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Professional Development Is Dying — and It's Most Evident in My Local Teacher Community

ED Surge

In early spring this year, the local chapter of my teacher professional development organization held our first in-person conference since the pandemic. Having served on the leadership team of our local PD organization for many years, I’ve planned numerous conferences and knew what needed to be done, but this year was different.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 07

Dangerously Irrelevant

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

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When Early Learning Serves as a Catalyst for Change

ED Surge

Since May 2020, he has led Marlin ISD, transforming it from what he calls the states best-kept secret to a shining example of educational excellence in Texas and beyond. EdSurge: Marlin ISD has shown remarkable academic growth under your leadership. It all ties back to professional development.

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OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline

The Hechinger Report

Since March 2020, districts across the country have experienced alarming declines in student achievement in math and reading, a mental health crisis among students and widespread job dissatisfaction among educators. Yet, the significance of the key leadership position in our schools is largely overlooked and under-supported.

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Supporting Teachers in a Hybrid Learning Environment

Digital Promise

And then there is the 2020–2021 school year, where nothing is normal, and we have had five “first days of school.” All professional development sessions were recorded or planned as asynchronous sessions. Finally, we broke it all down for teachers to work through in multiple professional development sessions.

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Deepening Engagement with Students and Teachers of Color During COVID-19

Digital Promise

We have continued to offer our college and career readiness initiative, The Saturday Leadership Program , in a virtual setting in which we expose scholars to different college environments. In addition, we have developed a youth-led event series, The Kickback Conversation Series.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.