Professional Development

Educators must always hone their craft. Discover the many formal, informal, ongoing, and job-embedded professional-development programs keeping teachers at the top of their game.

PD That Helps Teachers Improve the Quality of Their Video Instruction
Tips for planning professional development that supports teachers’ growing skills in using video to enhance students’ learning.
Matthew X. Joseph
Staff Meetings Get a Needed Makeover During the Pandemic
Educators across the country share their insights on how the pandemic has forced them to change staff meetings—for the better.
Emelina Minero
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Building Adult Capacity for Social and Emotional Learning
By taking one day a month to provide staff with training and support, this organization equips adults to better care for the young people they serve.
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Learning Walks: Structured Observation for Teachers
Brief visits to several classrooms give teachers a chance to reflect on a variety of practices.
11 Habits of an Effective Teacher
Carrie Lam
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Using Video for Professional Development
When teachers film themselves in the classroom, it helps them reflect on and improve their teaching practice.
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A Mentoring Strategy for Preservice Teachers
Teacher candidates at the University of Wyoming Lab School co-teach with veterans to learn about planning, instruction, and assessment.
15 Characteristics of a 21st-Century Teacher
A teacher reflects on our changing society and how change informs what teaching is like today.
Tsisana Palmer
Planning for Better Professional Development in an Uncertain Future
Teachers will be operating in a different world next year, and administrators are thinking now about how best to support them.
Megan Allen
Travel Grants and Fellowships for Educators
Money is available to help fund teachers’ professional trips. Here are some resources to help you find and apply for grants and fellowships.
Matt Davis
Why Don’t We Differentiate Professional Development?
PD could be more effective if we differentiated it by gauging teachers' readiness, utilizing their interests, involving them in the process, and providing continual assessment opportunities.
Pauline Zdonek
Student-Centered Learning: It Starts With the Teacher
Teachers encourage student-centered learning by allowing students to share in decisions, believing in their capacity to lead, and remembering how it feels to learn.
John McCarthy
Increasing Teachers’ Effectiveness—Without Causing Burnout
An elementary school principal explains how he prioritized professional development for teachers by embedding it in the master schedule.
Justin Uppinghouse
A Strategy Teachers Can Use to Learn Together
With a practice called public learning, teachers can share instructional dilemmas, reflect on solutions, and build morale.
Nina Portugal
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The Big Picture: Integrating SEL Across a District
The 168 schools in the Nashville district collaborate to bolster school culture and instruction with social and emotional learning.

Professional Development

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PD That Helps Teachers Improve the Quality of Their Video Instruction

Building Adult Capacity for Social and Emotional Learning