Welcome to the WEA Academy Online Learning Portal

You care deeply about your students, but constant demands and exhaustion can take their toll. It’s time to build the foundation that makes meaningful teaching and learning possible. This course helps you understand and practice the often-overlooked foundation of education: nervous system regulation. You’ll learn simple, science-backed practices to support your own regulation, think more clearly, and reconnect with the parts of teaching that matter to you. You’ll also gain practical tools to bring regulation into your classroom—fostering greater calm, connection, and authentic learning for both you and your students. This isn’t just about surviving the school year. It’s about creating the conditions for teaching to feel more sustainable, empowering, and deeply rewarding again.   Read more

This course is designed to help educators develop cultural understanding and a repertoire of communication skills to converse with ELL/Spanish-speaking students and their family members. You can enroll in this course at any time. It is self-paced and instructor-guided to be completed within 90 days of registration.   Read more

Strategies for Social Justice Unionism: Creating the Schools and Communities We Deserve is a professional development course for WEAC members and education union activists exploring the model of social justice unionism — an approach that connects workplace advocacy to broader struggles for racial equity, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and community power. Moving beyond traditional "bread and butter" unionism focused solely on wages and working conditions, this course examines how educators and unions can build coalitions, engage communities, and take collective action to address systemic inequities both inside and outside the classroom. Drawing on Wisconsin's own history of labor activism, participants will develop a deeper understanding of how union power and social justice movements intersect, and will leave with concrete action planning tools to apply in their locals. Read more

Teaching Labor History is a self-paced course for educators who want to bring the story of American workers into their classrooms. Across ten topics, you’ll explore the labor movement and working class from the Colonial Period to the present. Topics include early systems of labor, the Gilded Age, the Great Depression and New Deal, the World War II and Cold War era, public sector organizing, immigration, and the global economy. You’ll read primary and secondary sources, watch films, and reflect on how each period connects to your standards and your students. Along the way, you’ll build two lesson plans and share them with a colleague for feedback. No prior background in labor history is needed. Read more