Focus Area: Investing in Our People
Success Looks Like This
Year Two (2023-24)
By September 2023 Professional Learning Request form will be implemented.
Activities
Professional Learning Request form successfully launched on the FCCPS Employee Intranet and in use during Fall 2023.
Professional Development tracking underway.
Evidence & Performance Measurements
In October 2023 FCCPS will host the Inaugural IB Continuum Conference: Collaborating Across the Continuum
See also: IB Infused Teaching and Learning
Activities
This inaugural conference planned and organized by FCCPS staff, providing a leadership opportunity for organizers and presentation opportunities for FCCPS employees.
Nearly 100 FCCPS employees presented, attended , and networked with colleagues from across the country.
Evidence & Performance Measurements
The opening session of the IB Conference.
Year One (2022-23)
By January 2023, FCCPS will launch tuition reimbursement for external professional development opportunities for FCCPS employees.
Activities
In November 2022 FCCPS launched employee tuition reimbursement programs with Northern Virginia Community College and English Empowerment Center.
Evidence & Performance Measurements
During Spring 2023 semester, ten FCCPS staff members signed up for courses in this program to learn English, earn teacher licensure or Associate's Degrees.
Summer 2023 classes began in May 2023 for si students.
Registration for Fall 2023 classes is underway.
By June 2023, FCCPS will develop a divisionwide Professional Learning Framework.
Activities
FCCPS leadership worked throughout Fall 2022 to categorize professional development activities and funding sources.
Divisionwide professional development committee convened in January 2023 and work will be occurring in Spring 2023 to align PD with Strategic Plan and IB Programme Standards and Practices.
Operations employees were included on this committee to ensure that their needs were understood and met.
Plans for 2023 FCCPS Pre-Week Professional Learning are underway.
Professional development for operations and support staff will be included in the 223 Pre-Week schedule.
Evidence & Performance Measurements
By June 2023, FCCPS will provide leadership development for site-based and central office administrators.
Activities
Three leadership cohorts met during the 2022-23 School Year.
Fourth leadership cohort meeting during 2023-24 School Year.
School Building leaders attending "Innovative Schools Summit" in December 2023.