ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2025

When teachers have professional development in math, they dont always carry what they learn back to the classroom. Potential teachers can come in with a narrow view of what it means to be good in mathematics, Patterson says. Declining math skills are a nationwide problem, Copur-Gencturk observes.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2020

If professional learning was not emphasized, it’s definitely not too late. However, this has also been a time of considerable fluctuation and flip-flopping on opening plans in relation to COVID19 infection rates. Think about experiences that reflect the conditions where your students will be expected to learn remotely.

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Pedagogy Social Justice K-12 EdTech 546

The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Ive definitely heard others speak similar sentiments before, but the way he worded it seemed to make the point so much more powerfully. I think it has to do with the preparation trainee teachers receive at university and the types of ongoing professional development teachers receive throughout their career.

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Psychology Professional Development Humanities Teaching 120

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If you answered yes to any of these questions then you are definitely in the wrong line of work. Treat professional development as an opportunity as opposed to an annoyance. Is it because you couldn’t decide on a major until halfway through your Bachelor’s Degree and figured that teaching would be your best option?

Education 300

Education Professional Development Public School Cultures 300

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 7, 2018

I love this definition, as there are so many apparent connections to a growth mindset, entrepreneurship, and innovation. However, we must understand that opportunities will not just drop in our laps if a culture of possibility is not developed. Unprecedented media coverage was only one unintended consequence.

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Leadership Cultures Professional Development Education 322

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

People craving more than a drive-by event, traditional school professional development day, or mandated training have an authentic outlet that caters to their interests. Definitions of digital leadership vary and have pretty much become a semantic issue. Leadership is leadership ladies and gentlemen.

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Leadership Cultures Professional Development Tradition 300

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2013

It was a great opportunity to not only get to exchange ideas with Eric regarding technology’s role in the classroom, but to see the learning community that has been nurtured and developed at his school. I look forward to meeting Eric again soon and definitely at Edscape in October!

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High School Professional Development Educational Technology Social Studies 280

ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Much like Ellison’s protagonist, I feel I have only been viewed as other people's definition of who I am supposed to be. Soon after, I began my first summer professional development at a school in the neighborhood I grew up in. My ability as a leader is hardly recognized. Who Am I in Education?

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Leadership Middle School Professional Development Teaching 126

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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Professional Development Leadership High School History 223

A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

Professional development often fails to cater for individual needs because it’s unlikely that in a room full of teachers everyone is in roughly the same place in terms of knowledge, experience and expertise. How, then, can we design our professional development to help develop this kind of responsive decision making?

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hard to imagine what using artificial intelligence in teacher professional development could mean? But how can using AI in professional learning and development help support educators ? Adaptive learning drives teacher professional development. Definitely not. teacher professional development.

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Edthena

APRIL 14, 2021

Vrain Valley Schools in Colorado became that much more important as professional development stayed a pandemic priority. Professional Development Should Stay a Pandemic Priority. As we talked before the recording, we want to focus a little bit on professional development. It’s definitely vague.

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Professional Development Pedagogy Teaching Geography 59

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2017

Click To Tweet When I lead professional development, I can always spot the teachers who I would love to have if I was a student. On the flip side, I’ve worked with plenty of teachers who spend more time checking their email than engaging with new teaching techniques during professional development.

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Professional Development Humanities Teaching Government 168

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2010

This was by far the most intense, and rewarding professional development venture that I have ever been a part of. How many of us could honestly say that after a 3 hour professional development training, let alone 11 hours? In a nutshell the blueprint developed for #GTAdmin was fantastic.

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Professional Development Pedagogy Leadership High School 167

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

One person who definitely knows that is Elena Aguilar, who has been coaching teachers for two decades and has written eight highly acclaimed books all centered on helping teachers grow. And anyone who wants to help teachers get better needs to know that. “Our minds have a negativity bias.

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Humanities Pedagogy Professional Development Library 233

Political Science Now

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a venue for knowledge exchange, professional development, and networking, conferences ideally promote positive environments that make scholars from underrepresented groups feel welcome. We argue that effective conference codes must contain definitions, reporting channels, and enforcement procedures.

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Political Science Professional Development Research 51

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. My focus is on charter schools, multiliteracies and school librarianship. That's what I do. So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? I'm an educator.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 95

The Effortful Educator

MARCH 17, 2025

I believe the last few monthly professional development offerings at my school have had a portion of time dedicated to different AI tools available to teachers to assist with writing lesson plans or developing questions from text or organizing and presenting content. I definitely wouldve been a student to misuse AI.

