NCATE recognized the potential power of PDSs for improving the quality of teaching and enhancing student achievement. Standards strengthen and support PDS development, are a tool to assess progress within the PDS, and assure accountability.
Between 1995 and 2001 NCATE worked with hundreds of practitioners and teacher educators to design and field test standards for professional development schools. Draft standards were developed based on extensive input from experts in the field. The draft standards were then field-tested for three years by eighteen diverse and representative PDS partnerships.
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