Elevate Your Performance with Online Professional Development

Midvale -- Free-Press-Release.com-- Feb 23, 2012 -- As exciting a time as it is to be an educator, in some districts, things are also getting a bit scary. With budgets shrinking, educators’ livelihoods are depending more and more on their ability to drive students to achieve. With the stakes so high, many wonder how they can possibly keep up with all the demands made of them.

While there is no easy answer to this question, there is help available. Experience is showing that with quality online professional development, educators are consistently elevating student performance.

“With all of this mounting pressure to perform,” says Chet Linton, CEO of School Improvement Network, “educators are seeing how crucial it is not to get stuck in a professional rut, which is an easy thing to do if you teach the same subject or manage the same school for years. It’s not enough anymore just to maintain the status quo. If we are to continue driving student achievement, year after year, we have to take initiative and find opportunities to grow, not just wait for them to be handed to us by our leaders.”

In order to help educators to take control of their own professional growth, and have constant, ready access to developmental material, School Improvement Network is providing a new series of online professional development courses. These courses, taught by the top experts in education, will allow teachers to receive the highest quality instruction immediately, when they need it, and on the topics most pertinent to them.

“Online professional development course participants will get the opportunity to hear from the best in the business—people like Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Michael Fullan, and Charlotte Danielson,” says Linton. “And with new courses in equity by author Glenn Singleton and the Pacific Education group, they’ll be able to make sure that every student in their class, regardless their situation, make strides in learning. “

These online professional development courses are CEU-eligible, cover an array of topics, and allow participants to follow self-paced, online learning with a group of peers, giving them the convenience of an online course and the effectiveness of a classroom setting.

To view all of the courses being offered, click here. To access free, online professional development, visit www.schoolimprovement.com, and find out how to sign up for PD 360, the world’s leading professional development platform for educators.

About School Improvement Network
Founded in 1991 by teachers, the School Improvement Network provides comprehensive, research-based professional development anytime, anywhere. As the home of The Video Journal of Education, PD 360, Observation 360, the Learning 360 Framework, Equity 360, and Common Core 360, School Improvement Network resources focus on the most relevant topics, feature the top experts, and show educators how to put theory into practice. School Improvement Network works with thousands of schools and districts in every state and around the world and has visited over 3,500 classrooms to document best practices in action. Learn more at www.schoolimprovement.com.

About PD 360 • Practical, Scalable, Measurable
PD 360 is the multi-award winning, leading online, on-demand professional learning resource for schools and districts. With 1,800 videos on 117 topics from 120 experts, PD 360 has the largest online community of educators, with over 822,000 subscribers. The innovative PD 360 videos are unique and class-leading because of the quality of production, and each is research-based with classroom examples of best practices. The videos are also relatively short in nature (approximately 6-12 minutes in length) allowing educators access to “snack-able” content that is easy and accessible to view and implement.

Teachers, administrators, professional learning communities, coaches, mentors, instructional leaders, and paraprofessionals have available at their fingertips hundreds of indexed and searchable video segments that present real, best-practice classroom examples and feature respected education experts, such as Michael Fullan, Rick DuFour, Doug Reeves, Rick Stiggins, and many others. Educators can instantly find the help they need on nearly every topic, including differentiation, assessment, English language learners, leadership, and more. PD 360 can also be used to create a structured learning experience for an individual teacher, a PLC, or even an entire school. PD 360 bridges the gap between training and classroom implementation with job-embedded follow-up, tracking, and reflection tools. PD 360 gives educators access to an online community of teaching professionals that allows interaction and collaboration either within a district or across the United States and the world. PD 360 includes over 1,800 research-based video learning segments and is the most comprehensive web-based library of professional development resources available. See a demonstration at www.pd360.com.

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Press Contact:
Duane Sprague
School Improvement Network
801-758-9546
duane.sprague@schoolimprovement.com

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