The Professional Linking Program (PLP) is a unique teacher education program that enables working paraprofessionals, student support workers, para-educators (e.g., education assistants, child and youth care workers, counselors, settlement workers), independent schools educators, and Francophone teachers working with letters of permission to become certified as teachers in British Columbia. The PLP is unique in that it enables participants to pursue certification while continuing to work in their current positions for all but the long-practicum semester.