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What if Students Designed PD?
A mandatory in-service day is coming up, and you can already smell the boredom. You know it will be a bunch of sessions offered under the guise of choice…
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The Anti PD Checklist
Professional development must have an impact. Too often, it doesn’t. We’ve all been trapped in a meeting where professional development is measured by seat time. We tell ourselves that…
A Complete Guide to Switching Up Staff Meetings
Today marks the 8th Anniversary of the release of The Four O'Clock Faculty ! The ideas of the book still resonate, and to celebrate, I've compiled all of the…
Happy Birthday ROGUE Leader!
Wow, three years. ROGUE Leader: Make the Rules, Inspire Others, and Take Control of Your Own Professional Development Destiny has officially been out in the world for three years.…
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What’s it for?
In The Practice, Seth Godin writes: We have a meeting at 4:00pm. Okay, what’s it for? Well, we always have this meeting… So the ‘what’s-it-for’ is: It’s easier to…
International PD Day!
February 5th is World Nutella Day, and yesterday, February 6th, we celebrated National Frozen Yogurt Day. On February 8th, we will honor those brave enough to get out their…
Bite Size Chunks of PD
Last week, I had the chance to present a session on professional development at the Techspo Conference in New Jersey. At the beginning of the session, I shared a…
PD LIFT Presentation @ Techspo
Thank you for joining us for our PD LIFT Presentation! Please find the presentation materials below: Techspo-PD LIFT SlidesDownload
ROGUE Leader Book Club – Jan 30-Feb 24
Are you ready to go ROGUE?! Join the Voxer Book Club for ROGUE Leader! We will be reading the book, sharing our own PD practices, and collaborating to make…
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Collaborate, Plan, and Create
This past week our district had two professional development days. No students, only staff. The first day featured several programs and offerings hosted by our district. The second day…