Professional Development
Professional Development - Mix it up!
Use internal resources rather than just external PD $$$$. More buy in because it's a colleague
PD in your PJs - book study through Twitter
Create a 10 goal technology challenge and have staff show their projects on a shared website
PD that extends through the year. Ongoing topics.
Site visits
Online learning and collaboration with teachers NOT in your school or state
Pick a partner who wants to learn/explore the same thing you are interested in
Having "Tech Activators" on each team to work with other teachers and to share new technology tools that they have learned about
Flipped PD for staff to go deeper when we come back together.
Videos of ideas in action (math workshop, literacy etc) for an entire unit of study.
Amazing Race to Technology
online self-paced summer workshop topics loosely defined weekly professional learning community (PLC) mtgs