Re: CAMP Summary: Professional Personnel Development

For me, as a retired teacher after 35 years, 28 of those at the high school 
level, now substituting mainly at the elementary level, I found this 
discussion/summary the most interesting and pertinent.  Yes, by all means use 
retired teachers as mentors, but do pay them a stipend, however small, that 
indicates how much their time in the classroom is valued.  Also, as someone 
who organized Seminars for Advanced Placement Teachers at Stanford University 
for 19 years, insist that school districts support their teachers in summer 
professional growth programs.  Of the thousand who attended these valuable 
training programs over the years, about half had to pay everything out of 
pocket and probably never get reimbursed.

Michele Shockey