Professional Learning: Helping You Excel
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When you excel, your students excel. PAGE Professional Learning is here to help you as you help others.
Your work impacts lives and, ultimately, changes the world. And when the world changes, students need teachers, coaches, administrators, and support staff to help them learn new information, understand how to use it, and transfer it to any situation where solid thinking and wise decision making are required.
Although most people may not immediately think of teachers as students, teachers are indeed learners.
Although most people may not immediately think of teachers as students, teachers are indeed learners. In fact, the concept of lifelong learning may be more evident in great teachers’ practices than in any other sector or role. PAGE realizes this and has consistently designed professional learning opportunities for educators that help teachers and others hone their craft and achieve career goals.
In recent years, delivery models for teaching and learning have shifted. PAGE is responding to your evolving needs as a Georgia educator through in-person and online learning experiences that address the issues that matter most to you.
All PAGE PL Courses – Both In-Person and Online – Are Included in the Cost of Your Membership.
No fee to register. All materials included.
In-Person Learning Experiences
PAGE Engage! for Teachers:
Strengthening the teacher pipeline and supporting prospective teachers, early career educators, veteran professionals, and others who make Georgia a great place to teach, learn, and work is one of the benefits of this course. PAGE Engage! for Teachers is open to teachers, academic and instructional coaches, college professors, and pre-service college of education students.
PAGE Engage! for Leaders:
Slated for upcoming semesters, PAGE is facilitating cohorts of PAGE Engage! for Leaders, which serves as excellent preparation for a principalship. In line with PAGE’s longstanding belief that “we learn best together,” participants attend alongside a small team of teachers who want to enhance their leadership capacity through innovative approaches. The course focuses on how leaders can transform schools into dynamic learning environments where students thrive alongside teachers who strive to excel.
The best recommendations come from those with direct knowledge of the benefits of PAGE Professional Learning. A college professor writes of PAGE Engage!:
“Our [teacher] candidates are truly better teachers because of the strategies shared by the facilitators. The sessions promote active engagement and are customized to meet the needs of the group. Furthermore, both presenters take time to get to know our candidates on a personal level and are willing to offer advice as they prepare for interviews and complete job applications. We appreciate the continued support of PAGE and the valuable professional learning services provided by the organization. We are looking forward to many more successful PAGE Engage! cohorts.”
Online Learning Experiences
“I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea… it gave me an opportunity to reflect for myself, and reflection is something I often don’t take the time to do at the start of a new school year – even though it holds much value!”
Similarly, PAGE continues to explore digital learning opportunities. This year, instead of using an external site to host courses, PAGE will shift to in-house digital delivery. This transition will be completed before the end of the 2025–2026 school year. Likewise, content has been repackaged into modules, as the emphasis has moved toward flexible scheduling tailored to the needs of individual educators.
PAGE’s online programs focus on reflection, inspiration, and growth. They promote connection without requiring time away from home or school. These adjustments do not eliminate the benefits of teacher collaboration. The Starting Strongmodule, for example, capitalizes on the experiences of veteran educators while supporting new teachers.
The Uplift! module reinforces the importance of messages that teachers most need to hear. These sessions include no travel and require no time away from home or school. Uplift! has been designed to highlight the tremendous value educators bring to the world. Participants who register for Uplift! receive inspirational messages, stories, blog posts, photographs, short audio segments, and video clips by email every week for a full year.
Impact 101
Impact 101 is a participant-driven professional learning course. Each educator uses a universal framework to focus on something they want to make happen. One person might begin work on how to create change in departmental meetings, another might want to find a new way to structure parent engagement. Someone else might need to figure out how to provide generous feedback to colleagues whose classes they visit. The possibilities are endless.
The guiding question: What is the one thing you would do if you knew you couldn’t fail? Your answer becomes the foundation for your work in Impact 101. This module includes guidance on how to take your idea from conception to completion — helping you make things better for you, your students, or your school.
High School TAP – Explorations
(The name will be changing to Education as a Profession)
This course is designed for teachers of high school students who are considering a career in education. Along with their teacher, students can choose from a number of modules that address pivotal issues in teaching and learning. Teachers can adjust the material to best serve their students’ interests and needs.
PAGE’s first crowdsourced online course, Starting Strong, is filled with reflective, instructive, and inspirational pieces written by Georgia Teachers of the Year and finalists. These practitioners share lessons they’ve learned and the strategies that helped them flourish in their first years. Though geared toward early career educators, the course also benefits seasoned teachers who mentor others.
As with PAGE’s in-person sessions, feedback from Starting Strong participants has been overwhelmingly positive.
Testimonials
“The posts are a great encouragement.”
“I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea… it gave me an opportunity to reflect for myself, and reflection is something I often don’t take the time to do at the start of a new school year – even though it holds much value!”
“This… reminds us how important it is to take the time to get to know our students!”
“What a great reminder… [that we all learn differently]… As educators, we have to make sure we are not stifling the learning process of others just because that is not the way we learn best. Thank you for including this video in Uplift!.”
Regardless of title or position—first-year teacher, counselor, paraprofessional, coach, media specialist, resource teacher, support staff, administrator, or anyone filling any other vital role—you’re welcome to enroll. There is no cost to do so. These offerings are available as “courses” now and soon as flexible modules.
These online opportunities will support your work as an educator as you continue to make a positive impact in classrooms, the community, and the profession. Teachers do work that truly matters. We’re pleased that you’re a PAGE member and look forward to serving you throughout your career.
Your PAGE Director of Innovation and Learning: David Reynolds
Serving PAGE members since 2008, David previously worked in Clayton, Forsyth, and Dalton City school districts, beginning his career as an Industrial Arts teacher. David and his wife met in college and have been married since 1981. Their only child, now a physician, was a PAGE STAR student during his senior year of high school.
David produces a podcast, Lead. Learn. Change., also the title of his first book. Available on Amazon, all proceeds benefit a PAGE Foundation scholarship that supports paraprofessionals who are on the path to becoming teachers.