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School Profile About PD 360
Built in 1967, Johnsontown Road Elementary School is PD 360 is the leading on-demand professional learning
located in Louisville, Kentucky, and is part of Jefferson resource for educators with over 600,000 subscribers.
County Public Schools. It serves 550 students and its Teachers, administrators, professional learning commu-
biggest asset is a positive school climate and proven re- nities, coaches, etc., have access to over 1,400 indexed
cord of academic success. Johnsontown Road believes and searchable video segments that present real, best-
that all children can learn and is committed to fostering practice classroom examples. Each segment includes
cooperative learning among students of different abili- content from respected educational experts such as
ties and age groups while developing critical thinking Michael Fullan, Rick DuFour, Doug Reeves, Rick Stig-
and problem solving in social and academic skills. gins, and many others. PD 360 can be used to create a
structured learning experience for an individual teacher,
professional learning community, or entire school. It
bridges the gap between training and classroom imple-
School Needs
mentation with job-embedded follow-up, tracking, and
Johnsontown Road wanted a professional develop- reflection tools. PD 360 also gives educators access to
ment (PD) resource that would provide teachers with a an online community of teaching professionals that al-
modeled practice of PD that they could incorporate into lows interaction and collaboration either within a district
their instructional practices. or across the United States and around the world. See a
demonstration at www.pd360.com
Solution
Driving Usage and Implementation
Johnsontown Road has had PD 360 for one year
and has just renewed for another year. Steven Stark, Johnsontown Road Elementary School has found many
Reading First Coach at Johnsontown Road, feels it has ways to implement PD 360, such as:
great potential for increasing student learning through
>>New teacher interns make use of the reflection ques-
incorporating best-practice techniques/skills into their
tions to guide incorporation of the PD into their own
teaching practices.
classroom practices.
>>Teachers view PD 360 content in grad-level team meet-
ings and discuss how to incorporate or adapt to their
own instruction or best practices.
>>Johnsontown Road uses PD 360 as part of its job-em-
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of Education, PD 360, and The 360 Learning Frame-
work, School Improvement Network offers content from
>>Even the most seasoned teachers draw on the content the largest group of educational experts, the broadest
to revisit a best practice or view a new practice and range of topics, and the most classroom examples any-
add to their own set of teaching tools for instruction to where. School Improvement Network boasts the world’s
enhance their classrooms. largest educator-verified, on-demand professional
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Johnsontown Road has realized many benefits since us-
ing PD 360 and, as usage expands, it will reap even more.
>>Meaningful Reflective Practices
Reflection is a critical part of effective learning. After
each segment, teachers answer reflection questions
designed to stimulate thinking about classroom ap-
plication. These answers are helpful to both teacher
and administrator in tracking growth, application, and
professional development.
>>Job Embedded
PD 360 provides everything a teacher needs to improve
teaching and implement best practices and it is avail-
able at their fingertips. Answers are readily available
whenever the teacher needs them.
>>Real Classroom Examples
With over 1,000 real classroom examples, teachers can
actually see what effective teaching looks like in varied
classrooms across North America.
>>Individualized Professional Development
Personalized support for every educator’s needs with
hundreds of indexed and searchable video segments
featuring education’s most respected experts and mul-
tiple real, best practice classroom examples.
>>Best Practices
PD 360 programs are always research-based and
classroom-proven, dealing with nearly every educational
initiative of the past two decades.
“PD 360 gives teachers a way to incorporate meaning-
ful reflective practices based on their own classroom
environments and cultures while providing a visual of a
teacher modeling the professional development topic.”
Steven Stark
Reading First Coach
Johnsontown Road Elementary, KY
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