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Committed and Impactful Employees

Objective 1: Ensure all employees have the environment, support, skills, and
resources for excellence.

Academic Professional Development

To sustain the District’s goal of ensuring all employees have the environment, support, skills, and resources to provide
students with exceptional educational experiences, the District curates annual professional development opportunities for
all teachers and academic support personnel.

Each year, ongoing professional development sessions are offered throughout the summer and school year to engage staff
in developing standards-based instructional practices.

Topics include:
• K-12 Standards-Based Instruction (in all content areas)
• Mathematics & English Language Arts Teacher Leader Cohorts
• Mathematics & English Language Arts Teacher Cadres
• K-5 Science Leadership Academy
• Gifted and Enrichment Support
• Progress Monitoring and Assessment Tools
• Reading Intervention Supports & Strategies
• Department Instructional Leaders/Coaches & Contacts Support
• Skills for Learning and Life

Additionally, the Departments of Elementary Education and Secondary Education offer ongoing, job-embedded support
at school sites through Professional Learning Communities. This targeted support allows teams to collaborate to analyze
school-specific data, develop plans to support students’ academic growth, and reinforce pedagogical strategies specific to
each grade level’s content area.

Administrative Assistants’ Academy

The District’s Administrative Assistants’ Academy is designed to empower and increase the knowledge of administrative
assistants throughout the District. The administrative assistant’s role is intricate and dynamic, therefore, the FY23
Administrative Assistants’ Academy provided access to relevant content to foster professional growth at the school and
District levels.

The District’s differentiated approach of providing self-paced, virtual, and face-to-face learning opportunities ensured
participants had choices of various classes. All classes were designed to assist administrative assistants with learning
something new, sharpening skills, and increasing their knowledge. The District continues to expand course offerings each
year using data and feedback.

To date, 35 classes have been offered with 474 participants enrolled, and 346 participants completed all requirements.

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