Professional Development
Catapult Learning’s personalized, engaging, and action-oriented solutions use research-based, best-practice models in that go beyond workshop execution. As a full-service professional development partner with funding expertise, we’re ready to prepare instructors and leaders to welcome all students and cultivate an environment for success.
Whether your organization needs a customized solution, or an expertly designed learning pathway suitable for any school or district, our team will support your leaders, teachers, and other staff, every step of the way.
Delivery with Excellence
With a relentless focus on improving outcomes for all students, Catapult Learning’s professional development experts partner with K-12 public and non-public schools and districts to support individual needs, improve academic gains, and build teacher and leader capacity to accelerate student achievement.
The Foundation for Success: The Five Strands
Catapult Learning builds every professional development solution on a holistic, research-based model: our Five Strand framework for development exemplary schools. Each strand aligns with the goal of every learning organization: to promote behaviors that increase and maintain student achievement.

“Working with Catapult Learning has transformed the dynamics of how we perceive professional development and training at our school…what we particularly love about this partnership and the resources they provide is the fact that they are unafraid to delve deep into issues that impact schools on a daily basis and create proactive solutions to address these critical areas for not only core instructional staff but also building administrators.”
Dr. Nadira Jack, Chief School Administrator
Getting Started with Professional Development
Beginning a professional development partnership often requires a measure of self-reflection. Catapult Learning simplifies the process for schools and districts with our Organizational Self-Assessment.
Designed to help staff at all levels assess the strengths and challenges of their organizational environments and instructional practices, our team will offer you recommendations based on how your school or district performs against 25 attributes.
Catapult Learning offers a wide range of options to accommodate your professional development needs – engaging workshops, high-impact coaching, focused learning bundles through our Professional Development Pathways, and even multi-year engagements that address significant disproportionality or lead to whole-school transformation.
Featured Updates
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PD Spotlight: Addressing Disproportionality in Partnership with Dr. Edward Fergus
Catapult Learning and Edward Fergus, Ph.D., a nationally recognized expert in racial disparities in special education, have partnered to advance equity and address disproportionality within all classrooms. In our blog series Solutions for Disproportionality, Dr. Fergus provides expert insights, advice, and tips on how to create a culturally inclusive and equitable environment for all.
Click here to learn more about our partnership with Dr. Fergus and to read his insightful blogs.