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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.

Career Pathways

MassSTEP Sharing Group

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. 

• Mar. 11, 2026  |  1 - 2:30 p.m.

Digital Literacy

Embedding Culturally Responsive Practices with Newsela (Self-Paced Modules)

This self-paced course helps you use Newsela to connect diverse adult learners' lives to classroom materials, boost their engagement, and improve their comprehension. (You can start and stop the course at any time, and your progress will be saved for when you return.)

• Jan. 19, 2026   |  Modules open at 9 a.m.
• June 15, 2026  |  Course closes at 11:59 p.m.

EdTech in Action: Assessment with Google Forms (Online Blended)

EdTech in Action sessions are your chance to explore and engage with educational technology—the ideas, tools, and techniques that use digital technology to facilitate changes in knowledge, skills, or attitudes. Each session introduces a new EdTech tool and presents two replicable EdTech routines that you can adapt for your classroom or for administrative use to build students' digital skills. In this third session, you will learn about using Google Forms as an assessment tool—not just for the classroom, but for program intake as well.

• Mar. 2, 2026    |  Course opens at 9 a.m. for pre-work
• Mar. 12, 2026  |  1 - 2:30 p.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!

• Mar. 17, 2026   |  1 - 2:30 p.m.

Educational Leadership & Program Management

Directors Sharing Group

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.

• Mar. 26, 2026  |  10 - 11:30 a.m.

LACES

LACES Beginner Training

This two-part training is an overview of how to use LACES (the statewide data management information system, or MIS) for your student, class, and staff data.

• Mar. 10, 2026  |  2 - 4 p.m.
• Mar. 11, 2026  |  2 - 4 p.m.

Collaboration Events

Introduction to Teaching Skills That Matter (Self-Paced Modules)

This introduction to the Teaching Skills That Matter in Adult Education provides an overview of the TSTM instructional framework and the TSTM Toolkit. The introduction also provides materials and guidance to train teachers to incorporate the skills that matter into adult education programming by using instructional approaches that work across relevant topic focus areas that are connected to student needs. Using the TSTM project’s tools and training, adult education teachers can teach the transferable skills students need in these critical contexts. 

• Mar. 2, 2026    |  Modules open at 9 a.m.
• Apr. 17, 2026   |  Course closes at 11:59 p.m.