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 * "High Quality Professional Development" represents experiences that systematically, over a sustained period of time, enable educators to __positively impact student learning__ through the acquisition of knowledge, understanding, skills, and dispositions in order to achieve the instructional improvement goals of the school district, the individual school, or the individual professional growth of the educator. **

High quality 21st century professional development includes activities that: >
 * Are prescribed by data indicating areas for growth (reference Colorado's Educator Effectiveness measurement instruments)
 * Are an integral part of broad school-wide and district-wide educational improvement plans
 * Improve and increase teachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach and enable teachers to become Highly Qualified
 * Advance teacher understanding of effective instructional strategies that are based on scientifically based research and strategies for improving student academic achievement or substantially increasing the knowledge and teaching skills of teachers
 * Provide instruction in methods of teaching diverse populations with special needs and limited English proficiency, and raise educator’s ability to become culturally proficient
 * To the extent appropriate, provide training for teachers and principals in the use of technology so that technology and technology applications are effectively used in the classroom to improve teaching and learning in the curricula and core academic subjects in which the teachers teach


 * Are high-quality, sustained, intensive, job-embedded, and classroom-focused in order to have a positive and lasting impact on classroom instruction and the teacher's performance in the classroom
 * Are developed with extensive participation of teachers, principals, parents, and administrators of schools to be served
 * As a whole, are regularly evaluated for their impact on increased teacher effectiveness and improved student academic achievement, with the findings of the evaluations used to improve the quality of professional development
 * May be delivered via individual coaching, face-to-face, blended, or online learning opportunities or through rigorous independent study

// Adapted from NCLB Definition of high quality professional development @http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg107.html //