Welcome! The Training and Professional Development Department is here to serve the employees of the Anchorage School District. Our Board approved six-year plan well defines the specifics of our mission.
Our goals are to serve those professional development needs best facilitated in a centralized fashion. To that end the department uses the MyLearningPlan (MLP) tool to advertise, track, and document the over 4,000 annual trainings, inservices, credit courses, and other professional development events sponsored by the Anchorage School District.
Our department reports to the Assistant Superintendent of Instruction and is funded by a combination of Federal Title II/V and the ASD General Operating Budget dollars. Our web site is an accurate portrayal of the areas we are engaged in. We hope it is a helpful tool in meeting your professional development needs.
As an educational institution it is imperative that the Anchorage School District fully embrace the notion of the “life-long” learner. It is the Department’s strong belief that the District does just that. Evidence of that can be found in the strong commitment to increased accountability surrounding mandatory trainings. In 2007-08 the Anchorage School District Summer Academy (ASDSA) provided one of the largest, most collegial professional development opportunities ever offered in the state. Likewise, the Developing Exemplary Educational Leaders (DEEL) project, largest teacher mentoring program in the state, and the plethora of training and professional development opportunities provided by the various departments, schools, and divisions all show the drive by this District to engage the life-long learners of our educational learning community.
Come join us in increasing your personal and our organizational growth efforts!
Colleen Stevens
Colleen Stevens
Director of Staff Development
Training and Professional Development focuses on the following district goals as identified in the six year instructional plan:
Increasing achievement for all students and reducing the achievement gap
- TPD facilitates the ASD centralized mentoring program for teachers.
- TPD facilitates and works collaboratively to increase the number of highly qualified paraprofessionals and teachers.
- TPD facilitates and focuses leadership training and professional development.
- TPD Facilitates the Principal Mentorship Program.
- TPD facilitates a Substitute Teacher Training Program
- TPD Facilitates a 2 day Advance for Administrators, a one day Advance for Clerical Staff, and a New Teacher Seminar to assist our new teachers with the transition to ASD.
Supportive and Effective Learning Environment
- TPD facilitates the ASD comprehensive induction program.
Public Accountability
•Tracking, advertising, enrollment, documentation, and reporting of professional development and training in the District through the MyLearningPlan tool.
•Accountability with regard to mandatory/compliance training completion and effectiveness.
•Anchorage School District Teacher Academy and year long professional development focus our credit coursework, training, SRT inservices, and other more integrated professional development tools. |
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