The mission of the Delaware Professional Standards Board is to assure competence and promote excellence among professional educators to meet the needs of the community of learners in the State. The Professional Standards Board, a fifteen-member Board comprised of teachers, school administrators, parent representatives, a school board member, a representative of higher education, and a designee of the Accountability Advisory Committee, recognizes the importance of its work to the educators of the State of Delaware, and ultimately, to its students. Charged with creating a system of professional development, professional standards, licensure, certification and evaluation designed to continually improve the quality of instruction for the school children of Delaware , the Standards Board has met regularly since August. The Board generally meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month in the Cabinet Room in the Townsend Building, Dover.
All meetings are open to the public.
Agendas are posted in the Department of Education and are distributed broadly to educational constituency groups across the state. They are also available on the Professional Standards Board web site. The Standards Board has established the following goals to guide its work through the 2000-2001 year. The Delaware Professional Standards Board will support efforts to prepare, recruit, and retain qualified educators who will provide exemplary instruction for all Delaware students. The Delaware Professional Standards Board will support development of an educator licensure and certification system which ensures highly qualified candidates at all levels.