Bill > H732

This bill aims to establish comprehensive professional development standards for high school students by requiring the Massachusetts Department of Education to create program guidelines that include specific criteria for professional development initiatives. The proposed standards cover six key areas: setting qualifications for professional development instructors, developing training to help instructors identify individual student needs, creating diverse professional development models to address different student populations, ensuring student access to programs both remotely and in-person, implementing a comprehensive feedback system to continuously improve offerings, and providing opportunities for students to build professional relationships outside their school environment. Additionally, the bill mandates that school districts seeking to establish a professional development program must have their program approved by the department and requires that superintendents or authorized teachers excuse one absence per school year for students participating in a supervised professional development day, expanding the existing excused absence policies to support students' professional learning opportunities.

Education

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H732