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How Adaptive Schools Can Improve Your Professional Learning Community
Creating effective teams is critical for any organization, especially in the education sector. Professional learning communities (PLCs) are an essential part of this process. Through PLCs, educational leaders can foster collaboration among their staff and develop group members’ skills and abilities. PLCs provide a platform for educators to share their experiences, knowledge, and best practices.…
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Why It’s Important For School Employees To Be Trained in Human Trafficking
Every year since 2010, the President has dedicated the month of January to raising awareness about human trafficking and educating the public on how to identify and prevent this crime. Human Trafficking is when someone exploits another person through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of forced labor, commercial sex, or…
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Educators (Like You) Find Benefits in Practicing Social Emotional Learning
We often talk about social-emotional learning for students, but what about us? What about our social and emotional wellness? According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), social and emotional learning are integral parts of human development. Through this process, we develop healthy identities, learn to manage our emotions, achieve both personal…
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5 Tips for Educators to Plan Professional Learning
Now is the perfect time to prepare for professional learning for the 2022-2023 school year! Why Does Professional Learning Matter? According to neaToday, professional learning is an investment that helps educators ensure career growth and academic growth for students. Here are a few more reasons according to their article: It sets you up for success.…
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Math Educators Unite to Create Conceptual Change
In a world that is full of instantaneous responses via “commenting” on Facebook, “retweeting” on Twitter and “liking on Instagram, how might we as educators take time to slow down and measure the impact we are having on students? How might we cross over district lines to collaborate and innovate? In what ways might we…
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How New Teachers Are Fitting In Required PD
Did you know that new teachers in Michigan are required to have 15 days of professional development in their first three years of teaching? It’s true. And, this 15 days of professional development is in addition to their district provided professional development (DPPD). Many districts do not have the funding to provide a program that…
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A Student’s Perspective on NovaNow
There is still time to register for NovaNOW! This unique conference will be held on Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6. Check out this this student’s perspective on NovaNow…
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Unlock Your Full Teaching Potential
Building Foundations of Teaching for Learning Is it time to go Back to School already? Yikes! Where did the summer go? Whether you’re a veteran or a rookie, we all have mixed feelings of excitement and fear about the first days of school. To prepare for that first day, I know many districts in…
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Take Advantage of Summer Learning Opportunities
School is out and summer is finally here! We hope you have a wonderful summer. Before we sign off for the 2014-15 school year, we wanted to highlight some popular blog posts that might be beneficial to your continual learning over the summer. 1. How to Avoid the Summer Slide Research completed over hundreds of years has…
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Make a Difference in Your PLC
Most of us started Professional Learning Communities (PLC), because PLCs promised to help us make our department/school/district the best it could be to accomplish huge gains in student achievement. Did it live up to the hype? Most of us have to say “No,” but the potential is there. So how do we energize our PLCs…