Professional Growth
Teacher Leadership
teacher involvement in PD decisions
Full Challenge: PK-12 STEM teacher involvement in the selection of professional development.
Challenge Description: Teachers do not have an effective mechanism to communicate their professional development needs to their principals, professional development providers, and community partners. As a result, teachers are rarely involved in the identification or selection of professional development opportunities.
Progress
First Look: Remotely Located Multi-Classroom Leadership in Hard-to-Staff Secondary Schools
Watch "First Look: Remotely Located Multi-Classroom Leadership in Hard-to-Staff Secondary Schools", a "Steal This" presentation from North Carolina...
Code Nation's Teacher Led Pilot: Findings and Recommendations
Watch "Teacher Led Programming: Pilot Findings and Recommendations", a recorded "Steal This" presentation from Code Nation. In the 2019-20 school...
Teacher Forum Talks: Teachers Taking Initiative, Finding their Voice, and Seeking Community Partnerships
December 16, 2019 The 100Kin10 Teacher Forum helps us keep a pulse on what’s happening “on the ground” in classrooms and schools across the county....
100Kin10 Project Team: Enabling Data-Driven Professional Development (2017-2018)
Updated on: September 26, 2018 - Check out a webinar about this team's work.- Download the write-up of this team's work -- a survey to elicit...
It’s More Than Schedules: Teacher Collaboration and Innovative Instruction
June 1, 2018 We launched the 100Kin10 Teacher Forum to get a better pulse on what’s happening in schools and classroom across the country, directly...
Many schools lack opportunities for teacher leadership.
Published July 2017. The complexities of the 21st century require a citizenry with the skills to think critically and conceptually about difficult...
Professional development is often treated as a compliance issue.
Published July 2017. Recent reports from such organizations as the National Research Council and the National Academy of Science highlight concerns...
"How do I get my administration to recognize that they have a valuable resource in me?"
I can be a leader or a follower, depending on what the situation demands. I started teaching in 1998 with the help of excellent mentors,...
The traditional school model discourages experimentation.
Published July 2017. A typical public school classroom in the United States looks much the same in 2017 as it did in the mid-19th century: A teacher...
There is no commonly-agreed upon trajectory for teacher professional growth.
Published July 2017. Currently, there exists a plethora of ways and reasons that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers...
Teachers often lack access to quality STEM professional development.
Published July 2017. Efforts to improve K–12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education will necessarily require quality...
Teachers' voices are regularly absent from conversations about their professional growth.
Published July 2017. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs are expected to...
"Too often, professional development in schools is disjointed, unsupported, and participated in just to check a box toward recertification"
In the third grade, I had a lovely teacher who meant well. Nearly every week, we would celebrate Fridays with a game of “Round the World” to practice...
Schools often lack a collaborative environment to foster teacher growth.
Published July 2017. One of the factors contributing to the attrition of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers is the lack...