Professional development

Using Student Artifacts to Facilitate Professional Learning for Math Instruction

Using Student Artifacts to Facilitate Professional Learning for Math Instruction

Presented by Sheela Sethuraman, Founder and CEO, CueThink; Allison DePiro, District Administrator, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VA), Lead Developer, Virginia Department of Education, and Senior Implementation Specialist, CueThink; and Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D., Director of Professional Learning, ORIGO Education

Conflict

Finding Your Way Through Conflict: Getting Started

Presented by Chris Amirault, Ph.D., School Director, Tulsa Educare, Inc.; and Christine M. Snyder, Director, University of Michigan Health System Children’s Center, and Assistant Professor

Binge Watch the Top 25 edWebinars of 2019!

Binge Watch the Top 25 edWebinars of 2019!

If you get some down time over the holidays, it’s a great time to catch up on some of the most popular edWebinars of 2019! This year we hosted 331 edWebinars, 46 more than in 2018. Our programs covered a wide range of timely topics for early childhood educators, librarians, teachers, and administrators. In 2019, our edWebinars had 475,000 views from educators all around the world, in 185 countries.

What Makes PD Actually Work?

What Makes Professional Development Work?

“Don’t call it professional development—call it professional learning.” Jill Abbott Sr. Vice President and Managing Director at SIIA, made this statement in a recent edWebinar, with Jeff Mao, CEO, Edmoxie LLC, Bruce Umpstead, Director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Ilya Zeldin, Founder and CEO of 2gnoMe. The panelists recommended that educational leaders take a deep breath and recognize that there is a crisis happening in our districts. There are a vast plethora of people who could be the best teachers ever, yet they don’t want to be in the profession. It is not easy for teachers to thrive and to grow when teacher professional development is irrelevant, generic, and unsustainable. A familiar comment by teachers regarding district or school-wide professional development is, “Well, we’re just going to ride this one out because it is going to change in two years or when we get a new administrator.” The panelists suggest that if “we can get the professional development piece done collaboratively with teachers, not at teachers, maybe we can retain and recruit highly qualified engaging and innovative educators.