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EXPLORE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COLLECTIONS ON GVRL, GALE’S eBOOK PLATFORM

For many, professional development (PD) can be a passive process. It’s a balancing act for administrators to provide sustainable resources to support teachers in a lasting way, meet individual and group goals, and still be cost-effective. This can make keeping up with curriculum standards a real challenge—but it doesn’t have to be.

Take on the task brilliantly with PD collections on GVRL, Gale’s eBook platform. Each collection brings together 10–50 cross-searchable titles featuring renowned authors from our many highly respected partner publishers, including ASCD, ISTE, Corwin Press, Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., NSTA, Solution Tree, Stenhouse Publishers, and Times 10 Publications. This award-winning platform is designed to add new collections as they are released, which allows schools to stay current with important trends in education and offer titles that fit every growing need. Plus, schools now have the option to upgrade many of their PD collections by adding alignments to the Danielson Framework for Teaching or the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model.

More than eBooks, PD collections on GVRL empower teachers and administrators:

 

TEACHERS

  • Gain unlimited and simultaneous access to content from top PD publishers.
  • Collaborate with help from G Suite for Education, Microsoft Office 365 tools, and learning management system integrations.
  • Cross-search to uncover relevant content within multiple titles.
  • Translate content into more than 40 languages—on screen and read aloud.
  • Listen at school, at home, or on-the-go.
  • Meet and apply professional learning objectives.

 

ADMINISTRATORS

  • Support teachers’ personal learning plans as well as district and/or school strategic goals and objectives.
  • Connect the dots between professional development days.
  • Customize collections using Gale Admin to highlight specific initiatives.
  • Share content easily, with 100+ social media or email options directly from the application.
  • Build a sustainable, cost-effective professional learning platform by adding continuously releasing collections from top PD publishers.

Professional Development Publisher Partner
Collections Available on GVRL

ASCD

ASCD titles cover research-based best practices for PD to help administrators and teachers improve instruction and support student achievement.

Corwin Press

Corwin Press provides PD resources to improve teaching and learning, hone the skills of K–12 educators, and improve classroom outcomes.

Dave Burgess

Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., specializes in transforming education through dynamic PD programs and books.                                                                           

ISTE

ISTE helps educators by focusing on the most up-to-date technology strategies, equipment, research, and best practices for integration in the classroom.

NSTA

NSTA supports STEM instruction and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by engaging students with real-world science concepts.

Solution Tree

Solution Tree strives to increase student achievement and ensure that every child in every school or district gets the world-class education he or she deserves.

Stenhouse Publishers

Stenhouse Publishers recognizes the complexities of learning and teaching, and helps teachers inspire students to become deep and creative thinkers.

Times 10 Publications

As an alternative to typical education texts, Times 10 Publications, Hack Learning books are light on research and statistics, and heavy on practical advice.

New Framework Aligned Titles at Your Fingertips

Support school educators in a lasting way, meet individual and group goals, and still be cost-effective. Learn how our enhanced PD collections, on GVRL, Gale’s eBook platform, connect teachers to evaluation frameworks with just one click.

The 4 Pillars of Effective PD

Hear two New York school administrators share how they are incorporating PD content from leading publishers, like ASCD, ISTE and Solution Tree, to build equitable, effective, and sustainable PD programs—and how you can too.

 

Platform Tools & Features

Collaboration Tools

Integrated G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools allow faculty and students to work with tools they are already familiar with, eliminating the need to purchase additional software. 

Customizations

Administrators can group titles from purchased GVRL PD publisher collections into sub-collections to highlight specific initiatives such as teaching with technology, project-based learning, and building professional learning communities.

On-Demand Translation

Content can be translated into 40 languages, while the platform itself can be translated into more than 30 languages. ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology allows audio files to be downloaded and saved onto any mobile device and read aloud in nearly 25 languages.