Nevada's Northwest Regional Professional Development Program, serving Carson, Douglas, Lyon, Storey and Washoe County School Districts, supports high expectations and rigorous academic standards for all students, and provides professional development for all educators in improving student achievement through on-going trainings and the establishment of collegial learning communities.

In 2009, the Nevada legislature officially restructured Nevada's RPDPs. The Northwest Regional Professional Development happily welcomes the teachers and administrators from Carson, Douglas, and Lyon Counties, who joined us as a result of this restructure.

Welcome to the NWRPDP Homepage

“The strongest and most consistent predictor of a state’s average student achievement level is the proportion of well qualified teachers in the state” (Darling-Hammond, 1999).

The Nevada Legislature understands how important it is for teachers and administrators to be supported and challenged in their quest to be those “well qualified” educators who make the difference in student achievement. Therefore, the Northwest Regional Professional Development Program (NWRPDP) was created as one of three regional programs in the state to support educators in Carson City, Douglas, Lyon, Storey, and Washoe counties through professional development.

What does that support and challenge look like?

  • Are you concerned about the reading levels of your students and would like additional proven ideas on how to help them?
  • Do your AYP results show ELL and IEP students as your red cells, and you would like support in addressing the issue school wide?
  • Could you use ideas for making writing instruction more effective?
  • Just assigned to teach the math remediation class at your high school and are now responsible for ensuring your struggling students pass the proficiency?

These, and many others, are areas of current support offered by the NWRPDP. For the past decade, the NWRPDP has been providing professional development to northwest Nevada educators on topics ranging from standards and the Nevada Early Literacy Intervention Program (NELIP) to Depth of Knowledge (DOK) and the Northwest Nevada Writing Project. Whatever the topic, regional trainers share their expertise to help facilitate schools working as professional learning communities to achieve their school improvement goals--all aimed at student achievement.

This website is designed to offer immediate support with current educational hot topics in our region. In addition, it provides information on the NWRPDP trainers, their areas of expertise and face-to-face professional development options. How can we help you?

Use the navigation bar in the upper left for information on our region's essential questions, resources and research, or click on the “staff” icon to meet our trainers.

“If we are to keep good teachers in the classroom, school administrators and policy-makers, among others, need to find ways to create environments in which teachers can form strong collaborative relationships with their peers and in which they can continue to learn about themselves, their students, and their students’ communities” (Nieto, 2009).

The NWRPDP is dedicated to creating such environments.

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