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The Greece Professional Learning Center, a New York State Teacher Center in Greece Central School District, works to ensure all district employees have access to high-quality professional learning that supports and facilitates their learning and ultimately advances student achievement. The center is an integral part of the district — the state’s 9th-largest — and the community. An important part of the center’s work is evaluation. As Learning Forward states in Standards for Professional Learning (2011), “Well-designed evaluation of professional learning provides information needed to increase its quality and effectiveness” (p. 38). New York State includes evaluation in its Professional Development Standards: “Professional development is evaluated using multiple sources of information to assess its effectiveness in improving professional practice and student learning” (New York State Education
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References
Abielle, A. & Hurley, N. (2002). Evaluation executive summary: New York State teacher resource and computer training centers: Teacher center standards at work 2001-02. Stoneham, MA: Learning Innovations at WestEd.
Learning Forward. (2011). Standards for Professional Learning. Oxford, OH: Author.
New York State Education Department. (n.d.). Professional Development Standards. Available at www.highered.nysed.gov/tcert/resteachers/pd.html.
Learning Forward is the only professional association devoted exclusively to those who work in educator professional development. We help our members plan, implement, and measure high-quality professional learning so they can achieve success with their systems, schools, and students.
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