The EDUX Summer Course is Back

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EDUX 9904

Transformative Teaching and Learning...

EDUX 9904 takes a learner-centric approach to amplify your impact as an educator. Reflect on your current professional practice, create professional learning goals to improve your practice and impact student achievement. You can choose to earn 1-6 graduate-level credits over the summer as you engage in professional growth opportunities aligned to your Professional Learning Plan submitted for the course.

Graduate-Level Credits/Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

How it works

Make a Plan

Create your to-do-list. Set a goal of what you want to accomplish this summer and most of all BE INSPIRED!

Execute

Complete your projects and tasks while working at your own pace and convenience.

Celebrate!

Meet locally or online with your colleagues to present and share your project at a collaborative exit interview.

Who is this course right for?

Teachers

This flexible summer course empowers teachers to focus on personalized goals, like refining strategies, creating innovative lesson plans, or mastering new technologies, offering impactful growth for their classrooms and careers.

Administrators

Ideal for administrators, this course supports goals like enhancing leadership, improving school culture, or developing staff initiatives. Define your focus and gain actionable tools to drive meaningful change in the upcoming school year.

✔ Course Overview & Objectives

EDUX 9904 provides an immersive learning experience that will transform your impact as an educator.  Reflect on your current professional practice, create professional learning goals to drive your coursework and impact student achievement for the 2025-2026 school year. Earn graduate-level credits as you engage in professional growth opportunities aligned to your professional learning plan for the course.

EDUX 9904 provides choice, accountability, and on-going support from expert course instructors.  Collaborate and engage with colleagues in new learning experiences to deepen your professional practice.  Demonstrate completion of your goals by sharing evidence during an end of course exit interview. 

EDUX 9904 will enable educators to successfully launch the new school year feeling more prepared, resilient, and energized in their professional practice.

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By the end of the course, the participant will:

  • Reflect on your professional practice to create professional learning goals to guide your coursework.
  • Develop a professional learning plan that outlines the work you will engage in to meet your professional learning goals.
  • Demonstrate advanced professional practice through accountable, learner-centric coursework.
  • Document evidence of how new learning aligned to instructional and/or professional standards will be implemented during the 2025-2026 school year.
  • Participate in a collaborative exit interview with other educators to analyze and reflect on new learning.
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What Our Summer Course Participants Are Saying...

"The best thing about this course for me is feeling completely prepared to go back to school in the fall"...

"I took this course to enhance the professional learning for myself and in turn help the 203 teachers in Montgomery."...

"I recommend this class to anybody who wants to invest their summer in improving their curriculum"...

"It's the 2nd time I've taken it and one of the reasons I recommend it is the benefit it gives my students each year"...

The Summer Course Experience FAQ

EDUX 9904 is a graduate-level credit course from Dominican University of California, accredited by Western Association of School and Colleges (WASC).

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Course officially begins on May 1. Participants can choose to begin work any time after that and complete coursework before the school year begins. The actual start and end dates may vary by region. Your coordinator can clarify this for you.
Early registrants have the option to begin coursework during the spring. Check with your coordinator to confirm. Also check with your coordinator if you need to finish early.
Yes, your coordinator can work with you to meet deadline needs.
This will depend on the size of your projects and the amount of time you can commit to coursework. For those who are unsure, you can register for a smaller amount (2-3 credits), with the option to increase with coordinator approval.

Here is the breakdown of required hours needed:

  • 25 hours earns 1 graduate-level credits/units ($169)
  • 50 hours earns 2 graduate-level credits/units ($308)
  • 75 hours earns 3 graduate-level credits/units ($415)
  • 100 hours earns 4 graduate-level credits/units ($540)
  • 125 hours earns 5 graduate-level credits/units ($635)
  • 150 hours earns 6 graduate-level credits/units ($735)
Once you register, you will have access to an online Summer Course Center that includes everything you will need and a checklist to guide you. In addition, your coordinator will be available for any questions you may have.
There are so many possibilities. Some major projects focus on curriculum development and planning, professional reading and research, team collaboration, learning new programs; whatever will make you more effective as an educator.
Final grades are submitted upon review of coursework and completion of an exit interview. One complimentary official transcript is sent by mail within 3 weeks. A letter of completion will also be available in your DU student account.
For payment plan options, contact Lisa Dempsey, Customer Service Liaison. ldempsey@dominicanCAonline.com
The short answer is Yes. While the course content may change slightly, the structure of the course remains the same. Many educators take this course annually, submitting different goals, projects and evidence.
EDUX 9904 is a graduate-level course from Dominican University of California, accredited by Western Association of School and Colleges (WASC).

