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Sharing Approaches to Teacher Professional Development
Tuesday, January 26, 202112:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
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Webinar Description:
Professional Development at Davidson Academy Online is as personalized and differentiated as the curriculum offered to their students. Administrators at Davidson Academy Online are able to utilize educational technology to revolutionize and personalize observations and course reviews, and the transparent nature of virtual classrooms allows for a more collaborative and teacher-led experience. Throughout this webinar, we will describe our PD processes and offer suggestions for adaptation and implementation of our techniques.
This webinar is free and open to the public.
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Dr. Stacy HawthorneDirector of Online LearningThe Davidson Academy |
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As the Director of Online Learning, Stacy Hawthorne led the design of Davidson Academy Online programs, which now include a la carte courses and a full-time online high school for profoundly gifted students living anywhere in the U.S. Hawthorne was awarded a 2018 Blackboard Catalyst Award in the Teaching and Learning category for the unique and personalized model of online education used at the Davidson Academy. |
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Dr. Jessica PottsOnline Curriculum CoordinatorHumanities Instructor The Davidson Academy |
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Jessica Potts holds a doctorate from the University of Nevada, Reno in Secondary Education, with an emphasis on gifted education and online learning. Her MA is in English Literature, with an emphasis on the English Renaissance. She has spent most of her teaching career at the Davidson Academy of Nevada, both at the Reno and online campuses. Currently, she teaches online courses for the Davidson Academy, develops online content, and previously taught graduate courses on gifted education at UNR. Her research is focused mainly on furthering the burgeoning field of online learning for gifted students. She has been published in Gifted Child Today, Gifted Child Quarterly, Education Week, and has contributed chapters to books on gifted students. Jessica and her husband live in the Czech Republic with their three sons. |