Professional Development

For art teachers by art teachers.

The only on-demand PD platform designed for K–12 art teachers. School districts across the country utilize PRO to give their visual arts team training, hands-on tutorials, and resources.

About PRO

PRO Learning

PRO offers subject-specific professional development, which is 10 times more effective than general PD.

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Discover hands-on tutorials, essential resources, and strategies to immediately implement in the classroom. With PRO, teachers are able to:

  • Explore over 200 PRO Packs (and growing)
  • Learn from expert facilitators covering a wide variety of art education topics to enhance their teaching practice.
  • Earn unlimited PD hours and design their own PD path.

PRO FOr Districts

Relevant, Personalized PD for Every Visual Arts Team

Choose What Interests You

Dive deep into your passions, or focus on learning new skills. Each Pack features proven strategies and real-world tactics to get the most from your students.

District-Wide Support

Administrators will have a ready-to-use tool for teacher support. Teachers can learn individually or collaboratively as a PLC and will have access to thousands of art-room-ready resources, including assessments, rubrics, anchor charts, and infographics.

Earn Endless PD Hours

Accrue PD hours for each Pack you complete, and automatically track learning as it happens.

PRO Packs

Where Teacher Learning Takes Place

Get relevant training, hands-on tutorials, and essential resources with every PRO Pack, and enjoy a continually expanding library of new content.

Creativity Exercises for Every Level

  • 2 PD Hours
  • 13 Videos
  • 9 Resources
  • Integrate creative prompts and exercises to develop students’ creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Implement ideation strategies to push students beyond their first ideas in order to transfer to artistic expression.
  • Develop a framework of questioning and constraints to support higher-order thinking.

Building a Ceramics Program

  • 2 PD Hours
  • 15 Videos
  • 10 Resources
  • Explore strategies for effectively managing and organizing your clay tools, supplies, and student projects. 
  • Discover how to best teach basic building techniques such as slab and coil methods. 
  • Learn simple systems for glazing, reclaiming clay, and making your own tools.

Formative Assessment Strategies

  • 1 PD Hours
  • 6 Videos
  • 10 Resources
  • Design formative assessments appropriate for your classroom that provide timely feedback and inform instruction to support student learning.
  • Integrate a variety of formative assessment strategies to help all students demonstrate their learning.

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Strategies for Student Engagement

  • 3 PD Hours
  • 18 Videos
  • 7 Resources
  • Identify and implement instructional strategies to boost student engagement throughout the class period from bell to bell.
  • Utilize a variety of teaching tools to promote individual and collaborative engagement and reflection.
  • Plan purposeful strategies throughout lessons to check for understanding, offer student choice, and support retention and application of learning.

Growth Mindset in the Art Room

  • 2 PD Hourse
  • 15 Videos
  • 12 Resources
  • Discover the differences between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset.
  • Find out why helping your students develop a growth mindset can be a powerful tool for them to carry throughout their lives.
  • Study reasons why the art room is the perfect place for students to practice a growth mindset.

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FLEX AND PRO

Go Further With the Curriculum Suite

FLEX Curriculum is the perfect complement to PRO Learning, providing access to a rich library of lessons, videos, resources, and assessments you can immediately put to use in your art room.

Together, FLEX and PRO empower you to experience professional development that directly connects to the curriculum you teach

Benefits

Everyone Wins with PRO

Students
  • Students
  • Teachers
  • Administrators

Students

When teachers engage in relevant professional development, their students directly benefit from improvements in classroom management, revitalized procedures, and exploration of new mediums.

Teachers

With all the equipment, materials, and procedures, there’s no classroom quite like an art room. PRO Packs cover a range of topics, from instructional strategies to organization, media to assessment, and beyond. Teachers can explore their own artistic interests individually or build a sense of community with fellow art educators in their district as they gain insights specific to the art room.

Administration

Incorporating PRO Learning district-wide is a win-win for admins and teachers. PRO is easy to implement, teachers will feel supported by engaging PD, and there’s an assurance that the content is built for art educators by art educators. PRO can be used to train new teachers or develop new skills across the district, such as creating a ceramics program.

Funding

How Your District Can Pay for PRO

There’s curriculum funding available for your team. We can help you advocate for it.

Professional Development Budget

Your district already has funding set aside for PD—make sure it’s invested in your team.

Funding Pathways

Here are three primary funding pathways—local, ESSER, and ESSA—you should consider when looking to secure monies for visual arts solutions like FLEX + PRO.

Advocating in Your District

Approaching your administration can be intimidating, so if you’re unsure of how to ask for FLEX + PRO in your district, we are here to help. Check out these tips to help you navigate the conversation.

ARTS STANDARDS

Earn Professional Development Hours by Completing PRO Packs

Learn more about state requirements and how PRO can help you earn professional development hours.

Testimonials

Teachers PRO

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Erika Chapman

Arts Coordinator Manteca Unified School District CA

PRO Packs have been incredibly helpful in helping teachers feel supported. Veteran teachers and new teachers are able to pick and pull what they want or use all of it. Sometimes, I’m unable to have a 20–30 minute discussion with them. I can direct them to this resource.

Christa Harrington

K–12 Art Teacher Centreville Public School District MI

Incredible resources and a community of learning and growing for Art educators! I also LOVE the PD hours I accumulate each year! SO beneficial, and with realistic goals that align with Art Educators! I will never go without it again!

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Stefani Shorts

High School Art Teacher Monongalia County School District WV

Love it all! It is so hard to find good art resources and you provide such a great variety. The PRO Learning videos are so helpful with so many examples and explanations! It has been a lifesaver for me as a first-year high school art teacher … Thank you!

Julie Levesque

Visual Arts Coordinator Pinellas County School District FL

“The big difference with the FLEX Curriculum is the quality of the lessons. Our district is very studio based. It’s all about projects and hands-on learning. It’s doing, creating, making—it’s a very artistic mindset type of learning. These FLEX lessons really lend themselves to what we’re trying to do, and we feel that it really helps our new art teachers.”

PRICING

Select Your Plan

PRO Individual

$39/Month


  • One Teacher
  • Relevant, Personalized PD
  • Unlimited PD Hours
  • Video Tutorials
  • Essential Resources
Curriculum Suite Individual

$68/Month


  • One Art Teacher
  • Relevant, Personalized PD
  • Standards-aligned Curriculum Platform
  • Unlimited PD
  • Lesson Plans and Classroom Resources
PRO Enterprise

District Pricing


  • All Art Teachers in the District
  • District Pricing
  • Relevant, Personalized PD
  • Unlimited PD Hours
  • Video Tutorials
  • Classroom Resources