Bringing PD to Life: Student-Driven Professional Learning for Thinking Classrooms

Meaningful professional learning should be relevant, transformative, and engaging. In this session, Julia Darcy and Allison McKay will share how they redesigned professional development to build district-wide cohesion with Building Thinking Classrooms by centering the most valuable resource, students. Participants will explore how mini-lab classroom models using real students create authentic, high-impact learning experiences for teachers that lead to immediate shifts in instructional practice. Come learn how student-centered professional development can transform teacher learning and classroom culture.