PDA Overview

Our unique online data collection tool, PDA, is secure and easy to use. PDA was designed by PD professionals, for PD professionals working in K-12 schools. PDA’s automated dashboards and reporting provides data and transparency around the quantity and quality of professional development and coaching services.

Teachers

• Identify individual needs for professional learning
• Collaborate in professional learning conversations
• Monitor improvements using teacher professional growth rubrics
• Evaluate the quality of internal and external coaching and professional development
• Access professional development contact points for CEU’s

Administrators

• Reflect on teacher support needs using teacher professional growth rubrics
• Manage internal and external coaching and professional development
• Aggregate timely feedback on the quantity and quality of professional development
• Determine the cost benefit of professional development spending
• Aggregate information needed to apply for teacher CEU’s

Consultants

• Determine teacher support needs using teacher and administrative input
• Analyze student outcomes for teachers in one easy to read format
• Align work to professional growth standards for teachers
• Receive timely feedback on the quantity and quality of coaching and professional development services provided
• Monitor and adjust coaching focus based on teacher needs and student outcomes

Research

PDA is a unique computer-based technology designed to align professional development and coaching with teacher/administrator needs. PDA collects survey data, professional development details, and student formative and state test data for the purpose of linking professional development to student outcomes. PDA’s surveys have been validated as measuring the intended constructs and have been shown to perform reliably over time. Student data and information is uploaded via a secure FTP portal to a secure FTP server.

PDA is host to a growing PD data base supervised by a Research Scientist and a team of education professionals. Professional development data within PDA serves as a resource to research ways to improve outcomes for kids, and to ensure high levels of competency in the areas identified in the work of Timperley, Wilson, Barrar, and Fung (2007).

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