Professional Education
Practice-based, equity-centered professional learning that helps teachers and leaders meet the challenges they face today.
Ongoing Support for Teachers and Leaders
The Professional Education team works with teachers and leaders to continuously improve their craft throughout their careers. Through professional development workshops, fellowship programs, and targeted coaching and support, we help educators strengthen student academic success, equity, and wellness.
Our offerings are practice-based and equity-centered, led by experienced practitioners and designed to build community among a diverse set of peers.
Working Together
Relay Professional Education partners with schools, systems (independent, district, and charter), peer organizations, and states to help bring their vision for their learning community to life. Our goal is to see measurable improvements in participants’ effectiveness, satisfaction, and tenure in their schools, and a positive impact on all students’ academic growth and school experience.
The Relay Experience
Relay Professional Education partners with schools, systems (traditional district and charter), peer organizations, and states to help bring their vision for their learning community to life. Our approach is:
Actionable and practice-based: Educators learn and practice skills they can apply tomorrow.
Evidence-based and data-informed: We share strategies drawn from our faculty’s deep experience, and focus on how to use data to continuously improve.
Culturally responsive and equity-centered: We treat equity not as a separate unit, but as a fundamental component of all leadership practice.
Supportive and community-oriented: Our faculty intentionally create inclusive and affirming adult learning spaces, where participants are encouraged to create community and bring their full selves.
>12,000
have participated in
Leadership Programs since 2013
10,000
have participated in over 900 Teacher Professional Education workshops
since they began in 2019
90%
of participants report that Relay training prepared them to strengthen teaching and learning systems and practices in their schools.
Meet the Team
The Relay Professional Education Team is a diverse and dynamic group of individuals with a wealth of experience and a shared goal: to make our Professional Education offerings as effective, exciting, and impactful as possible.
Explore Teacher Professional Education
We partner with school and system-level leaders to identify their instructional priorities and select the right professional learning experiences to support their teachers.
Explore Leadership Programs
We provide in-depth learning experiences for leaders of all levels to hone their craft with a network of peers.