Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

What Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program does

Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program (RPDP) is a public-education consortium that delivers training, coaching, and instructional resources to K-12 educators in Southern Nevada. It is governed by a multi-district board that includes Clark County School District, Esmeralda County School District, Lincoln County School District, Nye County School District, Mineral County School District, the Nevada Department of Education, and NSHE (Nevada System of Higher Education), and it operates from a single headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada (9501 Echelon Point Dr). The organization's mandate is to improve teacher effectiveness in content delivery, instructional strategies, and student performance outcomes through standards-aligned professional development.

RPDP's product surface is organized around several core service lines: professional development course offerings (instructor-led and distance learning across literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies); a multi-track endorsement catalog (Computer Science Introductory/Advanced, Cultural Competency, Early Childhood, ELAD, GATE, Library, and Reading); standards-aligned remediation and acceleration modules organized by grade band and subject; standalone Computer Science and Financial Literacy modules; a Science of Reading distance-learning program; the Nevada Family Engagement Program; and annual educator conferences (e.g., the 2026 Early Childhood Conference). Content is delivered via the rpdp.net website, Google-hosted documents and forms, and direct registration, with subject-matter specialists assigned as named points of contact for each content area.

The business model is consortium-based rather than commercial: services are provided to participating Nevada school districts and their educators under public-sector governance, with no public pricing disclosed and no evidence of venture funding, M&A, or external equity ownership. RPDP reports 1-10 employees and operates as a collaborative educational entity whose continuity is tied to district participation and state-level PD policy rather than to commercial revenue mechanics.

Name

Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Legal name

Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Website

https://rpdp.net

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program is a publicly governed education consortium that delivers standards-aligned professional development, endorsement coursework, and remediation resources to K-12 educators across five Southern Nevada county school districts under Nevada Department of Education oversight.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Educator Professional Development Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (61171), Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional Development / CPD Requirement Administration for Licensure (EDADAJAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Content-Area Remediation (Science & Social Studies Academic Support) (EDAKADAE), Virtual Test Prep & Online Supplemental Instruction (K–12) (EDAJADAI), K–12 Instructional Design & Curriculum Development Services (EDAGAKAA), Standards Alignment & Curriculum Mapping Resources (State/NAEYC/Head Start) (EDACAJAN)

Keywords

• K-12 professional development
• Teacher endorsement programs
• Educator training services
• Standards-aligned remediation
• Distance learning resources

Headquarters

HQ city

Las Vegas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Southern Nevada RPDP delivers professional development to K–12 educators through instructor-led and distance learning course offerings, structured endorsement coursework (Computer Science, Cultural Competency, Early Childhood, ELAD, GATE, Library, Reading), standards-aligned remediation modules in literacy, mathematics, science, social studies and technology, and annual educator conferences. Services are distributed directly to teachers and administered under a multi-district governance structure covering five Southern Nevada counties.

Product overview

Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program (RPDP) is a multi-module professional development platform offering educator training across Nevada. The core offerings include Professional Development Course Offerings, Endorsement Programs (Computer Science, Cultural Competency, Early Childhood, ELAD, GATE, Library, Reading), Remediation Modules (literacy, math, science, social studies, technology), Distance Learning Resources, Nevada Family Engagement Program, Computer Science Modules, Financial Literacy Modules, and annual Conferences. These modules function as standalone professional development tracks serving Clark, Lincoln, Esmeralda, Nye, and Mineral county school districts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Professional Development Course Offerings

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development): Large national PD provider offering educator courses, endorsements, and resources for curriculum, instruction, and leadership — competing for district PD budgets at a broader scale.
• Learning Forward: National professional association for K-12 educator learning, providing PD standards (Standards for Professional Learning), training, and conferences that overlap with RPDP's mission at a national scale.
• WestEd: Nonprofit education R&D and PD organization offering contracted K-12 professional development, research-based resources, and state-level services across multiple states.

Direct peers

• New Teacher Center: Nonprofit focused on teacher induction, instructional coaching, and PD programs serving districts and states — directly comparable in K-12 PD/coaching mission.
• BetterLesson: K-12 teacher coaching and PD platform delivering virtual coaching, workshops, and content-area support to individual educators and districts — directly competing for the same Nevada K-12 PD audience.
• Teaching Channel: Online video-based PD and coaching platform for K-12 teachers covering instruction across subject areas; comparable in remote-delivery model and K-12 teacher customer base.
• Northern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program (NN RPDP): Nevada's sister RPDP serving northern counties with the same K-12 professional development, endorsement, and remediation mandate; the closest functional mirror to Southern Nevada RPDP.

Others

• Public Impact: Consulting and PD organization partnering with districts and states on teacher leadership and instructional reform; adjacent PD/thought-partner to RPDP's district-embedded model.

Emerging players

• IRIS Center (Vanderbilt University): Federally funded resource center at Vanderbilt providing free online PD modules for K-12 educators, particularly around differentiation and intervention — overlapping with RPDP's remediation mandate.
• Edthena: Video-based teacher coaching and PD platform that supports cycle-of-practice improvement; an emerging EdTech option districts may use alongside or in place of consortium-based PD.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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