Individual
Professional Development Plan (IPDP) Resources
A caveat: This information was culled from the Mass DOE, MTA, NPS and NHS
websites. The NASE makes no guarantees of its accuracy or timeliness.
That being said, here are a few useful things:
Pretty much anyone with a professional license today will need 150 PDPs to
recertify with 120 in your content area.
Teachers on initial or provisional licenses are not subject to PDP requirements and have a whole different batch of requirements to do. Initial and provisional license holders can find help here: http://www.doe.mass.edu/Educators/e_license.html?section=k12
New! Unofficial Summary of Massachusetts DOE Recertification Guidelines. See the complete official guidelines below.
Mass DOE Recertification Q & A:
http://www.doe.mass.edu/recert/qa.html
Mass DOE Recertification Guidelines PDF. See pages 12-15 for details on how
many PDPs various activities are worth and limits on the number of PDPs that can
be applied toward recertification from certain activities:
http://www.doe.mass.edu/recert/2000guidelines/guidelines.pdf
April 2005 changes to the Recertification Guidelines:
http://www.massteacher.org/career/state_cert/state_cert_2005-04-28.cfm
District Goals are on the NPS home page:
http://www.nps.northampton.ma.us/
NHS/FLC School Goals are on pages 19-23 of the School Improvement Plan:
http://www.hamphigh.org/content/aboutschool/sip0708.pdf
Bridge Street Goals are on pages 14-20 of the School Improvement Plan:
http://www.nps.northampton.ma.us/eleminfo/bridgeSIP.pdf
Jackson Street Goals are on pages 22-32 of the School Improvement Plan:
http://www.nps.northampton.ma.us/eleminfo/jacksonSIP.pdf
RKF-Ryan Road Goals are on pages 3-19 of the School Improvement Plan:
http://www.nps.northampton.ma.us/eleminfo/finnryanSIP.pdf
(We are in the process of obtaining goals for JFK and Leeds schools.
You can request this information individually from your building principals.)
District professional development plan:
http://www.nps.northampton.ma.us/pdplan.pdf