Professional Development

Google Classroom is helpful because our teacher can give us notes and tell us what to fix within the document. You can highlight and Google Classroom helps you with grammar mistakes.”

- Charlie It is important for teachers to have professional development because if teachers don’t learn more about using teaching technologies of the future then the students wouldn’t be learning at their full potential.”

- Kyle

Dr. Staley, referring to Growth Mindset, one of the pillars of Berkeley Hall, states that a school cannot improve learning without improving teaching. We are happy and grateful to report that during the 2018-2019 school year, your generous gifts to the BHS Annual Fund provided our teachers, administrators, and staff with the following professional development opportunities: • Blackbaud K-12 User Conference • Enrollment Management Association (EMA) Workshops and Webinars • California Association of

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Conference • Gurian Institute • Responsive Classroom • Singapore Math In-Depth Summit • Teachers College • Visual Algebra • ISM • Knowing Technologies • Kristin Hilty, Math Consultant • Bureau of Education and

Research PE Conference • Love and Logic • Student Leadership

Conference • University of California Master

Gardener Program Teachers and students are kind of the same - both need to keep on learning. Also, if teachers learn more then the students can learn more too.” - Dutch

It is important that teachers have PD because if the teacher needs to work on something they can be helped by other teachers and that will make the teacher better in that subject.” One reason I like Google Classroom is because you get a lot of feedback and that really helps me on what I need to work on. Google Classroom makes it really convenient for everyone to do what they need.

I think it’s important for teachers to have PD because teachers can go and learn to become better teachers so they can teach us to become better learners and their growth as a teacher helps us grow as students.”

Mock Trial

Mock Trial is a national program created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation “to help students acquire a working knowledge of our judicial system, develop analytical abilities and communication skills, and gain an understanding of their obligations and responsibilities as participating members of our society.” At Berkeley Hall, students are eligible to participate in the Mock Trial elective in Junior High.