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.

All Professional Learning toolkit files

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What is a Professional Learning Community?

Teachers working collaboratively and holding themselves accountable for the results

	The 3 L's of Educational Technology What are the 3 most important factors in educational technology? You can find out by reading these impactful insights from Craig Williams.	Blog
	Rethinking Professional Learning Gone are the days of extensively long, sit-and-get, after-school faculty meetings. Nicole Fiorito of Baltimore County's Halstead Academy describes the collaborative professional learning alternatives that have taken their place.	Blog
	Ten Reasons Why Teachers Must Be Magic. A Special Letter From Santa! A reflection on belief, hard work and the great deal of magic in the education profession by Mike Gorman.	Blog
	To Evaluate or Not to Evaluate: That Is NOT the Question This article from The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future takes a clear-eyed look at teacher evaluation: bringing together policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to discuss a vision for cohesive systems that assess and support teachers based on where they are in their career and their development.	News
	From Quicksand to Solid Ground: Building a Foundation to Support Quality Teaching Across the United States The Transforming Teaching Project at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education has released a white paper describing a policy vision for teaching: From Quicksand to Solid Ground: Building a Foundation to Support Quality Teaching Across the United States.	Publication
	Building Literacy Capacity: The Conditions for Effective Standards Implementation In the just-released report Building Literacy Capacity: The Conditions for Effective Standards Implementation, new research from the National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE) presents a profile of what it takes to get standards implementation right.	Publication
	Driving Dynamic School Transformation Transforming schools today requires a coordinated approach involving tech tools, professional development and learning systems. Read as Leslie Wilson looks at a critical challenge highlighted in the K12 Edition of the Horizon Report and discusses ways to address it.	Blog
	Don't Forget to Stop and Celebrate Successes How often do you take the time to celebrate successes at your school? Read about how one district has designed a win-win for all!	Blog
	Edtech on the Horizon Proves Both Promising and Challenging The Horizon Report for K-12 reveals some wicked challenges. Read as Leslie Wilson explores school approaches to meeting these challenges.	Blog
	Reminder for Leaders - Recognition Matters Education technology and those of us who work in it have kind of taken it on the chin over the years. We’re told that it technology too expensive and that we can’t prove the value. Teachers and students complain that they don’t have sufficient support or get enough PD, but those are the first budgets cut. We’re put on the hot seat for getting ready for online assessment without sufficient resources or guidance. Then we get blamed for not protecting student privacy and data security. And why can’t we make up our minds when it comes to devices and BYOD?	Blog

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Professional Learning

All Professional Learning toolkit files

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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