THRIVE
Thrive is a self-paced course designed to help educators break free from burnout, build emotional resilience, and reclaim their joy.
Register for Thrive 1 - this is for first-time participants
Register for Thrive 2 - this is the second level for those who have participated in Thrive 1 previously
Start Date: Monday, June 23, 2025
Getting through each day isn't how you want to spend your career, is it?
Instead of surviving, it's time to THRIVE!
Become the educator you've always wanted to be with this proven transformational program. This course will highlight the foundational Empowered Educator of mindset, emotional intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.
15 total hours of professional development. Virtual synchronous group coaching sessions will be held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month beginning at 7 pm. Participants will be emailed a registration link from Empowered Educator before the start date of June 23rd.
- 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 20, 2025 - December 20, 2025
(CTLE awarded on Frontline after 8/31/25)
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.