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Professional Learning

email link icon Dr. Sonja Alexander [ sonja_l_alexander@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ], Director
1701 Mountain Industrial Boulevard
Stone Mountain, GA  30083
678.676.0077
678.676.0326 (fax)

Professional learning is defined by the Georgia Department of Education as the means by which teachers, administrators, and/or other school system employees acquire, enhance, and refine the knowledge, skills, and commitment necessary to create high levels of learning for all students.

The mission the Department of Professional Learning is to provide quality learning opportunities for all employees through systemwide collaboration to advance student achievement.

Exemplary Learning for Every Employee Every Day

Focus

  1. Deepening the curricula and content knowledge of teachers and administrators
  2. Engaging students using research-based instructional and assessment strategies (e.g. Marzano's High Yield Strategies and the Educator's Toolbox of Strategies) and using the foundations for teaching to include classroom talk, scaffolding, questioning, collaboration, writing to learn, and literacy
  3. Using data to inform instructional decision making and to improve outcomes
  4. Creating a culture of continuous school improvement in the context of collaboration, feedback, monitoring, support, progress reporting, and accountability
Staff Directory
Title/Focus/Responsibility Name [Email] Phone Number
  • assistant director
  • alternative routes to teacher certification
  • Georgia Teacher Academy for Preparation and Pedagogy (GTAPP)
  • Preparing Alternatively Certified Educators for Special education (PACES)
  • Mathematics/Science Transition to Teaching (MSTT)
 email link icon Shenandra Price [ shenandra_w_price@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.2823
  • executive administrative assistant
  • room reservations
 email link icon Lakissa Jackson [ lakissa_jackson@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0215
  • Classified Employees Leadership Academy (CELA)
  • classroom management
 email link icon Alvin Perry [ alvin_t_perry@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0332
  • ProCorps
  • Teacher Support Specialists (TSS)
  • student teaching
  • internship
  • practicum
 email link icon Leigh Turner [ leigh_w_turner@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0319
  • Professional Learning Institute
  • Professional Learning e-campus
  • Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
  • curriculum implementation
  • "Courageous Conversations" webinar series
 email link icon Aleigha Henderson-Rosser [ aleigha_h_henderson@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0453
  • budgets/grants/requisitions proposals
  • substitutes
  • conferences
 email link icon LaTonya Spurling [ latonya_d_spurling@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0329
  • ProCorps bookings
  • alternative routes to teach certification
 email link icon Karen Edwards [ karen_d_edwards@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0320
  • stipends
  • transcripts
 email link icon Thalia Raybon [ thalia_raybon@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0334
  • course registration
 email link icon Pearl Holley [ pearline_b_holley@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us ] 678.676.0337