K-12 courses for teachers, staff and school leaders

Workplace courses rarely fit a school day. These courses are built around school situations: a parent asking about another child’s grades, a teacher pasting a class list into a chatbot, a student who stops talking in third period, a reference check that skips the hard question. Each course separates what every staff member does day to day from the duties that belong to administrators and compliance leads.

Many districts and states let teachers count professional development hours toward license renewal. Each course states its contact hours and earns a certificate of completion; check with your district or state education agency whether it accepts the course.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) shapes almost every student record decision. The training is split by role:

Both point to the federal Student Privacy Policy Office and to state student privacy laws, which often add rules for vendors.

The AI in education course covers appropriate teacher uses such as planning, differentiation and feedback; student use, age limits and tool terms of service; assessment design that holds up when students have AI; and the rule that student personal information never goes into an unapproved tool. Guidance from federal and state education agencies is changing, so the course dates every rule it cites.

Teachers are often the first adults to notice a change. The youth mental health course teaches what to look for in a classroom, how to have a supportive conversation within a teacher’s role and how to use the school’s referral pathway. It uses the National Institute of Mental Health’s warning signs, including talking about being a burden or feeling trapped and new or increased changes in behavior, and NIMH’s finding that asking directly about suicide does not increase risk.

Add your state’s required trainings on top of this plan, and keep each certificate with staff records.

School personnel are named as mandated reporters of child abuse in about 44 states, according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway, and education staff made 21.1% of all reports to child protective services in the federal Child Maltreatment 2023 report, second only to legal and law enforcement staff. The mandated reporter course on the abuse prevention page covers that duty state by state.

Prevention starts before a person is hired. The K-12 safe hiring course covers background and fingerprint checks, reference questions that ask directly about misconduct, gaps in employment history, and the records schools need to keep, so district HR teams can close the gaps that let a problem move from one school to the next.