Humanities 93

Humanities Lesson Plan Professional Development Research 93

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Think about the professional development training sessions you have attended. The definition of management is “to make and keep compliant,” while motivate is defined as the ability “to stimulate (someone’s) interest in or enthusiasm for doing something.” These findings shouldn’t be surprising.

Classroom Management 168

Classroom Management Psychology Professional Development Research 168

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Communities of color are by definition brilliant, entrepreneurial and creative. Open Education Resources for Racial Justice Professional Development and Teaching. Every day in this country, Black, Brown, and Indigenous people are “making a way out of no way” by tapping into their innate fortitude and ingenuity.

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Professional Development Research High School Teaching 145

Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

Vocabulary words are bolded in the Student Edition, with a definition attached. Scaffolding Up with Studies Weekly This is the reason Studies Weekly offers so many scaffolding opportunities in its Student Editions and Teacher Editions. Fordham Institute. Help students level up their skills with Studies Weekly.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

With myriad definitions of personalized learning and little agreement on which one is the best, leaders and teachers struggle to know if they are doing personalized learning “right.”. Students attend classes at Brooklyn LAB school Submitted photo. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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Professional Development Educational Technology Teaching Education 98

Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

| Teacher Testimonial Apr 15 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER Video Transcript Speaker: Erika W., 4th Grade Teacher, TX What would you tell another educator considering attending the Learning Lab?

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Social Studies Teaching 52

Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2018

In many districts, teachers are provided the same professional development regardless of their subject area, grade level, or personal goals. In a small school district with limited resources committed to meeting the needs of all our students, the professional development opportunities made available to us are often in tight supply.

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Education Artifacts Professional Development Economics 101

A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 22, 2024

There’s a huge amount of discussion around the use of instructional coaching in schools as a key driver for professional development, and some are quite evangelical about it. As I hope is clear, this is neither an attack on instructional coaching as a form of professional development nor those who are proponents of it.

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Professional Development Teaching Classroom Management 167

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The slide is substantial and it definitely has us asking, ‘is the country ready to try and close the gap of this scale?’”. While some reports suggest reading loss hasn’t been as bad as expected, Berger says Amplify’s data show reading achievement in the early years deserves a closer look.

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Tutoring Library Elementary School Professional Development 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

It’s also the responsibility of education technology partners and school districts to provide continuous, job-embedded professional development relevant to teachers’ learning needs. School and district leaders should implement professional development and staff retreats that put mental and physical well-being in focus.

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EdTech Education Educational Technology Professional Development 118

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

For example: The Santa Cruz County Office for Education spells out a number of “equity initiatives ” used by schools in that part of California, including professional development for educators, improved strategies for grading student work and a support group for ethnically diverse educators.

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Professional Development Tradition Teaching History 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

But she said professional development and support are essential, too. There are few high-quality purveyors of whole curricula to begin with, she said, and “most curriculum developers don’t embed professional development and support” in their programs. And they’re lacking.

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K-12 Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Studies suggest that instructional coaching is one such thoughtful intervention, providing a critical form of professional development to improve teacher practice (Kraft, Blazar, & Hogan, 2018; Knight, 2007). New rubric guides classroom technology use. The Dynamic Learning Project is now open to all interested schools. References.

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Professional Development Project-Based Learning Educational Technology Critical Thinking 104

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As the work in North Salem demonstrates, it is essential for districts to translate state standards and overarching definitions of CT to fit their own district capacity and needs at a scale and scope that works for them. Of course, what works in one district will not necessarily work in another.

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K-12 Professional Development Leadership Teaching 102

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Kanold, an award-winning educator, author and national thought leader in mathematics and professional learning communities (PLCs), has co-authored numerous best-selling books and conducted professional development seminars worldwide. It was treated almost like mental illness.

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Education Psychology Professional Development Cultures 116

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Today, after a key vote, it's official: Two giants in the education space will join forces, creating a professional development powerhouse for their educator members.

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EdTech Education Professional Development Teaching 103

ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

As part of this program at Morris County Vocational School, in New Jersey, where I teach, students engage in research about key issues at our school and learn how to plan effective professional development to support the staff. Can students apply the facts, definitions and key concepts they’ve learned to a project?

High School 138

High School Museum Education History 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

And there are definitely the technologies — designed for the classroom and elsewhere — that make life, or learning, worse. New technologies are coming out all the time. Some make life better and easier for the people who use them. Some make life different, but not necessarily better.

EdTech 111

EdTech Professional Development Public School Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

It was definitely painted in the light that ‘these problems are in the past,’ and ‘America is the land of the free’ and ‘everyone is equal here.’ ”. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind.

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Teaching Elementary School Social Justice American History 145