Colleagues:

A link to the "Professional Development Registry", sponsored by the 
Association of Adult Literacy Professional Developers (AALPD),  has been 
added to the LINCS Program Leadership and Improvement Special Collection 
web site.  To access the link, go to the "Additional Resources" page of the 
special collection web site and click on the Professional Development 
Registry link at the top [http://pli.cls.utk.edu/additional_resources.htm].


As described on the AALPD web site, the registry was developed to serve the 
following purpose:

"The Professional Development Registry is a way for professional developers 
to share tools for professional development: facilitator guides, workshop 
agendas and outlines, and manuals that have been created for the 
professional development of Adult Literacy, Adult Basic Education (ABE), 
Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and English Speakers of Other Languages 
(ESOL) teachers and other practitioners. The purpose of the PD Registry is 
for sharing actual tools that professional developers can download and use 
to deliver training; it is not for posting descriptions of trainings or 
posting guides for teachers or tutors.

The AALPD created the PD Registry because professional developers who are 
part of our network wanted a place where they could post training guides 
and manuals they had designed and written. They also wanted a place to see 
the actual professional development activities that others had created, and 
to get feedback from others about their activities. We hope the PD Registry 
meets these unique needs."


-- Kim