Participate and share: Poster 
Educational Challenge: The challenge for educators today is a lack of time or desire to participate in traditional forms of professional development. Especially in a post-Covid world, teachers demand more variety in professional development currently offered to them.
Purpose: The purpose of this session is to empower educators who design professional development for teachers to rethink their current strategies and give them some specific tools to approach their own goals. Educators are used to designing personalized learning experiences for their students, it’s time to turn attention towards personalizing professional learning for teachers and reaching them where they are at on their own path of professional growth.
Participants will be able to:
Attendees will create a comprehensive portfolio of topics, suggestions and proven strategies to reach their target audience.
Attendees will create a schedule with a road map to guide their podcast, Twitter feeds, webinars and websites to achieve their desired outcomes and goals.
Evidence of success:
Participants will walk away with a plan/schedule to direct their professional learning. We will feel successful when participants are prepared to provide personalized professional learning and meet the learners where they are in the learning process.
5 min - Introduction
10 min - Overview of the Instructional Coaching Institute - Elevate Your Coaching!
5 min - Personalizing Pathways - Traditional v.s. Personalized PD (Mentimeter word cloud activity: What kinds of PD is currently offered in your district?)
30 min - Asynchronous Toolkit - podcast, website, collaborative LMS, social media, webinars
Jordan Journey Podcast
Jordan Coaching website
DTL Twitter
Digital Teacher Leader Canvas Course
10 min - Session activity
Small group work - Attendees will create a schedule with a road map to guide their podcast, Twitter feeds, webinars and websites to achieve their desired outcomes and goals and share with a partner and get feedback from peers in the session. (Mentimeter word cloud activity: What kinds of PD are you most excited to see being offered in your district?)
5 min - Q&A/Wrap Up
Novak, Katie, and Catlin R. Tucker. UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes. IMpress, a Division of Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., 2021.
https://udlguidelines.cast.org/more/research-evidence UDL draws from a variety of research including the fields of neuroscience, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology.
https://www.novakeducation.com/blog/the-science-and-research-behind-the-udl-framework
The Impact of Instructional Coaching on Teacher Competency, Job Satisfaction, and Student Growth by Rebecca A. Frazier
“Pre and post instructional survey results from 139 teachers on instructional competency and job satisfaction, and student growth data from 30 teachers’ classes over the course of two years were analyzed using a first differencing statistical approach. In both studies, coaching was found to produce a statistically significant positive impact.”
Perspectives of Elementary Teachers Implementing Blended Learning While Participating in Virtual Coaching by Jessica Kristin Anderson
“Results indicated teachers at higher modes of cognitive processing and higher levels of technology innovation found virtual coaching useful for (a) the implementation of technology tools and strategies, (b) for shifting instructional practices for student impacts, and (c) for reflective practices for professional growth.”
Focusing on Teacher Learning Opportunities to Identify Potentially Productive Coaching Activities by Lynsey K. Gibbons and Paul Cobb
“Drawing on the preservice and inservice teacher education literatures, we present a conceptual analysis of learning activities that have the potential to support mathematics and science teachers to improve practice.”
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