Spirit of Partnership award received for PDS

By Samantha Ernest

Staff Writer

Salisbury University representatives recently returned from the National Association of Professional Development Schools’ annual conference in Daytona Beach, Fla., with the fourth annual Spirit of Partnership Award. The award is given to an institution of higher education that innovates and serves as a model of how Professional Development schools should be run. The award is presented to honor contributions made to the conference by individual institutions.

Dr. Dennis Pataniczek, dean of the. Seidel School of Education and Professional Studies said, "We were honored to receive the Spirit of Partnership award. Credit goes to a large number of people, including all the faculty who were present at the national conference but also to all those faculty and PDS partners who have worked hard to make SU Professional Development Schools work for the best interests of children."

In addition to the faculty, four SU students also attended the conference: Staci Stonnell, Jennifer Ruark and Cassandra Graves of Salisbury, and Corinne Ponder of Laurel, Md. They gave three presentations demonstrating the impact of SU’s PDS program on pre-kindergarten through 12th grade reading scores at one school.

NAPDS is the only nationwide association focused exclusively on the work of professional development. The conference hosted 850 people, representing 148 institutions and some 203 school systems nationwide.

SU’s PDS is also getting ready to host a regional PDS conference at SU on May 6, which will attract about 300 educators from 7 local school districts as well as SU education faculty. SU student interns will be participating in a gallery walk on the same evening and displaying over 100 research projects that were conducted in the public schools.

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