Professional Development
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to provide continuing education for school staff.
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How Principal Professional Development Is Evolving
This special report looks at fresh ways to frame continued professional learning for school leaders.
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Blind Spots in Teacher Professional Development
For this special report, Education Week reporters looked at the many ways teachers are frustrated by professional learning experiences, and what districts are doing to make changes.
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Beyond Red Tape
This special report takes a hard look at recertification, posing questions about how it could be strengthened to support teachers better. The stories include an overview of the diverse provider landscape, perspective pieces by current and former teachers, and profiles of states thinking about how to innovate their license-renewal systems.
Professional Development 8 Ways to Make Teacher Evaluations Meaningful and Low-StressHere are eight concrete ideas from principals and other experts that school leaders can use to make their evaluations and observations of teachers meaningful, actionable, and low-stress.
Professional Development Opinion Students Can 'Sense' Teacher FrustrationDr. Victoria Lentfer, Heather Stinson, and Dr. Mara Lee Grayson share their thoughts on how teachers' can deal with feelings of frustration
Professional Development Opinion Ways Teachers Can Handle Feeling FrustratedValerie Ruckes, Christine Hertz, Kristine Mraz, Maria Walther, and Kevin Parr offer their suggestions on how teachers can handle feelings of frustration.
Professional Development Teachers Nationwide Now Have Access to Open-Source Science CurriculumFor years, educators have complained that they lacked materials aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. But a new effort called OpenSciEd is slowly releasing a free, open curriculum that many say is high-quality.
Professional Development Teachers Prepare for Tough Conversations About the Civil WarAbout two dozen teachers from across the country spent a week wrestling with questions about how to remember the Confederacy.Professional Development Opinion Two Teachers' Perspectives on Instructional CoachingHeather Harding chats with two charter school teachers about the highlights and lessons learned from a year of being instructional coaches.
Professional Development Teachers Prepare for Tough Classroom Conversations on the Civil WarAbout two dozen teachers from across the country spent a week wrestling with questions about how to remember the Confederacy.Professional Development Opinion There's Value in Infusing the Arts Into Personalized LearningArts educators and academic-content teachers assembled to authentically integrate the arts into a personalized learning academic program for a new school in Chicago.
Professional Development Opinion Teachers Should Design Student Assessments. But First They Need to Learn How"When the day came to administer the first test I had designed," writes Brandon Lewis, "my heart sank."
Professional Development Opinion What Happened When My School Started to Dismantle White Supremacy CultureExploring White Supremacy Culture gave the staff at a middle school a new framework to define its North Star: being an anti-racist school.
Professional Development From Our Research Center Teachers Support Social-Emotional Learning, But Students in Distress Strain Their SkillsTeachers say knowing how to help students who struggle outside of school is a challenge as they take on teaching social-emotional learning.
Professional Development Opinion For Teacher Professional Growth, Study the SoilAny offering of professional learning needs to meet teachers where they are. But to do that well, facilitators need to take the time to know the teachers and their context.Professional Development Opinion How Language Can Supercharge the Instructional CoreVista Unified teachers and University of California researchers collaborated to study how to deepen learning by transforming classroom interactions through language, our guest bloggers say.Professional Development Opinion The Modern Classrooms Project: A Teacher-Driven PD Model That WorksWhen it comes to redesigning learning, what kind of professional development works best for teachers? Looking to teachers themselves is a good bet.
Professional Development Opinion How a Vacation Improves Your CoachingTurning away from your professional life allows you to become a more compassionate, curious person—and a more effective coach.
