Welcome to KET Professional Development

KET Professional Development provides opportunities for customized online learning tailored to fit individual schedules and learning styles. Over 350,000 certificates for completion of KET self-paced and facilitated courses have been awarded to Kentucky educators and others.

Thanks to collaborations with partners such as the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, KET PD courses meet the standards for high quality professional development and are aligned with the Kentucky Standards and Indicators for School Improvement and the Teacher Professional Growth and Effectiveness System.

Featured Resources

School-Based Decision Making Training Courses

KET offers convenient, self-paced, online professional development for new and experienced SBDM council members.

Suicide Prevention Train-the-Trainer Refresher Course

This one-hour train-the-trainer course offers a guide for school-based or community-based mental health professionals to lead Kentucky?s suicide prevention course for students in grades 6-12 during a mid-year refresher.

Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Course

In this self-paced course, educators take a comprehensive look at mental health issues in children, teens, and young adults, updated with resources for the coronavirus pandemic.

FRYSC and School Leaders – Partnerships at Its Best Course

In this training, new principals and educators will be introduced to the role of Family Resource and Youth Services Centers and how they can positively impact your school’s goals and students’ achievement.

Positive Behavior in Schools

This free course focuses on behavioral supports and interventions all school personnel can use to create a positive environment for teaching and learning and includes strategies for use in schools, classrooms, and with individual students

Classroom Video Production Course

Take KET's Classroom Video Production professional development self-paced course for three hours of PD credit.

Demonstrating Formative Assessment in the Science Classroom: Using the FARROP to Inform Practice Course

Using an observation tool, Formative Assessment Rubrics, Reflection and Observation Protocol, teachers focused on their understanding of the components of the FARROP on their practice in classroom-embedded instruction. Course participants will watch classroom video of 10 teachers across multiple...

Youth Mental Health

This collection is part of KET’s initiative on youth mental health and includes videos from the KET series, You Are Not Alone; video of focus groups; a workshop about what adults need to know about teens and social media;...

Managing Challenging Student Behaviors

These scenarios, featuring actors in the student roles, illustrate effective strategies to address moderately challenging behavior, such as being off-task or noncompliant, as well as to de-escalate more serious and potentially dangerous behaviors.

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