Strike The Right Balance

Strike the right balance

How do school leaders balance district priorities with school and staff learning needs?

By Donna Micheaux

Categories: Learning communities, Learning designs

Vol. 37 No. 5

What drives professional learning — personalized individual staff and school needs or districtwide goals? This is the question that educators in Pittsburgh Public Schools and other districts across the country are grappling with as we redesign professional learning. Striking the right balance between overarching, district-led professional learning initiatives and allowing schools the flexibility to work on issues that are unique to the needs of their staff members and students is a common problem of practice. As part of the Redesign PD Community of Practice, which includes 22 school systems across the country, Pittsburgh Public Schools is working to build greater alignment and coherence into its professional learning efforts. That means creating a districtwide professional learning system that helps us grow collectively, while at the same

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Authors

Donna Micheaux

Donna Micheaux ([email protected]) is former deputy superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools and CEO of Micheaux Educational Consulting.

This article is part of a continuing series highlighting the educators engaging in Learning Forward’s Redesign PD Community of Practice, which supports 22 of the nation’s leading school districts and charter management organizations in addressing systemwide educator and student learning priorities. Read more at www.lf.wphlab.com/redesignpdcop.