Skip to content
PYRA — Fuel the flame. Become more.

Professional learning for virtual educators

Professional learning should start with you.

Every virtual educator has different strengths, different challenges, and a different next step. PYRA helps you understand where you are, discover where you can grow, and connect with targeted professional learning designed around your needs.

See How PYRA WorksRequest a Demo

72 micro-courses. Three grade bands. Eight areas of practice. One personalized path forward.

PYRA recommended micro-course pathway, showing micro-courses matched to a teacher's growth areas with one-click enrollment.

Teacher Needs AssessmentGrowth PrioritiesPersonalized Micro-Courses

Stop guessing what professional learning comes next.

Too often, educators are asked to choose professional learning before they have a clear picture of what would help them most. PYRA changes the starting point.

Traditional Professional Learning

  • Browse
  • Search
  • Choose
  • Hope It Fits

With PYRA

  1. Reflect
  2. Understand
  3. Get Direction
  4. Grow

Professional learning becomes more meaningful when it begins with the educator—not the catalog.

A clearer path to professional growth.

PYRA turns professional learning into an intentional journey.

  1. Step 01. Understand Your Needs

    Reflect on your virtual teaching practice through the PYRA Teacher Needs Assessment.

  2. Step 02. Discover Your Growth Priorities

    See where your strengths are and where additional professional growth could have the greatest impact.

  3. Step 03. Choose Your Path Forward

    Receive personalized recommended micro-courses and enroll with one click—or begin immediately when your supervisor assigns a micro-course.

  4. Step 04. Learn & Grow

    Complete focused professional learning designed to strengthen the skills that matter in virtual teaching.

A smarter starting point

Start with reflection, not assumptions.

PYRA’s Teacher Needs Assessment helps virtual educators reflect on their current practice and identify meaningful opportunities for continued growth.

Built around the realities of online teaching, the experience helps transform reflection into direction—without turning professional learning into a one-size-fits-all process.

  1. 1Reflect on your practice

    The PYRA Teacher Needs Assessment, showing a virtual educator reflecting on statements about their current practice and choosing the response that fits best.

    Statements written around the realities of online teaching. No scoring of the educator—just an honest read on current practice.

  2. 2See what it means

    PYRA assessment results, showing results by standard with average practice levels, growth-area markers and a list of priority growth areas.

    Reflection becomes a clear picture: what is already strong, and where focused growth will matter most.

  • Your Strengths

    Practices you already apply consistently across your virtual classroom.

  • Your Growth Priorities

    The areas where focused attention would make the biggest difference.

  • Your Personalized Path Forward

    Growth priorities translated into a clear, ordered next step.

Know what comes next

From insight to action.

Understanding where you can grow is only useful if you know what to do next.

After completing the Teacher Needs Assessment, PYRA automatically generates a personalized list of recommended micro-courses based on each educator’s identified growth priorities. Teachers can enroll in a recommended micro-course and begin working immediately with one click.

Supervisors can also assign specific micro-courses directly to teachers. Both enrollment methods are built into PYRA, allowing teachers and supervisors to determine whether self-directed recommendations, supervisor-directed assignments, or a combination of both is the best fit.

No endless searching. No guessing where to begin.

Just a clearer path forward.

A recommended PYRA micro-course opened from the personalized list, with a single Enroll Now action that gives the teacher immediate access.

Recommended micro-courseOne-click enrollmentBegin immediately

  • Teacher-directed

    1. 1PYRA recommends automatically
    2. 2Teacher clicks to enroll
    3. 3Teacher can begin immediately

  • Supervisor-directed

    1. 1Supervisor assigns
    2. 2Teacher is automatically enrolled
    3. 3Teacher can begin immediately

Personalized when educators need direction. Assignable when leaders need alignment. Flexible when teachers and supervisors choose their own approach.

Focused professional learning

72 micro-courses. Built for virtual teaching.

PYRA includes a robust library of focused, practical micro-courses created specifically for educators working in virtual learning environments.

Each micro-course is approximately 1–2 hours in length—focused enough to fit into the realities of an educator’s schedule and substantive enough to support meaningful professional growth.

72micro-courses
in the library

3
grade bands
8
areas of practice per band
1–2 hrs
approximate length

Explore by grade band

PK–5 — 24 micro-courses

Professional learning shaped around younger learners in a virtual setting, where routine, family connection and presence carry the day.

Eight areas of practice · approximately 1–2 hours per micro-course

Eight areas of practice

The same eight areas run through every grade band, so growth priorities stay consistent from PK–5 through Grades 9–12.

