ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Robinson is inspired by Francis Su, former president of the Mathematical Association of America and author of Mathematics for Human Flourishing (2020). Its crucial for students receive good math instruction at the lower elementary and preschool levels so that they start their math journey with a strong foundation, she adds.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools in March 2020, Mrs. Stamey realized that everything she had been doing suddenly needed to become digital. The inconvenient truth, however, is that it is not easy to come by high-impact professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier. Weve built systems that treat relationships as invisible, as if theyre nice to have rather than essential. The consequences of this omission are now becoming painfully evident.

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Humanities Economics Professional Development High School 75

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

APSAs Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Professions virtual workshop series features accessible, high-quality professional development opportunities for political science graduate students. Watch previous workshop events and view the supplementary resources here.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

No matter the decision-maker, curriculum is a powerful lever that can cultivate identity, criticality, intellect, skills, and joy within students (Muhammad, 2020). Educators’ experiences during these professional development programs. There are resources for educators that may help alleviate some of these negative effects.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

In fact, more than 70 percent of teachers in the program reported feeling prepared, with 93 percent crediting the program with making aspects of remote instruction easier to implement, according to a December 2020 survey.

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Professional Development Middle School High School Teaching 133

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How satisfied are teachers with professional development, micro-credentials, and coaching as mechanisms to support their use of technology in their practice? It addresses the following questions: What do teachers think they need to know and do to effectively integrate technology into their practice?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

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. Principals often lack access to professional development opportunities.

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Public School Professional Development K-12 Tutoring 141

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

According to a National Parents Union Survey in October 2020, 45 percent of parents of K-12 students would opt to keep their children fully online if given the opportunity. This reality has compelled districts like Rowan-Salisbury Schools (North Carolina) to develop permanent virtual academies. Professional Development.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2020

Coaches reported that they provided significant support in ensuring learning continuity during school closures by providing teachers with professional development (PD) on effective practices, strategies, and technology tools for transitioning to online instruction. Preparing for the new school year.

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EdTech Professional Development Educational Technology Research 167

Edthena

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Read more on Edutopia: 4 Key Elements for Designing Remote Professional Learning District administrators list flexibility and forward-planning as the best practices they’ve been learning Administrators share best practices and lessons learned after having used the CARES Act federal funds to support professional development.

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Professional Development Cultures Public School Teaching 52

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

In addition, ACLS provides fellows with professional development funding, access to peer mentorship and professional networks, and a relocation stipend (if needed). Fellows will take on roles in advocacy, policy research, communications, public engagement, and more.

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Social Justice Museum Social Science Professional Development 52

Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

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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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

That was the case of Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1:1 initiative was imposed by the city government in 2008 with virtually no support for professional development, technological infrastructure, curricula or repair. But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 116

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I knew what Edcamps were; I had always wanted to attend one and had actually modeled professional development events in my school after them. As the 2019–2020 school year came to a close, a request came from a statewide teacher support agency. In this post, Dr. Tina M.

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Professional Development Teaching Education 118

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A spring 2020 survey found that only 3 percent of teachers felt that administrators were addressing their social and emotional needs during remote learning. High-quality professional development in remote teaching practices and technology can help.

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K-12 Professional Development Charter School Psychology 145

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Digital Promise first launched our Micro-credential Policy Map in January 2020 to share valuable information on how states and districts across the U.S. States are continuing to develop policies and guidelines to support districts looking to leverage micro-credentials for professional learning.

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Education Professional Development Educational Technology Public School 147

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Since being elected, I have completed several fellowships, along with professional development training to enhance my knowledge as a board member. Armando Montero, an advocate for mental health, began running for the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board in Arizona when he was still in high school and was elected in 2020.

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Elementary School Government High School Public School 142

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

The March 2020 shift from face-to-face classes to what many call “Zoom University” was triage for faculty and administrators accustomed to being in the same room as their students. To get a better understanding of what has happened in online classrooms since March 2020, Acosta said, the report’s authors spoke to more than 50 students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Establishing a strong culture of coaching, however, requires structures to be in place in a school or district such as designated time for coaching, and ongoing professional development for coaches and administrators.

