Expectations
East Hartford's Professional Development Plan:
East Hartford's Professional Development Plan highlights four main focus areas for Professional Development:
- Literacy at All Levels, Across All Content Areas
- Highly Effective Teaching Strategies
- Culturally Responsive Practice(s)
- Leadership Development
EHPS' Core Professional Development Workshop Framework
The District provides professional learning that
- Enhances both practice and outcomes for each educator
- Applies change research
- uses tools to identify and support the developmental stages.
EHPS utilizes its professional development structures to empower educators, promote choice, foster collaboration, increase opportunities for professional learning, and the cultivation and deployment of internal expertise.
Learning Design
Each EHPS' professional development workshop:
- Alignment to CT State Standards for professional development
- Address diverse needs
- Model learning throughout the year
- Illustrate components of a good lesson, including:
- initiation/hook
- active participation/Interactive components
- closure/takeaway for participants
- Have planned activities that result in high participant engagement
- Provide a product or a take-away that can be used immediately in the classroom
- Technology to share resources and promote active learning, such as:
Diverse Learning Needs
Knowledge of the audience and where they fall on the professional learning continuum
- Developing awareness: staff are provided knowledge of new, research-based instructional strategies and techniques related to the District Improvement Plan and School Improvement Plan.
- Building knowledge: staff engage in discussions, collaborations, and/or presentations regarding new, research-based strategies and techniques as they apply to specific grades and/or content areas.
- Translating into practice: staff are given opportunities to apply knowledge, such as modeling, designing learning activities, implementing new learning and bringing evidence or products to share.
Reflection
EHPS provides professional learning that enhances both educator practice and outcomes for each student and requires the use of both quantitative and qualitative student, educator and system data to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate professional learning.
East Hartford Public Schools professional development addresses one or more of the following:
- Teacher evaluation data to support individual needs
- Educator self-reflection
- Exit ticket data
- Survey results
- District, school, department needs
Professional Development Plan & Rubric
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ProTraxx
ProTraxx is the district's web-based professional development management system. The system can be accessed from school or home and allows certified staff to view and register for district workshops as well as track their own CEU's. Administrators may create workshops, view their staff's enrollment and profiles, as well use it as a tool to support logistics and the professional development decision-making process. Each certified staff member is provided a unique user name and password. EzTraxx communicates registration approvals, waiting-lists, and denials through the district email system.
Questions about ProTraxx functionality can be forwarded to Tracey Hadden-Deptula at 860-622-5194 or [email protected].
If you have forgotten your username/password, you can retrieve it from the EzTraxx log-in screen.
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