The New England Institute for Teacher Education

08/21/2026

A new school year brings new students, new routines, and new opportunities to grow. 🍎

Registration is NOW OPEN for our Fall 2026 online courses, designed around the real challenges educators face every day.

From gamification and digital engagement to supporting multilingual learners, social-emotional learning, teaching the Holocaust, educational leadership, and understanding student behavior, there’s a course to help you add new strategies to your educator toolkit.

⭐️ Fully online + asynchronous
⭐️ Practical, classroom-ready strategies
⭐️ Taught by experienced educators
⭐️ CEUs accepted for Maine DOE recertification (and many other states)

Start the year with a few new ideas in your back pocket and strategies you can put to work right away.

Learn more and register here: www.newenglandinstitute.org/courses

08/04/2026

The best educators never stop being learners. They ask new questions. They challenge old assumptions. They remain curious, even after years in the classroom.

We're celebrating two members of the New England Institute community whose learning journeys remind us why professional growth matters.

🎓 Dr. Lindsay Stewart recently earned her Ph.D., with research exploring how creativity helps learners build confidence, empathy, resilience, and agency.
🎓 NEI alumnus Enos Magaga graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education while continuing to strengthen educational partnerships between Maine and Kenya.

Their paths look different, but they share something important: a commitment to learning that extends far beyond themselves. When educators grow, their students, colleagues, schools, and communities grow with them.

As a new school year approaches, it's worth asking ourselves:
What are you still curious enough to learn?

Read the full blog here:
https://newenglandinstitute.org/the-learning-journey-never-ends-celebrating-the-educators-who-inspire-us/

07/03/2026

Summer Semester begins this coming Monday!

Dr. Rachel Beckwith's Democratic Classroom course challenges educators to rethink how collaboration, voice, and shared responsibility show up in their classrooms. Grounded in research on communication, critical thinking, and leadership, this course helps K–12 teachers build the kind of community where students don't just learn, they grow. Through reflection and dialogue, participants leave with a concrete vision for their own collaborative practice.

📅 Starts July 6 | 4.5 CEUs (45 contact hours) | Fully online & asynchronous newenglandinstitute.org/courses

06/30/2026

Summer is the season educators reclaim for themselves and there's no better way to spend it than investing in the work you love.

New England Institute for Teacher Education offers fully online, asynchronous courses built around real classroom practice. No commute, no rigid schedule, just meaningful professional growth on your terms.

This summer, choose from courses in the arts, literacy, gifted education, inclusive practices, and more. All courses are accepted by the Maine Department of Education (and many other states!) for recertification.

📅 Summer courses run July 6 – August 16 | 4.5 CEUs (45 contact hours)
Explore all offerings: newenglandinstitute.org/courses

06/24/2026

As another school year comes to a close, we want to recognize a group whose impact is felt every day, even when their work happens behind the scenes: school administrators.

From supporting teachers and students to solving problems, communicating with families, and keeping schools running smoothly, administrators help create the conditions where learning can thrive.

In our latest blog, we reflect on the leadership, dedication, and care that administrators bring to their schools and communities every day.

Thank you for all you do. We hope you have a restful summer and a chance to reflect on the difference you've made this year.

Read the full blog ⬇️

There’s a moment that happens near the end of every school year that doesn’t get talked about enough. It’s the one where a new teacher, who is nervous and still figuring it all out, makes it to June.  That doesn’t happen by accident. A lot has been said lately about the teacher shortage and...

06/18/2026

High-ability students are often the kids we worry least about, but they have a rich and complex inner world that deserves our attention.

Grace S. Jacobs brings her deep expertise in gifted education to the course Social Emotional Needs of Gifted Learners this summer, exploring the social and emotional landscape of gifted learners from K–12. From navigating perfectionism to understanding overexcitabilities, this course helps teachers, counselors, and special educators see their gifted students more fully and respond more thoughtfully.

If you've ever sensed that a high-achieving student needed something more, this course is for you.

📅 Starts July 6 | 4.5 CEUs (45 contact hours) | Fully online & asynchronous
newenglandinstitute.org/courses

06/09/2026

Every multilingual learner in your classroom brings a world of experience with them. Are you equipped to meet them there?

EDPA 303: Bridging Worlds is designed to give K–12 educators the theory, tools, and cultural responsiveness to support English language learners with confidence. Led by instructor Amber Malone, this course goes beyond surface-level strategies — participants explore second language acquisition research, develop inclusive practices, and build learning environments where every student belongs.

This is the kind of professional growth that ripples outward into every lesson you teach.

📅 Starts July 6 | 4.5 CEUs (45 contact hours) | Fully online & asynchronous www.newenglandinstitute.org/courses

06/05/2026

This summer, EDAR 531: Encountering the Arts invites K–12 educators to explore drama, movement, music, poetry, and visual arts — not as add-ons, but as powerful tools woven across math, science, reading, and writing. Instructor Dr. Lindsay Stewart creates a student-centered, project-based environment where choice and creativity are the curriculum.

Whether you work with general ed students or gifted & talented learners, this course will leave you with a renewed sense of what's possible when we give students freedom to express and create.

📅 Starts July 6 | 4.5 CEUs (45 contact hours) | Fully online & asynchronous

Register at www.newenglandinstitute.org/courses

05/29/2026

Before the first student walks into the classroom, the pencils are already sharpened.

Not because anyone requires it, but because teachers know that small moments matter. A forgotten pencil. A quiet check-in. A snack drawer for students who come to school hungry. The careful adjustment that helps one child feel safe enough to participate.

So much of teaching happens in these invisible moments of care, the ones that never appear in a lesson plan but shape whether students feel seen, supported, and ready to learn.

Our newest blog reflects on the emotional labor of teaching and the quiet ways educators create the conditions for learning every single day.

Read more: https://newenglandinstitute.org/schools-are-full-of-invisible-care/

05/21/2026

Summer offers educators something rare: a small shift in pace. A chance to step outside the urgency of the school year and reconnect with the ideas, creativity, and sense of purpose that first drew them to this work.

With that spirit in mind, registration is now open for our 6-Week Summer 2026 Online Semester, running July 6 – August 16.

This summer’s courses explore topics deeply connected to today’s classrooms, including Artificial Intelligence, Neurodiversity, Literacy, Multilingual Learners (ESOL), Arts Integration, Music Creation and Songwriting, Teaching the Holocaust, The Democratic Classroom, and many more opportunities for meaningful professional growth.

Designed for the realities of educators’ lives, our asynchronous online courses combine flexibility with thoughtful, authentic learning experiences led by experienced instructors who value reflection, curiosity, creativity, and practical insight. Participants earn 4.5 CEUs (45 contact hours) accepted by the Maine Department of Education (and many other states) toward recertification.

Summer professional learning can be more than checking a box. It can be an opportunity to rediscover inspiration, deepen your practice, and return to the classroom with renewed perspective and energy.

Thank you, always, for the care and dedication you bring to students and communities every day.

Learn more and register today
🌟 www.newenglandinstitute.org/courses