Professional Development

Professional Development

During the 2015-2016 school year, the District Staff Development Committee articulated its Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles:

Mission: 
ISD 200's District Staff Development Committee works to support and provide differentiated opportunities for continuing professional growth to meet student learning goals.

Vision:
We will make certain that Professional Development is purposeful and valuable to those participating.

Guiding Principles:
  • Focus on a shared purpose of creating meaningful learning for all
  • Professional growth needs to focus on ultimately benefiting student learning
  • Change is okay (and often necessary for continuous improvement)
  • A continuous feedback loop will inform next steps for staff professional development
Our professional development practices are modeled after Learning Forward's Standards for Professional Learning.

Help Videos and documents:

PLC Video

  • Intro through norms 0:00 - 3:25
  • PLC questions 3:26-6:22
  • PLC Process 6:23 - 11:03
Unpacking Standards Video (while this uses ELA standards as the example, the process is useful with any content area standards) Resources:

EdWeb: An provider of webinars applicable to all ages and content areas in education.  You can earn CEUs and a link to the archived webinar will be sent to you if you're unable to view the live session.

Corwin: Bi-monthly webinars from leading researchers in education share the most promising trends in student engagement, growth and achievement.  

PD Express: An online solution to house your CEUs for relicensure.  Sign up for in-district professional development and upload CEUs for out of district PD here!

Safe Schools: State mandated training videos available here.


Schoology Groups:
  • Arts - Group code:ZKHRP-N5JJM
  • Business, Tech, Horticulture - Group code: JSWMC-8ZBJ4
  • English Language Arts - Group code: WJFNS-567JK
  • Math - Group code: 9CHHC-ZZ529
  • Physical Education & Health - Group code: X9K24-6RT9T
  • Science - Group code: HRG8P-XJ26X
  • Social Studies - Group code: FJ8VG-CJTC7
  • Gifted and Talented - Group code: K6H5F-XP4GZ