E-Learning for Educators is a five-year initiative, funded by the federal Ready to Teach Program, designed to help states meet critical requirements for improving student achievement through providing high quality online professional development content and support as they build their capacity to implement programs to meet teacher quality requirements. The initiative seeks to address the needs of students in high-poverty, low–achieving schools.

Project Goals

1. Use e-learning to provide effective professional development that leads to gains in teachers’ content knowledge, improvements in their teaching practices, and increases in the achievement of their students.
2. Develop, within each participating state and public broadcasting organization, the capacity to use e-learning as a vehicle for effective professional development that directly serves state and district teacher quality initiatives and student achievement goals, with a specific focus on high need schools and districts.
3. Create a multi-state collaboration to define common standards, share resources and expertise, and support the individual state programs.
4. Develop a cadre of skilled e-Learning for Educators instructors to teach the e-learning courses offered.
5. Develop model e-learning courses for professional development that address critical state needs and provide exemplars to inform further course development.
6. Develop a cadre of skilled e-Learning for Educators course developers and establish collaborations involving public broadcasting stations, state departments of education, and other relevant organizations, to develop e-learning courses to meet the student achievement needs of each state.
7. Conduct scientifically-based research to determine the effectiveness of the e-Learning for Educators initiative on improving teacher quality and impacting student achievement.
8. Establish a proven, scaleable and sustainable model for e-learning professional development programs that can be replicated in other states.