Viewers will be provided an overview of how professional growth in a school can be structured and organized to support a professional learning community atmosphere where staff development meetings are job embedded, teacher led and driven by student work. This short video connects standards created by the National Staff Development Council to what is happening in many schools around the state as they implement Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

Learn how professional learning communities actually work in schools. This series videocasts provides a glimpse at an inner city elementary school’s PLC. The videos focus on a teacher-led professional development meeting (cluster meeting) and includes a coaching session with the teacher leader to encourage self reflection on areas to reinforce and refine.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

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Download this series of five videocasts to learn how professional learning communities actually work in schools. These short videos provide a look at an inner city high school’s PLC and focuses on a teacher led cluster meeting. The videocasts also include a coaching session with the teacher leader to encourage self reflection on areas to reinforce and refine.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

This videocast discusses the commitment of teachers to professional learning communities within a middle school in south Texas. It also provides an overview of how the PLC was conducted and accepted by teachers in a school district.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

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This videocast provides an overview of PLCs by Paige Elliott, Teacher of the Year in Wake County Public Schools and useful information on how to start a PLC.

Audience: Teachers and Administrators

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This Positive Behavior Support demonstration provides an inside look into creating an effective PBS Model. Information will be provided concerning possible challenges to implementation and best practices that will assist districts and/or individual schools with successful PBS implementation.

Audience: K-12 educators

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This Positive Behavior Support demonstration provides an inside look into creating an effective PBS Model. Information will be provided concerning possible challenges to implementation and best practices that will assist districts and/or individual schools with successful PBS implementation.

Audience: K-12 educators

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This videocast provides an overview of differentiated instruction (DI) through examples. Characteristics of a DI classroom are identified and discussed.

Audience: Regular and Special Education Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Specialists, Administrators

View this videocast to gain insight on how EAGLE can be used to promote the learning of GLEs through a technology-based online system. This videocast explains how teachers use EAGLE to adjust their instructional strategies to effectively meet their students’ needs and looks at how students can improve performance by assessing their own learning skills.

Audience: Grade 4 ELA and Math Teachers, Grade 9 Algebra Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Technology Specialists, Administrators

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