Board adopts district professional development manual after presentation on PD metrics
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Summary
After a district presentation, the board unanimously approved the professional development manual; presenters highlighted feedback surveys, learning walks and a 90%+ PD feedback rate with high summer participation.
Elizabeth Gardner presented the district professional development (PD) manual and summarized the metrics the district uses to monitor PD impact: immediate feedback surveys, learning walks in classrooms and analysis of student work.
Gardner said PD is measured by three indicators: participant feedback, implementation in classrooms observed through learning walks, and student work that shows learning transfer. She reported consistently high staff feedback rates — around 90 percent agreement that PD was high quality — and strong summer participation, with presenters noting that roughly 96 percent of summer PD attendees were teachers. "We use that feedback survey to not only assess how well the session went, but to help us really fine tune the support moving forward," Gardner said.
Board members commended the work and the manual's connection to the district's strategic priorities and asked that the district continue to report implementation growth data. After a motion by Gage and second by Staton, the board voted to approve the professional development manual.
The board recorded the approval; administration said it will continue to provide implementation metrics from learning walks and PLCs in future reports.
