Job-Embedded Interactive Panel Professional Learning

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

When supply chain issues delayed the installation of 1,500 new interactive panels in Henrico County Public Schools classrooms, the installation timeline moved from the fall semester to the winter semester. HCPS leaders redesigned and implemented a flexible, job-embedded professional learning plan to empower teachers to quickly gain proficiency to maximize the impact of the new innovative instructional technology starting the first day they receive the panels. The training plan focused on meeting teachers where they were, both in personal level of comfort with technology and through training at their school and in their classrooms. Each teacher received access to an "anytime, anywhere" online orientation course, a choice of live webinars with a trainer, "Day One" in-person support from an innovation coach in their classroom, and ongoing job-embedded support and training throughout the school year. Eighty-seven percent of teachers were satisfied or very satisfied with the professional learning, and 86% were satisfied or very satisfied with the interactive panel's positive impact on student engagement, collaboration, and learning outcomes. One teacher said, "I greatly appreciated the online panel professional development [training] that I completed ahead of time over a break. Also, the in-person support has been wonderful."