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Engage with experts and educators with the Dana Center’s collaborative online courses for professional learning. Our learning and content experts have engineered these sessions so that—even though you are signing in from your computer—you feel as though you are sitting at a table with fellow educators.
Offering teachers the opportunity to engage with the latest research and insights on classroom learning is vital to their continued growth and success.
Each course series enables teachers to take a deep dive in a specific content area. In a series of 1-to 2-hour sessions over a semester or year, teachers build their content knowledge while collaborating with colleagues.
Our delivery model is designed to support teachers in immediately practicing their new learning in their classrooms and then bringing their learning back to the next session for reflection and continuous improvement.
Ensure that all teachers in your district can access our quality, research-based professional development with a district course package. With this package, the Dana Center will provide 4 online facilitated courses of your choosing to teachers in your district. Teachers can attend all 4, or you can match specific content areas with specific teachers.
Study the practices from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics book 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions to learn more about planning for, implementing, and reflecting on student discourse in math.
Explore the latest research on mindsets and other psychological factors that affect student learning, as well as practical applications of this learning for instruction and classroom culture.
Learn the qualities of mathematics rich tasks and a process for easily adapting your materials to add richness for better student learning.
Understand and apply the student mathematical modeling cycle through hands-on learning tasks that can be easily implemented in the classroom.
Study the book 5 Practices for Orchestrating Task-Based Discussions in Science to learn more about planning for, implementing, and reflecting on student discourse in science.
Investigate and apply the 8 Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices described in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics book Principles to Actions by implementing tools and building shared understanding of effective practices.
Study the book 5 Practices for Orchestrating Task-Based Discussions in Science to learn more about planning for, implementing, and reflecting on student discourse in science.
Examine how the crosscutting concepts described in the Next Generation Science Standards influence planning and instruction in secondary science.
Explore how integrating systems thinking into science teaching and learning leads to deeper student comprehension and more fluent and thoughtful application of science content.
We collaborate with state districts and teachers to develop innovative curricula, resources, and professional development.
