From the Joplin Globe:
NEOSHO, Mo. — The R-5 district has received the 2011 Commissioner’s Award for High Quality Professional Development.
“We’re proud,” said Alma Stipp, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction. “It was a group effort.”
The state award recognizes the district’s efforts to improve the personal and career-related development of its faculty and staff as a means to bolster student achievement.
Stipp said the district’s focus on professional development began five years ago, when it developed a plan that centered on an initiative to help students in poverty. Since then, the district has brought in people from a national organization — the Highlands, Texas-based Aha! Process Inc., which seeks to improve poverty levels through the education system — to coach faculty and staff on how to reach those students.
“We trained large groups of our staff on different strategies for teaching and good practices we need to understand in order to meet our students’ needs,” she said.
The district was presented the award last week by the state Commissioner of Education, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Staff Development Council at an annual conference in Branson. District officials will formally announce their receipt of it at their monthly Board of Education meeting.
The board is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the library reference room of Neosho Junior High School.
(Blogger's note: Great Job Alma!)
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