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PEBC Professional Development Evaluation

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The Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) is a nonprofit partnership of Colorado education and business leaders that works to: a) improve student learning and achievement in Colorado K-12 public schools, and b) influence policy changes, ultimately benefiting the workforce and economy. We create customized, collaborative, long-term professional learning opportunities for K-12 educators and advocate for policies that support sustainable improvement and sensible structure for schools and school systems.

We work extensively in individual schools, supporting teachers as they implement research-based best practices in their classrooms; and we coach principals and train school-based leadership teams to help them craft goals and guide the professional development of their teachers so their school or district becomes a “learning organization,” where teacher learning and benefits for students will endure after PEBC leaves.

Our work and reputation are unrivaled. (Read about our Impact) Over the past 26 years,  we have worked with over 19,000 educators, over one million students, and well over 1,000 schools.

What makes us distinctive…

Our work is:

1. Asset-based: We view the students, teachers, leadership and the school as an asset with strengths we can invest in and build upon to help students become better thinkers.
2. Customized: We work with the principal or district leadership for each of our clients to identify their priorities.  We see ourselves as a strategy to support the “School Improvement Plan” whether in best practices literacy, math and science or helping English Language learners to successfully transition from Spanish-speaking to English-speaking classrooms. Their work is our work
3. Site-based: We are in the schools, in the classrooms, working side by side with the leadership, teachers, and students.
4. Demonstration-based: We provide lab classrooms that  are the cornerstone of our professional development.  Exemplary teachers (lab hosts) in the Denver area open up their classroom as a demonstration site.

We address teacher preparation in public schools serving high
numbers of low income, culturally and racially diverse students…

Because of PEBC’s outstanding reputation for its professional development model and its commitment to high-needs urban schools, PEBC was selected by the prestigious Boettcher Foundation to manage and facilitate The Boettcher Teachers Program.

We advocate for effective education policies…

We have an established website (EdNewsColorado.org) dedicated to building public awareness and understanding of fundamental education issues.  Where our professional development emphasizes the internal structure of the education system, EdNewsColorado works externally to advocate for effective education policies and mobilize the community (business, legislative, individuals).

Not only does our site bring education issues to the forefront, it is heralded as one of the most unique journalistic approaches for online news reporting in this day and age of declining print newspapers.