Massachusetts PDP • Beyond the Surface: Recognizing, Understanding, and Supporting Students with Anxiety • 45 PDPs
Course Fee: $99 • 45 PDPs • DESE-registered PD provider No. S2026061
How It Works
- ✅ Course Fee: $99 — enroll now for instant access. Nothing else to pay.
- ✅ 45 PDPs toward your Massachusetts license renewal
- ✅ DESE-registered PD provider — For Teachers By Teachers, No. S2026061
- ✅ Content area: Comprehensive Health
- 🕐 Start anytime — fully self-paced and 100% online, no due dates
✔ A practical written assignment you can use with your own students
✔ No portfolio, no meetings
✔ You'll receive a PDP certificate for 45 PDPs from For Teachers By Teachers LLC, DESE-registered PD provider No. S2026061.
✔ Renewing your license? Four courses = 180 PDPs, more than the 150 PDPs a primary license renewal requires. See the 4-course bundle. You confirm which renewal area each course counts toward.
Enroll today for just $99
No university fees, no registration forms — just the course and your Massachusetts PDP certificate.
Course Description:
Unlock the tools to better understand and support students with anxiety. This self-paced professional development course is designed for PK-12 educators who want to create a compassionate, supportive, and calm classroom environment where all students can thrive.
What You’ll Learn:
- Recognizing Anxiety in Students: Identify key symptoms of anxiety and understand how it impacts learning, behavior, and classroom dynamics.
- Effective Support Strategies: Develop actionable approaches to help students manage anxiety and succeed, both academically and socially.
- Creating a Safe Environment: Learn how to foster a classroom culture that reduces stress and promotes emotional well-being.
Why Educators Choose This Course:
- Deeper Understanding: Gain insights into the root causes of anxiety — and how to address them effectively.
- Practical Tools: Walk away with proven strategies you can implement immediately in your classroom.
- Flexible Learning: Self-paced, online content designed to fit your schedule and your stress-free PD needs.
Empower Every Student:
This course equips you with the knowledge and skills to go beyond the surface, offering meaningful support to students with anxiety. By addressing their needs with empathy and evidence-based practices, you’ll make a lasting difference in their academic and emotional success (and make your job a little easier along the way).
Enroll Today!
Take the first step toward building a more emotionally inclusive and supportive classroom. Join us now and transform how you connect with — and empower — your students.
Self-Paced, Online, and Built for Busy Teachers
No portfolios and no long papers — short quizzes as you go, guided discussion boards, and a culminating action plan you build for your own classroom. This is stress-free professional learning designed with YOU in mind. With no start dates and no due dates, you can begin and finish the course whenever it’s convenient. You don’t need to be working with students to complete it, and there are no scheduled meetings. The course is 100% self-paced and self-guided — so you can work whenever and wherever it fits your life.
⭐ Built for Massachusetts educators
Open to Massachusetts teachers, specialists, counselors, and administrators earning PDPs toward license renewal. Renewing your primary license takes at least 150 PDPs, including at least 15 each in content, pedagogy, SEI/ESL, and students with disabilities and diverse learning styles. You confirm which renewal area each course counts toward. Works for any PreK–12 role, in or out of the classroom.
Your Instructor
For Teachers By Teachers is led by a highly credentialed team of licensed educators with professional certifications spanning PK–12 education. Our collective expertise includes Special Education, Reading Specialist practice, Art Education, and a broad range of PK–12 specialties, grounded in decades of real-world classroom and school-based experience.
We create flexible, high-quality online learning for educators, created by educators who understand the demands of the classroom and are committed to meaningful, practical growth.
For questions or support, contact info@forteachersbyteachers.org