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On Reconceptualizing Continuing Professional Development:A Framework for Planning

Link: http://www.urbanschools.org/pdf/OP_Recon.pdf?v_document_name=On%20Reconceptualizing%20Continuing%20Professional%20Development

Institutions of higher education, districts and state education agencies must create together the strategies, incentives, and options that will promote educators’ learning of the new practices and perspectives that will generally change this core of practice. Meeting such a challenge requires reconceptualizing both staff and professional development for urban districts where significant numbers of teachers are not licensed, where even licensed teachers leave after a few years and where working conditions are often poor and deteriorating.
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This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NIUSI: District Effort & Support: Cultural Renewal & Improvement
• Network/channel: NIUSI: District Effort & Support: Student Services
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Resiliency
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Group Practice & Professional Development
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Teaching Design & Practices

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