2. Ongoing professional learning
Brittany seeks to expand her professional knowledge
by taking advantage of learning opportunities. She is
currently part of an APS cohort working to earn a
reading endorsement. She has also completed multiple
online courses over the past year through APS’s
collaboration with ASCD.
3. Ongoing professional learning
Continued
In preparation for the current school year, Brittany
traveled to Chicago in July 2013 to attend the
Conference for Extraordinary Educators, presented by
SDE (Staff Development for Educators). During the 4
day conference, Brittany attended sessions that were
specifically selected to meet her instructional needs
and the learning needs of students at SPARK.
Lifelong
Learner
4. Leading Professional Development
It is the goal of Atlanta Public Schools to offer
high-quality professional development opportunities
to its teachers. Brittany has supported APS with
this goal by helping to develop and lead districtwide training sessions. Most recently, she led a
session in August 2013 for kindergarten teachers
about planning for the integration of Common
Core literacy instruction with Georgia
Performance Standards for Social Studies,
centered around using data and real
world resources.
5. Mentoring
Brittany has served as a mentor to new and
developing teachers in APS. She models best
practices, answers questions about instructional
planning, classroom management, teaching and
assessment strategies, learning interventions, and
parent engagement.
Grateful
Mentees
6. Professional Collaboration
Brittany believes that professional collaboration
among teachers is vital to student success. She
creates instructional materials that are shared with
other teachers across the world. She maintains a
blog (http://www.peachy-teaching.com) that she uses as a
platform to share ideas and resources with other
teachers, and many of the materials that she creates
are available for free on her Teachers Pay Teachers
website (http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Brittany-Beaumont)
