Think in terms of your district and your school. Design a professional development session or activity that would target an area of growth for your faculty to address a particular gap or need. It could even be an issue of morale, or parent involvement. Be sure to show the link with what you are proposing and the overall goal of the session or activity. Include the following in your project and pay special attention to #6 as listed below as it contains several areas to cover within it:

  1. Description of school setting, institution details such as economic factors, faculty make-up, student make-up, size of school, recent school grade and recent school improvement goals, and other information you deem appropriate.
  2. Alignment to district and school goals. Discuss how what you plan to lead or organize, etc. will provide the opportunity for growth for your faculty that aligns to the district and the individual school.
  3. Discuss the topic (parent involvement) you have chosen and why this could work as meaningful professional development for the faculty at your school.
  4. Share the goal of the professional development session or activity for the individual and for the school overall.
  5. Discuss briefly two facets of your professional development session-how will it benefit students and how will you be sure to engage all faculty. For example, think about a reading across disciplines workshop. How could you create this opportunity so that all teachers will feel their time is being valued? How will the music teacher benefit, etc.? We often know as teachers what it means to attend a professional development session that did not offer us much value. How can you as a future leader address this so that your faculty will not feel as you have in the past?
  6. Share the plan, the steps of how the professional development session or activity would take place. Include what is needed, the timeline, the participants, the description of the actual event, and the follow-up planned. Estimate and include the cost associated with the professional development. Be sure to address the follow-up plan in detail as often this is an area of professional development that is overlooked. See #7 below. Think of #6 as your own checklist so that if asked you could readily share with a colleague and your teaching team what the plans are.

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