A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2025

Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed the pitfalls of professional development (PD) after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2021. Only then can we move beyond the professional development paradox and create a culture of continuous growth that benefits everyone in the educational community.

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Professional Development Classroom Management Cultures High School 245

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A 2017 article by Edutopia states that students do not retain memorized facts and dates very well but they do remember first-person accounts that emotionally connect them to the subject.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Teaching Oral History 52

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years. AI-based professional development is gaining traction at a time when a record number of teachers are feeling burned out, underpaid and demoralized about their profession.

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Research Professional Development Tutoring Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

About 8 percent of teachers leave the profession annually, and only half of those leaving retire, according to a 2017 report by the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank. The biggest reason non-retiring teachers leave the classroom, the report noted, is dissatisfaction at work (55 percent).

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Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

“I called and got the information and a few weeks later I was back in the classroom.”. Thompson, 70, is among a small cadre of retired educators who returned to Jackson classrooms for the 2017-18 school year to teach science, math and English, the courses for which the school district has the direst need.

Education 81

Education Middle School Public School Teaching 81

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. In Avoyelles in 2017-18, in addition to the high turnover rates, about 20 percent of the instructors either weren’t certified in the subject they were teaching or weren’t certified at all.

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Charter School Elementary School High School Tradition 82