On Saturday, August 26, Arkansas Teacher Corps fellows and staff met at Chicot Elementary in Little Rock for the first All Corps professional development of the 2023-24 year. In the morning, fellows learned transformational teaching strategies, created holistic student profiles, and explored methods for building relationships with all students. Fellows then collaborated with each other to generate solutions to current problems they’re experiencing in their classrooms.

After lunch catered by Sims Bar-B-Que, fellows split into eight content-specific groups to develop knowledge and skills relevant to their content area, such as incorporating art into ELA, creating inquiry-based unit plans in science, understanding differences in the new math standards, and using differentiated reading strategies to improve literacy in the elementary classroom.