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Florida district in redesign PD community of practice partners with teachers

By Learning Forward
April 2017
Vol. 38 No. 2
As one of 22 districts participating in the Redesign PD Community of Practice, facilitated by Learning Forward, Lake County Schools is learning the importance of redesigning professional learning in partnership with teachers. When Andrea Pyatt, the district’s Innovative Professional Development (iPD) facilitator, stepped in to her role in early 2015, she reviewed student data and saw low performance in math across the district. Coming from a background in health care, where she was a clinical scientist, she didn’t want to roll out a new professional development program without improving the overall professional learning system. “You can’t just randomly throw PD to teachers and expect it to change the system,” she says. She also wanted the process to be led by teachers and informed by their

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