Professional Learning in Online Environments
EDC is making the best use of Web-based professional development to improve content knowledge and pedagogy, addressing individual and group learning needs. We’re leveraging online platforms to provide low-cost, widely accessible opportunities that enable more teachers and school leaders to share knowledge and resources, participate in interactive learning activities, and join online discussions. Interested? Contact Barbara Treacy or Barbara Miller.
Selected Projects:
Advancing Biology Education for Online Professional Development, a partnership with PBS TeacherLine and New York schools, investigates an online PD course’s impact on teachers’ content and pedagogical knowledge, as well as students’ knowledge. Contact Shelley Pasnik.
Coaching Cycle is an online course for K–8 mathematics instructional coaches in rural areas and small schools who do not have access to regular district-wide professional development. Contact Loretta Heuer.
Ed Tech Leaders Online helps districts, states, regional service centers, and teacher training institutions provide effective online learning programs for teachers, administrators, and students. Contact Barbara Treacy.
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is helping teachers build skills as historians, using primary source documents in the classroom as well as local historical sites and museums. Contact Liz Farmer.
PowerUp What Works, a comprehensive website, guides leadership teams to support teachers’ efforts to integrate technology into evidence-based reading, writing, and math practices to improve outcomes for students with disabilities and their classmates. Contact Judith Zorfass.
Success at the Core, a free online professional development toolkit developed by EDC and Vulcan Productions, helps leadership teams and teachers elevate classroom instruction and improve student outcomes. Contact Barbara Miller.