Learning Forward Texas | Professional Development

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The place for professional learning leaders to collaborate together

The LFTX Summer Conference planned for June 16-17,2020 in Irving, TX has been cancelled. you will recieve an email with refund information next week.

(Updated may 7, 2020)

community impact

Following the Tips experience, we are inspired with ideas on how to improve training and workshops provided to colleagues in the office as well as with the teachers who attend Special Education Boot Camp sessions.

We are excited to share some of the ideas that the Tips training ignited and explain how to intentionally incorporate knowledge about adult learning into future sessions.

We are grateful that you inspired your neighbors north of the border through the powerful Tips workshop.

Susan Pinson, M.A.T.

Executive Director of Professional Learning

Office of Educator Effectiveness

Oklahoma State Department of Education

I want to share some evidence of the impact that the Tips workshop has had on a colleague. Jacque Cullen is a Professional Learning Specialist in the Office of Special Education.

Our MISSION

Learning Forward Texas is an educational nonprofit association of learning educators committed to one vision in K–12 education:

Excellent teaching and learning every day.

We would love to have you join us. There is no fee. No fancy registration. We only ask that you come ready to share, open to learn, and prepared to be a contributing part of one of the greatest Professional Learning Networks around.

TIPS AND TOOLS 1

Adult Learning

Examine the attributes of standards-based professional learning.
Study the characteristics of adult learners and adult socialization.
Investigate the power of norms and how to implement them successfully
Learn a framework for designing and delivering powerful professional learning.
Participate in many processes that model effective professional learning.

TIPS AND TOOLS 2

Presentation Skills

Participate in processes that model effective professional learning.
Learn about window panes and how to use them as a robust learning tool
Investigate a powerful resource for facilitating adult learning
Experience a variety of purposeful engagement strategies
Learn about reflection and how to use it to improve learning

TIPS AND TOOLS 3

Planning and Designing

Experience strategies that promote high levels of engagement
Reframe and identify strategies for transforming negativity
Learn techniques to field questions
Study effective methods for using music and giving directions to enhance presentations
Learn important considerations for planning and designing professional learning.
Apply the Nested Process to planning
Consider a plan of action for future presentations

CULTIVATING LEADERSHIP

Collaborative Learning

Explore strategies to accelerate team development and build collective teacher efficacy.
Experience processes that promote contributions from ALL team members
Learn strategies to lead teams in designing and using their own accountability structures.
Explore communication practices to set clear expectations and structure the work.
Understand how Emotional Intelligence can be leveraged to positively impact collaborative teams.
Learn a process to address conflicts and conduct difficult conversations.