Professional Development

We’ll support you with every tool you need to help our students thrive.

Guilford County School creates an environment of professional learning that makes us all — educators, leaders and support personnel alike — the best possible guides for our students’ educational experience. 

Whatever your role, the Department of Professional Learning and Leadership (PLL) is here to help support you with onboarding and retention programming, professional learning opportunities, leadership development and new teaching coaching.

Our Mission

The Guilford County Schools Professional Learning and Leadership (PLL) department as well as  is committed to supporting the learning and development of leaders, educators, and support personnel. The mission of the PLL department is to improve the educational outcomes of all students by developing and implementing rich, immersive, and researched-based professional learning, as well as in-field coaching experiences for both new and experienced GCS staff. The department supports the talent development of employees throughout all stages of their careers.

The PLL department commits to the success of the following priorities:

• Professional Learning
• Leadership Development
• Onboarding and Retention
• New Teacher Coaching

Our Network of Support for Educators

Educators in GCS are also supported by a network of experts to serve our diverse student body.

A member of Team GCS can expect supplemental support related to meeting the needs of:

• Exceptional children
• Emergent multilingual students
• Technology integration
• Social emotional learning

In GCS, we are building a team that learns and grows together!

Opportunity Culture Initiative

The Opportunity Culture initiative aims to extend the reach of excellent teaches and their teams to more students, for more pay, while increasing on-the-job support for all teachers.
 

opportunity culture for teachers