Professional Development Policy History and Advocacy

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The Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers, a network of professional developers across the country, is engaged in an on-going process of developing a platform of policies related to professional development. This platform would constitute a vision for professional development for which the whole field can advocate. AALPD invites discussion of this platform, in an effort to draft policies that represent the field's view. Please join the discussion by subscribing to NIFL-AALPD. To subscribe, visit:
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/discussions/nifl-aalpd/subscribe_aalpd.html

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Contents 1 AALPD Policy Platform 2 Policy History 2.1 How were the policies developed? 3 Policy Advocacy 3.1 NAEPDCandPDPolicies 3.2 NCL and PD Policies

AALPD Policy Platform

• Final Version: AALPD Policy Recommendations http://aalpd.org/advocacy.htm
• Draft PD Policies DraftPDPolicies
• Policy platform construction (work space for platform development) PDPolicyPlatformConstruction

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Policy History

How were the policies developed?

• Summer 2004: The NIFL-AALPD Discussion List hosted a formal discussion of the NCSALL Research "How Teachers Change,"[[1]] and from that discussion, several PD policy implications emerged.
• Winter 2004: The AALPD Chair created the first draft of the PD policies, based upon what we know from research about policies that could support teachers to access professional development and to do their jobs well.
• January - September 2005: The NIFL-AALPD Discussion List Moderator conducted a survey of state policies, and hosted formal discussions of the draft PD Policies. The PD Policies were available for feedback through the NIFL-AALPD Discussion List and the AALPD website.
• May 2005: The AALPD Executive Board incorporated the field's feedback (see PD Policy Historical Document), and the resulting document was further revised at the AALPD Pre-Conference at COABE in Anaheim, CA.
• July - September 2005: The PD Policy revisions from the AALPD Pre-Conference were made available for feedback and editing in the Adult Literacy Education PD Wiki area: http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Adult_Literacy_Professional_Development
• October 2005: The Executive Board revised the final list of policies upon which AALPD members will indicate whether or not they support the PD Policies [[2]].
• November 2005: Ninety-seven per cent of voting AALPD members indicated overwhelming support of AALPD to promote the PD Policies. For an update visit: [[3]]
  

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Policy Advocacy

Below begins a list of programs, organizations, and states who are taking action to implement policy choices from the PD Policy Platform.

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  NAEPDCandPDPolicies

  • November 2005: The National Adult Education Professional Development Consortium (NAEPDC) (http://www.naepdc.org/) used a final version of these policy recommendations at their New Training Institute held in Denver, Colorado [[4]] where they participated in professional development on developing provisions for improving their state professional development systems.
    • NTI Handouts [[5]]
  • April 2006: State Directors are completing a survey of policy implementation and challenges for policy implementation.
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  NCL and PD Policies

  Update from the National Coalition for Literacy
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