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Quickly Turn Comments into Clear Professional Goals with New Edthena Commitments

Jul 25, 2017

The daily routine for a teacher is hectic: Coordinate homeroom. Execute lessons. Monitor lunch. Grade papers. Call parents. Plan for tomorrow.

And somewhere within this busy schedule, teachers are also participating in professional learning to continually increase their effectiveness.

With Edthena for video-powered PD, this means the teacher is recording a classroom video, discussing with others for feedback, and (hopefully) determining a next step for what to change or what to try next. Our own desire is to help teachers take these next steps from good idea to in-classroom action.

To help teachers keep track of all the professional development to-dos coming from their coaching conversations, we’ve developed a new tool called Commitments.

Creating ‘Hyper-Accelerated, Self-initiated Cycles of Professional Learning’ using Video Observation in a School District

Conference Presentation

Jul 6, 2017

“We really feel like we are living in an era of exponential change. Many districts across the nation, I’m certain, are feeling the teacher shortage. And so it’s critical that the teachers we do hire, we keep and we retain. And while maybe five ten years ago, we felt like we could take time to…

Cultivating Community Among Alternative Route Teachers at Bowling Green State University

Partner Profile

Jun 21, 2017

The saying goes, “Reading, writing, arithmetic.” But what about when the teachers you’re training teach subjects like business and administrative services, construction technologies, or family and consumer sciences? The alternative route teachers Jane Briggs works with through Bowling Green State University’s Workforce Education and Development program teach subjects like these. They are also new to…

How This Teacher Uses Video To Conduct Action Research

Teacher Voices

Jun 12, 2017

JoEllen Dunn – a seventh grade science teacher at Long Branch Middle School in Long Branch, New Jersey – is using video to turn reflection into research. JoEllen and her peers at Long Branch use Edthena to conduct action research. They select relevant skills and strategies they want to improve on over the course of…

Network for Transforming Educator Preparation: Video Analysis Became a Cornerstone of the Radford University Experience

Conference Presentation

May 25, 2017

The process of transforming education preparation is multifaceted and complex. A multi-year working group called Network for Transforming Educator Preparation (NTEP) within Council of Chief State School Officers aimed to support state departments of education to develop new policy on what this challenge of transformation might mean in their context. Radford University faculty were invited presenters to a national…