Massachusetts
Easy steps for renewing a teaching license in Massachusetts:
- Get information about state renewal requirements and the staff professional development process for teachers in MA. Professional Learning Board is an approved DESE PDP Provider in Massachusetts.
- Find and take classes online for teachers:
- Record hours
Free PD tracker included at no cost with all courses.
- Save or submit your total hours for renewal.
Start now, select online courses for Massachusetts teachers . . .- $875 for 150 Hours
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22 Courses (5 or 15 hours each) - $280 for 45 Hours
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3 Courses (15 hours each) - Topics: Recognizing and Preventing Child Abuse, Signs of Abuse, Internet Safety, Bullying Prevention, Bullying Policies, Ethics for Educators, Introduction to Trafficking, Grooming Process in Abuse, Professional Boundaries for Teachers, Ethics Teams, Safe Environment Teams, Internet Filters, Monitoring and more. The online course package Child Abuse Prevention helps teachers expand knowledge regarding the dangers of child abuse and helps ensure a secure and safe environment for students.$155 for 25 Hours
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5 Courses (5 hours each) - $180 for 30 Hours
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6 Courses (5 hours each) - Topics: ADHD, Trauma-informed Teaching, Autism, Emotional Health, Suicide Prevention, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum, Stress, PTSD, Mental Health Disorders. This online course package, has been designed to provide an extensive coverage of the most common of these situations, and give teachers a strong working understanding of each, as well as practical strategies to deal with the spectrum of challenges within the Mental Health umbrella. Teachers will be presented with a basic understanding of the warning signs of early-onset mental illnesses in children and adolescents, ways to strengthen teacher-parent communications and strategies to teach effectively.$155 for 25 Hours
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5 Courses (5 hours each) - $180 for 30 Hours
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6 Courses (5 hours each) - $300 for 50 Hours
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10 Courses (5 hours each) - Topics: App Review Tools, Internet Use Agreements, Technology Tips, Outline Lesson, Smartphones, Smartwatches, Clickers, Tablets, iPads, iPhones, Mobile Devices, Digital Cameras, Projectors, Digital Printers, Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Cyber-Saftey, Cyber-Bullying, Infographics in the Classroom and more. When technology is used in the classroom, teachers have legitimate considerations related to appropriateness, discipline, effectiveness, and safety. How can teachers use the right apps to align with classroom objectives and standards? How do teachers communicate about educational technology with parents? Learn how to choose and use recommended classroom apps and devices for learning with smartphones, tablets, ipads, and digital cameras at school. Implement templates for Technology Use Agreements, determine the best apps, evaluate engagement with technology and explore expert tips for classroom management.$155 for 25 Hours
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5 Courses (5 hours each) - Addressing accommodation, modification, and adaptation of curriculum, materials, and instruction to appropriately meet the needs of teachers and a variety of students. This online course for teachers may meet state requirements to renew a teaching license. Check with your state department of education.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - This course is designed to equip teachers to initiate action research for potential areas of improvement in a classroom or at the school level. Through this course, teachers will be able to learn how to go about each step of the action research process from selecting the area of focus, gathering and interpreting data, setting up an action plan, and finally presenting the findings in order to help others.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Teachers will be equipped to go beyond using an app merely because someone else has recommended it and fully examine the true learning potential. The integration of apps into education, may seem like a natural product of the times. However, successfully impacting students’ learning, requires a whole new level of teachers’ engagement and effort.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Enhance students’ learning experiences by developing strategies and initiatives that benefit entire schools. Teachers will be introduced to a range of successful strategies to collaborate at a wider level to address learning issues faced by schools, and implement corresponding, well-designed interventions.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Explore the benefits of using teamwork as a key element in K-12 classrooms, along with successful strategies to involve students in the various aspects of collaborative instruction. Building on a strong research base, this course empowers teachers to understand and implement effective practices of collaboration in their own classrooms.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Students from all backgrounds, temperaments, and abilities should have access to a classroom ambience that is conducive to their learning. Positive Behavior Management helps educators transform challenging behavior, systemically and individually, to create such an environment. Learn evidence‐based Positive Behavior Intervention Solutions (PBIS) practices to identify and eliminate triggers in the classroom, encourage positive behaviors, and give students individualized care and support. This proactive PBIS approach, with three tiers of interventions, can strengthen students’ relationships, improve their communication skill, and circumvent conflict.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Discover methods for detecting students with weak cognitive skills and tools to strengthen those skills. Teachers will receive understanding, as well as ways to apply development techniques in the classroom. The online class is fun and interactive and includes information about new brain research and how it can impact today’s classrooms.