Time spent with colleagues in professional development away from school provides numerous benefits. But often, two huge barriers exist: finding funding and making the solid case to attend, telling the story of this kind of experience.
December 5, 2019
A round up of the PLC series blogs over the past year.
May 17, 2019
I’ve been teaching and learning how to be a more effective teacher for most of my adult life. One thing I know for sure. Of all the factors that predict how well K-12 students do in learning to critically read, write and think, ongoing professional learning is the most vital. In fact, student learning and teacher expertise are inseparable.
December 11, 2018
This week on the Heinemann Podcast, we're excited to bring you the final of three special minisodes to invite you all into the conversations of the Heinemann Summer Book Study, hosted in the Heinemann PD Teaching and Learning Facebook Group.
August 13, 2018
You don’t have to be tech-savvy to participate in the online PD we offer. Even if you don’t have barriers to attending an on-site or off-site event, perhaps your learning preferences include smaller chunks of time, flexible scheduling, or time and space to process, practice, reflect, and synthesize new learning.
June 6, 2018
A wrap up of the PLC series posts from 2017-18 year.
June 4, 2018
PLC Series Fall 2017 Round-Up!
December 4, 2017
Our first live webinar session with Colleen Cruz was packed with thinking about a mindset for teaching writing, strategies to guide repetitive student writing, mirror writing, and more!
October 11, 2017
PLC Series: Decentering Our Perceptions of Language
October 3, 2017
PLC Series: Advocacy, Not Neutrality
September 18, 2017
Today we discuss the responsibility we have as educators to strive for social justice.
September 4, 2017
Congratulations to Cris Tovani, Recipient of the 2017 Adolescent Literacy Thought Leader Award
July 21, 2017
M. Colleen Cruz details identifying her voice as inspired by Don Graves' work.
June 12, 2017
PLC Series: Public Celebration Conferences
June 5, 2017
PLC Series: The Language We Can Gather from Reading More Widely
May 22, 2017
PLC Series: April Round-Up
April 24, 2017
PLC Series: Close Reading an Image
April 17, 2017
PLC Series: Making Writing Irresistible
April 10, 2017
