Sentences with phrase «use professional development days»

• Considering site - based (in - district) support instead of offsite training that would require you to hire classroom substitutes or use professional development days

How about this: school districts use professional development days to allow educators to come together and share their best practices.

We used a professional development day to allow teachers to observe a colleague at another school to see what engagement looked like elsewhere.

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Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina said, «We are not losing one instructional day... will be used for teacher training and professional development.»

A number of the professional - development videos posted to the site encourage educators to embrace the technology their students use every day, including the use of blogs, wikis, and online video.

This is a day previously used for a staff in - service or professional development after the students had finished the school year.

This training can be used in a focused faculty meeting, an all - day professional development session, and / or a small group professional learning community.

Edutopia.org's Project - Based Learning professional development guide can be used for a two - to three - hour session, or expanded for a one - to two - day workshop, and is divided into two parts.

IES to Seed New Methods for Studying Schools Education Week, October 16, 2012 «For example, NBES member Hirokazu Yoshikawa, the academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said he used rapid prototyping, which includes 90 - day, intervention - testing cycles, to adapt a teacher professional - development program in Chile.»

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.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

This two - year program consists of professional development days, intersession activities, coaching, and mentors using Visible Learning and leadership techniques.

All three studies described school reform efforts that utilized teacher leaders in addition to other strategies, such as the use of a new curriculum (Balfanz et al., 2006), professional development workshops for teachers and changes in the structure of the school day (Ruby, 2006), or a training program for school administrators (Weaver & Dick, 2009).

Mark your calendars for Day of Action on June 14, and join educators from across the country to email your lawmakers, engage in social media using the hashtag #PD2Learn, and help spread the word about the value of professional development.

This summer, Visalia plans to use its usual two - day professional development session before school starts to go over test results, Bartsch said.

Four workshops are offered as one - day professional development programs, each teaching specific skills and strategies related to an aspect of effective data use.

This is a 2 - day intensive professional development to prepare your leaders to initiate, support, and sustain the continuous use of data embedded into day - to - day practice.

Use the DCPS Events Calendar to search and plan for school closures, spring and winter break dates, teacher professional development days and other special events.

«Early dismissal days were often used for teacher professional development, so we will need to see whether teachers have the same access to training as they have in the past.»

After multiple professional development days spent working with the data, Iredell - Statesville eventually used the data to help convince county commissioners to invest additional money in enhancing facilities and resources across the district.

• Aspire Public Schools, which will use a $ 153,000 grant to offer teachers up to 15 sabbatical days to work on an education - related «passion project,» more professional development, and stipends for completing training.

Just instituting extended hours in and of itself will not lead to the benefits full - day kindergarten offers — teachers must be trained in and be able to use methods that evoke the most developmental benefits and «school district administrators can play important leadership roles in building comprehensive professional development systems that support PreK - 3rd teachers and their efforts to create effective learning environments.»

This two - day professional development workshop will help all teachers — general education and ELL specialists — apply effective research - based instructional strategies to the five stages of language acquisition and develop students» academic language during subject - matter instruction, using McREL's Academic Language Framework.

OGAP Additive Reasoning professional development consists of 3 full day and 4 half day sessions organized around mathematics content, mathematics education research, and evidence in student work and instructional decision - making using formative assessment and learning progressions.

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A one - day workshop to train program staff to use the TPITOS to carry out observations, interpret and summarize data and use TPITOS data to guide professional development and carry out program - wide evaluations.

During the 12 month placement, interns are eligible to use RAV's library facilities, as well as participate in clinically focused Staff Professional Development days.

Accessible from MyTeachingStrategies ™, which also offers the opportunity for accessing additional resources and support for assessment, for professional development, and for connecting with families, the digital curriculum resources help ensure that teachers can save time while planning and implement meaningful, intentional instruction throughout the day using The Creative Curriculum ®.