Boundless Learning - Co-Teaching Online Professional Development

Leading, Implementing and Sustaining Effective Co-Teaching with Fidelity is a Challenge!

Hiring a consultant to conduct a co-teaching workshop is often hit and miss, not providing sustainable impact. Having educators read a book provides lots of good information, but it's rarely engaging and doesn’t lead to effective and sustainable implementation.

Excent’s Boundless Learning Co-Teaching Fellows Program provides professional development for principals, and general and special educators to execute a sustainable co-teaching process with fidelity. Developed and managed by Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education, Boundless Learning leverages their 15+ years of co-teaching professional development experience.

Designed to be practical, on-demand and inclusive of an educator’s learning community, Boundless Learning offers professional development without taking the teachers out of the classroom. Boundless Learning produces high performance co-teaching teams utilizing three interlocking dynamics: operation protocols: effective team principles: and productivity/collaboration technology.

BENEFITS

1. Effective Co-Teaching loosens up room in self-contained classrooms, which allows for non-public placement students to come back to the district for services, saving a lot of money.

2. Boundless Learning builds district capacity to increase the least restrictive environment (LRE) for students, positively impacting compliance and reporting.

3. AYP for students with disabilities is directly affected by effective co-teaching.

4. Co-Teaching done with fidelity facilitates deployment of better behavior management models, reducing disruptions and increasing accountability performance around disciplinary actions.

Boundless Learning is competency-based professional development giving educators the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to implement co-teaching effectively.  The Boundless Learning experience shows them how to transform their classrooms and schools into communities of learners that collaborate, share resources, and strive for maximum achievement for all students.

Our instructional models, strategies, and tools also support a student-centered, differentiated, and technology-rich approach that promotes success for all students, including those with special needs. Our models emphasize peer-assisted learning, utilize proven strategies, apply innovative instructional, and leverage assessment technologies.

Boundless Learning empowers principals to facilitate effective collaboration between general and special educators within a 21^st Century learning environment.  Principals will be given effective leadership practices and digital tools to build productive co-teaching teams and learning communities which are equipped to meet the needs of diverse learners.

Boundless Learning Co-Teaching Overview

Phase 1.  Fundamentals

Phase 2.  Step Up - Accelerate

Components per Phase

• 3 – Online Learning Events
• 3 – Professional Development Boosters
• 2 – Webinars

 Learning Event Topics for Principals:

• Fundamentals of 21^st Century Co-Teaching
• Monitoring Co-Teaching to Ensure Fidelity
• Supporting Co-Teaching in Your School
• Scheduling for Effective Co-Teaching

Learning Event Topics for Educators:

• Building 21st Century Co-Teaching Teams
• Boosting Engagement, Learning, and Performance
• Monitoring Student Progress to Accelerate Learning
• Conducting Productive Co-Planning Meetings