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Efficacy in Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Speaking from experience, I have significantly benefited from not only engaging in digital spaces but taking what I have learned and applying it to my practice, which I can readily show when asked or communicate through my blog. Efficacy is about showing the impact of investments made in professional learning.

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Designing Powerful Professional Learning Experiences for Making

Digital Promise

The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning. This blog is the second in a series sharing our Maker Learning team’s experience designing and facilitating this professional learning experience.

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Strengthen Professional Learning with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Micro-credentials present a unique opportunity to link professional learning to practice. Through each competency-based credential, educators demonstrate application of their learning. For districts to formally integrate micro-credentials into professional learning, they must: Build awareness and encourage educator buy-in.

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Professional Learning Communities: Using the 5Es to Give Teachers Agency and Maximize Productivity

Catlin Tucker

This will be easier to do if school leaders harness the talent on their campuses and create systems that encourage teachers to learn with and from each other. Professional learning should not be relegated to a handful of all-staff training days. The members of the PLC determine the focus of their inquiry and learning.

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Professional Learning School Leaders Need and Deserve

A Principal's Reflections

To begin the process of correcting this pervasive issue lets agree to move the focus from professional development to professional learning. The next step is to identify the most pressing needs for our schools and districts that align to potential improvements in professional practice.

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25 professional learning conversation stations

Dangerously Irrelevant

This past Thursday I created 25 professional learning ‘conversation stations’ for my principal licensure students. How are you introducing school leaders and teachers to alternative (better) forms of professional learning? Countdown to ISTE 03: English / language arts blogs (aka THE PUSH 2014).

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Professional Learning in a Pandemic

Digital Promise

With schools closed and social distancing orders in place due to COVID-19, micro-credentials —which are online and on-demand—allow educators to continue their professional learning without leaving their homes. Micro-credentials support timely topics like distance learning.