Recently I was giving a training around the work of instructional coach Jim Knight. It was a fairly large number of school leaders in the room. Some wanted to be there, and some not so much. I asked whether the leaders believed teachers should have a voice in professional development. A number of participants shook their head yes, others grumbled a bit and rolled their eyes at the words "Professional development."
And then, a leader said that when teachers needed PD they would send them out to get it.
They missed the point or I wasn't clear in my delivery. I clarified by saying that I meant whether teachers should be encouraged to offer suggestions of what PD should look like, and whether they were actively involved in the process of bringing it into their school.
It was clear from the reaction...that teachers were not encouraged to have a voice.
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