Get and use money well. These elements are described below. Award winners focused resources on the highest-impact priorities. These winners were methodical about prioritizing funds, no matter what the source, to focus on high-impact efforts. They focused more of the school's overall budget on professional development and ensured that money went to the highest-priority PD activities first.
Winners vary in how they made decisions about PD priorities.
In some organizations, this decision was made at the district or school level. In others, instructional teams with their own budgets made PD spending decisions. Most award winners made PD spending decisions on a combination of levels, typically district, school, and team. Award winners were good at spending money wisely. Award winners were very good at raising money.