Place Based Education
Professional Learning
Leadership
Reaching for Better with Teacher Evaluation and Support
By: Jim Furman. If we take the opportunity to make this a transformative year for our teachers and the profession by focusing on support rather than evaluation, we can create a system of teacher evaluation and support that is better than our old normal.
Future of Learning
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
In this final piece of the series, we summarize how Harmony Public Schools reinvented professional learning for their staff by putting the educator at the center and building a career pathways program awarding relevant and realistic microcredentials to in-service teachers and administrators.
Getting Through
Focusing on Feedback: A Conversation with Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn About Supporting Educators During Distanced Teaching
By: Adam Geller. Educational coaches and co-authors Amy Tepper and Patrick Flynn share their expertise on organizational change and the feedback process.
Competency-Based Education
Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo
By: Burak Yilmaz. Through the development of a competency-based microcredential system, Harmony Public Schools has become a place where all educators with a growth mindset can thrive.
Leadership
The Art Of Teaching Has Been Overcompensating For The Science
With the rise of learning science, the art of teaching could evolve into a system, and learners would be truly at the center.
Leadership
Harmony’s Commitment to Microcredentials: A Close Look at their Professional Learning Experience
Part three of the five-part blog series produced in partnership with Harmony Public Schools shares a few stories of evolving professional learning experiences from the district’s journey thus far.
Leadership
Redefining Pre-Service Learning In The Virtual Age
Whether it’s modeling better virtual instruction, as well as increased emphasis on social-emotional learning, school leaders and professional learning facilitators are having to rethink how to prepare teachers for the school year.
EdTech
Lifelong Learning is the Antidote to the Shifting Workforce
By: The Skillrise Editorial Team. Along with the EdTech Center @ World Education, the Skillrise team is working to close digital divides and ensure that all learner-workers in the United States have opportunities to develop essential technology skills and digital resilience.
Leadership
Scaling Active Learning: Professional Development Was Key to the El Paso Transformation
By: Shannon Buerk. In the fourth blog in a series on El Paso Independent School District, Shannon describes the important role that professional learning played in the district's transformation.
Leadership
Summer Learning: 10 Professional Learning Experiences for Educators
Rachelle Dene Poth shares seven summer professional learning opportunities for educators.