Ebook: Using actionable data to fuel professional learning

A free ebook on the six most common obstacles to practical data use in PD administration — featuring examples, documents and case studies from real-life school district offices.

Progress Monitoring for Online Teaching

We're delighted to announce our latest offering: a suite of practical tools and tips for supporting educators in the virtual classroom.

Virtual Classroom Walkthroughs : Practical Look-Fors for Online Classrooms

Guide to building an online walkthrough program, plus a bank of practical look-fors adapted from the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching.

Designing and Monitoring Effective Summer PD: 7 Key Insights for Closing Educator Learning Gaps

Did you get a chance to catch the live Q&A on designing and monitoring effective summer PD? Here’s a recap of the highlights from our conversation with McREL International and Lubbock Independent School District, exploring how research and practice can inform using data to hone summer PD, focus on meeting individual needs, and drive towards change in practice:

Designing and Monitoring Effective Summer PD with McREL International and Lubbock ISD

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.

Case Study

Fontana Unified School District

Adele Thomas

Director of Professional Learning and Teacher Support, Fontana Unified School District

As COVID-19 began shuttering school districts across the country, Fontana Unified School District had just started rolling out its 1:1 technology program. The new tools have given the district’s 36 thousand students greater access than ever before to distance learning — but the district had to figure out how to handle the transition. They're doing just that with KickUp's Virtual Learning Essentials toolkit.

Coaching During COVID

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.

Coaching During COVID: 6 Key Takeaways from Jim Knight and Diane Lauer

Are you registered for April 17th's live Coaching During COVID conversation? We'll be talking district strategy, coach-teacher communication, and much more in a live Q&A with Jim Knight of the Instructional Coaching Group and Diane Lauer of St. Vrain Valley Schools. To tee up that conversation, we pulled some highlights from Jim Knight on adapting instructional coaching in a virtual context.

Case Study

Lubbock Independent School District

Anna Jackson

Executive Director of Leadership and Professional Development

It takes dedicated support to make professional learning not just inspirational but effective. West Texas’s Lubbock Independent School District pairs instructional coaching with content focus strands to close the knowing-doing gap.

The Future of Professional Learning: 8 takeaways on innovation in PD

ESSA’s emphasis on evidence-based professional learning has spurred too much new and potent thinking to ignore. The trick is understanding where innovation can inform and improve the best practices we already know work. We sat down with Diane Lauer, Assistant Superintendent of Priority Programs at St. Vrain Valley Schools, for a chat on where the next steps are and how they connect to what we've been doing all along.