Tracking High Quality Professional Development Title II Requirements and Best Practices Robert Mellace

Increase student achievement and close academic gaps between economically advantaged students and students who are from different economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds as well as students with disabilities – Education.com Student achievement is measured by assessing annual yearly progress via state testing. Purpose of NCLB

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Core Subject Areas Identified by NCLB English and reading or language arts mathematics science foreign languages civics and government, economics, history, geography arts (including music, dance, theatre, art, etc.) special education (because they teach core subject area information to students)

Purpose of Title II, Part A To increase academic achievement by improving teacher and principal quality.

NCLB Requirements for High Quality Professional Development Must be: Based on scientific research Based on the needs of the school district Sustained and ongoing training(s) Review collaboration is provided

Tracking Requirements of Title II, Part A Monitoring Standard 3.1 The LEA must meet the state goal for teachers receiving professional development as defined by NCLB – 100% of teachers must be engaged in high quality professional development – LEAs must present a calculation for the percentage of teachers engaged in high quality professional development in each individual year of the three year monitoring cycle.

Best Practices for Meeting Standard 3.1

Summers County Sarah Brown Uses a spreadsheet based system of tracking high quality professional development Has the ability to separate core subject area teachers from all teachers Separates high quality professional development from all professional development A percentage is calculated manually for each year of the monitoring cycle Still tracks the state required 18 hours

Lincoln County Charlene Coburn Uses an internet based system of tracking high quality professional development Has the ability to separate core subject area teachers from all teachers Separates high quality professional development from all professional development Automatically calculates a percentage for each year of the monitoring cycle Still tracks the state required 18 hours

Questions? Discussion

Contact Information Robert P. Mellace III West Virginia Department of Education Coordinator of Title I, Title II, Title VI and Troops to Teachers Office of Federal Programs Building 6, Room Kanawha Boulevard East Charleston, WV Phone (toll free): Phone: WVDE Title II and Title VI Homepage-