Professional Development
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to provide continuing education for school staff.
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Smart Strategies for Teacher Professional Development
How are school districts making professional development more relevant and meaningful for teachers? This special report takes an in-depth look at a few of those efforts.
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Teacher PD in the Common-Core Era
This special report on professional development explores the juncture between the common core and growing efforts to reconfigure learning opportunities for teachers.
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Virtual PD Creates Connections
This special report, another installment in Education Week's series on virtual education, examines how K-12 professional development is taking a more digital and freewheeling approach to educator training.
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.
Professional Development 'It's Not Just Yoga and Nail Paint': Inside the Teacher Self-Care ConferenceThe two-day event, now in its third year, offers workshops on mental health and burnout, time-management and goal-setting, and strategies for navigating toxic workplace environments.
Professional Development Artificial Intelligence, Spotting 'Fake News,' and Digital Equity: What to See at ISTE 2019The International Society for Technology in Education will draw thousands of teachers, school administrators, and researchers from across the world to its annual conference in Philadelphia.
Professional Development Opinion Response: Administrators Shouldn't Try 'Too Many Initiatives'A five-part series on mistakes made by school administrators is wrapped-up today with commentaries from Dr. Lynell Powell, Stuart Ablon, Alisha Pollastri, Diane Mora and many comments from readersProfessional Development News in Brief Unable to Pass Math Test, N.C. Teachers Running Out of Time to Keep JobsHundreds of North Carolina teachers are in danger of losing their jobs at the end of this month unless they can pass a licensure exam or state lawmakers take action to let them stay in the classroom.Professional Development News in Brief Indiana Educators Race to Renew Teaching Licenses Before DeadlineThousands of Indiana teachers are scrambling to begin renewing their professional teaching licenses before new rules that state lawmakers approved this spring take effect July 1.
Professional Development Opinion Response: Administrators Can't Lead From 'the Confines of Their Office'Julie Hasson, Ryan Huels, David Bosso, Cindy Terebush and Kelly Wickham Hurst contribute their thoughts on administrators and the mistakes they make.
Professional Development A Gap in Teacher Training: Working With Students Who Have ConcussionsA growing number of students have experienced a brain injury that could affect their ability to learn in school. Yet most teachers aren't prepared to work with these students.
Professional Development Opinion Making for Social Justice at Brighton High SchoolA Boston turnaround school wins the Autodesk-sponsored "Make It Real" competition, bringing a social-justice-oriented maker education to the students at Brighton High.Professional Development Opinion Coaching From Within: A Hybrid Model of Teachers Coaching TeachersTeachers who take on instructional-coaching responsibilities at Distinctive Schools deeply understand the next generation learning model and can better support other teachers in strengthening their craft.
Professional Development Opinion Common Planning for Teachers: An Interview With Math Director Don MundtMath teachers at Nathan Hale Middle School in Norwalk, Conn., created space for common planning time to share instructional strategies and ask for help.
