• Quality PD Demonstrates Learning and Growth
     
     
     What does Learning and Growth-Driven Professional Development mean?  
    • Outcome based: establishes clear learning or growth benchmarks benchmarks for participants to meet

    • Provides multiple opportunities for participants to demonstrate new knowledge or skill
     
     What could Learning and Growth-Driven Professional Development look like?
     
    During a series of school-based PD, a Director of Instruction (DI) provides a clear explanation and example of different close-reading instructional strategies.  For each strategy, the DI sets a specific benchmark for PD participants to demonstrate mastery and provides sufficient time for participants to practice.  
     
     
     What are some tools I can use to develop Learning and Growth-Driven Professional Development?
     
    • Tool 1
    • Tool 2