Professional Development Pandemic Style—How one District Is Prepping Staff For Success

July 14, 2020 00:20:23
Professional Development Pandemic Style—How one District Is Prepping Staff For Success
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Professional Development Pandemic Style—How one District Is Prepping Staff For Success

Jul 14 2020 | 00:20:23

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Show Notes

Jon Castelhano, Executive Director of Technology at Gilbert Public Schools in suburban Phoenix, Arizona, is making lemonade. Instead of stopgap measures to make it through the COVID-19 crisis, his district is crafting strategic changes with an eye toward the long term. These are ideas long talked about but never implemented in the 40 schools that serve 34,000 students. For it to work, faculty need to reinvent themselves too. In this conversation with eSchool News, Jon describes how they intend to do just that.

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