It begins with an Organizers' Checklist that summarizes the major decisions and actions from design through evaluation and improvement. The success of what you do later is largely determined by how well you have planned. Design inherently includes planning to implement, evaluate, and share your ideas. Thus, this section gives detailed information about some topics also addressed later in the toolkit. Other sections are equally important for sustained success.
Implementation ultimately is as critical as design to good professional development.
The Implementation section highlights success factors and shows you how to achieve them. Evaluation and Improvement outlines critical components of this part of professional development and reminds us that evaluation should flow directly from the planning process. Both the award criteria and this section go beyond simple measurement into how evaluation data are used to keep up with the changing world. The final section, Sharing Professional Development Learning, provides two simple steps that will make sharing your successes easier. Themes will help you quickly understand common highlights of win-ners' professional development.