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  Blended Learning: Intentional Personalized Instruction for All

  Amy W. Fonseca, Andrew McCully, Amber Tuttle, and Sheila Wright

  This Professional Learning Module (PLM) was designed to support educators in learning more about Blended Learning, the related models, and information for implementing this effective, enriched, and student-driven instructional framework. Blended learning serves to combine the traditional instruction and feel of a brick-and-mortar school with online learning. This PLM reviews the four overarching models of Blended Learning: 1) rotation models, 2) the flex model, 3) the a la carte model, and 4) the enriched virtual model. The module also provides examples of Blended Learning for K-12 classrooms and covers The Blended Learning Teacher Competencies to support proper implementation. Educators, administrators, and other educational stakeholders will find this PLM helpful.

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  Collective Teacher Efficacy

  Annie McEntyre, Stephanie Revis, Helena Vanhorn, and Gina Gold

  This professional learning module (PLM) was designed for those in leadership roles in educational organizations who desire to examine the effect of collective teacher efficacy for school improvement purposes. This module defines collective teacher efficacy as it applies to educational settings and impacts student learning. School leaders will learn research-based conditions and practices that have been found to foster collective efficacy in schools. Collective Teacher Efficacy Professional Learning Module is aligned with the North Carolina Standards for School Executives, Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, and Teacher Leader Model Standards.

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  Deconstructing the Standards

  Melissa Y. Pollard and Seon S. Sloley

  The purpose of this Professional Learning Module (PLM) is to improve teacher understanding of academic standard deconstruction. We created this professional learning module to assist educators in better understanding how to deconstruct standards. In this PLM, you will find information about:

  1.The need for deconstruction

  2.The deconstruction process

  3. Identifying learning Targets

  4. Using a graphic organizer

  5. Common assessments aligned to standards

  We hope that both educators and district-level personnel will find this PLM instrumental in the training process of deconstructing standards. In unpacking, repacking, and organizing standards, teachers will develop a better understanding of what the standards are explicitly stating what isrequired of students academically. The deconstructing process will also give educators the opportunity to create quality assessments for students in improving mastery across content areas.

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  Evidence-Based Reading Interventions for Middle and High School Teachers

  Brittany Evans, Beverly Hart, and MaShonda Surratt

  Welcome to Evidence-Based Reading Practices. This module is designed to help middle and high school teachers intervene with struggling readers in their regular education classrooms. This module will take you approximately three hours to complete. During that time, you will learn what to do when students are missing the necessary foundational skills to become skilled readers.

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  Self-Mentoring: Discovering the Mentor Within

  Lisa Savage and Pamela Williams

  This professional learning module (PLM) was created to help educators, including classroom teachers, administrators, and instructional support staff learn about self-mentorship. The module will describe the concept of self-mentoring as a process for engaging in self-directed professional and personal growth. Districts may find it beneficial to use this PLM to train educators on how self-mentoring can be used as a leadership development tool for improving their professional and instructional practices.

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  Travel Agent vs. Tour Guide: A Passport to Student Engagement

  Alexis Greer, Demia Johnson, Jenee Peace, and Christopher Scruggs

  This module is designed for all teachers (elementary, middle, and high) that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic through virtual and/or hybrid instruction and are currently teaching in a K-12 setting. This module will provide resources and information related to planning authentic learning tasks and re-engaging students! This module will take you approximately 4 hours to complete. The focus of this module is to provide introductory information, examples of high-yield strategies, and resources for future self-paced inquiry.

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  A Guide to Standards-Based Learning

  Geneva Bell, Sarah Rector, Elizabeth Schrecengost, and Beth Washle

  This learning module educates parents/guardians and teachers new to the practice to understand what standards-based learning is, why a school system would use it, how to know when students are learning the standards, and the difference from traditional learning.

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  Compassionate Care: Working with Students with ACEs

  Leah Massey Huttlinger and Andrea Gardner Nordberg

  This Professional Learning Module (PLM) was created for educators to learn more about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the negative impact trauma has on student learning. Participants in the PLM will learn about ACEs, the brain science related to trauma, behaviors associated with ACEs in the classroom, strategies to help mitigate the impact of ACEs in the classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to apply these strategies to real-life situations within the PLM. The PLM was meant to be completed independently, in small groups, or as whole-group faculty training. The option to submit a certificate for CEUs is provided upon completion of the PLM.

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