In a school year like this, professional development needs to strike a balance between encouraging and equipping. Content coaches need tools, yes — but they also need a regular boost. I specialize in supporting PD like this, particularly in the area of graduate candidate motivation. Understanding graduate candidate motivation: the five key beliefs framework Video: […]
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Online Professional Development Courses by Dave Stuart Jr.
(Looking for a log-in page to a course you’ve already registered for? Here you go.) For the sake of equipping and encouraging as many educators as possible on their paths to long-term flourishing and professional excellence, I began creating online professional development courses for teachers in 2016. Outside of the normal load of research and […]
What is Good Professional Development?
One reason teachers leave the profession is surely that the profession doesn’t feel all that professional sometimes. This is caused, in part, by poor professional development. (It is also caused, in part, by poor teacher attitudes around professional development… but that’s a topic for another post.) In designing professional development that’s good, I find the […]
24 Tips for Leading Better Professional Development
At this point in my career, I’ve led over 100 different professional development experiences, ranging from keynotes to conference sessions to whole-day breakouts. The work has been with a broad spectrum of audiences: whole district staffs ranging from 6 people (total staff, whole district) to 1,500; elementary teachers exclusively; secondary teachers exclusively; ELA-only groups; only […]
What Makes Great Professional Development?
Good professional development doesn’t come in a single kind of package. It kills me when I hear people say things like, “Everyone knows that one-and-done PD doesn’t work.” Find a dozen master teachers and ask them to list the five best professional development experiences they’ve ever had, and you’ll find that they’s list every kind of […]