Atlanta Public Schools Integrates with Four Leading Content Providers within One PD System

SANDY, Utah - June 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Atlanta Public Schools (APS) aims to provide ongoing professional development support, encouraging growth for all educators and staff.  In order to provide APS educators with a plethora of professional development tools and learning opportunities, the district recently integrated with four leading content providers within a single sign-on, professional learning management system, managed by Truenorthlogic.  Educators have on-demand access to professional development resources and tools from multiple content providers, including district-created content.   With APS’s comprehensive professional learning management system, relevant courses, videos and instructional content are recommended based on an educator’s specific professional growth goals.  

By integrating these four professional learning providers and internal APS face-to-face trainings into one professional development (PD) system, APS has created a professional learning environment tailored to their educators’ needs.  Educators are able to access content that connects to their practice and is differentiated to meet their individual professional learning needs.  Through utilizing the search by competency or by subject functionality, teachers can find professional learning from a variety of sources that has been specifically aligned to Common Core, Teacher Keys, Leader Keys, School Keys, as well as multiple subject areas.  With online PD this content is available anytime, anywhere for all APS staff.

“All of our employees have the ability to self-select professional learning based on competencies and subject areas.  Now each person can manage their own professional learning while enhancing their instructional capacity,” says Dr. Kristal Ayres, Director of Professional Learning for Atlanta Public Schools.

“We are pleased to be working with APS on their efforts towards providing their educators with well-rounded, ongoing professional development support.  One of the advantages of having a content-agnostic professional development system is that districts offer a non-proprietary approach to supporting teachers,” says Jeanette Haren, President and CEO of Truenorthlogic.

ABOUT TRUENORTHLOGIC

Truenorthlogic is the leading provider of comprehensive human capital management systems to K-12 education agencies working to improve student achievement by increasing educator effectiveness. Our award-winning solutions help State education agencies and school districts ensure an effective educator for every student, including teacher preparation and induction support, licensure and certification tracking, career planning tools, evaluation, professional development management and system support for differentiated learning and incentive pay models.  Truenorthlogic has a proven track record housing professional development and educator effectiveness data for over five million educators, staff and students.  For more information, visit www.truenorthlogic.com.