Welcome to CVEDC

CVEDC, an Educational Service Agency in Vermont since 2006, is your local partner for professional learning. We have been helping Vermont educators and school leaders connect, collaborate, and grow through relevant, research-based opportunities for 20 years. CVEDC offers practical, engaging learning experiences that strengthen teaching and support student success.

Erin Tinti with Karen Reinhardt and Sara Baer Farrell discussing the Early Career Educator Community, a NEW course next year at CVEDC designed specifically to support and mentor early career educators. Registration is OPEN.

Featured Cohort: The Early Career Educator Community

NEW Course for 2026-2027!

This course is designed for K-8 educators in their first 5 years of teaching. The learning experiences are designed to create a community of teacher-learners who support each other in solving problems of practice common to newer educators.

2026 Innovative Leadership Award Co- Recipients

Congratulations:

Lisa Maggio – Visual Arts Teacher, Middlebury Union Middle School (Addison Central School District)

and

Amie Conger – Instructional Coach, Albert D. Lawton School (Essex Westford School District)

Amie Conger (right) with Jen Wood, Director of Curriculum and Instruction EWSD (left)

Lisa Maggio (right) with Courtney Krahn, Director of Curriculum and Instruction ACSD (left)

F E A T U R E D E V E N T S

  • The Impact of A.I. on Teaching and Learning

    A Yearlong Collaborative Community with Stan Williams, Gabe Hamilton, and Katie Mack

    October 2026-May 2027

    Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping our world — and our classrooms. Whether you're just beginning to explore AI or already using it in your practice participation in this community of colleagues will help you think deeply and practically about the role of AI in education.

    We’ll explore:

    • How AI can act as a thought partner and planning companion for teachers

    • Ways to use AI ethically and effectively with students

    • The broader implications of AI for teaching, learning, assessment, and school systems

    This is more than a “how-to” session — it’s an opportunity to step back and reflect on the transformation of learning in the age of AI, alongside a community of educators committed to doing this work thoughtfully and well. Building on the momentum from the 2025-2026 school year, this year’s full year series community will include more collaboration, panel discussions, Open Space forums to discuss the most pressing interests among colleagues, and more!

  • From Data to Action: Data-Informed Inquiry for Educational Improvement

    a Cohort Course with Danielle Drogalis

    September 2026-April 2027

    The purpose of this course is to develop educators' and educational leaders' capacity to collect, interpret, analyze, communicate, and act upon multiple forms of data in order to improve student outcomes, strengthen equitable systems, and foster continuous improvement.

    Schools collect vast amounts of quantitative and qualitative data, yet we can still struggle to transform information into meaningful action that improves outcomes for students. Effective use of data requires more than technical skills; it demands inquiry, collaboration, systems thinking, and a commitment to equity-centered decision making.

  • Training For Leadership: Exploring Avenues of Educational Leadership and the Skills Needed to Be Successful

    a Cohort Course with Libby Bonesteel, Ed.D

    September 2026-May 2027

    School systems are complex by nature and leaders in education walk a rather unique path to their position. Unlike other fields where leaders build their skills in what some might consider a linear, progressive fashion, educational leaders often start in the classroom as teachers. Teaching children in a classroom requires different skills than leading the dynamic complex system of a school or school district, leading within the teacher’s union, or serving on the school’s leadership team. While the overall context may be the same, leadership requires completely different, much more nuanced, skills.

    This course is designed to meet the learning needs of people exploring the idea of leadership, teacher leaders who are working in some aspect of leadership within their school or district (eg. union leadership, leadership team, curriculum teams, coaching, etc…)

We are an educational non-profit on a mission to improve Vermont schools through quality professional learning for educators.

CVEDC is Vermont’s largest educational service agency (ESA), reaching educators throughout Vermont for over 20 years.

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Scenes of participants engaging in our professional learning events.

Our Members

Champlain Valley Educator Development Center (CVEDC) serves member school districts all over Northwestern and Western Vermont: Addison, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle, and a portion of Washington counties. CVEDC partners with 17 supervisory unions to provides educational services for over 35,000 students. Nearly 40% of the total PreK-12 student population of Vermont is positively impacted by our work.

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