Natalie's Story: Providing Personalized Professional Development to Empower Teachers and Staff
Timely, relevant, and personalized professional development helps teachers feel supported and valued, reducing burnout and increasing retention. Connecting PD to the daily realities of being a teacher provides opportunities for educators to grow, innovate, and improve their practice to optimize student outcomes.
Natalie's Challenge: Disconnected educator professional development experience
Natalie knew that providing the best learning experience for students in her district meant the teachers needed to feel supported and cared for in ways that were meaningful to them. This meant that one-off workshops, one-size-fits-all seminars, and other common forms of PD needed to be reimagined.
Natalie's Solution: Personalized professional development for educator success
Natalie wanted to improve teacher support with effective evaluations and observations. She wanted all her teachers to have access to the tools they needed so they could feel ownership of their PD journeys, including planning, managing, and tracking their professional development. And she wanted to provide easy access to an expanded array of professional learning options so they could choose the PD that best fit their learning styles and busy schedules. The cloud-based solution she implemented met all the criteria.
A Centralized Hub for Resources, Goal Setting, and Growth Tracking
With a single sign-on (SSO), Natalie and the educators in her district can create personalized professional development plans, use data and centralized information to identify areas for growth, and engage in evaluations and support that create feedback loops to help teachers thrive.
Challenges
- Mismatched with current growth needs
- Burdensome
- Time-consuming
- Generic
Solutions
- Aligned with personalized areas for growth
- Convenient
- Efficient
- Personalized
Increase teacher retention, deliver meaningful content, and provide thoughtful, personalized professional learning and support
With Powerschool’s Talent Recruitment & Retention Cloud, Natalie and her team work with teachers and staff to map out the best professional development growth journey for each of them. District staff feel empowered to take ownership of the PD opportunities that best fit their learning styles, teaching preferences, and goals. Natalie sees increased engagement and a positive impact on the morale of her district.
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