Education Leader Network Professional Development eBulletin
May 11th, 2011
for District Leaders 

Follow us on Twitter 

Find us on Facebook 


In This Issue
The Truth About Gender Differences and Learning
Doug Reeves on School Reform
Bill Gates Education for the Real World
Todd Whitaker's Motivating & Inspiring Teachers
What STEM Looks Like in the Classroom

Digital Age Learners 

Today's Students are Wired DIfferently!    

 

How will you move your schools into better meeting the needs of today's learner?


How will your teachers adopt the common core standards, and still meet the learning needs of the digital learner.

Find out how school districts in Illinois are collaborating to begin the dialog with principals and teachers,  address the challenges and  begin the critical steps to shifting practice to engage learning and lead their schools into the digital age.

 

Click here to learn more!   


Get Your Teachers On Board Today!

Do you have teachers who are struggling to manage the inclusive classroom?

If so, how are you supporting them?  Give your teachers access to Inclusion PD Now-the anytime, lifeline they need to help all learners thrive in the inclusive classroom.

 

Click here to learn more about this one-of-a-kind PD program!   

Instructional Leader on the Go...

Each PD eBulletin gives the busy district-level leader brief, practical, free, high quality learning opportunities in a variety of media formats.


The Truth About Gender Differences and Learning

 

It is a popular topic of conversation among educators and parents: Are there really inherent differences between the ways in which boys and girls learn?  If you spend time observing students in most classrooms today, it would be easy to conclude that these differences do exist...

 


Doug Reeves on School Reform

 

Author and researcher Doug Reeves chanllenges leaders to focus their school improvement efforts on fewer goals, empower their teacher leaders through action research, and get rid of "toxic grading practices" that disempower students instead of building resilience and personal responsibility.

 


Bill Gates Education
for the Real World


In this audio lecture, Gates challenges Stanford MBA students to take on the world's difficult problems as a focus of their career or life mission.

 

Click here to listen to this podcast!


Motivating & Inspiring Teachers:

The Educational Leader's Guide for Building Staff Morale

Todd Whitaker, Beth Whitaker, Dale Lumpa

 

This book is filled with strategies to motivate yokur staff and maintain a high level of energy for instruction and learning.

 

Click here to learn more about this book!


What STEM Looks Like
in the Classroom

June 1st and 9th at 12pm EST 

 

PCS Edventures, the national leader in STEM education programs and products, is offering a free online demonstration of what STEM education looks like in the classroom.

 

Click here to learn more about this webinar!