Professional Development

2gnoMe is a professional-growth platform that helps educators identify strengths and development needs against a chosen framework, standard set, rubric, or competency model. It then connects the results to targeted learning resources and gives individuals a private, personalized path for growth.

Districts can use the platform to make professional learning more relevant, align development to instructional or technology standards, and see aggregate needs without reducing the process to a generic course catalog. Available frameworks, content connections, data-sharing rules, and administrative reporting should be verified for the district’s program.

Teaching Channel’s video coaching and professional-learning platform is the current successor to ADVANCEfeedback from Insight ADVANCE. Educators can record or upload classroom video, share selected evidence securely, receive timestamped feedback, and reflect with coaches or peers without requiring every observation to occur live.

Districts can use the platform for instructional coaching, mentoring, induction, calibration, professional learning communities, and evidence connected to growth goals. The record should be renamed to reflect the Teaching Channel platform because ADVANCEfeedback is no longer marketed as a standalone product.

Alludo is a gamified professional-learning platform that lets districts build flexible learning paths from videos, documents, links, activities, and evidence-based tasks. Educators complete missions and earn points, badges, or district-defined recognition while learning at their own pace.

The platform is designed to make recurring technology training, instructional initiatives, onboarding, and compliance learning easier to organize and sustain. Administrators can create content, segment audiences, review submitted evidence, track progress, and report participation across schools or groups.

BloomBoard helps school districts build educator pipelines and career pathways through job-embedded degree, certification, endorsement, and advancement programs. Rather than functioning as a general course catalog, it connects district workforce needs with structured programs that allow educators and prospective educators to develop and demonstrate skills while working.

Districts can use BloomBoard to recruit and advance local talent, support paraprofessionals moving into teaching, address certification gaps, and link professional growth to roles or compensation. Programs combine university partnerships, coaching, portfolio-based evidence, and micro-credentials or other recognized outcomes.

Certiport is a Pearson VUE business that delivers industry-recognized certification exams and related preparation ecosystems for digital skills, productivity software, information technology, design, entrepreneurship, and other career fields. Schools use authorized testing centers, exam-delivery software, vouchers, practice materials, and reporting to administer credentials.

The service can support staff professional development when employees pursue certifications, but its primary K–12 role is credential testing for students and career-technical programs. It should be cross-listed or moved to Assessment / Certification or College and Career Readiness rather than treated as a general district PD platform.

Edthena is a video-coaching and professional-learning platform for educators. Teachers record or upload classroom video, select evidence, reflect on their practice, and collaborate with coaches, mentors, supervisors, or peers through time-linked comments and structured coaching activities.

Districts and preparation programs can use Edthena for coaching cycles, induction, professional learning communities, observations, and evidence-based reflection without requiring every participant to be in the classroom at the same time. Optional AI-supported reflection tools provide guided feedback, but districts should define appropriate use and privacy expectations.

Eduspire provides online professional-development and graduate-level courses for educators, with offerings focused on instructional practice, technology integration, student needs, and other school priorities. Educators enroll in scheduled online sections and complete course requirements through a structured learning environment.

District staff may use Eduspire for continuing education, Act 48 hours, or graduate credit through identified partners, subject to local and California acceptance rules. It is a course provider rather than a district-wide PD management platform, so approval, reimbursement, salary-credit, and transcript decisions remain with the employer or credentialing authority.

Evaluation from Education Advanced is an employee-evaluation and professional-growth platform for K–12 organizations. It digitizes district-defined evaluation cycles, forms, observations, evidence, feedback, goals, signatures, and reporting for teachers and other employee groups.

The product helps districts standardize evaluation timelines, reduce paper handling, monitor completion, and connect feedback to ongoing growth. It belongs in Professional Development when used as part of educator growth, but it also overlaps Human Resources and should be cross-listed or grouped with employee evaluation systems.

Frontline Professional Growth is a K–12 platform for managing professional learning and employee evaluation. Districts can publish learning opportunities, handle enrollment and approvals, track attendance and credits, maintain transcripts, and connect professional-development plans with observation and evaluation processes.

The system helps central offices replace separate forms and spreadsheets with consistent workflows and district-wide reporting. Because it combines multiple modules and legacy products, districts should document which components they license, how employee data is synchronized, and whether the course library is included.

Google Workspace for Education is a broad cloud productivity and collaboration environment that includes Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Calendar, Classroom, and administrative services according to edition. It supports communication, content creation, file sharing, meetings, and classroom workflows across a district.

Google provides training and certification resources for educators, but Workspace itself is not a professional-development management system. This listing should be renamed and moved to General Productivity; any separate record for Google educator training should describe the training program rather than the software suite.

GoSignMeUp is a registration and learning-management platform used to organize instructor-led, virtual, and self-paced professional development. District staff can publish a searchable course catalog, enroll participants, manage capacity and waitlists, collect fees when needed, and communicate schedule information from one system.

For administrators, the platform tracks attendance, completions, credits, certificates, surveys, and transcripts and produces reports for local, state, or grant requirements. It is best understood as the operational system around professional learning; districts may still use a separate LMS or content provider to deliver some courses.

KickUp is a K–12 educator-growth platform that combines professional-learning management with coaching, walkthrough, feedback, and employee-evaluation workflows. Districts can centralize learning opportunities, attendance, credits, transcripts, forms, observation data, goals, and growth activity instead of maintaining separate systems and spreadsheets.

The platform is designed to connect professional learning with district priorities and evidence about educator practice. Modular licensing matters: districts should document whether they use Learning, Coaching and Walks, Growth, dashboards, or other components and how employee, identity, and course data enter the system.

Kyte Learning is an online professional-learning platform focused on practical technology and classroom-implementation training for educators. Teachers choose short, self-paced video courses and collections, allowing districts to provide on-demand learning without relying entirely on scheduled in-service sessions.

Administrators can assign or recommend content, organize district-created training, monitor participation, and recognize completed professional-development credit. The platform is most useful for differentiated, asynchronous skill development; districts should confirm how locally required hours, approvals, and transcript records are handled.

Model Teaching provides online professional-development courses for K–12 educators, including short courses, certificate programs, and graduate-credit options delivered with university partners. Courses focus on practical instructional strategies and require educators to engage with content, complete assignments, and plan classroom application.

Districts can use the service as an external course-content provider for targeted staff learning or salary-advancement pathways. It does not replace a district’s complete PD registration and records system, so approval, reimbursement, credit acceptance, and transcript requirements should be confirmed locally.

OMS is a K–12 event-registration and professional-development tracking system used by education agencies to publish courses, manage enrollments, and maintain staff learning records. Participants browse offerings, register, receive communications, and review their professional-learning history through an organization-specific portal.

Program staff can manage sessions, capacity, attendance, approvals, presenters, evaluations, credit, certificates, and reports. The product addresses the administrative workflow around district or county professional learning rather than supplying a broad commercial course library.

SimpleK12 is an online professional-learning service for teachers and school staff, offering live virtual sessions, on-demand courses, short videos, and learning resources across instructional practice, technology, classroom management, student support, and other education topics.

Districts can provide staff with anytime access to a shared course library while monitoring participation, completions, certificates, and professional-learning hours. It primarily supplies training content and delivery; districts may need another system for local event registration, approval workflows, evaluations, or official transcript governance.