Top State-by-State Twitter Chats
This article provides an overview of statewide Twitter chats related to education technology.
Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A status report on teacher development in the United States and abroad
This report provides an overview of professional learning and includes examples of formal and informal professional learning opportunities with some research regarding the effectiveness of self-directed learning opportunities.
Lesson-Sharing Sites Raise Issues of Ownership, Use
This article discusses lesson-sharing sites, key sources for common-core related PD, and the issues with ownership. “Say you’re a teacher and you’ve created a bang-up lesson on how to teach fractions on the number line. Everyone in the faculty room loves it. Fellow teachers are begging for copies. Your principal suggests you post it online for others to use…”
Statewide Use of Professional Learning Communities
This report examines how states are using school-wide, large-scale professional learning communities in their school improvement work.
EdTech Leaders Online: A case study of scalable online professional development programs
Clayton Christensen Institute. This case study looks at the impact of West Virginia’s e-Learning for Educators program implementation and sustainability model.
Online Communities of Practice: What Works
Four leaders of successful community of practice (COP) education initiatives participated in a panel at FETC and shared their knowledge about and experience with best practices for online communities of education practitioners. This article is an excerpt of the discussion.
Differentiated Literacy Coaching
Chapter 1 provides an overview of the rationale for technology coaching, principles for coaching and ideas for planning and evaluating a coaching model.
Effective Coaching by Design
This article provides an overview of the value of coaching and the essential steps for successful coaching.
Texas Teacher School Technology and Readiness “STaR” Chart
This is a tool that aligns the progress that individuals (e.g. teacher, campus) make toward meeting state and district technology goals with the four key areas of the state’s Long-Range Plan for Technology, 2006 – 2020.
ASCD’s Five Levels of Professional Development Evaluation
This resource frames five outcomes of professional development that are typically of interest: participants’ (i.e. teachers’) reactions, participants’ learning, organization support and change, participants’ use of new knowledge and skills, and student learning outcomes.