  • 01Building Community & Belonging
  • 02Planning for Personalized Instruction
  • 03Engaging Students
  • 04Developing Relationships
  • 05Designing Assessments
  • 06Supporting Students with Diverse Needs
  • 07Balancing Synchronous & Asynchronous Instruction
  • 08Time Management & Teacher Presence

  1. 1Explore the library

    The PYRA micro-course catalog, showing filters for grade band and learning path alongside micro-courses built for virtual educators.

    Filter by grade band and area of practice, or let a personalized recommendation point the way.

  2. 2Step inside a micro-course

    Inside a PYRA micro-course, showing the overview, progress and the modules and lessons that make up the learning experience.

    Structured modules, practical strategies and visible progress—built for the way virtual educators actually work.

The depth of a professional-learning library. The direction of a personalized growth system.

One system. Two connected experiences.

Professional growth works better when support is connected.

PYRA gives virtual educators a personal space for professional growth while giving the leaders who support them the visibility and tools needed to make professional learning more intentional.

For teachers

A personal space for professional growth.

  • Personalized recommendations
  • One-click micro-course enrollment
  • Supervisor-assigned micro-courses
  • Progress tracking
  • Certificates of Completion
A teacher's PYRA space, showing enrolled micro-courses with progress percentages, one micro-course marked complete, and certificates earned.

For supervisors

Visibility and tools to support that growth.

  • Assign micro-courses
  • Monitor progress
  • View completion status
  • Support professional-development priorities
  • Access Certificates of Completion

How the two sides connect

  1. 1Teacher moves through professional learning
  2. 2Progress becomes visible
  3. 3Completion is reflected in the supervisor environment
  4. 4Certificate of Completion becomes available

Completed professional learning

Completion leaves a record both sides can use.

When a micro-course is finished, its completion status is visible and a Certificate of Completion becomes available in PYRA—accessible to the teacher and to the supervisor who supports them.

The PYRA certificates view, showing a Certificate of Completion for a finished micro-course with its issue date, verification code and a download action.

Teachers gain direction. Supervisors gain visibility. Professional growth stays connected.

Support professional growth

Greater visibility. More intentional support.

PYRA gives supervisors of virtual educators a centralized view of professional-learning activity across the teachers they support.

Assign targeted micro-courses when guided learning is the best fit. Support teachers who choose to enroll in their own recommended micro-courses. Monitor progress. See what has been completed. Access automatically generated Certificates of Completion as soon as they become available.

Most importantly, PYRA can work within an existing teacher supervision and professional-development plan—helping leaders connect professional learning with the goals, priorities, and support structures already in place while giving teachers room to take ownership of their growth.

  • Teacher Progress
  • Assigned Micro-Courses
  • Recommended Micro-Courses
  • Completion Status
  • Certificates of Completion

1A centralized view of professional-learning activity

A PYRA supervisor dashboard, showing supervised teachers, each teacher's micro-courses with progress percentages, and in-progress, completed and not-started status.

2Assign a micro-course when guided learning fits

A PYRA supervisor assigning micro-courses, selecting teachers and micro-courses in the assignment dialog, which auto-enrolls and notifies the selected teachers.
  1. 1Supervisor selects a micro-course
  2. 2Supervisor assigns it
  3. 3Teacher is automatically enrolled
  4. 4Teacher can begin immediately
  5. Assignment is one option, not a requirement. Teachers can follow their own recommended micro-courses at any time.

Built for quality online teaching

Grounded in what effective virtual teaching requires.

PYRA is rooted in the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching, providing a strong foundation for both the Teacher Needs Assessment and the professional learning educators experience throughout the platform.

The result is professional growth focused not simply on completing learning—but on strengthening the practices that contribute to high-quality virtual teaching and learning.

  • Teacher Needs Assessment
  • Growth Priorities
  • Personalized Recommendations
  • Micro-Course Ecosystem

National Standards for Quality Online Teaching

Fuel the flame. Become more.

Every virtual educator has strengths to build on, opportunities to explore, and a next step waiting to be discovered.

PYRA helps make that next step clearer—whether that means following personalized recommendations, beginning a micro-course independently, or working with a supervisor to create a more guided path.

Understand your needs. Choose your direction. Build your skills. Keep growing.

Request a Demo

Professional learning designed for virtual educators—and the leaders who support them.

See PYRA in action.

Tell us about your virtual program and we’ll follow up to schedule a walkthrough.

Request a PYRA Demo

Tell us a little about your program and we’ll follow up to schedule a walkthrough.

Your information is submitted securely and used to respond to your PYRA inquiry.