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Cultures Professional Development Leadership Tradition 127

Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2020

Empirical studies suggest that instructional coaching can be more effective than traditional professional development workshops in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. Over the past decade, instructional coaching has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners alike.

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Professional Development Cultures Tradition Research 107

Political Science Now

MARCH 19, 2025

University of Houston APSA Member since 2020 Ph.D. I ended up becoming an APSA member about a year later, in 2020. The funding and professional development opportunities afforded to me by both programs came at a really critical timeright as I was about to go on the job market. Meet Samantha Chapa, Ph.D., Learn more here.

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Civic Engagement Civics Political Science Advocacy 48

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

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.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

Digital Promise

APRIL 6, 2021

Are there teacher-friendly examples and professional development to support such work? To promote CT professional development for teachers, we held four workshops, called CT Boosters, to provide teachers with examples and guidance around the integration of two key CT practices, data and analysis and algorithms.

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K-12 Professional Development Teaching Research 115

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Within these contexts of teacher autonomy and empowerment, teacher professional learning does not fit traditional patterns. Teacher professional development isn’t typically decided by administrators.

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Leadership Professional Development Tradition Cultures 110

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Researchers at the Erikson Institute, a child-development focused graduate school in Chicago, started the Early Math Collaborative 16 years ago to provide educators with research-backed professional development to help them better teach young students math.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The grant will help Lumen bring together the company’s three separate platforms for humanities, professional development and online homework management, executives from the company say. In 2020, Lumen acquired Faculty Guild , a coaching company for instructors, now called Lumen Circles.

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Professional Development Economics Humanities Cultures 126

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. “ Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation ” was written by Erica Blom and Tomas Monarrez at the Urban Institute and published in January 2020. The names of the institutions were not disclosed.

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Tutoring Psychology High School Research 120

ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I applied for the role, was accepted and served as a PCM from October 2020 to June 2022. I didn’t have to attend professional development or training to become a PCM. In the midst of the chaos of 2020 and its aftermath, I found reasons to come to work each day.

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Classroom Management Professional Development Lesson Plan Teaching 119

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2020

In a 2020 nationwide survey conducted by Educators for Excellence, only 12 percent of teachers said that preparation programs train prospective teachers for the realities of the classroom very well. High-quality teacher preparation meant I was ready on Day One to teach reading in the classroom, unlike so many new teachers.

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K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Teaching 105

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Failing grades have jumped for middle and high school students nationwide: The state of New Mexico , for example, and the city of Houston, Texas, had more than 40 percent of students fail at least one class from spring 2020 to spring 2021. There are some potential solutions.

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Psychology High School Professional Development Middle School 126

Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

In fall 2020, MindCatcher launched Collective Support , an affinity-based leadership and wellness cohort. The MindCatcher team supports the cohort virtually through participatory, hands-on professional development. Further research demonstrated site leaders of color tend to serve the most vulnerable communities.

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Leadership Professional Development Middle School Humanities 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. Already, 26 states have some formal policy in place around microcredentials to support either licensure or professional development. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S.

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Tradition Public School Professional Development Leadership 120

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

In the midst of the evolving challenges of 2020, educators came together to support one another and discuss how to: Reach and engage their students, especially those facing learning or social challenges. Navigate changing norms online and in physical classrooms.

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Education EdTech Professional Development Teaching 124

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The six public schools in Brunswick operated on a hybrid schedule for most of the 2020-21 school year.

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K-12 Library Lesson Plan Professional Development 145

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Tennessee’s strategic plan for education, Tennessee Succeeds , identifies five priority areas to help the state reach its education goals by 2020. How many times have you said or heard, “We have to differentiate everything for our students, so why don’t we have differentiated professional development for us?”

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