In collaboration with Project Zero, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is offering online professional education courses that are research-based and grounded in day-to-day teaching and leadership practice — you can apply what you learn, as you learn. In these 13-week, coach-facilitated, asynchronous online courses, you will work with peers facing similar challenges and take away real-world solutions, inspiration, and the support of an engaged community. Each course promotes active, team-based learning that supports collaboration and sharing in schools and districts. Each has its own focus area but they also work well together.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/project-zero-online-professional-education
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Professional Development Philosophy @ IICS
“the most important factor affecting student learning is the teacher….seemingly more can be done to improve education by improving the effectiveness of teachers than by any other single factor”
(Wright, S,P., Horn, S, P., Sanders, W, L. 1997)
It is a fundamental expectation of all IICS staff members that they are willing and prepared to learn; not only how to improve their own capacity to elicit exceptional learning but also how to contribute to the learning of colleagues and to the development of IICS as an exceptional educational institution.

