A PD Planning Guidebook for PD Coordinators
Virtualizing Professional Development
By Renee Rehfeldt, Michael Iannini, and Ewen Bailey
The Pandemic has made Professional Development more accessible and inclusive. Download this free guidebook on Virtualizing PD to learn how to make it more impactful to improve teaching and learning.
What We Missed when PD Went Virtual
Renee Rehfeldt
Like many schools around the world, as my school dealt with the new circumstances of the pandemic in the Spring of 2020, we eventually travelled the entire route of grief. The journey described here is how a carefully planned school year was thrown into turmoil, and how we came out the other end of this journey more resilient and capacity built to reimagine and rebuild a more impactful professional development program.
How to Plan Great PD
Michael Iannini
Going virtual has given us more tools, broadened our perspective and greatly increased our learning networks. BUT, not recognizing this shift as part of a larger organizational change, only seeing it as an emergency response, puts at risk losing everything we gained. Now is the time to institutionalize these gains by see this shift as an exercise in Change Management.
What we need to know to deliver great (virtual) PD?
Ewen Bailey
Many school leaders have been placing bets on the areas that appear to best-fit the needs and desires of our school community for as long as schools have been around. However, the emergence of virtual PD has allowed for more, smaller bets to be placed. To institutionalise improvements in teaching and learning, what do you need to know to be able to deliver great Professional Development (PD)?
Join us in our upcoming virtual PD event to acquire best practices and tools that contribute to developing whole-school leaders:
PD Coordinators Job-Alike
Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Time: 16:00 - 18:00 (Hong Kong Time)
This job-alike will focus on how we evaluate if those needs are being met by allowing participants to explore with peers different areas of evaluation. Discussion topics will be influenced by research on how to effectively provision and evaluate professional development.
Meet the Authors.
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Renee Rehfeldt
Curriculum Coordinator and IB Educator, HD Beijing
Renee is an international educator and school leader in the Asia Pacific region. Trained as a classroom teacher, she specializes in curriculum development, inclusive practices in teaching and learning, and professional development and evaluation. She also works with the IB community, leading workshops and supporting the school authorization process.
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Michael Iannini
Affiliated Council of International Schools Consultant
Michael’s main focus is helping schools help master the arts of collaboration, consensus building, and successful organizational management. His diverse work experience has given him the ability to successfully engage with improve school capacity to realize the full potential of their greatest asset, their staff.
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Ewen Bailey
Curriculum Manager, Oak National Academy
Ewen is an educator with more than a decade of experience teaching, leading, and learning in a diverse range of schools. He is particularly passionate about professional and organisational development - Nothing brings me more joy than enabling others to thrive.