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Kent County High School's Kris Hemstetter raises her mic on stage Friday, March 21 after being announced as the Principal of the Year by the Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals. Cheering her on is Kent County Board of Education President Trish McGee.

Congratulations to Kent County High School's Kris Hemstetter on being named the Principal of the Year by the Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals! Click here to read all about her much-deserved recognition. 
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Professional Development

Teaching and Learning: Providing district leadership, support and accountability — with link

Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for all students occurs within learning communities committed to continuous improvement, collective responsibility and goal alignment.

Professional Learning Communities

Effective learning communities engage in a cycle of continuous improvement involving each of the following steps:
• The use of data to determine student and educator learning needs.
• Identification of shared goals for student and educator learning.
• Professional learning to extend educators' knowledge of content, content-specific pedagogy, how students learn and management of classroom environments.
• Selection and implementation of appropriate evidence-based strategies to achieve student and educator learning goals.
• Application of the learning with local support at the work site.
• Use of evidence to monitor and refine implementation.
• Evaluation of results.