Roles and Responsibilities

Quality professional learning requires the collective effort of all stakeholders who serve in different roles.

INDIVIDUAL OR PARTICIPANT

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Uses data to determine needs and to choose which professional learning will meet those needs, as in the stated intended outcomes
• Actively participates in the selected professional learning
• Attends all sessions for the full duration of the course from start to end time.
• When necessary, cancels registration within 24 hours of the start of the activity or notifies provider if an emergency prevents attendance
• Is prepared to provide proof of registration confirmation
• Completes all requirements of any professional learning activity in which he/she participates
• Implements learning as intended, provides required documentation and seeks assistance until mastery is reached
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the professional learning on his/her practice and provides feedback through the activity appraisals
• Verifies Professional Learning Transcript is accurate at least annually.

SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATOR / SUPERVISOR

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Supports time and opportunity for staff to collaborate through authentic PLCs and other PL opportunities
• Provides for a PL/Leadership team to plan and evaluate PL for the school/department
• Monitors and records progress of participants’ implementation of new practices and knowledge on the job
• Provides feedback to participants through observation and conversation
• Provides feedback to providers on the implementation of professional learning and effectiveness towards reaching targets

SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT PROFESSIONAL LEARNING/LEADERSHIP TEAM

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Analyzes PL needs of school/department staff
• Uses data to formulate targets for improvement for the entire school or department
• Plans all PL (SIP for schools)
• Organizes staff into PLCs based on data and individual needs
• Monitors the implementation of all PL
• Organizes resources, support systems for PL
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the PL provided and the overall PL Plan
• Provides feedback to providers on the effectiveness of any professional learning towards reaching targets of school/department

SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT INSERVICE FACILITATOR (IF)

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Serves on the PL Team
• Serves as liaison between PDSS (Professional Development Services and Support) and school’s PL Team
• Compiles professional learning data as part of the PL Team
• Provides feedback to providers on the effectiveness of all professional learning
• Maintains all PL documentation (sign-in sheets, implementation documents, etc.)
• Closes, by May 15 of each year, all PLCs/Activities to ensure that those who complete all requirements earn appropriate Inservice credit

SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT PLC FACILITATOR

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Ensures meetings are held according to guidelines of authentic PLCs
• Facilitates organization of PLC meetings, based on established guidelines
• Manages minutes documenting progress of PLC
• Assists the Inservice Facilitator with closeout of PLCs

PL PROVIDER

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Serves as the lead of a project or program that involves professional learning
• Participates regularly in PDCC meetings
• Creates or coordinates an innovation configuration or master plan
• Monitors the implementation of an innovation configuration or master plan
• Ensures the data collection plan of the innovation configuration or master plan is followed
• Monitors the movement towards the Desired Outcomes documented in the approved MP/IC and makes adjustments as needed.
• Coordinates the evaluation of the program(s) described in the innovation configuration or master plan
• Coordinates the creation of professional learning aligned to specific desired outcomes of an innovation configuration or master plan
• Monitors the implementation of all professional learning provided to ensure it is applied as intended
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the professional learning provided to measure the degree to which intended outcomes were reached
• Makes adjustments to professional learning as needed, based on data
• Selects instructors of professional learning that have demonstrated content competency and the ability to facilitate adults in a learning environment
• Orients instructors to their roles and responsibilities

INSTRUCTORS

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Provides professional learning that follows the design of the activity as written
• Maintains accurate records of attendance and completion of all required assignments
• Differentiates delivery of learning based on actual participant needs
• Records mastery of the activity based on the formative or summative assessments outlined in the activity
• Collaborates with PL Provider on gaps in participant mastery to inform adjustments to the activity

ACTIVITY ORGANIZERS

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Verifies all participants completed the appraisals
• Informs PL Provider of participants who do not complete appraisals
• Cancels participants from activity
• Closes all professional learning activities on the completion date to ensure accurate assignment of any applicable inservice credit. Keeps all original rosters for a period of five years

COACH

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Assists individuals with determining PL or resource needs
• Monitors individual’s implementation of professional learning until mastery Serves on PL Team

DESIGNER/SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Provides content specific or pedagogical knowledge in the design of a professional learning activity
• Designs or works with a designer to design professional learning to be delivered via face-to-face, blended or on-line experiences
• Ensures PL provided meets standards for quality professional learning
• Evaluates resources to support PL
• Aligns PL to an IC or MP to support movement toward desired outcomes

GRANT WRITER

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Obtains funding for professional learning initiatives
• Ensures grants which include professional learning adhere to the rules of the PL System and standards for quality PL

RESEARCH SPECIALIST AND/OR EVALUATOR

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Develops a comprehensive plan to collect, analyze and evaluate PL Programs, PL activities associated with Programs and the overall quality of the PL System
• Collaborates with PL Providers in a formal feedback process to measure content mastery and changes in pedagogical practices as a result of professional learning

OFFICE OF CERTIFICATION

• Monitors instructional personnel to ensure 5-year renewal requirements for teaching certificate are met.

PD REDESIGN COMMITTEE

• Understands and promotes all rules and guidelines of the PL System and standards for professional learning.
• Created and monitors the redesigned PL System
• Monitors implementation of the redesigned PL System and change processes involved
• Proposes timetables for transition from current policies and rules to new, more effective ones that meet rising expectations for professional learning
• Provides presentations to all stakeholders to increase awareness of PL System
• Facilitates PL/Information sessions to stakeholders about fulfilling roles and responsibilities with fidelity
• Recommends responsibility for implementing the new policies and rules throughout the workforce.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND SUPPORT DEPARTMENT

• Creates culture of ownership of professional learning for all stakeholders
• Ensures all professional learning adheres to the guidelines and rules set forth in the PL System
• Coordinates the PD Redesign Committee
• Distributes responsibility for implementing the PL System throughout the workforce
• Prepares School System/PL Providers to successfully fulfill their role in the PL System
• Tabulates and distributes Professional Learning data to PL Providers as part of implementation and evaluation of professional learning
• Provides, to Schools/Departments, support for authentic PLC implementation
• Manages documentation of PL through the Broward MyLearningPlan management system
• Manages instructional and school-based employee evaluation systems
• Revises Master Inservice Plan annually: obtains Board approval, submits to the State, publishes, and distributes to stakeholders
• Manages assignment of Inservice points and individual professional learning records