VSDC Region IV 2009 Spring Meeting

Virginia Staff Development Council (an affiliate of the National Staff Development Council)

Region IV Professional Development Gathering

NSDC Purpose: Ensuring that every educator engages in effective professional learning every day so that every student achieves.

April 16, 2009

Why: Connect with other professional developers in our region

Topic: Sharing professional learning strategies that work and helpful resources

AGENDA

9:40-10:00 Coffee and Networking

10:00-10:15 Welcome, Introductions and Setting the context of our work

Result: Participant relationships are strengthened.

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10:20-11:15 Sharing of Resources

Result: Participants create a shared knowledge base.

• Share information from a conference session you have attended this year
• Bring/share information about a resource you have found to be helpful
• Plans for new hire support and mentor programs?
• How budget cuts have impacted professional learning in region 4 districts?

11:15- 11:45 What can VSCD for you and your district?

Result: Participants identify areas and ways that VSDC and/or VSDC Region IV can be a resource or support.

11:45-12:00 Reflection and next steps

Result: Participants identify areas in which VSDC and/or VSDC Region IV can be of support.

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:45 Webinar- NSDC’s Deputy Executive Director Joellen Killion will provide an overview of Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A Status Of Teacher Development in the U.S. and Abroad and answer questions.

Result: Participate in a conversation about the Darling-Hammond research.

Links from the meeting:

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• VSDC- http://www.vsdc-online.org

• NSDC- http://www.nsdc.org

• VSDC Meeting Evaluation and Feedback form. View the responses about today's meeting here

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VA Region IV

Counties:
Arlington
Clarke
Culpeper
Fairfax
Fauquier
Frederick
Loudoun
Madison
Orange
Page
Prince William
Rappahannock
Shenandoah
Warren

Cities:

Alexandria

Fairfax

Falls Church

Manassas

Manassas Park

Winchester

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Virginia Staff Development Council

Click here to view the Virginia Staff Development Council (VSDC) web page and learn more about the organization. As an affiliate of the National Staff Development Council, VSDC's mission is to ensure success for all students by serving as the state network for those who improve schools and by advancing individual and organizational development.

National Staff Development Council

Click here to view the National Staff Development Council's (NSDC) web site.

The NSDC purpose is every educator engages in effective professional learning everyday so every student achieves.

VSDC is an affiliate of NSDC.