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Learn how one district’s instructional technology team re-established a culture for coaching with school-based coaches by creating a shared vision and assessing the strengths and growth opportunities of the coaches’ skills. Identify the key components of quality coaching. Determine and interpret the appropriate data collection methods to develop a professional learning plan of support for your coaches. Examine how one school district empowers its coaches to support student learning by supporting their development as coaches.

Dive into a holistic support system that strives for alignment and consistency to leverage a higher quality of coaching conversations. Identify strategies to ensure that implementation is successful across a large team of coaches and multiple buildings.

Leave with tools to support and develop professional learning plans for coaches. Learn how to help students become technologically fluent through a framework that helps teachers integrate state and national technology standards into their curriculum. Review and discuss selected lessons aligned to the ISTE Standards for Students and adapt these lessons to your own state standards. Measuring the quality, effectiveness, and impact of professional learning requires thoughtful planning and implementation of an evaluation process.

Explore an eight-step process for evaluating professional learning. See how to assess the evaluability of a program, formulate evaluation questions, and construct an evaluation framework that includes data sources, data collection methods, and data analysis. Learn to apply the process to create a plan for evaluating your own professional learning programs. Examine your beliefs and experiences about written feedback, and use an Innovation Configuration map to assess your own feedback skills.

Learn how to create an evaluation process that helps teachers see their practice clearly and develop a personalized plan for growth. Learn how to shift from traditional professional learning to curriculum-based professional learning. Examine a set of research-based actions, approaches, and enabling conditions that effective schools and systems have put in place to reinforce and amplify the power of high-quality curriculum and skillful teaching.

Consider strategies for applying them to your plans for professional learning. Learn about the antiracist professional learning series offered to principals in the Austin Independent School District at the height of the global health crisis and racial violence in the U. Engage with a community of learners to reflect on your personal influence as an educator. Create a plan of action to build personal and collective capacity to disrupt systemic inequity in your school and district.

Explore the seven factors that lead to successful instructional coaching, based on 25 years of research. Learn coaching skills that can be used in professional practice immediately.

Engage with other coaches to gain multiple perspectives and create an implementation plan to take back to your school or district. Leave with tools and forms you can use to ensure that coaching flourishes in your organization.

Explore steps to improve teacher leadership in your school or district using A Systemic Approach to Elevating Teacher Leadership Killion et al. Learn how teacher leadership promotes collaborative cultures, equitable learning environments, teacher agency and credibility, improved decision-making, and a dynamic teaching force. Develop knowledge, insights, and skills related to the well-being needs of students, staff, and yourself in a volatile world. Reimagine how to engage with practical well-being strategies not usually considered in social and emotional learning practices, such as learning outdoors, developing ethical guidelines for technology use, and addressing controversial issues through the curriculum.

Reimagine a style of leadership designed to address resistance to change while simultaneously supporting staff members. Explore ways to assemble a collective leadership approach that addresses both logical and illogical forms of resistance to change. Learn to use transformational leadership approaches that support staff and hold them accountable to change. Explore factors that contribute to the effectiveness of professional learning and the levels of evidence most crucial to planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Learn how to design and implement more effective professional learning experiences using these levels, how to gather quantitative and qualitative evidence on effects, and how to present that evidence in meaningful ways. Gain an understanding of why it can be so difficult for adults to change their behavior. Explore techniques that result in sustained changes in adult behavior.

Plan your next professional learning experience using an original template provided and incorporating some of the 20 brain-based strategies that take advantage of the ways all adult and student brains learn best. Dig deep into the edition of Standards for Professional Learning, focusing on how the standards support high-quality professional learning. Use tools and resources to examine standards concepts such as guiding assumptions, equity, curriculum, assessment, instruction, and professional expertise.

Engage in collaborative learning to apply these concepts to your role, responsibilities, and professional context. Learn how to develop yourself as an educator and as a human being so that you can become a bigger and better version of yourself as a team member and a leader. Explore five ways to stretch at your learning edges to develop yourself to be an even more effective collaborative team member committed to educator effectiveness and continuous improvement.

Leave with strategies and tools to bring back to your teams to develop your professional learning culture. Explore how teachers can create coherent, phenomenon-based inquiry. Learn how the Institute for Quality Science Teaching at the Museum of Science and Industry develops and facilitates teacher professional learning that models the coherent teaching of science content based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Identify opportunities to apply this model in your own context. Confront and challenge the assumption that the randomized control trial is the gold standard in large-scale quantitative studies by examining the strengths and limitations of these methods.

Come away with a framework for evaluating what forms of evidence are right for your own work. Engage with three regional professional learning providers in Alabama to discuss lessons learned from past and present practices and how regional support can be reimagined for the future.

Explore the role data collection plays in the development of professional learning that meets teachers’ needs. Identify ways to assess the impact of high-quality professional learning in a regional support network. Explore professional learning designed to take a human-centered approach that blends the science and art of teaching to advance equity and accelerate educator effectiveness.

Identify the components that make up a strong professional learning program and apply them to your own context. Engage with leaders of two neighboring districts as they share ways they leveraged opportunities for building a culture of professional learning through the challenges of COVID. Learn how these two districts used this disrupted environment to strengthen a districtwide culture of ongoing learning and continual improvement in key areas.

