NHLI | New Hampshire Learning Initiative
All Students Deserve a Quality Education
Our professional development programs in leadership and structural support, instruction, and feedback tools help deepen assessment practices and integrate student-centered learning into your district, schools, and classrooms.
Our professional development programs in leadership and structural support, instruction, and feedback tools help deepen assessment practices and integrate student-centered learning into your district, schools, and classrooms.
Click or tap below to reveal more details and link to instances of the programs if they are scheduled.
Note: Any PD program for individuals (listed below) can be customized to run within a district
Join us for the 4th Annual Summit on Career Pathways on Thursday, February 6, 2025. NHLI is convening NH stakeholders (K-12 educators, post-secondary educators, business owners, and community members) for a day-long program where participants will hear how public schools are implementing this innovation in learning and engaging with employers. Registration will be available in the fall of 2024.
This workshop is open to district, building and teacher leaders. These 3-hour virtual sessions will focus on the critical structures, processes and mindsets needed to support a shift to a CBL system. Sessions address (1) Shifting to a CBL System? Where Do We Start? (2) How Do We Lead the Work? (3) How Did We Do and Where Do We Go From Here?
The cost is $4oo/per person.
The 2024 spring session is currently full. The program will be offered again in the spring of 2025.
Click here to view the SUMMER 2024 schedule. Register for one of 14 trainings across the state in June, July, and August. Several of the trainings are full. If you wish to be added to the waiting list for any training, please email nhli@nhlearninginitiative.org
OGAP is an evidence-based formative assessment system that includes professional development, resources, and routines for teachers and leaders to continually adjust instruction to meet the diverse needs of students in grades K-8 mathematics. Four, consecutive, in-person, full days equip teachers with the knowledge and instructional practices to bring to their classrooms. Three follow-up virtual sessions during the school year to review student work and discuss the mathematics progressions, reinforcing their learning.
Select from four different trainings:
K-2 Additive Reasoning
3-6 Multiplicative
6-8 Proportional
3-5 Fractions
Teachers in a variety of roles and content areas want skills that build a foundation for leading and supporting innovative practices in their schools. This five Saturday session will present the skills to assist a district in moving forward in its competency-based education and equity goals. A stipend is available to full participants in the program. Email NHLI if you wish to enroll yourself or any of your teachers in this program.
Intentional Assessment Design is a PD series on designing performance learning and meaningful assessments that produce high quality evidence of deeper learning.
This is at no cost for NH Teachers
SECOND COHORT – Currently Running – Three full days in person – March 7, April 11, and May 9.
Work Study Practices are four critical competencies students need for success in their career, college and life: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Self-direction. This program integrates these critical competencies into curriculum and instruction, allowing students to build the metacognitive practices necessary for success in whatever pathway they choose. NHLI is offering the opportunity to engage in WSP through a virtual, online course. NHLI would be available for support when needed, providing feedback and guidance throughout.
The POL is a collaborative process to define a vision (a north star) for student success after High School by identifying competencies valued by the entire community. Partners in this process include representatives from the district, the school(s), family, business and industry, and community members. NHLI believes this process needs to be developed over time and cannot begin in high school but is part of system thinking K-12. And that using data from all constituencies informs the process and keeps the Portrait sustainable. NHLI will conduct and guide the POL process from data gathering, to portrait development, to community reveal. Email NHLI if you are interested in developing or enhancing a POL.
Take this course to learn about student deeper learning. Teachers new to CBL will receive a primer of what it really means to have a competency-based learning mindset. The workshop will provide an introduction to the shifts in practice needed to be made and ideas they need to understand to be successful.
Research and practice have shown that competency-based teaching and learning works well for students who learn differently, leading to lower anxiety and higher achievement. The goal of this workshop series is to provide resources and strategies to help teachers and leaders support all learners in a competency-based system. This program has eight, half-day sessions that can be in person or remote.
The NHLI conference this summer was so worthwhile! I found so many connections between presenters, but also, with what we’ve been learning about in our PD. I am excited to jump back into the CBL work in my district and look forward to bringing many of the resources I gathered from these expert presenters. So much of it is relevant to my work in the district.