Districts use inventive strategy to provide professional development

Posted by Beth DuBose on Aug 05, 2008

Three San Antonio area school districts split the cost to bring summer professional development to teachers.

Following a similar topic to yesterdays blog, I came across an article in District Administration that discussed how three school districts in the San Antonio, TX area pooled their money together to offer more training opportunities during the summer for their staff members. The districts would now be able to offer 90 different professional development courses to staff for free! Many of the courses that were offered were needed by staff to meet state and district requirements. This is showing how many districts realize the need for continued professional development for their staff members, and even though most districts are going through budget crunches, they are still finding inventive ways to provide this staff development to their teachers.

District Administration article

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