 hours (coming soon)
Leading for Differentiation
Teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators will build leadership for differentiation through motivation and shared vision, moving from role-specific leadership moves to reducing overload and building trust, creating shared language and look fors, and designing a coherent school-wide vision. Participants leave with a practical Differentiation Leadership Plan to guide conversations, align expectations, and build momentum across their school or team.
5 hours
Gives new teachers the essential foundation, practical strategies, and confidence-building tools to establish themselves from day one, covering classroom setup, management systems, instructional basics, communication networks, and sustainable practices for the first month of school.
Teach, Reflect, Learn
Designed to empower educators to take charge of their own professional growth starting with the act of meaningful selfreflection.
5 hours
The Principal’s Playbook for Navigating Conflict
Explore the necessary mindset and skills for managing conflict through scenarios, strategies, and reflection activities to handle various conflicts with clarity and confidence.
5 hours (coming soon)
MATHEMATICS Designing Engaging Math Practices
Built on the Activate Math! framework, examines how student disengagement and math anxiety are shaped by instructional design, introducing the Moving and Learning Mindset and Five Catalysts of Movement-Based Instruction to build a personal movement-based math practice plan.
5 hours
Math Fact Fluency
Educators will be equipped with a research-based framework for effective instruction in basic facts, strategies, games, and assessment tools for math fact fluency and mastery.
5 hours (coming soon)
SPECIAL POPULATIONS & CONTEXTS Teaching in High-Poverty Schools
In this course, you will explore how to address the needs of all students, particularly those who live in poverty, and improve outcomes for students in your school.
5 hours (coming soon)
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BRAIN SCIENCE & LEARNING The Brain: Memory and Learning Strategies, 2nd Edition
You will learn about the physical structures of the human brain that create and retain memories and how to use this information to improve teaching practice.
2 hours (coming soon)
Learning Should Be Easy: Fact or Fiction?
This course from ISTE’s learning sciences initiative provides learning science-backed strategies to support the effortful learning process.
2 hours
Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction?
Built to focus on understanding how learning science strategies based on research actually improve student outcomes versus learning styles.
2 hours
Right vs. Left Brain: Fact or Fiction?
Explore the beautiful complexity of our brains and how effective practice supports the attainment of any skill.
2 hours
STEM STEM in Elementary: Designing Curiosity
Designed for beginner K-5 teachers, this course supports developing meaningful, developmentally appropriate STEM learning that begins with student curiosity and leads to handson exploration, problem-solving, and sensemaking. Participants leave with a complete, classroom-ready STEM lesson and a repeatable planning approach they can reuse throughout the year.
5 hours
LEARNING STRATEGIES Learning Strategies are 10-minute professional learning experiences designed for teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders who need immediately implementable processes and methods they can use in their classrooms, meetings, or leadership decisions today. Each delivers a specific, researchbacked strategy with concrete next steps—no theory dump, just actionable practice.
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Gamified Progression Grades 3-5 Gamified Progression Grades 6-12 Extended Wait Time Hold Ups Prediction- and Hypothesis-Based Hooks Power Previewing Pause, Star, Rank Sense Making Vocabulary Cards
Group Cohort
Learning is Better Together Whole-team enrollment Any course in Learning Academy Custom group pricing
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Ripple Questioning Ignite Talks Visualizing Vocabulary Anticipatory Guide Picture Notes Chalkboard Splash Concept Attainment RAFT Assignments Forced Choice Debate Team Carousel Quick-Draw Gallery Walk Reflection Logs 4-2-1 Summarize If-Then Connect-the-Concepts Physical Barometer Top Hat Organizer Scavenger Hunt Perspective Chart
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ESPN Greeting Fishbowl Communication Circles Practice the Pause The Two-Minute Intervention A Time Challenge Unwind, Rewind, Wind-up I Wonder Who Victim Offender Dialogue Give-One, Get-One Standing Groups
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Situation-Target-Plan I Wish My Teacher Knew Visual Reminders Talking Pencils Gratitude Letter Ink Think Tackle the Tasks Eat Your Frogs! Belonging Puzzles Calming Station Conver-stations What Makes Me Happy? 5 Ls of Empathy 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Activity Can You Draw This?
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