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Our On-Site Professional Learning for Digital Learning and Technology
Developing successful learners in today’s tech-driven world is a big challenge—and we’re here to help. You can rely on our innovative resources and professional development for teachers and leaders to guide your work in integrating technology in the classroom and preparing students for college and career.
Where are you on your professional learning journey?
Your Goal
Building Your Skills
One‑Day Services
Creating a Digital-Rich Classroom
Design and deliver standards-based lessons in which technology plays an integral role.
- Understand the research base and practical strategies for using Web 2.0 tools.
- Create engaging lessons that transform and enrich content.
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Civics Education Transformed: Authentic, Student-Centered, and Technology Enhanced
We are experiencing a renewed call to strengthen civics education across our country. Today’s students must effectively evaluate the validity of claims in the digital media space, take and defend positions across multiple platforms, and utilize technology to inform and mobilize their community around ideas they care about. To achieve this, all students deserve civics education experiences that are authentic and student-centered and that leverage technology to enhance learning experiences. In this session, participants will:
- Recognize the evolving nature of modern citizenship and civic engagement
- Understand the core characteristics of high-quality civics education
- Leverage educational technologies to amplify best practices in civics instruction
- Effectively integrate civics instruction across curriculum areas
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Your Goal
Deepening Your Skills
Two‑to‑Four‑Day Services
Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Technology
Rely on our digital learning experts to help you implement a technology program aligned to the ISTE Standards for Students. Participants will discover how to actively engage today’s connected generation of students, give them a voice and choice in how they learn, and ensure they are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed for success inside and outside of the classroom.
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Reimagining Schools for Modern Learners
Discover a modern approach to education that includes new methods and practices for developing confident and creative learners.
- Understand the modern contexts for teaching and learning created by globally networked technologies.
- Develop a mission, vision, and plan for moving classrooms, schools, and professional practice forward in meaningful and sustainable ways.
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Enacting Your Mission through Student-Centered Planning, Teaching, and Learning Systems
Break the cycle of endless busywork to achieve sustainable change. Participants will learn how to commit to a few clear, learning-focused goals—and then act on them—using the input-output-impact (I-O-I) framework.
- Learn the why-what-how sequence of change and how it provides a path to greater goal clarity and effectiveness.
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Innovative Strategies for Future-Focused Learning
For students to be ready for anything, our paradigm of schooling must change. New thinking and new approaches are needed to feed students’ minds, curiosity, and aspirations.
- Understand what a future-ready learner actually looks like and the role you can play in assisting with the process.
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Transforming Schools with Cognitively Engaged Classrooms
Embrace teacher-tested instructional strategies for transforming classrooms into a vibrant thinking environment. Educators will learn how to engage students’ cognitive abilities and foster essential 21st century skills—from critical thinking and problem-solving to teamwork and creativity.
- Analyze and develop tasks at various cognitive levels.
- Engage in strategies for sustaining classroom engagement promoting movement, collaboration, and media literacy, and identify plans to implement them in your classroom.
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Connected Classrooms
Drawing on research across vast K–12 contexts, this workshop invites you to reimagine the online, blended, and global classroom. You will use the connected classrooms framework to operationalize people-centered practices in your school community. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for teaching in technology-mediated, multicultural, and multilingual classrooms.
- Identify resources, strengths, and assets in your school community.
- Cultivate key connected teaching opportunities within a beginning-middle-end structure.
- Brainstorm to solve a particular challenge you are facing using the connected teaching framework.
- Set specific goals to support people-centered teaching and learning.
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Your Goal
Sustaining Your Skills
Multi‑Day Services
Customized Services
Share your specific challenges, and we’ll design and deliver a customized learning experience. Available for on-site support as well as virtual training, our experts can guide your team through every phase of implementing a digital learning program, from developing digital policies and procedures to incorporating blended learning practices into classrooms.
Global PD Teams
Empower your teams to best support student success. Global PD Teams is your one-stop digital resource for professional learning by renowned experts in preK–12 education. Choose Global PD Teams when you need:
- Daily, convenient access to real-time school improvement models and strategies
- Job-embedded professional development
- Resources to build collective teacher efficacy
- Clear learning paths toward student achievement and school improvement
- Quality content from authors you know and trust
