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KDS provides dynamic online professional development courses for K-12 teachers to earn continuing education (CEUs), in-service, or graduate credit. Courses can be applied towards state license recertification, salary increase, and career advancement. KDS specializes in timely content in areas such as differentiated instruction, classroom management, and special education.
There are several ways in which KDS can customize a partnership with schools and districts, education service agencies, education associations and teachers unions to best serve the professional development needs of teachers. KDS also works with educational partners to design online graduate courses and online Master’s of Education degree programs internationally.
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To learn about and register for professional development courses in your area, please click on your state in the map below.
 Carol Ann Tomlinson, who has both an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Virginia, is a professor at the Curry School of UVA, as well as program coordinator for their educational psychology/gifted education program, and co-director of their Institutes on Academic Diversity. The author of many books and other materials on differentiation, her most recent is The Differentiated School: Making Revolution Change or Teaching and Learning. |
 Co-author of three books on assessment, including the best-selling Understanding by Design series, Jay McTighe is a member of the National Assessment Forum and writes many for educational journals, including those published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the National Education Association (NEA). |
 Author and consultant Susan Winebrenner is founder and president of Education Consulting Service, Inc., a speakers' bureau for educational topics. A B.S. in education and M.A. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin inform her work as a columnist for the journal Understanding Our Gifted and as a national and international presenter in her field. |
 Elizabeth Jiménez is is the CEO of GEMAS, a consulting and advocacy firm dedicated to improving the education of English Language Learners and their families. The author of over 25 textbooks for Pre-K-12 English Language Learners, Elizabeth is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, coach, and professional developer. She has worked with school districts and charter schools in more than 20 states and Puerto Rico. |
 Clifton Taulbert, a Pulitzer nominated author for Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored and the president and founder of the Building Community Institute, is also the author of Eight Habits of the Heart and Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators, which advance the theory that "unselfish leadership…ensures student success." |
 Debbie Silver has 30 years experience as a classroom teacher, staff development instructor, and university professor. A Louisiana State Teacher of the Year, Dr. Silver has been an invited author for several educational journals and has given keynotes nationally and internationally. A featured teacher for the PBS OnLine Teacher Chat, she wrote Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers: Finding the Rhythm for Teaching Differentiated Learning. |
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