Staff+Development

=STAFF DEVELOPMENT=


 * DEFINITION**

A comprehensive, sustained and intensive approach to improving a staff members' effectiveness in raising student achievement.


 * KEY COMPONENTS**
 * Alignment with state standards, identified essential learnings, and district and school improvement goals
 * Conducted by well-prepared and competent developers
 * Systemic, systematic and sustained
 * Support for personnel at all levels to facilitate RTI process
 * Provide support for teachers for implementation of research-based methods

Professional development topics may include: common definitions/shared vocabulary; universal screening; progress monitoring; data accessibility and use; research-based interventions; examples of successful PLCs, developing various types of assessments and their use, etc.