Your Integrated Professional Learning Platform
Support your entire team: from novice teachers to seasoned veterans, paraprofessionals to your leadership team, and educators seeking license renewal or recertification through the EMPOWER Platform.
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Empower your educators with hundreds of professional learning courses, 2,000+ classroom videos, and collaborative coaching tools—all accessible in the EMPOWER Platform.
Professional Learning Courses
Access 300+ flexible, on-demand professional learning courses for PD days and license renewal through the EMPOWER Platform.
Video Library
Our collection of 2,000+ classroom videos, aligned to common-learning standards, enables educators to observe and adopt new strategies.
Coaching
EMPOWER offers opportunities for PLC discussions and instructional coaching. Embed feedback in key classroom moments.
Specialty Training
New teachers, paraprofessionals, and substitutes have unique needs. EQUIP courses provide support to help them thrive.
Our all-in-one Platform was built to streamline all of your professional learning needs.
We’re dedicated to consistently enriching our video library and course catalog, introducing fresh options regularly. This dynamic ecosystem fosters educator growth through self-reflection, peer feedback, PLCs, and data analysis while adapting to evolving teaching needs with timely content updates.
- Dashboard
- Learning Center
- Account Library
- Activity Center
- Assignment Maker
- Data & Reports
Dashboard
Dashboard
Easily navigate our dashboard
- View statistics, such as videos watched and discussions had
- Organize your activity with the latest updates and to-do items
- Discover the latest video library videos and playlists
Learning Center
Learning Center
*The Learning Center is launching in fall 2024.
Cover PD days and license renewal
- 300+ customized, flexible courses for educators, ranging from 3 to 45 hours.
- Designed by credentialed educators for asynchronous, virtual, or in-person learning.
- Tailored programs meet the specific needs of teachers, schools, and districts.
- Supports impactful professional growth and immediate classroom application.
- Having served hundreds of thousands of educators with a consistent course rating of 4.7/5 stars.
Account Library
Account Library
Reference videos, documents, and links
- Access 2,000+ classroom videos spanning all subject areas and grade levels
- All videos are aligned to student-learning standards
- Create your own video playlists and favorites
- Create your own school or district library with your own resources
- Discover carefully curated video playlists from the Teaching Channel team
- Transfer videos to the Activity Center for collaboration and coaching
Activity Center
Activity Center
Create and organize all of your coaching activities
- Upload videos for self-reflection, PLC and peer feedback, and coaching opportunities
- Reflect on videos or share them with peers and observers for collaborative discussions
- Conduct in-person observations and track growth data
- Embed notes, questions, and related files for rich coaching conversations
Assignment Maker
Assignment Maker
Organize, assign, and track professional learning activities
- Create assignments for individuals or cohorts using in-platform and external resources
- Assign videos, playlists, and activities for discussion, reflections, and coaching with documentation such as links, files, and videos
- Utilize a collaborative group discussion board
- Track completion of assignments and assign due dates
Data & Reports
Data & Reports
Access data for all professional learning activity
- Usage, video resources, and activity reports
- Engage with real-time instructional growth data
- Gain insights to make informed strategic improvements
Customize your professional development program with our diverse course topics to engage educators, build culture, and increase student impact.
As an administrator, your plate is full, and creating impactful and inspiring professional development is a challenge. The EMPOWER Platform provides the unique ability to tailor professional development pathways to individual educators’ needs and align to district initiatives.
Talk to Our Team of Experts
Offering 300+ online courses, ranging from 3-45 hours, and designed to address your evolving demands with timely and relevant content.
Your Needs,
Your Program
Decide what’s needed to achieve your goals. From self-paced coursework and PLCs to customized webinars, we’ll support you.
PD Planned
& Delivered
Together, we’ll take teaching farther. Educators will be engaged and feel supported in their learning journey.
Explore 2,000+ videos within EMPOWER.
Professional Learning Courses for Specialty Educators
EQUIP for New Teachers
EQUIP your new teachers with guidance and professional learning for solutions to common new teacher challenges.
EQUIP for Substitutes
Level up your short-call substitute teachers and give them the tools needed to succeed in the classroom.
EQUIP for Paraprofessionals
Enable your paraprofessionals for classroom success with comprehensive district support and training.
"The return on investment for using this platform has been tremendous. The entire district team is more reflective on practice. We have increased teacher retention, and most importantly, raised student achievement by improving the quality of instruction."
