Get the Best Professional Learning Resources Well Within Your Budget

Midvale -- Free-Press-Release.com-- Feb 10, 2012 -- The leading PD developer in the country, School Improvement Network, has re-released a white paper this week that has helped teachers everywhere improve professional learning at their schools, while saving them tens of thousands of dollars.

“This white paper, ‘Avoiding Foreclosure on Education,’ is one of the most widely read that our company has ever released,” says Cory Linton, vice president of School Improvement Network. “We’re not surprised. It provides teachers with incredible information, and outlines ways to access the best professional learning resources for educators available, without expending their budgets. We’ve received a resounding, positive response to it. It’s really striking a chord with a lot of people. We’re releasing it again, now, to make sure that any educator with an interest has access to it.”

“The need for valuable, professional learning resources is out there,” Linton continues. “Even with our economy slowly gaining ground, there are still thousands of schools that are continuing to struggle just to put together funding adequate to cover basic needs, let alone add the types of programs that would help improve the quality of teaching. To those schools and those teachers: we encourage you to pick up ‘Avoiding Foreclosure on Education’ and see if you can’t begin to provide your staff with high-quality professional learning within your budget.”

To download a PDF version of ‘Avoiding Foreclosure on Education,” visit http://www.schoolimprovement.com/research/white-papers-brochures. Discover what hundreds of thousands of educators have learned by joining the School Improvement Network community for free. To receive a free 30-day trial of PD 360, School Improvement Network’s premiere PD platform, visit www.schoolimprovement.com and click on the “free 30-day trial” button.

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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