THRIVE: Become the educator you've always wanted to be!
Register for Thrive 1 - this is for first-time participants
Register for Thrive 2 - you have participated in Thrive 1 previously
Both begin on January 1st, 2025
Getting through each day isn't how you want to spend your career, is it?
Instead of surviving, it's time to THRIVE!
In today’s world, educators have tremendous responsibilities and it can be difficult to make lasting changes that will enable you to maintain healthy longevity throughout your career. THRIVE will give you the strategies to create the work/life blend you love so you can show up each
day feeling inspired and ready to make a massive impact on the students in your classroom.
- On-going community support
- Certificate of Completion for 15 hours of Empowered Educator training
- 15 hours of virtual professional development
- Empowered Educator workbook
- 3-month access to:
- content on a private audio feed for listener convenience
- a self-paced video/audio library
- 2 Empowered Educator group coaching sessions a month
Science of Reading Fundamentals 
Earn affordable continuing education credits via a fully
online, self-paced micro-credential created by award-
winning SUNY New Paltz School of Education faculty.
Open June 1, 2024 - November 30, 2024
Register Here
This fully online, self-paced curriculum leads to 35 Continuing Teacher and Leader Education hours that support NYS teachers’ professional certification. Flexibility is built in for busy schedules: New sessions open every month and can be completed in as little as seven weeks or up to six months.
The Science of Reading Fundamentals microcredential (SoRF MC) is a fully asynchronous online, non-credit microcredential delivered in the D2L Brightspace platform designed for practicing P-12 teachers and others interested in learning about the research-based building blocks of reading instruction. The SoRF MC covers the five pillars of the Science of Reading -- phonemic awareness, phonics (including alphabetic principle and orthography), fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.