Professional Inspiration offers a range of self-paced, online courses designed specifically for educators and crafted from the experience of Chanelle R. Walker, M.Ed., a veteran educator, TEDx speaker, and teacher wellness advocate. Having spent a decade in the classroom, Chanelle recognized a crucial need for professional development focused on preventing burnout, prioritizing well-being, and reigniting the passion for teaching.

These courses provide graduate-level professional development units (PDUs). Each course is valued at 3 PDUs, which corresponds to 45 hours of graduate-level coursework. Upon successful completion, you will receive an unofficial transcript from the 糖心vlog. 
 

 

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Adopting Music and Movement for You and Me

Educators and frontline staff will learn about the benefits to adopting music and movement in the classroom and learning environment as a strategy to improve engagement, reduce symptoms of burnout and increase learning. 

Take this course with Burnout Prevention for You and Me for a $30 bundle discount.



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Burnout Prevention for You and Me

Teachers and students are under tremendous stress to achieve and perform in the classroom, on state tests, and in the school community.  Due to the impact of the pandemic, there has experienced even more strain on students鈥� and teachers' mental and emotional wellness. In this course, teachers will learn how to combat teacher and student burnout and improve socio-emotional wellness in the classroom environment.

Take this course with Adopting Music and Movement for You and Me for a $30 bundle discount.



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Growth Mindset for You and Me

The continuing impact of the lapse in learning through the hight of the pandemic has placed a plethora of additional challenges on teachers and students. With many students below grade level and teachers doing their best to get them on target, it can be a frustrating task that seems impossible to achieve.

In this course, Growth Mindset for You and Me: Strategies for Teachers and Students to Increase Abilities and Achievement, participants will learn about the research supported and evidence based strategy growth mindset and how to develop a growth mindset and help their students鈥� develop a growth mindset.


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Adopting Mindfulness for You and Me

 In the course Mindfulness for You and Me: Implementing Mindfulness to Improve Outcomes Overall, participants will learn how to use mindfulness, which is a research-based strategy, to improve social and emotional wellness for themselves and their students during these historically difficult times. In addition, they will understand how mindfulness also impacts concentration, focus, and organization, which have suffered immensely under today鈥檚 educational conditions.


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Addressing the Impact of Trauma

This course delves into the various forms of trauma that students, teachers, and frontline staff may experience, such as adverse childhood experiences, community violence, loss, and other adverse life events. Participants will gain a deep understanding of the physiological, cognitive, and behavioral impacts of trauma on individuals, and how it can affect their overall achievement and well-being.


Courageous Conversations About Wellness

In this course, Courageous Conversations About Wellness: Fostering Wellness in Schools, participants will learn how to facilitate a courageous conversation, and they will learn about the impact of wellness or lack of wellness to achievement, schools, and communities.

Having courageous conversations about wellness will allow for educators to gain a deeper understanding of their own wellness and their students鈥� wellness and how it impacts learning, instruction, and education equity.


Frequently Asked Questions

These courses are self-paced and you have access 24/7 in our learning management system. Your 糖心vlog course will be open for completion for 180 days, but we offer extensions without penalty when needed.

Each school district and state uses different terms for the units, but our courses are 3 PDUs, which is 45 hours of course work. 

In most cases, yes, but we strongly advise that you get approval before enrolling in our courses. 

Professional development grades generally take four to six weeks from time of completion to be processed. You will receive confirmation in the form of an unofficial transcript, accompanied by an official transcript request form.

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We ask that you do not request an official transcript until you have received these in the mail. Be sure to order your transcript from the Stockton transcript ordering link (shown below). For information on your final grades or a status report on processing, contact Benerd College at 209.946.2424.

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Click here to learn how to request a transcript.

  • Benerd Professional Development and Professional Development for Educators students should choose "Yes, currently attending" for the Enrollment Status question, so that the Hold for Grades option does appear.

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About Professional Inspiration
Chanelle R. Walker, M. Ed., the Teacher Wellness Guru

Meet Chanelle Walker (Formerly McCloud), the Teacher Wellness Guru. She inspires educators to greatness through professional development that鈥檚 about them; and it鈥檚 done from a teacher鈥檚 perspective. In a day and age where we鈥檙e practicing a new normal for our schools, some are now getting a sample of what educators experience. But teacher fatigue has been a brewing pandemic long before Covid-19.

Teachers suffer from burnout, stress and not enough time in a day. It鈥檚 what Chanelle refers to as 鈥淭he Elephant in the Classroom,鈥� as she so eloquently presented to a packed house at a Case Western Reserve University TEDx Talk.

She spent more than a decade in the classroom and an additional 5 years in other educational settings. Chanelle serves as CEO of Professional Inspiration, the company she founded 10 years ago that hones in on the source that drives individuals to push harder toward their desired results bringing purpose to the surface. Once that purpose is walked in, she teaches how not to become walked over.

She鈥檚 harnessed her skills as a content developer and course facilitator to cultivate curriculum for teachers on the subject of wellness across the country. Chanelle鈥檚 accolades include, but are not limited to a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Kent State University and a Master鈥檚 of Education from Notre Dame College. She鈥檚 a three-time 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Who in Black Cleveland鈥� award recipient and holds adjunct professor status at Ashland University. Chanelle is looking forward to completing her doctorate in education.鈥