Kendall Hunt Announces Partnership with MyLivePD™ Online Coaching Service to
Provide Free Professional Development Support to Educators
Dubuque, IA - Kendall Hunt Publishing Company has announced the development of a new professional development partnership designed to enhance its already-strong roster of professional development programs and services. The company has entered into a partnership with MyLivePD™ Online Coaching Service to provide a one-to-one, on-demand learning solution for educators who use Kendall Hunt’s Math Innovations and Discovering Mathematics curriculum for grades 6-12.
MyLivePD Online Coaching is a service from Tutor.com that will deliver support for Kendall Hunt’s middle school and high school math programs by connecting them to experienced instructional math coaches online for timely, relevant and practical professional development support that can be immediately implemented in their classrooms to positively impact student achievement. The MyLivePD coaches will address a variety of topics for educators, including:
- Common Core initiatives
- Differentiated learning
- Classroom management
- Lesson planning
- Student engagement
- Student assessments
“Kendall Hunt is deeply committed to providing educators with high-quality professional development programs that help educators ensure success not only in their classrooms, but throughout their professional careers,” said Laura Quade Lottes, Kendall Hunt’s senior professional development manager. “Through our new partnership with MyLivePD Online Coaching, we can now provide complimentary, flexible professional development training to new users of our middle and high school mathematics curriculum. This new format of delivering professional development is a powerful addition to our on-site training and coaching services and our live, online eWorkshops.”
“Live, online coaching is becoming an important part of overall professional development for educators,” said George Cigale, founder and CEO of Tutor.com Inc. and MyLivePD Online Coaching Service. “Our partnership with Kendall Hunt will give middle and high school math teachers the support they need throughout the school year to make an immediate impact in their classrooms and most importantly on student achievement.”
For more information about Kendall Hunt’s complete roster of professional development programs and services, call 1-800-542-6657, ext. 1069.
About Kendall Hunt:
Kendall Hunt develops high-quality, research- and inquiry-based curriculum solutions that meet educational standards and integrate the appropriate use of technology as a learning tool. It also provides continuing support to educators through customized professional development programs designed to provide strong support to teachers and fully engage students in the classroom and at home.
About MyLivePD Online Coaching Service and Tutor.com
Tutor.com is the world's largest and highest-rated online learning service. The Tutor.com community of over 2,000 professional experts has delivered more than 8 million one-to-one tutoring and career sessions in a proprietary online classroom optimized for learning, since 2001. MyLivePD Online Coaching Service is being used by Hillsborough County School District and Baltimore County School District as part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pilot program. Tutor.com is the preferred online coaching and tutoring company for the NEA Academy and the company’s coaching platform is used by Learning Forward and Truenorthlogic. For more information, please go to stg-www.tutor.com/schools.
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For more information
Jennifer Kohn, Tutor.com
212.528.3101 x228 or jkohn@tutor.com
