Professional Development Services at CES

Professional Development Services @ CES

Supporting educators through every step of their professional journey

The Professional Development Services department offers a variety of teaching and learning services to educators in public and private schools as well as community educational centers. We are able to provide our services at our professional development centers, in virtual settings, and even at your school or in your district.

We are a highly motivated team of teaching and learning leaders and specialists who have extensive experience--

🗸 Developing and delivering a range of professional development opportunities
🗸 Designing curriculum and assessments
🗸 Coaching and mentoring educators at every stage of their career
🗸 Leveraging technology to curate and deliver high impact teaching & learning experiences
🗸 Implementing new initiatives and systems

We pride ourselves on being agile and innovative, and we prioritize equity, inclusion, and the belonging of all social identities in every service we provide.

Click below to review our varied professional development services.

Workshop Events 🗓️ & Registration
Sessions & Supports We Can Bring To You

Workshop Events 🗓️ & Registration

Click through our calendar to see details about upcoming workshops and events, or to search our events by keyword, subject area, or target audience click here to directly access our Protraxx registration system.

🏳️ Click here for help with Finding and Registering for CES Sessions. 🏳️

🏳️ Click here for help with Accessing Canvas Courses (through Protraxx). 🏳️

🏳️ Click here for help with Accessing ZOOM Meeting links (through Protraxx). 🏳️

Sessions & Supports We Can Bring To You

Wondering what the Professional Development Services team can do for you?
Click the button below to browse our extensive list of sessions and other PDS supports by topic and audience.

Ready to book a service with the Professional Development Services team?
Click the button below to request personalized services for your district or school organization.

Click here to see more about our in-district fees and opportunities for system-wide professional development and projects.

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Other Resources

RESC Minority Teacher Recruiting (MTR)

Click below for more information and to apply!

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Click here to review the questions asked within the grant application.

The Regional Education Service Center Minority Teacher Recruiting (RESC MTR) Alliance was established by a Connecticut General Assembly statute and is a collaborative of the six Connecticut Regional Education Service Centers and the public districts they serve. In the past, with funding from the General Assembly, the RESC MTR Alliance received allocations as directed from the state Department of Education.

Our stated purpose under the General Assembly statute is:

To encourage minority middle- and secondary-school students to attend institutions of higher education and enter teacher preparation programs.
To recruit minority students attending institutions of higher education to enroll in teacher preparation programs and pursue teacher careers.
To recruit and retain minority teachers in Connecticut schools.

Funding for the RESC Alliance action plans was cut, so as of July limited work on these goals has been undertaken by the RESC Alliance. Click here to view a presentation that outlined prior work of the RESC MTR Alliance.

In lieu of that, based on the recommendations of a statewide task force on minority teacher recruitment, a public act that was approved by the Connecticut legislature in 2018. It puts in place a task force and new procedures that impact hiring, certification and other issues that have been barriers to increasing the number of minority educators in Connecticut. Click here to read the legislative act.

Our Professional Development Spaces

Cooperative Educational Services (CES)
Main Campus
40 Lindeman Drive
Trumbull, CT 06611

CES @ Oakview
Around the corner from our Main Campus
25 Oakview Drive
Trumbull, CT 06611

Inclement weather hotline for both CES locations: 203-365-8848
Call after 6:45 am.

WorkspaceCT
Our *newest* PD Campus
16 Trowbridge Drive
Bethel, CT 06801

Inclement weather notifications will be posted at www.workspacect.org
Check after 6:45 a.m.

Aspiring Teachers

The following resources have been curated to assist those interested in becoming a Connecticut educators.

Click the image below to find out more!

Connecticut Educator Recruitment Fair

System for Educator Evaluation and Development (SEED)

The primary goal of SEED is to strengthen individual and collective practices to increase student learning and development.

All local and regional boards of education are required to submit their educator evaluation and support plans to the CSDE annually for review and approval. The approved plans must be consistent with the CT Guidelines for Educator Evaluation which ensures all teachers within their respective districts will be evaluated annually. According to the Guidelines, the term "teacher" refers to any teacher serving in a position requiring teacher certification within a district, but not requiring an 092 certification.

The superintendent of each local or regional board of education shall annually evaluate or cause to be evaluated each administrator who serves in a role requiring an 092 certification, in accordance with the CT Guidelines for Educator Evaluation. Except where noted as applying to particular job descriptions, the requirements apply to all roles requiring an 092 certification. Educators holding an 092 certification whose primary job responsibilities include teaching students, shall be evaluated using the requirements for teacher evaluation.

Connecticut’s System for Educator Evaluation and Development (SEED) is a model evaluation and support system that is aligned to the Connecticut Guidelines for Educator Evaluation (Core Requirements), which were adopted by the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) in 2012 and revised in 2014, and inform implementation of a model teacher and administrator evaluation and support system which was piloted in 2012-13 school year.

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