Tag: professional development

February 22, 2023

Survey after survey confirms teachers feel stressed and burned out. Nearly 75 percent of teachers experience frequent job-related stress, compared to just a third of working adults. More than half of teachers have considered leaving the profession earlier than originally […]

February 3, 2023

Technology has become increasingly important to every level of education, and its value to social-emotional learning, or SEL, is no exception. Just as digital tools provide educators with innovative and flexible ways to reinforce learning in core academic subjects, they […]

December 7, 2021

The pandemic has taken its toll on the mental and emotional health of students and educators alike since disrupting school schedules and learning models in March 2020. Administrators found themselves in a position of having to reimagine how learning would […]

September 8, 2021

The start of every new school year is a critical time to welcome students, build strong relationships, and create a culture of learning, especially as we begin the 2021-22 school year with continued uncertainty and heightened emotions. Schools across the […]

February 24, 2021

PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for Project Based Learning (PBL), has partnered with the College Board to offer a new PBL-based professional development program for Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Environmental Science and U.S Government and Politics. The […]

August 17, 2020

The need for professional development grew quickly this spring when teachers and students were forced by coronavirus school closures to embrace distance learning. Now, a majority of teachers and administrators believe the need for technology will increase over the next […]

April 21, 2020

The need for professional development on online learning has soared with so many educators suddenly needing to adapt to remote learning models and the related technology amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. On April 6, the U.S. Department of Education announced […]

March 9, 2020

The U.S. Department of Education is moving forward with its proposal from a year ago to create vouchers for teachers to use for professional development—despite a previous congressional rebuke to the idea. In its fiscal 2020 budget request early last […]

January 27, 2020

Instructional coaches can provide the support teachers need for ed tech implementation, but they must develop strong connections with those educators, have planning meetings to discuss ed tech integration, work with teachers during implementation, and continue to check in with […]

November 4, 2019

In recent years, researchers and policymakers have emphasized the role of principals as instructional leaders as a key to improving student outcomes. Some districts have even created new administrative roles in schools to take some of the responsibility for operational […]

September 10, 2019

Ongoing professional development not only supports educators and their leaders; the exposure to best practices also benefits the students. Professional learning communities (PLCs) are one way to achieve this, but it means giving teachers time to work together as a […]

July 24, 2019

Historically, professional learning has been a linear process. Educators attend a professional development (PD) session then attempt to implement what they’ve just learned into the classroom. While some may have success, an integral part of the professional learning process is […]

July 19, 2019

Offering a whole child education is presented as an academic approach in some definitions and as an integration of health and well-being in a student’s life in others. Because educators tend to use jargon, it’s important for school leaders to […]

April 11, 2019

The participant-driven conference model, referred to as “edcamps,” features a “news you can use” type of training and professional development for teachers. Instead of relying on administrators to set agendas and announce new policy, this method encourages those with first-hand […]

December 7, 2018

​​​While studies indicate that strong school leadership can have a positive impact on student learning for the better, retaining and attracting these leaders is necessary to reap those benefits. The article features Matthew Snyder, a school leader in a small […]

November 8, 2018

With thousands of education apps available today, it can seem like students’ success is in the palm of their hands. But easy to forget is that technology is not in itself a solution. For it to work as intended, it […]

October 1, 2018

The report comes as research at the classroom level is showing students don’t have equitable access to grade-level and standards-aligned assignments. In addition, professional development experts stress that teachers need more time to “unpack” and work with curriculum materials, especially […]

June 2, 2016

Many people think they know exactly what “professional development” is. But do they, really? Let’s start by giving “professional development” a definition. PD is a process that responds to a phase of personal growth and self-realization experienced by each individual. […]

January 21, 2016

Every so often, someone would tell me that I should get another degree. The reason was always the same – I would move up the salary guide. I wanted to move up the salary guide, yet at the same time, […]

January 18, 2016

Two new reports reveal that in many top education systems, teacher professional development is built into their daily work as a means for school improvement and teacher quality. The reports from the National Center on Education and the Economy’s (NCEE) […]