Teaching Insights From The PISA Event At Schultz Center

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In our era of instant news and attention-grabbing posts and tweets, we have to choose to do some work to get the story behind the headlines. On a recent Saturday morning, hundreds of northeast Florida educators chose to gather at the Schultz Center to hear more about effective teaching and learning techniques from an analysis of tests taken by 15 …

Implementing the Program

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The continuation of our series to provide a step-by-step checklist on how to pursue a great training for your staff and colleagues now includes, implementing or delivering the program. Your training needs assessment and the developing and designing portion of your training preparation has come to a conclusion, and you are now ready to deliver the training. Delivery can take …

Developing and Designing Training Programs

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Moving forward in our series to provide a step-by-step checklist on how to pursue a great training for your staff and colleagues, and after assessing the needs of your organization; you will begin to develop and design the program. Inherently, some of the design might begin to reveal itself as you assess the needs. However, how you go about delivering …

Teaching is the Foundation of Great Schools

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When Jacksonville imagined a Teaching Academy to improve teacher quality at the turn of the 21st century, our community expressed considerable foresight.  Today 95 percent of American parents agree that the quality of teachers is the most important factor in improving our public schools (2015 Gallup/PDK poll). The Gallup/PDK (Phi Delta Kappa) has been measuring public opinion on public schools …

Assessing Training Needs

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Event planning is not for the faint of heart.  Event planning for professional development adds another layer of difficulty. However, is it not impossible, and with the right tools it can be done easily, and done well! With this series we hope to provide a step-by-step checklist on how to pursue a great training for your staff and colleagues at …

Innovations in Teaching Now Making an Impact Throughout Florida

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Schultz Center, a Jacksonville-­based leader in high-quality professional development for educators, has expanded its course offerings, delivery channels, and client base as part of a restructuring and ambitious statewide expansion strategy. The organization’s evolution to a statewide developer and provider of innovative teacher education was borne of needs expressed by educators and districts around the state for relevant programs delivered …

A Message to Florida Teachers

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Teachers – thank you!  As the Schultz Center launches into the next era, we are driven by your professionalism.  Our goal is to assist you in every way we can to advance your learning so you can engage your students in exciting classroom experiences. Our physical space, Schultz Center, was modeled after premier conference venues used by Fortune 500 companies. …