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Creating A Personal PD Plan professional development time management Feb 24, 2025

written by Katie Maciulewicz

Instructional coaches often provide professional development for teachers, but we also need our own PD! Unfortunately, the PD resources for coaches are a little scattered – blogs, podcasts, books, newsletters, social media accounts. (Guilty. The EDU Coach Network has al...

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PD Without a Meeting best practices professional development Jan 27, 2025

Written by Grace Brown 

We’re all familiar with the big district-, school-, or department-wide professional development meeting. We know it, we love it, and we rely on it. However, a giant, time-consuming meeting is not always the best method for engaging, authentic professional development. Let’s ...

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Warming Up: Refreshing Coaching for the New Year general coaching professional development technology integration Jan 13, 2025

Written by Kristen Butler

The start of a new year brings a chill in the air – it’s time to warm up your instructional coaching strategies to prevent an icy reception! As tech coaches, we have cool tools, but it’s the connections you make with teachers and the impact on student learning that makes o...

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Graphic Design & Coaching: Small Changes to Level Up Your Impact coaching role instructional design professional development Nov 18, 2024

by Grace Brown

I have a confession. 

For most of my teaching career, I suffered from major teacher envy. 

Searching through TPT, scrolling through Instagram, or even sitting in faculty meetings, I saw presentations, worksheets, and activities that were vibrant, engaging, and consistently branded. H...

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Keeping Up With the Techies best practices empowering teachers professional development technology integration Oct 21, 2024

Written by Katie Maciulewicz

As Bob Dylan sings, “Times, they are a-changing.” And in the world of edtech, they’re a-changing rapidly. 

This past summer, Flip (formerly Flipgrid) announced that it had been acquired by Microsoft and was only going to be available to schools using Teams for Educatio...

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12 Ideas to Make Back to School PD Meaningful culture new to coaching professional development relationships Aug 09, 2024

Written by Brooke Conklin

The back-to-school season can be a whirlwind for teachers, filled with excitement and a touch of overwhelm. As instructional and technology coaches, we understand the importance of providing meaningful professional development (PD) experiences that support teachers durin...

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A Look at Bite-Sized Learning for Teachers empowering teachers professional development restart recharge podcast Feb 09, 2024

Written by Brooke Conklin

Mark was frustrated. As an instructional coach at Roosevelt High School, he had been working hard to provide quality PD for teachers. But attendance at their traditional after-school workshops was dwindling. Teachers claimed they were too burned out to engage in more learn...

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