Interact with fellow conference participants to share effective strategies for moving important work in times of crisis. Ignite your understanding of how social media can be implemented within an educational setting to build an online community. Break into differentiated roundtable discussions to create or elevate your current model, whether your social media platform is just starting out or is well-established.

Walk away with tools and resources for bite-sized professional learning, spotlights, and events, and connect with others who are interested in reimagining professional learning. Learn about a mixed-methods study that investigated the efficacy of blended professional learning combination of in-person and online coaching. Examine qualitative and quantitative results that demonstrate the efficacy of blended professional learning and the value of additional online coaching.

Discuss effective implementation and content of online coaching and characteristics of effective online coaches. Explore how to change your school community’s culture around digital citizenship. Hear on-the-ground experiences from statewide digital citizenship education work in Utah and the lessons learned from bringing together stakeholders of different backgrounds, perceptions, and thoughts on digital citizenship.

Identify ways to shift perceptions on technology and create common ground. Join colleagues and leaders in an interactive and facilitated discussion on the intersectionality of the key elements to promote collective leadership efficacy through collaborative principal inquiry.

Listen to effective research-based practices that will help build coherence across schools to promote equitable and sustainable student outcomes. Engage in conversations to formulate your own bridge-to-practice to implement strategic goals and tiered action plans to support principal leadership development. Educators and students alike struggled through and – and is proving our work is far from finished.

As we navigate myriad educational crises, the nagging question remains: How do we lead our schools through grief? Participants will leave with actionable next steps for leaders, based on research and rooted in best educational practices to properly support their students, their colleagues, and themselves, in new, and meaningful, ways.

Explore ways learning organizations can create a cohesive framework to sustain collaborative learning, collective responsibility, and shared accountability. Learn how Bay City Schools, supported by the Institute for Excellence in Education, used team-based leadership and organization frameworks to create aligned and sustainable improvement goals. Gain insights into how increased collaborative learning between leaders and educators improved adult learning and student outcomes in the frame of organizational change.

Learn to leverage podcasting to meet your professional learning purposes. Engage in discussion around a podcast designed with Universal Design for Learning to support the variability of learners and overcome the barriers of professional learning. Explore methods to determine whether your professional learning is contributing to school improvement and student achievement. Gather tips and takeaways from the evaluation of a professional learning experience in which teachers conducted action research in classrooms and presented findings to colleagues.

Learn about a framework you can use to gather actionable feedback from any professional learning initiative. Explore the GATE Program, a district-based, job-embedded alternative certification program, as an innovative solution designed to address teacher recruitment and retention needs. Learn how and why this program has proven effective as an alternative pathway for successful entry into the teaching profession. Avanti, a Solution Tree education technology product, is the first of its kind: a teacher-first, self-paced, subscription-based professional learning platform that helps teachers at the elementary, middle, and high school levels gain ideas and actionable strategies for teaching and honing their craft.

Content includes short inspirational videos made by teachers, for teachers, on a variety of relevant, timely topics. Explore what it looks like to use professional learning, coaching, educator perception, and walk-through data to ensure that professional learning leads to impact.

Learn how Fargo Public Schools designed a cohesive set of tools that would capture the instructional needs of educators and the areas in which coaching and professional learning time are being spent, adopted protocols and processes to set data-informed coaching goals, and examined data to determine the impact of professional learning on classroom instruction.

Wilson Language Training’s fully virtual professional learning, launched in , is designed to certify teachers to teach students with dyslexia in a Tier 3 instructional setting. Wilson has since expanded the program to include a virtual implementation support program that helps teachers improve their literacy teaching practice for students in Tier 1 and 2 settings. Learn how these programs support an engaged community of educators, provide easy access to instructional resources, and offer ways to connect teachers to expert literacy specialists and coaches for individual support.

Learn how to help educators face the world we live in and respond to it. Explore professional learning developed by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to address this challenge, including Schooling for Critical Consciousness of Racism and Racial Injustice, which draws on the research of Harvard Professor Daren Graves’ work in applying Paolo Freire’s concept of critical consciousness to work with high school students, and Moral Leadership in a Troubled Time, which uses foundational work in moral development done at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Examine the current research around how video can be a powerful tool to support educator self-reflection as a job-embedded professional learning strategy. Experience how Rockdale County Public Schools uses video technology as a way to promote reflective practices to support teacher growth and collaboration. Learn the advantages of using video as a best practice for coaching and mentoring. Hear how Rockdale discovered that providing structured feedback drastically improved classroom practices.

Additionally, Rockdale principals and coaches have data-driven proof that job-embedded professional learning directly impacts teacher retention and student outcomes.

Discuss with Jason Grissom, professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt University, a major review from The Wallace Foundation of 20 years of research, which confirms that principals are even more important for student achievement than previously believed. Find out which skills and practices among principals are linked to positive outcomes for students and why diversifying the leadership pipeline is vital to achieving equity goals.

Engage in a myth-busting conversation with Nathaniel Schwartz, professor of practice at Annenberg Institute for School Reform, about what the field does and doesn’t know about teacher professional learning, with insights from A Learning Agenda for Improving Teacher Professional Learning at Scale from the Research Partnership for Professional Learning.

Participate in role-alike small-group discussions and plan how to bring this knowledge into your work and incorporate it into your professional learning system. Examine the research that informed the recent revision of Standards for Professional Learning. Learn about the findings of a literature review and a meta-analysis of studies focused on the impact of professional learning on educator and student outcomes conducted by American Institutes of Research.

