Why PD In Focus?
Your subscription to PD In Focus:
- Provides your state, district, or school ongoing, collaborative professional development for professional learning groups with videos and other content related to research-based school improvement.
- Shows faculty at all grades, subjects, and experience levels powerful examples of strategies and concepts that are essential to accomplishing the goals of accountability-based education.
- Creates more time for professional development with a continuous connection to video demonstrations and other information about research-based classroom practices.
- Overcomes funding obstacles by eliminating travel costs, conference fees, and other expenses associated with typical face-to-face professional development activities.
- Makes professional development programs more accountable for results by using online tracking and feedback tools.
- Ensures greater transference of professional development ideas to the classroom by making professional development a job-embedded activity.
- Gets broader buy-in for professional development by making it easier for staff members to engage in activities that are brief and enjoyable yet still deeply meaningful to their jobs.
- Makes professional development more flexible to different groups and customized to local situations.
- Increases consistency of messaging and expectations by ensuring all teachers are participating in the content delivered by the same expert versus the variability inherent in most train-the-trainer models.
- Ensures your professional development effort is focused on "big ideas" related to systemic school improvement.