Vision

Provide lifelong professional learning for educators to: 1. continuously develop the capacity to value, stretch, and engage ALL students in reading during daily in-person and online learning. ALL means across abilities, cultural and linguistics backgrounds, and interests. 2. Disrupt systems of inequity through daily strategic interactions and teaching methods.

Values

• Challenge
• Understanding
• Relationships
• Equity

Methods – Our professional learning is:

• Collaborative – learning with and from others to achieve a goal
• Modeled – learning experiences are active and model the research based practices being taught
• Aligned to standards – both professional teaching (Danielson Framework, State Teacher Evaluation Rubrics) and student learning (e.g. Common Core)
• Immersive – using new technologies including 360 video, virtual reality, natural language processing, and augmented reality
• Personalized – self-paced, interest and need driven, differentiated supports
• Practical – ready for immediate daily use with students digitally or in-person
• Thinking focused – fueled by problem-solving and strategic planning
• Expanded and sustained through community interaction
• Evidence-based- we use research on participant learning to improve our experiences and share our results through a variety of publications