Funding On-Site PD
Budgets are tight these days - we have severe shortages of cash and time. But, we have a plan for you! Our offer is not the "free professional development" offered by many service providers - which is essentially a one hour webinar, that is actually nothing more than a commercial designed to sell their services and products.
What we offer is a simple strategy which enables this on-site professional development - the real thing - actual, face-to-face, intensive full days of PD to take place.
Better still, you do not have to wait for one of those rare district-determined teacher inservice days - have this PD when you need it, and how you need it - without having to hire dozens of substitutes or canceling school for the day.
Let's face it, an hour or two before school or after school is not going to be sufficient for truly effective professional development. A day or two per year, especially when they are scheduled to take place immediately before the school year begins or immediately after the last day of school, is not effective, either. Teachers' brains and bodies need a rest after the hectic and harried last days of school. After all, they are humans, not machines.
And teachers have one thing on their minds right before school starts - the dozens of things they still have to do before the students arrive! Then, of course, there is the fact that there is literally no time for teachers to apply the learning from the PD by creating and/or modifying their curriculum. School starts tomorrow!
So what's the answer? As I've stated previously, "A little dab'll do ya!" might have been a great slogan for Brylcreem, but it won't work for professional staff development. If your goal is authentic learning and real change, then teachers must receive the support they need to succeed.
Read here about Effective Professional Development
Contact us to learn how we can provide free, on-site professional development for some or all of your staff!
Here is the 21st Century Schools Brochure which contains information about our services, including our workshops.
Other resources:
The West Virginia Department of Education has some excellent information on their web site regarding federal funding for professional development. They also have a report on the research on the impact of Academic Coaches as a powerful form of professional development. At 21st Century Schools we can help develop your team on in-house, on-site Academic Coaches.
What we offer is a simple strategy which enables this on-site professional development - the real thing - actual, face-to-face, intensive full days of PD to take place.
Better still, you do not have to wait for one of those rare district-determined teacher inservice days - have this PD when you need it, and how you need it - without having to hire dozens of substitutes or canceling school for the day.
Let's face it, an hour or two before school or after school is not going to be sufficient for truly effective professional development. A day or two per year, especially when they are scheduled to take place immediately before the school year begins or immediately after the last day of school, is not effective, either. Teachers' brains and bodies need a rest after the hectic and harried last days of school. After all, they are humans, not machines.
And teachers have one thing on their minds right before school starts - the dozens of things they still have to do before the students arrive! Then, of course, there is the fact that there is literally no time for teachers to apply the learning from the PD by creating and/or modifying their curriculum. School starts tomorrow!
So what's the answer? As I've stated previously, "A little dab'll do ya!" might have been a great slogan for Brylcreem, but it won't work for professional staff development. If your goal is authentic learning and real change, then teachers must receive the support they need to succeed.
Read here about Effective Professional Development
Contact us to learn how we can provide free, on-site professional development for some or all of your staff!
Here is the 21st Century Schools Brochure which contains information about our services, including our workshops.
Other resources:
The West Virginia Department of Education has some excellent information on their web site regarding federal funding for professional development. They also have a report on the research on the impact of Academic Coaches as a powerful form of professional development. At 21st Century Schools we can help develop your team on in-house, on-site Academic Coaches.
