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When there is opportunity to reflect throughout the PD to both digest content and to make connection to your own work.

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Active participant engagement makes a PD effective. When participants can participate, learn, and teach someone else what was presented, the PD is considered effective.

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When the participants can leave with materials they can use with students the next day. MAKE (PRACTICE) AND TAKE!

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An effective PD session has a clear purpose and sticks with its audience. Information that will be implemented.

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Effective PD's give me practice time and allow me hands on experiences.

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Information people care about, presented in a way that makes them remember.

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Connected to content; based on needs of participants; modeling best practices; collaborative; time to practice; time to digest

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Having intended outcomes and giving the participants time to practice and share throughout the session all helps to facilitate an effective PD

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People leave feeling like they learned something new or learned more about a topic. Feeling excited to put something into their work that they practiced in the session.

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PD are effective when they are connected to other PDs, the agenda is sent out in advance, the next steps have been practiced and put in place by other classroom teachers

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Time to practice a skills and get feedback

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When the PDs are built/created around things the members of the PD have asked for/want to learn more about. This ensures members of the PD feel like they have control of their learning

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When the information is relevant to the participants.

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Time to have conversations with peers to apply learning

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PD sessions have been effective when I can quickly turn key the information covered and I have time to process what I am hearing and learning

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Work time to integrate new practices. Learning from peers best practices.

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Any PD that allows for immediate implementation is effective.  That is to say, the PD has time for learning, planning, practice and follow up.

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Often the PDs have felt out of order and planned that week. I've also been in PDs at Renew in which staff is asked to do things that aren't logistically possible.

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Work time to apply new learning

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When time is used effectively and we leave having met the objective .

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When the PD starts with a learning experience that engages learners and makes them curious (ex. a study, a group activity).

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when people have time/space to communicate with each other about what they are learning

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Effective PDs are engaging and purposeful and have a place to put learning into action with structured work time or something similar