North Dakota United continues to offer excellent professional development for educators across our state. In the 2025-2026 school year, we offered more than 60 book studies, hosted several retired member book studies, and offered a wide range of Podcast PD; we also delivered educator ethics and provided leadership opportunities to our local affiliates around the state.
Our professional development courses are tailored to our members’ – and their students’ – needs, and we hope to empower members to find solutions to help meet those needs. With every book study and Podcast PD offering, we aim to build an organizational culture of professionalism and reflective practice and support professional excellence across the career continuum.
A quick glance at our upcoming course offerings for July 2026 reflects these values. Take, for example, “How to Love Teaching Again: Work Smarter, Beat Burnout & Watch Your Students Thrive,” which begins on July 13, 2026. This book study provides strategies for educators to increase teacher fulfillment and improve student outcomes by drawing from the real-life struggles of educators. This book study and others addressing educator burnout are geared toward our members so they can better serve their students.
Another offering intended to support professional excellence and prepare educational leaders to meet their students’ needs is "Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership," which begins on July 13, 2026. This book study is intended to assist administrators to develop empathetic and supportive relationships among students and staff.
Still time to sign up for Podcast PD, earn credits
Another professional development opportunity NDU is proud to offer is Podcast PD. This is a hyper-personalized and convenient method of professional development. Participants are able to choose from hundreds of episodes of selected podcasts to tailor their learning to their professional interests.
How it works: Choose an episode from one of the podcasts below and complete a reflection paper for each episode. Seven episodes and reflections equal one credit, and you can earn up to five credits using this method.
- Teach Me, Teacher
- The Wired Teacher
- Angela Watson’s Truth for Teachers
- Literacy Talks
- The Mel Robbins Podcast
- Stepping into Special Education
If you’re reading this before July 2026, it’s not too late to sign up for a round of courses — including the July book studies and Podcast PD — from the 2025-26 school year.
PD courses for the 2026-27 school year will begin in September 2026. Keep an eye out for the monthly UV+ PD Update e-newsletter to get more information.
