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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are clearly many benefits to online professional development. Yet, with a wide variety of options available, it can be a real challenge to cut through the clutter to find the most effective and ...

Glen Granberry is the immediate past president of Alabama Leaders in Educational Technology and the technology director of Lee County Schools in Alabama. Education is moving toward a student-centered, ...

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 ...

A total of 200 teachers and head teachers in 10 districts in the Northern, North East and Savannah regions have undergone a three-day training on the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Model to he ...