Spotlight on Professional Development

CDC Healthy Schools
Spotlight on Professional Development

Professional development requires significant time and resources. Whether you are a program director or a professional development provider, you and your stakeholders want to know if your professional development is or is not working. Evaluation is a systematic process you can use to learn if your activities are achieving their intended purpose.

• The Measuring Implementation to Impact: A Guide to Evaluating Professional Development provides information, resources, and examples to help you: Identify and engage key stakeholders and describe your professional development activities and goals; Define your evaluation objectives and questions while identifying the indicators you will measure; Analyze and interpret results to share and use your findings effectively.

• In need of continuing education (CE) credits? Explore CDC Healthy Schools’ Training Tools for Healthy Schools: Promoting Health and Academic Success. This e-Learning series consists of 5 core training tools that have been converted to 1 to 1.5-hour modules. All five modules include a “Go Further” section for additional knowledge and resources. Both the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program and the School Health Guidelines modules provide CE credits.