Classroom Management and PBL Blog for Grades 6-12 Teachers
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Continuing Education for Teachers: How to Find the Rule That Actually Applies to You
There is no national answer to how much continuing education teachers need, because licensure is a state function and the units themselves differ. Here are five real state rules side by side, plus a sequence for finding and verifying your own.
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Teacher Professional Development Workshops: When They Work and When They Are Theater
A single workshop can introduce a practice, demonstrate it, and give a staff shared language. It cannot change teaching on its own, and the research explains why. Here is what the format can carry, what makes the difference, and a ten-item checklist for judging or designing one.
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Free Professional Development for Teachers: Where the Good Stuff Comes From, and What Free Costs
Some of the best content-specific teacher PD available costs nothing, because federal agencies and national museums run it as outreach rather than revenue. Here is where to find it, what free leaves out, and why the cheapest option is still the colleague down the hall.
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Professional Growth as a Teacher: Goals That Survive Past October
Most teacher goal-setting is an evaluation artifact written in August and rediscovered in May. Here is what makes a professional goal actually work, what the evidence does and does not support, and ten example goals concrete enough to copy.
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Online Professional Development for Teachers: What Changes When the Course Is on a Screen
The head-to-head studies on online teacher PD are thin, mixed and mostly older than 2020, and they find the format matters less than the design. Here is what online delivery genuinely does better, what it does worse, and how to keep an asynchronous course from dying in a browser tab.
