The Professional Development Network

How are leading educators taking action for positive change? Find out at theCenter for Success’ Professional Development Network (PDN).

This network brings new and experience teachers and leaders together to engage in helpful dialogue and problem solve, to collaborate on embedding new and more effective practices into their instruction, and to innovate new ideas procedures and policies. The Center’s Professional Development Network (PDN) offers five tracks of learning for effective teachers and leaders and develops learning in each track that is job-embedded and geared to improve teaching and learning in classrooms and in schools. We hope you will join the conversation as we “walk the talk” about Equity, Student Engagement, Teaching and Learning, Technology and Remote Learning, Social and Emotional Learning and Teacher Leadership.

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Center Partnership and Task Forces

Participate in online monthly Center Partnership and Task Force meetings which convene more than 40 deans, chairs, directors, and education faculty, as well as PK-12 administrators and teachers and leading educators to explore key issues in preparation, practice, teaching, learning, and leadership. Our current work includes advocating for equity and diversity, implementing culturally responsive practices, growing teacher leadership, and effecting rigorous recruitment, clinical preparation and retention policies and practices.

The Center’s Task Forces are working groups that convene leading
PK-20 educators to advance critical education initiatives
by bringing the best known research forward and collaborating on evidence-based practices and policies to implement in education preparation and practice programs. The Center’s working task force teams include:

  • Literacy
  • Teacher Leader
  • Diverse Pipeline:  Project LEAD (Leaders in Education Advocating for Diversity)
  • Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards
  • Professional Learning
  • Mathematics
  • Special Education

Center Partners are encouraged to join one or more task
force groups.