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Committee Co-Chairs:

Dr. Yvonne Hawkins, Principal of Wexford Elementary School

Michael Loughead, Director of Psychological/ Assessment Service

Professional Education Challenges and Mission

One of the challenges of educators in the 21st century is moving ALL students to proficiency and to new levels of excellence. PRSD must customize their educators' learning, so they can customize each student's quest for excellence. This challenge only can be addressed through high quality professional education.

PRSD's professional education mission is to recognize we are a professional learning community that supports student achievement through continuous professional growth of ALL staff members. PRSD recognizes the importance of being a distinguished leader by providing professional educational opportunities to achieve instructional excellence.

Professional Education Goals

Goals of the professional education strategic plan include:

  • Creating an organizational structure that supports high quality professional education centering on student achievement
  • Creating a learning community culture
  • Providing a means to measure student achievement

A new leadership structure should be established to support and sustain the relationship between curriculum, instruction and assessment with professional development serving as the hub with department chairs, new elementary grade level facilitators and new building level professional development teams functioning as spokes.

Professional education opportunities will be offered more consistently on a scheduled basis. A professional education website will be created, maintained and updated for the purpose of communicating detailed information on upcoming opportunities.

Another goal is to differentiate professional education to meet diverse staff needs. Recognizing professional education as a continuum of learning, which begins at pre-service and induction to level 1-2 teacher status to the veteran teacher, is important.

Finally, professional education should be guided by and evaluated against student achievement data to ensure each student demonstrates proficiency in state and district standards. District wide student proficiency levels will be increased from the present 85% to 100% over the course of the strategic plan.

 

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