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How Are Educators Continuing Powerful Professional Learning Online?

Digital Promise

The Edcamp Community supports educators to organize and participate in participant-driven professional learning designed by and for educators. However, with educators pivoting to distance learning, organizers have developed virtual Edcamps to continue creating opportunities for voice and choice in their professional learning.

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Model What You Preach: Pedagogy at the Heart of Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

If the expectation is for teachers and administrators to leave a learning experience with practical, ready to use strategies, then anyone who is leading the professional learning should incorporate a mix of modeling, hands-on activities, and performance tasks (i.e., in settings that emulate a classroom or school.

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Using the Learner Variability Navigator for Professional Learning

Digital Promise

Why is it so important to have a strong research base to our web app, the Learner Variability Navigator (LVN), and its factors of learning? All of these factors interact to impact a child’s readiness to learn when they come into the classroom. Bringing that research together can raise awareness of how to teach the whole child.

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Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Offer All Educators New, No-Cost Professional Learning Resources

eSchool News

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, December 16, 2021) — As school systems nationwide begin to look towards Winter Break, Discovery Education and select social impact partners present curated professional learning resources at no cost to support educators’ continued professional learning.

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All-in-One Virtual Professional Learning: Support Your Whole Staff

edWeb.net

The purpose of the presentation was to share with educators how to create a robust system of support for their entire staff through virtual professional learning. The purpose of the presentation was to share with educators how to create a robust system of support for their entire staff through virtual professional learning.

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Innovating Professional Learning with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

With this in mind, I began my work in this role to catalyze, sponsor, and facilitate our district’s efforts to develop innovative (“new/different/better”) approaches to learning. SVCF was keenly interested in exploring compelling approaches to professional learning for teachers and education leaders to effect changes in practice.

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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

Edsurge

We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team.