Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

And to help individual educators in this network develop and enhance the skills they need to address our region’s challenges, we use micro-credentials. Micro-credentials provide personalized professional development opportunities aligned to theory of action plans. Solving problems together with the ACT Network.

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Dr. Preece

JUNE 3, 2023

As a teacher in the early phase of your career, a lot of your professional development is naturally focused on your Geography and subject knowledge. You’ll also need to have undertaken relevant Geographical professional development, and be able to explain how and why you want to be a Chartered Geographer.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2015

As instruction becomes increasingly personalized for students, teachers are ready for those same principles to drive their on-going professional development. "Teachers If we focus on learning and development, teachers know where they need to go." The need and demand for personalized professional development is growing.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tips for Helping Students Understand Informational Text March 7, 2023 • Debbie Bagley There is a lot of information written about how to help students navigate informational text, but the most important takeaway for me is to make sure we focus on best practices that support our learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Accessible facilities, ongoing professional development, and family involvement are vital components. Had it not been for principal Nicki Slaugh informing me that she was the TA, I would have just assumed she was a special education teacher. Please check out the image below and this website for more information.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

By addressing the current challenges in education, promoting professional development, and prioritizing emotional well-being, this article provides a comprehensive guide for educators committed to bridging the gap between teachers and principals. Performance for all increases within a collaborative school model.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

With the suggestions in hand, the leaders were empowered to review what we had seen and my recommendations to determine the focus for an upcoming professional development day I would be facilitating. Moreover, feedback provides specific and actionable information for educators to set goals and make targeted improvements.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 7, 2015

To connect each painting to the broader story of the exhibit, the museum curator uses labels to highlight information about each artifact. Data aligned to professional skills. Imagine a coach created a professional development cycle focused on questioning strategies. 1 In fact, there’s even an award for label writing.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2024

Below is more detailed information on the components of the system. Effective communication is vital, as it ensures that all stakeholders, including teachers, parents, and students, are well-informed and engaged. By relying on evidence, educators can make informed decisions that enhance student learning and achievement.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

But sometimes video self reflection mixed with other types of evidence analysis can improve the professional development experience. Explorations enable all organizations to implement research-informed strategies for evidence-based learning within a professional development cycle. Explorations™ is our answer.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Information and Communication Overloading (ICO) and “Mindful Media” contributed by Dr. Domenico Meschino In today’s digital age, children are immersed in many online activities that shape their daily lives. Social media has become integral to their social landscape, with platforms like YouTube capturing their attention.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Consider providing opportunities for staff to spread their wings by heading up committees, planning professional learning, and working side-by-side with you to develop new courses, electives, and schedules. Move away from drive-by professional development and blanket approaches to personalized, job-embedded models.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As I engage with districts and schools regularly, they frequently inquire about ways to gauge the outcomes and efficacy of their innovative strategies, such as BYOD, 1:1, blended and personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, and professional development. The IPA doesn’t just look at innovation.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

This, it can be concluded that Curiosity boosts people's ability to learn and retain new information, thanks to key reward and memory centers in the brain. Somehow curiosity could prepare the brain for learning and long-term memory more broadly. In the words of Ken Robinson, “Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This hands-on approach ensures that students are not just absorbing information but actively applying and exploring it, making subjects like social studies more meaningful and memorable. Ongoing professional development is essential for educators to stay updated on the latest teaching strategies, technological tools, and education research.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2022

Professional Learning Typical means of professional development (PD) such as drive-by events, one-off workshops, or book studies, while having value, will not lead to impactful virtual learning at scale. There needs to be a shift from “PD” to professional learning that is ongoing, job-embedded, and research-aligned.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Abou the Virtual Workshop Series Starting in January 2024, APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession has organized regular virtual professional development workshops to encourage and support political science graduate students.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She knew she had to prepare herself for what may come, so she thought back on what she had learned during her initial Verizon Innovative Learning Schools learning experiences and began diving into every professional development and certification opportunity she could find. “I

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 22, 2013

We can all agree that professional development is essential in any profession, especially education. When this happens the first line item to get cut is professional development. Image credit: [link] Professional development has now become the sole burden of school districts for better or worse.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The resulting insights can then be shared with all actors — instructors, mentors and learners — enabling them to make informed decisions about the learner’s next steps toward their goal. Other sectors’ assessment practices can inform new approaches in education. As technology improves, we’ll be flooded with classroom information.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2020

For more information on various hybrid models, check out this detailed piece from Education Week. What I mean here is that this has to be their opportunity to plan, grade, conference with students, create videos for flipped lessons, or engage in professional learning.

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Political Science Now

JULY 12, 2024

Join APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for the fourth event of their professional development workshop series. The committee achieves this mission by informing APSA of graduate student concerns and developing dynamic approaches to address them.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With seamless, reliable experiences in VC3, teachers and coaches can focus less on troubleshooting and more on what truly counts: professional growth and student success. Enhancing video coaching accessibility for all educators At Edthena, we believe that great professional development should be accessible to everyone.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Remember when we had to get all of our professional literature and information from journals, books, conferences, over the phone, or people that we came in direct contact with? Screen time for students Making technology purposeful, not just tech for the sake of it Students don’t hold the information anymore as they can get it anywhere.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is essential for educators to tap into professional development (PD) opportunities to advance their understanding of how to use AI to improve the classroom experience. Even the AI tools that are trained using the same information could still give unique results! I ask students, “Could AI be trained on bad information?

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Geogramblings

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Then all you have to do is follow these steps after logging onto STEM Learning and going to your ‘Dashboard’ Click on Profile Then Skills and qualification Scroll down and click ‘Edit’, Under Schemes Participation > add ‘ Climate Ambassadors’ and ensure that the box to share information is ticked.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Bringing my perspective as a young professional to a high school, I have been endlessly frustrated with the disparity between what I want and am inspired to accomplish and what the system allows me to reasonably get out of any effort I put in. In the many fractured systems that make up the overall U.S.

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NCHE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This professional development opportunity for teachers encourages the exploration of students’ local history, immersing them in location-based learning to develop a deeper understanding of their places. Read the blog post about The Source on the Library of Congress’ website here.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I say, Well, could you go to your principal and just get more information, so you have more of an understanding of why she made that decision? And they’re afraid. So often I hear teachers say things like, Well, that just happened, and what am I going to do now? Could you share some additional insights or perspectives?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 14, 2024

But over the last ten years, whenever I set out to find information about teaching strategies, educational resources, technology for schools, or pretty much anything related to improving learning for our students, someone would inevitably pipe up and say, “Librarians can also help with that.” That was about it.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Free professional development. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars !

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 19, 2014

During my ten years as a school leader I dreaded professional development days in my district. I am not sure any educator looks forward to these monotonous experiences (developed under the guise of learning!) I attended many of these events just to meet the required hours of professional development.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Now I am not saying that all meetings don't have value, but while the pandemic rages on minutes and essential information can be emailed to staff or made part of a collaborative Google Doc. If you can't, consider developing a schedule where administrators and other support staff can fill them in lieu of teachers.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Free professional development. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Spring 2025 Multi Day Seminars!

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Edthena

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Layouts adapt dynamically to your role and stage in the process, ensuring that the most relevant information and tools are always at your fingertips. Teachers can also leverage this information to guide a self-reflection on their lesson before, or between collaborating with their team. Balance student-to-teacher talk time. Guess what?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Unfortunately, it is not a universally required part of educator training or professional development. Students do emergency drills, but staff seldom run scenarios and simulations that provide time to develop and practice appropriate trauma-informed responses to use with students in crisis. This is more urgent than ever.

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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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