These 5-Star Series courses are designed to deliver quality, thought provoking professional development, allowing participants to advance their own teaching practices. These courses carry a three-decade legacy of live conferences forward by also providing a unique online opportunity for participants to learn new and effective ways to teach with whole education strategies, as well as focus on proven methods to motivate students and improve outcomes. These courses seek to maximize the effort of the learner to understand new knowledge in best practice research with opportunities for application, in order to master the strategies needed to equip students for success in the real world—whether creating foundations for early learning, preparing youth for college, or enhancing skills for students joining the workforce. The plethora of rich content and accompanying assignments in this “live” and online professional learning format requires educators to engage with one another, delve into their personal experiences and perspectives surrounding the content, and positively affect their classroom practice to increase student outcomes.
