One of the biggest challenges schools face is not just finding time
for professional development days, but also finding common ground for making effective use of them.
For example, schools may
host professional development days for teachers five or six times per year, but those opportunities will not be enough to build new instructional practices.
Professional development days held throughout the year offered a chance to discuss ideas, explore research perspectives and share project progress, including the challenges.
Understanding that there are limited professional development opportunities, our trainings can be implemented
on professional development days, before or after school, luncheons, during grade - level planning, etc..
This requires
more professional development days — at Envision, teachers come back to school one week early (two for new teachers) and have seven student free days throughout the school year.
Assist in the planning and delivery of professional learning opportunities to campus teachers and staff during beginning of year, as well as select
professional development days throughout the school year;
For example, during a recent
district professional development day, the middle school cohort members implemented a version of the first PBL session with other educators from their school.
For the past few years, Czarny along with BOCES has been encouraging schools in Onondaga County to
schedule professional development days, or parent teacher conference days on Election Day, thus keeping kids home.
5)(Optional) Teachers will be granted one
professional development day after the teacher's principal or supervisor certifies that lessons equal to approximately the number of hours that are the equivalent of three school days have been posted.
This fall,
professional development days focussed on digital literacy; a number of teachers throughout the district have become comfortable with creating similar class spaces for their home reading programs.
On a city - wide
professional development day in June, teachers on the SEL Planning Team facilitated three SEL workshops for their colleagues at the school.
At 9:30 a.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will deliver remarks at the United Federation of Teachers and Department of Education School Social
Workers Professional Development Day, UFT HQ, 52 Broadway, Manhattan.
------------------------ Due to the high number of delays and cancellations this winter, The Bainbridge - Guilford Central School District is canceling the staff
professional development day originally scheduled for today.
In Cohort 1, the district contracted with an outside vendor to provide eight full
professional development days related to software applications, the SAMR framework and challenge - based learning.
Sometimes conferences / edcamps /
professional development days feel like learning through a fire hose, but the value is that within the overwhelming amount of intake, usable information comes forth for future greatness.
We are just starting our journey on this new path and during our
initial professional development days we decided to put instructional strategies, coaching and test scores aside, and started working on beliefs, bias and culture.
The first time the author was responsible for planning a
districtwide professional development day, he secured a funny speaker, provided plenty of doughnuts, and made sure everyone could return to their classrooms in the afternoon.