Texas CPE • Boosting Achievement Through Successful Teacher-Student Relationships • 45 Clock Hours
Course Fee: $99 — 45 clock hours of Texas CPE from a TEA-approved CPE provider (provider number 910094)
How It Works
- ✅ Course Fee: $99 — enroll now for instant access. Nothing else to pay.
- ✅ 45 clock hours of CPE toward your 150-hour Texas certificate renewal
- ✅ TEA-approved CPE provider — For Teachers By Teachers, provider number 910094
- 🕐 Finish anytime — fully self-paced and 100% online
✔ Includes the Texas Module: Educating Students with Disabilities and Dyslexia — the disabilities-and-dyslexia training Texas requires of every educator (19 TAC §232.11), built into the course
✔ Quiz-based format — no busywork or portfolio
✔ Your certificate lists what 19 TAC §232.21 requires: provider name and number, your name, completion date, course content, and 45 clock hours
✔ Renewing your certificate? Four courses = 180 clock hours — your full 150-hour renewal with 30 hours to spare. Ask us about the Texas renewal bundle.
Enroll today for just $99
No university fees, no registration forms — just the course and your Texas CPE certificate.
Course Description:
Transform your teaching by unlocking the power of meaningful teacher-student relationships. This engaging, self-paced, quiz-based professional development course for PK-12 educators goes beyond the buzzwords and takes you on a journey to the roots of meaningful human connections. Through it, you’ll uncover why—and how—strong, supportive relationships in the classroom are not just an enhancement to education—they are its very foundation.
What You’ll Learn:
- The Interpersonal Nature of Education: Understand how trust and security between educators and students create a harmonious, safe, and productive learning environment.
- Neuroscience Meets Practice: Explore emotional intelligence principles rooted in social science, and apply them to foster deeper connections.
- Actionable Relationship-Building Strategies: Learn how to build rapport, find common ground, establish mutual respect to strengthen classroom dynamics, and make your job more fulfilling.
- Mindfulness and Self-Compassion: Prioritize your own well-being with practical tools and techniques for reducing stress and maintaining balance.
- Inclusive and Engaging Classrooms: Design learning experiences that promote equity, empathy, and critical awareness for all students.
Why Educators Choose This Course:
- Evidence-Based Approaches: Gain insights backed by expert research, case studies, and cutting-edge multimedia resources.
- Immediate Impact: Walk away with strategies you can implement right away to create a more connected, effective, self-regulated classroom environment.
- Lasting Results: Strengthen relationships that drive both student achievement and educator job satisfaction.
Make Relationships Your Superpower:
This course empowers educators to elevate both their teaching and their students’ success by cultivating trust, respect, and meaningful connections. You’ll create a classroom where students feel supported, valued, and motivated to excel — and reignite your love for teaching along the way!
Enroll Today:
Join us to transform your classroom through the power of educator-student relationships — because, great teaching starts with connection.
Self-Paced, Quiz-Based, and Completely Online
Forget portfolios or lengthy written assignments — 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 Texas educators
Open to Texas teachers, counselors, librarians, specialists, and administrators who need CPE clock hours for standard certificate renewal. Classroom teachers renew on 150 clock hours every five years; principals, counselors, librarians, educational diagnosticians and reading specialists renew on 200 (19 TAC §232.11). Every course here is 45 clock hours and includes the disabilities-and-dyslexia training Texas requires.
✶ Your certificate: when you finish, we email you a Texas CPE certificate from For Teachers By Teachers, TEA-approved CPE provider number 910094, showing your name, the completion date, the course content, and 45 clock hours. Keep it with your renewal records — Texas asks educators to maintain documentation of completed CPE (19 TAC §232.16).
"This course has truly changed both my professional and personal life. Thank you for this learning opportunity!"
— Kayleen Pieper, Teacher
"This is honestly one of the best professional development courses I’ve ever taken. I’ve learned practical and applicable content to my profession. I’ve learned so much about myself as a professional and as a person."
— Kehau Morikawa-Marzan, Teacher
"With all the classes I have taken in the past, a class has never affected me as much as this one. I would like to thank you for having this course for teachers."
— Fay Tsurumaki, Teacher
"This is the first online class that I really enjoyed and I feel as though I have so many new ideas, techniques, and tools to apply in my classroom. This course has had a major impact on me as a teacher. I'm encouraging my co-workers to take this course!"
— Kimberly Celebre, Teacher
"Thank you so much for a wonderful learning opportunity that not only made me a better educator but a better person entirely."
— Darcie Horiuchi, Teacher
"This course has empowered me to be a change agent on campus and a dream-releaser in my classroom. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
— Kamilla Maii, Teacher
"Thank you for this amazing class!
I learned so much about myself and my students."
— Abigayle Butler, Teacher
"Thank you for this very inspirational and user-friendly course."
— Katie Tanaka, Teacher
"This course has given me new tools for life and reinforced the importance of building positive relationships with my students. I am a better teacher. Thank you."
— Brandon Hanagami, Teacher
"I wanted to thank you for creating such an enlightening course. As a new teacher I couldn't have taken this course at a better time."
— Paulina Felcher, Teacher
"Thank you for your dedication to providing teachers with high-quality professional development. I loved everything about this course."
— Sherri Sai, Special Education Resource Teacher
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