Discover how to align the efforts of schools and out-of-school-time providers to support social and emotional learning SEL as a foundation of success for all youth. Explore how to leverage the unique strengths of these two systems and how to overcome the challenges of bringing them together. Destini Martin , Principal, William F. Barnett Elementary School destini. Topics: Evaluation and Impact, Leadership Development. Discover how an innovative district team leverages resources to create and sustain a robust teacher induction program based on multiple layers of timely support.

Investigate strategies they use to equip collaborative teams, coaches, mentors, and site leaders with tools to inspire confidence and build leadership potential in new teachers. Construct a coherent vision, develop structures, and create a plan for alignment of resources to transform teacher induction in your district.

DeVries vbschools. Kelly vbschools. Seiders vbschools. Shewbridge vbschools. Silverman vbschools. Topics: Coaching, Continuous improvement Cycles, Implementation. Baptiste opsk Topics: Culture and Climate, Facilitation, Implementation. Topics: Change Management, Implementation, Partnerships. Explore the key capacities needed for teacher leaders and leaders of professional learning communities PLCs and strategies that support their development.

Leave with tools that foster intentional professional learning and apply them to your context. Learn how one district has created multiple pathways into the teaching profession through an apprenticeship model.

Discover how to build an innovative, research-based model addressing problems of practice around teacher diversity, retention, and educator preparation. Marla Rye , President, Workforce Essentials mrye workforceessentials. Paul Fleming , Sr. Topics: Continuous improvement Cycles, Learning Networks, Models of Professional Learning including in-person, virtual and hybrid models. Topics: Educator Effectiveness, Feedback and Observations.

Kathy Perez , Professor Emerita, St. Mary’s College of California kperez stmarys-ca. Topics: Coaching, Leadership Development, Partnerships.

Breckon D. Topics: Continuous improvement Cycles, Innovations in Teaching and Learning, Models of Professional Learning including in-person, virtual and hybrid models. Topics: Coaching, Embracing Aspects of Student Identity including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, gender identity, sexual orientation , Teacher or Educator Retention and Recruitment.

Topics: Continuous improvement Cycles, Models of Professional Learning including in-person, virtual and hybrid models , Secondary Education. Joseph’s Academy juliarwilkins gmail.

Topics: Coaching, Models of Professional Learning including in-person, virtual and hybrid models. Thomas R. Guskey , Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky guskey uky.

Crow learningforward. Keynote speaker Jessyca Matthews will answer your questions in this special session after the keynote address on Monday. Keynote speaker Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa will answer your questions in this special session after the keynote address on Tuesday. Topics: Innovations in Teaching and Learning, Instructional Approaches, Models of Professional Learning including in-person, virtual and hybrid models. Session Length: Round Table Discussions — 1 hour 45 minute facilitated discussion.

Topics: Culture and Climate, Leadership Development. Derek Porter , History teacher, St. Christopher’s School porterd stcva. Topics: Embracing Aspects of Student Identity including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, gender identity, sexual orientation , Racial Equity, Student or Teacher Voice. Topics: Models of Professional Learning including in-person, virtual and hybrid models , Professional Learning Basics, Other Research on professional learning practices.

Walk away with practical examples of how you might shift your building or district to a more collaborative, job-embedded, and customized professional learning system. Learn how leaders in the Memphis-Shelby County Public Schools in Tennessee implemented a universal screening process to identify a more diverse student talent pool for the gifted and talented program.

Examine the project, the outcomes, and best practices based on research. Consider how to implement a universal screening protocol in your district. Learn how this innovative initiative is a pipeline to building teacher and leadership capacity with men of color educators. Learn about division goals and nonnegotiables that foster the systematic development of both leader and teacher collective efficacy for student benefit. Collaborate with others to assess your current PLC culture and determine an action plan for reigniting your schools to higher levels of teacher and student success.

Learn about the decisions we made and the lessons we learned in creating methods and tools for inducting and onboarding new and new-to-district teachers, providing innovative access to both in-person and virtual resources and support, and designing a program that provides general mentoring and high-quality professional learning.

Learn how educators can stretch student thinking, promote deep learning, and provide just the right amount of challenge for all learners. Examine evidence-based practices to support teachers in fostering inquiry, deep conceptual understanding, and disciplinary literacy.

Deepen your approach to curriculum-based coaching and learn specific scaffolds for supporting students from diverse backgrounds to improve equitable access to rigorous learning experiences.

Learn to create a sustainable approach to schoolwide social and emotional learning SEL with clear goals and an aligned plan to measure and reflect on impact. Hear from practitioners who collect and reflect on SEL data in partnership with students and families. Learn how social and emotional learning SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities.

Examine one district’s steps to build capacity districtwide through implementation of a comprehensive and scaffolded professional learning plan to strengthen adult SEL. Follow the district’s implementation of CASEL’s focus area 2 strengthen adult SEL competencies and capacity , which includes central office expertise, professional learning for all staff, adult SEL and cultural competence and alignment of initiatives, and staff trust, community, and efficacy.

Explore how white-majority settings present unique challenges to professional learning on diversity, equity, and inclusion and how to mitigate limitations that exist in these settings. Engage in a collaborative session to explore the process of a full curriculum audit to examine resources through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of a robust continuous improvement cycle. Connect with global colleagues to synthesize new learning and refresh current practices.

