Reduced Member Pricing on Professional Learning Events

Prices for PLT members are reduced by up to 50% on these institutes, workshops, and other professional learning activities. The program is limited to activities that follow the standards for professional learning published by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC). Most of these activities are derived from one or more of NSDC's “powerful designs.” Whether the training is off-site or in-school, its objective must be to get educators to work on their own practice, peer-to-peer, using strategies/designs that cross subject-area and grade-level boundaries.

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"Powerful designs" are learning strategies for professional learning that go beyond sit-and-get workshops. Their defining characteristic is that they provide for ongoing professional growth and development after the initial learning is completed. Each "powerful design" is acknowledged by NSDC to be “influential in producing a change in practice, disposition, and results for students.” Among the twenty-plus powerful-design learning strategies are action research, lesson study, data analysis, study groups, walk-throughs, peer coaching, curriculum design, and tuning protocols. NSDC has published descriptions and implementation plans for all the "powerful designs:" see Easton, L.B. (ed), Powerful Designs for Professional Learning, NSDC, Oxford OH, 2004.  (Purchase the book from NSDC.)

See the Table of Contents (Part II) for a brief description of all the powerful designs.

NSDC is recognized as the authority on professional learning for educators. Learn more about NSDC.

Professional learning providers; regional, state, and county authorities; school districts; and others who follow NSDC's standards for professional learning are invited to contact PLT about participating in this program. For more information read how and why this program works for everyone.