Dr. Shannon Doak

JULY 14, 2020

As we move more into the world of online learning and teaching for students, it is becoming apparent that teachers are also needing to move online for their own professional learning. Professional development should be relevant to the teacher. Professional development should be relevant to the teacher.

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Edthena

JUNE 29, 2021

Just because summer is here doesn’t mean teacher professional development has to stop. Read on for how to plan your self-driven, at-home teacher professional development this season. Often, educators simply crave more choice and autonomy in their own teacher professional development. Fair enough.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Join APSA for our third webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It all ties back to professional development. I dont expect teachers to be curriculum developers I want them to be curriculum implementers. Additionally, we must elevate the level of respect for the teaching profession. We track where children are while ensuring our curriculum is highly integrated and intertwined.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Join APSA and Russell Sage for a professional development webinar exploring best practices for winning research funding. This webinar will provide a practical overview of applying for research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation. Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 6, 2024

Staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want nonpartisan election resources that elevate classroom discourse beyond political bickering and horse race coverage. Our webinars meet monthly on select Saturday mornings from 10.45am – 12pm ET. hours of professional development.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. Teacher Advocates are available to provide support through email, phone call, video chat, and regularly scheduled Teacher Talk Webinars on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2020

Moreover, teachers who received DLP coaching reported greater skills and confidence in leveraging technology in their teaching, which resulted in increased student engagement and learning. including access to coaching, the perceived effectiveness of coaching, and the existing financial and professional support for coaches.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 12, 2016

I did not receive any support, technology, or professional development from my school or district and was forced to figure it out on my own. In that time since that book was published, my understanding of blended learning models, as well as my own teaching practice, has continued to develop and evolve.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 20, 2022

How can teachers develop a practice of creativity and stay inspired in their classrooms? During a recent webinar, HP Teaching Fellows Brent Christensen , Vickie Morgado , Teena Hine , and Amanda Brace shared tips for igniting creativity in their teaching and learning practice. Learn More.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2015

I work in a district with next to no funding for professional development. I’ve had the pleasure of presenting over 70 webinars for SimpleK12 over the last four years! Teachers with a membership can search the archive of webinars and watch any of them on demand. I love the on demand option!

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Archiving EdTech Professional Development Tradition 121

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. How would you respond to that?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Over the last few months, EdSurge webinar host Carl Hooker moderated three webinars featuring field-expert panelists discussing the transformative impact of artificial intelligence in the education field. Agreeing with Glass, webinar host Hooker suggests, “A teacher won't be replaced by AI. Graham Glass In May 2023, the U.S.

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Education EdTech K-12 Humanities 143

Political Science Now

JUNE 3, 2024

Join the American Political Science Association for our second webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. Dr. Julia Azari ’s research and teaching interests include the American presidency, American political parties, political communication, and American political development. The post Webinar Series: Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 22, 2024

Before we think about instructional coaching, let’s talk about teaching. It’s clear from just spending a short time reading statements from politicians, reports in the media, or discourse on social media that teaching also has something of a PR problem. Which brings us to instructional coaching. Is this true?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Teaching strategies that incorporate modeling and guided practice are particularly effective for helping adult learners master the visualizing skills critical for effective reading. To learn more about active strategies for teaching adult literacy skills, watch our recorded webinar with experts from Mockingbird Education.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

In response to COVID-19, OTAN was uniquely prepared to ramp up their digital professional development, offering weekly Zoom office hours for adult educators who suddenly found themselves teaching and supporting learners remotely. We all learn about each other’s programs, teaching situations, and hardware/software in use.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Julio Vazquez, director of instruction and human resources at North Salem, emphasizes the importance of this effort: “We are working to build our capacity in teaching CT to fully integrate computing in all grade levels and across multiple subject areas. Join us for a webinar on November 10, 2022 to learn more.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Teacher Advocates are available to provide support through email, phone call, video chat, and regularly scheduled Teacher Talk Webinars on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This spring, the whole world changed, including teaching. I knew what Edcamps were; I had always wanted to attend one and had actually modeled professional development events in my school after them. I attended the first webinar, excited but not really knowing what to expect. In this post, Dr. Tina M.

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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. What Do We Teach When We Teach the Learning Sciences?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2024

Only five states (Alabama, Hawaii, Michigan, Mississippi and Rhode Island) met all 10 of NIEER’s quality benchmarks, which include caps on student-teacher ratios and class sizes as well as professional development and teacher licensing requirements. Although D.C.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As the executive director of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) program, I had the opportunity to participate in professional development workshops, calls with coaches and IT personnel, and other virtual convenings supporting our community members from the 264 schools in our network.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Building in more creativity comes down to student agency—teaching students to find their voice. Add to all of this the external pressures of standardized testing, top-down mandates, traditional grading and parent pressure—teachers find less controversy in just using traditional teaching practices.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For the past year, staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want election materials! Designed for the working educator, our webinars meet monthly on select Saturday mornings from 10.45am – 12pm ET. hours of professional development. Saturday, Jan.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Building a toolbox of teaching strategies can help educators meet the needs of students and bring social studies to life. When teaching about a social studies topic, consider how you might engage students in learning about the topic. He remembers students lighting up when they connected the activity to the American Revolution.

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Social Studies Teaching Professional Development Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

“The biggest problem is there is not enough time to really do the training that a teacher needs to understand how to teach online,” said Jennifer Mathes, interim chief executive officer of the Boston-based Online Learning Consortium , a nonprofit that offers webinars and resources on online teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). Teaching Differently to Engage all Learners. The Fellows participate in a 12-month, intensive professional development experience focused on learning differences.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

For the inaugural study tour, participating districts attended three webinars presented by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) that culminated in a meeting in Toronto, Ontario, on January 30–31. Schools exist in very different geographical, political, social, economic contexts, but deep truths can be transferred and applied.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2020

New ways of teaching hybrid or remote during Covid-19 can be challenging to navigate. Yes, there are technical challenges, but there are also real needs to help redefine what “good teaching and learning” means in a context that doesn’t look the same as it did last year. Now more than ever. Pre-recorded.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. To boost parent participation, many districts offer webinars and other online instruction to help adults gain fluency in the schools’ digital tools and guide them through available resources. This story also appeared in The New York Times. The Richmond (Va.)

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It then becomes the instructor’s responsibility to provide lessons that teach and use this real-world mobile technology. This matches the reality for adult learners: most often, their only connection to the internet is a smartphone.

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Digital Resources High School Professional Development Teaching 81

Edthena

MAY 31, 2016

At this year’s ASCD professional development conference in Atlanta, Professor Suzanne Arnold of the University of Colorado Denver showed how video can be used with in-service teachers to accelerate their development. . Suzanne is the program director of ASPIRE to Teach , an alternative licensure program for Colorado.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 16, 2020

As a professional development leader for several organizations across the United States, Andre is committed to motivating educators and school leaders to shift their mindset to improve education. Preparing schools and educators will take more than a single professional development course. It might be a little scary.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

Breathing techniques can be a fun and engaging way to teach students to regulate their emotions. Be sure to teach breathing exercises when students feel happy and comfortable so they can associate deep breathing with calmness. It also helps students feel more in control when stressed, tired, or upset.

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