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 Quiz Quiz Yourself: How Much Do You Know About Funding Options for K-12 Professional Development?SponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.Answer 7 questions about improving professional development for educators.
Professional Development Is Bluesky the New Twitter for Teachers?Educators are trying out social media app Bluesky for building and maintaining their professional learning networks.
Professional Development Opinion Why Educators Are Abandoning X to Join BlueskyThe rapidly growing social media platform offers connectedness and learning opportunities, all of which can be helpful to educators.Professional Development Spotlight Spotlight on Professional DevelopmentThis Spotlight will help you explore innovative approaches to PD that prioritize teacher needs and foster meaningful learning experiences.
Professional Development Opinion Most Teachers Don’t Think PD Is Relevant. What Can Principals Do?Two educators offer a blueprint for structuring professional development around teacher learning.
Professional Development Opinion It Takes a Village to Design the Best Professional DevelopmentHow to bring a community-based leadership to your professional learning this year.
Professional Development Opinion I’m a Math Educator. Here’s How Teacher PD Falls ShortYes, professional development is valuable. But improvements must be made if teachers and students are to receive its full benefits.
Professional Development Teachers Need PD to Make Competency-Based Learning Work. What That Looks LikeCan teachers use microcredentials to become skilled at teaching in a way they probably never experienced as students?
Professional Development Video Teachers Go Underground to Enhance Their Science LessonsThis national parks program takes teachers deep underground.
Professional Development Video A Unique PD Experience to Deepen History TeachingA PD program helps educators tell a fuller story by tapping into the power of place.
Professional Development Why This Workshop Is Bringing Teachers to a Former Japanese Incarceration CampThe history PD program offers lessons for art, math, and literature teachers too by emphasizing the power of place.
Professional Development Video The PD Teachers Want: 'Why Can’t We Be Doing This All the Time?'This district leader is creating engaging professional development for teachers using escape rooms and other immersive adventures.Professional Development Sponsor PLC at Work® Events: A Worthy Investment for Sustained, Substantive School ImprovementSponsorThis content is provided by our sponsor. It is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of Education Week's editorial staff.With K–12 schools heading back into session for the fall, leaders face a difficult decision—planning for a post-stimulus environment and making the investments that have the biggest impact on student learning.
Professional Development Video 3 Things Principals Can Do to Make Teacher PD BetterSchool leaders need to include teacher voice to create the most engaging professional development.
Professional Development Opinion A Guide for Faculty Meetings That Couldn’t Have Been an EmailWhat educators recommend for turning staff meetings from time-wasters to truly meaningful.