Walk away with a toolbox of look-fors and processes to examine your own curriculum resources. Learn about research-based systems and structures to implement in a school or district to drive continuous improvement cycles through learning acceleration strategies. Explore how strategic implementation of learning acceleration leads to long-term impactful results. Curate a unique, tailored checklist for yourself that will guide assessing readiness and ability to address and successfully implement learning acceleration strategies in your home school or district.

Learn how district and school-based administrators partner to implement a successful student-centered instructional coaching program. Understand how using varied lenses provides support to instructional coaches. Develop a plan of action to bolster a culture that thrives on coaching. Learn how a collective, unified approach to instructional coaching leads to high levels of teaching and learning.

Explore how Virginia Beach Schools developed a comprehensive instructional coaching model to build teacher capacity for high-impact instructional practice. Practice coaching conversations using tools that build a common language and leave with a sample coaching model that focuses on research-based competencies instructional coaches may use to yield teacher growth and student achievement.

Develop an actionable understanding of how to design professional learning to foster equitable instruction and drive continuous improvement in learning. We will share tools to use for engagement during presentations, organization of PD sessions, conferences, newsletters, curating of professional learning resources for educators, and more! Engage in and discuss how these tools can positively impact professional learning opportunities. Apply new digital tool knowledge to an upcoming professional learning you are planning for your own setting.

Review the student self-report and observation tool to understand how each can provide information to students, staff, and teachers to nurture student growth.

Explore identity, thinking, and action themes to begin a personal understanding of the competencies and what use might look, sound, and feel like in your local context. Explore how collaborative teacher teams, when leading student-focused inquiry cycles, have the potential to reimagine and improve student experience. Engage with the story of teacher leaders who integrate student voice as they guide grade-level teams to determine an instructional problem to solve and how to solve it, then analyze its impact.

Analyze your own inquiry-based teamwork in light of artifacts from the field, student interview protocols, and a research-based inquiry tool. Evaluate what research says about the importance of using high-quality instructional resources and understand where teacher choice exists in teaching and learning. Understand the impact of using high-quality instructional resources on student achievement and equity.

Prepare a plan to be able to implement and lead a high-quality materials focus in your own district or campus. Learn how the body of research called the science of learning impacts how we design and facilitate professional learning.

Engage with the latest research on how adults learn and what we know from professional learning to consider attributes and mechanisms for deeply engaging educators in making instructional shifts.

Consider your own context and leave with a research-based outline for enacting the science of learning with your team. Explore how building administrators and instructional coaches can build teacher capacity and raise student achievement through a comprehensive, collaborative approach to professional learning. Learn about the Learning Forward Academy and how it has changed the way this Midwest district approaches professional learning for all at the elementary level.

Learn how complex, urban districts with multiple departments and instructional coaches come together to norm around research-based coaching practices that lead to improved teacher pedagogy and student achievement. Leave with practical ideas for how to refocus efforts on productive coaching activities and bringing together different stakeholders. Explore strategies for principal leadership in pre-K to 3rd grade.

Gain an understanding of developmentally appropriate practice and identify ways to enhance instructional leadership capacity to align pre-K programs or early childhood education with K-3 learning. Learn how districts can overcome the challenge of providing just-in-time support for students who have fallen behind mathematically. Experience how Lenoir City Schools is capturing additional opportunities during the school day to provide support by highly effective teachers, well-trained tutors, and the use of high-quality materials.

Leave with a sample of a clearly defined program structure, including a protocol for the selection of students, tutors, and materials. Learn how to design a system of professional learning that supports an entire district or state. Examine ways to identify and frame state or district needs and leverage a theory of change to arrive at a strong program design. Explore implementation science and design principles of program evaluation to successfully implement and determine the effectiveness of programs at a large scale.

Surface the nonverbal and verbal patterns you might consider using to open a meeting or professional learning when you know resistance is in the way. Explore a series of moves intended to surface the emotions, the values driving the emotions, and then decrease their intensity so that oxygen returns to participants’ brains and they can think and be present. Learn about the transformative professional learning practices taking place in Lexington School District One, which is taking a “show, don’t tell” approach and leveraging model classrooms, lab sites, learning walks, and professional learning clinics.

Leave with ideas of how to revitalize professional learning in your district so the professional learning results in shifts in instructional practice. Dive into the resources that support implementation of Standards for Professional Learning. Learn how to translate the standards — which describe the content, processes, and conditions for professional learning that lead to high-quality leading, teaching, and learning — into the daily work of educators in various roles and with varying responsibilities, from state education leaders to classroom teachers.

Explore the user-centered design component of Dr. Bryk’s improvement science. Experience open-source tools to analyze curriculum for vertical and horizontal standards coherence and alignment. Identify effective formative data measurement. Apply improvement science concepts and resources to your own problem of practice.

Leave with practical open education resources tools that integrate professional learning, curriculum, and assessment. Learn how Hayward Unified School District and WestEd co-designed and facilitated the work of an equity oversight committee tasked with providing feedback and policy recommendations to the school board.

Explore the core processes and tools that guided the work as well as the core tools and strategies used to build the capacity of the equity oversight committee. Experience activities and gain insights to set the stage for leading equity-centered work. Explore guidelines for using data as a clear measure for goal setting or as a method for measuring progress. Learn how to partner with teachers to set powerful, emotionally compelling, clear goals that will have an unmistakably positive impact on student engagement or achievement.

