The GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) program equips students to tackle real-world challenges – such as natural hazards, climate change, and water resource management – by integrating geodesy data and data analysis methods into undergraduate education. It has produced 13 undergraduate teaching modules and run 47 instructor professional development events to support module use. These professional development events included 35 virtual and in-person short courses which reached ~880 people. (12 webinars reached another ~575 people.)

Grounded in evidence-based best practices and honed through program assessment and necessity (i.e. the COVID19 pandemic) the GETSI program developed a core model for running instructor professional development events, which could inform other geoscience programs that need to concurrently introduce faculty to science that may be new to them, while also equipping them to use the teaching resources. The model included:
--Basic science content
--Teaching modules that are "ready to use"
--Chance to work through module elements "like a student"
--Peer-peer contact and worktime
--Implementation planning time
Overall the model proved adaptable from 2-hour virtual courses to 1-day in-person courses to multi-day virtual and in-person courses. Participants were satisfied with the experience, planned to use the resources, and had increased confidence regardless of their incoming level of knowledge about the topic or the type of institution that they taught at.