Southeast PRISM Professional Development

PD Calendar of Events for Year 4

In the Southeast Region, all PRISM supported professional development (PD) originates in a PRISM learning community. All PRISM PD is directly connected to PRISM teacher needs, is developed collaboratively by P-12 and Higher Education faculty and is based upon various types of evidence such as test scores, benchmark data, and the needs and strengths assessment survey. PRISM supported PD takes on many forms. Regional committees may offer ongoing or large-scale professional development activities such as our upcoming 2nd Annual Regional P-16 Teaching and Learning Conference in May, ongoing GPS training, and summer course offerings. Schools and districts may support individual teacher participation in PD with stipends, travel, and substitute teacher pay as long as the participant returns to share what was learned with the learning community. Perhaps the most effective and unique PRISM PD opportunities are those that arise through submission of a Southeast PRISM PD Mini-grant proposal. Any time a PD need or desire is determined by a PRISM Learning community, the LC may collaboratively write and submit a proposal to create, offer and participate in the PD activity of their making with support from the region! Please search through the links below to find more information about Southeast PRISM PD.

• Regionally Organized and Offered PD
  • Ongoing GPS Training
  • P-5 Mathematics Endorsement (For information contact Sabrina Hessinger at 921-2059)
  • Annual SE PRISM P-16 Teaching and Learning Conferences
  • 2nd Annual SE PRISM Learning Community Workshop
  • 2nd Annual SE PRISM P-16 Teaching and Learning Conference and 3rd Annual Learning Community Workshop (combined event)
  • Upcoming Science and Math Courses at AASU and CGCC
    • Course and Contact Info will be available soon

• Southeast PRISM PD Mini-grants: PRISM Professional Development is to be data driven, content-based, collaborative with higher education, and driven completely by teacher needs as communicated through the regional network of learning communities. This statement mirrors the definition of PRISM professional development as written by the statewide leadership team. The National Science Foundations expects these characteristics from all PRISM supported professional development. Our new review criteria are intended to help ensure that all regional PRISM supported professional development involve these defining aspects. A regional subcommittee of K-12 teachers and higher education faculty from the RLC was convened in July of 2005 to discuss appropriate levels of quality, ranging from acceptable to excellent, relative to each of the criteria.
  
  
  • Previously Funded Southeast PRISM PD Mini-grants
    • Official List of all Southeast PRISM Mini-Grant Awards since Fall 2004
    • Exemplary proposals awarded each month: click here to view awarded grant proposals. Only a few proposals are highlighted here and they are most aligned with our new 2006-2007 review criteria. To request a copy of a proposal you find here, contact the principal investigator.
    • Brief descriptions of funded PD activities by level and subject (coming soon!)
  • Mini-grant Application Information
    • 2006-2007 PD Review Criteria
    • PD Mini-grant Review Rubric
    • Current PD Review Committee
    • Tips for grant writers
    • Call For Proposals
    • Southeast Region PRISM PD Proposal Cover Sheet
  • Post-Award Information
    • Participant List
    • Professional Development Evaluation Form
    • Final Report Form
    • Spending Directions

  
  Call for references/citations
  To help facilitate the connection of professional learning to research based methods and relevant literature we will keep a regional list of relevant citations you find while preparing your PD proposal. Please email any reference that you found helpful while preparing your PD and would like to share with our community to prism@mail.armstrong.edu and we will gladly post it here.

If you have interest in serving on the committee that evaluates PD Mini-grant proposals, please contact Sabrina Hessinger at hessinsa@mail.armstrong.edu.