Identify ways to foster teacher agency by partnering with teachers to document and communicate meaningful progress. Examine the attributes of effective feedback as well as the various types, purposes, and sources of feedback. Gain a deeper understanding of the feedback process and how to apply it to promote increased educator effectiveness. Learn how to create a culture in which educators routinely engage in the feedback process.

Learn how aligning a district vision of instruction and success for all students begins at the top and permeates throughout the district. Engage with the research, process, and professional learning used to move one district toward excellence for all schools and students with a common vision of instruction. Collaborate with your fellow participants to develop a path toward a singular united focus centered around districtwide collective efficacy.

Accelerate learning in your district by creating systems for connected professional learning communities with a focus on instructional coaching and district leadership. Learn how Santa Fe ISD used a systems approach using long-range vision, instructional coaching model, and learner model that developed common language, and instruments for impacting the system resulting in dynamic growth in teachers and students.

Leave with a plan for implementing a system for growth. Build belonging in your professional learning. Explore the importance of belonging and the connection to Standards for Professional Learning. Learn to design the moments of belonging and the kinds of experiences that offer opportunities for people to contribute in the learning community. Bring a current professional learning opportunity you want to reimagine with and not for participants.

This session leverages the Design for Belonging Framework and tool kit from the Stanford d. Learn how to use student interviews to assess the other components of fluency: flexibility and efficiency. Explore the impact this shift has on student proficiency and mathematical disposition. Engage with tools for creating and conducting these assessments as well as data-tracking tools to target specific needs and provide prescriptive instruction.

Learn how Fairfax County Public Schools developed a vision for instructional coaching and established systems to support the growth and development of the program over the past 17 years. Examine how a large school system reimagined the pipeline for future instructional coaches to continue to expand the program with highly qualified candidates.

Explore ways to provide differentiated professional learning for new and experienced coaches and measure the impact of a coach’s work.

Leave with an action plan to implement this program, feeling confident in expressing the importance in building this capacity in all new educators.

Explore how Orange County Public Schools designed a three-tiered, differentiated professional learning collection centered around coaching to meet the needs of over 13, instructional and administrative personnel. Identify how adult learning theories are integrated and leveraged within differentiated professional learning. Leave with a deeper understanding of current professional learning with potential for differentiation and expansion, and create an action plan outlining implementation steps and key stakeholders integral to the process of implementing learning equitably.

Explore ways an early childhood program can build a more integrated and cohesive approach to supporting a district’s pre-K graduation plan. Learn how to connect an engaging and culturally relevant early childhood program to your K pathway using research-based methods. Prepare to address the professional needs of early childhood educators and build an academic foundation for young children and their families to raise performance in later grades.

Follow one district’s journey to establish routines and processes that empowered learning leaders and staff and grew efficacy and a collective commitment around its priorities for employees, students, and families. Learn how you can empower everyone as learning leaders throughout the district to share their collective expertise and experiences as difference makers and leaders of improvement.

Learn to craft compelling messages, articulate needs, and develop simple strategies to keep educators informed during the launch of a new curriculum. Develop your verbal and written communication skills and your understanding of high-quality instructional materials and professional learning. Examine communication biases and learn how to calibrate strategic messages to account for them.

Learn how one organization created collaborative and sustained professional learning to provide leadership teams with the knowledge, skills, and resources to systemically respond to and take action on issues of equity through the exploration of a unique problem of practice.

Develop socio-political awareness and critical consciousness by acknowledging and exploring the current reality within your educational environment.

Identify a reasonable problem of practice and receive critical peer feedback on possible solutions to create a theory of change and an action plan to resolve issues. Preview a framework and tool kit based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model that helps practitioners understand the effectiveness of high-quality instructional materials and professional learning implementation, uncover disconnects between intended and actual implementation, and design tailored supports.

Explore how teacher teams and departments can create shared expectations that capture the unique features of practice within their content areas. Create or adapt instructional frameworks with the specific needs of your subjects at the forefront. Practice using your draft framework by role-playing peer feedback conversations. Reimagine professional learning for equitable outcomes within your district. Engage in mini-sessions on how language matters, coaching for equity, and analyzing the work through equity instructional rounds.

Leave with practical strategies to implement professional learning aligned with a vision of equity for sustainable impact in your district. Learn how to take your district from compliance to high-quality professional learning. Use a problem-based learning approach, research, and evidence-based practices adult learning theory to improve your school’s or district’s professional learning, educator practice, and student outcomes.

Apply the structures, processes, and tools used by two districts to identify a problem of practice and generate a plan to trace the impact of intentional comprehensive professional learning planning. Learn how a medium-sized urban district has reimagined what professional learning can look and feel like for educators by focusing on just-in-time learning aligned to their individual needs. Identify ways to move your learning organization’s culture from a compliance mindset to a learning mindset.

Leave with timelines, templates, and resources for communicating to various audiences about the shift to just-in-time learning. Learn how human-centered improvement processes engage community to design impactful professional learning toward more equitable education.

Explore how Dallas ISD used this approach to address problems of race and racism. Identify tools and practices of human-centered improvement that you can apply to your own problems of practice. Acknowledge the trauma of the pandemic and begin the process of healing by engaging in activities that support deep rest.

