The WEA Professional Development Network was created and is shaped by direct feedback from PreK-12 Classified and Certificated members. The goal is to help Washington educators easily find and register for clock-hour training in high-demand subjects.

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2015-16 WEA Professional Development
Survey and Network

2. MEMBER VALUES PD SURVEYPD
SURVEY
• Identify WEA PreK-12 Certificated and ESP
member professional development
needs
• Use data to inform state, regional and
local advocacy and trainings
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• Provide WEA member-
prioritized trainings and
resources
• Create connections
between WEA members
and their Association
NEW
Local-specific
Data for those
with at least 5%
member
participation rate

3. 86% certificated and 14% ESP (paraeducators and ESP other
than paras) respondents.*
2015-16 SURVEY: Who Responded?PD
SURVEY
3*In comparison, of all WEA certificated and ESP members, 84% are
certificated and 16% are ESP.
14.4% of
WEA PreK-12
Certificated
and Classified
members
participated.
11,087
WEA members

4. 2015-16 SURVEY & MEMBER RESPONSESPD
SURVEY
40%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
96%
Believe
Professional
Development is
Important in Their
Career
10%
Are “Very Satisfied"
with non-WEA
Professional
Development
93%
Believe it is
Appropriate for
WEA to Provide
Professional
Development
What WEA members* think about
professional development:
*WEA Members who participated in the 2015-16 PD Survey

5. 2015-16 SURVEY & MEMBER RESPONSESPD
SURVEY
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Survey Participants:
early-, mid- and late-career
education professionals
PREFERENCES
HOW:
WHEN:

6. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
NEEDS BY PROGRAM
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WEA Member PD Preferences
• Closing the Achievement/
Opportunity Gap (Cross Cultural Competency, CRIS)
• Special Education
• Instructional Innovation to meet
Common Core State Standards
• Evaluation
• Licensure/Certification

7. 7
Next Steps
• Statewide data was made available to Association
leaders, plus Local Association-specific PD Survey
data for 90 Local Associations (with 10+ respondents
and 5% member engagement) was sent to leaders
and staff to inform local advocacy and trainings.
• A WEA headquarters and field staff team is working
together to fulfill newly identified member priorities.
• WEA is building capacity across the state to engage
and empower WEA members as the education
experts in improving public education.
• A new web-based WEA Professional Development
Network system is being launched.
A STATEWIDE NETWORK

8. 8
Clock Hours
TRADITIONAL FORM
Key Characteristics
• Clock hour
evaluation taken at
end of training
• Participants submit
evaluations and pick
up clock hour forms
before departure
• Participants must
keep track of their
hard-copy forms

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Clock Hours/Verification of Hours
NEW TRANSCRIPT
Key Changes
• Participants will receive
an email to complete an
online course evaluation
• Once the online
evaluation is submitted, a
transcript of all WEA clock
hour courses* will be
emailed as a pdf
• Both Certificated and ESP
Transcripts are available
* Taken after Sept 1, 2015

10. Member-Driven and Statewide
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WEA PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT NETWORK