A district can adopt several different professional development strategies for improving school-wide instruction. These include:
- Subject-based instructional coaches
- Common Planning Time among teachers
- Mentoring by Department Heads or Lead Teachers
The School-based Professional Development page allows you to explore how each of these professional development strategies impacts the district's budget.
You may also use this page to explore different answers and possibilities for the following questions:
- How many literacy and math coaches are appropriate at each school level?
- How is the coaches' time best used based on the needs of your district? Working intensively with one teacher, or working with several teachers at a time?
- How many Common Planning Time periods should there be for elementary school teachers? Secondary school teachers?
- How does your district's strategy for Common Planning Time complement your district's coaching strategy?
Because DREAM shows the results of your decisions in real-time, you will be able to see which combinations of school-wide professional development activities will have the largest impact at the least cost.
Your
base case data is shown below in the gray fields. You may enter data into the yellow
redesigned fields to identify the effects that various combinations of these levers have on the district budget.