Explore integrative leadership development, which empowers educational leaders to thrive and centers wellness for teachers and students. Learn how this professional learning increases the effectiveness of educators and demonstrates the connection between social-emotional wellness and Standards for Professional Learning. Learn how districts support the changing demands and decreasing prior experience levels of new administrators.

Leave with a road map that will help you develop your own leadership coaching program using your current human capital.

See how Haywood County Schools approached improving literacy and long-term outcomes of young learners by grounding instruction in what we know works for all students.

Engage with field-tested practices for early literacy that move the needle on student outcomes. Understand how these practices are rooted in a systematic and explicit foundational skills program as well as content-rich knowledge building and are responsive to challenges resulting from unprecedented schooling disruptions. Examine how a large, urban school district reimagined its approach to new teacher induction to provide a more equitable onboarding experience for all new hires regardless of their entry point into the district or profession.

Learn concrete, practical strategies to lead to deeper new teacher engagement and investment in key district priorities. Apply research-based techniques to assess and refine current induction practices in your school or district.

Join two districts that created multiyear embedded professional learning using a collaborative process, designing and implementing new instructional frameworks in alignment with their vision for all learners. Learn strategies to ensure every touchpoint — classroom visit, feedback conversation, meeting — becomes a learning opportunity focused on district goals and impact on learners.

Experience grade-level text from the perspective of an English learner. Discover ways to leverage technology to provide students with meaningful activities that enhance comprehension. Learn how to equip general education teachers with the confidence to teach every learner in their in-person and digital classrooms.

Learn how to develop and ultimately enable a budget that will provide funding and support in an equitable manner by optimizing internal and external stakeholder collaboration.

Identify areas of inequity within a school or district. Explore ways to manage multiple stakeholder groups with diverse interests.

Determine how to measure success. Leave with a new equity vocabulary and language that entices buy-in from even the most stubborn resistors to equity professional learning. Hear how Alaskan educators have collaborated to bring professional learning to a new level. See our responsive and coherent statewide system of professional learning for all educators.

Explore how a variety of organizations can develop a statewide professional learning calendar, quarterly professional learning roundtables, and statewide inservice days.

Learn how diversity and broad partnerships in this project have created synergy, strength, and different perspectives to this work. Explore how districts and schools can leverage the use of research-based guiding principles to establish and sustain effective professional learning routines and practices.

Examine the impact of learning design on instructional effectiveness, student achievement, and district and school improvement. Evaluate the extent to which local learning models align with research-based design principles and consider what tweaks could serve as catalysts for improved professional learning and educator effectiveness in the local context.

Consider the significant changes for educators when they are surrounded by a cohesive and coherent system of professional learning support. Leave with actionable next steps and templates for supporting shifts in instruction needed to maximize student learning.

Learn how two large school districts in Texas are rebuilding teachers’ confidence, respect, creativity, passion, and hope as a means to address teacher morale, teacher retention, and the post-pandemic teacher shortage.

Explore responsive strategies to address teacher needs that provide a stable foundation for improved job satisfaction, effectiveness, healing, and hope among teachers and teacher leaders.

Learn tips and strategies for how to wrangle assessment data, ask questions from it, and derive meaning from it for effective change for teachers and students. Gain frameworks and tools to apply to your classroom, team, department, school, or district to make data fun and informative. Learn how Rockdale County Public Schools’ leadership team collaboratively built a culturally relevant leadership framework aligned to its leadership evaluation tool.

Identify your school’s or district’s readiness to begin the process and determine a timeline. Develop an action plan to create and then systematically and systemically implement culturally relevant leadership in your school or district.

Engage in a slice of the Project I4 micro-credential experience for school leaders in which we cultivated relational trust with engaging protocols, used common tools for observation and having post-observation conversations, and supported leaders through coaching and peer networks.

Leave with tools, protocols, and an understanding of the Project I4 coaching model and data on leader and teacher impact. Incorporate the collection of warm data to design responsive strategies for your school and district based on qualitative trends over time.

Highlight how social-emotional learning can provide fruitful streams of qualitative data and support instruction, engagement, and retention. Learn how depth of knowledge clarifies what exactly and how deeply academic standards, curricular activities, and test items demand that students understand and use their learning. Explore how to use depth of knowledge levels as a method and model for planning and providing teaching and learning experiences that are standards-based, socially and emotionally supportive, and student responsive.

Learn how one district increased student outcomes by leveraging hands-on practice and rapid cycles of improvement to solidify deep understanding of math. Explore an innovative iteration of traditional lesson study that emphasizes collaborative planning, high-quality instructional materials, and rapid cycles of improvement grounded in student outputs. Become familiar with high-leverage language instructional routines for mathematics and how to use them well, and identify how to replicate components of the model in your own system.

Learn how one school district created flexible, innovative learning opportunities that teachers can engage with on-demand. Identify the attributes of quality teaching and learning you want to see in your context. Engage with a framework for designing or adapting innovative “micro” professional learning.

Leave with a plan to implement at your site. Unpack the relationship between equity and educator learning using Standards for Professional Learning. Examine how Standards for Professional Learning support equity in teaching and learning.

