MERIT Professional Learning Website

MERIT’s Professional Learning Website

Visit our full UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education website.

About the PL Site

This website is an extension of our Professional Learning Outreach. Here, you can:

Learn more about our Professional Learning and our PL Team
See our Upcoming Events
Register for an event

Additionally, after you’ve registered for an event, this website will be your landing spot for accessing all information.

Upcoming Events

Accelerating Multilingual-learner Academic Language Development: One-Day Workshop

September 24, 2026
9:00AM-4:00PM

Integrating Language Goals into Content Instruction: One-Day Workshop

September 29, 2026
9:00AM-4:00PM

Fall Institute - Virtual Format

October 1-2 & 8-9, 2024

8:30 - 4:30pm

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We are very grateful to all the participants from Habersham, Hall, Barrow, and Carrolton City Schools who joined us this week for our Summer 2026 IC Foundational Institute #2 where we spent 30 hours together learning about collaborative, conversation

University of Georgia’s Child Development Lab (CDL) at McPhaul educators engage in a Joint Discussion Activity during one of MERIT’s PL Sessions to explore what it means to encourage deep listening with their students.

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸

Today, we honor the values of freedom, opportunity, and community that continue to shape our nation. From all of us at MERIT, we wish you a safe, joyful, and meaningful Fourth of July.

Join us on July 13th-16th for our Summer 2026 IC Foundational Institute #2 — a 4-day (30 hour) interactive, foundational, professional learning institute focused on a collaborative, conversation-based pedagogy, and its application in classrooms

Thank you to the 31 participants who joined us this week for our Summer 2026 IC Foundational Institute #1! We loved having you with us and wish you a wonderful rest of your summer.

We are looking forward to our Summer 2026 IC Foundational Institute

The MERIT Leadership Team — Paula Mellom, Jodi Weber, and Rebecca Hixon —at last week’s IC Institute with Gwinnett County Public Schools. We’re grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with educators and support multil

We are very grateful to all the participants from Gwinnett County who joined us this week for our Summer 2026 IC Foundational Institute where we spent about 30 hours together, virtually and in-person, learning about collaborative, conversation-based

Shout out to our NSF grant partners— the amazing Meadowcreek Team! Thank you for all of your hard work and collaboration this year dedicated to making science accessible for multilingual learners in high school classrooms! Wishing you a wonde

Join us on June 22nd-25th for our Summer 2026 IC Foundational Institute #1 — a 4-day (30-hour), interactive, foundational professional learning Institute focused on a collaborative, conversation-based pedagogy and its application in classrooms.

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