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Profiles of Selected Promising Professional Development Initiatives.

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Title: Profiles of Selected Promising Professional Development Initiatives.
Language: English
Authors: Cohen, Carol, Gerber, Peter, Handley, Claire, Finance Project, Washington, DC.
Availability: Finance Project 1401 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 202-587-1000; Fax: 202-628-1293; Web site: http://www.financeproject.org.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 100
Publication Date: 2001
Sponsoring Agency: Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Document Type: Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Development, Program Evaluation
Geographic Terms: U.S.; District of Columbia
Abstract: In 2000, the Finance Project received a planning grant to launch a new initiative on financing professional development in education. This report represents efforts to identify and develop a database on promising new approaches to professional development in education, profiling 16 initiatives recommended by knowledge experts and representing a variety of types. Information was collected via telephone interviews with program leaders and review of selected program documents. For each initiative, the report includes the following programmatic and fiscal information: purpose and goals of the initiative, including alignment with district or school level reform efforts; the auspices, sponsors, and partners associated with the initiative and their respective roles; program design and structure, including professional development activities and their scope; history and development, including why and how the initiative was undertaken and how it has evolved; issues of costs, resources, and financing; results associated with the initiative, how they are measured, what they show, and how they are used; plans for sustaining, scaling up, and replicating the initiative and fiscal and other implications of doing so; and lessons learned. The full interview and data collection protocol is appended. (SM)
Journal Code: RIESEP2003
Entry Date: 2003
Accession Number: ED472665
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:In 2000, the Finance Project received a planning grant to launch a new initiative on financing professional development in education. This report represents efforts to identify and develop a database on promising new approaches to professional development in education, profiling 16 initiatives recommended by knowledge experts and representing a variety of types. Information was collected via telephone interviews with program leaders and review of selected program documents. For each initiative, the report includes the following programmatic and fiscal information: purpose and goals of the initiative, including alignment with district or school level reform efforts; the auspices, sponsors, and partners associated with the initiative and their respective roles; program design and structure, including professional development activities and their scope; history and development, including why and how the initiative was undertaken and how it has evolved; issues of costs, resources, and financing; results associated with the initiative, how they are measured, what they show, and how they are used; plans for sustaining, scaling up, and replicating the initiative and fiscal and other implications of doing so; and lessons learned. The full interview and data collection protocol is appended. (SM)