They are also the first school to offer online training for home inspectors. Their online home inspection training is one of the best in the country, and they grow with the changes in the industry and promptly update their online course materials. PHII offers a nationally certified home inspection course that will lead one to become a Florida home inspector, given that he or she completes the required weeks of coursework, testing, and hands-on field study.

Students will learn the basic fundamentals of home inspection that adhere to national standards of practice. Their step-by-step training of lessons, along with field inspection assignments are simultaneously taught in their online home inspection training as well as their classroom course. Their training package includes Online Home Inspector Course for Florida with optional back-up CD, inspection documents, certificate, student manual, course DVDs online , and toll-free student support.

The ASHI School enables students to gain a strong foundation of knowledge in the industry of home inspection. They encourage their students to invest in their expertise since, as home inspectors, they sell their expertise and time to their clients. ASHI offers a training course that is approved in the State of Florida, provides in-field training as part of the curriculum, meets state pre-licensing hours, and prepares students to take the state exam as well as other relevant exams.

All have conducted countless inspections and built their own companies. All-American Training Institute. The All-American Training Institute equips its students with the necessary tools and knowledge to make them stand out among their competitors and valuable to their clients. The classes the students can complete include Live Home Inspections, Online home inspection classes, Continuing education, and Home Inspector exam prep.

For their online courses, they have fully updated for They also provide an online and hard copy test prep for National Home Inspector Examination, free marketing courses, instructor support, and association support. McKissock Learning. McKissock Learning started in as a pioneer in appraisal education.

Their years in the industry have given them the right equipment to provide students with high-quality courses, industry expertise, and learning convenience. McKissock expands its wide range of education and professional development to nurture real estate professionals, property appraisers, home inspectors, land surveyors, and engineers. They offer such quality courses through a nationally accredited platform.

Their instructors are not just teachers. They are working professionals with years of experiences and expertise to share with aspiring home inspectors.

They have a genuine desire to see their students succeed in their chosen field of home inspection. For Florida Home Inspectors, they are required to complete 14 continuing education hours every two years. They need to take note that of the 14 hours, at least 2 hours must be in hurricane mitigation training. Before given employment, candidates are required to complete training at the FAA academy or through the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative program in affiliate colleges.

Air traffic controllers direct and monitor aircraft, maintains safety, and informs pilots about weather conditions and flight paths.

Their other responsibilities include directing aircraft through airspace and regulating arrivals and departures. Air traffic controllers need to achieve post-secondary training and practical experience, and they must be U. As for education requirements, candidates need a combination of years of post-secondary education and experience.

For air traffic controllers to work independently, they have to obtain an Air Traffic Control Tower Operator Certificate. Their job requires total concentration during their shift. Despite it being a high-stress field, the competition is still high for the available positions in air traffic control.

Florida Tech. Florida Tech is a comprehensive and research-intensive national university. They have a research-driven, high-tech, and hands-on educational approach. Through their Air Traffic Control program, students learn about weather, flight planning, physical sciences, safety and more. They also have an in-depth learning into the National Airspace System. This enables them to understand the particular details in the system and get practical experience through Air Traffic Control courses and training labs.

Their campus is located at W. University Blvd. The institute has the reputation of having a high passing rate at the FAA Academy. Their graduates also attain exceptionally high CPC status. Florida State College. The college is dedicated to meaningful learning and excellent teaching. Students need to take note that this program does not guarantee FAA employment. After completing this program, they need to complete an additional A.

Software developers are in charge of the entire development process for a software program. They identify the core functionality that users need from software programs and determine user requirements like level of security and performance needs.

Afterward, they design, test, and develop software that can meet those needs. Their other functions include designing each piece of an application or system, creating models and diagrams that guide programmers, performing software maintenance and testing, and documenting every aspect of an application or system for maintenance and future upgrades.

Students studying for this field focus on classes that build software. They usually gather their experience by completing an internship at a software company. Software developers need to have strong computer programming skills. Their job prospects include working for firms that have computer systems design and related services, manufacturing, or software publishers. Bryan University. Bryan University has been providing exceptional educational experiences since They are a leading university when it comes to solving complex challenges in online education.

Their solutions include research-based strategies and industry partnerships, which are innovative and revolutionary methods of providing online learning to students. The program provides introductions on web programming, web development, and web communication. It also facilitates the development of server-side programming and the use of Document Object Modeling. Completing this program enables students to be among the in-demand web development professionals. They achieve high-level learning through personalized instruction and coaching.

Computer programmers basically creates the code for software applications and operating systems designed by software developers. They write the code that converts a design into a set of instructions to be followed by the computer. They continually test programs for errors and evaluate them for possible updates or needed adjustments. Those who have additional degrees in accounting, finance, and business are usually preferred by companies. Computer programming graduates who have practical experience as interns in actual companies also have an advantage.

They usually work for companies that write and test software as well as software publishers and finance and insurance companies.

They need to continually upgrade their skills by learning new programming languages and earn certifications in various programming languages to be ahead of their peers.

Valencia College enables students to develop skills in computer software development and analysis. The Computer Programming and Analysis Technical Certificate program is specially designed for those who seek immediate employment. Students need to complete 60 credit hours for this certificate.

With their core courses, students gain knowledge and practical training in the foundations of computer technology, computer programming, programming analysis and design, and web application development. Seminole State College of Florida. The school also provides additional culturally stimulating events and timely guest speakers for the students.

