Welcome to Canyons U!
We are excited to welcome you to Canyons U, professional learning opportunities that have been designed to help you meet your individual needs and goals as an educator. Canyons School District aims to ensure that professional learning:
- honors the work that educators do daily
- gives educators more of a voice and choice in their professional learning so that they can personalize their learning to match their strengths, needs and interests.
- helps educators develop and/or demonstrate the competencies needed to be successful in their teaching.
- can be tailored to educators unique learning styles.
Use this website to explore the available professional learning opportunities to find the learning opportunities that are right for you.
Microcredentials
The demonstration of competency on a specific and desirable skill through performance-based assessment.
An educator:
- selects an area of focus
- reviews criteria for competency
- provides job-embedded evidence of mastery
- Personalized
- Flexible
- Process is self-managed
- Opportunities to ask clarifying questions
- Option to collaborate with other educators
- Feedback is provided
- Option to resubmit evidence, if applicable
- USBE credit
- Stackable
Targeted Learning
Professional learning opportunities designed to guide and support high-quality instruction.
An educator:
- participates in a guided learning opportunity with a specific focus
- receives support and feedback from an active facilitator
- Participation could be in-person, online, or hybrid
- Work directly with a facilitator
- Active participation
- Opportunities for interaction and collaboration with other educators
- Develop and cultivate your professional learning network (PLN)
- Opportunities to ask clarifying questions
- Credit options may be available
Knowledge Base
Bite-sized resources to support on-demand learning.
An educator:
- identifies an area of focus
- navigates through a collection of curated resources
- engages with the selected resource
- Personalized
- Flexible
- On-demand learning
- Self-directed
- Option to collaborate with other educators