Best professional development platform for teachers

The power of teaching teachers

Professional development is an essential part of the teaching profession — teachers are expected to constantly improve their own skills, learn new pedagogies, and develop new strategies to engage their students. They need to be lifelong learners themselves. However, providing them with the necessary paths and materials to facilitate professional development is no easy task.

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Help teachers set career goals and seamlessly track the skills needed to reach them

Quickly create engaging and individualized courses for teachers’ career development needs

Deliver consistent and scalable professional development programs

Develop efficient tracking of professional development progress and certification

Incorporate collaborative and human-connected learning and networking for teachers to network with colleagues in a professional development context

Why professional development for teachers is essential

Teacher professional development (PD) is crucial for skill enhancement and adapting to new teaching styles and strategies. As public awareness and acknowledgement of neurodiversity increases, we’re developing more effective ways to engage neurodiverse learners and help them excel.

Lifelong learning is pivotal for educators to stay updated on the latest educational strategies to better serve students and themselves. This improves teaching quality and potential earnings.

Policymakers recognize PD as crucial for imparting the complex skills required in the 21st century. However, successful PD goes beyond initial training. Teachers need ongoing support and help refining their teaching methods. By focusing on specific curriculum content, collaboration, effective practice models, targeted feedback, and coaching, we can build a better equipped team of teachers and, in turn, students.

Teachers often lack time to learn skills outside of teaching hours or encounter PD courses that don't align with their interests or professional goals. To effectively integrate technology into classrooms, PD courses should equip teachers with digital literacy and emphasize technology's value for boosting student performance.

Instructional Technology Coaching (ITC) is a prevalent PD method. It empowers teachers to integrate technology effectively into both curriculum and instruction.

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) foster collaborative learning, providing teachers with ongoing support, resources, and opportunities to improve teaching practices.

Utilizing a modern learning platform, like CYPHER, for PD enables districts to offer comprehensive training, enhance collaboration among teachers, and streamline certification programs, leveraging the same platform used for student learning and reducing the need for extra investment in resources.

The CYPHER platform offers diverse features, including customizable class delivery styles, mastery tracking, learning paths, and certificates of completion, ensuring effective and engaging PD tailored to teachers' needs.

Award-winning platform for education

In the past year, we’ve received over two dozen awards for our innovative learning technology, including Forbes Advisor’s “Best Overall Employee Training Software” and “Best LMS.” We’ve also received recognition for our work in academia, earning the title of “Best K-12 Remote Learning Partner” in the SIIA CODiE 2022 Awards and numerous other awards.

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A modern learning platform for teacher professional development

See how the CYPHER platform can help better equip teachers to reach their professional goals

Develop and track professional development skills

Build skills more effectively

COMPETENCY-BASED LEARNING

Educators and administrators can define and organize professional development competencies, associate them with courses or learning materials, and track teachers’ progress in acquiring these competencies. Create your own competency framework or choose from 5,000+ pre-included competencies.

Decrease administrative drudgery

AUTOMATION

CYPHER is the only platform built around sophisticated automation from the ground up to heighten efficiency and scalability. Automatically group teachers based on their professional development goals, hide and reveal modules based on their goals, and more. Promote collaboration, community, and personalized learning without the administrative drudgery.

Easily monitor and assess teacher performance

REPORTING AND ANALYTICS

With 50+ built-in and custom reporting options, teachers and administrators can track teacher progress in real time, providing immediate feedback, and assessments. This data-driven approach helps to identify areas in the professional development courses that need improvement or clarification.

Facilitate connection and inclusivity

Promote teacher communication and collaboration

COLLABORATION TOOLS

Build community and make connections in real time. Teachers use the Q&A forum to ask questions and receive support to easily reach their goals. Only CYPHER offers a Universal Translator for real-time communications and a Green Dot activity indicator to show course and participant popularity.

Interactive learning environment

GAMIFICATION AND ASSIGNMENTS

CYPHER Learning platforms provide interactive tools such as quizzes, assignments, and discussions that can be integrated into classroom activities, making learning more engaging. Increase connection by teaming up teachers to earn points toward gamified professional development material. With CYPHER’s periodic leveling, points frequently reset to encourage participation and motivation.

Equal learning opportunities for all

ACCESSIBILITY

The platform is designed to be accessible, catering to teachers with different learning needs and preferences, which is essential for inclusive education. Accessibility features include: screen reader support, MS immersive reader, voiceover, accessibility themes, and more.

Personalize professional development journeys

Add training goals to up-skill

CREATE GOALS

Define specific learning goals such as jobs and competencies, and allow teachers to improve their current skills or build new ones. Get personalized learning profiles and programs based on teachers’ goals and see measurable professional development progress - all in one view.

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Customizable and personalized onboarding journeys

LEARNING PATHS

Course creators and administrators can create personalized learning paths for teachers. This allows for differentiated instruction based on individual teacher needs, skills, and interests, catering to unique professional development journeys.

Combine the power of AI 360 with your unique content

UPLOADED CONTENT

With options to have AI 360 pull exclusively or primarily from your uploaded content – PDFs, videos, and more – you can quickly create courses tailored to your organization’s onboarding needs. Create a full student or teacher onboarding course from the materials, complete with quizzes, gamification, competencies, and more.

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Supercharged teacher professional development. In minutes.

AI 360 with Copilot on the CYPHER platform can supercharge teacher professional development content – empowering you to deliver robust new courses fast. Imagine building competency-based, gamified courses specifically aligned to teachers’ goals in just minutes!

This lets you:

Create highly personalized courses – aligned to teachers’ professional development goals – and launch them just in time!
Easily scale your teacher professional development program
Ensure mastery of professional development concepts for every teacher, at scale

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