“Hands down, time is one of the greatest challenges when you are trying to lift major professional development work. I'm a convert to using video to support professional learning. It takes away the challenge of being in the same place at the same time so all these brilliant minds can come together.”
“There are sayings that have stood the test of time like, ‘seeing is believing,’ and video allows us to see good teaching in action and believe that we all can offer this in our own classrooms.”
Additional Resources
- Arts
- Classroom Culture
- Coaching
- Engagement
- English Language Arts & Reading
- English Language Learners
- Lesson Planning
- Math
- New Teachers
- Professional Learning
- Science
- Special Education
- Technology in the Classroom
Arts
Arts
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 660+ videos featuring the arts .
Popular videos in this category include:
- Exploring Symbolism: Your Life as Abstract Art (6-min)
- Elements of Art: Color, Space, and Texture (12-min)
- First Nations: Exploring Culture Through Art (13-min)
- Values & Virtues: Symbolism in Art (14-min)
Classroom Culture
Classroom Culture
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 200+ videos featuring strategies to enhance classroom culture.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Ready to Learn: Creating a Positive Classroom Culture (2-min)
- Jenna's Fifth Grade Class Culture (28-min)
- Investing in Student Relationships, Peer-to-Peer Culture, Belonging, & Psychological Safety (56-min)
- Class Culture: Attention with Respect (1-min)
Coaching
Coaching
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 150+ videos showcasing coaching techniques.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Coach and Teacher- Lesson Debrief (4-min)
- Pivoting as a Coach (3-min)
- Divergent Questioning in 8th Grade Math (22-min)
- Multiple Measures of Effective Teaching (7-min)
Engagement
Engagement
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 350+ videos featuring effective engagement techniques.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Challenge: Student Focus and Brain Breaks (4-min)
- Reading a Book Aloud (10-min)
- Mirror Words- What do you Notice? (2-min)
- Providing Extra Math Support in Small Groups (2-min)
English Language Arts & Reading
English Language Arts & Reading
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 490+ videos centered around English language arts and reading.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Rick's Reading Workshop: Silent Reading (4-min)
- Drop Everything and Read (14-min)
- Teaching a Phonics Pattern (24-min)
- Exploring the Elements of Poetry (16-min)
English Language Learners
English Language Learners
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 775+ videos showcasing strategies in working with English language learners.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Encouraging Academic Language and Discussion with ELD Students (8-min)
- Taking Pride in an English Language Learner (2-min)
- Learning Letters with Language Learners (7-min)
- Gamifying the Lesson for English Learners (3-min)
Lesson Planning
Lesson Planning
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 1,115+ videos centered around lesson planning.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Mid-Unit Check-Ins (12-min)
- Grade Band Planning Meeting (26-min)
- Claims, Evidence, & Reasoning: Planning (9-min)
- Five Ways to Start Your Lessons (1-min)
Math
Math
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 390+ videos diving into math curriculum.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Solving Problems Using Collaborative Math Talks (39-min)
- Notice & Wonder Math Routine: Third Grade (22-min)
- Collaborative Memory in Math (4-min)
New Teachers
New Teachers
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 1,310+ videos featuring videos ideal for new teachers.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Advice for New Teachers (60-min)
- New Teacher Survival Guide: ADHD in the Classroom (11-min)
- Making Good Teachers Great: Shaping Teacher Identity (56-min)
- Implementing a New Curriculum (6-min)
Professional Learning
Professional Learning
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 245+ videos highlighting effective professional learning.
Popular videos in this category include:
- It's Okay to Fail! (2-min)
- Coaching for Equity (5-min)
- Building Coaching Relationships (4-min)
- Reflecting on Teaching After 20 Years (3-min)
Science
Science
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 415+ videos featuring science lessons.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Using Science Games (35-min)
- Singing in Science (6-min)
- Using Inquiry in Pre-K Science (60-min)
- Making Science Engaging (14-min)
Special Education
Special Education
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 70+ videos featuring Special Education classrooms.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (14-min)
- Making SPED Accommodations (2-min)
- Using Differentiated SPED Groups to Develop Academic English Skills (22-min)
- Special Education Class: What Do You Notice (6-min)
Technology in the Classroom
Technology in the Classroom
With the Teaching Channel Library educators can explore 155+ videos featuring effective technology uses and strategies in the classroom.
Popular videos in this category include:
- Using Technology for Hard-to-Teach Concepts (27-min)
- Finland: Discovery through Technology (14-min)
- Using Technology to Boost Confidence (3-min)
- New Teacher Survival Guide: Technology in the Classroom (16-min)
