National Committee for Effective Literacy (NCEL) Virtual Summit Presentation: Creating Long-Term, Job-Embedded Professional Development – An Effective Approach

Event: National Committee for Effective Literacy (NCEL) Virtual Summit
Location: Zoom
Date & Time: January 21, 2026
Session Format: Presentation
Presenter(s): Marybelle Marrero-Colón (Center for Applied Linguistics)

Description:
This 50-minute discussion looks at the important attributes of effective professional development. Some of the aspects explored include ongoing practices and topics, collaborative job-embedded approaches amongst educators both at the school and district level, the inclusion of multiple stakeholders (Vega, Howell, Kaminski & Bates, 2024), focus on evidence-based approaches, coaching, research, and identified components to effect teacher and instructional changes (Ankeny, Marichal, & Coady (2019), and personal/professional reflection. The presentation will look at the key components of applicable professional development and offer suggestions on how to begin implementing an effective process (Weiss& Zweirs, 2019) through fun, job-embedded, ongoing practices.