Why? With its strategic plan goal to ensure that all Mississippi schools have effective leaders and teachers, the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) recognized that the Professional Growth System (PGS) designed to enable educational leaders to assess and support improvements in educator practice needed updating. In addition, MDE recognized the need to build capacity to provide the training in order […]
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Mississippi Comprehensive Literacy
Why? The impact of the Literacy-Based Promotion Act (2013) and the subsequent improvement in students’ reading achievement in Grades K–3 has been an integral part of Mississippi’s growth in student achievement on the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). Seeking to refine its success in K–3 literacy through a focus on literacy leadership and to expand the instructional model to […]