In this week’s episode of the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast, Steve explores making time for educator learning with clinical faculty member at Indiana university, Cassandra Williams. View the powerpoint here. Read about the Peer Pal program here. Subscribe to the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast on iTunes or visit BarkleyPD.com to find […]

Rapidly changing issues impacting our schools and communities are driving an immediate and substantial focus on educator learning. It’s important that we implement all that we know in designing and supporting educator learning. Planning backwards, we need to begin with identifying the desired student learning outcomes. What are the most critical areas of knowledge, skills […]

A new report, Effective Teacher Professional Development , from the Learning Policy Institute (June 2017) by Linda Darling-Hammond, Maria E. Hyler, Madelyn Gardner, and Danny Espinoza provides great guidance for leadership teams engaged in planning professional learning. Often, as teams plan for needed educator learning to drive increases in student learning, critical components are skipped. Later […]