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Our Commitment to Quality

 

Dickinson ISD (DISD) is committed to ensuring that all personnel have the relevant knowledge, skills, and expertise to perform their work to consistently high standards and to increase student achievement. The District recognizes that training and development are fundamental to ensure the quality of services to students. The District supports a culture of lifelong learning and encourages employees to take ownership of their own professional learning.

Professional learning in Dickinson ISD is defined as a process that fosters personal and professional growth for individuals within a respectful, supportive, positive organizational climate.

 

Professional Learning Mission


To develop and provide research-based, best practice, on-going professional learning designed to increase expertise for the advancement of student achievement.

 

Professional Learning Vision


Develop life-long learning leaders who collaborate within their professional learning community in order to develop expertise, and promote campus based, job-embedded, on-going professional learning and meet the instructional needs of all students by building "more" responsive classrooms with relationships, rigor, relevance and results.

 

Social Emotional Learning & Character Education Teacher Training

Dickinson ISD has partnered with National Educators for Restorative Practices to provide in depth support and ongoing training to all classroom teachers and professional staff in the areas of restorative and relational practices.

 

Click on the image below to be directed to the Restorative Practices Website to learn more about the tools and techniques our teachers are being trained to use in their classrooms.
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New to the Profession Teacher Training & Support

Dickinson ISD supports all teachers, new to the profession with a two-year teacher induction program. 

In Dickinson ISD we are proud to support all teachers, new to the profession, with a two-year teacher induction program.  In their first year, teachers participate in the "Protégé" program, with the support of an assigned mentor teacher.  Proteges begin the year with two weeks of new teacher induction training designed to to target skills essential for a successful first year.  Throughout the year protégés receive monthly professional development led by curriculum specialists, administrators, and the the Director of Teacher Development and Professional  Learning.  Our protégé induction program provides our new teachers with the tools and strategies they need in the classroom as well as a community of peer support to help them grow and learn.

 

In their second year, teachers participate in the "Navigator" program.  Throughout the year navigators will receive monthly professional development and will build upon the foundation established during their first year by learning more advanced classroom instructional strategies and classroom management techniques.

 

For more information on the mentor teacher program, please select the "Mentor Teacher Program" tab above.

 

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