What’s the future of K-12 professional development?
BetterLesson CEO Matt Kennard recently sat down with Whiteboard Advisors’ Matt Tower to explore how K-12 professional development needs to change — and scale — to meet district leaders’, school leaders’, and classroom educators’ needs now and into our rapidly changing future.
Professional development is a tech-enabled service, that will always have, at its core, human-to-human learning exchange. How can professional learning at scale combine some great elements of emerging technology alongside of that human-centered service?
Of the 40 billion dollars being spent on professional development, districts themselves spending about 60%, and that’s generally in the form of instructional coaches and supports and other pieces that go along with it. The rest of that is on external providers. What sets those providers apart?
How BetterLesson is redefining what it means to be a partner to districts by expanding our solutions to include schedule optimization and resource allocation. We’re offering a district leader control over their instructional day and control over the ability to make sure the right job embedded training is showing up for the educators who need it. And that keeps them in the classroom.
Check out this sneak peek and keep an eye out for the full interview to be released soon here and on Whiteboard Advisors YouTube channel.
