It was during the Clinton-Gore administration that education technology began to play an important role in improving student achievement and influencing school improvement. In 1995, the Congressional ...

We’ve been telling you that the demand for professional development aligned to the common standards has been soaring. One publishing executive told us not long ago that PD was “driving” the common ...

There's universal agreement among HR leaders that, to increase employee performance, we must support their continual growth and development. A staggering 90% of HR managers agree that training ...

This article is part of the collection: From Pre-Fab to Personalized: How Districts Are Retooling Professional Development. When we first issued laptops to each of our high school students in 2011, we ...

Discipline-based Education Research (DBER) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) improve teaching and learning through empirical research and inquiry. To cultivate the growth and development ...

There are clearly many benefits to online professional development. Yet, with a wide variety of options available, it can be a real challenge to cut through the clutter to find the most effective and ...

We welcome Mark Secaur, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools in New York as our guest blogger. In my role as a district leader, much of my ...

Say professional development to any educator and it conjures up an image of half-day, instructor-led workshops, but some school districts are experimenting with using technology to deliver faster and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this formative experiment, the authors focused on developing professional development for upper elementary school teachers and ...

It’s no secret that a lot of professional development given to teachers is worthless. Teachers themselves have complained about it for years. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has repeatedly ...

A total of 200 teachers and head teachers in 10 districts in the Northern, North East and Savannah regions have undergone a three-day training on the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Model to he ...