VSTE

Virginia Society for Technology in Education

VSTE Professional Services

The VSTE Professional Services Team (PST) operates in an effort to meet the professional development (PD) needs and desire for lifelong learning of school divisions and individuals throughout the state. VSTE offers a number of opportunities for professional learning, consulting, coaching, events, and more. The VSTE PST can assist your school or division in many areas of education including:

  • Utilizing needs assessments to personalize professional learning with specific tools, platforms, skills, or instructional strategies
  • Creating impactful and forward thinking technology professional learning plans
  • Collaborating with school leaders and educators to customize events and professional learning to specific initiatives including individual training or full events
  • Working with VSTE Certified Coach leaders to take your instructional coaching to the next level
  • And so much more, including a build your own PD option!

VSTE recognizes and looks forward to working with educators and leaders that plan for time to implement learning after a professional learning session and then revisit the learning. Let's work together to move away from one-size-fits-all and one-and-done training toward professional learning that can truly engage, inspire, and transform you school or division.

Consulting

VSTE’s PST can, with ongoing collaboration, transform your school or division. Areas of possible consultation and collaboration include professional learning, instructional modeling, coaching, curriculum, school culture, instruction, meaningful technology integration, and more. If you have a need, reach out, the VSTE PST can help!

Events

VSTE’s PST can collaborate on planning, running, and following up transformational professional learning events both in-person and virtually through Zoom.

Online Courses

VSTE’s PST can collaborate on the creation and running of online courses designed for your staff based on their needs and building or district initiatives. Learning can happen asynchronously and/or synchronously supported by VSTE PST experts. These can be built within your software or through a VSTE facilitated software.

Technology Integration Plan

VSTE’s PST can work with leaders in your school or division to evaluate technology integration within your school or division and then utilize this data to strategically plan differentiated professional learning. The PST can also collaborate on needs assessments to inform professional learning.

Build Your Own Professional Learning

VSTE’s PST can partner with you to build professional learning. Following what we know about best practices sin the classroom, learning built specifically for you and your staff, will have the biggest impact toward meaningful growth and change. Some possible areas, tools, or skills of focus

  • Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI)
  • Meaningful Technology Integration
  • Computer Science Integration
  • Creation technology to demonstrate mastery
  • Google Workspace for Education
  • Microsoft for Education
  • Learning Management Systems (Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, etc.)
  • Best Practice/Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies
  • Robotics
  • STEM/STEAM
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Productivity
  • Mastering Specific Devices, Technology Tools, and Systems
  • Coaching
  • Leadership
  • And more, just reach out and get the collaboration started…