Region 7 Arts Lead: Robert Bullwinkel, Fresno County Office of Education
The Guidebook for High Quality Professional Development in Arts Education is a user-friendly toolkit for designing and implementing professional development in the visual and performing arts to meet needs identified through “big picture” planning by schools, districts, and counties. This guide provides a review of practical, research-based approaches for professional development of K-12 educators and cites examples of how county offices of education and other organizations have created effective programs and strategies in various settings around the state, citing examples from urban, suburban, and rural counties. The guidebook builds knowledge of emerging best practices in professional development discovered through a survey of 46 county offices of education, as well as focused interviews of county and regional VAPA leads and an extensive analysis of current literature. |
