Statewide Professional Development Conference

A Statewide Professional Development Program for California Foreign Language Teachers

The California Foreign Language Project (CFLP), established in 1988, is a voluntary professional development program designed to improve and expand elementary, secondary, and postsecondary foreign language teaching in California. CFLP consists of nine regional sites that work in conjunction with a central office to increase professional development for over 600 foreign language teachers annuall...

Statewide Mathematics Professional Development: Teacher Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Beliefs

We examined the impact of a state mandated K-12 mathematics professional development course on knowledge, self-efficacy and beliefs of nearly 4,000 teachers and administrators. Participants completed the Mathematical Thinking for Instruction course, emphasizing student thinking, problem-solving, and content knowledge specific to mathematics instruction. Inventories utilizing items from the Lear...

The First Annual Statewide Pollution Prevention Conference - The Florida Clean Marina Program Development

Selecting statewide youth development outcome indicators.

This article presents the process used to develop a set of statewide positive youth development (YD) outcome indicators to complement existing adolescent well-being indicators in New York State (NYS). Intended uses included program and community-, county-, and state-level planning; grant writing; evaluation; and outcome monitoring in coordination with national YD-oriented initiatives. A common ...

The Impact of Professional Internship on Teacher Professional Development

Introduction: Teacher internships began in the United States in 1900 and they include work-based teaching experiences. Programs with titles from school to work, in search of work, teaching new teaching methods, and etc., are considered as the best methods of in-service training by a teacher. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of professional internship on the professional devel...