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How do you make the shift from surface-level PD to professional development that’s relevant to teachers at every stage of their career? (opens the original)
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A leader in Ohio described their building’s PD in one line: “Our PD is always a mile wide and an inch deep. Nothing every creates solid, positive change.”I want to pick up the phrase “a mile wide,” because everyone hears “an inch deep,” and the mile wide is the reason for it. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7mkI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F315ee8f7-ed44-4
“I don’t know if strategies are being used.” (opens the original)
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A leader in New York wrote this exact thing, and unfortunately, a lot of people say this when they are talking to us about the struggles they are having with professional development.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="630" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fe
The sentence that gets PD cut in year two (opens the original)
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A leader wrote this on our form about a PD day she’d bought and run: “One of my teachers said she learned all of the stuff in her teacher preparation program so the teachers found all of those sessions (and all of the money that I paid for it) to be a waste.”I want to sit with the parentheses. And all of the money that I paid for it. That’s a leader who advocated for somethingGot it approvedWatched it not land,AND now has
The question we ask every Tuesday (opens the original)
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A leader in Michigan filled out our form with three fragments and nothing else: “Small staff... meeting everyone’s needs... are they listenting...”That’s the whole entry, typo included. I keep it because you can hear her thinking. She’s not describing a problem, she’s in the middle of one, and the last three words are the part that matters. Are they listening. She doesn’t know, and she has no way to find out that doesn’t
"I do not want to make it up." (opens the original)
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That’s a sentence a leader in California typed into our PD plan request form last month. The question on the form is what’s frustrating you about PD right now, and this is the whole answer: “I do not want to make it up. I want to use the data to respond to the needs of the school and teachers.”I’ve read it probably twenty times since. It’s the most honest description I’ve seen of how PD days actually get planned, and I say that as someone who planned them.You have last y
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