KSDC: Kansas Staff Development Council

“Staff Development to Improve Student Learning”

KSDC Commitments—A Message from KSDC’s President

Grasping the Power of the 21st Century for Learning

KSDC is sending forth a “Call to Action” to all professional learners! …

Ultimately, KSDC’s “Call to Action” aims to clearly show and share how teacher learning is linked to student learning and how to provide the evidence for evaluation of professional learning, all in the midst of grasping this new world of digital learning.

> Are you up to the challenge?

KSDC is looking for your expertise.

Presenters are needed for the 2011 Leadership Conference. The focus of the conference is leadership within a school or district.

Share the nuts and bolts about successful or innovative programs. Review resources that have helped you in building leadership. Model effective, user-friendly tools.

Propose a Presentation >

Celebrate Your Successes With KSDC
KSDC announces the Classified Personnel Professional Development Award. This award recognizes an individual or building/district that has made a significant commitment toward the staff development of classified staff members to improve student achievement.

Learn more about this new award >
As well as KSDC's other awards for Impact, PLC, Systemic Learning, and 21st Century Learning.

As you begin pulling together all the necessary school supplies for this fall, don't forget to place a copy of KSDC's Direct Connection into your backpack. The August 2010 issue comes filled with a host of resources and materials.

a look at the seven steps to measuring impact,
one school's journey to 21st Century professional learning,
news on the 2011 KSDC Leadership Conference on "Leadership for Becoming a Learning School,"
a KSDC membership challenge,

...and so much more.

Continue the discussion....
Rev up the power...

Check out the "Power Up for Learning in the 21st Century" community website!

The website offers a 24/7 community of educators sharing ideas, connecting learning to 21st Century, and supporting the work of professional development throughout Kansas and beyond. Handouts from some of the sessions at the 2009 KSDC Leadership Conference are also available.

Join us. No charge. Just lots of power.

Teachers who know a lot about teaching and learning and who work in environments that allow them to know students well are the critical elements of successful learning. Linda Darling-Hammond (1997)

> Implementing Common
Standards Requires a
Commitment to PD

Heard the buzz about common core standards? Hayes Mizell notes implementation of those common core standards will require a commitment to Professional Development

> Slow Turn Ahead

Find out about five principles that guide a district through a changing demographic landscape.
- National Staff Development Council's Journal of Staff Development (Fall 2009)

> From Group to Team

Skilled facilitation moves a group from a collection of individuals to an effective team.
- National Staff Development Council's Journal of Staff Development (Dec. 2009)

Newsletter
- May Direct Connection (PDF 459K)
- Archives

Downloads
- NSDC PD Q&A (PPT 1.9MB)
- NSDC Vision (PPT 14.6MB)
- NSDC Standards (PPT 3.6MB)
- NSDC Learning Educator (PPT 17MB)

2009 Leadership Conference
- Observational Protocol (DOC 72K)
- Vision Document (PDF 621K)

Announcements
- KSDC Mission
- 2010-2011 Board Members
- KSDC Award Winners
- About KSDC Awards

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WANTED

‹‹ Activities that support literacy.
‹‹ Ideas for energizing Professional Development.
‹‹ How to Build a learning community.
‹‹ Ideas for preservice teachers and aspiring administrators.
‹‹ Strategies to involve parents.
‹‹ Answers to my questions about NCLB.
‹‹ Masterful math strategies.
‹‹ Live links to current research on what works.

If any of these is something you want to know more about, check out this web site:

Kansas Learning First

To visit the topic of your choice go to "See it here" under "Tools for quality Practice".