Most Professional Development Is a Waste of Money, According to Teachers

 From the article: “We are not approaching this in a very smart way. We’re basically throwing a lot of things against the wall and not even looking to see whether it works.”

Sounds awfully familiar. The only measure Albany uses to determine if its studio classroom professional development is successful is whether the teachers who attended thought the session was useful - based on comment cards filled out immediately after each session, before teachers even have a chance to try out any of the techniques they were taught.