To earn the technical certificate for Computer Programming, students need to complete 33 credits. This certificate leads students to explore concepts, principles, applications, languages, web programming and many more. There is also a specialized training that develops and enhances occupational proficiency as the nature of systems and programming demands strong logical and creative abilities.

Graduates of this program are qualifies as entry-level computer programmers or programmer trainees. Purdue University Global. They offer convenient, web-based academic programs equipped with online tools and resources that allow students to study in their free time. The Programming and Software Development program provides students with the foundational knowledge of software development and advanced programming, database concepts, and development and design strategies. With this certificate program, students can immediately seek entry-level employment in the field of programming and software development.

The program also allows students to gain proficiency in various types of programming languages, explore design and programming concepts for software, web, and mobile application development, and prepare for the CIW Web Foundations series of certifications.

The top jobs compatible with this certificate are Computer Programming and Software Development. Miami Dade College began its operations on September 6, The institution offers accessible and high-quality education.

They are proudly fulfilling their responsibility of serving as an economic, cultural, and civic leader in higher education, contributing to the advancement of the diverse global community. The Computer Programming certificate they offer requires students to complete 36 credits.

The program provide students with the basic foundation in computer programming. They are equipped with the necessary skills to thrive in scientific, commercial, industrial, and other fields that might require computer programmers. Graduates of this program are ready to enter the working community as entry-level programmers, programmer specialists, computer programmers, and senior programmers.

Are you interested in earning an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering? Those who would like to enter the electrical industry can jump-start their career by either enrolling in a vocational or technical school offering electrician programs or by applying for an apprenticeship, where one can immediately delve into hands-on work in the industry under a practicing professional and also get paid by the hour. Though that is not to say that technical schools do not provide practical experience to their students; dozens of hours of shop or lab work are also incorporated into an electrician program curriculum.

Both paths have their own benefits, and it is mainly up to the individual as to which one works best for their current situation. Demand is also very high in the state; it is expected that from to , job opportunities for electricians will grow up to a promising A variety of specializations are also available, and electricians can even opt to specialize in multiple areas to increase their market value.

They can also remain general electricians, who are able to work in different fields. Florida has quite a number of technical colleges and schools that offer programs intended for those who want to become electricians. A compilation of some of the best choices in the state is listed below for easy reference. Florida State College at Jacksonville FSCJ offers both two-year and four-year programs across four campuses, and it also has an online division for students who wish to study at home and at their own pace.

Financial aid is also available, which can bring down costs further. The programs boasts extensive hands-on experience for its students, both in a lab setting and at actual sites, for teaching electrical maintenance in both residential and commercial settings. Mastery of the different types of hand and power tools and their uses are also taught, alongside the concepts of alternating current A. Daytona State College.

Located in Daytona Beach and established in , Daytona State College is known for its affordability and accessibility. Its online programs have been recognized as some of the best in the country, while it has also ranked within the top schools when it comes to awarding associate degrees. Daytona has also partnered with several institutions in order to provide two types of Electrical Apprentice programs.

On top of classroom hours, a total of 8, hours worth of paid on-the-job training OJT is involved. The rate paid to students also increases through time, in accordance with their level of mastery. Meanwhile, the Electrical Apprentice— Non-union program also requires 8, paid OJT hours, but the required classroom hours are a little shorter than the other program, totaling only hours. It will still also take four years to complete, however. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and NEC guidelines are taught to students, as well as tools and other products used in the trade.

Upon finishing the apprenticeship, students will be equipped with the skills needed to perform electric maintenance and construction in various set-ups i. Southern Technical College. The private Southern Technical College specializes in providing diploma and associate degree programs in a variety of medical and technical areas.

As for the diploma program, it runs for 10 months, and students can complete either day or evening classes for their convenience. Southern Tech also provides textbooks and other required materials free of charge to students completing the diploma program. Possible job options for its graduates include becoming an electrical technician, an inside and outside linemen, or going into electrical maintenance.

A total of over 60 academic programs are offered across its Highlands, DeSoto, and Hardee campuses, and also in two centers, including Lake Placid and Sebring.

Two options are available for those interested in pursuing a career in the electrical industry. Only upon their successful employment are they allowed to apply for the apprenticeship program. A total of 8, paid on-the-job training hours and classroom training hours is needed to complete an apprenticeship. Employment and applications must be completed before August of every year. Lively Technical College. It is headquartered at N.

Appleyard Drive in Tallahassee, while also maintaining a campus intended mainly for aviation-related programs at the Tallahassee Regional Airport. An Electricity program totaling over 1, hours of both classroom learning and practical experience in a laboratory setting is offered by the Technical College. Students learn installation and maintenance for residential, commercial, and industrial establishments and set-ups, and the handling of tools and equipment routinely used in the industry.

It serves over 6, students who are enrolled under seven occupational fields, where demand is high in the state. The program, which is comprised of 1, hours, can be completed in as fast as 12 months when taken full-time, and starts twice every year — every August and January.

The Electricity program is considered mainly project-based, with courses touching on residential and commercial wiring, blueprint reading, Occupational and Safety Hazard Administration training, and mastery of the National Electrical Code NEC , among others.

Completion of the program can also be counted as college credits for an Associate in Science or Associate of Applied Science degree at Broward College; however, the student must enroll in Broward within two years of completing the Electricity program in order for the credits to be counted.

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