Growing Professionally, Part I
Coaching for Learning
» Professional Development
» Online Platforms

Coaching for Learning
Professional Development
• Year-long professional learning journey
• Commitment to work with a school willing to engage in collaborative teaming practices
• Engage in action research
• Reflective Conversations
• Monthly online real-time meetings with team
• Additional training

Standards for Professional Development
The WVBOE has adopted the Learning Forward (formerly National Staff Development
Council) Standards for Professional Learning, as its guide for providing high quality professional development. According to the standards, professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students:
Occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility, and goal alignment;
Requires skillful leadership to develop capacity, advocate, and create support systems for professional learning;
Requires prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating resources for educator learning;
Uses a variety of sources and types of student, educator, and system data to plan, assess, and evaluate professional learning;
Integrates theories, research, and models of human learning into learning designs to achieve its intended outcomes;
Applies research on change and sustains support for implementation of professional learning for long-term change; and
Aligns its outcomes with educator performance and student curriculum standards.

• Nine (9) non-degree hours of graduate credit will be available from Concord
University
– Three courses across the year-long program
• Must sign-up before the end of this
Institute to be included in the group to receive additional information electronically
• These courses may be used for renewal, advanced salary classification, and an advanced credential

• Advanced Credential in ‘Teacher
Leadership for Student Learning’
• Wednesday, May 30 @ 7:00 p.m. –
Stonewall Ballroom

9 hours Graduate Credit/ Advanced
Credential Meeting
• For information about Graduate
Credit and/or to sign up for graduate credit…
– Attend meeting on Wednesday, May 30 @
7:00 p.m. in the Stonewall Ballroom

Online Tools Supporting
Coaching for Learning http://wvde.state.wv.us/coachingforlearning

Margie Johnson, Instructional
Technology Program Specialist
Appalachia Regional Comprehensive
Center (ARCC) at Edvantia

Bodie Fulford, Technology Coordinator
Office of Instructional Technology