Pepper's Professional Development "Scores" with Rigorous Standards 

When you take a course through PepperPD, you can be sure it's aligned with nationally-recognized standards and rubrics. You can bring what you've learned directly into the classroom to ensure your students' success.Our approach to online and blended learning is directly inspired by the Quality Matters benchmarks and standards for online course design.  Since Quality Matters "is a leader in quality assurance for online education and has received national recognition for its peer-based approach to continuous improvement in online education and student learning," you can expect positive results in the classroom. As part of our organizational commitment to rigorous standards for online course design and implementation, PCG subject matter experts and instructional designers use Quality Matters' rubrics, digital design and review tools, and continuous improvement models to align our own courses to the Quality Matters nationally-recognized standards, and to assist our clients in doing the same.  In addition, we use the QM Continuing and Professional Education quality rubric for our professional development work with clients.

Performance-Based Funding Leaps Hurdles

Pay based on performance and results is commonplace in the business world. However, it has always been difficult to achieve in Education. The move toward performance-based funding versus "seat time" is growing rapidly across the nation, and some states are are making this an incentive to become innovative.

Read more about how the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and education firms Augenblick, Palaich and Associates and Evergreen Education Group have partnered to develop data examined in "Performance-Based Funding & Online Learning: Maximizing Resources for Student Success."  The report includes an ambitious list of ten elements that would need to be in place in order for this type of funding to work.

NEW PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE Just released!

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Text Based Discussions in High School*

Explore the research-based strategy of facilitating text discussions that support the close reading, speaking, and listening skills called for in the English Language Arts/Literacy Common Core State Standards for grades 9-12.

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*We suggest “ELA101H/Literacy Shifts in High School” as a reference for this course. To enroll in the ELA101H course CLICK HERE. You have full access to all courses in Pepper through the course directory.  There is always something new to learn in Pepper!

 New Course for Elementary Mathematics Coming Soon!

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