INVERT your Professional Development with SCHOOLS

As a professional educator, you want to spend your professional development time on things that are relevant to you and your students, or at least, connected to school initiatives. Here at IPLNA, we understand this desire, and want you to know, that we have the answer that will alleviate almost all the problems with traditional forms of professional development while making them more effective in impacting your pedagogical practices.

The world has changed, technology has impacted almost every part of our society, and because of this, educators are required to stay up to date in our pedagogical practices. The needs of our society have changed and the world our students will enter when they have left their formal schooling is full of unknowns. It is for these reasons that educators must find meaningful ways to improve their craft.

Dr. Shannon H. Doak has created a research-informed framework that will assist professional educators in their journey to become better at what they do. This framework is called SCHOOLS. SCHOOLS stands for Self-Created Human-Organized Online Learning System.

The SCHOOLS framework will assist you in making your professional development more effective. By giving you the tools you need to actually impact your pedagogical practices. 

Here at IPLNA, we want to help you INVERT your professional development to make it more impactful and meaningful.  The SCHOOLS framework will assist you in making your PD more Individualized, more in the “Now” current, more Valuable, Effective and Reflective, and Teacher driven.  These things have been shown to impact professional learning in a way that helps it reach its ultimate goal, an increase in student achievement.

Become a member today to find out how IPLNA’s SCHOOLS Framework can assist you in your own professional growth.

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