K-12 Educator Learning Center

“Over the last year or so, we’ve shifted our mindset from looking at teacher professional development as a one-way process to an actual learning process. Then March happened, and we went into crisis mode to help our teachers through our online platforms. We were able to provide some digital learning resources for teachers over the last few months, but as we started to prep for summer, we started to think about what we normally provide for our teachers, and how we can incentivize them to participate in professional learning and provide feedback.

While sharing this challenge with my colleagues, Hanover came up in the conversation, and they were very excited to learn about the Educator Learning Center (ELC) that Hanover has created. We’ve been able to provide for our teachers links to the different modules in the ELC program, and have gotten great feedback, with over 150 teachers signed up for sessions. We look forward to gathering more feedback about their experiences with ELC.”

“In Spring 2020, we were forced to quickly shift to virtual learning platforms to maintain learning continuity during COVID-19. At the time, we needed to focus on our most immediate needs, but as our Fall 2020 reopening will continue virtual learning in some capacity, we wanted to enhance our virtual learning to maximize student engagement and support our students.

Hanover created a Virtual Student Engagement Toolkit for us, identifying strategies for our staff to facilitate behavioral, cognitive, and affective learner engagement in a virtual environment. Information in this project is being used right now by three groups in our school district: instructional coaches who are writing online curriculum, full-time online teachers, and principals, who will share implications with classroom teachers who are also supporting a small number of students learning remotely this year due to COVID-19. The results of this project were clear and practical. It has been widely shared already and put to immediate use!”