This page introduces the Washington State PESB Cohort for the 2021-22 school year. Thanks to a grant from the Professional Educator Standards Board and partnership with the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession, a small cohort of educators from around Washington State will seek to complete the LIFT Framework as part of their Professional Growth Plan.
Thanks to the Professional Educators Standards Board and the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession, you can earn 25 clock hours toward certification and salary advancement, learn alongside fellow educators and facilitators, and receive a stipend as you build your skills as an instructional partner in your school.
As part of this cohort, you will use the LIFT Framework to:
Reflect on your professional practice and learning communities
Build and practice skills to work effectively with other educators and peers
Examine learner variability and make connections with social and emotional learning, culturally responsive teaching, and inclusive instruction.
Explore how digital learning and teaching can support innovative instruction
The learning cohort of 20-24 educators will begin in Fall 2021 and finish in May 2022
Any Washington State educator is eligible to participate (paraeducators, certificated educators, and administrators)
You must sign up with another educator from your school or district and work together to complete the activities for the project
You will use the PESB Professional Growth Plan program to earn credits and document your work and effort.
Working with their learning partner, cohort participants can work on the activities for the LIFT Framework at their own pace, but the following dates are required Zoom meetings and guidelines for completion of each module.
All meetings are on Zoom and are scheduled for Thursdays from 4:30 - 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
September 30 - Orientation to PGPs and LIFT Framework
October 28 - LIFT Module 1 Celebrated
December 9 - LIFT Module 2 Celebrated
February 10 - LIFT Module 3 Celebrated
April 21 - LIFT Module 4 Celebrated (Reflection)
May 12 - SMART Goal and PGP completion/submission