Hatboro-Horsham presents districtwide professional development plan, highlights structured literacy and PLC rollout

Dr. David Weber, director of curriculum for the Hatboro-Horsham School District, presented an overview of the district's 2025'26 professional development plan at the Sept. 15 work session.

The plan covers roughly 400 certificated teachers and administrators and is designed both to support continuous instructional improvement and to ensure teachers meet Pennsylvania's continuing education requirements under Act 48 (180 hours every five years), Weber said. "This is the plan of professional development and learning for, roughly, 400 educational teachers and administrators," Weber said.

The program includes a two'year induction for new teachers overseen by Dr. Bree D'Angelo. Year 1 provides orientation, mentor assignments, curriculum familiarization and school tours; this year those orientation sessions ran Aug. 18'20. Year 2 emphasizes a project'based action research requirement culminating in a May expo where year'two teachers present findings to colleagues.

Weber highlighted a late'June/early'July summer institute run in partnership with MCIU that drew 35 K'8 teachers and focused on structured…