The vendor is required to provide MCPS will implement a professional learning program for all (~14,000) teachers by June 2026, and ensure new teachers receive training within one year of employment.
- Grounded in the belief that strong instructional leadership enhances teaching and student outcomes, this initiative will develop teacher leaders’ capacity to support professional learning implementation.
- Key strategies in the professional learning plan to advance the goals of the blueprint for state future should include: KASAB frameworks, a leadership institute, a learning science institute, implementing cross-functional-teams, structured teacher-leader learning progressions, a train-the-trainer model, and ongoing leadership coaching and support. professional learning should be designed to use a cascade mode to ensure coherence and sustainability.
- Material and human resources to support the design and delivery of professional learning, tied to the career ladder, for all teachers to build their capacity in various educational areas to advance the goals of the blueprint for state future.
- This should be achieved by providing consultative assistance to the central office instructional specialists and professional learning specialists responsible for the design and delivery of teacher professional learning to be delivered by cross-functional teams and in compliance with the requirements of md code, education §6-1011 through consultative sessions (four 90-minute virtual sessions).
- Convene a district-level core project team of central leaders to develop and monitor the yearlong learning science professional learning and growth plans, aligned with district improvement initiatives.
- This core team should meet for 8 (1-hour virtual) sessions.
- Material and human resources to support a leadership institute and learning science institute by consulting (in-person or virtual) to develop session objectives, training plan and slides; examine materials to ensure alignment to identified KASABS; collect and analyze learning data to inform the design of future sessions
- The facilitation of professional learning for school and district leaders that extends the initial learning science institute by introducing a year-long deep dive into key learning science principles, effortful thinking, that will advance the district’s strategic goals through six half day sessions of in-person professional learning.
- Consultative services for two (90 minute) cross-functional team design sessions to draft learning progressions for each role (e.g., new staff development teacher, new reading specialist, new content specialist) to guide the design of the 2025-2026 teacher-leader learning course.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Non-Mandatory a Virtual Pre-Proposal Conference Date: April 11, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: April 09, 2025