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.

Blended Learning
Professional Development Based on Reality TV
Four challenges inspired by popular shows guide teachers to consider how to make the most of blended learning.
School Leadership
Cultivating a Strong Staff Culture
School and district leaders can build strong relationships among educators by focusing on three factors.
Professional Development
The Importance of Choice in PD
Providing effective, impactful, differentiated professional development is vital to the well-being of the teaching profession.
Professional Development
Learning Walks: Structured Observation for Teachers
Brief visits to several classrooms give teachers a chance to reflect on a variety of practices.
Professional Development
Using Video for Professional Development
When teachers film themselves in the classroom, it helps them reflect on and improve their teaching practice.
Professional Development
11 Habits of an Effective Teacher
Professional Development
Teachers Learning From Each Other
Educators can provide valuable professional development by opening up their classrooms to their peers.
Teacher Collaboration
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.
Professional Development
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.
Learning Environments
A ‘University’ Model for High School
In small-town Wisconsin, four schools cluster on one campus, fostering a culture of experimentation and self-directed learning for both students and teachers.
Social and Emotional Learning
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.
Teacher Collaboration
No Teacher Is an Island
Working in small teams, high school teachers offer each other support and feedback for improving in their work.
Technology Integration
15 Characteristics of a 21st-Century Teacher
Professional Development
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.
Social and Emotional Learning
Can SEL Transform School Policing?
In Oakland, a district-wide focus on social and emotional learning has the school police looking at students in a whole new light.