Professional Responsibilities
Standards
(PRS)

The five Professional Responsibilities Standards were chosen to focus on the importance of collaboration between educators to create a learning-centered positive work environment, professional growth and reflection, professional behavior, family engagement, and developing positive relationships with students to foster student success. The five standards are:

1. Commitment to the School Community

2. Reflection on Professional Growth and Practice

3. Professional Obligations

4. Family Engagement

5. Student Perception

Professional Responsibilities Standards Rubric

The Professional Responsibilities Standards Rubric outlines the Standards and Indicators, identifies mandatory and confirmatory pieces of evidence that can be used by educators and evaluators to demonstrate proof of practice, and a breakdown of the performance levels for each Standard and Indicator.

Another resource included in this section is the NEPF Professional Responsibilities Standards: Digital and Blended Learning Evidence and Examples-in-Practice document. The PRS Rubric provides guidance for educators and evaluators in the Description/Notes column; however, this resource provides specific practices that can be used/may be observed in a digital or blended learning environment as evidence for each of the aligned Standards and Indicators. This resource is merely a guide to help teachers identify some actions they can take to improve their professional practice using digital tools and resources and to help evaluators identify some practices they may observe when they supervise teachers. It is, by no means, an exhaustive list and may change as technology tools and resources improve or are created to help teachers and educators participate in professional learning and engage with peers, families, and students.