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APQC Professional Development Study |
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
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Arroyo Research Services was pleased to serve as a Special Advisor to the APQC K-12 Professional Development Benchmarking Study completed in January 2007. "You can't improve outcomes without improving processes," states APQC founder Dr. C. Jackson Grayson in the Education Week article about the study. Designed to help school districts compare and improve their methods of providing and supporting professional development, the pilot study brought together a diverse group of 18 districts including Poway, California, Montgomery County, Maryland,
Fairfax and Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Brevard, Lee, and Pinellas Counties in Florida. At the Knowledge Transfer Session held January 10-11, 2007 in Houston, study participants attended sessions with Joellen Killion from the National Staff Development Council, Diane Kline and Jack Grayson from APQC, and Kirk Vandersall from Arroyo Research Services designed to help them use the study results to drive district improvement. The Arroyo Research Services presentation, Benchmarking and Evaluation: Toward Results Driven Professional Development, outlined our vision for models driven measurement and its application to large scale professional development initiatives. More details on the study can be found here. Kudos to Travis Colton, Diane Kline, and the APQC team for a job well done, and to the districts for their hard work and long hours spent digging for data to inform the study! |
