External PL Opportunities
Please refer to the PL Guidelines page for a complete list of all guidelines.
School Media Coordinators are the primary point of contact and support for all Professional Learning resources, information and questions.
All Professional Learning that occurs during normal school hours MUST FIRST BE APPROVED BY YOUR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR and substitute coverage arranged for the duration of the Professional Learning.
All External Professional Learning providers included on External PL Opportunities document (left side menu) does not require pre-approval by the HR department. Any External PL not on this list MUST receive prior approval from HR or CEU credit cannot be issued.
All External Professional Learning requires the participant to submit a copy of his/her certificate of completion to HR to receive CEU credit.
All External Professional Learning requires the participant to redeliver information as a PL training within 60 days (school media coordinators must document the date and send a copy of the agenda and sign in sheet to HR.)
All PL documentation for CEU credit must be turned in within 90 days of the completion of the PL activity.
Please allow 10 school days from the date HR receives CEU documentation (certificate, sign in sheet with agenda, transcript, etc.) for your CEU History to be updated online.
Opening | Topic | Location | Description | CEU Credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dates Vary - Offered All Year | Canvas Webinars | ONLINE INSTRUCTOR LED OPEN TO ALL | Canvas offers evening webinars to accommodate the busy schedule of educators. Participants in the live sessions will receive a certificate for 0.1 DLC CEU. | 0.1 CEU |
Dates Vary - Offered All Year | North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) | ONLINE SELF PACED OPEN TO ALL | NCCAT offers self-paced online modules. Educators can register for a maximum of three (3) courses per quarter. Certificates will be emailed by the end of the quarter for those who successfully complete the course. | Depending on the course, participants can earn 5 or 15 contact hours. |
Dates Vary - Offered All Year |
NCEES Evaluation Process Webinars | ONLINE INSTRUCTOR LED OPEN TO ALL | NCDPI provides webinars which cover different areas of the NCEES application to help you fully utilize the evaluation process and professional development opportunities within the system. | 0.1 CEU |
Dates Vary - Offered All Year | NCDPI Professional Learning via NCEES | ONLINE INSTRUCTOR LED OPEN TO ALL
| NCDPI-provided webinars on a variety of topics aligned to Teacher Standards and the Digital Learning Competencies. On the page, click the 'By Standards' tab and expand the Teaching Standards or DLCs to see the elements within each. Select an element to have the Professional Learning topics appear. | Range from 0.5+ CEU Credit type depends on the topic |
Dates Vary - Offered All Year | NC PSU Staff Self-Paced PD Courses | ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS OPEN TO ALL | For any NC PSU Staff who need CEU credits, DTL now has a database of all current asynchronous NCEES PD opportunities for staff. |
Range from 0.5+ CEU Credit type depends on the topic |
Dates Vary - Each Has Specific Opening & Closing Dates | MOOC-Ed: Massive Open Online Courses for Educators | ONLINE INSTRUCTOR LED OPEN TO ALL | NC State College of Education and project of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation: The PLACE (Professional Learning and Collaboration Environment) via MOOC-Ed (Massive Open Online Courses for Educators)--for free! MOOC-Ed courses focus on authentic, project-based learning, collaboration, and peer-supported learning. | Range from 1-3 CEUs Credit type depends on the topic |
Dates Vary - | Piedmont Triad Education Consortium (PTEC) | Location Varies FACE to FACE | PTEC is a collaboration of seventeen K-12 school districts in central North Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. PTEC’s primary purpose is to provide professional growth opportunities for educators at all levels of its member school districts. For a catalog of all professional growth opportunities and to register, Visit them online here. | Half Day = 0.3 CEU
Credit type depends on the topic |
Dates Vary | NCDPI Professional Development School Counseling | ONLINE INSTRUCTOR LED and/or SELF PACED | NCDPI’s School Counseling Department provides school counselors, administrators, institutions of higher education, and others interested in North Carolina school counseling with professional development information, materials and collaborative resources to help implement a data-driven comprehensive school counseling program. Visit the NC School Counseling linked here and select Professional Development.
| CEU Credit Varies |
Ongoing Enrollment | Google Certified Educator | ONLINE SELF-PACED | Earn Google Certified Educator Credentials! Google offers two educator certifications so that you can show mastery at the level that's right for you. Use the content in the teacher center and your own teaching experience to best prepare you for the performance-based exams. Once you feel adequately prepared, exams are available online and the educator certifications can be achieved at any time. | 1 CEU |