Here are high quality online professional development opportunities for educators. Most are free!
Acadience Learning (Formerly DIBELS) - Free trainings on important reading and math progress monitoring tools.
Bookshare - Free webinars and other resources will help students with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers to continue learning during school closures.
Harvard Graduate School of Education - These tools will help "banish student boredom" at home.
iCivics - A great resource for Civics teachers.
Mindprint - Free strategies for supporting learning from home.
Mass Partnership for Youth - Free events and training on prevention and intervention in matters of health and safety for youth.
Newsela - Access to Newsela ELA, Newsela Social Studies, Newsela Science and Newsela Social-Emotional Learning Collections and PD support on how to use it.
Novak Education Consulting - Our local star educator, Katie Novak, Assistant Superintendent in Groton-Dunstable and expert in Universal Design for Learning, has been offering free webinars and discussions through Linkedin. Here is her regular PD site as well.
Pearson - All support and PD related to My View, My Perspectives, Study Sync and Realize.
Reading Plus - The how-to's about this tremendous support to help students become better, faster, more accurate readers.
Reading Rockets - 103 Things to Do Before, During, or After Reading.
Salem Collaborative Project - Low cost online PD from regional experts.
WIDA - Tools and support to help educators and multilingual learners succeed. Email Chip McGee at ecmcgee@methuen.k12.ma.us for free access.
Wonders - These instructions explain how to access all the free K-4 Wonders PD materials.