Professional Development

✔ Effective teaching and learning results in higher rates of learning for all students.
✔ Educators seek practical and effective methods, techniques, and knowledge to advance student learning; academically and behaviorally. 
✔ Motivation to innovate is both internally and externally driven.
✔ Collaborative instructional efforts are more powerful than individual efforts.
✔ Leadership is developed over time, over settings and through opportunities that directly support the District’s priorities.
✔ Coaching, mentoring, and team participation improve professional competence.
✔ Evidence and accountability result from an investment in professional development.
✔ Professional learning embedded into educators’ workdays increases the opportunity for all educators to receive individual, team, or school-based support within the work setting to promote continuous improvement.

The three goals of professional development are:

1. Improve student outcomes.
2. Provide a relevant and responsive educational environment.
3. Develop a culture of continuous improvement.

Job-Embedded Professional Development

Job-embedded professional development refers to teacher learning that is grounded in day-to-day teaching practice and is designed to enhance instructional practices with the intent to improve student learning. Job-embedded professional development focuses on quality instruction and student achievement.

Professional staff who choose to participate in the district professional development program will commit to the work equivalent to 5 units and compensation of $50.00 per unit per school year. The 5 units and compensation encompass all activities required to earn satisfactory completion resulting in compensation. These required activities include:

1. Commitment to all meeting times required of professional development offering. During these meeting times, professional staff will learn, participate, receive theory, demonstrate, model and practice in a group setting lead by a highly qualified instructor.
2. Develop a Professional Learning Plan or comparable as a guide of implementation. The Professional Learning Plan will explicitly describe your action steps to improve the academic, behavior, and social learning of our students by improving classroom and school practices. The plan will describe elements of the specific PD strand embedded into time spent with learners. Participants will also describe ways to measure progression in the implementation plan.
3. All plans will be submitted to the superintendent and reviewed by a district team. Participants will be given guidance of expectations with activity rubrics. After the plans are approved, they will be carried out by the participants and returned to the Superintendent by May 15th

• District approved Professional Development events will be emailed and posted on the district website.
• Staff can register for multiple Professional Development strands, however, will only be allowed to submit a plan for one strand totaling 5 units and $250.00 in supplemental pay. Staff who have reached maximum allowable units will be compensated $250.00 in supplemental pay.
• Each district offering consists of multiple meetings and accepting coaching/leading activities throughout the school year.

All School District of Marshfield professional staff.

Contact

Kim Ziembo, Director of Teaching and Learning

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