Building Capacity Through Continuous Professional Learning

Build a Culture Where Educators Learn, Collaborate, and Grow.

In this online course, you’ll develop the skills to create a professional learning culture where educators deepen their expertise, reflect on their practice, and work together toward shared literacy goals. 

Through practical field-based assignments, you’ll learn to design engaging professional learning experiences that respond to your school’s goals. You’ll develop the skills to facilitate conversations that extend thinking and use evidence of student and teacher learning to guide continued growth. You’ll gain practical tools and strategies to build your colleagues’ capacity and strengthen literacy instruction across your school or district. 

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

• Cultivate a professional learning culture by identifying and strengthening the conditions that support collaboration, inquiry, and continuous growth. 
• Design purposeful professional learning experiences that respond to colleagues’ needs and advance school or district literacy goals. 
• Facilitate adult learning and collaboration using language, questioning, and discussion strategies that deepen thinking, encourage reflection, and extend professional conversations. 
• Use evidence and artifacts to engage colleagues in collaborative inquiry, examine teaching and learning, and identify opportunities for growth. 
• Select and adapt professional learning approaches to address different learning goals, needs, and contexts. 
• Develop a professional learning plan and evaluation tools to guide adult learning, assess its effectiveness, and inform next steps.