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Directions to Carver Center   Professional Growth & Development Welcome to the Division of Professional Growth & Development at Anne Arundel County Public Schools Vision Our vision is a high-quality workforce that values professional learning and prepares our students to contribute to a diverse and changing world. Mission Our mission is to provide continuous and focused learning for all employees, serve as a school system professional learning network, and to advance individual and organizational development in order to ensure achievement for every student. Values                    We Believe That: Effective, on-going professional learning is essential to school improvement and student success. Appropriate professional learning is developed, implemented, and evaluated in accordance with Professional Development Standards, the Maryland Teacher Professional Development Standards aligned with AACPS Goalsand Coherence Framework. Professional learning encourages all employees to share the responsibility for both individual and organizational growth and to be accountable for defining and achieving standards of excellence. Effective professional development honors diverse learning needs. Professional learning should be: focused varied job-embedded collaborative sustained over time   BlackBoard Anne Arundel County Public Schools  Professional Growth & Development Office, Annapolis, Maryland 410-721-8300 pgd@aacps.org