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    Lessons Learned from the Teacher Incentive Allotment

    By Julia Ramsey

    The Teacher Incentive Allotment within HB-3 is one of Texas’s best levers for recruiting, retaining, and rewarding exceptional educators. But as district leaders know, building a local designation system requires careful planning, data design, and calibration to be successful. Hear Lubbock Independent School District share the challenges, insights and lessons learned from their TIA journey.
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    Walking the PD Tightrope

    By Julia Ramsey

    Learn how two school districts (Rock Hill Schools and Corona-Norco Unified School District) are leveraging technology to maintain coherence between district and campus priorities while ensuring professional learning stays nimble.
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    K-12 Catalyst: The Future of Professional Growth

    By Julia Ramsey

    Panel with Jim Knight, Jen Abrams, Dr. Luvelle Brown Kris Rouleau, and Jeremy Rogoff on the critical future path of professional growth.
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    K-12 Catalyst: Building a System for Educator Professional Growth

    By Julia Ramsey

    KickUp presents on how to build a strong, effective evaluation system that leads to educator growth.
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    K-12 Catalyst: How to Assess and Improve Online Instruction — Lessons from a Virtual School

    By Julia Ramsey

    Quality Matters, Virtual Learning Leadership Alliance and Virtual Virginia present their research on effective online instruction systems.
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    Continuous Improvement: Principles and Practices for Growing Educators During COVID

    By Julia Ramsey

    TeachFX and Anaheim Union High School District talk through translating continuous improvement principles into practical learnings for deploying support and changing teacher practice.
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    Putting Feedback to Work with Joellen Killion and Comal ISD

    By Julia Ramsey

    Professional learning expert Joellen Killion and Hanna Schramm of Comal ISD talk through how districts can use lightweight PD feedback data to optimize professional learning programs and ensure instructional adoption.
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    Designing and Monitoring Effective Summer PD with McREL International and Lubbock ISD

    By Julia Ramsey

    Learn how one district is using data to hone their summer PD’s focus around meeting individual needs and driving towards change in practice, backed by research from McREL International.
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    Coaching During COVID

    By Julia Ramsey

    Education research luminary Jim Knight and St. Vrain Valley Schools Assistant Superintendent Diane Lauer talk instructional coaching, emotional supports, data collection for professional learning, and much more.
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    Rethinking Teacher Evaluation

    By Julia Ramsey

    Camdenton R-III School District shares how they moved beyond a compliance-driven culture of teacher evaluation to one that is a natural extension of professional learning.