PD 360 is an on-demand library of hundreds of searchable video segments that cover the topics most relevant to teachers. Each video segment is presented by a top educational expert and features multiple best-practice classroom examples to help teachers see how they can apply research-based instruction with their students. PD 360 includes integrated tracking, reporting, and follow-up tools to ensure accountability and implementation. Ideal for teachers, principals, district administrators, coaches, mentors, content specialists, training facilitators, and paraprofessionals, PD 360 provides the accessibility, flexibility, and differentiated support necessary for effective professional development.
California County Educational Technology Consortium
The California County Educational Technology Consortium (CCETC) is the largest buying and licensing consortium of instructional media in the United States. CCETC operates under an agreement between fourteen county offices of education and exists to provide teachers and students with the best instructional resources in a cost-effective manner. With its emphasis on standards-based digital resources, CCETC felt PD 360 would be a valuable tool for teachers and is now offering PD 360 to its member districts.
Catapult Learning
Catapult Learning is an educational service company that partners with over 1,000 schools across the nation. Catapult provides research-based educational and support services designed to improve student achievement. PD 360, with its research-based content and best-practice classroom examples, fits well into Catapult’s mission. PD 360 is now one of the premier professional development resources Catapult offers its schools.
Drake University
Drake University is a premier private university ranked by a US News and World Report as one of the top four graduate schools in the Midwest. The School of Education has a fifteen year history of service to teachers across the United States and Ontario. Drake has joined with the School Improvement Network to provide graduate credit for members of Professional Learning Communities through PD 360. Teachers can earn three graduate credits per semester for a highly competitive price. Those who elect graduate credit through PD 360 may be able to use the credit for advancement on a local salary scale, license renewal, and/or elective credit in a degree program.
Texas Association of School Administrators
The Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) is the largest association of district and school administrators in Texas. The School Improvement Network recently partnered with TASA to provide a customized version of PD 360 for TASA to offer to its members.
University of North Carolina Wilmington
The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) has one of the strongest university-school partnership programs in the country. For the past thirteen years, the UNCW Watson School of Education has collaborated with ten districts to provide professional development opportunities. UNCW now offers PD 360 to its partner districts as a prime tool to train both teachers and administrators.
The School Improvement Network is proud to partner with each of these institutions and is pleased that these partnerships will help put a proven, research-based tool in the hands of more educators.
About PD 360 Professional Development On-Demand™
As the most comprehensive and innovative on-demand professional development resource, PD 360 is revolutionizing the way schools and districts provide professional development. Educators can find the individualized support they need with hundreds of indexed and searchable video segments that address the most pertinent topics, like classroom instruction that works, differentiation, instructional coaching, English language learners, data, assessment, closing achievement gaps, math, reading, brain research, and many others. Every segment features one or more of education’s most respected experts—Michael Fullan, Rick Stiggins, Gayle Gregory, Douglas Reeves, Rick DuFour, Eleanor Renee Rodriguez, Todd Whitaker, Jackie Sattes, Beth Walsh, and Glenn Singleton—and shows multiple authentic, best-practice classroom examples to help teachers see what effective instruction actually looks like. PD 360 is ideal for teachers, administrators, professional learning communities, coaches, mentors, instructional leaders, and paraprofessionals. See it at www.pd360.com.
