Welcome to CVEDC
CVEDC is your local partner in professional learning. Since 2006, we’ve been helping Vermont educators and school leaders connect, collaborate, and grow through relevant, research-based opportunities. Whether it’s a one-day workshop or a yearlong cohort, 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.
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.
F E A T U R E D E V E N T S
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Empowering Young Writers: Instructional Strategies for K–8 Educators
A Cohort Course with Emily Pawlusiak, MMUUSD Literacy Coach
June 29, 2026-July 3, 2026
This course explores how backward design can be used to strengthen writing instruction in K–8 literacy classrooms. Participants will analyze success criteria embedded within the Common Core State Standards for Writing and examine research-based instructional practices that support the development of effective, engaging writing instruction.
As a culminating component of the course, educators will design, revise, or enhance instructional activities aligned to existing units of study, ensuring that writing instruction is purposeful, standards-aligned, and responsive to student needs.
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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.
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Bringing Learning to Life: Place Based Learning in K-8
a Workshop with Harmony Lanen Roll
June 24th, 2026
This workshop encourages educators to harness not just their fellow learners’ curiosity, but their own. It focuses on strategies for making learning relevant in elementary and middle school classrooms through bringing local resources into school and bringing classes out to the world as a means of universal design to meet the diverse strengths and needs of the learners in front of them.
Examples will be provided for participants to learn about different ways teachers have directly connected their curriculum to the world outside the classroom. They will also have time to share their own experiences.
We’re a 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 15 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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