Professional+Development

toc For your technology plan you'll need to create a narrative about your staff development plan. You will need to examine the Fox Chapel Area School District model, the [|Classrooms for the Future] plan, and [|Route 21], the tool developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

PEP - Setting the Stage
Watch a [|screencast] that provides an overview for the conditions that were put in place to make the Professional Education Program (PEP) successful in the Fox Chapel Area School District (FCASD).

[|Keys to Success]
Learn about the [|key findings] that were identified by a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh's Learning and Research Development Center.

[|From PEP1 to PEP2]
After 3 successful years of PEP Alan Fager, the new FCASD superintendent, asked, "Are you making an impact on student learning?" The results in PEP1 were all about teacher transformation and growth, but there was little evidence of student learning. Therefore, FCASD brought the LRDC team back to come up with a new design using Action Research as the guiding strategy.

[[image:CFF.jpg width="141" height="41" align="left" caption="CFF" link="http://screencast.com/t/pOlmC8Kk"]][|From PEP to CFF]
The PEP program laid the groundwork for the transition to [|Classrooms for the Future], the state's high school reform project, that focused on creating more engaged and interactive classrooms.

[|Route 21]
One of the key underlying structures for the Partnership for 21st Skills is Staff Development. The [|Route 21 key points] echo both CFF and PEP.