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Professional Development: Choosing Wisely

Fred Ende discusses how professional development has changed and how districts can create meaningful learning experiences for educators.

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Fred Ende is the assistant director of curriculum and instructional services for Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES, one of New York's 37 regional education service agencies. Ende joined edCircuit at ASCD's Annual Conference to discuss the evolution of professional development and his ASCD book, Professional Development That Sticks: How do I create meaningful learning experiences for educators?

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Fred Ende is the assistant director of curriculum and instructional services for Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES, one of New York’s 37 regional education service agencies. Ende joined edCircuit at ASCD‘s Annual Conference to discuss the evolution of professional development and his ASCD book, Professional Development That Sticks: How do I create meaningful learning experiences for educators?

Ende assists districts in the metropolitan New York City area with curriculum and professional development, design, and evaluation, and he also serves as a regional liaison with the state education department. Prior to his work at BOCES, Ende taught middle school science and served as a department chair for 10 years in Chappaqua, a suburb of New York City.

Ende is an ASCD Emerging Leader and currently serves as New York ASCD’s vice president. Fred is passionate about designing professional development that leads to deep learning and believes in the importance of collaboration across school, district, and regional lines to design learning opportunities that are truly sticky. Fred can be reached at fende@pnwboces.org and on Twitter at @fredende.

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    Fred Ende is director of curriculum and instructional services at Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES, a regional education service agency in New York, and author of the ASCD book Professional Development That Sticks. Before BOCES, Ende taught middle school science and chaired a department for ten years in Chappaqua. An ASCD Emerging Leader, Ende served as vice president of New York ASCD at the time of this 2016 interview.

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