The Staff Development Department of Springfield Public School is pleased to provide this website as a resource for principals and teachers as they use learning communities as a means of professional learning.
The SPS Board of Education has high expectations for collaborative professional learning at each school site. These expectations are
- Teachers use contractual time to actively engage in collaboration/learning.
- Data drives each team’s work and classroom instruction.
- Plan and work aligns with SIP and exhibits cycles of improvement.
- Teams document work and monitor outcomes.
- Leader provides written and verbal feedback to collaborative teams and opportunities to make the work public.
In an effort to continue to give sites choice in how they provide a framework for professional learning, Springfield Public Schools has created a system for providing support to schools and providing a resource for implementing professional learning. Thus Site Professional Learning Systems (SPLS) evolved into being. Through SPLS, sites will have support for creating a systematic approach to professional learning that keeps standards high and provides common language in how teachers collaborate. |
