Professional Learning

Professional Learning Communities, or PLCs, have become crucial in designing school-wide strategies dedicated to helping students achieve their potential. The resources included in this toolkit are intended to help you meet the challenges presented by today’s educational landscape through effective professional learning and development opportunities.

What is a Professional Learning Community?

Teachers working collaboratively and holding themselves accountable for the results

	New Professional Learning Case Studies from ERS ERS studied school systems with improving student outcomes to learn these best practices for teacher professional learning.	Publication
	3 Tips to Create More Exciting Professional Development At the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Convention and Exposition, Steve Dembo demonstrated how to “de-zombify” professional development.	News
	Role-Playing Game Helps Teachers Solve Complex Challenges By working together through a process known as foresight gaming, or 21st century strategy simulation, educators can find creative answers to complex problems.	News
	Pushing Beyond Future-Ready: Creating a Bold Context for K-12 Libraries Rethinking the school library means being bold and thinking in disruptive directions. The question is: in what direction? David Jakes gives you four ways to jumpstart your thinking.	Blog
	Transform Teaching with the New SHI Digital Transformation Toolkit The new Digital Transformation Toolkit —sponsored by SHI—provides vital information on the essential components of digital transformation in today’s schools and districts.	News
	Not the Same Old Story: Tech and Text Work Better Together Just as deeper reading creates better writers, this skill helps students to break down narrative as media consumers so that they may become more skillful creators.	Blog
	YALSA's Teen Literacies Toolkit YALSA (the Young Adult Library Services Association) has just released its Teen Literacies Toolkit to help teens make sense of their digital world.	News
	Product vs. Process? A key element of school improvement is that learning should be more authentic. But is this a perspective that should be rethought?	Blog
	Standing in Line Being innovative means different things to different people. David Jakes explains why process without product isn't innovative.	Blog
	Systemic Maturity Required The "real work" when implementing technology is about engaging the entire system in creating new realities that best serve learners, communities and economies.	Blog

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Professional Learning

What is a Professional Learning Community?

The Changing Role of Teachers

Components of a Successful PLC

Developing a Professional Learning Community

Building Leadership

Implement Effective Professional Learning Communities

PLC Peer Observation

Mentoring and PLCs

PLC Teams

How PLCs Impact Student Success

The School District as a PLC

Developing a Learning Community

Learning Communities and Support

Building Leader Educator Capacity

Teacher and Leader Capacity

Seven Lessons Learned From Implementing Micro-credentials

Micro-Credentials and Professional Learning

State Digital Learning Exemplars

Social Network Formation and its Impact on Learning

Implementation Stories: Rhode Island

The Digital Learning Transition MOOC for Educators

Five Tips For First-rate PD

Rethinking Professional Learning and Assessment

Content-Focused, Expert-Led Collaboration at Achievement First

Drafting an Effective Professional Learning Plan

Finding Time for Collaborative Planning

Frequent, Growth-Oriented Feedback at DC Public Schools

Comprehensive Curricula and Assessments in Louisiana

Modeling Student-Centered Professional Learning

Supporting Teachers with Design Thinking

Google Classroom for Professional Learning

Get Cross-functional with Teacher Proficiency

Building the Next Generation of Teacher Training

Four Elements of Personalized Professional Learning

Building Teacher Autonomy

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