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Professional development - more structured and purposeful

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Professional development - more structured and purposeful

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Substitutes are provided so teachers can attend trainings.

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Substitutes are provided so teachers can attend trainings.

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Learning Rounds-staff selects the focus for the year

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Learning Rounds-staff selects the focus for the year

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The district provides substitutes when teachers need time to look at and work with data or attend trainings.

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Partnerships with many STEM focused companies/businesses

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Partnerships with many STEM focused companies/businesses

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High quality professional development for staff is a top priority of the WBEIS school principal. She emphasized the need to prioritize to make sure teachers don’t get overwhelmed, and to supply the professional development all year long so that teacher confidence continuously improves. Learning Rounds is a professional development strategy wherein teachers observe each other using the rubric Characteristics of Standards-Based Teaching and Learning

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“One of the most important things to me is the training for teachers, because they become the experts. We can use our own staff, and that wasn’t happening five years ago. Teacher confidence is through the roof … and the conversations they have with the kids are awesome.”