From the PA Key: Our microlearning sessions and recorded webinars are designed to be completed in 30 minutes or less—making professional development accessible and efficient. Created specifically for early learning educators, these sessions offer practical insights, tools, and strategies to build your skills and stay ahead.

Perfect for individual learning or as a shared resource during staff meetings, these flexible, on-demand resources are available anytime, anywhere—whenever learning fits best.

(2025) Self Paced: "Booster Seats and Seat Belts Basics—Mini-Course is a free e-learning course that takes about 30 minutes to complete. Learn to keep children safe in cars as they grow by completing this course on booster seat and seat belt use.

Car Seat Basics is a copyright of the National Safety Council.

NOTE: This introductory training does not qualify for child passenger safety CEUs."

Self Paced: "Car Seat Basics is a free e-learning course that takes about 60 minutes to complete. Learn to keep children safe in cars as they grow by completing all or specific modules on rear-facing and forward-facing car seat use, as well as booster seat and seat belt use.

Car Seat Basics is a copyright of the National Safety Council.

NOTE: This introductory training does not qualify for child passenger safety CEUs."

Offered live and on-demand throughout the year, featuring a wide variety of ECE topics, issues and best practices.

Hosted by the Center for Green Schools and co-developed with EPA, this free, online course focuses on the technical aspects of assessing and improving ventilation, filtration, air cleaning and monitoring IAQ in schools.

Better Kid Care's distance education program assists early care and education professionals in obtaining research-based professional development.

Head Start Talks features training and technical assistance (TTA) podcasts from the Office of Head Start (OHS). Home visitors, child care providers, directors, teachers, and other staff can access and learn valuable information about a variety of early childhood-focused topics. The Head Start Talks app makes audio/visual TTA content easy to find and manage on the go.

"The Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Program remains fully committed to our stakeholders who are working to ensure that schools are healthy places to work and learn.

Find a set of webinars below about best ventilation and cleaning practices, intended to help school staff in responding to concerns in their facilities."

"​​​​HealthyChildren.org parent webinars are designed to help you wherever you are on your parenting journey. Each one provides research-supported child health and safety information and immediately useable tips and suggestions.

Best of all, you can rest assured that the information comes from the nation's leading child health experts—pediatrician fellows of the of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)."

The Integrated Pest Management Training Program from UCSF’s Child Care Health Program provides a structured set of courses to help child care providers implement effective IPM practices. The program includes six one-hour trainings covering core IPM concepts, germ management, and strategies for managing common pests such as ants, cockroaches, and rodents, as well as guidance on working with pest management professionals. While designed to meet California’s Healthy Schools Act requirements, these courses offer practical, accessible training options that can support providers in any setting.

Early care and education (ECE) providers play a major role in preventing injuries by creating safe, responsive environments where young children can learn, grow, and explore. This course equips ECE professionals with practical strategies to recognize, prevent, and respond to common injuries across indoor and outdoor settings. Through three focused modules, learners will strengthen their understanding of safety best practices, develop skills to identify and reduce hazards, and gain confidence in reporting and managing injuries when they occur.

Note: The AAP courses do not currently offer Professional Development credit to PA Child Care Providers.

NAEYC offers engaging, interactive and practical online modules that are self-paced and designed to fit your needs and schedules as early childhood educators.

The Responsive Feeding module is a highly interactive online course for early care and education providers (Head Start and Early Head Start teachers, family child care providers, child care providers) that educates on responsive feeding best practices, and on how to implement responsive feeding best practices in ECE settings and includes knowledge assessments throughout to support learning. The module was field tested with 30 center and family child care providers and reflects evidence based best practices as outlined in the 2017 Healthy Eating Research report “Feeding Infants and Toddlers: Using the Latest Evidence in Child Care Settings”.

The module takes approximately 40 minutes to complete or users can complete one chapter at a time. The Responsive Feeding course works best on a desktop or laptop in Chrome, Firefox, or Safari browsers.

There is a certificate of completion available to print out at the end of the module in addition to lists of supplemental resources.

Be a life-long learner! Explore these professional development resources created for all caring adults who help children thrive.

The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a collaboration of education and school professional organizations dedicated to ensuring grieving students receive support and care. The coalition offers free professional development presentations on supporting grieving students.

- Part 1: Helps staff understand the experience of the grieving student and includes information about how children understand death and express their grief.
- Part 2: Presents practical suggestions about how school staff can initiate the conversation and offer support to the grieving student.
- Part 3: Shares practical guidance about how to coordinate resources and manage special issues while you support the grieving child.
- Combined Abbreviated Module: Combines highlights of Parts 1-3 to offer an abbreviated training opportunity.

As an early care and education provider, you play a critical role in the health and wellbeing of children. You are also very well positioned to help identify children who might need extra help in their development. This FREE, online training course, Watch Me! Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Concerns, helps you fulfill this role by providing tools and best practices for monitoring the development of children in your care and talking about it with their parents. FEES: No fees are charged for CDC's CEU activities.

This 1-hour, 4-module course focuses on:
- Why monitoring children's development is important
- Why you have a unique and important role in developmental monitoring
- How to easily monitor each child's developmental milestones
- How to talk with parents about their child's development