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Professional Development

The professional development of teachers is a key ingredient
in improving our nation's schools.

From Secondary Lenses on Learning, (Grant, Mills, Bouck, Davidson, et al, 2009)

Professional Development

Professional development in the Evesham Township School District encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from formal coursework and conferences to informal meetings and learning opportunities situated in practice. There are a variety of approaches to professional development, including coaching, in-services, lesson study, mentoring, grade level/department meetings, workshops, Professional Learning Communities, reflective supervision, and technical assistance. These programs may be formal or informal, individualized or group-based. The state of NJ requires educators to document their own professional growth by accumulating professional development hours annually.

The district's Curriculum Department provides an extensive fall and spring professional development calendar that includes a wide variety of professional development opportunities focused on student learning and improved classroom practices. Approximately 20 - 40 workshops are offered on each calendar. The majority of the offerings are given by in-house Curriculum Supervisors at no additional cost to the district. This also includes technology workshops given by the District's Technology Coordinator. Supervisors and the Technology Coordinator combine their unique knowledge of the district with content area expertise to develop workshops based on the needs of teachers and students.

The Curriculum Department also coordinates with the Lenape Regional Curriculum Consortium to provide an annual professional development day, which targets staff members in the related arts and special services areas.

In addition, building-based workshops are also arranged and offered at the school level on an as needed basis. These professional development offerings are coordinated between the Curriculum Department and the individual school buildings. Building-based workshops are given by key personnel and are designed to address the needs of individual buildings. Workshop presenters include but are not limited to PLC/CFG Facilitators, Principals, Reading Specialists, Tier III Coordinators, Math and Technology Coaches.

The Special Education Department also organizes and offers workshops specific to particular areas of need and/or interest in this area.

Winter/Spring 2024 PD Offerings and Registration Link

The ETSD is excited to be able to offer thirty-eight different sessions on our winter/spring professional development calendar. These workshops are currently for Evesham Township School District staff only.
The following PD offering is also currently available; registration closes on Sun. March 3:

To view the full catalog, with at-a-glance offerings in the Table of Contents followed by more detailed descriptions, click here.
To register for any workshop offerings, simply click here to access the PD Calendar.

Make sure you are signed into Google and logged into the district website before registering. Please be aware all sessions have a minimum number of required participants in order to be able to run as scheduled, so be sure to register at your earliest convenience. We are hopeful that all sessions will be able to run; however, if the numbers are too low to make the session a viable option all registered participants will be contacted by the Curriculum Office.

2022-2023 PD Session Highlights

The fall/winter and winter/spring catalogs offered approximately 78 sessions to staff members during the school year. Highlights included session titles such as:

  • 3 Act Lesson Live (Gr. K-8)
  • Let's Talk About Math (Gr. K-5)
  • Book Club: Understanding Texts and Readers (Gr. K-5)
  • Guided Writing (Gr. K-5)
  • Making Word Work WORK! (Gr. 3-8)
  • ELA Hot Topics (Gr. PreK-4)
  • Assessing with Exit Slips (Gr. 2-8)
  • Genesis Features (Gr. 3+)
  • Google Forms (Gr. K-8)
  • Diving into Gifted & Talented with Depth and Complexity (Gr. K-8)

Summer Professional Development Opportunities

The ETSD annually offers multi-day institutes for new staff in August focused on the following areas: Literacy, Math, Technology, and Responsive Classroom. Institute flyers are posted here in June of each school year and staff that have not previously attended these sessions are encouraged to attend.

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