TEACHER LED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

HARNESSING THE POWER OF THE PROFESSIONAL TO UNLOCK TRUE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Presenting the work of

Matthew B. Courtney

and the

Bluegrass Center

for Teacher Quality.

The systems for professional learning

available to America’s teachers are broken!

Few teachers are highly satisfied

with the professional development available to

them.

Professional development

formats preferred by administration are not meeting teacher’s needs.

Principals largely share in teacher’s

concerns regarding the

effectiveness of professional

development.

Few teachers think that their

PD has improved over the years. According to the 2014

report “Teachers

Know Best: Teacher’s Views on

Professional Development”

See for Yourself!

In 2013 we asked ourselves…

How can we make this better?

What We Did

We paid them to coach and teach their peers!

We asked teachers what they wanted.

We trained teachers to deliver high quality

professional development.

What Happened?

It started small, but after a year…

We had provided over 250 hours of FREE

professional learning on topics that mattered to

teachers!

We had trained over 1000 teachers on

everything from STEM to classroom management!

We had started a larger conversation about who really owns professional

learning!

In This Session

Participants will explore the current professional learning landscape.

Learn what we did, and how we did it.

Imagine a future where teachers are in control of their learning and growth!

Come dream with us and inspire the future!