The McAuliffe Educator Explorer Professional Development Program provided one-time awards to teams of state, district, and school educators to design processes to increase the active and sustained participation of educators in professional development that results in higher-quality education for K-12 students. The programs/processes designed link the state’s efforts to support national education strategies and the state’s professional development plans with district and school professional development plans.

The major goal of this year of the program is to identify team planning processes to promote sustained professional development for teachers that can serve as models for replication in subsequent years of the program.

The McAuliffe Educator Explorer Professional Development Program was offered to participants from all states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. extra-territorial jurisdictions, and the Department of Defense Education Schools. State education agencies, utilizing established networks of teachers such as those developed by the state Teacher of the Year Programs and the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Programs, are working with district teams to develop a comprehensive staff development plan for teachers.

Contact Information
Jon Quam, Director
voice: 202-336-7047
fax: 202-408-8081
e-mail: jonq@ccsso.org