• Professional Learning

    The Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough professional learning is designed to develop educators’ knowledge and understanding, sustain growth and lead to refinements in practice. This is a collaborative and iterative process that expands educators’ capacity to improve student learning.  The District’s professional learning culture is built on a foundation of trust, mutual interdependence, an active role by all educators, and a shared belief that improved student learning must remain the ongoing goal of all professional learning.
     
    The following are tenants of the District’s professional learning experiences:
    • Experiences that are ongoing and situated within the educator’s practice, rather than “one‐shot” or “one and done” experiences that may or may not connect to practice (except in limited circumstances)
    • Continuous cycles of doing, reflecting/discussing, and refinement
    • Feedback loops from colleagues, coaches, and/or supervisors to assist the educator in reflecting on practice and determining any changes that may be necessary
    • Data supports the ongoing improvement of teaching and learning
    • External research and access to experts helps support the development of educators' instructional practice and content knowledge
    • Learning about content, balanced with learning about pedagogy

    The individual educator, each school, and District share responsibility for sustaining professional learning by planning and implementing a coherent system that attends to the accomplishment of an individual, school, and District goals.
     
    Professional Development Overview

  • Professional Development Overview - 2020-2021

    In the 2020-2021 academic year, educators will be engaged in the following professional development days.  

    Aug. 31, 2020 - Sept. 14, 2020: Reimagining Learning ‘20-’21 

                              Reimagining Learning Daily Agendas (with video links)

    Sept. 15, 2020 - Professional Development Day (Teacher Return Day) 

    Oct. 5 & Oct 19, 2020- Half- day Building-based Professional Development

    Nov. 3, 2020 - District Professional Development Day

    March 5, 2021 - Building-based Professional Development Day

    Flex-PD:  Converted to six hours of PD to be completed between July 1, 2020, and June 1, 2021.