About The Learning Tree PDN
Empowering Educators
Strengthening Classrooms
The Learning Tree PDN is an online provider of graduate-level courses created specifically for K–12 educators, offering flexible and meaningful professional development that helps
teachers and school leaders grow their skills, advance their careers, and make a lasting impact in their classrooms. Our courses provide graduate credit, Professional Development Points
(PDPs), and Continuing Education Units (CEUs), supporting licensure renewal, salary advancement, and ongoing professional growth.
Practical Learning for Real Classrooms
Every course is research-based, practical, and immediately applicable, providing tools you can implement right away whether you want to refine instructional strategies, strengthen
classroom management, or expand your leadership skills. All courses are designed for working educators, with 100% online, self-paced learning, flexible start dates, and short, focused
sessions that allow you to complete a course in just six weeks.
Graduate Credit Through Trusted University Partners
The Learning Tree PDN partners with respected universities to provide accredited graduate credit options that support your professional growth and career advancement.
Southern New Hampshire University
Fitchburg State University
Colorado State University Pueblo
Trusted and Approved
We are proud to be approved by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, ensuring that all courses meet state and district professional development requirements.
Thousands of educators have successfully advanced their skills and careers through our programs.
Popular Courses
The Basics of Teaching Reading
Learn the fundamentals of teaching reading and how to translate this into an easily applicable design for best practice, research-based instruction. By learning about the Four Part
Processor, participants will understand how the human brain learns to read. Participants will learn how this knowledge along with an understanding of the Stages of Reading impacts the way
we teach reading as well as be able to identify the early warning signs of struggling readers. The role of Oral Language in learning to read will be explored along with theories of the
four major conceptual models of reading (5 Components of Reading, Simple View of Reading, Scarborough’s Reading Rope, and the Four Part Processor of Word Recognition). Participants will
learn the teaching principles of research-based instruction and be given the tools, such as the Gradual Release of Responsibility strategy, they need to support the on-going design and
implementation of targeted Structured Literacy lessons for positive student outcomes.
Including Special Education Students in the Classroom
This course is designed to provide educators with an overview of special education accommodations. Participants will learn a structured approach to assess students’ needs, provide
appropriate modifications and accommodations as needed, and obtain the suitable support services if needed. Strategies for implementing accommodations will be studied. Sources of
accommodations will be examined. Participants will explore accommodations for instruction, assessment, behavior, and more!
Effective Co-Teaching for Student Success
This course is designed to provide educators with an understanding of collaborative and co-teaching models and prepare them to implement these models in their schools and classrooms. A
model of shared responsibility among staff will be studied. Participants will learn about the unique, diverse, and specialized skills and instructional practices of co-teaching, including
pedagogical skills consistent with state and local educational goals. Varied strategies that will meet the needs of all learners in a co-taught classroom will be explored.
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