Professional Development

Welcome to the Beverly Public Schools Professional Development Website

The effective implementation and delivery of instruction for students requires on-going professional development. The district provides a variety of professional development opportunities for new and veteran staff during the school year and during the summer. The office of the Assistant Superintendent oversees the development and implementation of professional development opportunities.

Professional Days

The district provides three full-day professional development days during the year for teachers and other district staff to participate in high quality professional development. The focus of these days is to provide teachers with support with new curricula implementations and district-wide initiatives.

Teacher Induction Programs

The Beverly Public Schools is committed to the hiring and retention of highly qualified teachers. It is well known that teachers need the most support during the first few years of their employment. The district provides a personalized learning approach to mentoring for newly hired teachers. The first year of mentoring focuses on working with new teachers to provide support with getting to know district programs, policies, and procedures. New teachers attend networking meetings where they get feedback and support on issues related to classroom instruction. The second year of mentoring focuses on the work of fine tuning classroom instruction using a workshop model. All newly hired teachers attend an orientation meeting before school starts.

Summer Institute

The Assistant Superintendent in collaboration with other district curriculum leaders creates and implements a summer program of professional development that is available to Beverly Public School teachers and teachers from surrounding districts. Offerings provide teachers with the opportunities to receive training in researched based programming. Training in technology integration and Project Based Learning have been important components to our summer institutes. These courses are offered for PDP’s and college credit. Teacher from surrounding districts are invited to attend our workshops. Click here for Summer 2020 Professional Development Opportunities.

Primary Source

Beverly Public Schools partners with Primary Source to provide opportunities for high quality professional development to all staff. These professional learning opportunities for K-12 educators offer new perspectives, collaborative discussions, and resources for more culturally responsive and globally inclusive teaching.

Salem State Collaborative Project for Professional Development

The Salem State Collaborative Project provides member districts and schools with high quality, low cost professional development. Beverly is a Premium member of the CPPD, and as such provides our staff the opportunity to attend many of our workshops at no cost or at a minimal cost. The Collaborative offers Weekday and Saturday Mini-Conferences. Each conference offers up to ten or more 2-hour and 4-hour workshops on a major topic addressing a skill or a strategy in addressing ways of improving classroom instruction and student learning.

Salem Collaborative Project for Professional Development