3.10: Anchors Up! Professional Learning Built to Sail

About this episode

The episode discusses how professional learning can be effectively designed to meet the needs of teachers, featuring insights from Jessica Gutierrez.

Love what you hear, or have a suggestion for a future episode? 💖 Send me a text. 💌 In this episode, we sit down with Technology Support Specialist, Jessica Gutierrez, to explore how professional learning can move with purpose by honoring teacher voice, choice, and real classroom needs. Using Summer Summit as a case study, we examine how one thoughtfully designed, conference-style day can boost teacher confidence, strengthen connections across SLPS, and lead to meaningful classroom follow-thr...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Belinda Benner-Ordoñez

Guest: Jessica Gutierrez

Topics covered

• professional learning
• teacher voice
• teacher choice
• classroom needs
• Summer Summit
• teacher confidence
• educator connections

Keywords

• professional learning
• teacher voice
• Summer Summit
• educator connections
• classroom needs
• teacher confidence
• conference-style

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SLPS

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