Professional Learning Services
At Thrive, we believe professional learning should be energizing, outcome-driven, and expertly tailored to your audience. Our facilitators bring 100+ hours of experience leading professional development across diverse contexts, ensuring sessions are relevant, engaging, and immediately applicable.
Flexible Learning Options
From single sessions to full-day intensives to year-long cohort experiences, Thrive offers customizable professional learning solutions in the following key areas:
People Leadership
Great Teaching
Data-Driven Instruction
Instructional Leadership
Leading Systems and Schools
High-Impact Professional Learning Tailored to Your Needs
Why Thrive?
Experienced & Expert-Led
Our facilitators have extensive experience leading professional development across a variety of topics, audiences, and contexts.
Tailored to Your Needs
We collaborate with you to ensure every session is customized, aligning content with your goals, priorities, and the unique needs of your team.
Designed for Real-World Impact
Professional development is most effective when it translates into meaningful change. Thrive’s sessions are designed with a mastery mindset and a focus on implementation.
Clear, achievable, and relevant objectives: Each session is designed to meet participants where they are, with outcomes that are practical and immediately useful.
Immediate application: Participants leave each session with the confidence to implement their learning right away.
Emphasis on impact: Inquiry and reflection are embedded into every session to drive investment and understanding of why the learning matters.
Sustainable Learning Resources
You will receive all session plans, materials, and participant resources in an editable format, allowing your organization to reuse and adapt the content as needed.
Professional Development,
Your Way
One-size-fits-all does not work in professional learning. Thrive offers multiple formats to fit your needs, budget, and preferred facilitation style.
Train-the-Trainer
We design professional development sessions in collaboration with your team, then equip your internal facilitators with the skills and confidence to lead them effectively. This approach builds internal capacity while delivering high-quality content.
In-Person Facilitation
Thrive designs and delivers engaging, interactive professional development at your site, ensuring participants benefit from hands-on learning and collaboration.
Virtual & Hybrid Options
Professional learning can be fully remote or a mix of in-person and virtual sessions, providing flexibility while maintaining engagement and impact.
Asynchronous Learning
Custom-built PD modules allow participants to engage in professional learning at their own pace. These sessions incorporate a variety of learning methods—including readings, videos, and reflection activities—with built-in checks for understanding to support accountability and success.
Retreat With Ease
Thrive partners with a large CMO to design and deliver a three-day annual in-person retreat, handling all aspects from agenda creation to session facilitation. The retreat includes:
Team building and relational work
Reflection on organizational impact and priorities
People leadership development
Instructional vision alignment and skill-building
Structured workshops for cross-team collaboration
Crush Your Summer Institute
Each spring and summer, Thrive collaborates with multiple partners to design and lead multi-day professional development for leaders and teachers. Sessions are designed to:
Align with organizational priorities for the upcoming school year
Differentiate learning for new and returning staff
Build content expertise, instructional leadership, and coaching skills
Key focus areas include unit and standard unpacking, curriculum-based pedagogy, model teaching and leadership, and data-driven instructional leadership.
“The most effective thing Thrive does is encourage us to dig deep into our own sense of identity and sense of being part of a TEAM. Given the opportunity to read literature around these concepts in addition to applying new skills to scenarios helps me learn. ”
The Cohort Experience
Thrive leads a cohort-based learning model for school leaders focused on implementing data-driven instructional practices.
Monthly professional development follows a structured scope and sequence.
Bi-weekly one-on-one coaching supports implementation.
Leaders receive customized guidance to meet their school’s specific instructional goals.
Additionally, Thrive is facilitating a first-ever cohort for an organization’s highest-performing teachers, designed to invest in and retain top talent. These teachers:
Participate in half-day professional learning and collaboration sessions.
Set their own learning direction and contribute to instructional excellence.
Receive one-on-one coaching between sessions to support their leadership development.
"Thrive effectively blends head and heart, helping us become well-rounded leaders who honor and respect the whole teacher."
Ready to elevate your professional learning experience?
Let’s discuss how Thrive can support your team’s growth.
Year-Long Professional Development for Instructional Leaders
Thrive partners with districts to design year-long PD sequences for instructional leaders. A Thrive team member collaborates with a district leader to:
Identify key leadership moves needed to drive student success.
Design a strategic scope and sequence that builds leadership skills over time.
Plan individual sessions that lead to observable outcomes, equipping leaders to implement new strategies immediately.
Onboarding and Reusable Coaching Tools
Thrive has designed and delivered onboarding modules to support new hires, providing consistent training on vision, foundational skills, and content. Organizations use these resources to:
Onboard new team members year-round.
Ensure consistency in professional learning.
Provide asynchronous training options for busy educators.
Additionally, Thrive has created reusable asynchronous teacher and leader skill demos covering high-impact instructional and coaching strategies. These resources serve as ongoing tools for professional growth.
Join the Leaders
that Thrive.
"As always, I leave each session with Thrive feeling empowered and more grounded as a leader."
"Thrive strikes a beautiful balance of theory and application, with a side of humor and grace."
"I love how Thrive’s sessions build a strong foundation and provide practical strategies that I can immediately apply."
"The data analysis session was illuminating, and Thrive’s focus on mindsets made me reflect deeply on how I approach coaching."
"The facilitation was engaging, the coaching was personalized, and the impact was real. Thrive’s work has been transformational for our team."