21st Century Schools offers a wide variety of
professional development experiences:
Professional Development Topics
Regional Workshops -
PPDP - customized professional
staff development for your campus or district
Multi-District Conferences
Educate the
Educator
Curriculum Design
Budgeting Professional Development
PPDP - Consultants at 21st Century Schools can assist you in
developing your Personal Professional Development Plan for
your district or campus - custom-tailored Professional Staff
Development designed to meet the specific needs of your
schools, staff and community.
After assessing the particular needs for your staff, our
consultants will work with you, your staff, and all
stakeholders to develop an appropriate staff development
program. Assessing needs, setting goals, planning and
action will all be aligned to the direction to be taken in
staff development voiced by goals of your stakeholders. All
professional development activities will be designed to
maximize growth as they connect and flow in relation to one
another. Ongoing evaluation of progress, conducted by
staff, administrators, and stakeholders as well as our
consultants will guide the continual fine adjustment of the
staff development program.
Multi-District Conferences
- Let our talented and experienced team of consultants
plan, organize and deliver a multi-district educational
conference for you. By teaming with one or more other
districts (or campuses), you can cut professional
development expenses dramatically. All we need is the
general theme of your conference, then we will discuss with
you the development of the strands which you wish to offer
the attendees. Based on an assessment of your district's
needs we will organize the perfect educational conference -
everything from coffee and pastries to the session
evaluation forms!
Sharing expenses for a professional development event of
this nature can even result in putting money into your
pocket as you charge attendance fees to educators from other
school districts. We also will look into alternative
sources of funding for you.
Educate the Educator
- In this scenario, consultants from 21st Century
Schools will come to your district and work with a special
team of people selected from each campus and the central
office. We will then conduct intensive training which will
enable these specialists to conduct the professional staff
development sessions for the rest of the staff in your
district. This is not only extremely cost effective in
terms of dollars, but in terms of increased productivity,
efficiency and morale. A spirit of teamwork and
collaboration in creating needed growth and change for your
staff is priceless.
Curriculum Design
- allow consultants at
21st Century Schools to assist you in designing and
developing curriculum for your district and campuses. We
will work with teachers, administrators and parents as you
design and align your district/campus curriculum -
vertically, horizontally and globally - to meet the needs of
your students for the new millennium.
Vertical Alignment -
addressing the flow of the curriculum in a PreK-12
perspective.
Horizontal Alignment -
addressing the flow of the curriculum across disciplines
within grade levels.
Globally Balanced -
aligning the curriculum into a meaningful and complete
whole which not only meets state and national standards,
but is connected to the community as our society
undergoes rapid changes due to the phenomena of
technology, media and globalization in all aspects of
life.
Professional Staff
Development