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PSPD offers individual and program-based coaching for staff in any role looking to grow and strengthen their practice in any of our key priority areas, which include educational leadership and program management, advising, career pathways, digital literacy, and ADA coordination. We also offer individual coaching and support for those looking to acquire a professional ABE license. If interested, please submit a Contact Us request.
All PD offerings are online and facilitated unless indicated otherwise.
Professional Development: “On Demand” When Your Schedule Allows! (Self-Paced Modules)
Different times work best for busy adult educators to attend PD. Did you know you can access PD when it’s most convenient for you? Visit our online asynchronous courses, including series that focus on Digital Literacy and Advising. You can find these courses on the Program Support's On-Demand PD Google Site, which offers more than 30 sessions organized according to seven strands.
ADA Resources & Training
This self-paced course considers how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can help your program meet the requirements of the ADA and become more inclusive. Designed for ADA coordinators and other interested administrators, this training will use an accessibility checklist to evaluate your program’s ADA compliance and disability-conscious program administration.
- Nov. 3, 2025 | 9 a.m. (self-paced course opens)
Advising & Student Support Services
The Advisors Sharing Group is a peer-facilitated space for advisors to provide program updates, discuss and troubleshoot common challenges, and share resources, promising practices, and more.
- Oct. 30, 2025 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Career Pathways
MassSTEP Sharing Group meetings provide an opportunity for anyone working on a MassSTEP program to connect with their peers and brainstorm solutions to common challenges together.
- Oct. 27, 2025 | 1-2:30 p.m.
Digital Literacy
Are you an Aztec Admin and would like to deepen your skills? Or has it been a while, and you could use a refresher on all the Aztec Admin tools available? In this session, you will strengthen your ability to customize support for your learners by exploring the administrative resources in Aztec.
- Oct. 24, 2025 | 10-11:15 a.m.
Digital Literacy Sharing Group
Instructors, tech specialists, and directors across all adult education settings (corrections, libraries, adult learning centers, workforce development, and more!) are invited to the peer-facilitated Digital Literacy Sharing Group. Join us to connect with fellow educators, share resources and strategies, ask questions, and explore new ideas and practices to strengthen digital literacy and technology integration in your program or classroom. Let's empower students and staff with essential digital skills!
- Oct. 28, 2025 | 1-2:30 p.m.
Engaging Online Instruction for Literacy-Level Learners
Serving learners who are developing literacy in both their native language, English, as well as the digital world, presents unique challenges. Virtual learning has advanced a great deal in recent years, but too often, literacy-level learners don’t receive these services because of the challenges associated with teaching them online. This interactive workshop will equip you with concrete, imaginative strategies to reach and teach these students successfully in a virtual environment.
- Nov. 12, 2025 | 1-2:30 p.m.
Educational Leadership
Directors must balance complex staff and student needs, local policies and protocols, and state guidance as they design, lead, and adapt programs, instructional practices, and program culture. The Directors Sharing Group is a peer-facilitated opportunity for directors to network, share resources and strategies, ask questions, and learn from and with one another.
- Oct. 30, 2025 | 10-11:30 a.m.
Collaboration Events
BurlingtonEnglish: Teacher Sharing and Learning Panel
Do you use BurlingtonEnglish and would love some creative ideas from others who use it? Have you thought about BurlingtonEnglish but aren’t quite sure what it’s all about? If you have these questions or others, please join us for this open and interactive session where you will have the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of three Massachusetts ESOL instructors who have been successful in using BurlingtonEnglish. The panelists will share their experience teaching with the platform and offer guidance about the effective instructional strategies they have used with their learners.
- Nov. 14, 2025 | 10-11:30 a.m.
