Through the Missouri State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG), a framework of high quality professional development has been developed. This framework includes the critical elements for the development of providing professional development content as well as supporting implementation with fidelity. The professional development content focuses on collaborative teaming, data-based decision-making, common formative assessment, and effective teaching and learning practices at the classroom level. The benefit has been a consistent approach to moving the statewide system of support toward improving the quality of professional development provided to schools showing a need to improve student achievement, in particular for students with disabilities. Plus
