Educators discuss professional development at the start of a new semester.

  • Educators respond to the prompt, “If you could craft one PD session for your fellow teachers, what would it focus on?” (Education Organization)
    • “How to advocate for ourselves and the profession.” —English Language Learner (ESOL) Educator
    • “How to teach literacy across all subjects, especially at the junior high level.” —Counselor and Educator
    • “How to share your teaching practice to build capacity among a group of peers!” —Secondary History Teacher in Illinois
    • “Drama games to build classroom community.” —Middle School Teacher in Oregon
  • Educators respond to the prompt, “Teachers… what’s the best professional development you’ve had and what made it so good?” (Principal and past Math Educator in Ohio)
    • “Actually being able to ‘do’ the desired plan of development. Showing up to a PD on ‘unpacking TEKs’ and it’s just a PowerPoint of examples is such a wasted effort and time spot.” —Math Educator
    • “Years ago, admin had teachers sign up to co-present topics they were strong in. It was voluntary. Hands down the BEST PD I’ve ever experienced. … Years later,  we still talk about how much we learned together.” —Literary Strategist in Nevada
    • “During my teacher-formative years, [a group of] consultants came through, gathered all the math teachers, taught me how to do project based learning authentically, and pointed to some teacher moves that felt better than what I was taught prior.” —Math Educator in New York
    • “Each learning session was structured so we were engaged and had rich conversations. We left with a ‘Bridge to Practice’, implementing the learning with our students and shared this work at our next session.” —Educator
    • “One on having difficult conversations as a school leader. I’m moving into administration and I don’t ever say anything because I don’t have anything nice to say.” —Leader and Educator