Professional Development

"Making meeting time and professional development time part of the teachers' workload is essential." Andrew Aitken

The school faced many challenges during the first three years when the staff began tackling the issue of team building. The first one was how to make time for teachers to meet face-to-face. Through a series of creative budgeting tactics which evolved over the years, Andrew Aitkin was able to build time into the teachers' schedule for them to meet regularly. The need for professional development time is ever present

• More about strategies for Making Time
• Creative ways of making time, by CQSB principals.

A Learning School
Professional development is the focus of Ste-Foy's vision of a Learning School in which every one is a learner and a teacher.

Video Clip (A Learning School)

The need for professional development time is ever present, but now professional development is on-going and based on teachers' expressed needs. These can be handled in a variety of ways.