Create and update your professional development profile, support quality improvement efforts, and plan professional development for others.
Anyone who works with children birth to age 8 can register for a TECPDS account, regardless of their role or the sector in which they work. If you work with young children and would like a personal account where you can keep track of your professional development, sign up today!
Set-up your free TECPDS account!
What TECPDS Offers Specialists
- Track your education, professional development/training, and work experience in an online record storage system
- Support practitioners and administrators to plan professional development and advance in their careers
- Find and track your career pathway level, and use this tool to support other early childhood professionals
- Learn about opportunities to advance on the career pathway, building professionals’ experience and the quality of their programs
- Leverage the Non-Registered Trainer features (part of all TECPDS accounts) to generate certificates for any training that you deliver
- Request validation of records for education, professional development, and work experience for faster review during Texas Rising Star evaluations
- Professional development resources for early childhood professionals, including college/universities offering EC degrees funding/scholarship opportunities
- Download the Texas Core Competencies for Early Childhood Administrators and Practitioners and access free online training modules for the Core Competencies on CLI Engage to support your professional development delivery
- Find professional development opportunities by searching for upcoming trainings and events on the event calendar