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - The development of early literary and reading skills are foundation for every student’s education. Gain a comprehensive understanding of challenges that hold potential readers back, including phonological impairments and reading disorders. Adopt best science-research-based reading strategies to tackle these including use of explicit, systematic and sequential approaches to reading instruction, developing phonemic awareness, and implementing multisensory intervention strategies. An incredibly useful tool for teachers looking to unlock their students’ reading potential, the course is a must-have for teachers.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - For students graduating from high school to be fully equipped and college and career ready, they must possess high standards of academic and behavioral skills. Learn the scheme of implementing the standards as a successful strategy to address what students are expected to know and be able to do when they have graduated from high school and prepares them for life outside the classroom.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Ethics may seem like an abstract concept, and yet it’s practical, relevant and a critical part of a teacher’s professional life. Explore how you can grow in ethics in the areas of academic excellence, boundaries and academic integrity. From protocols for social media, reporting abuse, transference and plagiarism, this course explores issues where ethics and education meet. It is full of practical strategies, resources and guidelines for teachers to reflect on and implement in their particular teaching situations.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Making ethical decisions in the classroom can be challenging and strenuous. It is not always easy to determine what is right or wrong, especially since ethics and morality are based on more than what is socially acceptable or personally preferred. This Ethical Decision Making course includes a consistent framework for educators to use for determining the best ethical decision. By following the process for making ethical decisions, teachers have guidance and structure even when a matter seems conflicting.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Move students beyond becoming ‘proficient’ in a subject to ‘mastering’ its intricacies. Explore making students’ learning needs the driving force behind classroom instruction. Identify effective tools and strategies, such as video, digital simulations, and computer games to personalize lessons.This approach empowers student ownership over their learning and promotes the classroom as a collaborative educational environment.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Respond to the needs of students and shape instruction through the use of formative assessments. Learn about and implement formative assessments in your school to discover and demonstrate for yourself, your students and your community what happens when a school moves in this direction and you know students are truly learning.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - The Inquiry-based Learning course details some models that teachers can adapt to meet specific needs of their class, as well as to monitor and enhance the learning of their students. Teachers learn practical and dynamic ways of evaluating their students’ progress while also incorporating technology for better results.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - There are multiple ways in which we are responsible for protecting children. Today’s online world magnifies those opportunities as well as complicates them in ways in which we must be aware. The goal of this course is to increase your awareness of how students today are using technology, as well as helping you understand the risks of the online world. Teachers will be equipped with strategies and ideas to talk about internet safety to students in their classrooms.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Autism impacts a student’s ability to communicate, form social skills, and manage sensory challenges often affecting their academic potential and learning style in the classroom. A person with autism may experience thinking, remembering events, reacting and communicating in a unique way. In this course, educators will find tried and tested strategies, tips, real-life examples and insights to create more inclusive classroom and help students on the autism spectrum thrive.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - This course introduces and examines technology for educators teaching in online, hybrid, and face-to-face classrooms. You will develop a better understanding of how to use technology tools and resources to increase engagement in learning and enhance your instructional practices. Tutorials and tips demonstrate applications and guide teachers in improving tech skills and gaining confidence in use.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - Teachers are the strongest and most influential link between high school and college for every student, and are often the best people to guide students in the endeavor to become college and career ready. This course will examine the details of mastering the current needs of students to be college and career ready.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - This course will take teachers through the process of evaluation, elaborate on its guiding principles and criterion, and include strategies and factual information to clearly link teaching quality with student learning. Further, teachers will be shown how to be “participants” in the process rather than being “subjects”. Tips to deal positively with negative feedback are also provided.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - For students to be truly equipped to succeed in the 21st century college scenario or workplace, they must possess a level of mastery in essential project management skills. This course presents project-based learning as a successful strategy to promote project management skill development in students.$39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - $39 for 5 Hours
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5 Year Access - This course explores the latest research to help students develop strong reading comprehension skills. It is full of strategies, illustrations, examples and practical tools that teachers can use in the classroom. Learn about ways to introduce students to new vocabulary, analyze content, develop perspectives and use graphic organizers. Teach students to question, draw inferences, visualize and make predictions. Teachers can use these in a range of subjects including language arts, science, geography, history, arts and music$39 for 5 Hours
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