Professional Development

2/25/2012

Felicia Cumings Smith, Associate Commissioner of Education, Kentucky Department of Education, will speak on the dramatic changes in K12 education at the 2012 School Improvement Innovation Summit July 16-17. 

2/21/2012

Discovery Education named Tanya Van Court senior vice president of partner marketing, where she is charged with overseeing the development of consumer-facing programs and district-led initiatives to support educators in their transition to digital learning environments.

2/21/2012

March 5-7
Washington, D.C.

2/16/2012

In a series of four online School Improvement Network PD videos, Jamie Almanzan, coach with the non-profit National Equity Project, shares what he has learned after years of working with principals and other educational leaders on the issue of racial and cultural equity.

2/16/2012

A statewide agreement announced Thursday will bring tougher teacher evaluations in public schools statewide and make student performance 40 percent of a teacher's grade.

2/13/2012

Texas Instruments will hold its annual conference March 2-4, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, Ill.

2/10/2012

DA editors attend many national and state conferences around the country to learn the latest about education and ed technology. In early February I spent time at the Texas Computer Education Association Annual Convention and Exposition learning about the latest trends in ed tech.

2/6/2012

Join the JCC in Manhattan N.Y. for an evening with former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, Joel Klein, in conversation with John Merrow on Wednesday, Feb.15th, 7:30 - 9 pm.

2/6/2012

PBS TeacherLine is launching “TECH570: Fundamentals of Virtual K12 Teaching” to fulfill the need for highly effective virtual educators and to help districts prepare for this revolutionary transition in education.

2/6/2012

School Improvement Network has just added a series of online PD videos to PD 360 that deal with the issue of equity in our schools featuring expert Jamie Almanzan.

1/30/2012

Humansville R-VI School District in Missouri is experiencing an explosion in student achievement with student math proficiency scores increasing from a 26.9 percent proficiency rate to 40.1 percent with the help of PD 360.

1/30/2012

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute and President of Curriculum Designers, Inc., will present at the 2012 School Improvement Innovation Summit July 16-17th.

1/27/2012

Employees of the Burleson Independent School District, a small urban district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have improved teacher practice with School Improvement Network's PD 360.

1/25/2012

Rural Lamesa ISD in Texas uses online professional development from School Improvement Network to help fill individual PD needs of teachers.

1/25/2012

Professional development producer, School Improvement Network, is happy to announce the release of 15 new professional development videos for teachers.

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