Sentences with phrase «district professional development»

What are school or district professional development needs, and how can education leaders get buy - in from their teaching, student, and parent communities?

The findings about the importance of targets and data use, in combination with district professional development, are quite strong when moderated by principal efficacy.

As an educator, she led district professional development and led family workshops to partner with parents to better support their students success both inside and outside of the classroom.

It is a strategic decision to give people time, so we are budgeting explicitly for this work, and building it into district professional development.

Principals often participate in district professional development designed for teachers rather than trainings or supports designed specifically for school leaders.

We also expected and guided participants to plan for changes in individual teaching practice, changes in school and district professional development strategies, and finally, changes in district curriculum efforts.

School administrators and staff development specialists can use the same rubric to build all four human interests into the school or district professional development plan.

District professional development systems set policy and practices for development, sustained implementation, and continuous improvement of the district's workforce.

For example, during a recent district professional development day, the middle school cohort members implemented a version of the first PBL session with other educators from their school.

In 2011, Killeen ISD's professional development team chose ASCD's PD In Focus ® online application to support district professional development goals, solve learning challenges, and answer questions in real time for educators in their professional learning community.

Components of the program address the needs of emerging school leaders engaged in formal educational leadership programs, approved district principal preparation programs (PDF) and district professional development programs for current school leaders.

She has worked with districts in Arkansas presenting on harassment and bullying and also has provided other districts professional development for working with ELs.

It has taken root everywhere from community - based book clubs and school district professional development sessions across the country to the U.S. Department of Education.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

She also supervises district professional development including lesson studies and literacy and numeracy teacher - leader residencies.

Scarce funds, long travel distances to out - of - district professional development opportunities, a lack of substitute teachers, and small school size are serious barriers to robust professional development offerings.

Insight in Action As part of district professional development, teacher leaders co-designed and presented grade - level sessions on individual Investigations units that teachers would soon be teaching.

PSCPL will hold regional and district professional development as well as development of personalized learning school cohorts.

Redesign district professional development and support system to make healthy school climate and restorative discipline a priority.

Developed in partnership with BloomBoard, the leading providers of competency - based learning, this new, personalized, professional learning program enables administrators, teachers, and staff to receive district professional development supported by competency - based, micro-credentials to support student achievement and their own individual learning goals.

Lack of consistency in curriculum hinders sharing of experiences between classrooms and schools, makes it difficult for students transferring among schools and fragments district professional development efforts, all of which interfere with improvement in student learning.

All of the teachers spoke about specific changes they were making in classroom practice, but a few also spoke of their grant - writing efforts to fund district professional development initiatives, and of their roles as facilitators of those district - level efforts.

Teacher preparation programs and district professional development programs are revamping requirements to support online instruction demands.

Examples include studies of principal feedback to teachers and district professional development for educators, both developed for the New York City Department of Education.

This table indicates that district professional development and district targets both have a strong association with collective sense of efficacy (with pressure through targeted and data - focused expectations contributing more to collective efficacy).

Conducting regional professional development aligned to the district professional development plan

The district Professional Development Plan calls for utilizing the expertise within the district to build capacity to improve instruction and support for students.

A district professional development system is the inter-related policies and practices that support professional learning by the district's workforce consistent with the requirements of state statutes and State Board of Education rules.