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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Professional learning opportunities need to be designed with agency, fidelity, contextual learning, relevancy, sustainability, and iterant. Challenges of Professional Development. ” Jill Abbott Sr.

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Professional development should make teachers feel urgent, not small and isolated

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Technology, collaboration, and new standards are changing the classroom at a rapid pace. Every teacher’s professional development must keep up. Like so many of us, I have been grateful throughout my life for the professionals I’ve needed to call upon for vital services and expert guidance. But we’re not there yet.

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Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target

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“It’s a complicated question, how to measure that achievement gap,” said Eli Beardsley, JCPS’ ESL coordinator. In addition, JCPS has the ESL Newcomer Academy, a middle-high combined school that focuses on helping newly arrived immigrants learn English and acclimate to life in the U.S.

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16 Books About Learning Every Teacher Should Read

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This short book offers 4 standards for prioritizing in your classroom: Rigor, Thought, Diversity, and Authenticity. It defines each, and offers a helpful rubrics to begin measuring how each standard does or does not function in your classroom. Silver , Matthew J. What Are People For? by Wendell Berry.

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What’s New

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Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms. The webinars are led by teachers and come pre-recorded and live on the Center.