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District outlines 41 hours of professional development and curriculum supports for 2025–26
Summary
The district described its professional development plan for 2025–26: a needs assessment, PLC coaching, Silas Education partnerships for literacy and language, building‑thinking classrooms math work, and 41 total hours of PD for certified staff.
Doctor Whitney Moss, executive director of teaching, learning, and professional development, presented the district’s 2025–26 professional development plan. Moss said the district bases PD on an annual needs assessment, aligns building PD plans to district goals and provides a combination of full days, half days and early-release sessions totaling 41 hours for certified staff.
Moss detailed district partnerships and training: Silas Education (language and academic literacy training and job‑embedded coaching), Building Thinking Classrooms math strategies, Math 314 coaching, MiSci science inquiry work and the Amplify CKLA curriculum for reading aligned to the science of reading. She said the PD budget covers substitute pay, extra‑duty pay, benefits and purchase of services/materials and that the state requires districts to spend 1% of DESE funding on professional development.
A board member asked whether AI is appearing in PD requests; Moss said AI topics are covered in some sessions and she will provide a percentage from the needs-assessment results. The presentation was informational; the board expressed support for the continued investment in teacher capacity.
