Are Teachers Who Need Sustained, Content-Focused Professional Development Getting It? An Administrator’s Dilemma

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An Empirical Investigation of Professional Development Effects on Literacy Instruction Using Daily Logs (2007, background): “In fact, they may be more likely to be distributed to teachers in better working conditions and/or teachers with higher qualifications (Desimone et al., 2006).”
Professional Development in the Accountability Context: Building Capacity to Achieve Standards (2010, background): “Similarly, teachers with more subject-area knowledge may be more likely to benefit from specific types of professional development than their colleagues with less subject-area expertise ( Desimone, Smith, & Ueno, 2006 ).”
Sorting Out Teacher Quality (2008, background): “Still other people use the phrase “teacher quality” to refer to the quality of teachers’ classroom practices.(3) These writers want to improve the work teachers do inside their classrooms, when actually teaching students.”