We’ve been telling you that the demand for professional development aligned to the common standards has been soaring. One publishing executive told us not long ago that PD was “driving” the common ...

It was during the Clinton-Gore administration that education technology began to play an important role in improving student achievement and influencing school improvement. In 1995, the Congressional ...

This article is part of the collection: From Pre-Fab to Personalized: How Districts Are Retooling Professional Development. When we first issued laptops to each of our high school students in 2011, we ...

There's universal agreement among HR leaders that, to increase employee performance, we must support their continual growth and development. A staggering 90% of HR managers agree that training ...

The percentage of international students at The New School is one of the highest among U.S. universities. The Center for English Language Studies launched the Language Support Initiative, a university ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this formative experiment, the authors focused on developing professional development for upper elementary school teachers and ...

The nation’s leading group for accreditation of teacher education has an idea for urban superintendents looking for ways to get and keep the best teachers and perhaps help the ones they already have: ...

It’s no secret that a lot of professional development given to teachers is worthless. Teachers themselves have complained about it for years. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has repeatedly ...

Say professional development to any educator and it conjures up an image of half-day, instructor-led workshops, but some school districts are experimenting with using technology to deliver faster and ...

Discipline-based Education Research (DBER) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) improve teaching and learning through empirical research and inquiry. To cultivate the growth and development ...

NYSCATE (the New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education, an ISTE afflliate) offers professional development workshops for teachers and educational leaders throughout New York ...