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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.

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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

ASSESSMENT & GRADING

Literacy Strategies: Mathematics

Grading Smarter, Not Harder

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

Literacy Strategies: Special Needs

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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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.

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

Advancing Formative Assessment

Educators will gain the knowledge and tools to implement formative assessment effectively while experiencing a transformative cultural shift.

5 hours

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

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

Smarter Assessment Practices

Explore the significance of aligning assessment policies and procedures with the crucial objective of fostering students’ understanding.

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

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

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT & BEHAVIOR Bullying: Taking Charge, 2nd Edition

In this course, you will explore what bullying is and why it is important to address it. You will learn practical tools for confronting and preventing bullying through video examples, readings, and problem-solving scenarios.

5 hours

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

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

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

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

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION Embracing Diversity: A Look in the Mirror

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

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

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

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

Ensuring Equity & Inclusion in Online Learning

Built to provide strategies to identify potential barriers, set goals, and design lessons that foster engagement so all students can demonstrate knowledge.

2 hours

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES & PEDAGOGY

Americans are a diverse collection of faiths, creeds, and colors.

This course helps teachers understand that our nation is strong because of our diversity and provides tools for promoting tolerance in schools.

Teaching the Critical Verbs: Closing the Vocabulary Gap

Embracing Diversity: Managing Diverse Schools and Classrooms, 2nd Edition

2 hours

5 hours

In this course, you will explore the importance of promoting diversity and tolerance at both the classroom and school levels, and learn practical ways to manage diverse classrooms and schools.

5 hours

Leading Within Systems of Inequity

Explore essential insights for leaders of color aiming to succeed in predominantly white spaces while actively working to transform them.

5 hours

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Explore the research, strategies, and most critical verbs used in all standards, which are based on critical thinking processes that students must learn.

Questioning for Classroom Discussion: Grades K-5

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING & STUDENT WELL-BEING

5 hours

Powerful Student Care

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.

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

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

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

Total Participation Techniques

Educators will discover easy-to-use instructional techniques that transform students into confident, active learners, while examining disengagement’s impact.

5 hours

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 to Improve Learning

Explore the intricate interplay between questioning and feedback within K-12 classrooms, and how dialogue connects the two.

5 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

Streamlining the Curriculum

This course provides an alternative approach to curriculum design and lesson planning using a narrative-driven, storyboard approach.

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

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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.

5 hours

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

Understanding Student Motivation, 2nd Edition

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

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

Increasing Student Engagement

Explore authentic engagement comprehensively and gain tools and strategies to create meaningful learning environments.

5 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

TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL LEARNING 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

Introduction to the ISTE Standards: Educators

In this course, you will explore the ISTE Standards for Educators and their corresponding indicators of success.

5 hours

LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 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

Parents as Partners in Schooling, 2nd Edition

AI Literacy for Education

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

The Principal’s Playbook for Navigating Conflict

Participants will receive comprehensive coverage of AI literacy concepts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

Preventing Educator Burnout

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

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

Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: Instructional Coaching Essentials

Participants will deepen knowledge and hone skills in instructional coaching, gaining clarity on the coach’s role, strategies, and a strengths-based focus.

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

Teach, Reflect, Learn

Designed to empower educators to take charge of their own professional growth starting with the act of meaningful selfreflection.

5 hours

MATHEMATICS 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

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

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.

5 hours

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

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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Instruction • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Hold Ups Prediction- and Hypothesis-Based Hooks Power Previewing Pause, Star, Rank Vocabulary Cards 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

Classroom Management • • • • • • • • • •

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

Social-Emotional Learning • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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?

Educator Well-Being •

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