PAGE Professional Learning: Helping You Excel

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. 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 is open to teachers, academic and instructional coaches, college professors, and pre-service college of education students. 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 Leaders 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

PAGE online coursework is now available via modules delivered directly to your email, so the preferences of individual educators can be honored with anytime / anywhere access. There is no expectation for participants to add comments, review others’ work, or set aside time to join a video call. There is no need to create an account, username, or password. Simply sign up to receive regularly scheduled emails and that’s it!  Nothing could be easier.

Through this format and delivery structure, the opportunities for teachers to hear from other teachers is robust.

The Starting Strong module intentionally capitalizes on the experiences of veteran educators. PAGE’s first crowdsourced online course is filled with both reflective and instructive pieces of writing, composed primarily by Georgia Teachers of the Year and finalists. These current and former practitioners share lessons they have learned, focusing on helping educators (and college education major seniors) flourish and succeed during their first few years as teachers. While designed for early career educators, the wise guidance embedded in this module can benefit any education professional working with students or with teachers, Registration is open to everyone, regardless of your role or years in the classroom.

The Uplift! module reinforces the important message that teachers matter. Like all online PAGE PL, Uplift! requires no travel or time away from home or school. Uplift! has been solely designed to highlight the tremendous value educators bring to the world. Register for Uplift! and enjoy curated quotations, blogposts, photographs, and short audio and video clips. A new Uplift! message will arrive in your inbox once each week. When your twenty-fifth email in the series is delivered, you will be able to renew Uplift! and receive another six months of posts. (You can renew up to five times if desired, providing you with nearly three years of weekly uplifting messages thanking you for what you do, day after day, year after year.)

Impact 101 is a participant-driven PL course. Each educator uses a universal framework to focus on something they want to make happen. One person might be working on how to change departmental meetings, another might want to create a new way to structure parent night. Someone else might need to figure out how to best provide generous feedback to colleagues whose classes they visit. The possibilities are literally endless. What is the one thing you would do if you knew you couldn’t fail? Your answer will serve as the foundation for your work in Impact 101. This module outlines how to take your idea from concept to completion, to make things better for you and those you serve.

Education as a Profession is built for education pathway teachers. Along with their teacher, students can respond to any number of dozens of prompts that address pivotal issues in teaching and learning. Teachers who sign up are welcome to adjust the module material in any way they wish to best serve their students’ interests and needs. This series of twenty-eight emails, spaced two days apart, provides education pathway instructors with almost one hundred ideas that can springboard into meaningful discussions or projects.

Additional online modules are being developed. Regardless of your official title or position – first year teacher, counselor, paraprofessional, coach, media specialist, resource teacher, support staff, administrator, or any other vital role – you are welcome to enroll. You can enroll today, next week, next month, or next semester. Your signup date triggers the delivery of your first message and subsequent posts will be delivered to your email on a consistent schedule thereafter. PAGE online opportunities will support your work as an educator as you continue to make a huge, positive impact in classrooms, the community, and for our profession.

Teachers do work that truly matters, and PAGE looks forward to helping you excel throughout your career.