Customized Professional Learning for Schools
At Boston College, we’re committed to providing offerings that are responsive to the specific and “just in time” needs of our school partners. The Professional and Continuing Education team at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development will partner with you to build customized, student-focused professional learning experiences aligned with your school goals and strategic priorities.
Customizable Content Areas
Teaching Writing
Learn how to teach writing to inspire confidence through the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) approach
- Narrative writing
- Report and explanation writing
- Argument and procedure writing
Bilingual Education
Earn the knowledge required for DESE’s bilingual education endorsement in this three-course series
- Foundations of bilingual and dual-language education
- Bilingualism, second language, and literacy development
- Bilingual literacy and literature
Curriculum Development
Build a custom Spanish Language Arts curriculum for your dual language school or district
- Year-long curriculum mapping
- Unit maps and daily lesson plans
- Implementation support
Coaching
Support your educators in strengthening their practice with expert K-12 coaches
- Iterative review cycles to assess and support growth
- Individualized feedback for participants
- Recommendations for group professional development
In addition to the content areas above, our office has experienced educators available to support the needs of your school. Reach out to our team at lynchschoolpce@bc.edu to set up a meeting to discuss support for your school or district’s needs.
Components of our Professional Development Plans
Planning & Consultation
Professional Learning
Implementation Guidance & Resources
Reflection & Planning
You’ll begin your work with planning sessions with the PCE Coordinator. These sessions can take place with your school’s leadership, as well as your educators. The goal of these sessions is to review the school’s goal, data, and current curriculum to ensure the professional learning and implementation guidance is tailored to your specific needs.
After the consultation sessions, the professional learning work is deployed. These cycles begin with planning sessions with a PCE/BC instructor to customize the professional learning. The Customized professional learning sessions can include both content learning and curriculum development/modifications.
In conjunction with the Professional Learning Cycles, the team at your school/district will receive implementation support from a PCE consultant with school and coaching experience to guide the implementation of the work in classrooms.
The PCE consultant will also provide text set recommendations for staff, customize student materials recommendations and answer any questions throughout the process.
After the conclusion of the Professional Learning Cycles all PCE providers will meet with the school leader(s) to reflect and plan next steps with the school for the upcoming year.
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