One goal of the Northwest Arkansas Education Renewal Zone is to provide information about professional development opportunities to area educators. ERZ strives to connect those who provide quality professional development services with educators who need such services. Please click on the links below to see what our Partner Resources have to offer!
ERZ-Sponsored Professional Development Workshops
- Attendance Works: The mission of Attendance Works is to advance student success and help close equity gaps by reducing chronic absence. The three objectives that Attendance Works aims to accomplish are building public awareness and political will about the need to address chronic absence, fostering state campaigns and partnerships, and encouraging local practice by providing technical assistance and tools to help communities, schools and school districts monitor and work together to address chronic absence.
- Marzano’s High Reliability Schools (HRS) Framework: During this training, teachers and administrators will learn how best practices work together and provide indicators to empower districts and schools to measure their progress on attaining five increasing levels of reliability. “Using the framework and indicators, districts and schools can drive permanent, positive, and significant impacts on student achievement by synthesizing multiple complex initiatives into one harmonious system.” -Marzano, R. J., Warrick, P. B., Rains, C. L., Dufour, R., & Jones, J. C. (2018). Leading a High Reliability School. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Professional Learning Communities (PLC): In partnership with Solution Tree, a leading provider in education professional development, the Education Renewal Zone is committed to working alongside the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in their mission to expand the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) at Work process into Arkansas schools. When the PLC at Work process is implemented with fidelity, schools experience dramatic improvement in learning results by both students and adults. Selected Arkansas schools will serve as working laboratories for the PLC at Work process, conducting action research and sharing best practices with other schools throughout the state.