Phoenix Charter Academy: Getting Inspired by Competency-Based Teacher Professional Development

In their redesign work, Phoenix Charter Academy began by exploring how to better equip their teachers to implement their unique model, which supports disconnected youth through competency-based learning and significant social-emotional supports. Phoenix knew that this would require attention to both staff skills and staff mindsets, and that different teachers came to the work with different strengths and needs.

As a result, Phoenix explored how districts have built teacher professional development models that are competency-based. This would enable Phoenix not only to flex and adapt its support to different teachers, but it would also involve teachers in a learning model akin to what their students experience in this competency-based school.

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Topics:
Learning Materials & Tools, Visioning, Change Management

Sub-topics:
Core Curriculum, Pedagogy, Vision Development, Leadership Decisions