Carrying out programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teaching force, such
as innovative professional development programs that focus on technology literacy, teacher leadership, teacher and principal preparation, and differentiated pay programs.
At the Ed School, Merck provided funding to create WIDE World,
an innovative professional development program that continues to reach thousands of educators each year.
Learning Enhanced through the Nature of Science (LENS) is
an innovative professional development program for high school science teachers.
In addition, as reasonable and necessary, Title II, Part A funds may be used to pay for substitute teachers if, and only if, those regular classroom teachers they are replacing were hired with Title II, Part A funds to reduce class size or the teachers are participating in Title II - funded «programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teacher force, such as...
innovative professional development programs» [Section 2123 (a)(5)(A)-RSB-.
A story of two local elementary school teachers who challenge and improve their teaching practice through
an innovative professional development program.
Over the 2010 summer, both Ben & Michele decide to enroll into
an innovative professional development program to improve their teaching practice.
The Learning Enhanced through the Nature of Science (LENS) project is
an innovative professional development program for high school Earth science, biology, chemistry, and physics teachers.