SURN Online Courses

Join us at SURN this summer for online, asynchronous professional learning!

We invite you to learn and grow with us this summer through SURN's online professional learning series. Each course in our summer series is organized into five modules (one per week) with opportunities to explore relevant topics and apply what you’re learning to your own context.

You can expect to spend 4-6 flexible hours online each week, engaging in activities that help build your foundational understanding and your repertoire of practical strategies and skills. Our course facilitators are experienced teachers and school leaders from both K-12 and higher education settings. 

Those who complete the course will receive a certificate for 30 hours of professional learning at William & Mary, and the non-credit bearing course will be posted to their William & Mary transcript.

• Classroom Management

  Explore evidence-based classroom management practices to foster a supportive learning environment for all of your learners.

  Audience: Teachers at all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines

• Cultivating Student Engagement

  Learn about evidence-based classroom practices you can use to cultivate student engagement in your classroom.
  Audience: Teachers at all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines 

• Instructional Coaching

  Develop your knowledge and skills about how to effectively coach teachers to improve teaching and learning. 
  Audience: Teachers, instructional leaders, and administrators from all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines

• Meaningful Formative Assessment

  Cultivate a deeper understanding of formative assessment and learn how to design, interpret, and use formative assessment in your classroom.
  Audience: Teachers at all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines

• Mentoring Novice Teachers

  Build a repertoire of actionable strategies for supporting our profession’s newest teachers as you develop your understanding of the multiple roles mentor teachers serve.

  Audience: Experienced teachers and teacher mentors at all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines

• Multilingual Learners 101

  Explore the fundamentals of teaching students for whom English is a second or other language and gain practical strategies and mindsets to positively impact their learning.

  Audience: Teachers and instructional leaders at all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines

• Project Based Learning

  Learn the ins and outs of creating meaningful projects that support students’ deeper learning in your classroom.

  Audience: Teachers at all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines

• Teaching for the 5Cs

  Explore one of Virginia’s 5 Cs each week (critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and citizenship) and discover technologies and strategies that can help you integrate it more intentionally into your instruction.
  Audience: Teachers at all grade levels (K-12) and disciplines

Thank you for your interest in SURN's Online Courses. Registration for summer 2026 is now closed.

If a registered individual cannot participate in or complete a course, SURN is unable to provide a refund. 

Registration will close on June 8, 2026 . We will update this webpage when registration closes. 

If you're interested in your division joining SURN, please have your Superintendent or Superintendent's designee contact SURN's Executive Director, Dr. Amy Colley, at accolley@wm.edu.

Please email surn@wm.edu for questions about registration or about our summer learning courses.