Developmental Guidelines for Maryland Professional Development Schools

Standard IV: Organization, Roles and Resources

Research and Inquiry Developmental Guidelines

Partner institutions allocate resources to support the
continuous improvement of teaching and learning.

Beginning	Developing	At Standard
A. IHE and school-based faculty reflect on their own professional ethics and explore ways to bring discussions of ethical issues into the context of the partnership.	A. PDS partners design and implement a process to examine their own individual and collective professional ethics and plan for action based on that self-examination.	A. PDS partners model professional ethics and engage in substantive examination of ethical issues affecting research and practice.
B. IHE and school faculty determine support mechanisms to promote PDS research/inquiry.	B. PDS partners actively solicit resources to support PDS research/inquiry.	B. IHE and local school system partners provide joint resources to support collaborative school-based PDS research/inquiry.