Instructor Support &
Accountability

Successful completion of the course is guided and validated by an experienced instructor.
This course follows the policies of the University regarding Academic Honesty, please review the guidelines.

General Continuing Education FAQ's

Yes! Our EDUX summer course is very popular with teachers across the country and is completed by thousands of educators every year. As a teacher if you’re looking for an online summer course this is a great, flexible option for you. Summer course curriculum changes each year but the format and flexibility stays the same – many teachers describe this course as a gift. With our unique combination of self-directed learning, interaction and district-required rigor, this course inspires teachers in new and exciting ways. If you are looking for additional online courses for teachers, many of the courses in our catalog can be taken at any time convenient for you.

Yes, we are affiliated with Dominican University of California . We are the Professional Development and Continuing Education Partner that provides continuing education for teachers and educators across the country.

Yes! All of the courses on our site have their credits listed and provide continuing education credits for teachers. In our catalog pages you can sort by the number of credits. 3 credit courses for teachers are especially popular as they provide the required number of credits for many salary step and license requirements. We also list courses from 1 credit to 6 credits on our site here, simply use the “Sort by” feature or click your desired number of credits in the column on the left. All of our courses provide impactful learning experiences that enhance your skills and inspire you in and out of the classroom, try one today.
The course listed on this page, our EDUX summer course for teachers, is one of the most popular in the country. In addition, we have a two-week virtual summer course and many other summer courses for you to choose from. Many of our course offerings across our catalog are self-paced online courses for teachers that can be started at any time including the summer. For more details, look at the course menu and check back often as we are always developing new courses based on feedback and demand.
If so, no problem, simply click here to go to the general FAQ page for a broader range of questions.
Yes, we do! We have nearly 20 popular math courses for teachers with a range of focus, such as Expand Your Knowledge of Common Core Math Standards, Teaching Fractions, Teaching Financial Literacy (grades 4 through 8), and Stress-Free Math (part of a four-course series called Anyone Can Learn Math), designed for teachers to make math accessible to any student.
Each course listing will include the number of credits earned, a course description, the cost, a link to register and a link to the course syllabus. If you click on the syllabus, you’ll be taken to the instructor’s detailed plans for how the course will be conducted; this may include textbooks used, assignments given, and how grades will be given, along with an email address for that instructor. The majority of courses are self-paced and entirely online, so they fit into your schedule. You can find Instructor profiles under the About drop-down menu on the top of each page.
Yes! Our educational travel page shows a wide range of courses that pair travel with study, where you can earn 1-6 professional development credits. Start in your own backyard, exploring and studying local sites that may be worthy of student field trips. Document a trip with an educational travel company, visit agricultural areas of the country to design lesson plans for your classroom, visit Washington, D.C.’s memorials, museums,and monuments, or visit and do research at any of 13 of the country’s presidential libraries operated by the National Archives and Records Administration; they span every administrations from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush.
Narrow down your top two or three instructional goals for the year, at your own level and at the school or district level. How would those goals translate into learning outcomes? Then seek out courses that will help you accomplish those objectives. Do you want to improve your classroom use of technology? Enhance your classroom management skills? Learn about trauma-informed practice? You can click on Courses by Subject and either click on a specific topic in the drop-down menu or browse through all the offerings.
You are not alone; we actually have a blog post that addresses the difficulty, called Why Can it Be So Hard to Teach Students to Write? There are many factors, but they can be overcome. We have a five-course professional development series called Teaching the Foundations for Skillful Writing; it includes courses on Assessing the Traits of Writing, Ideas and Organization, Word Choice, Voice, and Sentence Fluency.
Due to the pandemic, all live courses were temporarily halted. We created virtual versions of some of the courses – of which, there are two: Compassionate Classrooms: A Guide to Building Safe Learning Communities, and Empowering Education, which focuses on helping students become self-directed and self-reflected learners. Both courses are six credits. Compassionate Classrooms (now self-paced) and Empowering Education is a two-week course where you must be online each day for two hours at class time. The course begins either June 7, June 14, or July 19, and there are multiple class times to choose from (On the course page, click the blue Dates tab next to the Course Overview tab.)