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Professional Development Done With Us, Not To Us

The Jose Vilson

Now as a sociologist studying teacher professionalism, I get to keep attending hundreds of hours of professional development. A small set of educators could always create an Edcamp , a model in need of revival in our times. Some who attended workshops on the science of reading also attended workshops about democracy in education.

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On Professional Development and The Places We Don’t Have Yet

The Jose Vilson

Later that night, I started to think about the workshops I’d like to attend the next day. As it stands, researchers rarely attend the professional development sessions of the teachers they study except when they’re presenting. They serve as a larger umbrella under a given topic (math, social studies, the future, etc.)

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"Edcamp Style" PD- Personalizing teacher learning on a required PD day!

Tech Helpful

On one day in August before the students came, and again in January of this year we set up Edcamp style PD days. While our PD days weren't like the traditional Edcamp style (we actually came up with the choices instead of the teachers making the choices), the teachers found the days to be useful.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

Graphite Blog

Or searching for a fun project idea for a particular unit of study? Sometimes we hear about so many different tools from conferences, edcamps, and workshops it can be a little overwhelming. Explore Lesson Plans. Looking for new ways to address a particular topic? Take a deep dive.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

Graphite Blog

Or searching for a fun project idea for a particular unit of study? Sometimes we hear about so many different tools from conferences, edcamps, and workshops it can be a little overwhelming. Explore Lesson Plans. Looking for new ways to address a particular topic? Take a deep dive.

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How to Choose a Digital Assessment Strategy – SULS010

Shake Up Learning

04:26] – Today’s question comes from Sarah Fromhold, who wants to know how to integrate the dynamic learning framework within the parameters of the reading/writing and math workshop model. [08:10] Join the Shake Up Learning Book Study! 08:10] – Kasey explains how her on-air coaching episodes work. [09:02] docAppender.

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The Greatest Challenge Facing School Leaders in a Digital World

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As founding director of CASTLE (the Center for the Advanced Study of Tech­nology Leadership in Education), the nation’s only university center dedicated to the technology needs of school leaders, I have had the good fortune to work with administrators all over the world on digital leadership issues.