Projects: Professional Learning and Leading Collaborative

Through Friday Institute projects, our teams conduct research, develop educational resources, provide professional development programs for educators, inform policy-making and prepare students for success.

Active Projects

• Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change MOOC-Ed
  This course empowers participants to enhance their digital learning content knowledge and further develop coaching strategies.
• Leadership Development
  Job-embedded professional development for administrators that enables the planning and implementation of learning initiatives.
• Learning Differences
  This series is designed to help educators better understand learner variability and address diverse learning needs.
• Learning Differences MOOC-Ed
  This MOOC-Ed introduces the idea of learner variability and digs deeply into three areas that impact how we learn differently. 
• Micro-credentialing
  Bringing competency-based approaches into educator preparation, credentialing and professional development.
• NC Digital Leaders Coaching Network
  This program provides access to personalized and sustainable opportunities centered around pedagogy and digital learning.
• Professional Learning Institutes
  Educators, coaches and leaders gain access to the knowledge and resources necessary for implementing learning initiatives.
• Professional Learning Opportunities
  Professional development that is timely, relevant, and models expectations is essential to any school or district initiative.
• Remote Learning to Support NC Educators
  The Friday Institute is partnering with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to provide professional learning opportunities for educators to support their implementation of remote learning during the COVID-19 crisis. Sessions will be run multiple times and will change week by week.
• Social and Emotional Learning
  Professional learning opportunities that drive the implementation of Social and Emotional Learning in classrooms, schools and districts.
• Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators MOOC-Ed
  The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators MOOC-Ed allows participants to build their own foundational understanding of how social and emotional learning (SEL) skills are essential to student learning.
• Students LEAD
  This student-focused course is based on the idea that we all learn differently.