Professional Development Services

The Sunflower County Consolidated School District in Indianola, Mississippi is seeking professional development services to improve instructional effectiveness and student achievement. The district requires training, job-embedded coaching, and workshops for instructional staff and administrators. The primary goal is to solve student achievement challenges by correlating student data points to teacher effectiveness and enhancing classroom instruction. The scope of work covers digital proposals in English and language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, technology, leadership, instructional support services, exceptional education, English language learners, or multi-tiered systems of support. Selected providers must deliver job-embedded professional development including instructional coaching, data coaching, assessment coaching, lesson planning, lesson modeling, differentiated instruction, scaffolding, and resource utilization. Additionally, the district requires coaching on research-based reading and math strategies, classroom management, and the use of software to create lesson plans that integrate technology. Only organizations based in the United States are eligible to submit proposals. The district will allow the work to be performed either onsite in Indianola or offsite. The district is currently looking for proposals to determine the budget, and specific evaluation criteria and key dates are not detailed in the initial request.