• Quality professional development positively impacts student learning.
• Quality professional development promotes and supports positive change in schools.

Vision

• Focuses on all members of the school community as central to student learning
• Respects and nurtures the intellectual, emotional and leadership capacity of all members of the school community
• Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students and create safe, orderly, and supportive learning environments
• Reflects best available research and practice in teaching, learning, and leadership;
• Enables educators to develop further expertise in the essential elements of teaching to high standards
• Promotes continuous collaborative inquiry and improvement embedded into the daily life of schools
• Focuses on individual, collegial, and organizational improvement
• Is planned, collaboratively, by those who will participate and facilitate that development
• Is driven by a coherent, long-term plan that uses student data to determine adult learning priorities
• Is evaluated ultimately on the basis of its impact on teacher effectiveness and student learning
• Uses assessment to guide subsequent professional development efforts, and
• Allocates substantial time and resources to achieve this vision