Educator Develops Short PD Presentation Series

Liana Heitin writes at the Education Week (3/20) "Learning Now" blog about a series of three-minute audio recordings accompanied by PowerPoint presentations or videos called LessonCasts, intended to be a widely accessible form of professional development for teachers. Developed by former Baltimore County administrator Nicole Tucker-Smith, the segments feature teachers recording "themselves explaining a teaching strategy that they are strong in to a colleague. ... Tucker-Smith's school began making LessonCasts (which she also calls teacher-created videos) to address the area in which students were struggling the most: reading comprehension."