A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

I have blogged about these over the past couple months and will either provide brief descriptions or links to past posts. Blogging is one of the best tools available to aid in communication. Professional Development/Growth: Educators now have access to relevant, meaningful resources that are available as needed.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2017

If you are an aspiring administrator or looking to move up the ladder, find ways to get involved with the budget, observations, evaluations, curriculum development, walk-throughs, professional development, and master scheduling. Each week I labor over creating a blog post. Perception always surrounds our work and us.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, recent research highlights the crucial role of social studies instruction in developing strong reading skills. Train Educators to Teach Content-Rich Literacy: Provide professional development that helps teachers integrate social studies instruction into literacy frameworks effectively.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

My reading regularly inspires my blogs, books, teaching, and work with educators. This year, traditional approaches to professional development may feel daunting because teachers are spread thin due to substitute shortages and the challenges associated with returning to physical classrooms.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2015

I work in a district with next to no funding for professional development. I follow interesting people on Twitter, read popular education blogs, and attend as many sessions as possible at the conferences where I speak. I’ve had the pleasure of presenting over 70 webinars for SimpleK12 over the last four years!

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research shows that these content-rich subjects play a vital role in literacy development by building background knowledge, strengthening comprehension, and expanding vocabulary. Elementary education has traditionally focused on English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often at the expense of social studies and science.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2019

The idea was to expose our preservice administrators at the University of Colorado Denver to a variety of ways to foster and facilitate adult learning beyond schools’ traditional, moribund professional development sessions. Professional development [VIDEO]. Making learning a part of everyday work.

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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. Note that Spanish-language versions of the micro-credentials listed in this blog were earned by pilot participants.

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Edthena

AUGUST 24, 2021

Building more content knowledge is often the go-to for teacher professional development, especially during back-to-school season. Heather Hill, a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, says to skip the PD that’s focused solely on developing new content knowledge. The findings were surprising.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. This blog post is the second in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In what ways might micro-credentials help policymakers and practitioners rethink teacher compensation, merit pay, and traditional career ladders that often create room for just a few teachers to lead? We will explore this opportunity in our next blog post. Grappling with these matters is not simple.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Principals and school leaders need professional development so that they can better advocate for their teachers and students. With only 14 percent of teachers certain that they would recommend the profession to others, districts and states and superintendents and principals are already struggling to find quality applicants.

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Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2019

Note: you can find and read Part 1 of this blog post series here. As end-users search for new tools to fit students needs, these resources, as well as more traditional methods like word-of-mouth recommendations, internet searches, research journals, and edtech vendor exhibitions at conferences, can provide channels for product discovery.

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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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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators. Traditionally, design thinking facilitation is not offered to K-12 educators and thus, their students do not build those skills.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This blog post is the second of a two-part series discussing relationship building in the edtech purchasing process. In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. Hertz points out that while schools are customers, they’re not traditional customers.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Beyond that, a recent evaluation of instructional coaching programs shows that coaching is more effective than traditional professional development (PD) models in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. However, in many districts, coaching is not yet established as a norm in PD efforts.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Issuers develop micro-credential content, assess submissions, and award micro-credentials. Many also provide recognition or value for those earned micro-credentials through certificates and professional development points. Elevating Educator Voice and Choice : Educators are as unique as the learners in their classrooms.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coaches were often tapped to help lead the transition in their districts , drawing on the program’s tech-focused professional development to prepare teachers to engage with students virtually. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. I would think that number would be higher for those who wanted to do one but couldn’t,” Katie Nailler, director of the college’s Career and Professional Development Institute, said.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What distinguishes micro-credentials from traditional PD workshops is the way in which teachers and educational leaders provide evidence of learning. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”. 6] “Learner‐Centered Professional Development.” Digital Promise, Digital Promise, 1 Dec.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

For example, last year the Community Consolidated School District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois, was able to create sixty-three hours of professional development for administrators around modern learning contexts in an effort to begin real culture change.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

Read our blog, Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month , to learn more about other Asian/Pacific historical figures you can spotlight. Traditional Foods Fascinate your students with not only what people eat in Asian and Pacific Island countries, but how they prepare their meals.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

Standard 7c is hard for me simply because I have seen technology systems used too often to reinforce low-level factual recall, procedural regurgitation, and assessment and I am adamantly opposed to those traditional practices dominating the deeper learning practices that we should be implementing instead.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Studies learning activity systems (not just one component)—such systems that integrate materials, technologies, supports, teacher professional development, assessments, leadership engagement, and other elements required to change teaching and learning. Learning Sciences vs. Sciences of Learning.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2020

Teachers are continuing to participate in professional development sessions focused on creating unit plans, modeling how to use the online platforms, and answering staff questions. Early on in the transition, everything took much longer to implement virtually than in a traditional classroom setting. Teacher Support.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

After several visits to local schools to learn more about the technology they’re using to develop 21st-century learners, the idea of micro-credentials being a valuable part of a teacher candidate’s training at UCF became clear. Traditionally, colleges of education prescribe a fixed set of courses for their teacher candidates to complete.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Vista Innovation & Design Academy.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 102

Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Studies suggest American schools invest $18 billion in teachers’ professional learning annually. But considerable evidence indicates that formal professional development often misses the mark. In short, the current approach to American teachers’ professional development is falling short.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Dynamic Learning Project provides opportunities for teachers to engage in active learning that is relevant to their classroom through different types of meetings with the coach, from one-on-one formal and informal meetings, to classroom visits from the coach, to co-teaching and modeling, to coach-facilitated group professional development (PD).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The project brings 24 teachers from 10 schools together to conduct classroom action research to develop their content knowledge for teaching, which includes: Building content knowledge for teaching in focused areas of mathematics and science; Implementing research-based best pedagogical practices to improve student learning; and.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The program, which grew to 264 schools in the fall, also provides extensive professional development to teachers that supports powerful teaching and learning. Our teachers had already participated in professional development on how to incorporate the blended learning model into their classrooms.

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Edthena

MAY 11, 2021

Doug Fisher was interviewed by Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller for the teacher professional development blog PLtogether. Is traditional assessment still the best way to check for understanding? Can traditional multiple choice tests and check for understanding techniques cut it in the modern technological era?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Many Opportunity Youth have had traumatic experiences within the traditional school setting, and often these educational struggles are rooted in undiagnosed learning differences. The Fellows participate in a 12-month, intensive professional development experience focused on learning differences.

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Becoming a History Teacher

APRIL 16, 2023

It also lacked an understanding of the pedagogical tradition underpinning the subject. Their day-to-day mentor was not able to induct them into the rich tradition of their subject community. It requires an appreciation of the what, why and how of the disciplinary tradition of the subject.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

These include slide presentations, graphic organizers, infographics, ebooks, video presentations, websites, whiteboard app creations, graphic novels, blog posts, ePortfolios, podcasts, coded applications, digital art, video games, and VR world creations. These new forms of creativity can be easily shared with a wider more authentic audience.

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Edthena

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jim Knight, the author of multiple professional development books, including Instructional Coaching , is an expert in implementing video as a critical tool in the coaching process. “See [coaches] as providing a service to teachers,” Jim said in his interview for the professional development blog PLTogether. .

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